T#064 M O N E Y !

M O N E Y !

>>Matthew 6:24-26 ~

“No one can serve two masters; for

• either he will hate one and love the other,

• or he will hold to style one and despise the other.

• You cannot serve both GOD and worldly wealth and systems.

• For this reason I say to you,

• do not be anxious for your living,

• as to what you shall eat,

• or what you shall drink;

• nor for your body,

• as to what you shall put on.

• Is not LIFE more than food

• and the body than clothing?

• Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow,

• neither do they reap,

• nor gather into barns,

• and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

• Are you not worth much more than they?”

It is expressly
prohibited
for us to take
COMMANDS

from both
GOD and worldly
POSSESSIONS
& SYSTEMS !!!

• It is like riding in two (2) horses; you are certain to fall down.

This is the most important

decision we have to
make

without further delay

or, we are just going
through
living fooling
ourselves.

Only if we have become HIS child

• will there be no reason for us to be anxious

• for LIFE security, food, and clothing.

• These are GOD-provided

--- for HIS children!

• BUT even among GOD’s children

• we have these as real problems

because we wrongly reckon GOD’s SECURITY, FOOD, & CLOTHING

• only with man’s own INVENTION and entrepreneurship

• >>Mark 12:13-17 ~ "Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch Him in His words. They came to Him and said, "Teacher, we know You are a man of integrity. You are not swayed by men, because You pay no attention to who they are; but You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?" But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. "Why are you trying to trap me? He asked. "Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." They brought the coin, and He asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied. Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." And they were amazed at Him."

MONEY!

• If we are still continuing to experience anxiety over security, food and clothing for ourselves

this only means
we are still
alternately or overlappingly
deciding whether to source
the answer from GOD
or from our
POSSESSIONS
emanating from 

• (the world of man’s entrepreneurship and its systems)

as we pass on our wants as needs

• as we base our decisions in terms of our available cash

• worst, what we expect to secure from a loan

• violating [>>Romans 13:8 ~ "Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another, for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law."]

• and what savings or advantage

• we are getting in exchange for our cashout

• which should not be!

The devil always with ease makes himself heard and convince us

• of the advantage the-always-small-difference in cost

• when our wants and legitimate needs are compared quantifiably

to favor a cashout in favor of our wants!

• For GOD's CHILDREN

• believing in GOD’s grace

• on matters of living’s security, food, and clothing means

• living a lifestyle reflective of our conviction

• they are coming to us without effort and contribution on our part

• not even for a way to facilitate that they reach us

(except putting ourselves in
the position to receive them
and not wasting them
thereafter)!

• Living's security, food & clothing ought to come to us

through friends and
friendships and
 excesses from others
as well as ours
as envisioned by GOD in

>>2^nd Corinthians 8:13-15 ~

“Our desire is not

that others might

be relieved while

you are hard pressed,

• but that there might be equitability.

• At the present time

• your plenty will supply what they need,

• so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need.

But that there will be equitable distribution of GOD’s wealth,

• as it is written: “He who gathered much did not have too much,

• and he who gathered little did not have too little.”

MONEY only complicated for us
--- our obedience and

cooperation to GOD

on this matter!

• Interest, hoarding, savings, bargains, loans and borrowings ---

• all these have become “accepted”

• as man’s entrepreneurship in our society;

• yet, complained about so passionately!

• Let it be heard loud and clear:

INTEREST PAYMENTS, PENALTIES, BARGAINS;

yes, even SAVINGS in money

• are not in GOD’s vocabulary.

>>Deuteronomy 8:18-19 ~

“But you shall remember THE LORD your GOD

•  for it is HE WHO is giving you

• POWER to make wealth,

• that HE may confirm HIS COVENANT

• which HE swore to your fathers,

• as it is also this day.

• And it shall come about you,

• if you ever forget THE LORD your GOD

• and go after other gods

• and serve them

• and worship them,

• I testify against you today

• that you shall surely perish.”

Above scripture reminds
us that as GOD’s children

• --- the Jews by virtue of their Jewish birth

• and the Gentiles by virtue of our being born again in the spirit

we are:

• Not to forget HIS OWNERSHIP (LORDSHIP!) over us

• so that we should not go after other gods

• and take commands and serve them

• and worship them

• or we will perish as the Jewish people then were told.

ponder on .......
>>John 8:42-44 ~ Jesus said to them, "IF God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but He sent Me. Why ... is My language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for their is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!"
....... and honestly evaluate!

