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How Much Does the Bible Mention Money?
• According to Larry Burkett there are over 1600 verses in the Bible on money.
1 Timothy 6:10
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.
Psalm 50:10-12
for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Malachi 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
Money – Now What?
According to Dave Ramsey there are 3 things we can do with money:
SPEND
SAVE/INVEST
GIVE
3 Things to do with Money
• Spend– Spending your money tends to tell WHAT you
value your money.
• Save/Invest– Saving and investing your money tends to tell
HOW you value money.
• Giving– Giving your money tends to tell WHO you
value regarding money.
GIVING
• Malachi says give a tithe and offering• Tithe is to be the minimum
– 2 Corinthians 8:7 … “see that you excel in the gift of giving.”
• Is the tithe only Old Testament? – Hebrews 7:1-2 – Pre Law
• God wants us to give for OURSELVES nor for HIM. He doesn’t NEED our money to accomplish His will, but he needs US.
What If?• 31 give nothing
– 31X $100 per month = $3,100.00 – $3,100.00 X 12 = $37,200.00
• Let’s get crazy!– 105 (Family Units)– $45,000 x .10 = $4,500.00 per year per family– $4,500 x 105 = $472,500.00
• What if we gave more?• What if we made more?• What if we just upped our giving? What could
be accomplished? • What about our offerings?• What if?