{"id":5888,"date":"2022-03-04T00:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2022-03-01T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:22:14","slug":"another-coffee-break-kingdom-economics-vii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-kingdom-economics-vii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: KINGDOM ECONOMICS VII"},"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 VII<\/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=\"04\" Year=\"2022\" w:st=\"on\">March 04, '22<\/st1:date> <st1:time\r\nMinute=\"09\" Hour=\"1\" w:st=\"on\">1:09 <span class=GramE>AM<\/span><\/st1:time><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Greetings and Solutions!<\/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:#663300'>OK, Salutations, <span class=SpellE>too.<\/span><span\r\nclass=GramE>\u00a0 You<\/span> WOULD like some solutions today, though, wouldn't\r\nyou?<\/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:#663300'>One solution for Della and me is the fact that I have her back\r\nin the office with me at least two or three days a week after a very long\r\nperiod of busyness with family and business activities.\u00a0 That means that I\r\ncan actually see daylight in my office for the first time in months.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Whaddaya<\/span> think?\u00a0 I might actually get caught up with\r\nthings and be able to get more than one or two of these Coffee Breaks out in a\r\nweek's time.\u00a0 Hurray!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>We went to <span class=SpellE>Winco<\/span> Foods in\r\nRichland yesterday and picked up some more of that double-roasted French Roast\r\ncoffee.\u00a0 Potent stuff!\u00a0 That's what's steeping today in the French\r\nPress, so pour <span class=GramE>yourself<\/span> a cup.\u00a0 Last time I\r\nlooked, there were even a few \"vitamins\" 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:#663300'>This principle we've been discussing about \"selling\r\nyour reasoning\" in order to follow the Lord is perhaps one of the most\r\nimportant foundations in Kingdom Economics.\u00a0 I've already shared with you\r\nthe story of David Dorsett (again, that's not his real name) but let me explain\r\nthis foundation from a different perspective.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Earlier in this series, I said that faith is the currency\r\nof the Kingdom.\u00a0 It's what we spend in order to receive everything --\r\nwhether it <span class=GramE>be<\/span> salvation, healing, deliverance,\r\nprovision or whatever -- we get from God.\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:#006600'>\"Without faith,\"<\/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:#663300'>Paul wrote in his epistle to the\r\nHebrews,<\/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:#006600'>\"it\r\nis impossible to please Him: for <span class=GramE>he<\/span> that cometh to God\r\nmust believe that he is, and that he is a <span class=SpellE>rewarder<\/span> of\r\nthem that diligently seek him.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\r\n\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#663300'>(<\/span><\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>see Hebrews 11:6)<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>It requires faith to set aside your own reasoning in any\r\nsituation.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>Believe<\/span> me, your reasoning is very\r\nlogical, too -- especially when it comes to money matters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Della was reminding me the other day of an event that\r\nhappened a couple years ago when the Lord spoke to us and told us to pay off a\r\ncertain minister's home mortgage, and free him and his family of that monthly\r\npayment.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>In<\/span> a situation like this, you want to\r\nbe sure that the instruction you are receiving isn't just coming out of some\r\nplace of superheated emotions because of compassion for someone, or maybe\r\nbecause you had some chocolate-covered dill pickles before you went to bed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Let's be clear, too.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>We<\/span>\r\naren't talking about a million dollars or anything like that.\u00a0 Still, it\r\nwas a chunk of change!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>The first time I heard the instruction of the Holy Spirit\r\nto pay off this particular mortgage, I kind of shook my head and said to\r\nmyself, <span class=GramE><i>That's<\/i><\/span><i> nuts!\u00a0 I'd have to\r\nborrow the money myself to do it because we don't have that much cash on hand\r\nor in our bank account!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Nevertheless, the instruction of the Holy Spirit in me was\r\nclear and unmistakable.\u00a0 Because this was a major financial decision, I\r\ndecided not to do anything unless Della also heard the same thing in her\r\nspirit.\u00a0 This is something where both husband and wife had better be in\r\ntotal agreement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Two days later, we were sitting in the living room, talking\r\nabout the often unusual things the Lord has instructed us to do throughout the\r\nyears and Della suddenly said, \"I don't know what you think about this,\r\nbut the Holy Spirit told me that we need to pay off Don and Marie's (not their\r\nreal names) mortgage.\"\u00a0 I started laughing and told her that the Lord\r\nhad said the same thing to me two days earlier.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>She asked me how much cash we had on hand, and whether we\r\nneeded to borrow any funds in order to do it.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>I<\/span>\r\ngave her our financial picture and told her I'd have to know what the exact payoff\r\nwas to answer the question.\u00a0 We contacted Don and Marie and told them what\r\ninstruction we'd received from the Lord, and they were naturally speechless.