• Actually, we are being given

• THE POWER to make ourselves overflowing with GOD's bounty;

• but not for us to spend in security, food, and clothing

because GOD wants 

security, food, and clothing
as HIS absolute
GIVING

-domain.

• This is the main reason why practically all of us are sick!

• Kay moka-on man gyod ta sa atong mga gusto bisag gi-dili ipaka-on nato Sa atong Amahan!

• We are very quick to tell our own children

• “kaon mo kun unsay anaa diha, dili pa ta mamatay kun maora ni atong kaonon”;

• yet, we do not acknowledge the fact of our situation with our Father in heaven

Who requires us the
same OBEDIENCE.

>>John 10:10 ~

"I came that they might
have LIFE, [not living]

and might have
IT abundantly!”

• JESUS speaking.

• Might is an expression of being available to all; but, may be actually availed of only by a few, all, or even by no one at all!

>>Mark 12:24 ~

“Is this not the reason you are
mistaken, that you do not
understand
The Scriptures, or
THE POWER of GOD?”

• JESUS HIMSELF showed us

• how HE used The Scriptures to overcome the devil’s schemes

• and never made use of HIS ability to argue to overcome them

• as documented in >>> Matthew 4:1-10 

As THE POWER
(instructions!)

of GOD used
by JESUS HIMSELF

• how reliable should The Scriptures be

• as HIS POWER for us to use (by obeying them!)

• to make ourselves wealthy

as HE said for our

• understanding, heeding, and consequently benefit from!

• This far, our first conclusion should be:

WE HAVE TO HAVE
THAT KIND OF
ATTITUDE, BELIEF
and LIFESTYLE
ALL-THE-TIME

•         that WE HAVE GOD’s SOVEREIGNTY & GRACE

•         as SOURCE OF ALL OUR LIVING’s APPROPRIATE 

SECURITY;
particularly,
1st-SPIRITUALITY,

•            which HE has already given us all upon our grand AMNESTY availment!

•           https://umpg.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-fact-of-matter-answer-to-greatest.html

2nd-FOOD
& 3rd-CLOTHING

•       3 THINGS OUR OWNER HIMSELF

•         WANTS TO BE DEPENDED UPON

•         SOLELY AND ABSOLUTELY

•         NOT EVEN ALLOWING US

•         TO CONTRIBUTE OUR OWN EFFORTS

•         TO GETTING THEM

•         (except doing HIS WILL on this matter of APPROPRIATE SECURITY)!

>>Hebrews 13:5-6 ~

“Let your character

be free from

the love of money,

• being content with what you presently have

• .... for HE HIMSELF has said,

• ‘I will never desert you,

• nor will I ever forsake you,

• so that we confidently say,

• ‘THE LORD is my HELPER,

• I will not be afraid, 

• with what man shall do unto me.’”

In our moments of

what-seem-to-be times

 when we are short of money

• This Scripture sounds not convincing as truthful!

• Yet, they now and then occur in our lives

• because now and then, all of us turn to OUR WAYS

• and not to GOD’s POWER or INSTRUCTIONS

• defying >>Jeremiah 10:23 ~ "I know O, Lord, that the way of man's life is not in himself: it is not for man to direct his steps.

• and documented in

>>Romans 3:11-12 ~

“No one has ever really followed GOD’s paths,

• or even truly wanted to.

• Every one has turned aside;

• all have gone wrong.

• No one anywhere

• has kept on doing what is right;

• not one.”

At those specific times

when it seems to us

GOD is short of
HIS supply

to us

• we have actually miscalculated

• THE POWER of GOD with WHICH to  contend with

• the present situation

• for a time

• before we can make our lives hayahay.

• GOD is not to be faulted

• when we are back at clinging to the love of money

• and we have grown discontent with what we have

• because HIS instructions

• vis-a-vis our experience to being content

• is not by a happening .... happening in our lives but just

• by our learning even without those happenings .... happening to us

• as recorded for our guidance in >>Philippians 4:11 

•   ~ that we just have to learn to be content in whatever situation we may find ourselves(!) ~

• is premised upon HIS promise

• continuing to be true eternally:

not forsaking us,
not deserting us,
AND on HIS being
our HELPER IF we
abide in HIM

• (dili ang tabang sa mga tig-5/6, cooperatives o mga bangko ang atong asahan!
  

