The true worshipers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth

It's The Spirit

"It is the Spirit that quickeneth..." John 3.63a. This important phrase traveled two millennia -- 2000 years -- to get to you.

There is a part of you that is not made of matter. Don't you realize that God, The Creator, can create things that don't have physical embodiment? People don't die. Their physical "encapsulation" ceases function and begins decomposition, no longer needed.

That's an important realization about faith: The true worshipers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth... John 4:23. Words come to mind like "impromptu" or "add-lib" or, "as the Spirit moves".

It is the Spirit that quickeneth. The flesh propheteth nothing. Those worthless ceremonial rituals will not do the job. Ritual is the chief cause of, indirectly, economic failure throughout entire history. It's why the Worldly associate armament production with wealth. Carnal-mindedness and lust. "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?" James 4:1.

That's also why the Antichrist -- the false Messiah -- will be accepted by those meat-heads. He'll be a war-monger.

The movement of the Spirit of God has been recorded through history in the scriptures. The Bible is the book of the "Messianic Destiny". It wasn't by the holiness of the people, but by the destiny of the Messiah that the scriptures emanated from whence they did, be it Israel or the Mediterranean and other places.

So it is, you, also, won't get anywhere economically, in the true economics, unless you get used to getting your instructions from God. As the Spirit moves.

So what about the Worldly? -- What can I say? It's as the Romans learned: no Christians, no empire.

If you who are of the World want some real prosperity for a change, you're going to have to stop picking on the Christians, you who imagine yourselves to be so superior. Illusions from fantasy books on the black arts an economy does not make.

Those of you who are "born again" -- a term the Worldly absolutely hate (a term coined by Jesus Himself -- John 3:3) -- you're going to have to obey the Lord and forsake religiosity and all the attendant feel-good baggage the Devil would love to saddle you with to make you think you're worshipping God, when, in reality, God doesn't want ritual. The human mind will never be able to figure it out.

But if you become accustomed to being moved by the Spirit (John 3:8), the more you do, the more you'll understand how God works. God doesn't, and never has, done anything by human ritualism.

But if you are moved by the Holy Spirit and you do things the right way and are therefore prospered, it will seem to "outsiders" that good fortune has happened to you by coincidence or accident, or, as they call it, "happenstance". But, as it recurs again and again, they will be taken aback.

Now, there's a lot to write about at this point, on how you may have to become nomadic as you get persecuted and develop the alternate escalation of persecution and success, and other things. But suffice it to note at this point that the key is that God will prosper you.

You have to remember that you, as the servant of the Most High God, are not prospered so that you can become "wealthy" (in other words, the "bigger barns" scenario -- those that lay up treasure for themselves and are not rich toward God; as in the Lord's parable -- Luke 12: 18-21) -- not that you can become wealthy, but that you might have sufficient means to carry out your ministry while here in this life, or to help others in theirs, or both.

Remember, if you are blessed with actual wealth, that's not yours, it's God's. You're just the steward over it. Believe me, you don't want your own personal wealth, for with that comes a multitude of sorrows. First Timothy 6:10. But if you are entrusted with God's wealth, The Lord doesn't mind if you use portions of the wealth to procure appropriate equipment and essentials such as housing, food, clothing, office necessities, transportation and so on.

By the way, remember the importance of records and documentation. Be sure to back up your data as much as possible and that there are hard copies of your documentation in some type of in-house library. Sort of a facility for those disciples in your ministries and fellowships.

You Worldly people, quit scandalizing the Christians whose needs are being met by God. You don't believe it? Well, you see, they'll have God's supply weather you believe it or not. You should at least question if there really is something to it and get saved. Ask God to forgive you of all and any sins in Jesus' Name and ask Jesus to come into your heart. Then ask for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and begin to participate in the Joy of the Lord. Then when your soul moves on and sheds this physical "chrysalis", you'll have eternal wealth and free room and board in the Kingdom of Heaven!

But all of us have to learn the wherefores of the process whereby the Father takes the rough edges off each of those willing to serve Him. In the Old Testament is the parable of the potter. Jeremiah 18: 1-4. The prophet Jeremiah was sent by the Lord to a potter's shop and he saw a vessel fashioned, marred, then brought back to a lump of clay to be reformed again into an acceptable vessel.

With all who serve Him, God is like the good potter that will keep reforming the lump of clay. But you might think once or twice is enough. Try thousands or maybe even millions in one good servant's lifetime.

To get the servant of the Lord into his or her full stature as a man or woman of God, God has to work with them incessantly in a constant process of breaking and molding until finally they begin to realize the ways of the Lord and can begin to respond accordingly to God's instructions and commands.

