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2. “The point is that you can’t be too greedy.” Donald Trump

3. “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” Woody Allen

4. Financial success never satisfies The Trouble with Treasures:

5. Ecclesiastes 5:10-11 (NLT) Those who love money will never have enough. How absurd to think that wealth brings true happiness! The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what is the advantage of wealth—except perhaps to watch it run through your fingers!

6. “After becoming famous and signing multimillion dollar deals, athletes discover those things are great but empty.” Gino Reda

7. Earthly treasures are temporary The Trouble with Treasures:

8. “Sometimes being a player in the playoffs you think you're superhuman, but this makes you realize you're not.” Dan Boyle

9. Matthew 6:19-20 (NLT) “Don't store up treasures here on earth, where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves.”

10. “There won’t be a U-Haul following your hearse.” Billy Graham

11. Greed corrupts the entire person The Trouble with Treasures:

12. “The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.” Jack Palance

13. Matthew 6:21-23 (NLT) “Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be. “Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. If the light you think you have is really darkness, how deep that darkness will be!” “Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be. “Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. If the light you think you have is really darkness, how deep that darkness will be!”

14. 1 Timothy 6:9-10 (NLT) But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

15. Matthew 6:21-23 (NLT) “Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be. “Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. If the light you think you have is really darkness, how deep that darkness will be!” “Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be. “Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. If the light you think you have is really darkness, how deep that darkness will be!”

16. Luke 12:15 (NIV) “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

17. A lust for more leads you away from God The Trouble with Treasures:

18. Matthew 6:24 (NLT) “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

19. “You can’t simply take Christ as a fire escape from Hell and still worship at the altar of self.” Denn Guptill

20. “Either we keep our conscience and reduce our affluence by giving generously and helping those in need, or we keep our affluence and smother our conscience. We have to choose between God and money.” John Stott

21. Be thankful for what you have Keeping Possessions in Perspective:

22. Hebrews 13:5 (NLT) Stay away from the love of money; be satisfied with what you have.

23. “There are two ways to get enough: One is to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” G.K. Chesterton

24. Jarome Iginla

25. 1 Timothy 6:7-8 (NLT) We didn't bring anything with us when we came into the world, and we certainly cannot carry anything with us when we die. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.

26. Honour God with your giving Keeping Possessions in Perspective:

27. 1 Corinthians 16:2 (NLT) On every Lord's Day, each of you should put aside some amount of money in relation to what you have earned and save it for this offering.

28. Malachi 3:10 (NLT) “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!”

29. Be a generous giver Keeping Possessions in Perspective:

30. Psalm 37:21 (NLT) The wicked borrow and never repay, but the godly are generous givers.

31. “Gain all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.” John Wesley

32. “Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.” J. Paul Getty

33. Remember, only eternal investments truly matter Keeping Possessions in Perspective:

34. Matthew 6:19-20 (NLT) “Don't store up treasures here on earth, where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves.”

35. Colossians 3:2 (NLT) Let heaven fill your thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth.

36. Trust God to provide for your needs Keeping Possessions in Perspective:

37. Matthew 6:25, 32-33 (NLT) “So I tell you, don't worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food, drink, and clothes… Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs, and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.” “So I tell you, don't worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food, drink, and clothes… Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs, and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.”

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