The Root of All Evil & Unrighteous Earnings

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4. THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

People are doing many evils because of the love of money. People are killing each other because they love money. People are corrupting books because they love money.  People are writing fake vouchers because they love money. People are doing prostitution because they love money.  

1 Timothy 6:10  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Some have strayed from the faith because of love of money. In other words some have got separated from the faith!

Ecc 5:10  He who loves silver(money) will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance (wealth), with increase.

May God help us with silver and gold and give us the grace NOT to love it!

5. MONEY EARNED THRU UNRIGHTEOUS WAYS WILL PERISH

Be careful of the sources of your money!!  Get clean money!

Money gained with unrighteous ways will perish with you!  If you are work ENJOY your salary!  Do not oppress someone to get money.

Work hard to get money. Work with your mind! Some people work smart and are able to get a lot of money! Be very careful not to get any corrupt money! Do not bring a curse in your generation.

Prov 10:22 The blessing of the LORD makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.

Know this, wealth that is got with corrupt ways or ungodly means will fly away!

Be careful of the sources of your income. The fear of the Lord will bring you truth wealth!

Partner With God

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3. MONEY BECOMES A BLESSING WHEN IT IS USED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD

Let God be your first partner in the way you use money.

(1)   We get into partnership with God when we return our tithes.

(2)   When we give our offerings we are in partnership with God.

(3)   We partner with God when we show mercy to the poor, when we assist the orphans, when we assist the widows.  Prov 19:17  He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, And He will pay back what he has given.

(4)   We partner with God when we participate in the growth of His Kingdom! When we give to Missions! We become partners with God!

In Luke 7: 1-6, the Centurion’s servant was sick. The Centurion sent some elders to Jesus beseeching him to go to the man to serve. Mark verse 4,5  - The elders went to Jesus and explained that this man deserves your support.  The Centurion had partnered with God by building a Synagogue.

Beautiful Feet: The Advantages of Non-Western Missionaries | Safari of the Heart

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Money Represents Your Life

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MONEY IN YOUR LIFE

Your can improve your worth by working hard or should I say working smart. You can improve your worth by taking up a course or studies.  You can improve your pay-slip by improving your skills!  You can get more money by the more you think! Some people get more money when they think.  For some if you increase your energy you get more money. That is why some people will say you have wasted their sweat! Your energy has financial value!

Are we together? Money represents your life!

YOUR HEART FIRST

That is why people will put others in to police cells because and say, “That is my money! That was my sweat, that is my energy that he has wasted!”  There is a strong attachment between your money and your heart! That is why for some people it is very difficult to give their money – because there is a strong attachment between your money and your heart. You can’t give your money unless you give your heart first! Your heart must be given first before you can give your money.

Show me where you spend your money and I will show you your destiny.  You cannot give your money to me without giving your heart first.

Those who have given their life to God have no problem giving their money to God! They have given Him His life.  When I release my life to God then

2 Cor 8: 1-5

8:1* ¶ Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:

 2* that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.

 3* For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing,

 4* imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

 5* And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.

Out of their poverty, out of their trials they were giving. They gave as much as they were able and more than they were able. They gave out of their willing heart. They gave willingly – no one forced them.  Meaning that they were able to borrow so that they could give for the course of the Gospel.

There was no manipulation! There was no deceit they did that because they love the ministering for he Gospel.

These Macedonians were beseeching these people and they pleading with Paul! They were persuading the apostle to receive their gifts. They were pleading with Paul to receive their blessings!

Give your heart first

Silver & Gold Belongs To God

1. MONEY BELONGS TO GOD

It doesn’t matter who is handling the money. If in the hands of a sinner or in the hands of a righteous person; but the truth is that money belongs to God!

Haggai 2:8 “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the LORD of hosts”.

Money in times past was made from gold and silver! Silver belongs to God, Gold belongs to God.

Deuteronomy 8:18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”

Remember this Power to Make Wealth comes from the Lord!

Ps 50:9-12

9 I will not take a bull from your house, Nor goats out of your folds.

10* For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

Everything in this world is the LORD’s and all its fullness! Whatever we possess that can be converted to money belong to God! Money is the store of value.

1Chronicles 29:12
12 Both riches and honor come from You, And You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; In Your hand it is to make great And to give strength to all.

13 “Now therefore, our God, We thank You And praise Your glorious name.

14* But who am I, and who are my people, That we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from You, And of Your own we have given You.

This was the time when King David was collecting from the Israelites gifts for the building of the temple.  So let us know that both riches and honor come from God. Even when I am giving God, I am not doing God a favor! Everything we have is His by right of creation.

David understood one thing that the money am handling belongs to God.  Whatever I am handling in my hands belongs to God! Even when I am giving generously I am not doing God a favor! I am actually returning to God what he has given me.

Proverbs 3:13-16
13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding;

14 For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold.

15 She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her.

16* Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor.

Solomon was talking about wisdom. When you read the Bible keenly you will find that, Christ is the wisdom of God! In this wisdom long life is in His right hand, in His left hand is riches and honor!

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Your Inheritance Awaits - Galatians 4:1,2

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Galatians 4: 1,2

4:1* ¶ Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,

 2* but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.

As an heir, you have the privilege to the inheritance. Your Father owns cattle on a thousand hills. Everything belongs to Him!  Secret – Children must mature. God is waiting for you to get mature.  Your inheritance remains with stewards and trustees.  To be entrusted with what is ours we must be mature – “be over 18”

As long as you are a child, what is yours remains with the trustees.  Be over "18"  to get what belongs to you.  When you mature Your Father will give you what belongs to you.

Look at Malachi 3:6-12

6* “For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.

 7* Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the LORD of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what way shall we return?’

 8* “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.

 9 You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation.

 10* Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the LORD of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.

 11* “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says the LORD of hosts;

 12 “And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says the LORD of hosts.

Verse 6 – God says, “I do not change”

Our God is a God of covenant, He does not change.  Between man and God a covenant remains intact UNLESS one party (man) breaks it.  God does not break a Covenant.  So in this passage God is telling us to Return.

How do we return?

Test Me! Try Me! Challenge Me on this! God says that he will pour out blessings on us.  Now let me say this that POURING is NOT SPRINKLING!  You need to understand this – that a curse NEEDS to be broken!  Then you must address the how to break that curse! 

Revert to acknowledge who owns all that you have!

People go to Church or to the prayer meetings and start their prayers, “Lord I pray that You bless me, I am not going to leave here until You do so” WHILE YOU ARE LIVING IN THE CURSE!

God is looking for his children to entrust with His vast estates.  Your blessings await your obedience BUT as long as you remain disobedient to His Word the windows of heaven will remain closed.

God says I shall open – MEANING THAT IT YOUR BLESSINGS ARE UNDER A LOCK!