BEYOND SURVIVAL Part 2: How To Master Your Money

2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV
8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

We were created to be fruitful, multiply, and have dominion.

Matthew 6:24 NIV
24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Mammon – Treasure or riches that are personified and opposed to God.

Provision without Purpose is Poison

1. Mammons Device is Deception

Luke 11:16 NIV
16 Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.

1. Mammon’s Device is Deception
2. Mammon’s Goal is Worship

Matthew 4:8-9 NIV
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

Matthew 4:10 NIV
10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”

1. Mammon’s Device is Deception
2. Mammon’s Goal is Worship
3. Mammon’s Outcome is Control

Luke 16:10 NIV
10 “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

1. Everything God does has Purpose

Isaiah 46:9-10 NIV
9 Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other;  am God, and there is none like me. 10 I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’

Deuteronomy 8:17-18 NIV
17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

1. Everything God does has Purpose
2. We were Born with a Purpose

2 Timothy 1:9 NIV
9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

Jeremiah 1:5 NIV
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8 NIV
7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. 8 They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:10 NIV
10 “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

1. We were Created to be Fruitful, Multiply, and have Dominion.
2. Provision without Purpose is Poison