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You don't have to choose between the relationship and the rules
Ex. 20:15
“You shall not steal.”
Stealing Kills Community
Stealing Disrupts God’s Design
1 Cor. 10:26
“For ‘the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.’”
Stealing Is Taking Something You Haven’t Been Given
Idolatry: When We Look to Anything (Besides God) for Significance or Security
Matt. 6:19-21
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Don’t Find Your Significance in Your Stuff
We Are Free to Be Generous
Matt. 6:25
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”
Matt. 6:31-34
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Don’t Place Your Security in Your Stuff
Seeking God’s Kingdom = Jesus First > Me First
