{"id":5887,"date":"2022-03-11T02:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2022-03-08T02:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T02:23:16","slug":"another-coffee-break-kingdom-economics-viii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-kingdom-economics-viii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: KINGDOM ECONOMICS VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" title=\"nksrd-f-lion2\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nksrd-f-lion2-300x117.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nksrd-f-lion2-200x78.png 200w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nksrd-f-lion2-400x156.png 400w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nksrd-f-lion2.png 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-container reading-box-container-1\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#171717;--awb-margin-top:5px;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><div class=\"reading-box\" style=\"background-color:#f6f6f6;border-width:0px;border-color:#f6f6f6;border-top-width:3px;border-top-color:var(--primary_color);border-style:solid;\"><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-flex\"><h2>ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: KINGDOM ECONOMICS VIII<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p><st1:date Month=\"03\" Day=\"11\" Year=\"2022\" w:st=\"on\">March 11, '22<\/st1:date> <st1:time\r\nMinute=\"29\" Hour=\"18\" w:st=\"on\">6:29 PM<\/st1:time><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'><\/nobr>How doest thou this great day?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Dost thou take heed to the wherewithal of those about\r\nthee?\u00a0 Yea, hath God so instructed thee?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>I've often wondered what it would be like to suddenly be thrust\r\nback into Elizabethan times and try to converse coherently with people who talk\r\nlike that.\u00a0 Strange, eh what?<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>And why is it, do you think, that some folks still think\r\nthey need to pray in Elizabethan English when they talk to the Lord?\u00a0 Do\r\nthey think it is somehow more respectful, more holy, more righteous (or what?)\r\nto pray using \"<span class=SpellE>thee's<\/span>\" and \"<span\r\nclass=SpellE>thou's<\/span>\" and \"<span class=SpellE>mightest<\/span>\"\r\nand \"ye\" and \"<span class=SpellE>thine<\/span>\" and a whole\r\nfistful of archaic English terms?\u00a0 Has God's vocabulary gotten stuck in\r\nthe English of several hundred years ago?<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>I sometimes wonder if people get caught in a religious\r\nwhirlwind or stuck in some kind of a religious box.\u00a0 Do we pray using King\r\nJames' English because we think it demonstrates our faith -- or, in truth, do\r\nwe pray that way because we're trying to screw up our willpower screw so as to\r\nget faith actually working?\u00a0 Do we think that the Lord won't hear us if we\r\nsimply say, \"Help, Lord!\"?<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>And why is it that some people begin their prayers using\r\nthese grandiose phrases, like for example, \"Oh Gracious and Merciful God\r\nof our fathers,\" or maybe, \"Great and Marvelous King of Kings, Lord\r\nJesus Christ, we bow before thee in humility....\"?\u00a0 What's that,\r\nanyway?<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>That has about as much influence on the Lord as a slime\r\npit.\u00a0 Think about it for a second.\u00a0 If He is our Father, and He wants\r\nus to relate to Him as His heirs and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ, then why we\r\ntry and talk to him in such stilted language?\u00a0 Just imagine coming to your\r\ndad and talking to him like that!\u00a0 He'd <span class=SpellE>bust<\/span> out\r\nlaughing and reach over to take your temperature to see if you were sick or\r\nsomething.\u00a0 Sometimes I wonder if God reaches out to take our temperature,\r\ntoo!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>Hmmmmm<\/span><\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>......\u00a0 Don't mind me.\u00a0 Just a little idle\r\nmusing on my part.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Anyway, it's time to pour some of that fabulous tasting\r\ncoffee.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>The<\/span> French Press is full and running\r\nover, and there's still a vitamin or two in the kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>In our last Coffee Break, we wrapped up with Jesus'\r\nteaching from Matthew 6:19-34.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>\"Lay not up for yourselves\r\ntreasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break\r\nthrough and steal:<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'> <\/span><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#192763'>But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where\r\nneither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor\r\nsteal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.\u00a0 The\r\nlight of the body is the eye: if therefore <span class=SpellE>thine<\/span> eye\r\nbe single, thy whole body shall be full of light.\u00a0 But if <span\r\nclass=SpellE>thine<\/span> eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of\r\ndarkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that\r\ndarkness!\u00a0 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,\r\nand love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye\r\ncannot serve God and mammon.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>\"Therefore I say unto you, Take\r\nno thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet\r\nfor your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the\r\nbody than raiment?\u00a0 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither\r\ndo they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father <span\r\nclass=SpellE>feedeth<\/span> them. Are ye not much better than they?