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Andrew Carnegie
Wealthy steel mogul who amasses a fortune of over $300 billion in modern day dollars.
He wrote:
“Man must have and idol—the amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry.
No idol more debasing than the worship of money.”
He was convicted that he must fight against the evils that the love of money would bring.
So he declared early on that he would resign young and seek to do good with his wealth.
Although his words were admirable, the lure of greed and the god of money seemed to be too much for Carnegie to fight off.
“Although
One author wrote: “Although Carnegie built 2,059 libraries… a steelworker, speaking for many, told an interviewer, “We didn’t want him to build a library for us, we would rather have had higher wages.”
At that time steelworkers worked twelve-hour shifts on floors so hot they had to nail wooden platforms under their shoes.
Every two weeks they toiled an inhuman twenty-four-hour shift, and then they got their sole day off.
The best housing they could afford was crowded and filthy.
Most died in their forties or earlier, from accidents or disease...”
Money is a really bad God that leads us to do some really evil things.
Paul says in
Money is not evil, but the love of money leads us down some evil paths.
Jesus warns us more about money that nearly any other topic in the bible.
Perhaps because the god of money has a way of taking over in our lives without us even knowing.
TRANSITION
The story of the successful farmer in is a great example of this.
Luke 12:13-
When MONEY become our god (Vs 19)
1) The source of our SECURITY
For the man in the parable, his security rested in the amount of grain he had stored.
You may be saying “Well that isn’t me, I’m not wealthy.”
Maybe it isn’t you, but Jesus commands us in “do not be anxious about your life...” and that demands the QUESTION- What makes you anxious?
What makes you anxious about your life?
The reason we don’t feel we are greedy is there is always someone who is higher on scale that us.
Your savings account dropping below a certain number?
Not having enough to buy Christmas presents for you kids on Christmas
Not being able to afford a newer car, a nicer toy, or an annual vacation?
Not being able to give your kids the life you think they deserve?
Not being able to buy the things we want to buy.
Not being able to retire when or where your want to?
We have very legitimate worries about money and I am not making light of those.
Not being able to go the places we want to go.
But for many of us in the room today money is a security blanket that:
Not being able to afford the lifestyles we desire to have.
Keeps us from giving because we are concerned we won’t have “enough”
Some indicators of that money is the source of our security:
Keeps us from Godly responsibilities as we feel the pressure to work harder and longer to make sure there is “enough”
1) A lack of generosity-
Ensures we will have what we really want and probably deserve since we are WORKING so hard.
2) The source of our SATISFACTION
The man in the parable feels free to “relax, eat, drink, and be merry.”
Back in the day“MTV Cribs” gave us a glimpse into the world of celebrities, often leading us to dream what it would be like to have their life.
Nowadays with reality TV and social media, we can watch other people’s lives (or at least what they show us) whenever we want.\
As we fix our eyes on the lives of others our hearts begin to long for what they have.
the cars, the houses, the vacations...
Our lives become boring, bland, and deficient.
We long for satisfaction/pleasure/fulfillment which leads to:
accumulating debt, seeking to buy the happiness we long for.
forfeiting our integrity in order to get ahead and make MORE
neglecting our family, faith, or friendships because we just need to “work more”
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3) The source of our SIGNIFICANCE
For the man in the story the number of silos and proof of his success had become his identity.
He was significant, he had value because of what he had accumulated.
Looking as instragram, facebook...
We are inundated with images of people living the “good life” and we slowly begin to believe that we our lives are insignificant in comparison.
Or maybe we are on the other end, and we have convinced others, and ourselves, that we are significant because of all we are able to point to as token’s of our success.
When we find our identity/worth/significance in money:
We sacrifice family and faith to in order to gain financial status.
We become selfish and self-centered as we pursue status.
We embrace the world’s definitions and seek to gain status there more than with Christ.
Dethroning the god of Money
for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
1) REST in Christ as SAVIOR (
1) REST in Christ as SAVIOR
Money cannot and will not save you.
We often think “if I just had more then I would be happier, more fulfilled…” but the reality is your desire for more will always lead to emptiness.
You can’t buy happiness, you can’t buy health, you can’t buy love, you can’t buy a secure future.
You know the story of Zaccheus, one of the wealthiest men in his city.
Salvation is found in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are reminded in “Do not be anxious about your life...”
Jesus points to the birds, how God provides all they need.
“Are you more valuable than they?”
He points to the “lilies of the field”, how God clothes them.
“will He not much more clothe you?
Our anxiousness points to where we find our security, where we find our salvation.
Be free.
Stop worshipping at the throne of money which enslaves us as we seek to live the life we think will make us happy and SECURE.
REST IN JESUS
2) ACCEPT that Christ is ENOUGH
Christ is sufficient.
Nothing money can buy us or provide for us is better than Jesus.
Jn
john 6
Everything in this would will pass, but Christ will remain.
Let us pray our declaration would be the same as Paul
phi 3 7-8
We work so hard to get things we think are going to fulfill us or complete us.
But our desires change as quick as the newest smart phones.
I watch a couple of youtube tech channels and they talk about phones a lot.
The funny thing is that as new phones come out the innovation rarely is all that profound, and yet many people shell out 1000’s of dollars on new phones because we must have the newest and the best.
Retailers have tapped into the never-satisfied well of consumerism.
If we just had more then we would be happy.
The reality is what Paul declares “JESUS is worth more than anything I have ever earned or received.”
Money cannot and will not fulfill us as Christ can fulfill us.
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