•    We are God’s stewards, everything is on loan to us.

•    We smother possessions.  God gives us freedom with them.

•    Riches are deceitful.

•    Everything visible is passing away, fleeting, temporal.

•    Wrong thinking: Give to God and get twice as much back.

•    Approaching possessions as “taking care of them for God” requires wisdom.

•    Don’t let possessions ruin relationships.

•    Closer principle, what do you use, what do you not use?

•    True conversion; give up possessions, de-accumulate.

•    God is not poor.

•    Church does one thing, we do another.

•    We very seldom put ourselves in position to fail.

•    God provides

•    Wealth creates the illusion of independence

•    God’s Attitude
        --Security comes from knowing God.
        --Possessions are a result of grace, not a cause of security.
        --Stewardship on loan from God.
        --Riches are deceitful.
        --Riches can become God.
        --Once we see things God’s way we can submit to Him and His provision.