Pastor Sam Adeyemi at Daystar Christian Centre on “God’s Financial System 2”. Colossians 1:15-29
There is no aspect of creation that is estranged or devoid of Christ. If you think that the name of Jesus is so spiritual and has nothing to do with the galaxies or planet, you are grossly mistaken. Everything finds its place in Christ. He owns and created everything. Just like science can be perverted, everything God created can be perverted. The heart can be perverted. Entertainment can be perverted but science itself is the proof of the existence of God.
As global economies pick up, there is distribution. It happens everytime there is a crisis. Remember the parable of talents. Matthew 25:14. The guy that had one talent and refused to multiply it, Jesus said they should take that talent from him and give it to the man that had ten talents. He said,” for to him that has more will be given and to him that has not, even what he has will be taken away from him. Redistribution usually happens.
In Ephesians 4:28, there are basic principles that we can learn about God’s financial systems:
1) God wants us to align with the basic principles that controls the flow of money. This principle is “money is a means of exchange for value”. I try to remind people that money has not always been in existence and before money came into existence, people did trade by barter. So a product can be exchanged for a service and vice versa or a product exchanged for a product. Money was invented to represent the value of a product. Our thinking about money is disconnected. We only look at the figures or coins. That is money but it is disconnected from value. Value must go from you in the form of products or services before value can come to you. This disconnection of money is being carried into Christianity today. Just because we can pray, we quote Matthew 7:7. We ask for money and we receive it. If you ask for money and you have no plan to give value, you are practising gambling. You want to turn God into a counterfeit money producer. You want to make money without producing value, it doesn’t work that way. Some believers are broke because they think their faith will exempt them from this principle. What gets some people confused is the testimonies they hear from Pastors. They hear that somebody comes to give a Pastor money. If your thinking is not principled centered, your mind will not recognize that Pastors also give out values in quantum measures. Any Pastor you hear sharing testimonies, you are only listening to the fruit, you need to know the root; you are only seeing the harvest, you need to look for the seed. Luke 8:1-3. Matthew 10:1,10. If you see a Ministry receiving so much resources, it is because they have given value. If a Ministry is not adding value, it is not likely to get anything. A Christian should not be a liability on someone. Deuteronomy 8:18. God gave us the capacity to make wealth, we ought to express it. If you don’t work, you waste the grace of God. Don’t ever give spirituality as an excuse for idleness. I also tested this principle. There is power in volunteering, even if we will not be paid. Once value goes from you, you are kicking into motion a principle. Principles are powerful. They work and have no respect for persons.
2) Work occurs at various levels. Even if you have to start from the lowest levels, do it with pride. There is dignity in labour. You must first of all, have a vision because vision is the key to provision. Vision determines the level at which you want to be solving problems. Joseph found himself as a slave but he still offered excellent value. It was someone that enjoyed his service that mentioned his name years later in the palace. Some of us live in cultures that denigrate people that work in lower levels. It is ungodly. Work at whatever level than to steal as a Christian. Offer value whether it is for pay or for free. Scale up your level of skill per time. As you scale up, you find out that mental work produces a lot more than physical exertion. Whatever technical skills that you have, you should aspire to move up to managerial skills to leadership skills and they can be learnt. Increase your mental sophistication. It gives value to the work of your hands.
3) Grace will make your work to produce great financial returns. I Corinthians 10:15.
If you don’t work hard, you will waste grace. It is hardwork that causes the grace of God in your life to produce results. Genesis 26:12-14.
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