Week 3 | How to Have It
From Ecclesiastes 5
Having money is not about the I have but the .
How to have money:
1. Listen to .
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 (ESV) Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
When it comes to about , we want immediate , God wants expedient .
2. God wants something not .
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 (ESV) When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. 5 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
📖 Acts 17:24-25 (ESV) “He is the God who made the world and everything in it. … human hands can’t serve his needs—for He has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need.
📖 Luke 12:29-32 (ESV) do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. 32 “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
3. Expect the and to God.
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:8 (ESV) “If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them. 9 But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.
📖 Psalm 121:2-5 (ESV) My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber… 5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
4. Only can what .
A. Money does not . God does.
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:10 (ESV) He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
📖 Psalm 103:1-5 (ESV) IBless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, 3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, 5 who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
B. Money does not . God does.
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:11 (ESV) The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!
📖 Jeremiah 2:13 (ESV) for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
📖 Hebrews 13:5 (ESV) Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
C. Money does not . God does.
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:15 (ESV) We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.
📖 John 10:10 (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Frustration with ends when in God begins.
📖 Isaiah 55:1-2 (ESV) “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
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