Biblical Perspective on Financial Responsibility and Stewardship
Emphasizing contentment and warning against the pitfalls of seeking wealth, the Bible, specifically in I Timothy 6:6-10, stresses the importance of managing finances responsibly and not falling into the trap of materialism. It highlights the dangers of the love of money and the significance of being good stewards of what we have, as illustrated through various images and verses.
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Stewardship Financial Responsibility According to the Bible I TIMOTHY 6:6-10
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content I TIMOTHY 6:6-10 2 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. I TIMOTHY 6:6-10 3 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
STEWARD: (Gr.) oikonomos household affairs; manager whom the proprietor has entrusted the manage- ment of his affairs an overseer; the treasurer of a city. The manager of household or of 4 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
How badly are we in Debt? 5 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Medical Bills Leading Cause of Bankruptcy Illness and medical bills caused half of the 1,536,799 personal bankruptcies in 2010, according to a study published by the journal Health Affairs, Harvard University. The study estimates that medical bankruptcies affect about 2 million Americans annually Surprisingly, most of those bankrupted by illness had health insurance. 6 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Target Group Highest number of bankruptcies: American families ages 35-44 years old. Next highest number of bankruptcies: American families ages 25-34 years old. 7 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Myth: We will be in some sort of debt all of our lives. PROVERBS 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. 8 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
According to The Wall Street Journal nearly 70% of all consumers live from paycheck to paycheck. 9 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Sign in a Loan Office: We will loan you enough money to get completely out of debt! 10 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Laptops for Balances Universal Savings Bank is offering brand new laptop computers in exchange for transferring a balance of at least $5,000 from other credit cards. The "Upfront Rewards VISA Platinum" also requires cardholders to maintain a balance of at least $3,500 on the card for at least 18 months. Those who do not have $5,000 to transfer can request a cash advance up to $2,500 to bring their initial balance up to $5,000. The card's current APR is 9.99%. The Power to Become 11 1-31-2018
Laptop for Balances! Laptop for Balances! $5000 x 9.9% x $100.00 per month 64.74 months $6,474.00 (provided there are no further purchases!) Remember the Laptop s original cost is approximately $800 to $900 12 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Laptop for Balances! $5000 x 9.9% x $50.00 per month 212 months $10,600.00 (provided there are no further purchases!) Remember the Laptop s original cost is approximately $800 to $900
The average interest rate across all existing credit card accounts was 14.90% as of May 2017 (Source: Federal Reserve) There were 788,364,000 million bank- issued credit card accounts in the U.S in 2017 (Source: Visa USA, MasterCard Int l) 14 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Current Population of the United States: 323,100,000 Or 2.44 Credit cards per person 15 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
1. Overall Economic Improvement 2. Changes to Bankruptcy Laws 1 . 16 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Save A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. PROVERBS 22:3 17 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Develop an Emergency Fund to avoid further debt. Save $1000 (Single: $500) 18 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Warning Then Judgment Now, we have a responsibility that we've got to answer to God someday for. Every man that come on the face of the earth has to answer to God for a responsibility a stewardship, we have to answer for... This responsibility is a stewardship that's been committed to us by God. 63-0724 19 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
II PETER 1:2-4 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corrupt-tion that is in the world through lust. 20 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
CHRIST.IS.REVEALED.IN.HIS.OWN.WORD 35 We should never pray to change God's mind; we should pray to change our mind. God's mind don't need any changing. It s right See, you take the wrong attitude. You're trying to tell God what to do. Prayer should be, "Lord, change me to fit Your Word." Not, let me change Your mind, You change my mind to Your will. And Your will is written here in the Book. Lord, don't let me go till my mind set just like Your mind. And then I'll believe every Word You wrote. 65-0822 21 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
EPHESIANS 2:2-6 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 22 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
GOD.COMMISSIONING.MOSES 48 When standing there in Durban, South Africa... They had a staff of doctors there talk on Divine healing. Some great miracles been done around Louisville. And one of the doctors said, I tell you; I find this, that the greatest power in the world is not the atomic bomb, but a believer in contact with his Maker." It changes the whole attitude, changes his mental, his habit, his body, it changes his nature, everything. 53-0508 23 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
WE.HAVE.FOUND.HIM 3 I do appreciate you people coming out in these hot rooms. Just a bit nervous tonight. I've tried to swing my meetings so I could get more through the line, and you get used to this way in a regular routine, a different spirit and so forth, and it makes you a little upset when you try to change your program. So I'm going to start the prayer line just in a few moments. 54-0825 24 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
WHAT.IS.THAT.IN.YOUR.HAND 45 And that's the way God wrote His Word, not to stand off from a high, psycho- logical, educational standpoint, and say, "The days of miracles, oh, I don't know whether it's really right or not." God doesn't write His Word for that. Get down on your knees, and look up through the promise, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus. It'll look a lot different to you when you come that way. It isn't to be criticized and say, "And these things was, and this won't be." 25 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
But the Bible said Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever in every principle, every power. On your knees and look up that way, then it'll look different to you. Things looked different to Moses. He'd had a vision. The vision changed his life. If you ever get a vision of the living God, it'll change your life, if you can ever once see really what He is. 55-1120 26 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
THE.JUNCTION.OF.TIME 21 The unsearchable thinking of man can never comprehend the miraculous. You have to come in contact with omnipotence. Then when you do that, you're in contact with the supernatural. Your life change, your thinking's change, your mind change, you're made different. Your sickness is finished. God's great power moves in. Moses at the bush. He saw and heard the omnipotent, and he seen the miraculous. God wasn't satisfied with giving Moses just a 27 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
message to go down and preach along to the Egyptians and to preach to the Israelites. God the omnipotent and miraculous God wasn't God if He just reveal it to one man. But He said, "Take these signs and show them down there; I'll be with you." Change, the junction had come, time for something to take place. But before that thing takes place, God gives His warning. "I'm still Jehovah. I still live. And I'm omnipotent. I'm the miraculous God. 56-0115 28 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
THE.JUNCTION.TIME 78 There come a time where there had to be a junction in Israel, when Ahab married Jezebel, the little painted up flapper, and turned all of God into an idolatry. Just about the same thing that's done today. When spiritual people has got so formal till they got the church to nothing but a lodge.. You know that's true Join the lodge, change your paper. You pack it from the Methodist to the Baptist to the Presbyterian 29 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
Why don't you tear the thing up any- how and put your name on the Book of Life in heaven, where it won't be packed around from place to place. Nothing against Methodist, Baptist, nothing against them, but it's the way you're living in them. And a lot of it is caused by failing to preach the Gospel and warning the people. What we need is more warning, more Gospel preaching. 56-0122 30 The Power to Become 1-31-2018
