Sunday Sermon

Corroded Riches Dave Shaner September 14, 2003

Text: James 5:1-6

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you.

Many think James is not talking about Christian businessmen but about ruthless upper-class who were oppressing the poor. Can we as believers be just as guilty of what James is condemning here?

I. ____________ lies every time it promises to be a worth object of ____________.

A. Mammon demands your allegiance reserved only for God.

B. Materialism is an attitude that anybody can have.

C. Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

II. Big Shock!

A. Shock #1 = __________ wealth will __________ against you.

I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.  - Luke 16:9

B. Shock #2 - __________ can not be __________.

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!  - Amos 5:24

C. Shock #3 - __________ fools face God's __________.

III. Be wise:

A. Practice ____________.

B. Cultivate ____________.

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.  - I Timothy 6:6-8

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."  - Hebrews 13:5

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