Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

Passion City Church DC Podcast

Passion City Church

Washington Dc, Religion & Spirituality, Benstuart, Sermons, Passioncitychurch Dc, Passion, Messages, Church, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

According to James Chapter 5, rich people should be sad -- but why? This week, Pastor Ben Stuart explains what James really means when he cautions the wealthy to watch where we place our value. The more we love money, the less we love people. At the end of the day, the issue isn’t about money at all, but about our hearts. When we see and experience the generosity of God, it changes our priorities and our posture to extend that generosity to others.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Passion City Church DC podcast. To learn more about Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta in Washington, D.C.
0:11.5	Visit us online at Passion City Church.com.
0:15.0	Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.
0:20.0	Well, I don't know if you caught this while I was reading the text, but it is rough.
0:26.8	It might be the roughest one in James, and he's called his adultresses and demonic.
0:31.7	And yet here we are now and he says,
0:33.3	weep and howl for the miseries that come upon you.
0:36.6	This text is tough.
0:39.7	We're going to launch a new series next week
0:41.8	entitled,
0:42.8	Kittens and Ponies, just to try to recover from today.
0:46.7	I'm telling you, it's wild.
0:48.7	But let me say this.
0:50.5	As we jump into this today, I want to say that James is not being unique
0:54.3	here and James is not just kind of grinding and acts with the rich this isn't some
1:00.0	personal issue James has James actually being very biblical in this section.
1:05.4	And some of you may say, well of course it's being biblical, Ben, the books in the Bible.
1:10.3	But what I mean by that is he's following a consistent thread that runs through all of scripture.
1:18.0	These concepts he's unpacking, none of it's novel.
1:22.0	But he's unpacking what we see are concepts that are playing out
1:25.9	through all of the scripture. But he just does it as is typical for James in a really
1:30.0	intense way. And so as we look at this we got to answer basically three questions.
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