POWER FINANCES SYLLABUS

KINGDOM BUILDERS

I.    JESUS WALKED IN THE BLESSINGS OF GOD

A.  SCRIPTURAL EXAMPLES

1. John 1:38 where dwellest thou - had his own home

2. Mt. 17:27 Taxes - fish Mt. 22:19-21 Render to Caesar -wouldn’t give to Caesar that which belonged to God in his money bag.

3. Jn 13:29 Judas - bag of money,  John 12:6 - had the bag, a treasure and treasurer

4. Luke 8:3 women ministered to him of their substance

5. John 19: 23-24 Jesus' coat - woven no seam - highest quality - expensive.

6. Mark 6:36-37 Shall we buy 200 Pennyworth (1 yr. wages) - disciples entertained buying bread for 5000 men not including women and children.

7. Matt. 26:7, Mk. 14:3, Lk 7:37 Alabaster, very precious - memorial, not a waste

8. Matt. 27:57 Rich man - Joseph of Arimethea - grave

9. Mark 10:17-31 Rich young ruler -offer 100 fold - wouldn't have said it if he couldn't deliver.  Luke 18:30 – manifold more

B.   BY ANALOGY OR INFERENCE

Jesus was the first born step son of a Jewish carpenter by trade.  It was not given in scriptures what happened to Joseph after Jesus was age 12.  Jesus probably, like most young Jewish boys inherited Joseph’s carpentry business.  Therefore, until the age of 30 when he began his public ministry, it is believed that Jesus probably plied his trade as a carpenter in his own business.  Matt. 13:55...”Is not this the carpenter’s son?”

II.                 REASON FOR JESUS’ EXAMPLE

2 COR. 8:9  For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Poor – 4433 -  beggar, indigent

Rich – 4147 – become wealthy, (lit or fig), be increased with goods, (be made,wax) rich.

THE TITHE

I.          THE TITHE PRINCIPLE     

A.  In the Law

                        1.  Deut. 12:11 ..thither shall ye bring all...tithes

            B.  As a Faith Principle

                        1.  Gen. 14:20  ...And he gave him tithes of all

II.        WHAT THE TITHE IS  -  2 PURPOSES

            A.  Lev. 27:30 ...All the tithe ...is the Lord's.

            B.  Deut. 26:12  When thou hast made an end of tithing...giving unto the Levite, etc.

III.       WHAT THE TITHE DOES..Prov. 3:5-10....Honor the Lord with thy substance... 

            You only honor the Lord in three ways: 

1.  presence, Isa:58:13, 

                        2.  worship Ps:66:2, Ps:71:8

                        3.  tithe,  Prov. 3:5-10....

IV.       ARTICLE stated that  3% of discretionary income is tithed...WOW!  No wonder there is such a problem with finances these days... Discretionary income is not gross income,  but that amount of income that is left over that you judge to spend as you see fit.  There are 2 million personal bankruptcies projected to the year 2000.  Evangelical churches need to get up to speed if we are going to evangelize the world.

V.        PROMISE IN TITHING-  Mal. 3:8-12....bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,

VI.       NEW TESTAMENT PREMISE

A.  Heb. 7:4...Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils,..tithe sprang from the tribe of Judah.

B.  Mt. 23:23 -  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint ... and not to leave the other undone.

DEFINITIONS

Lord's - 3068 Heb.  Yehovah..Self-Existent or Eternal, Jewish national name of God ...Jehovah, the Lord

Honor - in a good sense.., numerous, rich, honorable, to make weighty, promote to honor

meat - tereph Heb.  something torn, i.e. a fragment, a fresh leaf, prey, food, leaf, meat, prey, spoil

windows - sluice

pour - 7324 pour out, empty, pour forth

rebuke - chide, rebuke, reprove

destroy - 7843 - decay, ruin, batter, cast off, corrupt, destroy, lose, mar, perish, spill, utterly, waste

POVERTY, MAMMON, POWER

I.   PRESENT PROBLEMS

A.  A recent survey of 1569 homes # 1 greatest need  -  money.  The # 2 greatest need - jobs

B.  Personal bankruptcies in America - 1996 over1.24 million - up 35 percent from 918,964 in 1995. tripled since 1981, projection is over 2 million in  the year 2000.

C. 

And the most electrifying survey states that 95% of people in America retire on poverty income.

II.      SPIRIT OF POVERTY

     A.   Col 2:8  Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit …  The truth is that poverty is neither pious nor holy, but rather a curse, a trial, or an out and out attack of the devil. 