\u00a0 Which\r\nof you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?\u00a0 And why take\r\nye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they\r\ntoil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in\r\nall his glory was not arrayed like one of<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>these.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass\r\nof the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he\r\nnot much more clothe you, O ye of little <span class=SpellE>faith?\u00c2<\/span>\u00a0\r\nTherefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? <span class=GramE>or<\/span>,\r\nWhat shall we drink? <span class=GramE>or<\/span>, Wherewithal shall we be\r\nclothed?\u00a0 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your\r\nheavenly Father <span class=SpellE>knoweth<\/span> that ye have need of all\r\nthese things.\u00a0 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his\r\nrighteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.\u00a0 Take\r\ntherefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the\r\nthings of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Throughout sixty-plus years of knowing and walking with\r\nthe Lord, I doubt there is any passage of scripture that I've heard more\r\nmisused than this one out of Matthew 6.\u00c2<span class=GramE>\u00a0 The<\/span>\r\npredominant misuse is to justify the false doctrine that Christians are\r\nsupposed to live in poverty, or more accurately, that God doesn't want His\r\npeople living in wealth and abundance because it will keep them out of Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>First of all, Heaven isn't God's objective for us: Jesus\r\nis!\u00a0 Heaven has never been an objective in the economy of the Kingdom of\r\nGod for Christians.\u00a0 Until such time as Jesus returns to establish His\r\nthousand-year reign, if you die, and you know and walk with the Lord Jesus\r\nChrist, there simply isn't any other place to go but Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Secondly, if the Lord has a problem with Christians living\r\nin wealth and abundance, then there are a whole lot of Scriptures that will have\r\nto be torn out of the Bible.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>Here's<\/span> just a few\r\nexamples.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Proverbs 10:22:\u00a0<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <\/span><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#192763'>\"The blessing of the LORD, it <span class=SpellE>maketh<\/span>\r\nrich, and he <span class=SpellE>addeth<\/span> no sorrow with it.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>\u00a0 Break this down for a minute from the Hebrew text.\u00a0\r\nIt reads like this:<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>\"The\r\ndeclaration of the Lord which empowers one to prosper causes an accumulation of\r\ngoods, and that accumulation comes without the need or addition of painful toil\r\nor human labor.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\r\n\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>(<\/span>My translation and amplification)<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>II Corinthians 8:9:\u00a0<\/span><span style='font-size:\r\n10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <\/span><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#192763'>\"For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,\r\nthat, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through\r\nhis poverty might be rich.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>\u00a0\r\nLet's break this verse down from the Greek text.\u00a0 It goes like this:<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>\"For you have the revelation of\r\nthe liberal favor of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, although he was wealthy and\r\nabounding with material goods, yet He permitted Himself to be stripped of those\r\nriches, taking that <span class=SpellE>indigency<\/span> and poverty upon\r\nHimself [at the Cross] so that you may in turn [on His account] become wealthy\r\nand abounding in goods.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>(My translation and amplification)<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Philippians 4:19:\u00a0<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <\/span><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#192763'>\"But my God shall supply all your need according to\r\nHis riches in Glory by Christ Jesus.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>Here's another verse you really need\r\nto read in the Greek text.\u00a0 It more accurately renders thusly:<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>\"But my God shall cram, furnish\r\nand make replete every area of want, requirement, and occasion of need, demand\r\nand employment, by, out of, and in direct proportion to His wealth, money,\r\npossessions, abundance and riches in Glory<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>[we'll talk about this aspect a bit\r\nlater]<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>by and\r\nthrough the anointing of the Anointed One Jesus.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>(My translation and amplification)<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>Whewww<\/span><\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>!!!\u00a0 If that isn't a mouthful, I don't know what is!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>My purpose and objective today is not to do an exegetical\r\nbreakdown of the foregoing verses, but rather to give you an accurate rendition\r\nof the sense of the Hebrew and Greek phraseology in order to combat a pernicious\r\nlie of Satan that has been foisted off on God's people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>I didn't make this up.