Life, Money, Hope – Beyond the Numbers

Beyond the Numbers

Amos 3:3 – Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?
John 16:33 – In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have
overcome the world.”

There is .

1 Timothy 6:9-10 – People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a
trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin
and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some
people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced
themselves with many griefs.

Luke 16:13 (NKJV) – “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.”

Haggai 1:5-7 – Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful
thought to your ways. You have planted much, but have harvested little.
You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You
put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a
purse with holes in it.” This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful
thought to your ways.”

1 Corinthians 1:20 – Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is
the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the
world?

1.  is more important than .

• We don’t just need money to .

• We need something to .

Acts 20:24 – However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may
finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me– the task
of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

2. is more important than .

Luke 12:15 (LB) – Don’t always be wishing for what you don’t have. For
real life and real living are not related to how rich we are.
Philippians 4:12 – I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to
have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every
situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

• Contentment is not the fulfillment of 
but the realization of .

3. is more important
than .

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

• How much money would be needed to your
future against all imaginable eventualities?

Proverbs 30:8-9 – Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my
daily bread. 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.

• I will not trust in riches who richly
provides.

4.  is more important than .

• God owns . We are His .

Matthew 6:19-20 – Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But
store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not
destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

5. is better than .

Acts 20:35 – The Lord Jesus himself said: “It is more blessed to give than
to receive.”

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