Rick Warren - Transforming How I See and Use Money Part Two

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with part two of a message called Transforming How I

see and use money.

So don't love it, don't trust it, don't waste.

The fourth thing God says is don't expect it to satisfy.

If you think having more will make you more happy,

make you more secure, make you more important, make you

mo or valuable, you are seriously misguided because it's not

going to satisfy. The more you have, the more you want.

Somebody asked, how are you How much does it take

to make a man happy? He said, just a little

bit more, as always more. Ecclesiastes, chapter five, verse ten

says this in the Bible. Whoever loves money will never

have enough, so he can't love it.

And whoever loves wealth.

Will never be satisfied with his income, because you always

want more. That's why Jesus says this in Luke twelve.

Guard against all kinds of greed because your life is

not measured by how.

Much you own.

Your self worth has no connection to your net worth.

Your valuables do not determine your value. So don't think

I have a lot, so I'm worth a lot.

No, you're not.

You're worth a lot simply because Jesus died for you.

God made you. Jesus died for the spirit wants to

live in you. That's how much you matter to God.

Now that verse we've been looking at all for seven weeks.

Don't conform to the way the world thinks about any

of these areas, but be transformed by the way you think.

They're renewing of your mind. And so what I must

look at in this story are the five things God

says about money. And these are so radical, they're so revolutionary,

they're so counterculture. They are the exact opposite, as I said,

of everything you've been taught. But if you act on

these and you remember these and you live by these,

the stress level in your life is going to go

down dramatically. Okay, here they are five things we learn

from this story. Number one, Every day I need to

remember it all belongs to God. It all belongs to God.

The whole universe belongs to God. You belong to God.

The heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars, the trees,

the plants, the rocks, thing ever created belongs to God.

You don't really own anything. What you think you own

is really on loan. You didn't own it before you

were born. You're not going to own it after you die.

God just loans it to you for eighty years. It

was loaned to somebody else before you were born. It's

going to be loaned to somebody else after you die,

and you get to use it while you're alive. You

don't loan anything. In this story. The owner has all

this property and he lets a manager take care of

his property. We're all in management. You may not realize this,

but you're in management. God has put some has put

some things in your life under your manager. Everything you

have is a gift from God. You'd have nothing if

we'm for God. You wouldn't take your next breath if

it weren't for God. So it's all a gift. It's

God's love for you, everything, your life, your brain, your thoughts.

So I worked with my hands to get this. Who

do you think gave you your hands? It's all a

gift from God.

God. But it's all on loan.

It's really God's and he's loaned it to you, and

God is seeing what you're going to do with it.

We're all in management now. If you'll start looking at

everything in your life this way that I don't really

own anything. It all belongs to God and it's just

loaned to me for a while, your worry is gonna go.

You see, if you go out after the service and

you get in your car, you say, this isn't my car,

It's God's car.

And then you go home and.

He say, this is God's house, not my house. And

then you sit down and eat some meal on a dish,

This is God's dish. And when you get in bed

tonight said, this is God's bed. He's loaned it to me,

and I get to use it, I get to take

care of it, I get to management. But it's really

God's Everything is really, God's what will happen is your

worry goes down. Why Well, let's say you're driving a

car in your kN accident, you get a friend or bender,

and you say, hey, God, you got a dent in

your car. My car. You loaned it to me, you

gave me the money to get it. What do you

want to do about your car?

God?

You want me to fix it? Your kids need bracests?

Say hey, God, your kid needs braceist.

What are you going to do? See, here's the point.

If I'm in charge, if I'm God, if I'm the

master of my fate, then I got to pay for

it all. I gotta worry about where it's gonna come from.

But if I'm really just a child of God, I'm

just his child, and He's loaned me these things, and

I'm just to manage it, I'm not responsible to pay

for it all.

Does that make sense?

If I'm the employee and God's the employer, he is

ultimately in charge of the benefits package. It all belongs

to God.

Now.

In the first verse of this story, it says the

owner enlisted a manager to take care of his property. Question,

how well are you taking care of God's property? Your

body belonged to you.

God made it.

How well are you taking care of your body, your time,

your opportunities, your mind? How well are you taking care

of your mind? Your talents? How well you taking care

of your talents? What are you doing with whatever God

has given you? It all belongs to God? And you

were to make the most of what you've been given.

