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See:
James 5:1-6 & Luke 12:13-21
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James 5:1-6- Fight to renounce the world
Luke 12:34 “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
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Do you value things more than God or do you value God more than things?
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Our mission is to see God as supreme value through the Lord Jesus Christ!
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Luke 12:13-15- Fight to reclaim Christ as your treasure
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If you had one question to ask Jesus while you are still here on earth, what would that question be? I’d ask, Jesus, you are God, why would you die for someone so worthless as me?
– The great lie- That more things will bring peace, completion, happiness, real life. The opposite is true! In fact the love of stuff can take your life.
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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” C.S. Lewis
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My happiness is found in less of me and in more of Him! When we decrease and He increases, our joy is found in Him, Christ, not stuff!
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Matthew 16:24-26 “Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”
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Luke 12:16-19- Fight to redirect your priorities
– It’s not bad to have a lot of stuff, in fact you can us that stuff for God’s glory and the making of disciples among the nations.
Luke 12:20-21- Fight to be rich toward God
– May your time, money, and stuff be held under the microscope of will this bring glory to God or myself.
– How should he have responded?
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God,
this is all yours!
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given
me
this
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use
for
your
glory!
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Acts 20:35 “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Why fight for this?
Romans 5:8 “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Application: Make Battle
– Make an effort to study God’s Word to savor Christ as your supremacy daily. Taste and see He is good! Reclaim His Value through Proclamation
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– Make every effort to pray that Christ is your sufficiency. Pray that the love of stuff losses its power! Reclaim His Value through Prayer.
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– Meditate on His secure promises! God has provided and will provide for your needs.
Reclaim His Value through His Promises
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– Make every effort to scrutinize your investments, time, and resources! Hold it under the microscope of the gospel and God’s Word, Will this bring you glory? It’s not wrong to have much, it’s wrong to waste much on yourself!
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Reclaim His Value through Priorities.