• BUT

• on HIS WORD

• particularly --- among others, >>Romans 13:8

• ~ nga nag-dili kanato pagpangutang

kay mag-patient, good and kind ra ta dapat sa usag-usa!
aron dili nato mapun-an pa ang atong utang
nga gugma sa usag-usa!

• ug ... >>Jeremiah 10:23 ~ nga sayop kitang mo-asa gyud gihapon sa atong mga pasikot-sikot / paningkamot!)

• nga assured man unta ta in

>>John 15:7 ~

“If you abide in ME and

MY Words or instructions

abide in you,

• ask whatever you wish,

• and it shall be done for you.”

TO BE FREE FROM
THE LOVE OF
MONEY

• is having decided earlier gyud

AS A MATTER OF
ATTITUDE

nga magbinag-o na ta!
>>>T#002

• not to allow money to have its way against us at any given time.

DILI GYUD UNTA NATO
TUMANAN SA IYANG
GUSTO ANG KWARTA!

• Who can deny because of our past experiences

• that money always wants to slip off our hands

• in exchange for just about anything in this world

• at any slight opportunity

• --- from the whole range of what are unjustifiable to the justified,

• basic to luxurious,

• imagined to real,

• even at times of sorrow, lull, and excitement.

TO BE FREE FROM
THE LOVE OF
MONEY

• is to disburse of money

• according to our always updated

• HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

• (anchored on >>1^st Timothy 5:8 ~ "But if anyone provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own household, he has denied The Faith IN THE LORDSHIP & THE CHRISTHOOD OF JESUS and is worse than an unbeliever!" 

• & GIVING - GUIDE - Scriptures

• (>>>T#015)!

The next logical step for
us to do after our
understanding these
scriptures which are
GOD’s provided
POWER aron ta
mahamugaway usa,
dayon na ngadto sa
atong kamatayon.

WE ARE TO WORK OUT
an always
UPDATED weekly
HIERARCHY
OF OUR PERSONAL &
FAMILY NEEDS

and OUTSTANDING
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS

•         beyond the next seven-days period

•         like our children's tuition & school obligations, water & electricity bills (>>1st Timothy 5:8)

         

            & GIVING-APPROPRIATION
for SANCTION & FUNDING

•         by our LORD JESUS THE CHRIST HIMSELF

•         perhaps EVERY SUNDAY evening.

WE ARE TO CLOSE
OUR 7-DAYS’

 DISBURSEMENT LIST
for OUR MUSTs

WE CANNOT DO
WITHOUT FOR
THAT WEEK

•         WHERE ONLY THOSE ITEMS CONTAINED THEREIN

•         WILL ALLOW or PERMIT US

            

        TO GET THAT

        AMOUNT OF MONEY

         THAT WE HAVE
         SET-ASIDE

         that Sunday evening

•         SLIP OFF from US.

ONLY THROUGH
A WEEKLY-CLOSED

 7-DAYS’ DISBURSEMENT
LIST OF MUSTs for
THE CURRENT WEEK

CAN WE GET
SITUATIONS TO OCCUR

•       WHERE MONEY SLIPS OFF OUR HANDS
• 
  
•       AT OUR SPECIFIC CONTROLS, APPROVALS & COMMANDS
• 
  
•       AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

• Here, more than ever

we have to start with the correct perspective

• otherwise, everything that follows

• will all be mistakes one-after-another!

All of us are to-be
living by the grace

(unmerited favor) of GOD

• most particularly in matters of security, food, and clothing.

• These are the basic and the few things

• (compared to our many WANTS)

• on which we have to prove ourselves trustworthy

• (>>Matthew 25:21, and repeated in 23 ~ "His Lord said unto him, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee a ruler over many things: enter now into the joy of The Lord.'")

• by learning what JESUS is teaching us of Martha

• (>>Luke 10:40-42 ~ But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" But The Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what should be, and it will not be taken away from her."

• or

we cannot proceed with LIVING

serving HIM as HIS

sower-worker
CALLED-OUTS.

