The Illusion of money

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Matthew 6:21 (New International Version - UK (NIVUK) “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”

Ecclesiastes 5:8-20 New Life Version (NLV) Money and Honor Are of Little Worth “10 He who loves money will never have enough money to make him happy. It is the same for the one who loves to get many things. This also is for nothing. 11 When there are more good things, there are also more people to eat them. So what does their owner get except to see them with his eyes? 12 The sleep of the working man is pleasing, if he eats little or much. But the full stomach of the rich man does not let him sleep. 13 There is something very wrong which I have seen under the sun: Riches being kept by the owner and he is hurt by them. 14 When those riches are lost because he used them in a wrong way, and he had become the father of a son, there was nothing left for him. 15 A man comes from his mother without clothing, and he will go as he came. He will take nothing from his work that he can carry in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:8-20 New Life Version (NLV) Money and Honor Are of Little Worth 16 This also is very wrong: As a man is born, this is the way he will leave. So what does the man get who works for the wind? 17 All his life he eats in darkness with much sorrow, sickness and anger. 18 This is what I have seen to be good and right: to eat and to drink and be happy in all the work one does under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him. For this is his reward. 19 As for every man to whom God has given riches and many good things, He has also given him the power to eat from them, receive his reward and be happy in his work. This is the gift of God. 20 For he will not think much about the years of his life, because God keeps him happy in his heart.”

5 warnings about money 1. The more we have, the more we want (5:10). 2. The more we have, the more we spend (5:11). 3. The more we have, the more we worry (5:12). 4. The more we have, the more we hoard (5:13-14). 5. The more we have, the more we leave (5:15-17).

God’s Blessings and Truths 1. God gives work as His gift (5:18). 2. God gives wealth as His gift (5:19-20).

Money can’t buy happiness you don't need money to be happy!

Make your money your servant to serve others, not your master so that it masters you.

The Illusion of money