July 27, 2025
TEXT:  I Timothy 6:6-10

I. Contentment is best achieved in godliness (vv. 6-8)
A. Godliness helps us see the value of what we have
1. Worldliness makes us want more (Proverbs 3:31; 14:30; 23:17; 27:4; Psalm37:1; 73:3; Proverbs 24:1, 19)
2. Worldliness makes us a taker or keeper not a giver
3. Worldliness makes us self-centered instead of other oriented
B. Godliness helps us appreciate what we have as gifts from God
C. Godliness helps us control our lust for more
1. Our flesh is never satisfied
2. Our desires are never pacified
3. Our carnality can only be controlled by the filling of the Holy Spirit from God (Ephesians 5:8-21)

II. Contentment is the opposite of wanting more (v. 9; Psalm 23)
A. The desire for more leads us to sin
B. The desire for more traps us in dissatisfaction
C. The desire for more draws us into foolish lustful living
D. The desire for more destroys us in life and eternity

III. Contentment is the opposite of the love of money (v. 10)

The love of money is:
A. the root from which evil grows forth
B. the root of not living by faith
C. the root of causing ourselves pain and sorrow (I Corinthians 3)