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Published: Sept. 20, 2012, 3:33 a.m.

Please join us this week as we continue our series, Margin. This week executive pastor, Scott Drummond, talks about the benefits of living with financial magin. We hope you enjoy it!

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Financial Margin Message

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How many live occasionally with financial stress?

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See how normal this is for us?

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Financial margin is having $3000 come in for the month and spending $2500.\xa0 You are left with $500 in margin

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If you get n $3000 and spend $3000 how much margin do you have? 0

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If you get in $3000 and spend $3500 you are over the edge

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Margin \u2013 the distance from where you are to the edge of the cliff

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Freedom to give without stress

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Money to purchase time margin

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Money to do something you have wanted to do

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Ability to be at rest

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Most people do not have financial margin

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Prov. 21:20 The wise store up choice food and olive oil,\u2028but fools gulp theirs down

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\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 But a foolish person lives paycheck to paycheck

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This is not dependent on income

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In the house of the WISE is more than enough

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Wise way and foolish way of doing things

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friend \u2013 wealthy friends not living with margin

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Fighting to keep up with their lifestyle

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Other friend \u2013 plain, house\u2026peace in this home

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Most people with an untrained eye would say, \u201cthey are not rich\u201d

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But that is wrong.\xa0

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Home with margin is rich in what matters most

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Verse.

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I timothy 6 6\xa0But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7\xa0For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8\xa0But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9\xa0Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10\xa0For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

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Godliness with contentment is great gain\u2026

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Cultures definition of happiness

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Most of us have lifestyle way past margin

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Its not an income problem, it\u2019s a lifestyle problem

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Not a lifestyle problem but a spiritual problem

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Matthew verse\u2026 19\xa0\u201cDo not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20\xa0But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21\xa0For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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So what do we do?

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Earn more or spend less\u2026

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But you are smart and already know that.

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The problem is a deeper root problem

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How do we create margin?

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You must put God first in your finances

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Tithe \u2013 you will experience God\u2019s blessings

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Malachi 3:10\xa0Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,\u201d says the Lord Almighty, \u201cand see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

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2 key principles:

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1. When we bring our first and our best, God will bless the rest

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Tithing builds our faith

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2. When you put God first you will be supernaturally content

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Proverbs 15:16 Better a little with the fear of the Lord\u2028than great wealth with turmoil.

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Better, better, better, better

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When you realize its better you do things different

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You will end up with more of what matters

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Proverbs 8:18-19

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18\xa0With me are riches and honor,\u2028\xa0enduring wealth and prosperity.

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19\xa0My fruit is better than fine gold;\u2028\xa0what I yield surpasses choice silver.

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Gave away cars, sponsor children,

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Better, better

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