Money & Stewardship

The Happy Beggar

Psalm 40:17

… poverty which is better than wealth! In fact, it is a poverty which indicates the possession of the truest of all riches. It was mainly in this sense …

Psalm 73

Psalm 73

… riches; or, strength. Both wealth and health are their dowry. No bad debts and bankruptcies weigh them down, but robbery and usury pile up their substance. Money runs …

The Waterer Watered

Proverbs 11:25

… The whole of the human system lives by giving. The eye cannot say to the foot, I have no need of you and will not guide you, for …

The Cry Of The Heathen

Acts 16:9

… You cannot make men free, even by governments; you cannot give them a thorough freedom by giving them a republic itself; for that republic must fall so long …

Pentecost

Acts 2:1

… When we have most fully practiced self-denial, then the best riches and the rarest wealth and the truest blessedness are ours. God help us to test this …

Ben-Hadad'S Escape—An Encouragement For Sinners

1 Kings 20:31-34

… Your servant says, I pray you, let me live." He does not ask for honor, or wealth, or station— "Wealth and honor I disdain, Earthly comforts, Lord, are …

The Overflowing Cup

Psalm 23:5

… As to money, every man will have enough when he has a little more, but contentment with his gains comes to no man. Wealth is not true riches …

Things Present

1 Corinthians 3:22

… Dishonest persons may be purse-proud and live in great style, but none of their riches are, in truth, their own. Like the jackdaw in the fable, they …

Traveling Expenses On The Two Great Roads

Jonah 1:3

… The worldling often taunts the Christian because he expends his money on his religion. The Christian may well reply to the sinner, "I wish that your taunts were …

The Reward Of The Righteous

Matthew 25:31-36

… The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches are apt to choke everything good within us and we grow fretful, desponding, perhaps proud, carnal. It is …

The Fullness of Christ the Treasury of the Saints

Colossians 1:19

… Do not pass by the riches of His Grace as though they were nothing to you, lest haply, when you come to die, your heart should be wrung …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… wealth, and increase of power, by which they were swelled with pride and vanity, and neither feared God nor regarded man; so the Targum paraphrases it, "their riches …

The Two Pivots

Exodus 3:6

… promising you wealth— offering you a better situation, perhaps, if you will go back. But, like Moses, you esteem "the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures …

A Mournful Defection

John 6:67

… class! If you would make money—and there need be nothing sinful in that—do let it be made honestly. Never let riches be pursued under the pretense …

'Good Judgment'

Psalm 119:65

… so! For gold and silver can be stolen. Riches often take to themselves wings and fly away. Even great wealth may soon be spent and gone, but God …

Life And Walk Of Faith

Colossians 2:6

… As the earth drinks in the rain, as the sea receives the streams, as night accepts light from the stars, so we, giving nothing, partake freely of the …

The Fruits of Grace

Isaiah 19:18-25

… They would have said it was a waste of money altogether to give anything to the cause of the Most High. There are some teaching at the Sabbath …

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

… arms the borrower, that thereby himself may grow richer, and suck all wealth, goods, and riches from him, that he never thriveth or prospereth after. The pleasure the …

The Heart—a Gift for God

Proverbs 23:26

… You need not wait till you will have amassed money to endow a row of almshouses. It is well to bless the poor, but Jesus said that one …

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… But do we do so now? Talk of giving to the cause of God—why, very few of us give enough to sensibly impoverish ourselves by our giving …

The First, Last—And the Last, First

Matthew 19:30

… It is God who gives the power to get wealth, as it is He who gives the brain to think and the mouth to speak. "What have you …

Glorying in the Lord

1 Corinthians 1:31

… You remember how, when the ambassadors came out of Babylon, Hezekiah showed them all his riches and his stores—and no doubt he gloried while he took them …

Gone, Gone Forever

1 Kings 20:40

… against the Most High? What a poor thing hoarding money is! When you are dead what can your wealth do for you? Yes, those horses will have more …

The Jewel of Peace

2 Thessalonians 3:16

… Here is a man who frets because he does not make money, or because he has lost much of his wealth. Suppose the Lord takes away from him …

The Glorious Right Hand Of The Lord

Numbers 11:23

… is your weakness! Measure no longer your wealth, for your wealth has often been your poverty, and your poverty your wealth! Think not of the learning or the …

The Backslider'S Way Hedged Up

Hosea 2:5-7

… Go now, weep and howl for the miseries which shall come upon you—your riches are corrupted! Your garments are moth-eaten! Your gold and silver are cankered …

Black Clouds and Bright Blessings

Ecclesiastes 11:3

… Secondly, as giving an argument with the doubting. And thirdly, as furnishing a lesson to the Christian. I. First, I think we may fairly use the text as …

Man Transient—god's Word Eternal

Isaiah 40:8

… money? What can all yield you when your eyes shall be glazed in death? Or, before you depart from them, these things may depart from you, for riches …

Martha and Mary

Luke 10:41-42

… Instead of being like Martha, the minister should be like Mary, sitting at Jesus' feet, and giving his undivided attention to the Master's words! This is too …

Absconding and Apostasy

John 6:67

… class! If you would make money—and there need be nothing sinful in that—do let it be made honestly! Never let riches be pursued under the pretence …

The Prayer of Jabez

… it, than that riches are not the chief good at whose advent sorrow flies, and in whose presence joy perennial springs. Full often wealth cozens the owner. Dainties …

Blessing for Blessing

Ephesians 1:3

… When the City of London makes a man a freeman of the city, the document giving him his liberty is usually presented to him enclosed in a golden …

Esther's Exaltation—or, Who Knows?

Esther 4:13

… In addition to all this, the Lord has raised some of you out of poverty and brought you to comparative wealth, perhaps to positive wealth—and He has …

The Gladness of the Man of Sorrows

Psalm 45:7

… Monarchs delight in the riches and treasure which their dominions yield; Christ receiveth a wealth of love and homage from his people, before which the riches of Croesus …

Holy Water

John 4:14

… There is no hint in the text that we are to purchase the life-giving water. It is presented to us without money and without price. There is …

Redemption Through Blood—The Gracious Forgiveness Of Sins

Ephesians 1:7

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON "In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His Grace." Ephesians 1:7 …

With Golden Band Girded

Revelation 1:13

… we infer from its being golden that it is full of unequalled wealth and unsurpassed riches. Jesus Christ bears about Him all the available supplies that can be …

The General Convocation Around Mount Zion

Hebrews 12:22-24

… Our text contains an incalculable wealth of meaning—it is written according to God's riches in Glory by Christ Jesus. Surely it was written as with a …

Ruins

2 Chronicles 28:23

… All the wealth he had, he was willing to spend in order that he might have his own way and worship his own gods. Yet, "they were the …

The Principal Wheat

… smoke? A man has made a million of money, and he is dead. What has he got by his wealth? A man’s fame rings throughout the earth …