Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.
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… in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many, many sorrows. Hebrews 13, 5. So therefore keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have. Be content with what you have. Be content with what you have. I've learned in life, I got to be content with a little, and I've learned in seasons to have contentment with a lot. Whether you're in the middle, in the bottom, or at the top, doesn't matter. You've got to learn how to be content when you look at your bank account and you go, Lord, you're going to need to come through here. Or you look at your bank account and go, thank you, Jesus. It doesn't matter. You've got to acknowledge God, that God's been faithful. God's been generous. God's been kind. God's been loving. And if you lose that attitude, if you lose that attitude, what will happen is you'll start to look at your account and go, look at what I built. Am I not so talented? Wow. …
… children, family worship. These are great for you to put on your refrigerator door. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5. Now remember we are talking about contentment. Listen to this, let your conversation be without covetousness. This is Hebrews 13 verse 5. The word conversation literally means behavior. Let your behavior be without covetousness and be content, listen, be content with such things as ye have, for He hath said, that's God now, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. All right. I'm telling you the first secret of family contentment is God Himself. The psalmist said in Psalm 73 verses 25 and 26, Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. And then remember the scripture we read in 1 Timothy chapter 6 and verse 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain. I was reading about Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway was a brilliant man. …
… in life. Hebrews chapter thirteen, verse five, I will never. If anybody else said it, you can forget it. But this is the omniscient, all-knowing. Omnipotent, all-powerful. omnipresent, all there, God, whose love cannot be measured. It's best seen and demonstrated at the cross. It's a loving Father who has the best in mind for you, no matter what you're going through in life. Don't waste your sorrows, your heartaches, your pain, your suffering, your disappointment. Don't waste that by a wrong response. But just tell Him, Lord, I don't understand it. I don't like it. It hurts, this wouldn't be my choice. But Father, I'm going to trust You. You know what's best for my life. You know what You want to do with my life. If You'll just enable me, I will persevere and keep walking Your path. No matter how deep in the belly it goes, I will be walking on the path, trusting You to take me through all the way to the other side. And Father, how grateful we are that we'll never be disappointed in a promise of Yours. …
… DOES NOT MEAN THAT. HE HAS SAID, I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, NOR forsake you. Hebrews 13 verses 5 and 6. What am I saying? You must erect, you must erect, my dear friend, a very stable, a very secure, a very strong building. You must do that. And then you must expect a stormy blast. And THEN YOU CAN EXPERIENCE THE STEADFAST BLESSING. NOTICE AGAIN WHAT JESUS SAYS. JESUS SAYS HERE IN, IN VERSE 24, AND WHOSOEVER HEARTH THESE SAYINGS OF MINE AND DOETH THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM UNTO A WISE MAN WHICH BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON A ROCK. AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, AND THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW AND BEAT UPON THAT HOUSE. LUKE SAYS IT BEAT VEHEMENTLY UPON THE HOUSE, BUT IT FELL NOT FOR IT WAS FOUNDED UPON A ROCK. WHY DO SOME PEOPLE FOLD UP? WHY DO SOME PEOPLE CAVE IN? WHY ARE SOME JUST BLOWN AWAY? I'LL TELL YOU WHY. THEY HAVE BUILT UPON THE SHIFTING SAND OF GOOD INTENTION. THEY HAVE BUILT UPON THE SILT AND THE MUC OF RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY. BUT THEY HAVE NEVER BUILT UPON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHERE THE BIBLE SAYS, OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID, WHICH IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAY, PASTOR, I KNOW ONE OF THE FINEST FAMILIES IN OUR CHURCH. THEY USED TO SERVE GOD, BUT DIFFICULTY CAME AND WE DON'T SEE THEM ANYMORE. BUT THEY WERE SUCH A FINE FAMILY PASTOR. YES, BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, WELL FURNISHED, WELL PAINTED, WELL DESIGNED, AND …
… children, family worship. These are great for you to put on your refrigerator door. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5. Now remember we're talking about contentment. Listen to this, let your conversation be without covetousness. This is Hebrews 13, 5. The word conversation literally means behavior. Let your behavior be without covetousness. And be content. Listen, be content with such things as ye have. For he hath said, that's God now, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. All right. I'm telling you, the first secret of family contentment is God himself. The psalmist said in Psalm 73, verses 25 and 26, Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. And then remember the scripture we read in 1 Timothy chapter 6 and verse 6, Godliness with contentment is great gain.