How are you doing?
It is wonderful to be with you.
And we are going straight in right now
to the Kingdom Economics Masterclass Session Three.
And great news as well is that we have a bonus session
coming later today, 3 p.m. New Zealand time.
I'll put some notices out with a guest speaker
who stewards tens of millions of dollars for the kingdom.
So that's gonna be great.
Stay tuned for that.
Right now, I am delighted to be launching
into Session Three with you.
Let me know what you have found valuable so far.
We had the first session with Zee and I,
second session yesterday that I taught on Phase One
of Jesus Economic Training Program.
So Jesus has an economic training program
to impart to us the ways of royalty
so that we can rule and reign over money.
And this is gonna be Phase Two.
We're gonna teach on Phase Two today.
Last session was Phase One.
And the next session that I teach will be the third phase.
So it's wonderful to have you guys with me.
Let me know whereabouts you are joining,
whether it's live or delayed.
I love journeying with you and tracking with you.
So a massive welcome once again to the adventure.
I'm gonna pray and then we're gonna launch into this.
It's gonna be glorious.
But let me ask you, just before I pray,
do you think that we should be teaching tithing
or kingdom economics, which is a more biblical idea?
And what should we be teaching in our churches?
What should we be teaching in our families, to our kids?
And what should we be living?
So let's pray and we're gonna jump right into it.
Jesus, Abba Father, Holy Spirit, wow, we love you.
And we thank you for this moment right now.
We thank you for the sacred economic assignment
that you've placed on our lives.
We thank you for the calling that you have given us
to be great stewards.
We thank you for the calling that you have given us
to rule and to reign over money,
to be those that walk in intimacy and dominion,
to be those that disciple nations,
to be those that walk in our royal birthright.
And as we go today, as we speak, Holy Spirit,
I thank you for ministering to us.
I thank you for tearing down lies,
tearing down orphan mindsets, slave mindsets,
and establishing royal mindsets in our hearts
and in our minds.
And I thank you for breaking off things
that would enslave us to money in our hearts
and in our minds.
I thank you for releasing purity of heart, purity of mind,
and releasing a grace on our lives to steward like royalty
in Jesus' name, amen.
Well, it is such a delight to have you on this journey.
And I wanna do one quick check of the tech,
make sure that everything's flowing like it should be.
And I believe it is.
Fantastic, everything is going great.
So, here we are.
Now, this is phase two, okay?
Yesterday in the last session,
and check it out if you missed it,
but in the last session,
we looked at the first phase of the economic training
that Jesus has for us to teach us how to rule and reign
and power and love over finances,
to teach us how to walk in the ways of kingdom royalty.
And this session, we're looking at phase two, all right?
How do we step in phase two?
So, let's have a quick overview
of Jesus' economic training system.
So, phase one, it's all about economic alignment, okay?
So, let's say that, say phase one is economic alignment.
And in phase one, Jesus deals with us to ensure
that we're walking in purity of heart and mind,
because that's the first way that money will rule over us,
is if it can corrupt our hearts and corrupt our minds,
and then can take a place of idolatry
and take a place of control,
where it controls our motivation,
it controls our priorities,
it usurps God's place in our lives.
So, Jesus wanted to ensure
that we had pure hearts and pure mind.
And actually, a lot of what Jesus taught about
in his teaching on economics,
the most of it was actually teaching us
on how to have pure hearts and pure minds.
And so, but then when Jesus gets to Matthew chapter 25,
he stops that talking about pure hearts and pure minds,
he stops the phase one training,
same in Luke in chapter 19,
he stops the phase one training and he moves on,
he transitions into the phase two training,
and say this, say phase two is economic assignment.
Okay, so phase two is economic assignment.
And Jesus stops at Matthew 25 and goes, boom,
transitions into phase two,
same in Luke 19, stops the phase one training,
transitions into phase two training,
which is economic assignment.
And I'm not sure if anyone has ever told you this before,
but you have a sacred God-given
economic assignment on your life.
And it's a beautiful thing.
So after phase two, phase three,
Jesus moves on to economic reformation.
And that's what I'm gonna cover in my next session
with you is economic reformation.
But we're gonna focus in now, phase two,
we are focusing in on the sacred God-given
economic assignment that rests on your life,
because there's big risks and big rewards
on whether you steward this or whether you don't.
