OF DEBT AND DECEPTION (3 OF 5)

Of Debt and Deception (3 of 5)
Series: Money Wise
Cal Jernigan
Proverbs 22:7


Big idea: Better to be spiritually free than financially burdened

1) Opening Comments
a) Welcome
b) Today we continue in our current series: Money Wise
i) I want to encourage you to be sure to hear all of them.
ii) This subject has so many facets we can't possible cover them all.
c) These messages are designed to build upon one another

i) First week: Of Myths and Money

(1) When it comes to money, normal is nuts!!!

ii) Second week: Of Fear and Finances

(1) We worry less about money when we focus more about God.

iii) Journal:
(1) Week #3
(2) Title: Of Debt and Deception
(3) Big Idea: Better to be spiritually free than financially burdened

iv) Proverbs 22:7 ''The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.''

d) Explain the backpack

i) This backpack is going to represent the ''debt load'' we carry
(1) Right now it's empty
(2) It's how we all start out... free from a debt burden
(3) Typically, as time passes, we add to it.
(a) Understand, we add to it.
(b) Seldom does anyone else, they are choices we make.
(4) Every few minutes I'm going to put some weight in it...
(5) We're going to start now with our first WEIGHT...
(6) It tends to be our first DEBT.
(a) CAR -- Add a 10 lb weight here
(b) 2nd CAR... Add a 4lb weight...
(i) I JUST GOT MARRIED!!!!
(ii) The weight's not the marriage!
(iii) It's the car

ii) Just so you know...It's going to get really heavy
(1) Before this message is over I'm going to be straining just to hold it.
(2) It's about the deception of debt...
(3) The weight catches up with you later... not now
(4) I'm pretty sure I can handle this...
(5) But understand this... I'm not a body builder... No seriously, I'm not.
(6) I'm going to truly start to feel it before it's over.

iii) Hopefully, this is going to provide a visual image of what we're doing to ourselves.

iv) (It's also going ...

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