THAT I MAY KNOW HIM!(PHP.3:10) *********************************** LORD,MAKE ME USABLE IN THESE TERRIBLE TIMES ! (ISA.6:8) (PT.TWO) 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 Welcome back on board Flight Pleasing God.(Christ Jesus Airlines) Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. (Isa 6: 8) I told us about this 👇 That is ,we are going to study the Scripture above methodically. But first of all , I ask us who prayed this question,of being made usable by the Lord,*ARE WE LOVERS OF MONEY!* We remembered the scripture,I believe,yet let's remind ourselves ; "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."(1Tm.6:10) I asked us the question because,if we desire God to make us USABLE for HIS WORK, our appetite for the acquisition of mundane materials has to die and conform to God's view of money...which is meant to to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.(demon of money) 31. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32. For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (Mat 6: 31-32) I believe this to be a VERY essential scripture when trying to behold what Christ Jesus thinks of the accumulation of wealth. BEFORE,WE DIG INTO PAUL'S LETTER TO TIMOTHY... UNDERSTAND THAT MONEY ON ITS OWN ISN'T EVIL AND WAS NEVER EVER MEANT TO BE. WHAT HAPPENED WAS THAT FEEDING ON MAN'S VULNERABILITY AFTER THE FALL, ASSIGNED TO IT A DEMON(MAMMON), AS AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST CARNAL MAN.THAT WAS WHEN MALCONTENT WAS BIRTHED. Let us see what Paul, in this verse written to Timothy so long ago, means. Three brief statements, each stacked upon the previous one. 👉First, Paul States THE INSPIRED DECLARATION "For the LOVE of money is the root of all evil" Argue with this declaration if you want to. Pooh pooh it if you dare. But remember, this is God’s Word, and it is the LORD Who searches the heart, Who tries the reins; I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. (Jer 17: 10) 👉Paul, here, does not speak of money itself, but of the LOVE of MONEY. There is a tremendous difference between money and the love of money. IF YOU HAVE MONEY , YOU HAVE MONEY. HOWEVER IF YOU LOVE MONEY, THEN MONEY HAS YOU. And what Paul speaks of here to Timothy is not a Christian possessing money, but money possessing a Christian, or money possessing anyone, for that matter. 👉What does Paul mean when he speaks of the LOVE of MONEY being the ROOT of SOMETHING? He is speaking of the love of money giving rise to something, the love of money causing something, the love of money being that from which something else springs. So, when you love money something happens, something springs from that root, something grows and is nurtured by that love you have for money. 👉What? "All evil." Now, by "all evil" we must not understand that all instances of evil can trace their origin to the love of money. That’s preposterous on the face of it because we know that there was no money in the garden of Eden, and yet Eve sinned, and so did Adam. So, Paul does not here refer to every instance of evil having as its source the love of money. 👉 What he is saying here is that "all kinds of evil" is produced by the love of money. The love of money is the root of every imaginable kind of evil. The love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. My friends, you can’t imagine what sorts of evil springs from the heart of someone who loves mone 👉You do know that men have killed for the love of money. You do know that woman have sold themselves into prostitution for the love of money. You do know that mothers and fathers sell their own children for the love of money. You know that for the love of money men will traffic in child pornography.Indeed, we cannot fathom all that the love of money produces. 👉Next, Paul States THE ENTICING DANGER "which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith" 👉Here Paul illuminates our understanding of what, precisely, the love of money is and what damage it can do. The love of money is covetousness, pure and simple. This word "covet" means to stretch our for something, to reach as far as you can to grab hold of something, to long for it, to desire it. 👉And here is the danger: You want money so badly that it causes you, your love of money motivates you, so that you actually err from the faith. That is, you will stray away from the Christian faith in your pursuit of it, because of your love for it...money. I know people who have left Bible believing Churches to attend pastors believing churches, simply because there were no constraints in the pastors believing churches as to how you make your money,so long as their offerings are large and they pay their tithes. 👉Let me tell you something, brothers and sisters, if something results in you erring from the faith, it’s bad. Recognize that the greatest evil is that which deprives you of the greatest good. Something’s badness, it’s wickedness, is not to be evaluated by how heinous you think it is, how nasty you think it is, but by what good it takes from you and deprives you of. 👉What, then, can remove you from the Christian faith? What will pull you away from God’s people, from Christ’s Church, and from the Gospel? The love of money, and an unhinged lifestyle, where GOD'S WORD ISN'T PRESENTED TO HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR FREE LIFESTYLE. You’d better watch out. It’s worse than you think it is. More subtle. More dangerous. Soul damning. 👉Finally, Paul States THE INFLICTED DAMAGE "and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 👉What does this phrase refer to? It refers to the damage that is realized after you’ve erred from the faith. This can occur either before or after you’ve dropped out of Church, but it certainly takes place after you dismiss the importance of the Bible. 👉You see, people think their marriages are strong, until they depart from the faith. People think their parenting is sound, until they depart from the faith. People think they have a grip on the things that make them happy, until they depart from the faith. 👉Now, the tragedy is that when someone departs from the faith they don’t think OR KNOW that they have departed from the faith. They think they have made adjustments or become more sophisticated, but almost never do they believe they have departed from the faith. So, the fall of their daughter into the gutter, the departure of their son into the pig sty, the ruination of their marriage, the complete breakdown of their value system, is never attributed to departing from the faith. Those things happen to everyone.AND I HAVE FIRST CLASS NEGATIVE (NEVER POSITIVE) TESTIMONIES OF THESE DISASTERS. Right. And there is no correlation to your daughter’s slutty behavior and your love for money, or your son’s whore mongering and your craving for money, or the loss of your wife because she has finally gotten fed up with it all and your love of money. Such tragedies as I’ve mentioned can happen for other reasons, to be sure. But do not deny that such things as these can happen for this reason. 👉Between the time you FELL IN LOVE WITH MONEY and you were PIERCED THROUGH with many SORROWS YOU HAVE DEPARTED FROM THE FAITH. But most who love money and who depart from the faith and who are then pierced through with many sorrows NEVER CONNECT THE DOTS. They never see cause and effect. To them life is a series of unconnected and unrelated events that have nothing to do with each other. But God’s Word says different, and a direct look at your own life shows different. We yet have more coming on this. Right,we want to be usable by God in this both predictable and unpredictable times, WE MUST FIRST HAVE TO DO AWAY WITH OUR LOVE FOR MONEY! DOING AWAY WITH OUR LOVE FOR MONEY DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE GOING TO STARVE,GO NAKED OR STAY HOMELESS. CHRIST JESUS KNOWS WE NEED THESE THINGS, EVEN MORE THAN US.🙇🙏! PART 3 ON THE WAY BY HIS GRACE AND MERCY 🙏 !