Investment Advice
Matthew 25:14-28
1. You must know the rules of investing
A. You must know the results that are sought
- What are the objectives
- Growth
- Personal Growth Gal. 5:22
- Growth of God’s Kingdom - Matt. 28:19-20
- Current return
- Honoring God - Exodus 20:24
- Repentance - 2 Chronicles 7:14 - Following His commands - Deut. 11:26-28
- Ministering - Feels good to help others
- Meet needs of others
- Reach others on their level
- Planning for retirement - Heaven that is
- Heaven is our true home - Phil. 3:20-21
- Heavenly rewards - Matt. 5:12, Luke 6:35
- Estate Planning
- Train your children in the ways of the Lord
- Sharing your faith
2. Implement the right investment strategies
B. Buy low, sell high
- Jesus met people at their low points and helped
them to achieve new heights in their lives.
- The sick
- The lonely
- The broken hearted
- A life without the hope and renewal of Jesus Christ is always
the lowest purchase point
C. Invest for the long term
- Seek to let God change your life
- Seek to let God use you to change the life of others
D. Preservation of capital
- Discipling
- Studying the scriptures
- Prayer
- Worship
E. Adapt your investment strategy towards current market trends
- The gospel message is for everyone and should be shared on
a level understood by all who hear 1 Corinthians 9:19-22
- Christ adapted his message to those he was trying to reach
- The woman at the well
- The calling of the disciples
- Parables
- The underlying truth doesn’t change, only the method of implementation
F. Make consistent additions to your portfolio
- Continually seek to learn, serve, minister
- A person who goes forward and does nothing else is stagnant
3. Invest in those things with a proven track record
- Fellowship
- Produces unity
- Produces warmth
- End Result - Identifies you as a member of the body of Christ
- Discipleship
- Produces a deeper knowledge of the scriptures
- A deeper understanding of God
- A deeper love for Christ
- A deeper understanding for our need for God
- End Result - To become more like Christ in thoughts, actions and feelings
- Worship
- Expresses our love of God
- Lifts our spirits
- Strengthens us in times of weakness
- Focuses us on God and His mighty power
- End Result - Loving the Lord with all your heart
- Ministry
- Allows us to meet the needs of others
- Allows us to show a hurting world the love of Jesus
- End Result - Demonstrating God’s love to others by meeting
their needs and healing their hurts in the name of Jesus
- Evangelism
- Allows us to share our “hot tip” - Salvation through Jesus
- Allows us to see lives changed
- End Result - Telling the whole world the message of Jesus’
coming, His death, burial, resurrection and His promise to
return.
4. Diversification leads to a balanced solid portfolio
- Each investment vehicle will produce some results, but only a
combined portfolio will produce consistency and return on investment in all of life’s situations.
5. Results will not be attained until your capital has been invested
- God is seeking to use each one of us