\u00a0\r\nThey contacted their mortgage company and got an exact dollar figure for the\r\npayoff, then sent that information to us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>I had to borrow almost half the money needed, and did so\r\nwithout any second thoughts, misgivings or qualms of any kind.\u00a0 Della and\r\nI have learned throughout the years that when God instructs you to do something,\r\nregardless of how rational or irrational, logical or illogical it may be<span\r\nclass=GramE>,<\/span> you don't second-guess God.\u00a0 You don't sit there and\r\ntry to figure it out.\u00a0 You just obey and trust God to make things work.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>We've also learned to apply another principle -- and I'll\r\nshare more on this principle in the days to come -- and that's the principle of\r\nseed-sowing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>For us, we treated this as sowing seed.\u00a0 When you sow\r\nseed of any kind, you expect to reap a harvest.\u00a0 We were sowing into the\r\nKingdom of God.\u00a0 We were also sowing into the lives of people who had\r\ngiven their lives in the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 We declared\r\nour seed and named it.\u00a0 That may seem strange to some of you, but this is\r\na Kingdom principle.\u00a0 It is part of Kingdom Economics.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>I've said this already on several occasions, but I'll say\r\nit again.\u00a0 The societies of today -- the kingdoms of this world, if you\r\nplease -- all exist on the \"get\" principle.\u00a0 They revolve around\r\n\"getting\" whatever they can for themselves.\u00a0 It's part of the\r\ncurse that came upon mankind following Adam and Eve's eviction from the Garden\r\nof Eden.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>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>, however, operates\r\nfrom a totally different perspective.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>Within<\/span>\r\nKingdom Economics, instead of \"working to get,\" we \"give to\r\nreceive.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>I'll never forget the day a couple years ago or so when an\r\ninvestment broker called me on the phone to see if I might be interested in\r\ninvesting in certain stocks and bonds.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>We<\/span>\r\nengaged in a casual conversation to begin with, and he asked me what I did for\r\na living.\u00a0 I told him that \"I give for a living.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>There was this momentary silence on the other end of the\r\nphone, and then he asked, \"You do 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:#663300'>I repeated myself, and then explained that Della and I do\r\nnot live off the world's system.\u00a0 I told him that we do not work for a <span\r\nclass=GramE>living, that<\/span> we give.\u00a0 That prompted some more\r\ncuriosity on the part of the investment broker, so I explained the difference\r\nbetween the Kingdom of God with its economy, and the economy of this world.\u00a0\r\nI talked to him about \"<span class=SpellE>sweatless<\/span> living.\"\u00a0\r\nWe talked about working and sweating and wearing oneself out trying to eke out\r\na decent living, and how the world lives this way.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>Then<\/span>\r\nwe talked about the rest that comes in one's whole being when you live life\r\naccording to the principles of 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>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Funny thing.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>He<\/span> forgot to\r\ntalk about the investments he had originally called me about.\u00a0 Before he\r\nhung up, he said, \"I sure wish I had your job.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>The end of the story about Don and Marie, and paying off\r\ntheir mortgage goes like this.\u00a0 I got a cashier's check for the amount\r\nthey needed and sent it directly to the mortgage company with a cover letter,\r\nand a copy to Don and Marie.\u00a0 Not long thereafter, they received the clear\r\ntitle to their home.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Della says it was about three months later, but we\r\nreceived a financial gift from someone that was something on the order of five\r\ntimes what we'd given to pay off that mortgage.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>Think<\/span>\r\nseed sowing doesn't work?\u00a0 Think again.<\/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:#663300'>One thing, though, to remember.<\/span><\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>\u00a0 Seed sowing doesn't work when it is sowed in greed,\r\nsowed in strife, sowed in fear, or sowed in anything other than love-driven <span\r\nclass=SpellE>faith.\u00c2<\/span><span class=GramE>\u00a0 Actually<\/span>, check\r\nthat!\u00a0 Seed sowing will always bring a harvest, but if you sow in fear,\r\nyou're going to reap a whirlwind of agony.\u00a0 If you sow in strife, you'll\r\nreap division, separation and a whole lot of other things you don't even want\r\nto think about.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>We've been sharing the story of the rich man who came to\r\nJesus, having kept the Law all his life but who was unfulfilled.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>Remember<\/span> Jesus' instruction to him?\u00a0<\/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:#006600'>\"If thou wilt be perfect<\/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:#663300'>[the Greek text uses the word,<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><span class=SpellE><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\r\n\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>teleios<\/span><\/i><\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>, for \"complete and fulfilled\"]<\/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:#006600'>sell [all] that thou hast and give to\r\nthe poor, and thou <span class=SpellE>shalt<\/span> have treasure in Heaven: and\r\ncome and follow me.