Millionaire's Way

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you a millionaire? What's your way to the millions?

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To enumerate the millionaire's way found in this passage.

IV. TEXT:

1 Timothy 6:19 (Amplified Bible)

In this way laying up for themselves [the riches that endure forever as] a good foundation for the future, so that they may grasp that which is life indeed.

V. THESIS:

The millionaire's way are (1) spiritual investments, (2) spiritual foundation, and (3) eternal life.

VI. TITLE:

Millionaire's way

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Apostle Paul

B. Date written: About 64 A.D., but uncertain

C. To whom written: Timothy, Paul's true son in the faith

1 Timothy 1:2 (New International Version)

To Timothy my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

D. Main themes: Advice and exhortation to a young pastor respecting his personal conduct and ministerial work

E. Keyword: conduct

F. Key verse:

1 Timothy 3:15 (New International Version)

if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Spiritual investments

"In this way laying up for themselves [the riches that endure forever as]"

Matthew 6:19-20 (Amplified Bible)

Do not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.

But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal;

Luke 12:33-34 (Amplified Bible)

Sell what you possess and give donations to the poor; provide yourselves with purses and handbags that do not grow old, an unfailing and inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

1 Timothy 6:18-19 (Amplified Bible)

[Charge them] to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal and generous of heart, ready to share [with others],

In this way laying up for themselves [the riches that endure forever as] a good foundation for the future, so that they may grasp that which is life indeed.

The issue is our heart, if our heart is focused on the riches and things of this world, we're dead with GOD. But on the other hand, if GOD is our life, and the focus of our heart, then everything will be provided by GOD to us.

Psalms 37:4 (Amplified Bible)

Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.

What makes you happy? Money or the LORD?

Matthew 6:24 (Amplified Bible)

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).

B. Spiritual foundation

"a good foundation for the future,"

Matthew 7:24 (Amplified Bible)

So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock.

1 Corinthians 3:11 (Amplified Bible)

For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

2 Timothy 2:19 (Amplified Bible)

But the firm foundation of (laid by) God stands, sure and unshaken, bearing this seal (inscription): The Lord knows those who are His, and, Let everyone who names [himself by] the name of the Lord give up all iniquity and stand aloof from it.

1 Timothy 6:19 (Amplified Bible)

In this way laying up for themselves [the riches that endure forever as] a good foundation for the future, so that they may grasp that which is life indeed.

Our foundation is much better, that is upon hearing or after hearing GOD's Word, we seek to accomplish it in our lives, or we give high priority to the application of the WORD in our lives.

James 1:22 (Amplified Bible)

But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth].

If hearing and hearing GOD's Words strengthens our faith, doing the WORD strengthens our firm foundation - that is, the LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Romans 10:17 (Amplified Bible)

So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).

C. Eternal life

"so that they may grasp that which is life indeed"