October 5 & 6 Handle Wealth Wisely

¹Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you. ²Your wealth has rotted and your clothes are moth-eaten. ³Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days. ⁴Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies. ⁵You have lived luxuriously on the earth and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ⁶You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.
James 5:1-6 (CSB)

1. THE WRONG USES OF WEALTH

• DON’T HOARD IT.

²Your wealth has rotted and your clothes are moth-eaten. ³Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.
James 5:2-3 (CSB)

• DON’T STEAL IT.

⁶Wealth created by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist and a deadly trap.
Proverbs 21:6 (CSB)

⁴Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.
James 5:4 (CSB)

• DON’T WASTE IT.

⁵You have lived luxuriously on the earth and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
James 5:5 (CSB)

• DON’T ABUSE IT.

⁶You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.
James 5:6 (CSB)

1. THE RIGHT USES OF WEALTH

• MAKE MONEY BY HARD WORK.

¹¹Wealth obtained by fraud will dwindle, but whoever earns it through labor will multiply it.
Proverbs 13:11 (CSB)

²³There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23 (CSB)

• SAVE MONEY CONSISTENTLY.

²⁵Ants—they aren’t strong, but they store up food all summer.
Proverbs 30:25 (NLT)

¹⁹And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians. 4:19 (CSB)

²⁰The wise have wealth and luxury, but fools spend whatever they get.
Proverbs 21:20 (NLT)

• SPEND MONEY WISELY.

⁵Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.
Proverbs 21:5 (NLT)

• GIVE MONEY GENEROUSLY.

²⁴One person gives freely, yet gains more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor. ²⁵A generous person will be enriched, and the one who gives a drink of water will receive water.
Proverbs 11:24-25 (CSB)

²⁰But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:20-21 (CSB)

²On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he is prospering, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.
1 Corinthians 16:2 (CSB)