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HONOR… God with your money. Listen Learn Live. The Wisdom of Proverbs. Start with God. Proverbs 3:9-10 9 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
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HONOR… God with your money Listen Learn Live The Wisdom of Proverbs
Start with God. • Proverbs 3:9-109 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine. • Work toward 10% and then go beyond. • Give first to your church. HONOR… God with your money
How do we honor God with our money? • Start with God. • Increase wealth the right way. • Watch out for debt. • Resist money’s power. • Order your priorities. • Ponder who makes rich and poor. • Help the poor. HONOR… God with your money
The key to evaluating any individual church or nation in terms of its use of material possessions (personally, collectively or institutionally) is how well it takes care of the poor and powerless in its midst, that is, its cultural equivalents to the fatherless, widow and alien. …People always take priority over prosperity. Those in positions of power have no increased privilege, only increased responsibility. ~ C. Blomberg, Neither Poverty Nor Riches, p 84 HONOR… God with your money
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. HONOR… God with your money
How do we honor God with our money? • Start with God. • Increase wealth the right way. • Watch out for debt. • Resist money’s power. • Order your priorities. • Ponder who makes rich and poor. • Help the poor. HONOR… God with your money