For there is no higher calling than the service of the Lord. But the "servant" is actually "servus" in the Greek, which means "slave". As Jesus said, "So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do." Luke 17:10.

Little by little, slowly, the people God is working with begin to learn from each occurrence, how to hear from the Lord, how to do what He's showing them, and so on. Their faith grows, their experience accumulates, and they begin to get results and God can prosper them and even the whole area in which they live. Unless the others around them persecute them, as so often happens.

As Jesus said, "But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another..." Matthew 10: 23a. It is also mentioned by Paul to Timothy, "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." Second Timothy 3: 12.

Then those blessings are withdrawn from that area that persecuted God's people, although often the people of that place never notice. The Bible explains the perverse attitude of some of the worst ones in that they imagine evil to be good and also they imagine good to be evil. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isaiah 5: 20. So they also imagine the people of God to be evil.

But that could change at any moment for any one of them and they could turn to God, be forgiven and become their true selves, the exquisite little personality they were originally, the real person before they became dominated by all that evil and they, too, could know the joy and prosperity God would give them even in the face of all that adversity.

As it says in Psalm 23: "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies..." Psalm 23:5a. 

Your "Reward" for getting saved? Deliverance, brother and sister: Deliverance.

Doth Job Fear God for Naught?

The inevitable test that the Devil seeks to cause to come against each individual who remains loyal and faithful to God is to subject that person to privation. That's why he, the Devil, will accuse that servant of being in it only for the benefits.

Occasionally, such tests have to come about for each of us. So the life of the faithful Christian will never be "smooth sailing" all the time; there will be storms, but they will be endurable and they'll be good for you in that it will help make you stronger.

The Devil will always try to discredit you and your testimony. And, although he's a liar and the father of lies, he's also very legalistic and will accuse you to God, for he's also the accuser of the saints.

So, among other things, this means, like Job whom he also accused to God, falsely, it turns out, you've got to realize beforehand that, though you might abound one moment, the other moment you might be "abased" and have to endure a period of privation. This is where complete supply comes in as true riches -- the privation is usually only pecuniary and material.

Where, then, is the abundance? Well, it averages out. The gifts of God are without repentance. Romans 11:29. As Saint Paul said, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13.

When you get the faith for it -- and "... faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17. The abundance of God is far greater than the hardships the Devil is able to intermittently throw your way.

Plead the Blood of Jesus, The Lamb of God, when under attack or at any time. Remember the admonition in Revelation: "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony...". Revelation 12:11. The Blood of Jesus, shed on the Cross, is the ultimate, absolutely glaring, rebuke against, and condemning of, the Devil, who is ultimately responsible for killing Jesus the Messiah. Well, three days later, Jesus came back from the dead and that's the last thing the Devil was able to do to Him. -- Also, the Blood shed by Jesus on the cross breaks the "spell" the Devil cast over the World.

So Christian prosperity is like breathing: For every breath of fresh air taken in, it's as if, sure enough, there has to be, as this analogy goes, an "exhale". But remember, that after Job's ordeal was done, and God delivered him, his wealth came back in greater abundance.

Of course, the stormy passage of each true Christian through this life isn't always bad things happening after good things, but bad things do happen, usually because of bad people opposing that Christian. And often to compound things, such bad people often bring in bad spirits, and so on. Also, it's possible that that Christian can cause his or her own difficulties by giving an occasion to the Devil; causing a situation that allows the Devil to pull something.

The Bible talks about such things in the Book of Job, and, whereas you might not see it at first glance, remember the wording of the scriptures had to get around kings and religious leaders who would have stopped everything from getting through to you had they understood what was said. Eventually, you'll understand what was involved with the lesson of Job.

So when you read about Job and realize that the Devil was starting to get on his case, first of all Job was doing something right for the Devil to be fighting him. Maybe Job was also having a problem with pride as well; he might have been a bit lifted up about the success of his ministry for God. But also people close to him were doing a lot of things wrong and that helped to cause evil to get a foothold.

Job's grown-up children were getting, it seems, into paganism. The hints we have about that were their feasts (often such affairs involved more than food; also certain deities might be revered, such as those associated with feasting or inebriation, as the Word mentions about the people of Israel in the wilderness at Midian, that the people ate and drank and then rose up to play -- Exodus 32:6). Why would Job's kids do that to Dad? Even those of one's own household can be a person's foes. Matthew 10:36.  The Devil was setting things up for an attack on Job, finally accusing him to God.

