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The Upside Down World, Week 1, Day 7

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MATTHEW 13:22

 

The “selling all” pattern can be over-spiritualized. It doesn’t refer in a simplistic way to you and I just getting rid of all material possessions, since this one-time action would create dependence and complicate our lives and ministries. But the spiritual dangers of affluenza are in view in many places in the gospels. Illustrations are the rich young ruler in Matthew 19, the lessons on anxiety in Matthew 6, and the realistic way that Jesus describes the gospel being choked by “worldly desires and a love of riches” in Matthew 13. Material possessions can never satisfy us, but they can get in the way of us valuing Christ above all else.

 

 

How does affluenza appear in your life?

  

FAMILY TIME—

Why do people want to be rich?

Should we want to be rich?

 

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The Upside Down World, Week 1, Day 6

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EXODUS 20:1-4

 

Only “selling” gets the treasure and makes the acquisition of the Pearl possible. Some desires must be given up to make room for a single focus. Selling is not a condition for finding what is most valuable—this “finding” happens by God’s grace. But “selling all” is a condition for having the treasure. God brooks no competitors on the thrones of our hearts. He is never truly God when he is second or third in our inner hierarchy. The first commandments remind us of this necessary priority.

 

 

Do you know anyone for whom success is secondary to faith?

 

 

How can you tell?

 

FAMILY TIME—

How can we tell when someone has made God their top priority or their best friend?

 

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