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LIBERTY UNIVERSITY

BUDGET REPORT

A PAPER SUBMITTED TO

DR. RUSS BARKSDALE OF THE LIBERTY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS

PLED 625

LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

BY

PAUL J LIMATO 111

NORFOLK, VA

APRIL 2013

INTRODUCTION

If there is one thing that can quickly hinder man it is money. This is why the writer of this paper firmly believes that is why the scriptures speak so clearly and often about it. Roughly a third of all that Jesus preached and taught about was related to money. Jesus said, “22 And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.” Many of us would do good to truly seek to apply this passage. Money has a way of enslaving us and rather than seeking the kingdom of God we seek to build up or bind ourselves to our own kingdoms or if we have debt we are in reality building the kingdom of the one we borrowed from.

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