MARKETPLACE FACTS Module 201 D
A BIBLICAL PRIMER ON WEALTH Mario Denton Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Overall purpose of this series on Market place To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
A Biblical Primer on Wealth • One of the most vexing areas of life is that of finances. • Can I trust God to provide for my needs? • When is enough, enough? • How do I maintain my priorities between seeking God and providing for my family?
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
A Biblical Primer on Wealth • Perhaps the most poignant passage on this subject is found in Matthew 6:19-34 and summarized in verse 33: But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Following is a brief Biblical primer on wealth: Don’t trust in or set your heart on riches. Ps. 62:10; Deut. 6:10-12; 8:1214; Job 31:24-28; Lk. 12:15. Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Following is a brief Biblical primer on wealth: • Because wisdom and understanding are superior to wealth, choose the former over the latter. – Prov 16:16; Psalm 119:127; Prov. 3:13-18; 4:7; 8:10,11,19; Ecc. 7:12; Matt. 16:26; Luke 12:21
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Following is a brief Biblical primer on wealth • Because riches can easily disappear, don’t make them your main focus. Prov. 23:5; 27:24; Ecc. 5:13
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Following is a brief Biblical primer on wealth: • Those who please God gain wisdom and understanding, while the rebel is relegated to the meaningless task of gathering and storing wealth (only to have his acquisitions to be handed over the those who please God). Ecc. 2:26; Prov. 3:13-18; 13:22; 28:8; Isa. 3:10; Job 27:13-23 Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • Will never be satisfied with what they possess, because 'leaches' will diminish their holdings. Ecc. 6:7; Hab. 2:5-7
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • Will live with angst from their financial enslavement, compared to the laboring man who is content with what he has. Psalm 119:36,37; Josh. 7:21-25; Ecc. 6:9; Jer. 17:11
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • Hoard their resources to their own detriment. Gen. 13; Prov. 1:19; 11:24,25; Lk. 12:16-21
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • When God’s judgment falls, our wealth cannot save us. Zeph. 1:18; Ps. 52:5-7; Pr. 11:4; Jer. 9:23,24; Zeph. 1:10-13
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • Hoarding for selfish pleasure is sin. Luke 12:13-21; James 5:1-3; Ps. 119:36,37; Mi. 2:2; Hab. 2:9; Col. 3:5; 2 Tim. 3:2; 2 Pet. 2:14
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • The rich young ruler illustrates the point that an idolatrous relationship with wealth will cost us our souls. Luke 18:18-25; Ezek. 33:31; Luke 8:14; 19:8; Eph. 5:5; Phil. 3:8
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • A godly person who is content with life’s basics is the truly rich individual. I Tim. 6:6-8; Hebrews 13:5; Matt. 6:34; Phil. 4:11-13; 2 Cor. 9:8-11; 12:9,10
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • The person lusting for wealth will pay a high price for its acquisition. I Tim 6:9,10; 2 Kings 5:20-27; Prov. 15:27; 20:21; 21:6; 22:16; 28:20-22; Isa. 5:8; Hos. 12:7,8; Amos 8:4-6; Zech. 11:5; Jude 1:11
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Lovers of money (Ecc. 5:1014): • Those blessed with wealth bear the responsibility of humility over arrogance, trusting God over their vulnerable resources, and exercising generosity in the sharing of their wealth. I Tim 6:17,18; 1 John 2:15,16; Deut. 15:7-11; Ps. 37:3; Prov. 11:24,25; Ecc. 11:1,2,6; Isa. 58:6,7; Luke 6:33-36; Acts 9:36; Rom. 12:8,13; 2 Cor. 8:19; 9:6-15; Gal. 6:10; Tit. 2:14; 3:8; Heb. 13:16; 1 Jn. 3:17 Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
QUESTIONS that MATTER 1. Select one of these issues. Why is it important to you presently?
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
QUESTIONS that MATTER 2. What do you learn about the character of God from these verses?
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
QUESTIONS that MATTER 3. In what was can wealth become an idol? How does our culture / society encourage this? Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
QUESTIONS that MATTER 4. How does this doctrine contrast with the world's system?
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
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Marketplace facts: A biblical primer on wealth
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