You and Your Money (2 of 6)
Series: It's Not Easy Being Me
Jeff Schreve
Hebrews 13:5
If you have your Bible, please turn to Hebrews chapter 13. We want to talk today about, You and Your Money.
A distressed wife contacted the marriage counselor, and she was in terrible straits. And she said to the marriage counselor, she said, ''I need you desperately to help my husband and me.'' True story. And she said, ''We were married, and then we ran into all sorts of problems, and we got divorced. And we stayed divorced for a number of years, and then we remarried, thinking that we would get over the problems and learn from our mistakes.'' But she said, ''We're back in the same situation.'' And here was the problem? He was a spender and she was a saver. And he was better at spending than she was at saving. And they had major financial issues. And the woman said this: ''It's all financial, every bit of it. The whole reason for all our fights and all the devastation in our family is all related to money.''
Money is one of the key issues of life - how you and I handle money. Jesus talked a lot about money in the Bible. The Bible speaks a lot about money. Why? Because we have to have money to live. Every single person, you have to have money to get by in this world. And the tendency is with money that you put your faith and trust in money. On our money it says, ''In God We Trust.'' But I wonder how many people really trust in God when it comes to money. So many people, Christians, they say, ''Well, God, I trust You, but I'm really trusting in money.'' And they make decisions based on money. And Jesus said, ''No man can serve two masters. Either he'll hate the one and love the other, or he'll despise the one and cling to the other. You cannot serve God and money.'' So your attitude toward money, my attitude toward money, is really, really critical. And God tests us to see, ''How do you handle that which I have entrusted to you?''
So often we get the idea that we ...
Series: It's Not Easy Being Me
Jeff Schreve
Hebrews 13:5
If you have your Bible, please turn to Hebrews chapter 13. We want to talk today about, You and Your Money.
A distressed wife contacted the marriage counselor, and she was in terrible straits. And she said to the marriage counselor, she said, ''I need you desperately to help my husband and me.'' True story. And she said, ''We were married, and then we ran into all sorts of problems, and we got divorced. And we stayed divorced for a number of years, and then we remarried, thinking that we would get over the problems and learn from our mistakes.'' But she said, ''We're back in the same situation.'' And here was the problem? He was a spender and she was a saver. And he was better at spending than she was at saving. And they had major financial issues. And the woman said this: ''It's all financial, every bit of it. The whole reason for all our fights and all the devastation in our family is all related to money.''
Money is one of the key issues of life - how you and I handle money. Jesus talked a lot about money in the Bible. The Bible speaks a lot about money. Why? Because we have to have money to live. Every single person, you have to have money to get by in this world. And the tendency is with money that you put your faith and trust in money. On our money it says, ''In God We Trust.'' But I wonder how many people really trust in God when it comes to money. So many people, Christians, they say, ''Well, God, I trust You, but I'm really trusting in money.'' And they make decisions based on money. And Jesus said, ''No man can serve two masters. Either he'll hate the one and love the other, or he'll despise the one and cling to the other. You cannot serve God and money.'' So your attitude toward money, my attitude toward money, is really, really critical. And God tests us to see, ''How do you handle that which I have entrusted to you?''
So often we get the idea that we ...
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