     B.    Deut 28:15-58  Curses

     C.    Deut 8:3  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, …Test or trial

     D.   Job 1:8,9  An attack of the devil

The definition of poverty from the Hebrew word MAGHCOWR is deficiency, impoverishment, lack, need, penury, poor, want. 

     E.  Proverbs 13:18  Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction.  Just ask a poor man one day if he enjoys being poor.

     F.    How many friends does a poor man have?

1.         Good Samaritan in Luke 10:29-36. the priest and the levite

2.         Proverbs 19:7. All the brethren of the poor do hate him:  how much more do his friends

3.         Proverbs 19:4, "Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor. Proverbs 14:20, "The poor is hated even of his neighbor, but the rich hath many friends."

     G.   Proverbs 28:6, "better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich."  Now this is not an argument for the producing of holiness in a man through poverty. 

     H.   Being poor neither makes one wise or long remembered.  Ecclesiastes 9:13-18

Being poor and living in poverty does not supply your needs much less your wants; it does not produce holiness, piousness, righteousness, uprightness; it does not make one wise or remembered; it produces no friends; and worst of all it is also a curse from God for all who disobey his word. 

     I.     The rich, too, can have a spirit of poverty. You have reached the ceiling in your earnings' potential.  Likely, you have a poverty mentality and can't cross that earnings threshold.  Remember the definition of poverty includes the words deficiency, need or want.  It does not just mean penury or poor

     Proverbs 10:22, "The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it."

III.         THE SPIRIT OF MAMMON

          Mammon – Mammonas Gr. - wealth personified and avarice deified.  The definition puts money on the same plane as a spirit.  Though money is a physical attribute having neither soul nor body, it does have a spirit behind it that affects all men rich or poor.  Ephesians 6:12 says, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."  In 1 Corinthians 10:17-20, we see that things offered in sacrifice to an idol is actually sacrificed to the devil behind the idol, as the idol is nothing in itself.  So we see that spirits are behind many things that affect us in life and by analogy we surmise that as money is nothing, it is the spirit behind money that we have to overcome.  Rich men and poor men alike have come under the spell of mammon from time to time.

IV.    POWER

         

           A.     From Rags to Riches – Story of Joseph

1.  Gen. 37:5-10  Joseph’s dream

2.  Gen. 37:24  Joseph in the pit

3.  Gen. 39:1  Joseph bought by Potiphar

4.  Gen. 39:2  Joseph was a prosperous man

5.  Gen. 39:20  Joseph in prison

6.  Gen. 39:23  …Lord made it to prosper

7.  Gen. 41:25  Joseph interprepts a dream for Pharaoh

8. 

Gen. 41:40-46  Joseph becomes ruler under Pharaoh

V.        AUTHORITY THROUGH POWER – 2 KINDS 

                      

A.  Dunamis – 1411 - miraculous power – Acts 1:8, Luke 9:1 

            B.  Exousia – 1849 - delegated  Matt. 9:8  He gave them power – 

               1. Take authority over devil

               2. use words of mouth - heritage and covenant

               3. spirit of God on us anointing.

               4. power delegated

               5. power internally

               6. recognize power within - most don't after receiving from on high

               7. bountiful eye

               8. faith

               9. mind change imperative.

DEFINITIONS:

Prosperous  6743 – tsaleach – to push forward, in various senses, breakout, come (mightily), go over, be profitable, prosper.

rich  6238, - ashar, to accumulate, chiefly (spec.) to grow (Make ) rich be (-come, en-, make, make self, wax ) rich.

PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD

I.          DEFINITION- Partner - one who is in business with another.  They share money and property and talents as well as profits and losses.

II.        BUILD MIND

            A. Prov. 23:7 As a man thinketh in his heart so is he

            B. Mind needs a success explosion

III.       HAVING A DREAM of prosperity vs dream  of fear of getting rich

            A. You have a  right to the harvest.  God’s promise.  Jer. 33:3,9, 14; Gen. 17:1-8.

            B.  God said to me to join him as a partner, then enlist  others to be a partner with me.  In so doing they would be a partner with God.

