The bible shows that people should honor the LORD by developing an intimate relationship with Him that results in consistent serving & giving of an abundant proportion of time & money to the Church resulting from the overflow of His love shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Spirit. We should use an abundant portion of our income and assets to faithfully do the good works of evangelism and disciple-making and distributing to help meet other needs of people because God’s will for allowing us to make or receive a living is more important than all of the excesses and opulence we could purchase for ourselves and our families.
Indeed, His will and our part in carrying it out on the earth is more important than looking and living like the rich and famous of the world. Now that does not mean that nice things or expensive things are off limits to you, but it does mean that your first and foremost attitude and actions should be to abundantly give and serve before you consider lavishing upon yourself. Thus, opulence and excesses are measured as the situation when a person obtains position, power, fame, or riches and/or purchases desired material things for him / herself without first and continually being rich toward the LORD and the work He instructed us to do while on earth.
Scripture shows you also should not oppress, misuse, or abuse people or use any-means-possible in order to build or maintain wealth. Now the question is: do you still want the responsibility that comes with being rich? Some want to be rich to load themselves with all sorts of material goodies without any thought of what will be required of them on Judgment Day. Don’t be afraid of God allowing you to obtain great monetary resources and don’t think you’re useless to Him if you don’t amass the level other people might think you should have.
Rather, put on the mind of Christ that you’ll faithfully, consistently, and abundantly honor Him now in tithing, good works, and other forms of generosity in recognition that you’re already rich in Him and destined for greater prosperity throughout your life. Use faith and biblical financial principles to discipline yourself to do what God instructed His people to do in this arena of life.
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Luke 12:13-21, 2Corinthians 9:6-15, 1Timothy 6:17-19, James 5:1-6, Malachi 3:5
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