I want to share a message with you and it's a little different in the fact that I normally have three points and we have a rhythm to that

You know we're all used to it so I've got ten points but so I won't be able to spend as much time

But I'll do it in the three short hours that I have here

No, so here's the title today the 10 financial commandments the 10 financial commandments.

So let me just say something.

I know people who don't make much money who struggle with stewardship,

and I know people who make a lot of money who still are not

good stewards. So we're not talking about how much money you make we're talking about

how you think about stewardship and ownership and so God gave me these and they're throughout the book but I felt like the

Lord showed me how to line these 10 financial commandments up with the 10 commandments. So I'll do that as we go through.

So here's number one, put God first. And we've talked some about tithing and giving the first

10% to God.

Obviously this goes with the first commandment,

you shall have no other gods before me,

Exodus 20, verse 3.

But let me just show you a story.

First Kings, Chapter 17.

This is to Almighty Elijah, during a famine

that lasted three years and six months.

It says, so he arose and went to Zarifath,

and when he came to the gate of the city indeed a widow was there

gathering sticks and God told him to go to this widow and he called to her and

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