Counsels on Stewardship -- Study Guide

Chapter 30 — Danger in Prosperity

Lucifer takes advantage of a person’s desire for more wealth. He uses wealth to separate people from God and eternity. God uses wealth as a way to measure the depth of your love for Him and to unite you with Him for eternity. Please read CS 147-153 or CSA 99-102. CS-SG 31.3

11. What three spiritual qualities of life, if absent from our lives, will allow prosperity to arouse the natural inclination to presumption? CS 148:2 or CSA 99:2
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B.
C. CS-SG 31.4

12. Why is there an almost insane desire to accumulate financial wealth?

CS-SG 31.5

“All this _______________________, this _______________________, this _______________________, this _______________________ after earthly power, is the result of the _______________________ of his powers to a wrong object.” CS 149:3 or CSA 100:3 CS-SG 31.6

13. Financial wealth can do this:
” _______________________, and cause many who possess them to act as though they were _______________________ of reason.” CS 150:3 or CSA 101:2 CS-SG 31.7

14. Speaking of Sabbath keeping Adventists:
“At present their greatest _______________________ is in their _______________________ of _______________________.” CS 153:4 or CSA 102:4 CS-SG 31.8

15. List five adverse results of accumulating and keeping financial wealth. CS 153:4 or CSA 102:4
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B.
C.
D.
E. CS-SG 31.9