Property Values

and character

Naboth had a Vinyard

• Property (cash) value• Fruit bearing value• Sentimental value

It was property with value…

• He owned it• Received it from his family• Better off because of it

Ahab Wanted Naboths Vinyard

• Considered all property the same• Understood the price, but not the value• Would take it falsely if necessary

Jezebel Got Involved

• Evil uses weak men• Evil uses deceit, i.e., lies, falsehood, etc.• Evil boasts to be a “winner”

The End Result?

• What goes around comes around

Proverbs 26:27

He who digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone, it will come

back on him.

Jezebel Got Involved

• Evil uses weak men• Evil uses deceit, i.e., lies, falsehood, etc.• Evil boasts to be a “winner”

The End Result?

• What goes around comes around• Evil never really wins

Proverbs 14:11; 29:16

The house of the wicked will be destroyed, But the tent of the

upright will flourish.

When the wicked increase, transgression increases; But the

righteous will see their fall.

Jezebel Got Involved

• Evil uses weak men• Evil uses deceit, i.e., lies, falsehood, etc.• Evil boasts to be a “winner”

The End Result?

• What goes around comes around• Evil never really wins• God’s word is true

Isaiah 55:10-11

For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there

without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed

to the sower and bread to the eater; 11. So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me

empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the

matter for which I sent it.

2 Timothy 2:12-13

If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us;13. If we are faithless, He

remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

You Possess Property

• Your reputation

It is property with value…

Ecclesiastes 7:1; Proverbs 22:1

A good name is better than a good ointment…

A good name is to be more desired than great wealth…

You Posess Property

• Your reputation• Your purity

It is property with value…

Proverbs 5:3-4, 15-19

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech;

4. But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged

sword.

Drink water from your own cistern And fresh water from your own well.

16. Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?

You Possess Property

• Your reputation• Your purity• Your good example

It is property with value…

1 Peter 3:16; 2:12

keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered,

those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in

which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good

deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Satan Wants What Is Yours!

• Thinks everybody is the same• Will try and buy it from you• Offers much, but he will lie if

necessary

The Jezebels Will Get Involved• Others enlisted who approve of wrong

Romans 1:32

and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who

practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same,

but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Satan Wants What Is Yours!

• Thinks everybody is the same• Will try and buy it from you• Offers much, but he will lie if

necessary

The Jezebels Will Get Involved• Others enlisted who approve of wrong• Will use every kind of pressure tactic

1 Peter 4:4

In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same

excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

Satan Wants What Is Yours!

• Thinks everybody is the same• Will try and buy it from you• Offers much, but he will lie if

necessary

The Jezebels Will Get Involved• Others enlisted who approve of wrong• Will use every kind of pressure tactic• Will laugh and boast of victory

Revelation17:4-6

The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and

pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her

immorality, 5. and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "BABYLON THE GREAT, THE

MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.“ 6. And I saw

the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.

When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

Revelation 18:1-8

"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! …3. "For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality,

and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth

have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”… God has remembered her iniquities. 6. "Pay her back even as

she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as

much for her…. for she says in her heart, `I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see

mourning.’ 8. "For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her

is strong.

What Will Be The End Result?

• What goes around comes around

• Evil never really wins• God’s word is true

How are you at valuing your property?