Life, Money & Hope
Below are the Sermon Series Notes From Septemeber 11 & 18
Life, Money & Hope
Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel:
8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
14 for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” 22 “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!
23 “Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from him. 24 In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars. 25 He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold—along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt.
26 “But the man fell down before his master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.’ 27 Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt. 28 “But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars. He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment.
29 “His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it,’ he pleaded. 30 But his creditor wouldn’t wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full.
31 “When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened. 32 Then the king called in the man he had forgiven and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me. 33 Shouldn’t you have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’ 34 Then the angry king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt.
35 “That’s what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters from your heart.”
1. Get out of ____DEBT______________
Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
2. Act your ____WAGE____________ – learn to live on less than you make
Proverbs 21:20 The wise have wealth and luxury, but fools spend whatever they get.
3. Get on a _____BUDGET____________
Luke 14:28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
4. Save and ______INVEST______________
Proverbs 21:20 The wise have wealth and luxury, but fools spend whatever they get.
5. __G___ive
Malachi 3:10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!
Breaking the Bondage of Debt
Matthew 20:1a, 16 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like…So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”
Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Philippians 1:21a For to me, living means living for Christ
Proverbs 6:5 Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.
Two Principles:
1. __GAZELLE________________ Intensity
2. Momentum - ___SNOWBALL_________ Effect
Five Steps:
- ___SAVE________ Money – Emergency fund
- Quit ____BORROWING__________________ More Money
- ______PRAYER______________ Really Works
- ________SELL_____________ Something
- Take a ______PART TIME JOB_________________ or ___WORK OVERTIME_______________
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