\"<\/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:#663300'>For someone whose entire frame of reference is the Law,\r\nthe societies of this world, and money (or Mammon) as the means of living it\r\nstretches the imagination beyond any natural reference point.\u00a0 For someone\r\nwhose trust has been in the world system -- the world's economic system, and\r\nthe way it operates -- this is a command that is totally illogical.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>I've heard very few folks who seem to really grasp what Jesus\r\nwas saying to the rich man.\u00a0 He wasn't demeaning money, the use of it, or\r\neven having lots of it.\u00a0 What He WAS saying was, \"Dump your trust in\r\nthe world's way of doing <span class=GramE>things.<\/span>\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>Give<\/span> it away!\u00a0 Invest yourself in the Kingdom of\r\nHeaven.\u00a0 When you're instructed to give, give, and do it with joy.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>It<\/span> will give you access to the treasures of Heaven -- and\r\nthose treasures are limitless.\u00a0 You'll never have need for another thing\r\nin your life.\u00a0 Follow me.\u00a0 Let me guide and direct the affairs of\r\nyour life, and I'll give you a life that will totally fulfill you!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Let's come back for a second to the story of Don and\r\nMarie.\u00a0 Here was a couple who had invested themselves in the Kingdom of\r\nGod.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>And<\/span> incidentally, their home was not a\r\ntwo-bedroom shack: it was a six- or seven-bedroom, 5600 square-foot house that\r\nDon had built with his sons.\u00a0 It was a place used for ministry, caring for\r\nfolks, taking care of the needy, ministering to others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Sure, it was a large, comfortable place they could have\r\nretired in, sat back on their laurels and thanked God for their blessings, but that\r\njust wasn't Don and Marie!\u00a0 Retirement wasn't even in their thinking!\u00a0\r\nThe fact that they had hit a rough spot financially and were struggling to make\r\nends meet did not go unnoticed by the Lord.\u00a0 And the Lord brought their\r\nneed to our attention.\u00a0 He instructed us to mitigate their need by paying\r\noff their mortgage.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>For us, the opportunity to do this was spectacular!\u00a0\r\nIt was an awesome honor to be asked by the Lord to sow seed in this way.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>Particularly because we didn't have the money to do it.<\/span>\u00a0\r\n<span class=GramE>That<\/span> meant that we were going to see the intervention\r\nand provision of the Lord.\u00a0 I was more than glad to borrow the money\r\nbecause I knew the Lord always makes good on things -- in abundance!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>We got to give with great joy and excitement.\u00a0\r\nAlthough we knew that the Lord always returns a harvest of not less than\r\n30-fold (30X), that wasn't our motive in giving.\u00a0 We were giving because\r\nthe Lord entrusted us with that responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>It's a funny thing.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>The<\/span>\r\nLord doesn't trust everyone to give.\u00a0 That may sound strange, so let me\r\nexplain.\u00a0 There are people whose hearts are generous, loving and\r\noverflowing with His presence, who -- out of a heart of love and communion with\r\nthe Lord Jesus Christ -- revel in giving because it becomes an act of worship.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>You remember what the apostle Paul wrote, don't you?\u00a0\r\n(Notice, also, that Paul's statement comes within the framework of seed\r\nsowing.)\u00a0<\/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:#006600'>\"But\r\nthis I say, He which <span class=SpellE>soweth<\/span> sparingly shall reap also\r\nsparingly; and he which <span class=SpellE>soweth<\/span> bountifully shall reap\r\nalso bountifully.\u00a0 Every man according as he <span class=SpellE>purposeth<\/span>\r\nin his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God <span\r\nclass=SpellE>loveth<\/span> a 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:#663300'>That word, \"cheerful,\" is translated from the\r\nGreek word,<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <\/span><span class=SpellE><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#000099'>hilaros<\/span><\/i><\/span><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:#663300'>(from which we get our English word,\r\n\"hilarious.\")\u00a0 We can also translate this word:<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial'> <\/span><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#000099'>prompt to do anything, willing,\r\ncheerful, <span class=GramE>joyous<\/span><\/span><\/u><span style='font-size:\r\n13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#663300'>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>THAT is precisely what the Lord is looking for in His\r\npeople: folks who love Him and trust Him to the place where He can ask anything\r\nof them, and they do it joyfully out of that place of love -- no matter how\r\nridiculous or impossible it may seem at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Remember what we said in Monday's Coffee Break?<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>Society's focus today is how to get enough money to pay\r\nthe bills, make the car payment, pay the house mortgage, keep up with one's\r\ncredit card payments, pay the utility bills, buy gasoline, etc., etc., etc., ad\r\ninfinitum.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>People who are in love with the Lord and have a\r\nrelationship of trust in Him are not focused at all on keeping up with their\r\npayments.\u00a0 That doesn't mean they don't discipline themselves financially\r\nand keep a good name business-wise.\u00a0 It just means that they won't allow\r\nthe need to make a house payment, a car payment, a credit card payment -- or\r\nwhatever -- get in the way of responding to and obeying 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:#663300'>This goes back a few years, but Della and I had an\r\noccasion when the Lord instructed us to pay the rent for a college student who\r\nwas in one of the engineering classes I taught.