1. MONEY MATTERS Matthew 25:14-30

2. Key Bible Words: Believe – 272 times Pray – 371 times Love – 714 times Give – 2,162 times

3. Matthew 25:14 14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted HIS property to them.

4. Deuteronomy 10:14 14 To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.

5. Psalm 24:1 1 The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

6. Psalm 50:12 12 If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

7. Haggai 2:8 8 ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the LORD Almighty.

8. Ecclesiastes 5:13 13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

9. Deuteronomy 8:17-18 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 forefathers, as it is today.

10. POSSESSIONS ARE BLESSINGS THAT COME FROM HIM!

11. I Timothy 6:17 17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

12. HE IS FREE TO ALLOCATE HIS RESOURCES HOWEVER HE CHOOSES

13. Matthew 25:15 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

14. GOD HAS THE RIGHT TO DIRECT HOW HIS RESOURCES ARE TO BE USED - THEREFORE BE OBEDIENT

15. Matthew 25:27 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

16. WITHHOLDING TITHES IS STEALING FROM GOD

17. Malachi 3:8-9 8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—the whole nation of you— because you are robbing me.

18. Malachi 3:10 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

19. GOD GAVE HIS FIRSTBORN