Man's Way

God's Way

 Scripture References

1

None of God's business

Pivotal

to your spiritual

life

Luke 16:11  And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven?

Luke 12:34 Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Rev 3:17-18  "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."

2

All I

have is

"Mine"

All is

God's

Dt 8:17,18  You may say to yourself, "My power and...strength... produced this wealth for me."  But remember the Lord, for He gives you the ability to produce wealth.  Ps 62:10 If your riches increase, don't be proud.    Ps 24:1 The earth belongs to God! Everything in all the world is his!   Col 1:17 "All things were created by Him and for Him...in Him all things hold together." 

3

I need more

money

Manage

what you

Have

Ecc 5:11 The more you have, the more you spend, right up to the limits of your income.   Lu 16:10  Whoever can be trusted with little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.   Ps 37:16  Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked.

4

Love

money

Love

God

Ecc 5:10 Whoever loves money...is never satisfied with his income.    1 Tim 6:10 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.    Lu 16:13  You cannot serve two masters...you will be enthusiastic about one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God & Money.

5

Live for pleasure

Live self-

controlled

Pr 21:17  A man who loves pleasure becomes poor.

Pr 23:19  Don't carouse with drunkards and gluttons...they are on their way to poverty.  Lu 15:13-14  The younger son... squandered his wealth in wild living.  After he had spent everything...he began to be in need.  Titus 2:11-12 The grace of God...teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives.

6

Spend it all

Save for future needs

Prov 21:20  The wise man saves for the future, but the foolish man spends whatever he gets.

Prov 22:3  A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

7

Fear of loss or hard times

Faith in God

Ps 33:18-19  The eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to...keep them alive in famine.

Ps 37:18-19  The Lord cares (for the godly) even when times are hard; even in famine, they will have enough.

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or...famine...?

Gen 12:10 Abraham   Gen 26:1 Issac   Gen 41:29,30,50 Joseph  

Gen 42:5 Jacob  Ruth 1:1-4 Ruth   2 Sam 21:1 David   IKg 18:2 Elijah II Ki 4:38 Elisha   Neh 5:3 Nehemiah   Jer 52:6 Jeremiah   Acts 11:28

8

Envy others

Be

content with God

& His Provisions

Ps 73:2-28 My feet were slipping...For I was envious of the pros- perity of the proud & wicked...all the time their riches multiply

Heb 13:5-6  (God says) Keep your lives free from the love of money & be content with what you have...Never will I leave you.

1 Tim 6:6 Godliness with contentment is great gain.

9

Constant-

ly accu- mulating

God's creative provisions

Job 27:16-17 The evil man may accumulate... closets jammed full of clothing...but the righteous shall wear that clothing.

Ecc 2:26  To the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.

Prov 13:22  A sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.

Ps 105:44  (God's people) fell heir to what others had toiled for.

10

Arguing

Agreeing in

prayer

Pr 15:16-17  Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great wealth with turmoil.  Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.      1 Pet 3:7  Husbands... be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect...so that nothing will hinder your prayers.   Ps 34:17  The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.    Isa 59:2  The trouble is that your sins have cut you off from God.

11

Gambling & get rich quick schemes

Hard work

& steady plodding

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...

12

Stuffitis

disease

Deaccu-

mulate

Luke 12:15 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.

Matt 6:19-21   (Jesus said) "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal."

13

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.

14

Growing debt & credit

Avoid

or

eliminate

debt & credit

Prov 22:7 The borrower is servant to the lender.   II Ki 4:1

Rom 13:8  Owe no one anything except to love one another.

Deut 28:12 God will open to you his wonderful treasury...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?

15

Put your hope in wealth

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  "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."

16

Make excuses why you can't or won't give to God

Give to God

first

 I Kg 17:13-16  Elijah said to (the widow), "Don't be afraid... first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. . . She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah & for the woman & her family.   Gen 28:20-22  Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will watch over me...then the LORD will be my God...and of all that You give me I will give you a tenth."     Dt 14:23  The purpose of tithing is to teach you always to put God first in your lives.

17

Give to God spora-

dically or think you'll give

"someday"

Give to God

faithfully

and syste-

matically

Luke 16:10  Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.      Hag 1:5-12  The Lord says: "Give careful thought to your ways...You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house."      Mal 3:10  The Lord says: "Bring all the tithes into the storehouse...if you do, I will open up the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing..."Try it! Let me prove it to you!"

18

Give to God reluctantly

Give to God

cheerfully

(hilariously)

2 Cor 9:7  Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.         2 Cor 8:12  If you are really eager to give, then it isn't important how much you have to give. God wants you to give what you have, not what you haven't.

 19

Give to God minimally

Give to God

propor-

tionately

2 Cor 8:7 See that you...excel in this grace of giving.

Deut 16:16-17  No man should appear before the LORD empty-handed:  Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the LORD your God has blessed you.

1 Cor 16:2 On the first day of the week let every one of you lay something aside, as God has prospered you.

20

Live for self

Give to God

eternally

Luke 12:16-21  A rich man's...barns were full to overflowing... He thought about his problem, and finally exclaimed, 'I'll tear down my barns and build bigger ones! Then I'll have room enough'...But God said to him, 'Fool! Tonight you die. Then who will get it all?'  "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."