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>In<\/span>\r\norder to pay his rent, it meant I wouldn't have enough to pay ours, but Della\r\nand I didn't give it a second thought.\u00a0 For us, it was an adventure in\r\nwatching the Lord meet our need -- and He DID in a timely manner with extra\r\nbesides!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>In Don and Marie's case, hearing the Lord instruct us to\r\npay off their mortgage even at the cost of borrowing the money ourselves meant\r\nwe were going to experience a different realm of adventure.\u00a0 <span\r\nclass=GramE>We'd<\/span> never had the Lord instruct us to give that much money\r\nbefore, and we were excited to see what God was going to do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nArial;color:#663300'>This, my friends, is one of the fundamental differences\r\nbetween the economy of the Kingdom of God and the economies of this world.\u00a0\r\nBorrowing in order to give because the Lord has asked you may not be logical in\r\ntoday's world, but then again we've gladly sold all we have -- spiritually and\r\npractically speaking -- in order to follow 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:#663300'>There is a picture of this in II Corinthians 8 where the\r\napostle Paul speaks of the believers in Macedonia,<\/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:#006600'>\"How that in a great trial of\r\naffliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the\r\nriches of their liberality.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>For<\/span> to their power,\r\nI bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;\r\nPraying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us\r\nthe fellowship of the ministering to the saints.\"<\/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:#663300'>That wording in the KJV may be a bit obscure, so let me\r\nre-phrase it for you from the Greek text.\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:#006600'>\"For in the midst of an ordeal of severe stress and\r\npersonal pressure, their abundance of joy, and their depth of poverty and place\r\nof personal need have overflowed in a wealth of lavish generosity on their\r\npart.\u00a0 For I can bear witness, that they gave according to their ability\r\n-- yes, and beyond their ability -- and they did it voluntarily, even to their\r\nown hurt...\"<\/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:#663300'>The picture goes beyond this, however, as we see in the\r\nAmplified Version: (II Corinthians 8:5<span class=GramE>)\u00c2<\/span>\u00a0<\/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:#006600'>\"Nor was this gift of theirs\r\nmerely the contribution that we expected, but first they gave themselves to the\r\nLord and to us as His agents by the will of God -- that is, entirely\r\ndisregarding their personal interests, they gave as much as they possibly\r\ncould, having put themselves at our disposal to be directed by the will of\r\nGod.\"<\/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:#663300'>Now THAT's giving!\u00a0 That is the attitude and spirit\r\nthe Lord looks for in His people.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>And THAT, folks, is\r\nabout as opposite of society's attitude as you can possibly get.<\/span>\u00a0\r\nWhen you meet people who know how to give like that, you meet folks who are\r\nliving demonstrations of an economy foreign to 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:#663300'>Let's wrap up today's Coffee Break with something that\r\nJesus said to His disciples.\u00a0 <span class=GramE>This<\/span> is where the\r\nrubber meets the road.<\/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:#006600'>\"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'> <\/span><span style='font-size:\r\n13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#663300'>(we're\r\ngoing to come back to this next week)<\/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:#006600'>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\n<span class=SpellE>darkness<span class=GramE>!\u00c2<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 No man can\r\nserve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else\r\nhe will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot 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:#006600'>\"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;color:#006600'> <\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>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:#006600'>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 <span class=GramE>seek:<\/span>)\r\nfor your heavenly Father <span class=SpellE>knoweth<\/span> that ye have need of\r\nall these 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:#663300'>That's from Matthew 6:<span class=GramE>19-34,<\/span> and\r\nthat's where we'll continue on Monday.<\/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'>Kingdom Economics is a system under which we return to the\r\npriorities of life established by God in the Garden.\u00a0 Our assignment from\r\nGod is <u>our<\/u> priority.\u00a0 Our provision is <u>His<\/u> priority.<\/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 Lord <span class=GramE>be<\/span> upon\r\nyou.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> \r\n<div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-left in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:left;--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);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\" style=\"margin-right:25px;float:left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"121\" height=\"72\" title=\"Signature\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Signature.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-4230\"\/><\/span><\/div><div class=Section1>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Regner\n  A. 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