1. May 3, 2009 The Value of Money Phil 4:10-23

2. About 2,350 verses About 2,350 verses About 25% of Jesus’ teachings About 25% of Jesus’ teachings Matthew 6:21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

3. Buy us Contentment 1 Timothy 6:9 But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

4. Buy us Contentment Contentment is… (vv11-13) 1.Unrelated to circumstances 2.Comes from God 3.Must be learned

5. 1.Provide for my physical needs (v19) 2 Corinthians 9:7-8 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed.

6. 1.Provide for my physical needs (v19) 2.Provide for the physical needs of others (vv14-16) Ephesians 4:28 He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

7. 1.Provide for my physical needs (v19) 2.Provide for the physical needs of others (vv14-16) 3.Advance the gospel (v22)

10. 1.Provide for my physical needs (v19) 2.Provide for the physical needs of others (vv14-16) 3.Advance the gospel (v22) 4.Earn eternal reward (v17) 2 Corinthians 9:6 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

11. 1.Provide for my physical needs (v19) 2.Provide for the physical needs of others (vv14-16) 3.Advance the gospel (v22) 4.Earn eternal reward (v17) 5.Offer pleasing worship to God (v18)