Goal of This Series: Experience the fullness of joy promised to us by treasuring Jesus above all else. 

Matthew 6:19-24 19“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth,  where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 

Mark 8:35-36 35For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. 36For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? 

Luke 12:19-21 19And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ 21So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.” 

An Earthly Mindset Towards Money

An Earthly Mindset Towards Money More is always better

An Earthly Mindset Towards Money More is always better Hoarding or Spending  

An Earthly Mindset Towards Money More is always better Hoarding or Spending Physical only  

An Earthly Mindset Towards Money More is always better Hoarding or Spending Physical only Means to an end…but what end?  

21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-24 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:19-24 22“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matthew 6:19-24  24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. 

Money - The Design

Money - The Design God made work God made mankind stewards Work and money were for glorifying God and enjoying his creation

Money and the Fall

Money and the Fall “I can be happy with the gifts themselves” - Romans 1:18-24

Money and the Fallout We have traded joy and purpose for pleasure.

A Disastrous Trade  24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. 

God

God 26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God "You make known to me the path of life;           in your presence there is fullness of joy;           at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” - Psalms 16:11

God’s Purpose for Money “Our money is to be used to bring glory to God and joy to us and others"

God’s Purpose for Giving 7”Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” - 2 Corinthians 9:7