The rest of the fact of this verse says the

guy was wasting his master's possession. Anytime I waste money,

I'm wasting God's money. That'll change the way you buy stuff.

You know, nobody in the mall right now is going

I think I'll just blow God's money on this piece

of junk because I just want to have it. No,

it's God's money. It'll change the way you think. Number One,

it all belongs to God.

Number two.

Second truth to remember, and I need to remind myself

of this every single day is this. God is using

money to test me. God is using money to test me.

He's testing all kinds of things in my life. You see,

God doesn't just automatically give his blessings to anybody. He

tests you first to see if you're responsible, if you

can handle it, and if you can't handle it, He's

he's gonna.

Trust you with it.

God doesn't give his spiritual power to just anybody, and

he says, before I give you spiritual power, I'm gonna

give you some material possessions, and I'm going to see you.

If I can trust you with material possessions, then I

can trust you with spiritual power. But if I can't,

if you're not even managing your money, well, why in

the world should I give you the stuff that really matters.

This is a test. Life is a test. Life is

a trust, and life is a temporary assignment. This life

is preparation for the next This is the get ready stage.

This is the warm up act before the real race begins.

It's the first race around the track where the real

race begins. This is the dress rehearsal before the real

play begins, which is gonna go on for eternity. And

God is testing you on earth to see what he

can trust you with in eternity, and the Bible says,

if you're faithful in little things, then you will be

faithful and much in heaven. So God is using money

to test me. And God is testing your faithfulness, and

he's testing you all the time, and He's testing you

every minute. And God's favorite tool to test you listen,

is finances. It tests all kinds of it. In fact,

it tests three things. Write these down Number one. Money tests.

It shows what I love most. How I spend my

money shows reveals to God and everybody else what I

love most. Now, whatever you love most is what you're

going to give your most time to you, and you're

going to give your most money to I don't care

what you say you love what you If you really

want to know what you love most, look at your

calendar and look at your credit card statements, because the

way you spend your time and your money tells me

what you love the most. When I first fell in

love with Ka, I could not keep money in my pocket.

It was like burning a hole in my pants.

And I was constantly buying her things because I was

so in love with this young woman. I just, you know,

wanted to buy her stuff. And I bought her all

kinds of stuff she didn't need or want. But I

just thought i'd see something on TV Kitchen Magician, Oh man,

she'd like that.

That'd be great. I'm gonna get that.

And the Oriental Walk Steamer give me two of those things, okay,

all right? And you know and the Ginzu knives, oh man,

we got three or four sets.

Again. I was buying her stuff all the time.

She said, honey, stop, you spell love give. You can

give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. And

so what I do with my money shows what I

love most Matthew. Chapter six, Jesus says this, don't store

up treasure here on earth. In other words, don't pile

it up, don't hoard it. Instead, store up treasure in heaven.

We'll talk about how to do that later. For wherever

your treasure is, that's where what you know your heart

will be. Wherever your treasures are, So wherever you want

your heart to be, put your money there and you'll

get interested in it. Believe me, the moment you put

money into something, you get.

Interested in it.

Right now, most of you couldn't care less how Microsoft

does as a company. But if you bought some stock,

all of a sudden, you're very interested in whether that

company succeeds or fail because you have just invested in it.

You have put your treasure, And where your treasure is,

your heart is. You couldn't care less about Toyota, But

if you bought some stock in it, all of a sudden,

you would want that company to succeed because where you've

put your treasure, that's where your heart goes. So God

is saying use God uses money to test to show

what I really love most. Number two. Money shows what

I really trust most. It shows what I have faith in.

Am I trusting in my money for security? Or am

I trusting in God for my security? Am I trusting

in money for my happiness? Or am I trusting in

God for my happiness? Am I trusting in money for

my fulfillment to make me feel good about me? Or

am I trusting in God to make me feel good

about me? It shows what I trust most. It's the

acid test of faith. Proverbs twenty eleven twenty eight says this,

If you trust in your money, you will fall, but

if you trust in God, you'll flourish like a green tree.

You know if you're saying, you know, I don't really

feel close to God right now. In fact, I feel

pretty distant. My spiritual life is stuck at dead sinner.

I got the spiritual blaws. I'm not growing. There's no

power in my life. I don't feel close to God.

