Part 5: Wealth Transfer

The great separation of the wheat from the tares, and putting our money where our mouth is.- IDOLS, FEAR OF THE LORD.

Proverbs 19:21 NIV Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

First we understand that God owns everything in the first place. It is HIS to give. It does not inherently belong to the wicked or the righteous. What we all have is God’s, whether believers or not. Therefore God can transfer wealth to anyone. Did he not do this with the Promised land? He literally took it from the wicked and gave it to His People. If this seems unethical, we need to remember that GOD OWNS EVERYTHING in the first place and He can give it to whom He chooses. This does not justify stealing from others. We do live in different times and God works in many ways. In whatever way He chooses to transfer the wealth from the wicked to His children there is no wrong done because it belongs to the one true sovereign God. Of course He is also just so we should always expect Him to do so according to His own code of ethics. If it doesn’t match our code of ethics that’s because we are limited in our understanding and severely handicapped in our perspective. God’s ways [His ethics] are higher than ours. 

Money is God’s property. “The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord; ” and though it may be abused for a time by unrighteous hands, God, in the course of his providence, brings it back to its proper use; and often the righteous possess the inheritance of the wicked. 

Ecclesiastes 2:26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. 

Titus 1:16 ESV They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.James 2:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 8: 17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

James 5:1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

Psalm 21:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

Psalm 50:10 for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 11:I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.12: If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. 

Job 27:16-17  It reads…Though he [the wicked] heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,17 what he lays up, the righteous will wear,and the innocent will divide his silver.  NIV

Those who seek the Lord for guidance in EVERYTHING, desiring his will above their own! That trust and have faith that he WILL provide.  Corinthians 3:12-15 ESV Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Mark 10:29-30 ESV / Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

Matthew 10:42 ESV / And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

Matthew 10:41-42 

The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

Matthew 6:4 ESV / So that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?gain, but eagerly;

2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people

James 5:1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

Joshua 7 The Lord's command to Israel not to take from Jericho anything that was to be destroyed was not obeyed. A man named Achan disobeyed that order, and so the Lord was furious with the Israelites.

Matthew 13:24-30; 38-43.  It is the parable of the wheat and the tares.  It simply says that in the end God will gather the wheat and the tares.  The tares (those unsaved) will be cast into the furnace of fire and will be burned.  But the wheat (the saved, righteous) will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. 

In 1 Timothy 6:9-10, for example, the apostle Paul warns, But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, 2and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet. 3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 4While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.” 5When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. 6The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.7After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.” 9But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.” 10 Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.

July 17th 9:55 p.m. The Lord just said “ there are those who are too responsible and too careful. The Lord says, it is only wisdom if my children are doing it according to my instructions, but it doesn't need to make sense to them as, obedience often doesn't make sense.  Obedience will always crush ”wisdom”. Obedience is required of ALL those who profess to be my children, but wisdom is a stumbling block. My children always believe that their ways are better than mine. That they have it all figured out”.  

Luke 12:16-21 Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops. 17 He began to think to himself, ‘I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do? 18 This is what I will do,’ he told himself; ‘I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will store the grain and all my other goods. 19 Then I will say to myself, Lucky man! You have all the good things you need for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!’ 20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’” 21 And Jesus concluded, “This is how it is with those who pile up riches for themselves but are not rich in God's sight.”13 “No servant can be the slave of two masters; such a slave will hate one and love the other or will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”14 When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money. 15 Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who make yourselves look right in other people's sight, but God knows your hearts. For the things that are considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight. THE WICKED    And verse 10, “Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Give ear to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah,” and he is likening Israel to Sodom and Gomorrah. I think we can relate to that in our country. Verse 11, “‘What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?’ says the Lord.” “I have had enough burnt offerings of rams.”  Verse 13, “Bring your worthless offerings no longer,” in other words, just stop even coming to church and playing religion. I’ve had enough of your hypocrisy. “Incense is an abomination to Me.” Tell the choir to stop singing, I don’t want to hear it. “New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure iniquity in the solemn assembly.” In other words, your gathering together to worship Me is nothing but rank iniquity. Verse 14, “I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, they have become a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them.” So when you spread out your hands in prayer, and you can just see one of the leaders in the temple lifting up their hands upward to God in such a pious stance, God says, “I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, even though you multiply prayers I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. Verse 16, “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean. Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.Cease to do evil,” and verse 18, and how gracious of God, “‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.'” Verse 20, “But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword,” in other words, that’s on you. You can do as he tells you or he will strip you of every dollar. Says the Lord., at 10;12 pm.

Isaiah 55:11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:    It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Money is God’s property. “The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord; ” and though it may be abused for a time by unrighteous hands, God, in the course of his providence, brings it back to its proper use; and often the righteous possess the inheritance of the wicked. So, these are strong verses, are they not? And it speaks to the fact that the vast majority of the nation brought the hypocrisy of their carnality into the public gathering and into the solemn assembly.

Proverbs 13:22.  It says…A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.  RSV   ways whereby God sustains the godly

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 3:21-23:So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apol’los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours; 23 and you are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.  RSV

Wealth of the wicked -I know that you acted in ignorance, but as it has been foretold through the word and the prophets, the Lord says the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. Repent and turn away from your sin.

Acts 3:24 Indeed, beginning with Samuel all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days and you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham through your offspring all peoples on Earth will be blessed when God raised up his servant. He sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways 

Acts 7:43 you have taken up the Tabernacle of Malik and the star of your God. Refund the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon. 

Read Amos 5:25-27

Acts 7:48-52 The most high does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says, heaven is My throne and the Earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? Says the Lord or will? Where will my resting place be as not my hands made all these things?  you stiff-neck people. Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors. You will always resist the holy Spirit. Was there ever a prophet? Your ancestors did not persecute

Acts 8 20 You have no part or share in this ministry because your heart is not right before God repent of the wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you

Acts 9:31 and the church enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the holy Spirit. It increased in numbers. 

Also reference acts 8:1. The Lord says you are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything. That is right. You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? Now the hand of the Lord is against you. 

Acts 13:41 look you scoffers wonder and perish for I'm going to do something in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you. 

Isaiah 55:11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:  It will not return to me empty,but will accomplish what I desire  and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

In Acts 4:32, all the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions were their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power. The apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord. Jesus and God's grace was so powerfully at working them all that there was no needy person among them. From time to time those who own land and houses sold them, bought the money from the sales and put it at the apostle's speed and it was distributed to anyone who had need.