Money

I Timothy 6:9-10 - Money can be dangerous, but it can also accomplish good things!

We must learn to be content.

Matthew 22:19-22 - We are responsible for paying our taxes, even when those taxes are used for things we don’t support.

Mark 12:41-44 - the widow’s offering

II Corinthians 8:1-8 - Money used to support the saints.

I Timothy 6:17-18 - There is good to be done with money.

The gospel

I Corinthians 4:2 - We must be good stewards of the gospel of Christ.

I Corinthians 9:16-18

Matthew 13:44

Philippians 2:14-16

Genesis 6:11-14 - Noah tried to spread God’s message while he built the ark.

What kind of relationship should we have with the world?

Recognize the conflict

The conflict is with ungodliness among the majority of the world. Galatians 6:14

James 4:4

Ephesians 2:1-3

Have a positive influence on it

Directly

Matthew 5:13-16 - Someone can see us and end up glorifying God because of our good influence and example.

John 17:14-18 - Jesus prayed that His disciples would be safe from the evil one even though He was sending them out into the world.

Philippians 2:14-16 - We should be lights in the world. We must stand strong and be a positive influence.

Indirectly

I Peter 2:12 - Behave excellently in the world.

I Peter 3:1 - the influence a godly wife can have on her husband

Avoid and rise above its sin

II Peter 2:20-22 - Do not allow yourself to be drawn back into sin!

John 15:18-19 - The world may hate us because we are not of the world.

James 1:27

We are to be sancitified by truth. John 17:17

We arm ourselves with faith.

We decide to do right.

Genesis 11:27-31 - How Lot got to Canaan.

Genesis 13:6-12 - Abram and Lot separate. Abram chooses Canaan and Lot chose Sodom.

Lot’s choice

He gets caught up in a way. Genesis 14:1-3

He simply has to live among evil people. Genesis 19:4-11

He loses all of his material wealth. Genesis 19:24-25

He loses his wife. Genesis 19:26

The battle and aftermath

Judges 8:24-27 - Gideon makes a gold ephod and it becomes a snare to the Israelites.

Judges 8:28-35 - Gideon dies and Israel goes right back to their old idolatrous ways.