Take a look at this passage from the Book of Job, Job 1:6-11:

"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.  And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.  And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?  Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.  But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face."

The enemy will try to set you up and to challenge your prosperity.  The difference now is that you have someone to defend you in Heaven, and that's Jesus.  That's why it's so important, as the vernacular goes, to "stay under the Blood of the Lamb" -- the Blood of Jesus.  Keep praying that simple prayer, "I plead the Blood of Jesus".  When you get accused, God looks at the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, and that Jesus died for you, and you're pardoned. 

But sometimes difficulties come your way.  You may have to endure a period of privation occasionally or things in your situation can arise to cause problems.  It's happened for various reasons to brothers and sisters in the Bible days and throughout the ages.  The problems most often stemmed from people in the fellowship or people they had to deal with bringing in spiritual trouble because they go astray or because of not putting God first.  Most certainly the worldly people around the brothers and sisters invariably caused trouble for them.

So it happens to this day, especially if you are an employer. If some of the employees are into other things, this can cause trouble. Like Job, you might find the trouble makers often get rid of themselves -- in today's workplace, you can catch them lying or harassing fellow workers. If they are of their father the Devil, they will lie, or they will accuse the innocent.

But back to the topic at hand and the trials and tribulations that do occasionally occur in the Christian's pilgrimage through this life. Many times these things the Devil throws at you can take a toll. You should be prepared to deal with loss, sometimes that could be absolutely everything. Your faith and the Lord will soon get you back "on your feet" again, as did Job, stronger than ever.

You might ask what is your reward for being faithful, trouble? No. Brother and sister, this World is almost nothing but recurring troubles all the time. Your reward is deliverance. -- And that's just for openers. If you remain faithful -- if you just hang in there and remain steadfast -- you'll receive an hundred fold. You'll prosper, and also with that, as Jesus said, will come persecutions.

What can I tell you? The worldly people will give you problems. They hate God, they hate each other, they love to hate, they hate Jesus and they'll hate you. Whatever. Great is your reward in Heaven!

Your only need for sufficient prosperity here is so you can do the job. It's not your prosperity, it's only in your stewardship for a while for you to use in the service of Jesus. As for all the rest, when it comes time, just let that stuff go. It's worthless anyway. The only things that will stand the test of fire are the living souls you helped to find Jesus and get saved.

The Pound that Gained Ten-Fold

Thy Pound Hath Gained Ten

The Lord set forth a parable about a certain volume of money -- a large amount -- being placed in the care of three individuals. It says they received each man a pound.

Now this is the second parable about money or pounds or talents given in such a way that the servants were told to do something with the capitol given them to invest.

But in this parable not only did the investors receive equal amounts and brought in different amounts as a return, but also something else. It makes the monetary amount pale into insignificance. Each of these men received a secondary benefit of training along with the amount of enthusiasm they put into their efforts.

You know, enthusiasm boiled down to one important element in any successful endeavor: inspiration. Thomas Edison was once said to have quipped: "Success is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." but I contend he was wrong. He didn't understand the power of inspiration, because it doesn't really exist among the worldly.

It is the infilling of the Holy Ghost. Jesus explained "It is the Spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing." So the Holy Spirit of the Living God is the empowerment of those who receive it and hunger and thirst after God's Spirit.

But weather inspiration, effort, or both, the Lord's response to the two who came up with results was to place them in charge of cities. One gained ten pounds and was placed in charge of ten cities. The one who gained five pounds, to him gave He charge of five cities.

The one who gained nothing did so because he did nothing. His pound was taken from him and given to him who had ten pounds. So though he had the pound he started out with, and ten more, plus the one taken from the "do-nothing" and given to him, he only had charge of ten cities.

You see, he had learned something from the trading and commerce about good governance. The one who did nothing learned nothing. To him who has will more be given, but from him who hath not shall be taken away even that he seemeth to have.

Training is one observation here, but there is much more, such as a willingness to work with God, getting therefore the job done in the right way; doing the right thing. Inspiration helps you follow God's instructions and that's the only way to get the job done the right way and done right.

So the ones who gained were the ones who worked with God and did it God's way: the Christian Economists.

In the service of the Lord, the know-how comes with doing and obedience. That's why the scriptures admonish "Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only.".

This is why the economics of the World is historically such a dismal failure as well as their urban politics: they don't know what they're doing, really, and neither do the people who elect them or appoint them.

There's much more to belief than you might think! With the religionists it only means they believe in something. With Jesus, it means results. You produce "fruit". -- And in the World to come, the Christian believer, along with results, will have the training and know-how to responsibly handle government.