\u00a0 Anyone with any real\r\nknowledge of Greek and Hebrew will tell you that what I've given you is only a\r\ntaste of whole picture of the Greek and Hebrew phraseology.\u00a0 Anyway, let's\r\nget back to Matthew 6.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Whenever you see Jesus talk to people about money, he\r\nnever once suggests that folks shouldn't have it.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>Rather<\/span>,\r\nHis instruction and command is for people NOT to focus on money.\u00a0 Jesus\r\nwell knew that whatever captures the focus and attention of people to the place\r\nwhere it occupies the dominant goals or objectives of all that they do, they no\r\nlonger have money.\u00a0 More accurately, they no longer have treasure.\u00a0\r\nIt has them!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>When people work for a living, they work for the almighty\r\ndollar.\u00a0 It possesses them.\u00a0 It owns them.\u00a0 The focus of their\r\nlabor is on how much money they will make.\u00a0 Having that money means they\r\ncan use or spend it on themselves.\u00a0 THEY are their own focus.\u00a0 They've\r\nbegun worshiping themselves.\u00a0 Worse, they're worshiping money.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>In short, it becomes idolatry.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>Their<\/span>\r\nneeds, their wants, their desires -- and the money it takes to get those needs,\r\nwants and desires -- becomes their god.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>Any professing Christian who works\r\nfor a living -- and pay attention to my choice of words here!<\/span><\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'> -- is committing adultery.\u00a0 They say they worship\r\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 They say they honor God.\u00a0 They are supposed\r\nto be betrothed to the Lord.\u00a0 He is supposed to be their all in all, their\r\nsource, their life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>In fact, their job, their needs, their desires, their want\r\nfor money have all usurped Jesus Christ's Lordship in their lives.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>They<\/span> are running away and sleeping with money and trusting\r\nit instead of the Lord WHO has already promised that if they would make Him first,\r\nseek Him first, and rely on Him in every way, they would NEVER have an\r\nunfulfilled need EVER in their lives.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>So there is no misunderstanding of what I'm saying, when I\r\nsay that any professing Christian who \"works\" for a living is\r\ncommitting adultery, the accent is on \"working for a living.\"\u00c2\u00a0\r\nJesus set His people free from the necessity of working for a living.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>This<\/span> is a key difference between the economy of the <st1:place\r\nw:st=\"on\"><st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">Kingdom<\/st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName\r\n w:st=\"on\">God<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place>, and the kingdoms of this world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>One more clarification is in order.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>Jesus<\/span> hasn't delivered us from \"work\": He has\r\ndelivered us from the curse associated with it.\u00a0 Our purpose for\r\n\"work\" changes entirely.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>We<\/span> now work\r\nto give -- not work to live.\u00a0 Jesus has become the source of all we\r\nreceive and all we have -- not our jobs or our labor.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>There are many Christians who say they are\r\n\"married\" to the <span class=GramE>Lord, that<\/span> they\r\n\"love\" Him, that they are His \"Bride\" and yet they trust\r\ntheir jobs, their money-earning ability, and their financial assets to carry\r\nthem through the hard times.\u00a0 When financial stress comes along, they glom\r\nonto their money and hang onto it for dear life.\u00a0 When the Lord prompts\r\nthem to give, they turn a deaf ear to that prompting.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Let me take this one more step.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>One of the touchiest topics among Christians seems to be\r\nthe whole thing of tithing, giving, and seed-sowing -- and yet tithing, giving\r\nand seed-sowing are absolutely integral to the economy of the Kingdom of God.\u00a0\r\nI can't tell you how many Christians I've known who tithe, but their tithing is\r\ngrudging.\u00a0 Let's take some numbers for our example.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>A guy makes $3,500 in gross income every month.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>From<\/span> that $3,500 comes his taxes, his social security\r\ndeduction, his employment security deduction, and -- most likely -- his health\r\ninsurance contribution.\u00a0 He's left with somewhere in the neighborhood of\r\n$2,700 or $2,750 each month in take-home pay.\u00a0 Instead of basing his tithe\r\non his actual income -- which is $3,500 -- he writes out a check for $275, and\r\nfigures he's done his duty to God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#005500'>Really?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>The fact that the Federal and State governments took out\r\ntaxes means he doesn't have to pay tithes on what he paid the government?\u00a0\r\nIt was still his income!\u00a0 Then there's the insurance <span class=SpellE>deduction.\u00c2<\/span>\u00a0\r\nThis same guy has opted to buy or contribute towards his health insurance, but\r\nthat's not part of his income that he chose to use?<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>You see the picture, don't you?\u00a0 It is <span\r\nclass=GramE>a stinginess<\/span> towards God.\u00a0 It isn't a love for the Lord\r\nthat motivates his tithing: it is duty -- and God isn't interested in people's\r\n\"duty.