Reading: The Bible, Money, and Work (Slides)

The Bible, Money & Work

More money; more ministry

How is money the root of all evil?

Mark 10:23-27 (NIV)  Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” 24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

How is money the root of all evil?

Luke 16:13 (NIV)  "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

How is money the root of all evil?

Proverbs 23:4-5 (NIV) Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

How is money the root of all evil?

Matthew 16:26 (NIV) What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?.

How is money the root of all evil?

1 Timothy 6:9-10 (NIV) Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 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.

How is money a trap

It promises more than it delivers

It consumes your time little by little

It is addictive (you need more and more)

It suckers you in to a game that never satisfies.

How much money is enough?  

Just ...

It leads to jeoulousy, envy, and judgemntalism 

How is money the root of some good?

1 Timothy 6:17-19 (NIV) 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. 18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. 19 In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

Whose money is it? 

Psalm 24:1 (NIV) The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it ... 

I Corinthians 4:7 (NLT) What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?

Deuteronomy 8:18 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 ancestors, as it is today.

What of our money do we owe God?

Malachi 3:10 (NIV)  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.

What of our money do we owe God?

Colossians 3:16-18 (NIV)  Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.  And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

What of our money do we owe God?

Colossians 3:23-24 (NIV)  Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,  since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

What does the bible say about work?

Genesis 2:15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

What does the bible say about work?

Proverbs 12:11 Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.

Proverbs 13:4 A sluggard's appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

What does the bible say about work?

Proverbs 14:23 All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Proverbs 6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-- and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man. 

What does the bible say about work?

2 Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Ecclesiastes 5:18 (NIV) This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them--for this is their lot.

What the Bible has to say about   work and ministry?

You are worker wanting to do more ministry

Ephesians 4:11-12 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ ... 

What the Bible has to say about   work and ministry?

You are in ministry already but you need to work to take care of your family.

Acts 18:2-4 (ESV) And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them,  and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.  And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.