For, as Jesus said, "If you cannot be trusted with the unrighteous Mammon, who will trust you with true riches?".

People Have even More Rights given them from God than even the US Founding Fathers Supposed

We hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

-- that all men (and women) are ... endowed by their Creator with... and on the founding fathers of the United States wrote, saying they deemed all humanity, without exception, to have been endowed by the Creator with myriad rights they described as unalienable.

They weren't wrong, but each human being comes into this world endowed with a lot more than a pocketful of rights. Each human being comes into this existence endowed with an enormous set of extraordinary abilities and are, in turn, persuaded and discouraged by evil, not only to never use or even try them, but also that they have nothing -- which is untrue. -- if they'd only realize!

But the Devil doesn't want that, because if they'd realize that God has sent each person into existence highly endowed with many abilities, then they'd start saying, "Hey, maybe there is somebody up there after all.".

Some of the many abilities you are endowed with are "economic" abilities. You each have the ability not only to prosper in spite of all the evil that would try to oppose you, but also the ability to help others around you to use gifts other than merely economic ones.

Now, we all are new at this and quite unused to such operations, but once accustomed to using abilities in reciprocal prayer and supply from God, also known as "faith", the success and miraculous flow of God's supply will ensue unless you go about it the wrong way such as being motivated by lust.

The Bible explains all the things that get in the way of faith. "Ye have not because ye ask not or that ye ask amiss that you may consume it upon your lusts."

Lust is a perfect example of something evil would use to keep you from discovering your abilities, and subsequently also growing in faith in the Living God. Lust is evil capitalizing on your fallen nature to be ignorant and to yearn for an inordinate appetite for something to the exclusion of other things you need -- perhaps more, perhaps even critically more than the element you became fixated upon.

Plus, it gives the Devil a chance to use one of his weapons, lying guilt. Lying guilt, as opposed to a sense of decent behavior, will get a person to do things he or she would never normally do, thus causing massive numbers of people to do the Devil's bidding, especially in this, our early 21st century "Litigant Age".

But once the Lord delivers you from all of that, you'll be able to find the strait gate and walk the narrow road to life, with the supplies flowing in a balanced way, so that all of your needs are supplied and applied, not just a few of the baser humanly understandable ones.

You all have incredible abilities. The unsaved and even the saved, won't be able to realize most of them because they're too poor to begin with; not rich in what really counts. Those not born-again are born partially, mostly it amounts to merely being born with a choice -- to live or not to live. Those who choose to live, get a new existence of real life. If they are going to remain in a lifelessness till their first death and subsequently, after judgment, second death -- "die again" -- they certainly cannot be trusted with the incredible abilities afforded to the everyday human being.

Were they to acquire these natural powers, they'd rip each other apart in the smallness of their tiny minds. Evil is trying to bring certain of the dead-again, nonbelievers to the realization of certain baser abilities, which they imagine to be acquired abilities of the Black Arts, instead of what they really are -- the gift of God.

So these and those born-again among the disobedient believers (who are all subject to the Devil's infiltrators) are all therefore, fitted with what might be labeled "structural restraints" so that they might be held at bay.

Remember that the Lord foretold their end the has the time in which, if God didn't intervene and put things to an end, as it were, no flesh would survive. This is the famous "end time" scenario from Matthew 24, in which the peoples of the World, under a false "Messiah", would be prospered in their witchcraft, and therefore overcome some of the basic structural restraints.

The destruction and desolation would be so rampant that, at a certain point, God intervenes and there is the end, since mankind can no longer believe in God because mankind will have gone beyond belief: They will all know God exists because He has at that point, intervened upon their pathetic debacle and therefore -- it's all over at that point.

At that point. Two 3-and-1/2 orbits of the Earth around the Sun, Sun-orbits of the earth, and then the second coming of Jesus, Who makes two Earth orbits (at almost the speed of light) around the earth, resurrecting all born-agains and taking them, and then (a while later) Armageddon, when a contingency returns to fight the Devil's armies.

But in the meantime (and no one knows how long that will be). If you can work with the Lord in an honest and good heart, in whatsoever state or condition or situation finding yourself, therewith being content, doing all things with contrition, without murmurings or disputations, then you, too, will have become a disciple of Jesus, whom He can usher to the higher positions of true riches, coming into the realization of the true powers of Man and the supernatural power of faith, and thereby entering the stature of a good and faithful servant of God and a resident of the Household of Faith in the full inheritance of The People of God.

USA would be Prospers if it Really DID Trust in God and not just claim to do so

The U. S. A. running on three of four cylinders.

