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God’s Secret Principles For

Financial Freedom

Rev. Brian Kluth – Sermon #3 in a 5 Part Series

Did you know…

…If you make monthly minimum payments on a $3000 credit card* balance, it will take you 32½ yrs to pay it off. *18%

Man's Ways	God's Ways
1 – GET RICH QUICK schemes & gambling	Steady plodding and hard work
Pr 13:11 Wealth from gambling quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows. Pr 28:19 He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. Pr 28:20 The man who wants to get rich quick will quickly fail. Pr 20:21 Quick wealth is not a blessing in the end. Pr 28:22 Trying to get rich quick is evil and leads to poverty. 1 Tim 6:9 People who long to be rich soon begin to do all kinds of wrong things to get money, things that hurt them...
2 – Stuffitis DISEASE	DeACCUMULATE
Luke 12:15^LB “Beware! 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.” Mt 6:19-21 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.”
3 – Better HOUSE	Better HOME
Prov 14:11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish. Isa 32:18 My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. Ps 128:3 Your wife shall be contented in your home. And look at all those children! There they sit around the dinner table as vigorous and healthy as young olive trees.
4 – Growing DEBT and credit	AVOID or ELIMINATE debt or credit
Pr 22:7 The borrower is servant to the lender. See: II Kings 4:1, Dt 28:43-44 Rom 13:8 Owe no one anything except to love one another. Deut 28:12 God will open to you his wonderful treasury of rain in the heavens, to give you fine crops every season. He will bless everything you do; and you shall lend to many nations, but shall not borrow from them. Ps 37:21 Evil men borrow and "cannot pay it back"! Prov 22:26 Unless you have the extra cash on hand, don't countersign a note. Why risk everything you own? They'll even take your bed!
5 – Put your hope in MONEY	Put your HOPE in GOD
1 Tim 6:17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God. Rev 3:17-18 (Jesus said) "You say, 'I am rich, with everything I want; I don't need a thing!' And you don't realize that spiritually you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked . . . Purchase from Me white garments, clean & pure, so you won't be naked and ashamed."

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