Whether you have a lot or a little, money has a way of dominating our desires. The poor crave wealth,

and the rich confess that enough is never enough. So how do we moderate our obsession with money?

Today on Insight for Living,

Chuck Swindall finds the answer in 1 Timothy chapter 6. In this passage, Paul helps us understand that true prosperity comes not from what we possess, but from the one who possesses us.

Let's resume the study that started earlier this week. Chuck

titled his message, Strengthening Your Grip on Money.

Another area that we will be bombarded with, and it will increase, not decrease, is how we handle

our finances.

It's time for us to come to terms with this, according to 1st Timothy, Chapter 6.

Look at verse 3 and working our way into the verses we're looking at. If anyone

advocates, chapter six verse three, if anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with

sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,

it's a key word, remember it, if there's one that

does not advocate those things conforming to godliness, he is conceded, he understands nothing.

He has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words out of which

arise envy and strife and abusive language, evil suspicions,

and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth.

Who suppose, these are evil men, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

Verse six.

Godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.

So let me give you a formula that will be easy to remember.

Godliness plus contentment equals great gain.

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