            C.  If what you have done last 10 years not working repray -insane to continue

            D.  Is. 45:3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

E.  Is. 48:15, 17 ...Teach you to profit ( to ascend, to be valuable, useful, benefited, can do good, profit.)...

F.  Prov. 22:4 Thru humility & fear of the Lord is riches, honor, and life

            G.  2 Tim. 2:6 Husbandman first partaker

IV.       KOINONIA - partnership , fellowship, 1 Cor 1:9 Partner, 2 cor 8:4, Phil 1:5, 1 John 1:3-7 

            A.  John 12:24, I Cor. 15:36.  Put your money in God’s  Kingdom or business & let God multiply it - in his hands - put in God’s hands & he will multiply seed --left alone it will do nothing - sown, it will die and live by power in God to multiply

            B.  Luke 5:1-11  - Business  -  No lasting value in casual relations.  Forsook all and followed him...

            C.  Matt. 10:40-42 Receive a prophet in the name of a prophet and you will  receive a prophets reward...

            D.  2 Chron 20:20 Believe the Lord and you shall be established, believe his prophets and you will prosper.

                        1. Partners

                        2. Stories of Tori;  Stuart;  Billy, Fishing story

V.        COMMUNICATE(PAY MONEY, TLB) to him that taught.  Gal. 6: 6 

DEFINITIONS:

Prosper – 6743 Heb. -  tsaleach – break out, come (mightily), go over, be profitable, (cause to, effect, make to ,send) prosper (-ity, -ous, -ously).

Wealth – 2428 – chayil – wealth, power, riches, strength, strong, substance . Probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources.

I.    SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD

      A. 95 % OF Americans retire in poverty level.- eager to live on S.S.                  

B.  Matt. 6:33  Seek ye first the Kingdom of God…manifest in 3 ways

1.  Lk:17:21 … behold, the kingdom of God is within you.    

2.  Hag. 1:8  Build the house

3.  Eph. 4:11  And he gave some , apostles; …Deut. 12:19 forsake not the Levite, Deut. 26:12-13  hast given it (tithe to the Levite, the stranger…..)

II.  GOD’S BLESSING

      A. Deut. 8:18  Power to get wealth

     B. Deut. 28:1-13  Head not tail

     C. Matt 6:19-34  Seek first the Kingdom

III.       THE PROBLEM - HAG. 1:3-14  Pockets with holes, not building the house of God.

IV.       GOD’S PLAN

      A. Hag. 2:14-19 Will bless - Have desire to seek kingdom in your heart.

     B. Seek Kingdom not worldly possessions - Luke 16:9-13 Cannot serve God &  Mammon

     C. Reform:

          1.  Neh. 9:36,37 in distress

          2.  Neh. 10:31 in debt

          3.  Neh. 10:37-39 Bring tithes; not forsake house

          4.  Neh. 13:10,11 Levites, singers - House forsaken

          5.  Neh. 13:13 made treasurers over treasuries

          6.  Neh. 13:15 Treading on Sabbath

          7.  Neh. 13:22 Cleanse selves

          8.  Neh. 13:23-25 Don’t give daughters to heathen

V.      SYNOPSIS

     A. First, seek the kingdom of God.  God will then add to us.  Second, begin to build the physical house, i.e. the church proper.  Third, we must get our heart right towards God through repentance from sin and worldliness.  Fourth, a heart that is right has right actions.  Literally clean up your house, your tabernacle of flesh (your body) from sin, unclean thoughts, unclean actions, etc. , begin to honor God on his day.  Fifth, bring your tithes and offerings into the house of God that he will have meat in his house for the Levites (God’s ministers at the altar).  This is the link between God and man; His delegated authority, the minister,  whom if we honor and respect and support in the ministry (those who watch over our souls and those that minister the word to us), then God will have respect toward us and bless us.  If we accept and honor these men, then the analogy is that we accept and honor God.  If we reject these men, then we reject God.  Matt. 10:40, “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.”

“SOWING & REAPING”

 

 

I.    THE HARVEST AND ITS RELATION TO GOD’S     

     A. You have a  right to the harvest.  God has given it to us by promise.  Jer. 32:40-42, 33:3,9, 14; Gen. 17:1-8.

     B.    Is. 48:15, 17 ...Teach you to profit ( to ascend, to be valuable, useful, benefited, profit.)...

C.     2 Tim. 2:6 Husbandman first partaker

     D.   John 12:24, I Cor. 15:36.  Put your money in God’s  Kingdom or business & let God multiply it - in his hands - put in God’s hands & he will multiply seed --left alone it will do nothing - sown, it will die and live by power in God to multiply

E.    Ps 35:27  Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

II.      OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT EXAMPLES OF SOWING AND REAPING

     A. 2 Cor. 9:5-15 soweth bountifully, multiply

B. Amos 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed…also Lev. 26:5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time:

III.    EXAMPLES OF SOWING MONEY

Deut. 8:18  But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

Definitions:

power - chayil, khah'-yil; from 2342; prob. a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength:--able, activity, (+) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, (+) valiant (-ly), valour, virtuous (-ly), war, worthy (-ily).

Sowing  -  To plant seeds to produce a crop.

Reaping – To cut and gather grain (or similar crop).  To harvest a crop.  To obtain as a result of effort.  Reap profits.