Today we wrap up our Multiplied Series. I know I said that we wrapped it up last week but I could not wrap the series without dealing with the area of debt—a killer of the multiplication that God wants to work in us as we bring him the first and best of our time, talent and treasurer. As I writing this message I decided to entitle it DEBT: MULTIPLIED SUBTRACTION. Now I told you a number of weeks ago that I’m not very good in the area of math. So Friday night as I was discussing the title of the message with my daughter Jasmine (who is somewhat a math scholar). She said that my title did not make any sense. Being the tenacious person that I am I tried to explain what I was getting at and yet she didn’t change her mind about my non-sensical title. She said dad what you are talking about is not called Multiplied Subtraction. What you are describing in Exponential Decay. Can you see me shacking my head having never heard that term in my life? So for all you math enthusiast out there when I say Multiplied Subtraction I mean Exponential Decay. You can see the formula on the screen. It might as well be german because i don’t know what it means. So today I want to discuss debt and the effect it has on our ability to live lives of Kingdom Multiplication.

Debt is a symptom, not the root MULTIPLIED SUBTRACTION problem. Materialism is the root problem.

But if it's only money these leaders are after, they'll self–destruct in no time. Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after. 1 Tim 6:9-10 (MSG)

Speaking to the people, he went on, "Take care! Protect yourself against the least bit of greed. Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot. Luke 12:15 (MSG)

DEFINITION OF Materialism: seeking happiness through the accumulation of material things.