The U. S. A. is not nearly as prosperous as it could be, because they are using economic principles set forth by pagan societies. Now we're not talking religion or morality here or even ethics.

It boils down to plain stupidity. Mankind without God's help is just not smart enough to deal with proper economic principles and applications.

Those of the monotheistic religions are also oblivious as Jesus warned that human tradition brings to naught the Council of God. So while they may fully intend to worship God in their ceremonialism, the true worshiper worships God in spirit and in truth.

I mean, it's simple. If you're honest then you realize that God's right and you're wrong and you change. There is no ceremony practiced by man, that is not subject to change.

True economics runs on a principal of Universal Prosperity. If economic engines operate in parallel, the wealth and well-being mounts steadily in increments of geometric progression.

If the system is fraught with dampeners such as what the Bible describes as usury or charging interest, the economy slumps into steady decline, and can only be augmented by use of warfare and armament production or such-like to recover a modicum of wealth for a minority that doesn't know how to use it correctly.

This accounts for most of the conflicts of the late 19th and the entire 20th centuries. For man, he only sees but death and fashions his hot steel glowing.

The United States government should be concerned primarily with generating taxpayers and making sure they get to the higher tax brackets. This involves the use of agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service to help the adult citizens become self-employed, and then pay taxes in an easy way in an affordable manner.

Agencies, such as the Department of weights and balances, should be able to enforce against price gouging with fines and imprisonment. The criterion is something like the average citizen's ability to afford to live with certain price levels.

Changing levels of the prime rate was never a way to control inflation. In reality, it turned out that the raising of the rate was a way to steal land from the family farmer and the lowering of rates was a way to deny housing to emerging competitors on an open market.

The saddest thing is that those who partake in such godlessness actually, even though they seem to be wealthy, are poor compared to the untold wealth they could have enjoyed had they done at the right way -- God's Way!

True Riches

God is interested in taking care of you 

-- not in making you wealthy in the way mankind thinks of it.

Mankind imagines wealth to be pecuniary, but, in truth, too much of one thing means not enough of another.

There is that which seemeth to be poor and yet is exceeding rich. Having food and raiment, let us therewith be content.  Then the Lord will also begin to supply your ministry and the wherewithal for that.  As well as the other necessities for your situation such as transportation, housing and so on.
Just remember.  You also have to have the faith for it and that's what we're working on in these articles.  Also remember to do your homework; get into the Word.  Romans 10:17  "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God."

Talents: Use 'Em or Loose 'Em

The Biggest problem was with the one who had the last talent: 

The one with only one talent.

 The ones with the least are those who have the tendency to bury it and be disgruntled against the one bestowing.   The Christian Economic "have-nots" are the ones who never did anything; the "do-nothings".  Getting saved gets you into heaven, sure, but it's a "partial inheritance".  The full inheritance is the one who made at least some genuine attempt and got some kind of what is called "a crown".  It's the ones who often have the least that tend to give up.  The hereafter "heavenly bums", the lowest class in heaven.

The other guys have the sense that "...to whom much is given of the same shall much be required". But also much shall be required of those with too little to loose for the eternal shame of having done nothing.

The congratulations went to those who had been faithful with little or "...that which was least..." -- and they were also told, "... enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.". So the Christian economics of the situation is always to do something with what you've got.

If you stand before the Lord and have to say, "Sorry, Lord. I didn't bury my talent, but I tried to do something but went 'belly up' instead.", the Lord will say, as is outlined in the scriptures, "At least you tried. Enter thou also into the Joy of thy Lord!" Success is not so much the criterion as is the putting forth of a genuine, whole-hearted effort. And if you get wiped out trying, well, "... so persecuted they the prophets which were before you ... ".

Jesus didn't talk about success or failure, but rather He talked about faithfulness. The key to Christian economics isn't so much about success as it is about faithfulness: Trying your best to do something with what you've got.

Sure there's a risk of failure, but we learn from our mistakes. And this isn't so much about how well you did here-and-now but rather how 'trained up' you got, or in other words, how competent you'll be as a governor in the hereafter. Or, as the Lord said to those whose talents gained other talents as they will if you try because the increase is of the Lord and God giveth the increase and also the ability or talent used will gain more ability -- "... be thou ruler over ... cities".

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods

One key to prosperity is the first commandment.

 How many of God's people attempt to do business with the polytheists? Whereas this may be necessary in a big stretch, the problem is that pagans always imagine themselves superior to Christians and the demons that guide them and impersonate the deities they worship are so inevitably and vehemently anti-Christian for many reasons, among which that they simply hate God. So anyone carrying the Holy Spirit will be reacted against.

