POWER TO GET WEALTH II

 *15/01/2023*

*THIRD SUNDAY SERVICE*

TOPIC:

*POWER TO GET WEALTH II*

Text:

Deuteronomy 8:11-20

*"I believe the power to make money is a gift of God"*

JD Rockefeller

1839-1937

Cont'd

2. Dangers of Prosperity

i. reliance on self with the exclusion of God.

Lack of remembrance of what God done for them in the past. Not just the exodus from Egypt, but to their experience of God's care while they were wandering in the wilderness. God taught them lessons in humility and obedience.

Deuteronomy 8:2

He had repeatedly shown them that they were not able to provide for themselves, not even at the basic level of food. They had to rely on God's supply of the mysterious manna, which they never encountered before.

Deuteronomy 8:3

Matthew 4:4

The lesson that no aspect of human existence can be separated from God's provision.

God had also provided the very clothes they wore and the physical stamina to endure the years of walking.

Deuteronomy 8:4

His aim in permitting them to suffer need was not to impose suffering, but to teach them to rely on him, just as a father sets tough goals for a child in order to teach them important lessons for living

Deuteronomy 8:5

 Ii. lack of discipline

The proof that his discipline had been motivated by a loving desire to prepare them for life in the rich and fertile land they have been promised.

Deuteronomy 8:6-9

Hebrews 12:11

 III. sense of entitlement (Pride)

But the trouble with a life of ease and prosperity is that it is easy to become accustomed to it, and then to assume that one is naturally entitled to it. When this sense of entitlement creeps in, acknowledgement that what one enjoys is God's gift creeps out.

Deuteronomy 8:10-14

When we forget that we owe even the ability to produce wealth to God, we start to think that my power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.

Deuteronomy 8:17-18

God has little sympathy with such arrogance and with the idolatry that often follows it - which in our days may be worship of self, of education, of power, or of money.

It is the self-sufficiency that accompanies prosperity that makes it so difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God

Luke 18:24

If the Israelites forget God's commands and turn to idolatry they should not expect to fare any better than the nations that God has ordered them to destroy.

Deuteronomy 8:19-20

1 Corinthians 4:7

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