Money, Possessions, and Eternity Flashcards
Why was MLK in Memphis?
He was helping the sanitation workers who were striking for 64 days.
How did MLK feel in Memphis?
Burdened and depressed because everyone was looking to him for help and he felt like he couldn’t do it.
What campaign was MLK working on that stressed him out?
The Poor People’s campaign. He wanted to move it to Washington DC.
How did white leadership feel about MLK?
He was a troublemaker to them and brought them stress. He was challenging a mentality that was set in stone.
MLK’s ulterior motive to going to Memphis?
To jumpstart the Poor People’s campaign. The young college students didn’t help because they were rowdy.
Why is The Mountain Top speech prophetic?
MLK died the next day
When was MLK shot and by whom?
In 1968 outside a Memphis hotel room by James Earl Ray
How did the King family treat Ray in prison?
very well
What did Jesus speak about more than anything else?
Money
There is an intimate correlation between a man’s _____ and how he handles _______.
character, money
When it comes to a man’s real ______, money is of first importance.
nature
Zacchaeus illustration
money and salvation go hand in hand
____% of divorced couples say trouble started with finance
80%
What becomes the story of our lives?
stewardship
– “The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.” - ?
John D. Rockefeller
“He who provides for his life but takes not care for eternity is wise for a moment but a fool forever”
John Tillotson
“It is my happiness that I have served Him who never fails to reward His servants to the full extent of his promise”
John Calvin
– “Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I
Throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.”
John Wesley
– “Whoever believes that giving is an
easy matter, makes a mistake; it is a matter of very great difficulty provided that gifts are made with
wisdom, and are not scattered haphazard and by caprice.”
Seneca
“He is poor who possess much and still wants more”
Tertullian
“Make as much as you can, save as much as you can, and give as much as you can.”
John Wesley
“earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. Hoarding is idolatry.”
Bonheoffer
Materialism- Idolatry and _____ go hand in hand (Isaiah 57)
adultery
What things can we give?
time, talents, treasures
