Gospel of Wealth – Chapter One

Exploit – God's method

There is a definite glory to a city. All large cities glimmer in a glory of their own. At night they shine with a glow like something out of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ – a bustling village by day, a crystal city by night. Streets teem with busy people. Towering structures mount as high as the wealth the workers have achieved. Adding up the value of all the real estate alone would be an enormous task not to mention the infinite ‘added’ value of the softer human assets like time, talent, and energy.

Why do the wicked prosper? Isn’t that the age-old question? It is obviously not through an intimate knowledge of God as is the subject of this book. The wicked prosper through another system – Satan’s.
The wisdom of this world – is a strict amalgamation of hard work, determination, natural knowledge, and varying degrees of "so called" luck. Let’s narrow the definition down to one word, WORK!

The man who has mastered this game of work expects to replace everything – that God used to freely provide before the fall of Adam – with money. Work becomes the worshiped object and the winner of the game is the one with the biggest bank account. Huge fortunes are the new immortality.

What the players of this deceptive game do not see are subversive forces at work. Players continue to believe that the game will end in their favor, and yet they are moved as mere pawns in a supernatural game of chess where the success of the king that rules over them is all that matters. They are, at any given time, highly expendable.

This wealth that they have worked so hard to obtain – day and night, racking their brains, ringing their hands – will ultimately be set as food on someone else’s table. In this game God’s Kingdom rules over all.
This misplaced effort extended by the working man can be likened to the great leisure class of the ancient Roman Empire. It took, an estimated, twenty ‘labor-class’ men just to sustain one leisure class citizen. When Jesus spoke of the Truth setting men FREE, everyone knew what He was speaking about. The ‘Free Man’ in Rome was a man of leisure – a man who was free from the daily necessity of labor so he could pursue cultural activities.

In a sense the believer of the Gospel of Christ becomes the New Leisure Class. A class of people set apart for the furtherance of true culture – the culture of heaven. Support must come by the work of the labor class – the unbelieving work worshiper.

As a laboring class they are good at what they do – heaping up. They pursue quality education, sparing no expense, often going highly in debt in order that their earnings might soar higher still. They are generally free from excessive moral standards that tend to rob the morally afflicted of profits in questionable situations. They overcome common obstacles wonderfully and uncommon ones valiantly, working over-time, missing vacations. They shun stress and pain while hurtling innumerable hassles; legally, politically, and socially, all to amass that all-important fortune whereby they win the coveted prize – more stuff.

This is the portion of the wicked man with God, though he heap up silver like dust and prepare raiment like clay, he may prepare it but the just shall where it and the innocent shall divide the silver. Job 39:16
It’s a shame they don’t see it coming. It’s unfortunate that they are so involved in the daily mechanics of life that they can’t see the eminent doom approaching – from them shall all this be taken away. Like the partridge, they have effectively buried their heads in the sands of mammon.

God uses this blindness, their very ignorance, to incubate physical riches until it reaches full measure and then He takes it and gives it to whomever He chooses – those who please Him.
Here is the underlying principle at work.

You may ask the question, and I have asked it myself. How do you take something away from someone who has nothing? We’re not talking about taking something away from someone who has nothing. This verse doesn’t say the man has nothing. This verse says that what the man doesn’t have is a revelation of the Kingdom of God. This revelation from Heaven is necessary and without it all the persons other belongings are subject to being taken away including all the wealth that the unbelieving work worshiper has accumulated through hard work and thrift. This lack of knowledge is the foundation that most fortunes have been built on.

This is a system doomed to failure. It never was designed to succeed. All wealth that is not obtained through the power of God is part of the world’s system and is subject to exploitation. As unfair and amoral as this may seem it is God’s method.

Consider the Canaanites.
Even before Abraham came on the seen, the Canaanites labored and built up their homes and lives just like many other indigenous peoples. Through wise stewardship, many of them had accumulated considerable wealth. Houses were decorated, vineyards matured, and family heirlooms were handed down from one generation to the next. It was a prosperous society built up by hard work and thrift.
These same qualities are held high as virtues in our day. We call it the Protestant work ethic. The Canaanites could have built their entire lives on this beloved work ethic and it wouldn’t have mattered. They were building on a doomed foundation.

They should have put their efforts elsewhere. God promised the land they were living on to Abraham and his seed. God was all along using the Canaanites labor and skill to build cities, houses, and vineyards that He intended to give to Abraham and his descendants if they obeyed Him. A table was being prepared in the presence of their enemies.

Where does God prepare your table? Your table of goods is always prepared by and in the presence of your enemies. It is God’s method. The Israelites would eventually exploit all the Canaanites’ wealth through the supernatural power of God. God’s supernatural system overtakes the worldly system just as day overtakes night.

