Messages Preached by Pastor Dean Allen
at the
1990 New England Baptist Family Conference

FINANCES IN PROVERBS

Co-Signing (Suretyship): 6:1-5; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 22:26-27; 27:13

Covetousness & Discontentment: 3:31; 14:30; 23:17; 28:16; 30:8-9

Dangers: 14:20; 18:11, 23; 19:4, 6; 23:20; 25:16

Debt: 22:7; 24:27; 25:17 (and passages re/ suretyship)

Gambling: 13:11; 14:15-16

Get-Rich-Quick: 13:11; 14:15-16; 20:21; 21:5; 22:1-2; 28:8, 20, 22

Giving: 3:9, 27, 28; 11:24-25; 14:21, 31; 16:26 (reason for caution in benevolence); 17:5a; 19:6, 17; 20:4; 21:13, 26; 22:9, 16; 25:21-22; 28:3, 27; 29:7, 14; 30:14; 31:8-9, 20

God's Provision: 15:16; 22:23; 23:11

Greed: 1:13, 14, 19; 15:27; 21:26; 22:16; 28:25

Hoarding, Holding Back Production for Profit: 11:26

Inheritance: 13:22; 19:14

Investment: 13:22; 14:15-16; 21:30-31; 22:13; 23:23; 27:12; 28:26

Labor: 6:6-11; 10:4-5, 16, 26; 12:11, 14, 24, 27; 13:4, 11, 23; 14:4, 23; 15:19; 16:26; 18:9; 19:15, 25; 20:4, 13; 21:5, 25; 22:13, 29; 24:27, 30-34; 26:10, 13-16; 27:7-8, 18, 23-28; 28:19-20; 31:13-31

Preparation for Marriage: 24:27; 25:24; 31:10-31

Profit Motive: 3:10, 16; 10:4; 12:9; 13:4, 18; 14:4, 24; 15:6; 20:13; 21:5, 17; 23:4; 24:4 (implies profit motive conversely); 28:23-27; 31:11, 18

Provision for Children: 13:22; 19:14; 27:7, 23-27; 31:27

Relation to Righteousness: 2:4-5; 3:14-15; 8:10-11, 18-19, 21; 10:2, 16, 22; 11:1, 4, 28; 13:7, 22, 25; 15:6, 16-17; 16:8, 16, 19; 17:1-2, 23; 19:1, 22; 20:15; 21:6, 20; 22:1-2, 4; 28:6; 29:7; 30:7-9

Savings: 6:8; 10:5; 13:22; 27:12; 30:25; 31:25

Theft: 6:30-31; 10:2; 11:1, 18; 13:11; 20:10, 23; 22:22; 23:10; 28:24;29:24 (beware dishonest partners)

Things Money Cannot Buy: 6:34-35 (favor from an offended neighbor); 10:22 (happiness); 11:4 (escape from wrath); 17:1 (peace)

Usury (Unjust Interest): 28:8

Waste: 21:17; 23:20-21; 25:16; 29:3; 30:22; 31:3

SOME RELEVANT TEXTS ON FINANCES

Accountability - Mt. 25:14-46; Lk. 16:1-14; Rom. 14:12

Benevolence - Deut. 15:7-11; Prov. 3:27; Mt. 5:42-48; Rom. 15:27; I Cor. 16:1-2; II Cor. 8:1-9:15; II Thess. 3:10; I Tim. 5:3-16; 6:17-19

Budgeting - Lk. 14:28-30; 16:1-8; I Cor. 16:1-2

Covetousness - Ps. 10:3; Ecc. 5:10; Jer. 22:13-17; Lk. 3:13-14; I Cor. 5:11; Eph. 5:3; Col. 3:5; Heb. 13:5; James 4:1-6

Debt - Ps. 37:21; Prov. 3:27; 22:3; Mt. 5:25-26; Rom. 12:17; 13:8; James 4:13-17

Labor - Gen. 2:15; Ex. 20:8-10; Ecc. 5:12; I Cor. 10:31; Eph. 4:28; Col. 3:22-23; II Thess. 3:6-15; Tit. 2:4-5, 9-10; 3:8, 14

Ministerial Support

Mothers' Employment - Prov. 31:10-31; Tit. 2:4-5

Profit & Prosperity - Gen. 39:2-3; II Chron. 32:26-29; Ps. 1:1-3; 107:33-38; Prov. 12:11; Jer. 17:8-11; II Cor. 9:6-11

Restitution - Lk. 19:1-10; Rom. 13:8-10

Savings, Inheritance, Insurance, Investment - Prov. 21:5, 20; Mt. 6:19-20; I Cor. 7:29-32a; II Cor. 12:14; I Tim. 5:8

Support for Kingdom Causes - Attitude in: I Chron. 29:6-9; II Cor. 9:6-15

Priority of: Mt. 6:19-24, 33

Wisdom of: Gal. 6:6-10; I Tim. 6:17-19

Taxes - Mt. 22:15-22; Rom. 13:1-8

Tithing

• General Principle: Prov. 3:9-10
• Before Moses: Gen. 14:18-20; 28:18-22
• Under Moses: Deut. 14:22-29; Mal. 3:8-11
• Under Christ: Lk. 11:42; I Cor. 16:1-2; Heb. 7:2, 4, 6, 8-10

Unjust Gain - Jer. 22:13-17; Deut. 25:13-16; Mark 7:8-13; Lk. 3:13-14; 16:10; 19:1-10; Rom. 12:17; Tit. 2:9-10

Wealth