Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Question 1

Why was MLK in Memphis?

Answer 1

He was helping the sanitation workers who were striking for 64 days.

Question 2

How did MLK feel in Memphis?

Answer 2

Burdened and depressed because everyone was looking to him for help and he felt like he couldn’t do it.

Question 3

What campaign was MLK working on that stressed him out?

Answer 3

The Poor People’s campaign. He wanted to move it to Washington DC.

Question 4

How did white leadership feel about MLK?

Answer 4

He was a troublemaker to them and brought them stress. He was challenging a mentality that was set in stone.

Question 5

MLK’s ulterior motive to going to Memphis?

Answer 5

To jumpstart the Poor People’s campaign. The young college students didn’t help because they were rowdy.

Question 6

Why is The Mountain Top speech prophetic?

Answer 6

MLK died the next day

Question 7

When was MLK shot and by whom?

Answer 7

In 1968 outside a Memphis hotel room by James Earl Ray

Question 8

How did the King family treat Ray in prison?

Answer 8

very well

Question 9

What did Jesus speak about more than anything else?

Answer 9

Money

Question 10

There is an intimate correlation between a man’s _____ and how he handles _______.

Answer 10

character, money

Question 11

When it comes to a man’s real ______, money is of first importance.

Answer 11

nature

Question 12

Zacchaeus illustration

Answer 12

money and salvation go hand in hand

Question 13

____% of divorced couples say trouble started with finance

Answer 13

80%

Question 14

What becomes the story of our lives?

Answer 14

stewardship

Question 15

– “The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.” - ?

Answer 15

John D. Rockefeller

Question 16

“He who provides for his life but takes not care for eternity is wise for a moment but a fool forever”

Answer 16

John Tillotson

Question 17

“It is my happiness that I have served Him who never fails to reward His servants to the full extent of his promise”

Answer 17

John Calvin

Question 18

– “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.”

Answer 18

John Wesley

Question 19

– “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.”

Answer 19

Seneca

Question 20

“He is poor who possess much and still wants more”

Answer 20

Tertullian

Question 21

“Make as much as you can, save as much as you can, and give as much as you can.”

Answer 21

John Wesley

Question 22

“earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. Hoarding is idolatry.”

Answer 22

Bonheoffer

Question 23

Materialism- Idolatry and _____ go hand in hand (Isaiah 57)

Answer 23

adultery

Question 24

What things can we give?

Answer 24

time, talents, treasures

Question 25

Incentives

Answer 25

motivation to do good works. 1 Corinthians 3:12-15- rewards in Heaven- gold, silver, costly stones vs. wood, hay, and straw.

Question 26

What nature do incentives appeal to?

Answer 26

human nature, NOT sinful

Question 27

Favorite New Testament guideline for giving?

Answer 27

Give cheerfully: 2 Corinthians 9:7- Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. You should give because you want to, not because you have to

Question 28

God blesses us not only in what he _____ us, but what he _____ from us

Answer 28

gives, keeps

Question 29

Is capitalism to blame for the poor?

Answer 29

No, we (the people) are responsible for taking care of those less fortunate and making sure they are provided for. We need to serve like Jesus commanded us.

Question 30

Who should you support?

Answer 30

organizations of prayer, biblical standards, and God’s spirit.

Question 31

Why support your church?

Answer 31

It’s where you’re being fed

Question 32

God provides excess not to be stored up, but to be _______

Answer 32

distributed

Question 33

Give an example of smart debt or acceptable debt

Answer 33

mortgages

Question 34

Purchasing price of a home should not be more than?

Answer 34

two and a half times the family’s gross annual income

Question 35

The average American family is __ to ___ weeks away from bankruptcy.

Answer 35

3-6

Question 36

____ is a discipline that develops ______ over money

Answer 36

saving, authority

Question 37

The poorest Americans are in the _____% of the world’s wealthy

Answer 37

upper 20%