\"\u00a0 If they don't really love the Lord, and trust Him as\r\ntheir source, then their money has become a god to them, and they are\r\ncommitting adultery against the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>We've all heard it -- and I'd bet 90% of us have done it\r\n-- \"But if I pay my tithes, I won't have enough money to pay my\r\nbills!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>Then we get the trite religious <span class=SpellE>cliche<\/span>:\r\n\"After all, isn't a good name rather to be chosen than riches or\r\ngold?\"\u00c2\u00a0 And right along with that one comes, \"Isn't it more\r\nimportant to keep a good credit rating before the world?\"\u00a0 How about\r\nthe angry one you get from so many \"Christians\": \"I know, you're\r\njust saying this because you want my money!\u00a0 That's all preachers want.\u00a0\r\nThis tithing thing is just an excuse to take my money and get rich at my\r\nexpense.\u00a0 All they want to do is to take those $15 and $20 checks from\r\nlittle old ladies on a fixed income or pension.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>We can all cite a thousand such excuses -- and that's all\r\nthey are: excuses!\u00a0 Miserable and meaningless ones to justify their own\r\nfear, their own doubt, and their own belief!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>And the people who make these excuses are living in\r\nidolatry.\u00a0 They worship themselves.\u00a0 They are self-centered,\r\negotistical, fearful and untrusting when it comes to God's Word.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#005500'>This is the picture of the world today, folks, and far too\r\nmany Christians are trying to serve God and Mammon at the same time.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>Let's<\/span> revisit again Paul's admonition in II Corinthians 9:7.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>\"But this I say, He which <span\r\nclass=SpellE>soweth<\/span> sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which <span\r\nclass=SpellE>soweth<\/span> bountifully shall reap also bountifully.\u00a0 Every\r\nman according as he <span class=SpellE>purposeth<\/span> in his heart, so let\r\nhim give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God <span class=SpellE>loveth<\/span>\r\na cheerful giver.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>There simply is no point in giving if the giving comes out\r\nof any other place than a heart of love, of cheer, of faith and trust in God's\r\nWord to you.\u00a0 People who tithe grudgingly and partially and stingily might\r\nas well keep their \"tithe\" for all the good it does them.\u00a0 Folks\r\nwhose giving is not by faith and driven by love receive no benefit from their\r\ngiving other than the show they put on for other folks so that the world around\r\nthem will think of them as \"righteous.\"\u00c2\u00a0 All they do is to\r\nsalve their own consciences with their partial or stingy giving or tithing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>Let's get to the root of this attitude.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>Everything -- and I do mean EVERYTHING -- that this world\r\nsystem, the world economy (Mammon) ingrains us with is predicated on self.\u00a0\r\nIt is me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, ad nauseam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>What do <b>I<\/b> get out of it?\u00a0 How much am <b>I<\/b>\r\ngetting paid?\u00a0 What's in it for <b>me<\/b>? What are <b>my<\/b> benefits?\u00a0\r\nHow will this make <b>me<\/b> look?\u00a0 How will this affect <b>my<\/b> health\r\nand safety?\u00a0 Will this help or hurt <b>me<\/b>?\u00a0 How will this affect <b>my<\/b>\r\nrelationship with <b>my<\/b> friends?<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>We could take this to extremes, but you get the picture.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>Everything -- and again, I do mean EVERYTHING -- about the\r\neconomy of the Kingdom of God is based in love.\u00a0 Everything is based in an\r\nattitude of \"What can I do for <b>you<\/b>?\u00a0 What do <b>you<\/b> need?\u00a0\r\nHow can I minister to <b>you<\/b>?\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>Kingdom Economics are totally encompassed by a giving\r\nmentality.\u00a0 The Kingdom of God only works by love --<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>agape<\/span><\/i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>love.\u00a0<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>Agape<\/span><\/i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>is not self-centered.\u00a0<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>Agape<\/span><\/i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'> is not concerned with \"what I get out of it.\"\u00a0\r\nThat kind of thinking is foreign -- alien from another planet, if you will --\r\nto the thinking of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>This is where I want to pick this discussion up in our\r\nnext Coffee Break.\u00a0 Because of the Thanksgiving holiday this week and the\r\nfact that we will have 36 family members with us, it is quite possible that I\r\nwon't be able to get the next Coffee Break published until next Monday.\u00a0\r\nNevertheless, I will try to get it out on Friday or Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#006600'>Otherwise, have a fabulous, a joy-filled and peaceful\r\nThanksgiving!\u00a0 See you next time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#192763'>In the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">Kingdom<\/st1:PlaceType>\r\n of <st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">God<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place>, what the world\r\ncalls \"miracles\" are only the natural manifestation of God's power,\r\nHis love and His grace working in and through His people.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#192763'>The Blessing of the 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