JAMES 5: 1 - 6
(1) Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
(2) Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
JAMES 5: 1 - 6(3) Your gold and silver have corroded, and
their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
(4) Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
JAMES 5: 1 - 6
(5) You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
(6) You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
(1) Sin—we sin against God.
(2) Suffering—when we’re hurting,struggling, weeping, anddying, we need comfort, weneed encouragement, we needlove, grace, and mercy, andassistance from God and God’speople;
(3) Stewardship is really about allthe things that God entruststo us. Our time, our talent,our treasure, the totality ofour life and how we invest itto God’s glory and others’good.
MARK 12: 41 - 44
(42)And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.
(43)And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny.
MARK 12: 41 - 44(43)And he called his disciples to him and
said to them, "Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box.
(44)For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.“
GENESIS 13:2; 24:35
Genesis 13:2(2) Now Abram was very rich in livestock,
in silver, and in gold.Genesis 24:35(35) The LORD has greatly blessed my
master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
2 THESSALONIANS 3: 10 & 11
(10) For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
(11) For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
PROVERBS 28: 6
(6) Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
• WEALTH TODAY
Even globally, we live at astandard and level of living thatwe just want to be very carefulthat we think biblically, we thinkhistorically, that we don’t justthink economically, or socially, orselfishly.
1 JOHN 4:4
1 John 4:4(4) Little children, you are from God and
have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
ROMANS 14:8
Romans 14:8(8) For if we live, we live to the Lord, and
if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
JOHN 17: 10 & PSALMS 24: 1
John 17:10(10)All mine are yours, and yours are
mine, and I am glorified in them.Psalm 24:1(1) The earth is the LORD's and the
fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
1 CORINTHIANS 4: 7
(7) For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
1 PETER 4: 10
(10)As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: