King of all kings, we are grateful to You. We thank You for another opportunity to study at Your feet. We worship Your name for who You are and how You are doing things in our generation, what a good, great and mighty God, please, accept our thanks in the name of Jesus. We thank You Oh God for bringing us to Your table today again, we ask that You will teach us together. I confess my ignorance; i don’t know anything, but Lord with Your strength, i can do all things. So, Father, by the strength of God that can do all things, enable me Oh God to do things for the glory of the name of God. I pray for my dear daddy in the Lord who has given me the opportunity, let the blessing of God find expression in his life and his wife. Father, this day, nobody will join us and regret, thank You eternal Father. Answer all the prayer requests that people have put forward. Lord, let everyone requesting for a miracle receive theirs in the name of Jesus, thank You For hearing us. Holy Spirit of the Lord, it is Your business, takeover and let all things work out to the glory of Your name and get glory, in Jesus’ mighty name we pray.
Amen!
Praise the name of the Lord.
Hallelujah!
THE MESSAGE RCCG DIGGING DEEP TOPIC: LOVE OF MONEY
TEXT – 1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 6
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
There is a tremendous difference between money and the love for money.
Many of the evils that happen in the world have connection with money and people who love money.
John 14:6 God is the truth.
God wants you to have possession but He didn’t want the possession to have you.
LOVE FOR MONEY can be defined as an intense and selfish desire to get more money.
Money is simply a symbol that stands for human resource; money stands for what you can get from man.
Isaiah 55:1 RCCG DIGGING DEEP TOPIC: LOVE OF MONEY
The love of money is the same as faith in money.
The love of money is trust, confidence, belief and assurance in money.
Love of money is the alternative faith in God’s future grace.
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
The topic in four aspects:
1.THE DESIRE FOR MONEY.
2. DECEPTION OF MONEY.
3.THE DESTRUCTION BY MONEY.
4. HOW TO STOP LOVING MONEY?
1.THE DESIRE FOR MONEY.
Loving money leads to all kinds of evil.
1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
1 John 2:16.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Money has a tendency to be served.
Exodus 20:3.
Matthew 19:16-30.
Matthew 19:23-24.
SLAVES OF MONEY.
i. Lot.
ii. Ballam.
iii. Gehazi.
iv. Judas Iscariot.
v. Demas.
SEVEN SIGNS OF LOVE OF MONEY.
Read 1 Timothy 3:3.
Those that love money have these signs:
i.They are obsessed with becoming rich.
2 Timothy 6:9-10. RCCG DIGGING DEEP TOPIC: LOVE OF MONEY
ii. They never have enough.
Luke 3:14, Proverbs 30:15.
iii. They live beyond their means.
Proverbs 22:7.
iv. They want to show off.
1 John 2:16.
1 Timothy 6:7.
v. They forgot the source.
Matthew 6:19.
Deuteronomy 8:18.
vi. Their loyalties are divided.
According to John Calvin “Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.”
Matthew 6:21 &24.
vii. They are tempted to steal.
2 DECEPTION OF MONEY.
Love for money is deceptive.
1 Timothy 6:9 RCCG DIGGING DEEP TOPIC: LOVE OF MONEY
You can be wealthy, but it won’t extend your life if you get terminal disease.
Money can’t give you a passport to heaven.
Money can’t bring true happiness.
Read Luke 9:23-25.
3. THE DESTRUCTION BY MONEY.
There is danger when you love money badly and allows it to motivate your action. This will take christian off the line.
Jeremiah 11:29.
Read Titus 2:12.
4 HOW TO STOP LOVING MONEY?
i. Make heaven your priority.
Matthew 6:33
1 Timothy 6:11-15, Luke 10:27.
ii. Be content with what you have, avoid greed and covetousness.
Exodus 20:17.
Luke 12:15.
2 Timothy 3:2.
iii. Differentiate between your needs and wants.
iv. Acknowledge the vanity of riches.
Ecclesiates 1:2.
Ecclesiates 12:8.
v. Be a giver and operate the kingdom’s financial principle.
1 Timothy 6:18
The love of money is the root of many evill.
The desire for money will deceive and ultimately destroy.
ALTAR CALL
If you are not born again, please, get born again.
If you are born again, God wants you to prosper.
PRAYER FOR SALVATION.
Eternal Father, we thank You, this is what You asked us to share today. Everyone that is giving their lives, save them, write their names in the Book of life, cleanse and wash them with Your blood and from this day onward, let them live for You. RCCG DIGGING DEEP TOPIC: LOVE OF MONEY
CLOSING PRAYER
Believers that the love of money is controlling their hearts, please, today, let the blood of Jesus and the word of God knock it out. The power to love You and put You first, give unto them.
Lord, what they thought they lack, give to them on the platter of gold. When our lives end, let us make it to heaven, thank You eternal Father, we bless and praise Your name, in Jesus’ mighty name we pray.
AMEN!
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