• ONLY THEN

• shall we be LIVING

• through the grace of GOD

• as all workers of HIS >>>>

• [ for HIS LORDSHIP & HIS CHRISTHOOD

• to reach every one ]

>>>> ought-to-be LIVING.

• One may be known to live by faith in gambling

• if his winnings now and then is his support for subsistence

• while another is living through gambling

• if he steadily derives his subsistence from gambling

• just like one maintains a gambling den

• where gamblers lose and win

• but he has a continuous income from their losing and winning.

Living by

• is living an erratic life of at times bounty and other times of need;

living through

• is consistent life!

• Living through the grace of GOD

• is accepting all things we have of

*time, expertise, influences,

services, goods & cash

• are of and come from GOD;

• including all the moneys entrusted by GOD in our possession

• because it has substituted those

• which are actually HIS -- after all,

ALL THESE are HIS;

• and should be shared / given / dispensed with ----

• for and in HIS BEHALF.

• Then, the realization is ours

• --- we have by then become HIS Vice-President >>> for GENEROSITY,

• to spend / dispense of them ---

• in representation and entertainment,

in behalf of our PRESIDENT

JESUS THE CHRIST

our REAL BOSS

(>>Colossians 3:23-25 ~ "And whatsoever you individually have to-do, do it heartily, as to THE LORD, and not unto men; knowing that of THE LORD, you shall individually receive the reward of the inheritance: for you individually serve THE LORD JESUS THE CHRIST, but he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is to-be no partiality.

• to WHOM we owe

• every disbursement and paperless liquidation report to!

We have to prove
ourselves trustworthy

• in the keeping of this weekly disbursement schedules of ours

• to experiencing being content in our incomes without doing injustice to any one

• >>Luke 3:14 ~ Then some soldiers asked Him, "And what should we do?" He replied, "Don't extort money and don't accuse people falsely --- be content with your pay."

• as we should to talk to HIM as every concern arise

• as we keep our Sunday-evening-closed 7-DAY DISBURSEMENT LIST!

• ONLY then,

• WILL OUR OBEDIENCE

• TO OBEYING the power of GOD

• for making tremendous bounty

• kun kahamugaway dinhi sa atong panimuyo

• have true meaning as overcomers

• consistent obedience and great expectancies!

>>2^nd Corinthians 9:7-12 ~

v.7 “Let each one give of his

*time, expertise, influences,

services, goods & cash

• he has made up in his mind

• and purposed in his heart,

• not reluctantly or sorrowfully

• or under compulsion

• for GOD loves a cheerful giver.

v.8 AND GOD is able

• to make all grace come to you

• in abundance, so that

• you may always

• and under all circumstances

• and whatever the need,

• be self-sufficient.

v.9 As it is written HE scatters abroad:

• HE gives to the poor;

• HIS deeds of justice

• and goodness

• and kindness

• and benevolence

• will go on and endure forever."

v.10 AND now

• may HE WHO provides seed to the sower

• and bread for his food consumption;

• supply and multiply the seed

• you have sown

• and increase the fruits

• of your righteousness,

v.11 THUS, you

• will be enriched in all things

• and in every way,

• so that you can be generous,

• and your generosity as it is administered

(as differentiated from the generosities of people who do not consider their giving as sowing and reaping friends for GOD ~ kay para sila ang masikat!)

• will bring forth thanksgiving through us to GOD.

v.12 For the administration of this giving

• does not only fully supply

• what is  needed by GOD’s people,

• but also overflows

• with many cries

• of thanksgiving to GOD.”

Above Scriptures picture to us in simile,

• a huge lake of GOD’s grace

• in HIS throne

• (where HIS grace originates)

• directly for them who are not yet

• HIS sower-worker

• via evaporation and condensation only;

Above Scriptures picture to us in simile,

• the rivers flowing from that lake

• as worked on and managed by

• HIS scattered throughout the world

• sowers-workers-reapers and

the exiting grace reaching and benefiting most tellingly

• even those located farthest away from HIS throne of grace,

• like house of vices, prisons, government offices, business & entertainment centers, and the like!

• The 1^st principle to practice though

• by those who want to experience and live in bounty

• according to >>John 10:10 is verse 7

~ “Let each one GIVE …..” [tagsa-tagsa gyud!]

