Introduction

• Luke 8:7

You can’t chase contentment; you have to learn it.

• Philippians 4:11-12
• I Timothy 6:6-9
• Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
• Ecclesiastes 5:10

Pay attention to lifestyle creep.

• Deuteronomy 6:10 – If they were being warned when they were living in those conditions, what about us?
• Matthew 16:24-26
• Physical things are not bad on their own, but they must not distract us from spiritual matters.

Beware of social comparisons.

• Luke 12:13-15, 21
• Exodus 20:17 – Don’t covet what others have.
• Ephesians 5:3

Use money as a tool for God’s work.

• I Timothy 6:18
• I John 3:17
• Proverbs 19:17
• Deuteronomy 24:19
• I Peter 4:9
• Matthew 25:43