Worse are the groups that actually believe in, worship and serve the Devil, because that entity wants to be God, even though that entity never could. These peoples and societies must be allowed to continue on their bent so that they may receive judgment. But suffice it to point out their sense of economics is certainly nothing like actual (or true Christian) economics.

How so? One example is the gross domestic product. That is not true wealth. The true wealth is the Christian domestic product, measured on a global scale. And based on observations of the early 21st century, the earth is thrust into virtually total abject poverty. 

Some of those billionaires don't know what true wealth is. It's actually because they are living in poverty. In the correct economic climate they would, if they were the faithful, be controlling the flow of trillions of what is called these days "dollars". This may seem an exaggeration but I assure you it is not.

The worldly, as we politely put it, are renowned for their incompetence although their arrogance and self-deception would let on otherwise. Remember that because they have nothing else behind them, they are masters at projecting a false front or facade.

You may say that you don't see all that much prosperity amongst the Christians. That's because in the simplicity of your mind, you're looking at institutionalized Christianity. All institutions, since the dawn of time have been infiltrated by pagans and the gullible Christian Institutionalisms are no exception.  They, too, have the polytheistic -- or worse, duo theistic -- leash around their necks.  The cover of the infiltrator is the ceremonialism.  The religious traditionalism.

If you go along with that, you're an idiot. Jesus Himself denounced ceremonialism. Or didn't you read that? He said "Ye, by your traditions have brought to naught the council of God".

And that's what Christian Economics is all about: Getting God's instructions and carrying them out. That's also faith. And that's obedience to God.  By worshiping the Father in Spirit and in Truth, you can get the instructions of God and also have the faith to be a doer; to carry them out.  That's true Christianity: the Sacrifice of God's Son, Jesus, Who died for us, reconciles us to God the Father and re-unites us to God so we can again serve God and rejoice in His Love.

You might also think that Christianity is limited to the last two thousand years; that there was no Christianity before that, before the physical advent of Christ. You might think that there was no Christianity before the division time between B.C. and A.D. or the "common era" as the pagans (and anti-Christians among the monotheists) like to put it. But the word or name "Christos", or Christ, means the "The Anointed One of God".

People looked foreword to the coming of The Son and Anointed of God since the days of Abel in the Old Testament Era. So the born-again Christian was around since the beginning when they "looked foreword" to the advent of the Christ. So that makes Moses a born-again Christian and Abraham and everyone else who looked foreword to Jesus during the Old Testament days, B.C. Probably as far back as old Adam himself.

Abraham was probably one of the best Christian economists ever and was described as "the father of faith". And so it was with all who believed in the coming of the Messiah -- all these were born again! Jesus explained: "Abraham saw My day and rejoiced".

The sacrifice of Abel was a type of the sacrifice God made for all of us, past, present, and future, in that God would have to give His only begotten Son that He would die for the sins of the world and also to redeem mankind and restore the cosmos.

You mean you didn't know this? Well, now you do. a lot of people use the examples of the impostors and the duped as an excuse to reject Christianity. They reject it because they're duped into thinking to be wealthy they must go against the teachings of the Bible.

But Christianity works. The blessings abound, the true prosperity is certain -- though not in worldly terms, as the cruel and the heartless think -- but in the true sense of completed rounded prosperity; sufficiency in all things, seen and unseen, known and unknown.

Sometimes the Christian is seen to be slow in prospering, but that's because God begins prospering the Christian in a different way with different priorities. You must have a foundation before you put up the fancy shutters.

Actually the principle is illustrated in jet propulsion. As the fuel burns with oxygen, thrust is achieved. But no thrust is attained unless the fuel is given. Then oxygen is received freely and the plane moves at great speeds.

So give and it shall be given.

More Blessed to Give

"It is more blessed to give than to receive."  (Acts 20:35)

There is greater wealth in disseminating wealth or valuables than in their accumulation. It is better and more profitable to divest wealth than it is to accrue wealth.

The secret is in the flow. The human establishment wants to cut off; to enclose and charge for; to encapsulate; to control and scourge, which is the hidden meaning in the dollar sign.

However, the Bible shows you the truth: "Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom."  (Luke 6:38)

The whole secret of true prosperity -- true sufficiency -- is the flow. Things must flow. You must husband the flow that it staunch not but rather proceeds unrestricted and unimpaired into all the world. There should be no panic attack over the outflow, but rather a faithfulness to notice the miracle of the resultant inflow which comes with patience in the due passage of time.

