Blessed to be a Blessing | Philippians 4:14-23

Many of us have been in churches where money is spoken about in almost every sermon. You're typically guilt tripped into giving more money, with the promise that the more you give, the more God will bless you with more money or will heal your sickness. This sort of teaching is unfortunate evidence of the widespread influence of the prosperity gospel in our church context.

It is easy in response to having been exposed to this manipulative prosperity gospel teaching to react in another extreme direction, whereby we don’t speak of money at all, and in fact view it as something unspiritual, bad in itself and unconnected and irrelevant to our Christian faith.

Yet biblical teaching on money is neither of these extremes. The Bible definitely does not teach that we are to give money so that God can give us more money. Nor does the Bible teach that money is in itself unspiritual, in fact it teaches quite the opposite, that how we use money has a direct connection with our heart toward the Lord.

We’ve reached the final verses of this letter to the Philippians. In these few concluding verses, Paul talks about money. He thanks the Philippian church for supporting him financially, even though they were a very poor church. As we look at these verses this morning, we’ll observe some important biblical truths regarding how we are to steward money as believers in Christ. We’ll see that because God is abundant in riches, he will provide for us richly through his grace, so that we can bless others for the sake of the gospel – we’ll see that we’re blessed in order to be a blessing.

Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.

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