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“How we hold and use our money, reveals much about our spiritual life and character”. Money? It’s just so wonderful!. Money? It’s just so wonderful. Proverbs 30:8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread .
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“How we hold and use our money, reveals much about our spiritual life and character” Money? It’s just so wonderful!
Money? It’s just so wonderful • Proverbs 30:8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. • 9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the LORD?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
James confronts the rich about the use of their money 1-3 • James the Just • Proverbs30:9; 1Timothy 6:10
How the rich obtained their wealth • Non-payment of wages 4 • Influence in the courts 6a • Merciless persecution 6a
How the rich used their wealth • They stored it up 3 • They lived a totally selfish lifestyle 3,5 • They lived in luxury 2
What will happen to their riches • Their riches will vanish 2-3a • Their misused riches will corrupt character 3 • Their riches will mean ruin and not blessing 3 • Certainty of judgement 3,5
The way Christians use their money • A transformed life and transformed money • We are not our own, neither is our wealth • Our faith actions and money actions