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Sermon Illustrations: Values

A young man applied for a job as an architect. They called him up and asked him to come in. When he did, they offered him the job at $150,000. He went to sign the agreement and was told, "You are expected to look after your clients, wine, dine, and take them to girlie places. I hope your wife will understand." The architect said, "No thanks". "What! This is the opportunity of a lifetime." "No thanks, I'm not willing to sell my values for $150,000." A few days later, he got a promotion from his current boss.

In 2006, when they announced that Gold Lotto was now worth $33 million, they asked people what they'd spend it on. One man said, "$10 million on parties, $10 million on beer, $10 million on gambling, and I'd waste the rest."

One dark and stormy night, a gang of thieves broke into a jewellery store, but they were on a mission with a difference. They didn't steal a thing. But they carefully went round the whole shop and switched all the price tags. Then they left. The next day, the staff came in, and because the thieves had been so careful, nobody noticed they'd even been there. Customers came and people were spending huge amounts of money to buy cheap junk, while others were paying a couple of dollars for jewellery worth thousands of dollars. Someone has switched the tags on our planet. We are continually bombarded with a different set of values from what the Bible teaches.

If you get a good tracker, they can follow a person just about anywhere. They just follow the signs: A broken twig, a couple of footprints, some flattened grass. They just follow the trail and they know what direction you're headed. If you want to know where a person is headed in life, what's important to them, just follow the money trail.