MONEY MATTERS Matthew 25:14-30

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MONEY MATTERSMatthew 2514-30
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Key Bible Words

• Believe 272 times
• Pray 371 times
• Love 714 times
• Give 2,162 times

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Matthew 2514

• 14 Again, it will be like a man going on a
  journey, who called his servants and entrusted
  HIS property to them.

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Deuteronomy 1014

• 14 To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even
  the highest heavens, the earth and everything in
  it.

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Psalm 241

• 1 The earth is the LORDs, and everything in it,
• the world, and all who live in it

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Psalm 5012

• 12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
• for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

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Haggai 28

• 8 The silver is mine and the gold is mine,
  declares the LORD Almighty.

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Ecclesiastes 513

• 13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun
  wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

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Deuteronomy 817-18

• 17 You may say to yourself, My power and the
  strength of my hands have produced this wealth
  for me. 18 But remember the LORD your God, for
  it is he who gives you the ability to produce
  wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he
  swore to your forefathers, as it is today.

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POSSESSIONS ARE BLESSINGS THAT COME FROM HIM!
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I Timothy 617

• 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, who richly provides us with
  everything for our enjoyment.

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HE IS FREE TO ALLOCATE HIS RESOURCES HOWEVER HE
CHOOSES
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Matthew 2515

• 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another
  two bags, and to another one bag, each according
  to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

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• GOD HAS THE RIGHT TO DIRECT HOW HIS RESOURCES ARE
  TO BE USED - THEREFORE
• BE OBEDIENT

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Matthew 2527

• 27 Well then, you should have put my money on
  deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned
  I would have received it back with interest.

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WITHHOLDING TITHES IS STEALING FROM GOD
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Malachi 38-9

• 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you
  ask, How do we rob you? In tithes and
  offerings. 9 You are under a cursethe whole
  nation of youbecause you are robbing me.

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Malachi 310

• 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 you will not have room
  enough for it.

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• GOD GAVE HIS FIRSTBORN