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Riches

 

Riches

The true riches - Eph 3:8; 1Co 1:30; Col 2:3; 1Pe 2:7

God gives - 1Sa 2:7; Ec 5:19

To God belongs this world's riches - Hag 2:8

God gives power to obtain - De 8:18

The blessing of the Lord brings - Pr 10:22

Give worldly power - Pr 22:7

DESCRIBED AS

• Temporary
- Pr 27:24
• Uncertain
- 1Ti 6:17
• Unsatisfying
- Ec 4:8; 5:10
• Corruptible
- Jas 5:2; 1Pe 1:18
• Fleeting
- Pr 23:5; Re 18:16,17
• Deceitful
- Mt 13:22
• Liable to be stolen
- Mt 6:19
• Perishable
- Jer 48:36
• Thick clay
- Hab 2:6

Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel - Mr 10:23-25

Deceitfulness of, chokes the word - Mt 13:22

The love of, the root of all evil - 1Ti 6:10

OFTEN LEAD TO

• Pride
- Eze 28:5; Ho 12:8
• Forgetting God
- De 8:13,14
• Denying God
- Pr 30:8,9
• Forsaking God
- De 32:15
• Rebelling against God
- Ne 9:25,26
• Rejecting Christ
- Mt 19:22; 10:22
• Self-sufficiency
- Pr 28:11
• Anxiety
- Ec 5:12
• An overbearing spirit
- Pr 18:23
• Violence
- Mic 6:12
• Oppression
- Jas 2:6
• Fraud
- Jas 5:4
• Sensual indulgence
- Lu 16:19; Jas 5:5

Life consists not in abundance of - Lu 12:15

Be not over-anxious for - Pr 30:8

Labour not for - Pr 23:4

THEY WHO COVET

• Fall into temptation and a snare
- 1Ti 6:9
• Fall into hurtful lusts
- 1Ti 6:9
• Err from the faith
- 1Ti 6:10
• Use unlawful means to acquire
- Pr 28:20
• Bring trouble on themselves
- 1Ti 6:10
• Bring trouble on their families
- Pr 15:27

Profit not in the day of wrath - Pr 11:4

Cannot secure prosperity - Jas 1:11

Cannot redeem the soul - Ps 49:6-9; 1Pe 1:18

Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath - Zep 1:18; Re 6:15-17

THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD

• Ascribe them to God
- 1Ch 29:12
• Not trust in them
- Job 31:24; 1Ti 6:17
• Not set the heart on them
- Ps 62:10
• Not boast of obtaining them
- De 8:17
• Not glory in them
- Jer 9:23
• Not hoard them up
- Mt 6:19
• Devote them to God's service
- 1Ch 29:3; Mr 12:42-44
• Give of them to the poor
- Mt 19:21; 1Jo 3:17
• Use them in promoting the salvation of others
- Lu 16:9
• Be liberal in all things
- 1Ti 6:18
• Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give
- 1Ch 29:14
• Not to be high-minded
- 1Ti 6:17
• When converted, rejoice in being humbled
- Jas 1:9,10

Heavenly treasures superior to - Mt 6:19,20

Of the wicked laid up for the just - Pr 13:22

THE WICKED

• Often increase in
- Ps 73:12
• Often spend their day in
- Job 21:13
• Swallow down
- Job 20:15
• Trust in the abundance of
- Ps 52:7
• Heap up
- Job 27:16; Ps 39:6; Ec 2:26
• Keep, to their hurt
- Ec 5:13
• Boast themselves in
- Ps 49:6; 52:7
• Profit not by
- Pr 11:4; 13:7; Ec 5:11
• Have trouble with
- Pr 15:6; 1Ti 6:9,10
• Must leave, to others
- Ps 49:10

Vanity of heaping up - Ps 39:6; Ec 5:10,11

Guilt of trusting in - Job 31:24,28; Eze 28:4,5,8

Guilt of rejoicing in - Job 31:25,28

DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO

• Get, by vanity
- Pr 13:11; 21:6
• Get, unlawfully
- Jer 17:11
• Increase, by oppression
- Pr 22:16; Hab 2:6-8; Mic 2:2,3
• Hoard up
- Ec 5:13,14; Jas 5:3
• Trust in
- Pr 11:28
• Receive their consolation
- Lu 6:24
• Abuse
- Jas 5:1,5
• Spend, upon their appetite
- Job 20:15-17
• Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated
- Lu 12:16-21

Danger of misusing-Illustrated - Lu 16:19-25

Examples of saints possessing

• Abram
- Ge 13:2
• Lot
- Ge 13:5,6
• Isaac
- Ge 26:13,14
• Jacob
- Ge 32:5,10
• Joseph
- Ge 45:8,13
• Boaz
- Ru 2:1
• Barzillai
- 2Sa 19:32
• Shunammite
- 2Ki 4:8
• David
- 1Ch 29:28
• Jehoshaphat
- 2Ch 17:5
• Hezekiah
- 2Ch 32:27-29
• Job
- Job 1:3
• Joseph of Arimathea
- Mt 27:57
• Zacchaeus
- Lu 19:2
• Dorcas
- Ac 9:36

Examples of those truly rich - Mt 5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Lu 10:42; Joh 1:45; Php 3:8; Jas 2:5; 1Pe 2:7; Re 3:18

Examples of wicked men possessing

• Laban
- Ge 30:30
• Esau
- Ge 36:7
• Nabal
- 1Sa 25:2
• Haman
- Es 5:11
• Ammonites
- Jer 49:4
• People of Tyre
- Eze 28:5
• Young man
- Mt 19:22
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