• We are to overcome the greed and selfishness

• coming from our wrong belief

• we got from the devil

that those blessings
are all ours because
we worked hard for them

• not knowing

• and not realizing

• it was our LORD WHO provided them and

• we had no contribution whatsoever

• for them to have reached us!

Until we have
individually
become HIS child
and we 

• start live and apply >>>THE GIVING principle of GOD

• (>>>T#015),

• we are just to be merely content

• with only the amount resulting from evaporation

• very insignificant in amount

• coming only from the surface of the lake

• reaching us by the condensation of the droplets

• we are presently spending

• --- that intended exclusively

• for our living's security, food, and clothing only.

• TO our added MISERY, we also spend it for our wants

NOT KNOWING

• What follows AND

• as the 1^st word in >>verse 8

• will not COME,

GOD is not able to make

all grace come to you

in abundance ……..”

• For GOD in >>verse 9 has reiterated:

HE came that we all might

• have and enjoy life,

• and have its abundance till it overflows.

• >>Verse 10 makes it unerringly clear,

GOD initially supplies HIS sowers-workers-reapers

• with the most basic and primary requirements necessary,

• with the results thereof

• assuring even them who are not

• presently sowing and reaping friends for HIM ---

• according to HIS principle of giving in this world

• ---- their own provisions for living as well.

This is GOD’s Lake of Grace.

• The same >>verse 10 continues with citing

• that the same GOD provides

• and in fact does not add but

multiplies [!!!]

HIS sowers-workers-reapers’

resources for sowing and reaping

friends for HIM

• and expects from them

• far-greater-in-number-fruit

• of love, joy and peace WITHIN THEM;

• of patience, goodness and kindness TOWARD OTHERS;

• and TOWARDS GOD: faithfulness, gentleness and self-restraint

• from their righteousness.

This is the picture of HIS

sowers-workers-reapers

for friends of HIS

• enhancing the flow of grace in the rivers and brooks portions,

• digging (where there are none),

• clearing canals (where there exist but are flow-hampered)

to facilitate the reach

of the flow of

GOD’s grace

• as GOD willed in >>verse 9.

This is where so many
of us are continuing to
be mistaken! 

• WE thought all along

• it was we ourselves who worked

• for our subsistence in this world;

• when all along

we have been fed
by THE FATHER and
made secure by GOD HIMSELF

• just from the combined evaporation / condensation process

• of HIS GRACE

• including and most importantly

THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM

>>>blogBOOK 2

• that reaches us

• wherever we are now(!) on earth

• DIRECT from HIS Lake of Grace in heaven

• through THE INTERNET

• although not as yet known and discerned

• as we would have wanted it! 

If at all we once
entertained ---- that
GOD HIMSELF
could really have been
THE ONE providing us

• HE was frequently short

• if not permanently lacking of what we think

• HE ought to provide us with

• despite HE has not promised such to them

who have not as yet become HIS child

• and started TO GIVE

according
to HIS GIVING-GUIDE
and principles. 

• That if it were not for the help of some people or circumstances we recognized,

• we could not have continued to live until this >>> time.

• Yet, the circumstances have actually come as the third in a series of causes,

• the person as the second in a chain of causes,

• both of which ought to lead us to GOD HIMSELF

as THE ULTIMATE CAUSE

of all the causes

• that brought about

• what we attributed to SWERTE,

• often we refer to repeatedly as LUCK

• and have been thankful to acknowledge

• as having come from the person

• through the circumstance.

• Those people we previously thanked

• were actually just doing their roles

• of enhancing the flow from those rivers and brooks

• GOD has already provided for us all,

for HIS provisions to
reach all the good
including all the bad

in this world.

• This is the modus operandi of HIS - Kind - of GENEROSITY

• GOD actually wants to see applied in this world

• and on which HE depends on US

• OVERCOMERS [ >>> T#027 ]

• as HIS sowers-workers-reapers

• for friends to HIM

• is fully expressed in >>verses 11 and 12.

WE ALL HAVE
ALL THESE TO DO

• in keeping with

• THE UNIVERSAL PRIESTHOOD

• OF EVERY BELIEVER IN

• THE LORDSHIP & THE CHRISTHOOD OF JESUS

THESE NICOLAITANS
>>> T#026
around have sadly failed
OUR LORD JESUS

• because of THEIR practice & teaching of TITHING!

