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As we continue our series: Making Sense our of Dollars, today we want to analyze where money lies in the hierarchy of importance and priority in our lives.
Basically in this series, we want to learn and apply God’s principles for financial management in our lives so we can be blessed and prosper.
Last week we learnt that “It’s all Yours God.” Everything we have in life belongs to God.
Today: “God or Mammon”
When we study the OT, we notice that the major problem God had with Israel was idolatry.
False gods such as Baal, Molech, Chemosh, Ashtoreth.
Not only were they false but the worship practices were abominable.
Children were sacrificed in the fire.
Temple prostitution.
The nations of Israel and Judah were later destroyed, taken captive as they were judged by God so He can purify them.
Today, the Jews are staunchly monotheistic in their practice.
In modern society, idolatry is not as prominent although it still exists, e.g.
India, 330 M gods?
Today in the Word, June 14th 1989.
Though we do not face a pantheon of false gods like the Israelites did, we face pressures from a pantheon of false values--materialism, love of leisure, sensuality, worship of self, security, and many others.
The second commandment deals with idols.
This may be something that most of us can't relate to--unless we include life goals that revolve around something other than God Himself.
What is the object of our affections, our efforts, and our attention?
Where does the majority of our time go?
On what do we spend the greatest amount of our resources?
Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount mentions a god in contrast to the true God.
You cannot serve God and Mammon - Money.
Notice that He did not say, God or Satan.
Serving the true God is not challenged by serving Satan or other gods but by money.
Serving the true God is not challenged by serving Satan or other gods but by money.
If we want to put our financial lives in order, we have to understand how powerful the impact of money can be on our lives.
Everything revolves around money.
Time is money.
Money makes the world go around.
We value everything by dollars and cents rather than by how God values it.
That begs the question - Who is God?
God or Money.
Jesus teaches us we can determine who our God is by analyzing three factors.
Today we wil look at what Jesus said about money.
In these verses there are four elements that He mentions.
They are all connected and actually help us to assess who our God really is?
1.
What is your treasure?
Where are your treasures?
Where are your treasures?
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Do not lay up treasures on earth.
Do not lay up treasures on earth.
Our treasures
From a very young age, we all have treasures.
How many went on a road trip and had to turn because your 4-year old didn’t have her blankie?
Tried throwing away all the little toys your 9-year accumulated since toddler years?
My bicycle
Some people have a chest with their treasures
Some a drawer with all the jewelry
Others it’s their investment
What are your treasures?
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Subject to destruction.
Moth - In those days, even today, costly dresses were stored up.
But they were subject to destruction by moths.
Mothballs.
Rust destroys metal.
That’s why we protect our treasured cars - rust-protection.
Thieves break in and steal.
We have a few people here who suffered and have violated because of thieves breaking into their homes
The stock market can destroy your investments.
Do you know how many people showed up at their doctor’s offices in 2008 when the market crashed.
Can you imagine 30% of all your life savings vanish into thin air?
If life is all about material possessions, then we will always be in a state of panic.
Some people live their lives by keeping their eye on the stock market.
That’s a recipe for a heart attack.
President Trump sends a tweet and the market rumbles.
Lay up treasures in heaven.
It is not subject to devaluation.
Ill.
Dr. Pancham.
Earthly versus heavenly treasures.
Treasures on earth are what you lay up for yourself.
Treasures in heaven are what you give to God and others.
An easy way to determine what you treasure is to look at your cheque-book, your bank and credit card statement.
What are you spending your money on?
How are you using your money?
2.
Where is your heart?
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The heart is the centre one’s being, our emotions, reason and will.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Think about where your heart goes in life.
When you fall in love - you become obsessed with that person, he/she fills the thoughts of your heart all day long, you dream of them at night and that’s not enough, so you day-dream also.
You focus on how you can see them again.
Now Facetime and Video-chat certainly changes the game.
Car - you become obsessed, make, model, speed, features.
House - appearance, interior, size of rooms,
Savings - Savings account, RRSP, Pension plan.
Point: throughout life, our heart wanders from one earthly treasure to another.
Are they true treasures?
Our heart, our focus, worship follows our treasure.
In a sense my “God” is my treasure.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
“What a man loves,” says LUTHER, quoted by THOLUCK, “that is his God.
For he carries it in his heart, he goes about with it night and day, he sleeps and wakes with it; be it what it may—wealth or self, pleasure or renown
So when we sing “Lord I give you my heart.”
Do we mean it?
3. How good is your eye?
But treasures built here are subject to decay (moth destroys cloth and rust destroys metal
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