Godly Finances

This is only a small part of what is available in the Doctrinal Study called Godly Financial Principals.

1. Have the right attitude about money.
1. Money is not good nor evil but only a tool.  Out attitude about money is what is good or evil.  Please notice that Paul writes one thing to them that are rich in this world  (1Timothy 6:17) and he writes another thing to they that will be rich  (1Timothy 6:9)
2. Most people living in a third-world culture are poor and teach their children to remain poor because they refuse to let the Bible correct the error taught by their culture.
• Proverbs 21:20 says: There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.  Third-world cultures teach their people to only earn what they are going to spend and to spend what they earn.  Notice that our verse says There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise.  If you do not save then you are not wise.  Joseph saved his world because he was wise  enough to save in time of plenty so that he had in time of need.
3. An attitude that we don't need to seek money is wrong.
• Luke 12:33-37 says: Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.  Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.  Our text says that God will call us blessed  if He finds us actively serving His kingdom when He comes for us.  Getting money to actively build God's kingdom will get us blessed.
4. An attitude of seeking money for things of this world is wrong.
• Matthew 6:19-21 says: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  Notice that it does not condemn saving and laying up for yourselves treasures,  but only where we put them.  Putting out treasure in the flesh, instead of in heaven, is foolish.  Likewise, refusing to put treasure is Heaven is disobedience.
5. An attitude of seeking money for the purpose of building God's kingdom is right.
• Matthew 6:33 says: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Where there is a first, there must be a second.  There is nothing wrong with seeking money if it is for the purpose of helping to build God's kingdom by financially supporting the church.
• Romans 16:1-2 says: I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.  Notice that Paul told this ministry, which was not yet a church, to help her earn money for the purpose of building the church.
6. Money is only a tool.  Our attitude about it is what blesses or curses us.
• 1Timothy 6:10 says: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.  Money is not the root of all evil  but the love of money is.  It is the attitude.  Notice that this attitude causes saved people to err from the faith, and pierce themselves through with many sorrows.  Our love is to be God and the service to God with money only a tool to be used in that service.
7. Truly diligent Godly people seek ways to help build the kingdom of God.
• Proverbs 21:5 says: The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
8. Most people living in a third-world culture are poor and teach their children to remain poor because they refuse to let the Bible correct the error taught by their culture.
• Proverbs 28:20 says: A faithful man shall abound with blessings  If you can not provide financial blessings to God's work then you are not faithful  in your finances.
9. In all of these verses and more we are told that our attitude towards money will get us blessings or cursing.  People who seek money for what it provides in the flesh will be cursed.  However, people who refuse to get money to build God's kingdom will lose their blessings and can actually be punished by God.  The people who actively sought money for the purpose of building God's kingdom were the only people who were actually blessed.
2. Our actions with money can cause good or evil.
1. In both the parable of the pounds and the parable of the talents we see one saved person in heaven who was cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth  (Matthew 8:12; Matthew 22:13; Matthew 25:30; Luke 19).  This judgment happens at the judgment seat of Christ  which is more than one thousand years before the great white throne  judgment where God wipes away all tears from saved.  'No tears in heaven' is a lie from Satan.  The judgment seat of Christ  is where our works are judged and people who have no works  will have tears in heaven regardless of their attitude.  Going to the altar is not enough.  We must back our decisions with actual action.
2. Philippians 4:17 says: Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.  The people in the church which supported Paul financially received fruit in their heavenly account because of their actions in supporting the ministry of missions.  The people who did not earn money and could not support the missionary received no fruit in their heavenly account.
3. 2Corinthians 5:9-11 says: Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.  Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.  If we work and use our money to help build ministries (we persuade men),  we will receive a reward at the judgment seat of Christ.  However, if we don't do that then we will receive the terror of the Lord.
3. We must be God's child first before we have a heavenly account which can receive fruit for our future use.

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