Gospel of Wealth – Chapter Two

God is Wealth

When confronted with the glory of God, the human mind blows clear, flesh gets weak, and time stands still. Everything changes in the presence of the Most High God. I know I’ve been there.

When I was seventeen years old I was spending time ‘praying The Word’ – taking a section of the Bible and praying it in the first person. I happened to be in Psalm 119 and thought I’d be smart and pray the whole thing – all 176 verses of it!

As I was kneeling next to my bed with the Bible open in front of me –I must have gotten about half way through– all of a sudden, the room disappeared. The bed was gone, the Bible was gone, and my room was gone. I was, at once, in some other place. I found myself face down on the floor in a grand auditorium. I was aware of others on either side of me – I could count fourteen. I’m sure there were more. We were facedown in a semi-circle with our heads directed toward the center of this enormous room.

In the middle of this room was, what I knew to be, the Throne of God. The Throne was high and lifted up on steps similar to stairs and there were two unusual beings – one on either side of it. I don’t know what these beings were I just I assumed they were angels.

I didn’t lift my head, I could but I didn’t dare. Everything I could see I saw by knowing it was there. All I could think was, "Man, this place is holy, what am I doing here!" All I could speak was "holy, holy, holy."

We don’t grasp the enormity of God. The limits of our thinking can’t weigh the vastness of His wealth. We live in the box of a finite mind. Time and measurement belong to man but infinity belongs to God.

Physical strength crumbles in the holy presence of the Most High. People fall to the floor: they don’t speak, they barley can think. The extreme glory of God is hard to express.

Imagine a room full of the richest most powerful people in the world, even if you couldn’t muster the courage to speak, you surely could stand. With God this isn't so. Flesh reacts poorly in the presence of God.

Emotion and reason evaporate in the presence of God. Holiness is all that’s left. Only one word is found on the lips of the consumed worshipper – holy, holy, holy… Holiness encompasses all that God is. He is Holy.

Holiness is the attribute that makes God, God. Holiness is the defining agent that sets Him apart from the ‘almost as high’ or some other being. All mighty, all knowing, ever present, the best, the most, and the greatest: these traits can belong only to ONE and that One is therefore Holy.

Holiness is not an endless list of human dos and don’ts as many have preached. Holiness is what God is. Everything he is, does, or has to do with begins and ends in pure holiness. If it isn’t holy it’s not from God.

The gospel of wealth begins with an understanding of true holiness.
Holiness is purity in its purest state. Holiness is absolute perfection – absolute freedom from corruption and incorruptible by nature. Holiness is marked by being or possessing – the greatest, the best, or the most of something or EVERYTHING without limitation or equal. Holiness, in short, is God himself.

Nothing can be ‘half’ holy. It is or it isn’t. Only one can be most high. Only one can be the greatest. These words confine all others to an unavoidable lower rank – not quite as high or mostly great.

Whatever the attribute, whatever the condition, if it is of God it is incorruptible, complete, and perfect. It is HOLY. The life of God is holy for in him there is no death at all. The light of God is holy for in him there is no darkness at all. The wealth of God is holy for in him there is no poverty at all.

Creation was the out-breaking of Heaven’s perfection into the natural realm. All wisdom, wealth, taste, beauty, strength, money, or glory came from one prime source – Heaven. In the beginning was God. All creation came from one infinite storehouse – God himself.

Talk about God and you’re talking about wealth. Talk about wealth and you’re talking about God. They are one in the same for God is the author and source of all that is.

The true measure of how much wealth a person has is based on how well connected they are with God. Any other measurement is fatally flawed. Having God is having wealth. If you have God you have wealth. You might not know how to access this wealth, but you have it.

God is wealth and His wealth is holy. Poverty is a corruption that cannot remain in the presence of God. When God shows up poverty disappears. If you live in His presence, poverty will cease to exist in your life.
God is wealth and in Him there is no poverty at all.

Table of Contents | Chapter Three