Now you're going to see that I gave you a I like to keep it different each week so you don't know what to expect but we have a handout here that I gave you in the beginning and on the first page is kind of an outline.

Mark's got some at the back if anybody didn't get one.

First page is an outline which hopefully you'll make some notes on this week or tonight as we go through here.

The second page is 10 deadly sins for Christians and I think you'll enjoy that. We'll look at that a minute and then there's some budgeting information.

Kind of as a review of last week's class, let's start out with the 10 deadly sins and see what these are. It'll kind of help you

remember some of what we talked about last week. First one is, thou shalt not rob God.

Remember the sermon that we heard about robbing God and you know one of the ways to stay out of dead is to have your finances be blessed and one of the ways to have your finances be blessed is not to rob God of what's due to God.

Second one is, thou shalt not forget to budget, plan, and set goals for your finances. That's something that we've just got to do and if you don't, I don't know if it's really a sim, but it is something that's going to get you in trouble with your finances if you don't budget,

plan, and set goals in your finances.

The third thing, thou shalt not be a slave to immediate gratification.

None of us want to be a slave, do we?

And what this means is you spend money you don't have for things that are going to give you some temporary pleasure, but that you're going to be paying the price for over and over and over for a long time.

And then when you had the interest on, all that fun that you had for a short time gets to

where it's just overwhelmingly unfund.

So we don't want to be a slave to immediate gratification.

We won't have patience and be able to wait on things as the

Lord gives us the timing. Fourth, when thou shalt not count on future earnings to pay present

debts. You know that's...

Makes sense, doesn't it? If you don't have the money you don't buy it? If I want a Coke

in the Coke machine and I look in my pocket and I don't have any money I don't go buy anything.

They don't take credit cards on the Coke machine and it's a shame that we don't take all they do now.

Well thank goodness the ones that I've been using don't.

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