WHAT WE NEED AND WANT

BUT MONEY CANNOT BUY

 Introduction
 If you ask people today what will make them
happy, the answer is money – a lot of money.
 But money is overrated.
 There are things that money cannot buy.
 1. HEALTH
 Alexander the great is one of the greatest
conquerors if not the greatest.
 He is a very wealthy man.
 We may say that he already have everything that
he wanted.
 But the greatest conqueror eventually became
ill. And before he died this is one of his requests.
 “My first wish is that my physicians alone must
carry my coffin”
 His generals were astonished by his request
and ask why.
 I want my physicians to carry my coffin
because people should realize that no doctor
can really cure anybody. They are powerless
and cannot save a person from the clutches of
death.
 Lesson: Even if you have all the money to pay
the best doctors, it will be useless when your
health is already compromised.
 Luke 8:43 And a woman having an issue of
blood twelve years, which had spent all her
living upon physicians, neither could be healed
of any,
 She must have been very rich to be able to
spend money for twelve years paying doctors
who could not cure her, until she touched the
fringe of the Great Physician’s garment.
 Here is a list of billionaires who died of illness

 1. Edward Rogers
 Canada
 2008 Net Worth: $5.7 billion
 Age: 75
 Cause of death: congestive heart failure

 2. Roland Arnall
 U.S.
 2008 Net Worth: $1.5 billion
 Age: 68
 Cause of death: cancer
 3. Thomas Flatley
 U.S.
 2008 Net Worth: $1.2 billion
 Age: 76
 Cause of death: Lou Gehrig's disease

 4. Heherson "Sonny" Alvarez

 Philippines
 Cause of Death: Covid 19
 Hospital bill: 5 million
 2. Home
 Everyone wants and needs a home.
 There’s a big difference between home and house.
 “A house is made of bricks and beams home is
made of hopes and dreams.”.
 A “Home is where love resides, memories are
created, friends always belong, and laughter never
ends.”
 “Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave,
and grow old wanting to get back to
 There’s no place like home.
 A soldier who has fought in many battles, a
laborer growing tired with burdens, and the
prodigal son who has lost all he had, have only
one thing in mind – to go home.
 These and many more tributes extol the
pricelessness of home.
 Money cannot buy it.
 God’s Word testifies, “Better is a little with the
fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble
with it. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
than a fattened ox and hatred with it” (Prov.
15:16, 17).
 3. Happiness
 The world has been deluded into believing that
money can buy happiness.
 But man’s fascination over money has brought
trouble, misery and sadness.
 We see this in many of the rich and famous
committing suicide inside their very own
mansions, many of whom were at the height of
their career.
 Kurt Cobain, Chester Bennington, Anthony
Bourdain, Robin Williams and Angelo Reyes
have 3 things in common.
 1. They are rich
 2. They are popular
 3. They are dead – they committed suicide.
 Being rich is not an assurance that you will be
happier in this life.
 The riches man who ever lived testifies this in
his journal Ecclesiastes.
 Ecc 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in
Jerusalem.
 Ecc 1:2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities!
All is vanity.
 cc 2:1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with
pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.
 Ecc 2:2 I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use
is it?”
 Ecc 2:3 I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with
wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay
hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of
man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
 Ecc 2:4 I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards
for myself.
 Ecc 2:5 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all
kinds of fruit trees.
 Ecc 2:6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of
growing trees.
 Ecc 2:7 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who
were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and
flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.
 Ecc 2:8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the
treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and
women, and many concubines, the delight of the sons of man.
 Ecc 2:9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me
in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
 Ecc 2:10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from
them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found
pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
 Ecc 2:11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the
toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a
striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the
sun.
 1Ki 10:22 because the king had ships that sailed to Tarshish
accompanied by Hiram's ships. Once every three years ships from
Tarshish returned, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
 1Ki 10:23 As a result, King Solomon became greater than all the kings
of the earth in regards to wealth and wisdom.
 1Ki 10:24 All the earth continued to seek audiences with Solomon so
they could hear the wise things that God had put in his heart.
 1Ki 10:25 Everyone kept on bringing gifts on an annual basis,
including items made of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices,
horses, and mules.
 1Ki 10:26 Solomon accumulated chariots and cavalry. He had 1,400
chariots and 12,000 cavalry soldiers. He stationed them in various
chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
 1Ki 10:27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and
made cedar trees as abundant as sycamore trees in the Shephelah.
 1Ki 10:28 Solomon imported horses from Egypt and Kue, and the
king's buyers procured them at market price from Kue.
 1Ki 10:29 A chariot from Egypt cost 600 pieces of silver, and a horse
150 pieces of silver, but then they were exported to all the Hittite kings
and to the Aramean kings.
 1Ki 10:14 Solomon received annually about 49,950 pounds of gold,
 1Ki 10:15 not including revenue from traders, merchants, and from all the
kings of Arabia and the governors of the land.
 1Ki 10:16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold,
overlaying each large shield with the gold from 600 gold pieces,
 1Ki 10:17 and 300 shields from beaten gold, overlaying each shield with
the gold from 300 gold pieces. The king put them in his palace in the
Lebanon forest.
 1Ki 10:18 The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with
pure gold.
 1Ki 10:19 Six steps led up to the throne, which had a round canopy
fastened to the rear of the throne and armrests on each side of the seat and
two lions standing on either side of each armrest.
 1Ki 10:20 Twelve lions were placed on both sides of the six steps leading
to the throne, and nothing comparable was made for any other kingdoms.
 1Ki 10:21 All of King Solomon's drinking vessels were made of gold, and
all the vessels in his palace in the Lebanon forest were made of pure gold.
None were of silver, because silver was never considered to be valuable
during Solomon's lifetime,
 But he concluded that all was just chasing the wind.
Vanity of vanities.
 Happiness is relative.
 The things that the rich doesn’t want anymore will give
happiness to the poor.
 Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, 1Ti 6:17 Tell those who
are rich in this age not to be arrogant and not to place
their confidence in anything as uncertain as riches.
Instead, let them place their confidence in God, who
lavishly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
 Acts 20:35, “There is more happiness in giving than in
receiving.” The Greek word “makarios,” used in this
verse, also translated “blessed” means happy
 4. Heaven
 Heaven is the Christians ultimate goal
 You cannot acquire it by buying it. Neither
silver nor gold could buy it.
 The Catholics included books in their bible to
support their doctrines.
 Examples: 2 Mac. 12:45 – praying for the dead
(Need to pay for it)
 Tobit 12:9 – Giving alms will pardon sins (As
if we can buy our salvation)