Illustrate

Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Meeting your expenses is easy--in fact, it's impossible to

avoid them.

A budget is a detailed record of how you managed to spend

more than you earned.

About the only thing you can do on a shoestring nowadays is

trip.

Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you

need more.

Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. If a man runs after money,
he's money-mad; if he keeps it,
Cheer up: birds have bills too, but they keep on singing. he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's
a play- boy; if he doesn't try to get it, he
Don't borrow trouble: borrow money and trouble will come lacks ambition. If he gets it without
of its own accord. working for it, he's a parasite; and if he
accumulates it after a lifetime of hard work,
Economy: save money in one store so you can spend it in people call him a fool who never got anything
another. out of life.
Vic Oliver
Feel for others-in your pocket.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) If you make money your god, it will plague you like the
devil.
He who borrows sells his freedom. Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
German Proverb
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice
O money, money, money! I often stop to wonder how thou how he acts when he loses money.
canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly. Jewish Proverb
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
It is not a custom with me to keep money to look at.
People come to poverty in two ways: accumulating debts and George Washington (1732-1799)
paying them off.
Jewish Proverb
Scripture
Solomon States “Money Answers Everything.”
...but money answereth all things. Ecc
10.19 KJV
Isaiah Compares God’s Riches with Money
2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and
your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen,
listen to me, and eat what is good, and your
soul will delight in the richest of fare. Isa 55.2
KJV
Jesus Says You Cannot Serve God and Money!
24 "No one can serve two masters. 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 both God and Money. Mt 6.24
NIV
Timothy States:
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of
evil. Some people, eager for money, have wan-
dered from the faith and pierced themselves with
many griefs.
11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and
pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endur-
ance and gentleness. I Tim 6.10-11 KJV
Timothy States:
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of
money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to
their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without
self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God--
5 having a form of godliness but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with them.
Questions
Can you exchange earthly money for heavenly?
What is the right perspective on money and God?
Is there a heavenly currency?
What is the right way to use money?
Can money really have dominion over me?
Points/Application
Money is a necessary part of life-our way of hu-
man life
Love of money rather than God as first in our life
is wrong
Money should serve our desires (Godly desires);
not us serving money