How A Blessing Became A Curse

Matthew: The Art Of Surrender - Message 52

By Larry Osborne, May 30, 2026

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How A Blessing Became A Curse


Setting the context:

The Story Before The Story

  1. Everyone thought wealth was a sign of .

Proverbs 10:22/ Job 1:1-3, 8/ Genesis 13:1 & 24:35


  1. Children were viewed as a .

Matthew 19:13-15/ Psalms 127:3-5


The passage: Matthew 19:16-30

Mark 10:17-22 & Luke 18:18-30/ 1 Timothy 6:17-19


What most people miss:

  1. This is not a teaching about the of .

Matthew 19:16/ 1 Timothy 6:6-10, Luke 12:15 & Proverbs 15:27


  1. It’s a teaching about the cost of and the importance of .

Matthew 19:14-16/ Matthew 5:20-48/ Galatians 2:21 & Matthew 26:39/ Proverbs 11:24-25


How your wealth can become a curse, and what you can do to make sure that doesn’t happen:

1 Timothy 6:17-19/ Proverbs 6:16-19/ Proverbs 11:28/ Ecclesiastes 3:12-13, 8:15/ Proverbs 11:24-25, 19:17, 3:9-10

  1. Don’t become .

  1. Don’t put your in it.

  1. it.

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