“Child Dedication” Deuteronomy 6:4-7 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

“Impress” – To teach God’s truth over and over again, until they finally “get it”

“Planning Financial Success with Wisdom” Faith – Family – Finances - Freedom Ecc 5:10-20 & Selected Cross Creek Community Church, Pastor Dave Martin – Nov 15, 2015

Introduction: Introduction: One out of every three parables, touch on finances. One out of every three parables, touch on finances.

Introduction: Introduction: One out of every three parables, touch on finances. One out of every three parables, touch on finances. 20% of everything Jesus taught was about money & giving! 20% of everything Jesus taught was about money & giving!

Introduction: Introduction: One out of every three parables, touch on finances. One out of every three parables, touch on finances. 20% of everything Jesus taught was about money & giving! 20% of everything Jesus taught was about money & giving! Giving is mentioned over 1500 times in the Bible… (more than faith+hope+love combined) Giving is mentioned over 1500 times in the Bible… (more than faith+hope+love combined)

2 Corinthians 8:7 But just as you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us--see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

Proverbs 3: Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.

I. Be Happy with what money you have. Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (Phil 4:10-13 “…be content in whatever the circumstances…)

I. Be Happy with what money you have. Because…

1. The more you have the more you want Ecclesiastes 5:10 Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.

2. The more you have the more you spend Ecclesiastes 5:11 As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?

3. The more you have the more you worry Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits him no sleep.

4. The more you have the more you lose Ecclesiastes 5: I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner, 14 or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when he has a son there is nothing left for him.

5. The more you have the more you leave Ecclesiastes 5: Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand. 16 This too is a grievous evil: As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain, since he toils for the wind? 17 All his days he eats in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.

II. Be Growing through personal stewardship 2 Corinthians 9: Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

1. Use money wisely - don’t waste it Luke 16:9 9 I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

2. Give money wisely - don’t love it Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

3. Invest money wisely in heaven’s bank - don’t hoard it Matthew 6: "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Old man’s prayer

III. Be Rejoicing with Heaven’s abundant blessings Malachi 3: "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. 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.

YOU can never out give GOD!