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Money and Wealth (Part 27) – Being Rich (Part B) – Warnings About Wealth
Warnings about wealth
- Gain is not godliness (1Ti 6:5).
- In fact, great wealth will hinder many from following Christ and being in the kingdom of God (Mar 10:21-25; Mat 13:22).
- Never get the idea that a wealthy man is necessarily a godly man or a saved man (Mar 10:24, 26; 1Pe 1:18; Psa 17:13-14; Psa 49:6-12; Psa 73:3, 12).
- In fact, the opposite is often true (Jam 5:1-3).
- A church can be materially rich, yet spiritually poor (Rev 3:17-18).
- A church can be materially poor, yet spiritually rich (Rev 2:9; 2Co 8:1-5).
- Don’t trust in wealth (1Ti 6:17).
- When men become prosperous, they can easily begin to trust in their riches (Luk 12:16-19).
- They think that their wealth will last forever (Psa 49:11).
- God can take your riches or your life in an instant (Psa 49:12; Luk 12:20).
- If God has blessed you with wealth, don’t trust in it, but rather be rich toward God with it (Luk 12:21).
- If riches increase, set not your heart upon them (Psa 62:10).
- Riches are not forever (Pro 27:24).
- They make themselves wings and fly away (Pro 23:5).
- Banks can fail and investments can go broke and leave you with nothing (Ecc 5:13-14).
- You may never get to enjoy your wealth.
- “Antoine Rivaroli said, ‘There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.’” (Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover, p. 220)
- Righteous men do not put confidence in their wealth or rejoice in it (Job 31:24-25).
- Those who trust in riches will hinder themselves from entering the kingdom of God (Christ’s church on this earth) (Mar 10:24).
- Rich men trust in their wealth for protection (Pro 10:15; Pro 18:11).
- Conceit n. – That which is conceived in the mind, a conception, notion, idea, thought; device.
- He that trusts in his riches shall fall (Pro 11:28; Psa 52:5-7).
- Money must never take God’s place as a man’s trust and confidence (Psa 9:10; Pro 3:26).
- Riches will not save a man in the day of God’s wrath (Pro 11:4; Eze 7:19; Zep 1:18; Jam 5:1-3).
- When men become prosperous, they can easily begin to trust in their riches (Luk 12:16-19).
- Don’t be proud of your wealth (Psa 49:6).
- Boast v. – II. To speak ostentatiously. 3. intr. To speak vaingloriously, extol oneself; to vaunt, brag; to brag of, about, glory in.
- Rich men are often wise in their own eyes (Pro 28:11).
- The rich man equates wealth with wisdom and assumes that anyone that has not the former lacks the latter.
- He could not be more wrong according to the scriptures: “the rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.”
- Riches can make people proud (Eze 28:4-5; Psa 30:6).
- When people become rich, they sometimes have no more time for the word of God (Jer 22:21; Mar 4:19).
- Proud rich men feel like they don’t have to courteous to others (Pro 18:23).
- Wicked rich people think they are morally superior to others (Hos 12:7-8).
- Never let wealth go to your head and start looking down on those less fortunate than yourself.
- Money is not good or bad; it merely amplifies who you are.
- If you are proud and think highly of yourself, having money will increase your pride and opinion of yourself.
- If you have a disposition to be rude to others, having money will make you ruder.
- If you are stingy, having money will make you stingier.
- If you are humble have a low opinion of yourself, having money will not change that.
- If you are kind and courteous, having money will not change that.
- If you are generous, having money will make you more generous.
- Rich men should not glory in their riches (Jer 9:23 c/w Est 5:11).
- God can take it away in an instant.
- Riches can be a in righteous man’s house (Psa 112:3; Pro 15:6; Pro 21:20), but should never be in his heart (Psa 62:10).
