The Great Exchange |11.17.24| Money Shouldn’t Make You Miserable pt.3

The Great Exchange Nick Breach Well, good morning. (...) All right, in my church, everyone says good morning back. So good morning. Good morning. All right, I'm originally from Australia, so in Australia at my church, we say g'day, right? So g'day. G'day. G'day. It's even better. You should try that every week now. (...) Fast improvement. Well, again, my name's Nick. I serve with a ministry called Compass, Finances God's Way, and we are a ministry that teaches people,(...) well, let me say it differently. We are a ministry that helps people learn what the Bible says about money, how you can apply it to your life, and how you can multiply it. Disciples others, teach others, share God's word on money with others.(...) And why do we do this? Well, let me tell you in a moment, but let's open in prayer. (...) Heavenly Father God, we thank you for this church, this place, this moment in time, Father. And God, I just pray for everyone that's hearing my voice, Father, that you would impact their lives today with your truth. Father, may we be hearers and obeyers of the word. (...) Father, may we do what you are asking us to do because you have so much more for us.(...) And so, Father, just help us today. Help us to be faithful. Help us to learn. Help us to apply, and help us to go forth today and multiply your truth in the lives of others. We love you, and thank you in Jesus' name, amen. (...) So today's verse that I've been asked to really focus in on is Matthew 6.24, and you'll find it on the screen. "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you'll be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." (...) As Pastor Drew alluded to, "For most of my life, I'm like, Jesus, you're wrong. (...) You're wrong. I can serve God and money. I can serve both. I can have a foot over here in the world and make all the money I want and just give you your commission. (...) And I can have my other foot over here in the church. And I can come in, I can say, "Hey, brother. Hey, sister, how are you? Can I pray for you?" I can be involved in Tuesday night Bible studies, even teach at times. (...) And I'm like, "I can do this. I can have both. (...) I can serve money and I can serve God. And so for most of my life, I'm like, that is not correct. (...) I'm gonna prove Jesus is wrong." (...) And thankfully, I learned that Jesus is right. (...) And that I was a fool to even try. Because what I was essentially saying was, (...) I'm a lover of money and I'm a hater of God, except for those moments when I'm in church, in community, and I wanna appear as if I'm a lover of God. (...) And so for so many Sundays, for so many weeks, (...) I was a lover of money and I'd just be pretending to love God. My outward appearance was very, very carefully crafted. "Hey, how you doing? Hallelujah, good to see you. Let me pray for you." You would have thought I was a follower of Christ. (...) The problem was I hadn't surrendered my wallet. (...) I hadn't surrendered my kingdom. (...) And so I was in a position where I was over here as someone who loved money. And that verse tells me, if I am loving one,(...) I'm gonna hate the other. I was a hater of God,(...) a despiser of God. (...) And so God was inviting me into this choice. (...) I learned about Compass on a radio program. I heard Howard Dayton talking about finances God's way. (...) And the reason that Jesus is asking us to choose (...) is fairly simple. (...) And what I wanna unpack with you today is a little bit of my story. So don't do finances next way, right? If you take away anything, don't do it next way. Do finances God's way. (...) And I wanna unpack a couple of stories in scripture of people that did choose God over money. One of them almost missed it. (...) But he chose God over money and we see the results in our lives. Jesus is asking us to choose God over money for a couple of reasons. One, there's intimacy with Jesus that's avail