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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle

781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God

abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught

by Paul and Marsha Davis

during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

December 8, 2013

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We are studying God’s Plan for our financial

welfare, as well as our spiritual blessings.

Philippians 4 19 But my God shall supply all your

need according to His riches in glory by Christ

Jesus.

Need = necessity and employment

Strong’s Greek Dictionary

God will fulfill His

Promises, as we obey His

Word.Picking up where we left off last week.

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How do you look at the money and other forms of

wealth that come into your hands?

Is it yours? You earned it; it’s all yours.

Is 10% God's and the rest yours?

Or is it all God's and it’s been put in your trust

for a short time?

Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord's and the fullness

thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.

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Not only is it all God's, you belong to Him too.

He bought and paid for us with the

Blood of Jesus Christ, His only son.

1 Corinthians 6 19-20 What? know ye not that your

body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in

you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your

own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore

glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which

are God's.

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Job 41:11 NIV Who has a claim against Me that I

must pay? Everything under Heaven belongs to

Me.

Rom 11:35-36 NIV "Who has ever given to God

that God should repay him? For from Him and

through Him and to Him are all things.

Everything that comes into our

possession belongs to God;

We are obligated to God to use it wisely

and well for Him.

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If we love God with all our

heart, mind, soul, body, and strength, that attitude

will come easy.The attitude that all things belong to God, and we

are obligated to use His Provision wisely and well.

But if we love the world and the things of the

world, we will find ourselves resisting this Truth:

All things belong to God, and He entrusts

us with a portion to use for the benefit of

His Kingdom.

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Money -- our attitude toward it, our handling of it:

Is the best outside indicator of our

inside condition with God.

How much we really love God!

Do you know that whether you have wealth or

live in poverty is totally in God‘s hands?

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But -- His decision concerning wealth will rely on

our attitude and actions;

Things like:

Willing obedience or stubborn disobedience

to the Word.

Our attitude toward God and the world.

Our attitude about wealth; is it according

to the Word of God.

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But it is all up to God.

I Sam 2:7 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich:

He bringeth low, and lifteth up.

I reiterate: It is up to God, but His decision will

depend on our attitude and actions.

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God gave Solomon a dream and told him that he

could have anything he wanted.

Solomon asked for wisdom and judgment

to be king of Israel.

God gave Solomon the wisdom and

judgment that he asked for -- and

God also made Solomon rich and

gave him much honor.

But His decision to do so was based on Solomon's

heart attitude, which God saw in Solomon's request.

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John 15 7 If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in

you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done

unto you.

God has given us the same opportunity:

What will you desire and ask God for?

Do you desire a comfortable living in this world?

Seek first the Kingdom of God and His

righteousness, and all these things will be

added to your life. Matthew 6:33

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Psalm 127:2 New American Standard It is vain for

you to rise up early, to retire late, to eat the bread

of painful labors; for He gives to His beloved even

in his sleep.

You can work yourself to the bone.

You can strive and sweat to have more;

And you may gain wealth.

But it will come better if you will do it

God's way and let Him bless you with it.

Trying to get it ourselves.

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Prov 10:22 The blessing of the Lord, it maketh

rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it.

If you strive for it, you may get it; But you

may wish you didn't have it.

What are we talking about here?

We are talking about our attitude toward

money, which indicates our attitude toward God.

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Attitudes of pride and greed will

cause God to bring us low;

But an attitude of humility and generosity

will cause God to exalt us.

With God, it is not only what you

do, but even more, why you do it.

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Luke 10:27 Jesus said, " 'Love the Lord your God

with all your heart and with all your soul and with

all your strength and with all your mind';

and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

If we truly do love God with all our

heart, soul, strength, and mind;

And we truly do love our neighbor as ourself:

Then handling our finances according to

Scripture will be an easy thing to do.

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But, if we love the world and the

things that are in the world

We will find that it is a struggle to obey many of

the Scriptures concerning finance.

We will constantly be asking "why?" about every

Principle which God has given us to live by.

Very often doing right will cost you in the short

run, and we don't see the long run very clearly.

We have to trust God to see the future.

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This is not a subject that is left vague

and hard to understand.

I'll show you Scripture by Scripture exactly how

God wants you to handle your finances.

This road of righteousness is so clear that a

wayfaring man though a fool need not err. Isa 35:8

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Work

Manage Giving

Attitude

God’s Planto supply theneeds of His

children