Ownership Rights: Ownership

We watch shows about money we listen to music about money we read books about money. But the one place we dont like to talk about money is church. Surveys regularly show that money is something preaches dont like to talk about either. In fact, statistically most preachers would rather talk about hell than money. But the challenge is that the subject of money is constantly addressed in the Scriptures. Five times more is said about money in The New Testament than about prayer. While there are 500 verses on prayer and faith alone in The New Testament of the Bible, there are over 2,000 verses dealing with money and possessions. Jesus talked more about money than He did about heaven and hell combined, twice as much actually. Sixteen out of Jesus 38 parables deal with the subject of money. So for the next three weeks we are going to study one of the parables. It is found in Matthew 25, sometimes referred to as the "Parable of the Talents," or the parables updated name of, "The Parable of the Bags of Gold."