Not as when Moses smote the Rock in the wilderness (which Rock was a symbolism of Jesus, unto Whom all power is given in heaven and Earth) but rather in letting the Rock give forth and flow by your request and supplication.

The key is movement. THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a 'Christian Conservative'. That's as the disobedient church in Revelation whose constituents were wont to say that they were rich and increased in goods and imagined that they had need of nothing, when, as the Master warned, they didn't realize the stark reality that they were desolate, wretched, naked and in need of virtually everything.

Measurable wealth is a sign of poverty. Never mind what the worldly tell you. They don't know anything. It's true. Most everything they advise is absolutely useless and will only end in armed conflict which they must use as the sole method they have to increase their imagined wealth.

What makes me the great expert? I'm not. THE BIBLE IS THE EXPERT. Bud, if you want to be really wealthy, you're going to have to have GOD show you. It's all there in the Bible.

If you don't get it, that's because the Bible is a concealed document. These thing are "decoded" supernaturally by the Holy Spirit. So first pray for the "baptism of the Holy Spirit" and then read the Bible. You'll be surprised.

God is interested in you prospering, whoever you are, but you've got to do things His way or it won't work and you'll fail even though in the interim things appear to be going well.  And then when you prosper, you are steward over that wealth, not the owner thereof.  It's your responsibility to see to it that that wealth is used wisely, as it is God's, not yours.  You're accountable for the use thereof or the lack of use thereof.

Remember you're not God and most realities of true economics are simply beyond your or anyone's intellectual ability, as a human being, to understand.

If you study the scripture in the Spirit, in the Holy Spirit, you'll then begin to understand some of the not understandable, or what the worldly never grasp when they attempt to read the Bible. Think of it as an upgrade.

You can trust God's Word. It will come true -- it will happen. God is the Great Venture Capitalist, only He is so with all reality, not just money, which is a mere and minor symbolism of value and production.

Some may see the people of God and remark that none of them are rich. But they're wrong. Even materially, they, the people of God, are truly rich in ways beyond human imagination or measurement. Remember those who aren't faithful in that which is least won't be trusted in that which is much.  Money and physical wealth are entry level assets.

That's why many of the charlatans and the apostates prostitute themselves to become monetarily rich. They can't have the real thing so they settle for the sham. For the merchants of Babylon the Whore (Revelation 18:23) are the great men of the Earth. What a waste for a great man -- to become a merchant for a stinking whore.

The Increase

The Increase

The increase described in the scriptures is an exponential expansion of the blessing or abundance, as when the multitudes were fed by a small amount of loaves of bread and some fish several times. This can be described as the number that symbolizes a great amount: forty. Forty fold increase. But that was the faith of Christ.
When you start "doing things right" and that includes specific prayer claiming the promises in the scriptures, instead of all that pathetic ritual that has lead organized religion down the dark path of Satanic control ever since that self-righteous religious bigot Cain slew his truly righteous brother, -- when you start doing it "right", doing things God's Way instead of your own erroneous way -- the increase will be then "added unto you" (with persecution, which helps you to sober up and really mean business for Jesus for a change) and you will begin to truly prosper.

Your two or three fold is still significant. You have to start somewhere. Jeremiah 33.3

Destroyers shall themselves be Destroyed

God will destroy them that destroy the Earth.

There is greater prosperity in working with creation than in 'raping' it. If you learn to do so (and God will show you), the increase in yield is ten times that of normal farming or business.

It all recycles itself and the dividend is in terms of energy. But energy interpolates into necessary monetary aspects in terms of provident and yield.

Man was created to work with what we now call 'nature'. It is an exact fit known in scientific circles as 'symbiosis'.
Humankind in general has a basic hatred for nature because it's the creation of God.  The destruction of nature has always been a disguised vendetta of a large faction of the Earth's peoples who are mostly dominated by those who serve the enemy of God and human beings and that enemy is called in the Bible "The Devil".   If you know the scripture you may recall that he was the one who took Jesus to the pinnacle of a mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the World in a moment of time and offered them to Jesus if he would worship him to which Jesus responded "It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God and Him only shalt thou serve."
So the Devil's people and those they control have been destroying the Earth for a long time, and they will themselves be destroyed.

Thou Shalt Pay Thy Workers a Living Wage

The penny, the smallest unit of measure in our United States currency, or what has become the pence in British money, has paled into insignificance in our hectic modern days.  However, thousands of years ago it symbolized the amount necessary for decent room and board for a person, with some to spare, either for personal needs or for the folks back home. 

