Riches

The true riches Eph 3:8; 1Co 1:30; Col 2:3; 1Pe 2:7

God gives 1Sa 2:7; Ec 5:19

To God belongs this world's riches Hag 2:8

God gives power to obtain De 8:18

The blessing of the Lord brings Pr 10:22

Give worldly power Pr 22:7

DESCRIBED AS

• Temporary Pr 27:24
• Uncertain 1Ti 6:17
• Unsatisfying Ec 4:8; 5:10
• Corruptible Jas 5:2; 1Pe 1:18
• Fleeting Pr 23:5; Re 18:16,17
• Deceitful Mt 13:22
• Liable to be stolen Mt 6:19
• Perishable Jer 48:36
• Thick clay Hab 2:6

Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel Mr 10:23-25

Deceitfulness of, chokes the word Mt 13:22

The love of, the root of all evil 1Ti 6:10

OFTEN LEAD TO

• Pride Eze 28:5; Ho 12:8
• Forgetting God De 8:13,14
• Denying God Pr 30:8,9
• Forsaking God De 32:15
• Rebelling against God Ne 9:25,26
• Rejecting Christ Mt 19:22; 10:22
• Self-sufficiency Pr 28:11
• Anxiety Ec 5:12
• An overbearing spirit Pr 18:23
• Violence Mic 6:12
• Oppression Jas 2:6
• Fraud Jas 5:4
• Sensual indulgence Lu 16:19; Jas 5:5

Life consists not in abundance of Lu 12:15

Be not over-anxious for Pr 30:8

Labour not for Pr 23:4

THEY WHO COVET

• Fall into temptation and a snare 1Ti 6:9
• Fall into hurtful lusts 1Ti 6:9
• Err from the faith 1Ti 6:10
• Use unlawful means to acquire Pr 28:20
• Bring trouble on themselves 1Ti 6:10
• Bring trouble on their families Pr 15:27

Profit not in the day of wrath Pr 11:4

Cannot secure prosperity Jas 1:11

Cannot redeem the soul Ps 49:6-9; 1Pe 1:18

Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath Zep 1:18; Re 6:15-17

THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD

• Ascribe them to God 1Ch 29:12
• Not trust in them Job 31:24; 1Ti 6:17
• Not set the heart on them Ps 62:10
• Not boast of obtaining them De 8:17
• Not glory in them Jer 9:23
• Not hoard them up Mt 6:19
• Devote them to God's service 1Ch 29:3; Mr 12:42-44
• Give of them to the poor Mt 19:21; 1Jo 3:17
• Use them in promoting the salvation of others Lu 16:9
• Be liberal in all things 1Ti 6:18
• Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give 1Ch 29:14
• Not to be high-minded 1Ti 6:17
• When converted, rejoice in being humbled Jas 1:9,10

Heavenly treasures superior to Mt 6:19,20

Of the wicked laid up for the just Pr 13:22

THE WICKED

• Often increase in Ps 73:12
• Often spend their day in Job 21:13
• Swallow down Job 20:15
• Trust in the abundance of Ps 52:7
• Heap up Job 27:16; Ps 39:6; Ec 2:26
• Keep, to their hurt Ec 5:13
• Boast themselves in Ps 49:6; 52:7
• Profit not by Pr 11:4; 13:7; Ec 5:11
• Have trouble with Pr 15:6; 1Ti 6:9,10
• Must leave, to others Ps 49:10

Vanity of heaping up Ps 39:6; Ec 5:10,11

Guilt of trusting in Job 31:24,28; Eze 28:4,5,8

Guilt of rejoicing in Job 31:25,28

DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO

• Get, by vanity Pr 13:11; 21:6
• Get, unlawfully Jer 17:11
• Increase, by oppression Pr 22:16; Hab 2:6-8; Mic 2:2,3
• Hoard up Ec 5:13,14; Jas 5:3
• Trust in Pr 11:28
• Receive their consolation Lu 6:24
• Abuse Jas 5:1,5
• Spend, upon their appetite Job 20:15-17
• Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated Lu 12:16-21

Danger of misusing-Illustrated Lu 16:19-25

Examples of saints possessing

• Abram Ge 13:2
• Lot Ge 13:5,6
• Isaac Ge 26:13,14
• Jacob Ge 32:5,10
• Joseph Ge 45:8,13
• Boaz Ru 2:1
• Barzillai 2Sa 19:32
• Shunammite 2Ki 4:8
• David 1Ch 29:28
• Jehoshaphat 2Ch 17:5
• Hezekiah 2Ch 32:27-29
• Job Job 1:3
• Joseph of Arimathea Mt 27:57
• Zacchaeus Lu 19:2
• Dorcas Ac 9:36

Examples of those truly rich Mt 5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Lu 10:42; Joh 1:45; Php 3:8; Jas2:5; 1Pe 2:7; Re 3:18

Examples of wicked men possessing

• Laban Ge 30:30
• Esau Ge 36:7
• Nabal 1Sa 25:2
• Haman Es 5:11
• Ammonites Jer 49:4
• People of Tyre Eze 28:5
• Young man Mt 19:22