Sermon: Better Banking (3)
Series: A Change Of Heart
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Matthew 6:19-34
A man told of buying his 7-year-old daughter a game called "The Game of Life". It was the SpongeBob SquarePants version of The Game of Life and his daughter thought it was very cool. His daughter Tabitha thought the person who got to the end of the game first was the winner. But that wasn't what the instructions said. What the instructions said was - at the end of the game -the winner is the person with the greatest net worth. It actually says that.
And the dad said it struck him as odd, because the winner of the game wasn't the person who helped the most people, nor was it the person who gave the most away. The winner of the game was the person who accumulated the most wealth! He said "We play these games starting as children, and by the time we are adults, we start believing that that is how you win at the REAL game of life. (Greg Nettle)
Ted Turner (founder of CNN and worth about 2.5 billion dollars) said: "Life is a game. Money is how we keep score."
Years ago there was a famous comedienne named Joan Rivers, who joked: "People say that money isn't the key to happiness. But I always figured if you have enough money, you could have a key made."
But then you have Jesus, who famously said "Not so fast"! Well, he didn't actually say "Not so fast"... but what He did say was pretty powerful. "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21
In other words: Be careful where you bank! Be careful about what institution you invest your wealth in because, there's the "bank of earth..." and there's the bank of heaven, and the one in heaven gives a far better rate of interest.
But befo ...
Series: A Change Of Heart
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Matthew 6:19-34
A man told of buying his 7-year-old daughter a game called "The Game of Life". It was the SpongeBob SquarePants version of The Game of Life and his daughter thought it was very cool. His daughter Tabitha thought the person who got to the end of the game first was the winner. But that wasn't what the instructions said. What the instructions said was - at the end of the game -the winner is the person with the greatest net worth. It actually says that.
And the dad said it struck him as odd, because the winner of the game wasn't the person who helped the most people, nor was it the person who gave the most away. The winner of the game was the person who accumulated the most wealth! He said "We play these games starting as children, and by the time we are adults, we start believing that that is how you win at the REAL game of life. (Greg Nettle)
Ted Turner (founder of CNN and worth about 2.5 billion dollars) said: "Life is a game. Money is how we keep score."
Years ago there was a famous comedienne named Joan Rivers, who joked: "People say that money isn't the key to happiness. But I always figured if you have enough money, you could have a key made."
But then you have Jesus, who famously said "Not so fast"! Well, he didn't actually say "Not so fast"... but what He did say was pretty powerful. "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21
In other words: Be careful where you bank! Be careful about what institution you invest your wealth in because, there's the "bank of earth..." and there's the bank of heaven, and the one in heaven gives a far better rate of interest.
But befo ...
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