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A Few words about Jerry...
Economics:
The science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of commodities
Commodities:
a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee
Giving devolves from gratitude to expectation to entitlement.
Lupton, Robert D
(2011-10-11).
Toxic Charity: How the Church Hurts Those They Help and How to Reverse It (p.
34).
Harper Collins, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
How do you keep it from getting to this point?
I said it a few weeks ago but we strive to make sure that how we give does not devalue the person we are giving too.
It is important that the one we give to has the opportunity to give back and show that they have value to you as well.
(Example: providing for your children is good.
When it becomes appropriate you give them the opportunity to give back by helping around the house.
This allows them to see that they are valuable when they can help)
Examples of how Bridge of Faith does this...
1.) From free clothes give aways to thrift stores
2.) From all out benevolence to now hiring students to work for us and earn a pay check
In Kingdom Economics, we believe work is a good thing.
God worked and God is good so therefore we conclude that work is good.
Work it
Work it or cultivate it means to improve it or foster growth.
Watch over it
To watch over or maintain means to preserve from failure or keep from decline.
Now to building on this topic of Kingdom Economics and how work fits in.
Work is the normal and appropriate way for people to provide for themselves
Some in Thessalonica were spending all their time spreading a false Gospel.
Paul addresses this in his second letter to the church.
They had stopped everything to do this.
Paul says if anyone will not work, then he should not eat.
Work is the means by which we provide food for ourselves and our families.
Paul goes on to address this further by saying some are not only not working but they are interfering with the work of others.
It is one thing to have an employee who will not work but it becomes really discouraging to have an employee who not only does not work but also interrupts the work of others.
This is a battle in our community as we seek to transform a generation that transforms our community is people interfering with the work of others.
Parents let me encourage you not to interfere with the work of your children.
Kingdom principle for parents
Don’t interfere with the work of your children.
It is right for parents to desire for their children to work and to succeed in their work.
I want my children to be smarter than me, better equipped emotionally than myself, and have more success than I have had.
I strive to not interfere with their work but to help them succeed in their work.
Parents resist the temptation to interfere with your child’s work.
It is selfish if you reject success for your child because they may be better than you were growing up.
Some as adults this morning might have grown up in an environment where your parents did not what you to succeed because success might mean that you move out and they feel abandoned because you left them.
(Recognize it then ask Jesus to empower you with forgiveness)
Christians may we work quietly and eat our own food.
Discipline those who don’t heed this warning
1 Thessalonians 4:10–12 (HCSB)
10b But we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more,
11 to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
12 so that you may walk properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.
to seek to lead a quiet life,
to mind your own business
to work with your own hands
not be dependent on anyone
Wages for working
Prophets declare judgment on those who oppress through poor wages
James 5:4–5 (HCSB)
4 Look!
The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
5 You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves.
You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.
Conclusion:
· Work is good
· In Kingdom Economics we are not to glean the edges of the field but produce work for the poor among us
· Church assistance should revolve around creating work for those in need
· Work is the normal and appropriate way for people to provide for themselves
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