I would challenge you to check your checkbook. You know

what am I using my time and my money on.

It shows what I trust and it shows what I love.

Then the third thing at tests, and this is the

big one that this story is about, is it shows

if God can trust me. This is the This is

the reverse. Then just show if I trust God. It

shows if God can trust me. Because God says, I'm

looking to see how well you manage material things before

I give you spiritual blessings.

Can I trust you with more?

Are you blowing it with what little I've given you?

You see?

Out of control finances reveal an out of control life. Okay,

unmanaged finances are a symptom of an unmanaged life. You

need a manager, You need a Lord, You need a savior,

you need a CEO of your life. You need God

because your life has become unmanageable. Now the next verse

that we're going to look there on the outline, Verses

eleven and twelve. This is one of the most important

scriptures in the entire Bible. When I understood this verse,

when I finally understood the meaning of this verse, it's

so radically changed my life about forty years ago. I

never looked at money the same way again, and I

got off the rat race. You know, even if you

win the rat race, you're still a rat. So why

do you want to run the rat race? I mean,

why try to keep up with the Joneses. They just

refinance and file for bankruptcy. Now here's what the Bible says,

verse eleven and twelve. Listen to this very important. Whoever

can be trusted with very little can be trusted with much.

God's look at you. Can I trust you to give

you more or not?

Whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest

with much. And who's ever irresponsible obviously with little or

be irresponsible much? If you have not been trustworthy in

handling worldly wealth, circle that phrase trustworthy and handling worldly wealth?

What is that?

That's a phrase that means if you're not a good

money manager, if you're spending more than you make, if

you're not saving for the future, if you're not investing

it off, if you're working for your money instead of

your money working for you, if you're not really good

at managing your money, He says, who.

Will trust you with true riches?

And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property.

Who will give you property.

Of your own?

You don't own anything here on earth. In heaven, God

wants to give you your own stuff. He wants to

bless you for eternity. But God says, if I can't

trust you with little and what is on loan to you,

why should I give you more? I mean, what if

the world's wealthiest man, you were the child of the

world's wealthiest man, you were warned by or somebody's daughter

or son, and your dad came to you and said,

one day, I want to give you everything I've got.

You're going to inherit at all, but I'm not going

to give it to you right now. In fact, I'm

going to give you a little bit right now, just

a tiny, tiny bit, and I'm going to see how

well you handle it, and if you manage it well,

I'm going to give you the whole thing. That's exactly

what Jesus is saying right here. Who will give you your

own Jesus says, how I handle money determines how much

God can bless my life.

I didn't say that. Jesus said it. Now.

That is a mind blower When you think about it

that there's a direct connection between maturity and money. There's

a direct connection between spiritual power and how I handle possessions.

There is a direct connection between God's blessing in my

life and what I do with my bucks. You've never

heard that before, but that's exactly what Jesus says, right there,

there is a connection. Now here's the third truth you

got to remember. And these are all important, but they

build in radical First, it all belongs to God. And second,

God is using money to test me. Number three, Money

is a tool. Money is a tool to be used

for God's purposes. Say what do you mean money is

a tool? Doesn't the Bible say money is the root

of all evil? No, it does not say that. It

says the love of money is the root of all evil.

Not money, but the love of money is the root

of all evil.

Okay. Money is neither good nor bad, right nor wrong.

It's just there.

It can be used to build great churches, or it

could be used to finance drugs. It's just a tool.

Luke sixteen verse nine. Notice he says, I tell you,

Jesus says, use your worldly well circle.

The word use.

Now, remember earlier we said we're not to love it.

And here he says to use it. Everybody, look up here.

This is really important. The Bible says you are to

love people and use money. Love people, use money. Now

the problem is everybody gets that reversed. And when you

start loving money you use people. You end up using

people to get more money. The Bible says people are

to be loved and money is to be used. And

if you start loving money, you're going to start using people.

God says that's bad personal foul. You're out of the game.

Money is a tool to be used for God's purposes.

We are to use it. We're not to hoard it.

We're not the stockpilot. We're not to worship it. Somebody

said money is lack manure. It said, you know, if

you spread it all around, it makes things grow. But

if you pile it up, it starts thinking. He's saying,

use temporary resources what God has put in your hand

for permanent good.

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