The fact that the penny is so devalued in our current time is due to the extreme corruption and dishonesty of humanity on the average, practicing an immorality known as "inflation"; more money for less product.  The modern money is corrupt according to the standard of the ancient Phoenician traders who sailed to many ports in search of business.  They carried with them "touch stones" by which they could test the nobility of the metals used in a nation's coinage.  If the metal was "cut" with baser metals, such as the United States' dime, which is no longer silver, but rather a "copper sandwich" -- and so on -- they would not trade with that nation, deeming them corrupt and unreliable.  They had other tests, such as seeing if the death rate of the population exceeded the birth rate.  That was also a sign of corruption and therefore unreliability.

The penny unit, about what it would take for a night at a mid class, decent modern motel, three good hefty square meals for the day including a good breakfast the next day, and extra money for clothing and savings, is the symbol of what it takes to keep today's Christian Economist going.  "Having food and raiment, let us therewith be content", the scriptures admonish.  But God is generous and usually includes housing as well. 

It's a concept known as sufficiency.  This opposes the concept of wealth.  Jesus left a message for the wealthy that they were in reality desolate, naked, and needy, unbeknownst to them, because they had too much of something and necessarily therefore, not enough of another.  It's of utmost importance to know that opulence is the worst form of poverty, because it clouds out insufficiencies which the owner cannot understand for him or her self which only God can supply.

But all that is nothing compared to the indictment the scriptures bring against modern business.  "Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting".  Therefore you should not be surprised that the resultant penal actions should come upon you who are practicing such corruption, especially and foremost those of what is called in the Bible "The Household of Faith".  Among these punishments is the curse of Byzantium and the Backslidden Daughters of Zion:  the scourge of God known as "God's Razor".  More on that later.  But The Lord wanted to emphasize how grievous this was to "withhold the wages of your laborers".  -- Plus the fact that anything less than 100% employment is unacceptable to God.

There was an honest man who built a thriving vineyard.  He worked hard to nurture the vines of the grapes and prepare the vat for the juice to be made into fine wine.

When all was done, and the grapes were fully ripened on the vines, he set about to organize the work force to harvest the fruit.  The workers and the owner entered into arbitration and came to the agreement that each would get paid a penny, which in those days was about what in our day was enough for room and board plus more for expenses, which could be as much as eighty to one hundred dollars after taxes in this month of October of 2006 when this article was being written.

The day of harvest came and all the workforce set to it's task.  It was sufficient for the job. 

But then the owner did an unusual thing.  He went into town where workers congregate just to check if every one was okay.  They weren't.  There were still lots of unemployed laborers.  He got them all together and sent them to work in the fields for the same penny wage.

The owner kept doing things that wouldn't make sense to worldly business:  He'd go back out every couple of hours, even to a few hours before the end of the work day and employ everyone he found that was out of work, even, finally, at the end of the day.

A little while later, the time came to call it a day.  The whole group of workers were assembled to get paid, as this was done on a daily basis.  The last workers got a penny each, and so on until the first workers got up to receive their salary. 

It was also a penny.  They all became disgruntled, as the saying goes.  They discussed amongst each other the wage, objecting that the ones who hadn't worked as long should have either been paid less or they should have been paid more.  They should have been happy that the other workers would have enough to get by -- room and board and so on.  Instead they presumed to openly criticize the boss and got fired.

Or as it is said in the Bible, the owner said, "... Take that which thine is and go thy way.  Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?  Is thine eye evil because I am good? ..."

In this parable or illustration the Lord is showing us the key to prosperity.  It is the job of the Christian whose ministry happens to be that of business to assure that his or her locale has one hundred percent employment and that everyone has at least a "living wage".  The work day is during the day -- one shift only, not two or three.  No one is to get underpaid so that he or she will have to get other jobs to make ends meet.  Certainly there must be no such thing as "the working homeless".

Do these things and you shall prosper.  Go thou and do likewise.

But if you're in business just to make a profit, become wealthy, and be a success at what you do, you're in the wrong line of work.  If you're a Christian, you need to get into some other ministry.  We all should be satisfied with sufficiency.  "Having food and raiment let us therewith be content." 

Revelation chapters 17 and 18 describe a great religious prostitution whose merchants were the "mighty men".  In other words the ones who were endowed with the great talent to care for the people had slumped to the dregs of corrupt mercantilism where they only thought of using their abilities to take care of themselves and their cronies.

The dainty and the delicate ensnare the seeing blind.  When asked if they would know the truth, they just say, "Never mind." 

"No thanks!" say they, triumphantly.  Destruction's road they take.  After all, it's called "prosperity" -- with chaos in it's wake.