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A Balanced Christian Life = A Balanced Financial Perspective

Symptoms of unbalanced financial lives
James 5:1-6 (NKJV)
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
1 When you are in debt
Deuteronomy 28:43-44 (NKJV)
He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

 

2 When the appetite for money increases
Matthew 6:24 (NKJV)
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.


3 When money takes the central place in life
1 Timothy 6:9 (NKJV)
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.


4 When you spend sleepless nights thinking about money
Ecclesiastes 5:12 (NKJV)
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.


5 When God’s word does not take root
Matthew 13:12 (NKJV)
For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

 

6 Scheming to get rich quick

Proverbs 28:22-23 (NKJV)
A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, And does not consider that poverty will come upon him.

 

7 When we start acting arrogant and proud

2 Timothy 2:4-5 (NKJV)

No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

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