We have to acknowledge
GOD’s need for US

• to obey >>verses 11 and 12

• to be able to make all These Scriptures

• --- HIS POWER for us to make ourselves wealthy

• understood by all mankind that

we all shall be
well-to-do as sons
of GOD ough-to-be!

• Otherwise, we are putting our Father in heaven to shame

• as many NICOLAITANS are

• because of their TEACHINGS & PREACHINGS on PROSPERITY!

Establishing our always
updated hierarchy of
needs and contractual
obligations

• -- and separately --

our weekly generated
disbursement list

• TO WISELY PLAN OUR SPENDING

• so that we become THE MASTER of all the moneys in our custody

• instead of money being our master.

Look closely, and learn from the people around us.

HOW
FINANCIAL CONCERNS
ARE DEVELOPING AS PROBLEMS FOR ALL OF US!

CONCERNS	POOR	MIDDLE CLASS	RICH	Recommended Action
1. Security, food & clothing	Where all their incomes go	Where a significant portion of their incomes go because they go for more sophistication on these matters	Where only a small portion of their incomes go; we even call them “tihik”stingy on these matters	Get the pertinent scriptures herein explained and understood by them in the spirit of >>Acts 8:30-31 and >>2nd Corinthians 1:13!
2. Contracted Obligations	None; occasionally small in amount, if ever	Usually entered into in haste and without much thought	Usually entered into with much and careful thought; if seen as investment—go!; if as expense only – no go as it will to them require a fresh funding allocation	Get the pertinent scriptures herein explained and understood by them in the spirit of  >>Acts 8:30-31 and >>2nd Corinthians 1:13!
3. Gracious Giving and/or Social Recognition Spending	None; although some go to debt just for their occasional self-gratification.	Much; but for their search for acknowledgment as rich in the circle they are trying to be acknowledged.	Usually of lesser frequency and of lesser value than do the middle class – because they do not anymore care to be acknowledged as rich.	Get the pertinent scriptures herein explained and understood by them, in the spirit of >>Acts 8:30-31 and >>2nd Corinthians 1:13!
But the bottom-line of all these is the truth in >>Matthew 16:26: “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”

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• It is apparent

the strict adherence to our HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

• converting THEM into an every Sunday evening to-preapare

• SPENDING LIST

• strictly in keeping with our on hand available funds

• laid-aside for the week

is the kind of INSTRUCTIONS

• required by GOD

• in the purview of The Scriptures cited herein

that provides the direction

• into our better and improved living.

• This is to be expected because

• WE are ignorant of These Scriptures

which are GOD’s POWER
to re-direct our lives

• towards GOD’s bounty!

When some of our contracted-obligations end up as liabilities

• we end up even poorer

• than those we have earlier identified

• as poorer than we are.

• We first feel the real pinch

• when we start to realize

• we cannot even find money to pay for

• calls for (even-just-our-own-kind of) generosity,

• maintain our minimum bank balances,

• to be on time in paying our obligations, etc..

The rich are characteristically ALWAYS very weary

• at spending on even the most attractive new offers at advancement,

• convenience, savings, prestige, security, and the likes

because they are very disturbed

• with having to increase the amount of and their kinds of

• budgeted obligations

• which they have already closed

• when the offers come

which the middle class like us (to our destruction)

• find ourselves very gullible!

Added to that, the rich among us do not hesitate

• to spend time and effort

• study very seriously FIRST,

• before they disburse their money

• for what WE, the middle class and poor among us

• jointly agree without conflict

• --- categorize as “money-making”.

• In other words, the true rich alone among us are saying

• they do not run after money,

• they just live walking

• and only when confronted with opportunities at making money,

• do they consider them.

They are so unlike some of us in the middle class who jump to letting off our money and by so doing foolishly but

• proudly claim

• WE are in the rat race

• as if WE are rats

• when in fact WE are not even relatives

• to those rats in the running.

THIS FAR, IT SHOULD BE OUR LOGICAL CONCLUSION

• THAT IN CLOSING OUR 7-DAY SPENDING LIST

• every Sunday evening,

WE SHOULD INCLUDE
only THE NEEDS

• WE CANNOT DO WITHOUT within that week;

THE WANTS CAN JUST
WAIT until THEY
ARE FUNDED

• without resorting to loans & borrowings in keeping with >>Romans 13:8,

• as we wait to be ENRICHED by GOD HIMSELF

• IN EVERYTHING FOR ALL LIBERALITY.

