Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis
9/24/2000
Our opponent is prosperity.
- The danger prosperity brings:
- Pride - the complete anti-God state of mind.
- Forgetfulness - forget about God.
- Deceit - makes temporal and eternal things look the same.
- Fruitlessness
- Hoarding - the more we have, the less we give.
- Pain - people who hurt aren't happy.
- The call to balance
- Imbalance perspectives:
- Become Poor - voluntary self-imposed
- Get Rich - don't let the wealth replace Jesus.
- A balanced perspective is staying focused and cultivate generosity.
- How to maintain balance and "win gold":
- Recognize that prosperity makes godly living harder, not easier.
- Know that discipline must replace what desperation once demanded.
- Invest in good works and expect life's best.
- Always have an accountability system.
- Keep thinking about meeting God for an accounting of all you've been give, because one day you will.
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