MoneyWalk 127: The People Perish

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Most people fail to rid themselves of the lifestyles and habits that are destructive to them. This rings true for their finances as well as other areas of their lives. We can identify such people in three groups. The first group contains people who go through life unsaved and on their way to hell while at the same time experiencing financial defeat and its pressure and stress except for the few handouts good neighbors give them from time to time that never seem to help them out of poverty. Many people in this group at some point in life usually make a move toward Jesus Christ because their situation dictates that they try something to pull themselves out of financial despair. They must be careful to truly accept Him as Savior and LORD in their hearts instead of simply accepting Him in confession only with an aim to turn their situation around and then walk out on Him after they have received enough material blessing. Otherwise, they will move to the second group.

The second group contains people who are unsaved and monetarily do well or very well on earth. Though they do well financially and may even be super rich, they are in the midst of eternal poverty by failing to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and LORD, because they're eternally doomed no matter how much money, fame, or power they have in this life. In fact, this is the group from which most people never escape from eternal death to eternal life because position of ease and great blessing in this world blinds them to the need of having a personal devotional relationship with Christ. They tend to be self-centered and success oriented at all costs with an attitude that they are self-sufficient and need no one, especially a God they cannot see with their natural eyes. They generally feel that they have made it on their own and that they can always manipulate, oppress, and abuse other people, if necessary to get what they want on this earth. They have great skill and platforms that could be used to spread the gospel and build the kingdom of God in the hearts of men, but for the reasons noted above they consider their highest priority to be living life by their own rules.

The third group contains people who accepted Christ as Savior and are on their way to heaven, yet they are financially defeated and depressed except for the few times when someone brought them a crumb here or a dollar there to momentarily ease the state of poverty they are living in on earth. While I'd rather be in the third group than in the first two (I was once in the first two), I can do much better in this life than just being saved and on my way to heaven while living defeated on earth. In this short existence on earth, I want to help fund the gospel in my community and around the world and serve as an intentional ambassador for Christ as much as possible. God has ordained a level of wealth for every believer and I want to put myself in a position, through proper stewardship of the money and possessions He entrusts to me, to obtain such wealth for the glory of God and benefit of His kingdom. People in this third group must be careful that they don’t give up their confession and heartfelt believe in Christ due to their continual woes from failure to believe, obey, and receive God’s promises.

Due to the earthly and/or eternal calamity awaiting people in the first three groups who are unrepentant of their sin and/or need for Christ’s power in their lives, I have chosen to be part of a fourth group: those who accept Christ and position themselves to receive heavenly treasures for the up building of His kingdom. There is also a danger to people in this group. They must not let the deceitfulness of riches, power, fame, and position captivate them so much that they throw away humility toward God and man and begin to seek wealth at any cost or fail to use it according to God’s will. Otherwise they may wind up like Demas, who followed the Apostle Paul for many years, but then left that great ministry because he loved the things of the world much more. Oh, what great position would he have had in eternity had he not turned his back on the LORD and His people!

In scripture, God laid out principle after principle concerning how you must handle money to be truly blessed. However, you must study His word and then show yourself approved by using biblical principles in order to better yourself and your finances. Otherwise, you will perish! Either on earth or in eternity and dependent upon the grouping you’re in you may suffer in both realms. So quickly move into that fourth group and commit in your heart to stay there and have an ongoing personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Psalms 2:11-12, Proverbs 29:18, Matthew 8:25, 1Corinthians 8:10-13, 2Peter 3:9
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