Money

Should followers of Jesus think about making money at all?

PROVERBS 14:23 (CSB), “There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.”
PROVERBS 10:16a (CSB), “The reward of the righteous is life….”
PROVERBS 10:16a (NLT) “The earnings of the godly enhance their lives….”
PROVERBS 10:16b (NLT) “...but evil people squander their money on sin.”

To what extent should we think about making money?

PROVERBS 23:4 (CSB), “Don’t wear yourself out to get rich; because you know better, stop!
ECCLESIASTES 5:10 (CSB), Solomon says, “The one who loves silver is never satisfied with silver, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income.”
LUKE 12:15 (CSB), “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions."
PROVERBS 11:28 (CSB), “Anyone trusting in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like foliage"
PROVERBS 3:9-10 (CSB), “Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest; then your barns will be completely filled, and your vats will overflow with new wine.”

VERSES TO READ
Deuteronomy 24:19
Psalm 41:1-3
Proverbs 11:24-25
Proverbs 19:17
Proverbs 22:9
Malachi 3:10
Luke 6:37-38
2 Corinthians 9:6-8

How do we give God the first and best of what we earn?

MARK 12:41-44 (CSB), “Sitting across from the temple treasury, he watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums. Then a poor widow came and dropped in two tiny coins worth very little. Summoning his disciples, he said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had —all she had to live on.’”

2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-8 (CSB), “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
The Gospel calls us to radical generosity!

ROMANS 8:32 (CSB), “ He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?”