It’s the people who know God who will do exploits. Connection with God is everything. The man or nation that knows God always has the upper hand regardless of any natural law or circumstance. Knowing God is wealth. Because of his association with the supernatural, the man who knows God is not bound by natural limitations. There is no natural man who can equal a man walking in the power of God. Man without God is handcuffed to inferiority – the kingdom he lives in is lower.

There is no struggling in obtaining the wealth of God. When God comes, He brings His wealth with Him. His blessings overtake us while we are focused on Him. Unlike the world’s way, there is no striving.
1. The power to get wealth has nothing to do with the strength of man’s hands, skill, or effort. It is purely God’s power.
2. This wealth is bestowed intact, complete, and in full measure.
3. It came by exploit. Someone other than you did the work of accumulating it.

God gives power to get wealth. Let me expand.
1. It is God’s power that does the work and is separate and distinct from the work of your hands.
2. It is power to get something. The word get implies taking and is different from making.
3. It is power to take wealth. It is wealth, not something less and this wealth is something that already exists in its wealth-like state.

God gives His supernatural power to exploit wealth that the world has already accumulated.
This is God’s method. This is our way. The world’s way is different. You seek God and His righteousness. The world seeks things.

The Gentiles seek, gather, heap up, and store for themselves, treasures on earth. They serve money as a master and know no other way to live. They are overtly consumed about their lives and what they will ware, what they will eat, and what their stature or position will be compared with their neighbors. They store things up to make them more socially acceptable. Don’t be like them.

Seek first and continually the kingdom of God and his way of doing and being right and all these things – that the gentiles have labored to heap up – will be added to you. We simply don’t have to concern ourselves with such menial things or worry about them for it has been given to someone else to work on – the working class.

Let’s look at some very familiar scriptures in this new-found light. Psalm 23 says, the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. It’s because of God that you are prosperous and without want. So, how does God prepare your wealth? He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

Part 2
At this point you might be asking, how can this be? How come I don’t see anyone doing this? Christians that seem to be successful aren’t doing this. These are legitimate questions. Wide is the road that leads to destruction and narrow is the road that leads to righteousness and few are the folks that find it. Even if they do find it few continue long enough to reap the rewards.

Unfortunately, this verse implies that if few are finding the narrow way then most people are not. Most people are so caught up in the worlds system to know anything else and will never advance to a higher level of spiritual growth. In fact, most Christians look so much like everyone else you couldn’t tell them apart if you tried.

Most Christians base their success on the same standards and use the same success methods as everyone else – worldly wisdom. Through imitating the world’s system the church has forfeited its right to lead and has taken the place of a second class citizen. Satan has fed the church limited success and told them it was the blessing of God. Most are satisfied with this weak verdict. Christians or not, if they aren’t operating and founding their wealth on this gospel of wealth even that which they have will be taken away.

I’m more than a little annoyed by the religious man’s inclination to work all week long and then thank God in some sanctimonious tone for his paycheck, when God had nothing to do with it. God didn’t sign that paycheck, your employer did, and you worked all week for it. That’s the same guy that will say to God, "why did you do this to me," when his employer doesn’t need him any more. Christians aren’t fooling nearly as many people as they think. They have a powerless form of godliness and are trying to convince you otherwise.

The might of your own hands is separate from the power of God. If you work forty hours with your two hands to bring home a paycheck that’s not God doing it, that’s you. Don’t consider the work of your hands an act of God.

You must give of yourself to reap the kingdom. Give and it shall be given unto you, good measure. Under this general directive Jesus spoke three specific actions in giving – prayer, fasting, and giving to the poor. He specifically said not to do it in front of men but to be seen by God. God who is in the spiritual realm will openly bless you – in the realm of man. In doing this we are promised our return would be abundant, one hundred fold in this lifetime. Not only will the return be of a supernatural nature but also it will have a profound effect upon the kingdom of man. Pressed down, shaken-together, and running over shall men give into your bosom.

Pressed down, men shall give into your bosom.
Pressure makes men do things they wouldn’t normally do. It amplifies weaknesses. It exposes needs. It makes men drop unnecessary baggage and draws a focus on what is vital. Pressure throws people off balance. New forces come into play making it hard to continue in normalcy. Priorities change and men become vulnerable.

As the temple of the Holy Ghost you are the vehicle of this supernatural pressure – a pressure that comes from above. Barring outside pressure men wouldn’t give you the time of day but under supernatural pressure you’d be surprised!

It’s this pressure that the Holy Ghost exerts and makes men repent, harden their heart or do other things they wouldn’t do under normal circumstances. Pharos of Egypt displayed all these reactions as the Power of God put pressure on him. God used Moses as His vehicle to put pressure on Pharos saying, "let My people go."

At first Pharos had no intention of letting the Israelites go anywhere. Why should he? He’s the Pharos and they are the slaves. They work for him not the other way around. But after a few rounds of supernatural pressure he thrust them out and even financed their journey. The children of Israel left Egypt carting off the abundant silver and gold of that once belonged to the Egyptians. Pressed down men gave into their bosom.

