mind your own business #4 – ptr. alvin gutierrez – 4:00pm afternoon service

THE MONEY STARTS HERE

PROVERBS 6:6-8

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, 8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

WHAT WILL WE SAVE

FOR?

• EMERGENCIES

• PURCHASES

• FUTURE

PROVERBS 21:20

20 The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down.

PRIORITIZE YOUR MONEY

PRIORITIZE YOUR MONEY

• Tithe 10% to God.• Minimal living expenses.• Build the Emergency Fund.• Pay off debts.• Build wealth.

TWO WAYS TO MAKE MONEY

(1) PEOPLE MAKING MONEY.

2 THESSALONIANS 3:10

10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

(2) MONEY MAKING MONEY.

MATTHEW 25:16

16 The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more.

Money + Time + Consistency =

Wealth.

PROVERBS 13:11

11 Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.

BIBLICAL RULES OF INVESTING

(1) DON’T TRY TO

GET RICH QUICK.

1 TIMOTHY 6:9

9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

(2) DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET.

ECCLESIASTES 11:2

2 Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

(3) DON’T INVEST

IN THINGS YOU DON’T

UNDERSTAND.

PROVERBS 24:3-4

3 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; 4 through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.

(4) BE GENEROUS.

PROVERBS 11:24

24 One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

CONCLUSION

RANDY ALCORN

“If we give instead of keep, if we invest in the eternal instead of in the temporal, we store up treasures in heaven that will never stop paying dividends. Whatever we store up on earth will be left behind when we leave. Whatever treasures we store up in heaven will be waiting for us when we arrive.”

Honor God with everything you have.