MoneyWalk 191: A Good Education Does Not Require Massive Debt

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Higher levels of college education are being called the great prosperity equalizer for mankind. Everyone you hear is touting educational degrees as the pathway to success and fulfillment. Our politicians have gotten into the game as well as business leaders all claiming to be for education and touting it as the greatest investment our nation, state, and individuals could ever make.

They want more and more money to be put toward higher education even though they have not yet shown they can balance budgets, spend revenues responsibly, or produce enough jobs to cover the majority of graduates who have racked up tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt.

Thousands of schools, universities, and new extremely high-priced degree mills are taking up an ever increasing portion of people’s income each and every year to provide this education. It is not uncommon to see many people graduate with bachelors, masters, doctorates, and/or law degrees with $25,000 to $175,000 of student loan debt. Some incur this level of debt and do not graduate. I’m an advocate of good education, but I’m not an advocate of education that warps people into ungodly mindsets and into debt-ridden conditions that work to destroy their future before it’s even started.

Many people are unaware that the United States legacy of education and institutions of higher learning started under the auspices of Christianity. Yet, so much of God’s plan, perfect will, and commands for mankind have been lost to humanistic educational thinking that is self-serving and destructive for individuals and nations. This is simply a shame and is leading us down a path of destruction and people are paying much more for that destruction.

The best education that one can get is from the Word of God and it should be made the central focus of your life. Other education through schools, institutions, independent study, and experience should be sifted by the Word to ensure that only that which is good, useful, and glorifying to God is allowed to be put on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ as head of your life.

When you make the education you seek subservient to your relationship with Christ and the vision He gives for your giftings, abilities, and developed skills to be used in the marketplace (including the Church), then your education will not only be valuable while you are on earth but it will have eternal value. In addition, He will lead you to obtain worthwhile education in a way and from institutions, when necessary, that will not leave you with huge student loan debt that puts you in bondage and pierces you with sorrows for many decades to come.

Having taken a different path than all the other people who are running to and clamoring for the worldly education process and the massive indebtedness it heaps upon them, you will instead gain the education you need at the cost that is well within your budget and you will come out on the other side well-rounded with all the tools, mindset, and inner hope necessary to fulfill your God-given purpose.

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Proverbs 1:7, Matthew 6:23-24, Luke 9:25-26, Philippians 4:8-9, 2Timothy 2:15-19

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MoneyWalk 190: Biblical Financial Calculations

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

A friend recently asked me how the net-worth equation corresponds to scriptural truth. He figured that blessing equals obedience minus sin was equivalent to net-worth equals assets minus liabilities. We figured that blessing was not the right component for this equation because God blesses just and unjust people, therefore obedience is not always a determinate of whether someone will be blessed with earthly goods.

However, the equation rewards for faithfulness to God equals obedience to God’s commands minus sin could be more accurate because one who lives in Christ will receive the eternal rewards of everlasting life and will also receive natural rewards and prosper to give God glory in the earth and fulfillment of purpose.

Another biblical equation, salvation equals acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and LORD minus your old sinful nature is also valid. Salvation is the greatest reward that one can receive and results in true net-worth. Acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and LORD is the best form of obedience that results in the greatest asset and the old sinful nature is synonymous with a continual lifestyle of sin that is the greatest liability that one can ever have.

If you allow the old man (the carnal nature inside) to have pre-eminence over accepting Christ as Savior and pursuing obedience to His will, then you have a negative salvation (spiritual liability), which is really no salvation at all and no hope of an eternal home in Heaven. The fate of this condition, when not resolved before you leave this earth, is far worse than having a negative financial net-worth while you roam this earth.

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Jeremiah 29:10-14, Romans 4:16-25, Hebrews 4:1-7, Hebrews 7:15-28

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MoneyWalk 189: Who Truly Has The Most?

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Looking through natural eyes men have always branded as “rich” the people with the most money and high cost material resources while at the same time believing those to be “poor” who currently have little money and low cost possessions. We many times think of multi-millionaires and billionaires as the haves and seek to be like them because we want to experience having the most just like they do. In addition, we tend to think they must automatically be acceptable in God’s eyes and pleasing to him because they would not have otherwise amassed worldly riches and the culture of fine clothes, good speech, and engaging public character that seems to be connected to it.

On the other hand, we sometimes believe the middle class, mom’s living on welfare, and low-income families are the have-nots who might not be acceptable to God because they have not displayed the vision, plan, actions, and networks to amass worldly riches and many times seem to barely get by. We avoid many of them because they lack a desire for finery, have slang-ridden speech, and their character is not trying to engage us in a next big endeavor. At the very least, let’s be honest about the fact that we tend to show greater respect for and cater to people who appear rich based on what we can see in the natural. They are our ideal of self-made, successful people who have it all and if we can only bump heads with them at some point we can have the same kind of wonderful life and spiritual worth.

Well, stop looking with your natural eyes and begin to see with your spiritual eyes. Jesus said the abundance of life does not consist of the things that one possesses (including money) and that it profits a man nothing to gain the world then lose his soul. While God may bless you and reward you on earth or allow you to be blessed, your worth is not based on how much money or fine things you have accumulated.

Your worth is solely and wholly based on having a relationship with Jesus Christ in accordance with the bible. This is the only relationship that saves you from the wages of sin, which is eternal damnation. It ensures that you are the most (in Christ) and now the Holy Spirit leads you in a way that seeks to help you have the most according to God’s plan for the rest of your life and the ways in which He wants you to help and be of service to many other people in your community and beyond. Being in Christ ensures that you truly have the Most of what really matters.

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Psalm 36:7-9, Luke 12:13-21, John 10:1-10, James 2:1-10, Revelations 2:8-11

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MoneyWalk 188: The Battle Rages But Believers Ultimately Win

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

We are in a spiritual battle for the use of our lives and this includes the stewardship of all the money the Lord entrusts to us. God He created us to worship and please Him so we will experience peace, joy, and contentment. He has given us principles in the scriptures to use for getting the most out of every area of our lives. We will experience His best as we walk in the newness of life lead by the Holy Spirit.

Yet, satan is opposed to God’s plan and is determined to try and destroy every area of our lives. He wants to usurp the Lord’s all powerful, omnipresent, and all knowing character. So, he tries to steal your affection (worship) by leading you to doubt redemption (salvation) in Jesus Christ. He knows that without redemption you will not have a home in Heaven when you die. Instead, you will make your bed in Hell, even though it was originally created only for satan and his demonic cohorts.

Satan also wants you to doubt the benefit of utilizing biblical principles in the management of your life and finances. He attempts to defile and destroy you by tempting you to live by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.

Satan will never become God or succeed in his plan to usurp God’s authority. In God’s perfect timing, satan will be judged and thrown into Hell to suffer forever with fallen angels and humans who decided to follow him in rebellion. Yet, when you do not choose to accept Jesus Christ’s gift of salvation, satan’s plan for you succeeds in keeping you from the blessing of eternal life and from earthly rewards given to faithful believers.

Please pray for this ministry and email any questions. May God bless you richly as you follow His plan!!!

Isaiah 14:12-15, 2Corinthians 4:1-5, Galatians 5:13-26, Jude 1:24-25, Revelations 20:1-15

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