In Your Bible Read This Out
Loud:
Jeremiah 17:9
Memorise This Verse:
1
Timothy 6:10 ‘The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil’
Afterwards Talk About This:
Examples of where money causes people to act in an ungodly manner
Something To Do Before Next
Time:
If possible, try and find someone who has been
perverted
by money and share Jesus with them
Written Diploma Work:
Since the LOVE of money is the root of all kinds of evil,
write
one side discussing if money itself is evil.
Meditate Word By Word On
This Verse:
Hebrews 13:5
Having seen in the
previous sections some of the biblical warnings concerning money this
section will look at some of the terrible things that money causes people
to do. The bible very clearly shows that human nature is wicked, fallen
and deceitful however, it would appear that just when human nature cannot
get any worse, money comes along and drags it down even further.
Money arouses all that
is rotten and horrible in our nature and twists and perverts our
hearts – making us selfish, greedy, deceitful and all together ugly.
Adding the influence of money to our human nature is like adding fuel to a
fire – it makes a bad situation even worse.
Sadly, people will do
some unbelievable things for money – money is the source of untold
amounts of wickedness and untold amounts of crime and illegal activities.
For the sake of money, people will act against the voice of their
conscience and even the voice of Holy Spirit and commit some quite
horrendous deeds.
Below are some
examples.
Hit
men and assassins will go as far as killing another human being for money.
Women
will prostitute their bodies and sell themselves into pornography for
money.
Slave
traders will sell a fellow human being into slavery for money.
Parents
will even sell their own children into child prostitution for money.
In
the pursuit of careers and money, Parents will let a nursery bring up and
install values into their children instead of the parents doing it.
Drug
barons will sell drugs and cause untold amounts of harm to society in
order to get money.
Workers
will have sex with their bosses in order to get promotion and a pay rise..
People
who accept bribes are prepared to do whatever they are asked for.
Those
involved in protection will threaten people with physical violence for
money.
Black
mailers will kidnap fellow human beings and demand ransom money for their
release.
Muggers
will cause physical harm to another human being in order to take their
money from them.
People
will steal, often from their own families in order to get a little more
money.
Conmen
will devise all sorts of wicked schemes and prey on the elderly in order
to deceive them out of money.
People
will deliberately seek out wealthy members of the opposite sex in order to
marry them for their money.
People
will kill their family members in order to get their inheritances quicker.
A
few church leaders will pray for God’s blessing on your life – if you
give them a large offering!
Ultimately,
people will reject Jesus and his love and salvation and will go and
worship money.
It
can further be seen that money perverts us regardless of what financial
level we are at. Needles to say that for those who are poor, the
perversion of money will be towards acting unrighteously in all manner of
ways for just a little bit more money.
However, even for the rich, money
can still exert it’s perverting influence and cause people to become
proud, boastful, self sufficient and mocking towards those with less money
than them. In fact, some rich people are just as greedy and will act just
as unrighteously as poor people in order to gain more money – such is
their level of un-satisfaction and greed.
It
would appear that the human race is locked in an eternal battle with money
that each person will fight until their last breath. For those who loose
the fight, money will exert it’s perverting influence upon them and will
literally dictate to them to act in all manner of unrighteous acts.
However, if through Christ, an individual breaks the influence of money
they can exert the will of God upon their money and use it to further his
Kingdom in the earth. Those who choose to be givers can render the
perverting power of money impotent in their lives; those who don’t will
spend the rest of their lives fighting the dictates and demands of money.
A House of
Prayer for the Poorer Nations
Pray for Bolivia
8,328,665 people, Catholic
Majority
Drugs are infesting the youth.
Evangelicals are growing – Catholics are declining.
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