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RICHES

RICHES

RICHES

  1. The true riches # Eph 3:8 1Co 1:30 Col 2:3 1Pe 2:7
  2. God gives # 1Sa 2:7 Ec 5:19
  3. To God belongs this world’s riches # Hag 2:8
  4. God gives power to obtain # De 8:18
  5. The blessing of the Lord brings # Pr 10:22
  6. Give worldly power # Pr 22:7
  7. DESCRIBED AS 7a) Temporary

    # Pr 27:24

7b) Uncertain # 1Ti 6:17 7c) Unsatisfying # Ec 4:8 5:10 7d) Corruptible # Jas 5:2 1Pe 1:18 7e) Fleeting # Pr 23:5 Re 18:16,17 7f) Deceitful # Mt 13:22 7g) Liable to be stolen # Mt 6:19 7h) Perishable # Jer 48:36 7i) Thick clay # Hab 2:6 8) Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel # Mr 10:23-25 9) Deceitfulness of, chokes the word # Mt 13:22 10) The love of, the root of all evil # 1Ti 6:10 11) OFTEN LEAD TO 11a) Pride # Eze 28:5 Ho 12:8 11b) Forgetting God # De 8:13,14 11c) Denying God # Pr 30:8,9 11d) Forsaking God # De 32:15 11e) Rebelling against God # Ne 9:25,26 11f) Rejecting Christ # Mt 19:22 10:22 11g) Self-sufficiency # Pr 28:11 11h) Anxiety # Ec 5:12 11i) An overbearing spirit # Pr 18:23 11j) Violence # Mic 6:12 11k) Oppression # Jas 2:6 11l) Fraud # Jas 5:4 11m) Sensual indulgence # Lu 16:19 Jas 5:5 12) Life consists not in abundance of # Lu 12:15 13) Be not over-anxious for # Pr 30:8 14) Labour not for # Pr 23:4 15) THEY WHO COVET 15a) Fall into temptation and a snare # 1Ti 6:9 15b) Fall into hurtful lusts # 1Ti 6:9 15c) Err from the faith # 1Ti 6:10 15d) Use unlawful means to acquire # Pr 28:20 15e) Bring trouble on themselves # 1Ti 6:10 15f) Bring trouble on their families # Pr 15:27 16) Profit not in the day of wrath # Pr 11:4 17) Cannot secure prosperity # Jas 1:11 18) Cannot redeem the soul # Ps 49:6-9 1Pe 1:18 19) Cannot deliver in the day of God’s wrath # Zep 1:18 Re 6:15-17 20) THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD 20a) Ascribe them to God # 1Ch 29:12 20b) Not trust in them # Job 31:24 1Ti 6:17 20c) Not set the heart on them # Ps 62:10 20d) Not boast of obtaining them # De 8:17 20e) Not glory in them # Jer 9:23 20f) Not hoard them up # Mt 6:19 20g) Devote them to God’s service # 1Ch 29:3 Mr 12:42-44 20h) Give of them to the poor # Mt 19:21 1Jo 3:17 20i) Use them in promoting the salvation of others # Lu 16:9 20j) Be liberal in all things # 1Ti 6:18 20k) Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give # 1Ch 29:14 20l) Not to be high-minded # 1Ti 6:17 20m) When converted, rejoice in being humbled # Jas 1:9,10 21) Heavenly treasures superior to # Mt 6:19,20 22) Of the wicked laid up for the just # Pr 13:22 23) THE WICKED 23a) Often increase in # Ps 73:12 23b) Often spend their day in # Job 21:13 23c) Swallow down # Job 20:15 23d) Trust in the abundance of # Ps 52:7 23e) Heap up # Job 27:16 Ps 39:6 Ec 2:26 23f) Keep, to their hurt # Ec 5:13 23g) Boast themselves in # Ps 49:6 52:7 23h) Profit not by # Pr 11:4 13:7 Ec 5:11 23i) Have trouble with # Pr 15:6 1Ti 6:9,10 23j) Must leave, to others # Ps 49:10 24) Vanity of heaping up # Ps 39:6 Ec 5:10,11 25) Guilt of trusting in # Job 31:24,28 Eze 28:4,5,8 26) Guilt of rejoicing in # Job 31:25,28 27) DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO 27a) Get, by vanity # Pr 13:11 21:6 27b) Get, unlawfully # Jer 17:11 27c) Increase, by oppression # Pr 22:16 Hab 2:6-8 Mic 2:2,3 27d) Hoard up # Ec 5:13,14 Jas 5:3 27e) Trust in # Pr 11:28 27f) Receive their consolation # Lu 6:24 27g) Abuse # Jas 5:1,5 27h) Spend, upon their appetite # Job 20:15-17 27i) Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated # Lu 12:16-21 28) Danger of misusing-Illustrated # Lu 16:19-25 29) Examples of saints possessing 29a) Abram # Ge 13:2 29b) Lot # Ge 13:5,6 29c) Isaac # Ge 26:13,14 29d) Jacob # Ge 32:5,10 29e) Joseph # Ge 45:8,13 29f) Boaz # Ru 2:1 29g) Barzillai # 2Sa 19:32 29h) Shunammite # 2Ki 4:8 29i) David # 1Ch 29:28 29j) Jehoshaphat # 2Ch 17:5 29k) Hezekiah # 2Ch 32:27-29 29l) Job # Job 1:3 29m) Joseph of Arimathea # Mt 27:57 29n) Zacchaeus # Lu 19:2 29o) Dorcas # Ac 9:36 30) Examples of those truly rich # Mt 5:8 8:10 13:45,46 Lu 10:42 Joh 1:45 # Php 3:8 Jas 2:5 1Pe 2:7 Re 3:18 31) Examples of wicked men possessing 31a) Laban # Ge 30:30 31b) Esau # Ge 36:7 31c) Nabal # 1Sa 25:2 31d) Haman # Es 5:11 31e) Ammonites # Jer 49:4 31f) People of Tyre # Eze 28:5 31g) Young man # Mt 19:22