Reign | Message 4: Kingdom Finances | Pastor Chad Dingess

Matthew 6: 24
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.(MULTILINE)

Luke 16: 9-13
“And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home. ¹⁰ He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. ¹¹ Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? ¹² And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own? ¹³ “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”(MULTILINE)

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.(MULTILINE)

Luke 16: 9
And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home.(MULTILINE)

3 Lies of the Spirit of Mammon

1: Money will make me secure.(MULTILINE)

Proverbs 18: 11
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.(MULTILINE)

Proverbs 11: 28
Those who trust in their riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.(MULTILINE)

Hebrews 13: 5-6
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” ⁶ So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”(MULTILINE)

2: Money will make me significant.(MULTILINE)

Luke 12: 15
Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”(MULTILINE)

3: Money will make me happy.(MULTILINE)

Ecclesiastes 5: 10
Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!(MULTILINE)

Romans 4: 7-8
“Those people are happy whose sinful acts are forgiven and whose sins are covered. ⁸ Those people are happy whose sins the Lord will not remember.”(MULTILINE)

Malachi 3: 6-12
For I, the Lord, do not change. So you, O children of Jacob, are not destroyed.⁷ “From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My Laws and have not obeyed them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of All. “But you say, ‘How are we to return?’ ⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ You have not given Me the tenth part of what you receive and your gifts. ⁹ You are cursed, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you! ¹⁰ Bring the tenth part into the store-house, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the Lord of All. “See if I will not then open the windows of heaven and pour out good things for you until there is no more need. ¹¹ I will speak sharp words to the destroyer for you, so that it may not destroy the fruits of the ground. And your vine in the field will be sure to give its grapes,” says the Lord of All. ¹² “All the nations will say that much good has come to you, for you will be a happy land,” says the Lord of All.(MULTILINE)

Luke 16: 10
He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.(MULTILINE)

3 Keys to getting God’s spirit of your money.

1: Return the first.(MULTILINE)

Luke 16: 12
And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?(MULTILINE)

Deuteronomy 14: 22-23
“Be sure to give a tenth part to the Lord of all you plant that comes from your field every year. ²³ Before the Lord your God, at the place He chooses to put His name, you may eat the tenth part of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first-born of your cattle and your flock. Then you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.(MULTILINE)

1 Corinthians 16: 1-2
want to tell you what to do about the money you are gathering for the Christians. Do the same as I told the churches in the country of Galatia to do. ² On the first day of every week each of you should put aside some of your money. Give a certain part of what you have earned. Keep it there because I do not want money gathered when I come.(MULTILINE)

2: Steward the rest.(MULTILINE)

Proverbs 21: 5
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.(MULTILINE)

3: Focus on true riches.(MULTILINE)

Luke 12: 16-21
And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. ¹⁷ He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ ¹⁸ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. ¹⁹ And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’²⁰ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ ²¹ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”(MULTILINE)