This is PLANNED SPENDING
for OVERCOMERS

according to These Scriptures

referred to here!

• How much are you currently spending since the past 3 months perhaps on these, those, and hitherto items?

• What items and amounts have been left unpaid or still to be paid?

• What expenses can you now really say you could have lived without?

• How much is really required for your needs?

CONSULT GOD
over these things!

• >>Matthew 6:8 ~ “your Father knows what you need, before you ask Him.”

• >>Galatians 6:7-9 ~ "Do not be deceived (by the devil),

• GOD cannot be mocked.

• A man reaps what he sows.

• The one who sows to please his sinful nature,

• from that nature he will reap destruction;

• the one who sows to please The Spirit,

• from The Spirit will reap eternal life.” 

As WE, on a week-to-week bases,

• WALK THROUGH TIME

• ADHERING TO OUR 7-DAY SPENDING LIST

• and realize financial relief

• from WHAT previously WERE increasingly heavier-and-getting heavier BURDENS

• ..... along the way

• we experience GOD’s easily noticed interventions

• ..... WE ARE KEPT TO REJOICING ALWAYS!

>>1^stThessalonians 5:16-22 ~

“Rejoice always; pray without ceasing;

• in everything give thanks;

• for this is the will of GOD

• for you in THE CHRIST JESUS.

• Do not quench The Holy Spirit;

• but examine everything carefully;

• hold fast to that which is good;

• abstain from every form of evil.”

These should ALL BE SELF-EXPLANATORY

considering all the truths, commands, and promises

earlier mentioned in The Scriptures cited herein.

1st, JESUS said: “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sinnings; for if you do not believe that I am HE [THE LORD & THE CHRIST], you will die in your sinnings.” --- >>John 8:24

2nd, JESUS said: “I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.” --- >>Luke 13:3, 5

3rd, Paul said: “when THE LORD JESUS is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them who do not know GOD, and on THOSE WHO DO NOT OBEY THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus the Christ --- >>2nd Thessalonians 1:7-8; “Moreover brethren I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you received and in which you stand, by which you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you --- unless you believed in vain, for I delivered to you AS OF FIRST IMPORTANCE that which I also received: that THE CHRIST DIED for our sinnings according to the Scriptures, and that He was BURIED and that He ROSE (BAPTISM by IMMERSION!) again the third day according to the Scriptures.”--- 1st Corinthians 15:1-4;  “THY shall be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power.” --- >>2nd Thessalonians 1:9.

4th, Jesus said: Therefore whoever confesses ME before men, him I will also confess before MY Father Who is in heaven. But whoever denies ME before men, him I will also deny before My Father Who is in heaven.” --- >>Matthew 10:32-33

• 
  
• Read THE BIBLE:
• find out the truths to believe --- believe them one after another;

• find out the commands of GOD --- obey them one after another;

• and look for the promises of GOD --- find out if you’re enjoying them consistently

• --- if not, look for more truths and more commands --- believe and obey all of them.

To become a child of GOD,

• we are to obey

• THE FOUR (4) DO or DIE COMMANDS in THE NEW COVENANT.

The last three scriptures hereunder

are what has been referred to in 

>>John 1:12 ~

“Yet, to them who received HIM,

• to them who believed

• in HIS name or authority,

• (not on HIS miracles, goodness and love)

• HE gave

THE POWER to become

• children of GOD.”

The first three (3) commands

hereunder are also

THE VERY COMMANDS

• the 3000 obeyed on that Pentecost Day of A.D. 33

• --- as recorded in >>Acts 2:37-38

• which put them into THE CHURCH;

• the very Scriptures we are also to obey

• if we are to be added by THE LORD

• to be among them who are being saved (>>Acts 2:47)!

For the many skeptical among us,

refer to >>Hebrews 6:1-3 and find out for yourselves how great a consistency is for

the above scriptures to be part of
The 6 Elementary Teachings of Christianity

we are not to leave without having obeyed
and lived or we will never mature in
our Christianity! 

                                                                      

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