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Extinguish the Materialism
Sun 3/16
By: Ajay Thomas
If you walked around the streets of Ephesus, and you didn’t know better, you might think you were here. Like Boston, Ephesus was a metropolitan city where a ton of people had good jobs, lived in nice homes, wore expensive clothes, and maintained an upscale lifestyle. Money wasn’t a problem for many of the folks in Ephesus, but materialism was. Instead of banking their lives on God and His Gospel, they trusted in their wallets and their wealth. Paul had some great advice for Timothy. And that’s because his advice was rooted in the words of Jesus. Timothy was to charge the Ephesians to focus their energy on storing up treasure in heaven by being rich in good deeds on earth. Their pride and self-reliance was to be replaced with a humble dependence on God. And their stinginess was to be replaced by generosity and a willingness to share. By using their treasure in this life righteously, they would ensure treasure in the life to come.
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