Continue to give yourself to the kingdom of God – sowing to the Spirit and from the Spirit reaping – and God’s power will come on you. It doesn’t happen over night but it will happen. When it does this power will shake things up.

The gifts of the Spirit will begin to manifest in supernatural wisdom about the future, supernatural knowledge about the present and past, and supernatural abilities to do things you couldn’t normally do. These are the things that shake men to their very core.

Shaken together, men give into your bosom.
Shake up, means to effect an extensive and often drastic reorganization of something. The gifts of the Holy Ghost will shake-up, effect an extensive and drastic reorganization of the worlds system and the people who live in it.

The Power of God shakes everything into conformity. It shakes, lays bare, and puts things in proper order whether anyone likes it or not. They have no choice. Men may try to resist the pressure of the Holy Spirit but they can’t resist the shakings.

Few things stand up to a good shaking. Structures break-up and fall down. Ordinary methods people used to rely on won’t work any more. Everyday business comes to a halt in the midst of a major earthquake. Even a minor earthquake causes a pause. In a major earthquake buildings and urbane infrastructure crumble if they are not built correctly and on a firm foundation. Even then there is a limit to a towers ability to withstand a good shaking. Power goes out and phone lines brake. It doesn’t mater if your rich or poor, shaking has a way of putting everyone on the same level.

Fear shakes to the bone. People who are full of fear can even loose control of their bowels. Hair falls out. No one can stand. Fear shakes from the inside out. By the supernatural power of God the walls of Jerroco shook and then fell. The result was that the children of Israel exploited the wealth of the city.

As four forlorn lepers made a last ditch effort to stave of starvation they entered an enemies camp. The power of God caused a great shaking in the enemy’s camp so that they deserted all their belongings fearing only for their lives. The enemy army fled with no man in pursuit. The result was that the children of Israel exploited the camp and its entire contents. In this same way God is going to shake-up the wealth of this present world.

The shaking comes from a place the world is unprepared to handle – the supernatural. They can’t see it. They can’t touch it. They can’t control it. They can’t understand it. You’d better get used to it.
Armed with natural means to defend their wealth from enemy attack; most natural men cover every scenario they can think of with some kind of insurance – acts of God included. Supernatural enemies make natural defenses worthless.

Supernatural shakings come from a kingdom that cannot be moved. Believers operating in the unshakable realm will not be moved but everyone else will be laid bare for exploit.There will be a transformation of all that can be shaken in order that what cannot be shaken may remain. Let us therefore, receiving a kingdom that is firm stable and cannot be shaken worship God with pleasing service for our God is a consuming fire.

Once you’ve learned to operate in this higher and greater place – this kingdom that cannot be shaken – we are no longer subject to recession, inflation, or destruction because all things have become subject to you. By the power of God’s shaking these lower things will be extensively and drastically reorganized to fit into his new kingdom by the transfer of all wealth. Anything not fitting the kingdom shall be divided, distributed, or liquidated. What was once the pride of the people will be placed on our table for consumption. You shall consume all the people whom the Lord gives over to you. God living in us is a consuming fire.

If we remain through these shakings because many Christians won’t – they built their lives on the worldly system and suffered loss because of it having there works burnt up. These days will be the most glorious of all – the days of running over.

Running over, men shall give into your bosom.
The glory of the Lord shall rest upon you. Gross darkness shall cover the earth Isaiah 60:1 and the things that used to work in the world won’t work at all any more. Things have come full circle for mankind since the days of Adam in the garden. The tide has turned and the kingdom of God has begun to take control of the earth in its rightful place of dominion and glory. Where people used to run from us they will begin to run to us. God’s glory shall be seen upon you.

People will see the goodness of God on you and his power to get wealth and will run to you for help. Wealth will be one of the greatest revival calling cards. It’s the goodness of God that leads men to repentance.

Like sale obsessed women clamoring over one another to get the best bargains, people all over the earth will try to get in on this glory that God. They will look to you to show them the way.

Those who stubbornly choose to run the other way will head into waves of deeper and deeper darkness. Those who come to us will enter greater and greater light. We are the light of the world. Don’t shun my prophetic chantings. Running over will men give into your bosom.

When the world comes to us they will give what they have into our control, some in a desperate attempt to not loose it. Some willingly. Our bosom has become a place of unshakable safety and they know it. Willingly or not, their wealth will come in. To remain outside ‘the bosom’ is to be under pressure, shaken together, and run over.

To be against this Gospel of Wealth is to be against the Spirit of the Living God, the Word of the Lord, an innumerable company of angels, God the judge of all, and the spirits of just men made perfect. They who through faith subdued kingdoms and will subdue even theirs.

When we’re done we’re going to end up owning it all.

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