THE FINANCIAL PIECE/PEACE

THE FINANCIAL PIECE/PEACE
PROVERBS 3:9-10; 30:7-9

INTELLIGENCE IS KNOWING … THAT …
WISDOM IS KNOWING … HOW …

ONE OF THE MAJOR THEMES OF PROVERBS IS MONEY, HOW WE USE WEALTH, POSSESSIONS ETC…

TO UNDERSTAND THE FINANCIAL PIECE/PEACE, WE MUST:
BE HONORABLE,
   PROVERBS 3:9-10
   THE CONNECTION,
   “HONOR” – WEIGHTY, WORTHY, DECLARING THE VALUE OF ANOTHER …

“PROVERBS ARE SNAPSHOTS OF REALITY, GENERALLY TRUE PRINCIPLES, BUT NOT PROMISES.”
TREMPER LONGMAN

   PROVERBS 3:15-16 NIV

   COUPLETS:
PROVERBS 15:16 NIV
PROVERBS 15:17 NIV
PROVERBS 17:1 NIV
PROVERBS 22:1 NIV
PROVERBS 28:6 NIV

“THE REAL DANGER OF WEALTH UNDERLINED HERE IS THAT IT CAN DISTORT OUR SENSE OF VALUES AND PRIORITIES AND MAKE US BLIND TO AND LOSE OUT ON THE BETTER THINGS, WHICH REALLY MATTER AND WHICH TRULY ENRICH.”
KENNETH AITKEN, PROVERBS

BE HONEST

   PROVERBS 20:23 NIV
   PROVERBS 11:26
   POINT: MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT JUST HAVE ONE BOTTOM LINE …

  PRESSING THE POINT:
      FIRST, OUR LIVES ARE TIED TO MONEY … IT USUALLY IS ABOUT THE MONEY!
      SECOND, IN SCRIPTURE MONEY IS A REPLACEMENT FOR GOD.
PROVERBS 18:10-11 NIV

MATTHEW 6:24 NIV

“MAMMON MEANS POSSESSIONS OR PROPERTY. TODAY WE LEGITIMATELY TRANSLATE MAMMON AS THINGS, MONEY, GAIN OR SUCCESS. THE GOD MAMMON IS LEFT WITH ITS PAGAN NAME IN THE GREEK TEXT AND IN MOST TRANSLATIONS IN ORDER TO REMIND READERS THAT MAMMON IS A SPIRITUAL FORCE WHO WORKS WITH TREMENDOUS ATTRACTING POWER TO DRAW US INTO ITS ORBIT AND OUT FROM UNDER THE SERVICE OF CHRIST.”
DALE BRUNNER

“FOR UNTRADABLE THINGS THAT CANNOT BE EXCHANGED
(SUCH AS FRIENDSHIP), THERE IS NO WAY TO TRADE THEM OR SWAP THEM (YOU CANNOT BUY A TRUE FRIEND OR INNER PEACE). BUT YOU CAN BUY THINGS THAT SEEM TO BE AROUND IT; PROXIES. YOU CAN BUY A DINNER IN A RESTAURANT FOR YOUR FRIENDS, BUT THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN BUY TRUE FRIENDS BY DOING SO; OR YOU CAN BUY A CABIN IN THE MOUNTAINS AND TRY TO FIND PEACE THERE, BUT YOU CANNOT BUY PEACE ITSELF. ULTIMATELY, ADVERTISING FUNCTIONS ON THIS PRINCIPLE: THEY SHOW YOU SOMETHING THAT CANNOT BE TRADED (A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP, A HAPPY FAMILY BREAKFAST, OR BEAUTY) AND OFFER YOU A TRADEABLE PROXY (AN EXPENSIVE BED, SOME KIND OF BREAKFAST CEREAL, A MOUNTAIN CABIN, OR SHAMPOO). AND EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW THIS IS AN ILLUSION AND THAT ACTORS AND EXTRAS PLAY IN ADS, WE WILL START TO DESIRE A BETTER PILLOW, NEW YOGURTS AND CEREALS (THE HAPPY FAMILY AT BREAKFAST), AND SHAMPOO (EVEN IF THE MODEL IN THE AD HAS NEVER USED THAT PARTICULAR BRAND).
THOMAS SEDLACEK; ECONOMICS OF GOOD AND EVIL

BE HOLY
PROVERBS 30:7-9 NIV
   WHAT IS THIS PRAYER ABOUT?
      DEVOTION AND DEPENDANCE

APPLICATION:
COLOSSIANS 1:14, “IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.”
EPHESIANS 1:7, “IN HIM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE.”