Money

Before you begin please read the parable of the unjust steward from Luke 16:1-13. And then 1 Timothy 6:17-19.

After spending time on the heretical false teachers' love of money in the Ephesian Church Paul has to shift away from the problem of lusting after wealth to the proper use of it. There is definitely sin in greed, but merely having wealth isn't sinful. In fact, God has blessed us to such an incredible extent that in comparison to the rest of the world we are all quite wealthy – regardless of how we line up against our neighbors' checkbook. So what does God have to say about the proper use of money? Properly used we can use the money of this world to actively grab on to the next. Look at the last phrase of Verse 19 where he says, “...so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.”

Verses 17-19 contain a series of six commands both binding and then releasing behavior in God's people concerning money. The first of which is aimed at our pride.

Being a bit of a word-fiend I get one of those word-a-day emails
¹in my email box every day... and I actually read it. This week Ifound a goldmine: pleonexia (pli-uh-nek-see-uh) It means “insatiable covetousness.” It is in my opinion one of the most defining words for America today. In fact I see way too much pleonexia in my ownlife not to mention in the lives of those around me. This should not be.

This morning I want us to look together into 1 Timothy 6:6-10 so that we can learn how to really have it all – by merely being content with what we have.