So to be honest, most people have never actually heard that.
And have you ever heard that?
Have you ever heard that there's a sacred
economic assignment on your life?
Have you ever heard that there is a lot to be lost
and a lot to be gained?
There's big risks and big rewards
and significant consequences
for whether or not you actually steward
the sacred economic assignment on your life.
So God is really testing all of us right now.
In our whole lives, God is testing us
in regards to how we steward finances.
And God's looking for some things.
God is looking, will you be a faithful servant
or will you be a lazy servant?
Will you be a faithful steward
or will you be a lazy servant?
And I have to say that for myself,
most of my life, when it came to finances,
I would have been called a lazy servant.
And now that's not because I was lazy
or like 12 hour days are nothing for me.
And it's been that way my whole life.
And I spent, when I first started going
after the call of God in my life,
see money didn't rule over me in my heart and my mind.
There was purity there and to the point
where I was happy to lay my whole life down.
So when I started pursuing the call of God
on my life full time, I had a $25 support a fortnight.
And of that $25, I gave 20 of those dollars
to my sponsored kid, Siddharth in Africa.
So in that area, money didn't rule over my heart
and my mind, there was a total laid down life to Jesus.
But the way that it did rule over me is poverty.
I had no money.
I didn't know about stewarding finances and money.
So we're gonna explore the journey.
We're gonna go on this journey together
on actually how we can rule and reign over money
because there was a big change came.
When I discovered what I'm gonna share with you right now,
there was a big change came into my life
in terms of figuring out how to walk
in the sacred economic assignment on my life
and being able to actually start stewarding finances.
So I actually began to rule over money
so that money no longer was able to tell me what to do,
but I could start telling money
what to do.
So a huge shift took place in my life.
It started really, really small,
but it has become a really massive change.
And we're gonna share,
I'm gonna share that with you in this session today.
So firstly, we're gonna look at two parables,
Matthew 25, the parable of the talents
and Luke 19, the parable of the minors.
Okay, so are you ready?
Are you ready for this?
We're gonna deep dive.
It's gonna be beautiful, gonna be glorious.
Matthew 25, starting at verse 14,
going through to verse 28 right now.
So come with me if you've got your Bibles,
grab it, here we go.
But a little context before we start that
is that a talent,
a talent was valued at about a million New Zealand dollars.
Okay, so a talent was 20 years wages
and it was a bag, a big bag full of gold.
Like it was an 18 kilogram bag full of gold.
So a talent is a pretty significant amount, right?
And so, you know, in New Zealand,
the average working wage is about, you know,
the average wage is about $49,000, $50,000 a year.
So if you, you know, a million dollars is 20 years wages.
So this was a significant amount of money
that they were being given to Stuart,
18 kilograms of gold.
So here we go, verse 14.
Again, it will be like a man going on a journey
who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.
To one, he gave five bags of gold.
That's about $5 million in New Zealand money.
It's $5 million New Zealand dollars.
To another, two bags, $2 million.
And to another one, one bag, each according to his ability.
Then he went on his journey.
The man who had received five bags of gold
went at once and put his money to work
and gained five bags.
So also the one with two bags of gold gained two more.
The one who had received one bag went off,
dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
After a long time, the master of those servants returned
and settled accounts with them.
The one who had received five bags of gold
brought the other five.
Master, he said, you entrusted me with five bags of gold.
See, I have gained five more.
His master replied, well.
done good and faithful servant, you have been faithful with a few things, I will put you
in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness. Something interesting
here. One, in regards to the sacred economic assignment on your life, winning looks like
multiplication, okay? It's really good to know what winning looks like. It looks like
multiplication. If you want to make Jesus happy with how you're stewarding your finances,
you want to multiply it, okay? So multiplication. Another interesting point there is that $5
million was just considered a few things, all right? You've been faithful with a few
things, let me entrust you with much more. Come and share your master's happiness. All
right, verse 22. The man with two bags of gold also came. Master, he said, you entrusted
me with two bags of gold. See, I have gained two more. His master replied, well done, good
and faithful servant. You've been faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge
of many things. Come and share your master's happiness. So another thing we can take from
this and understand from this is that there are multifaceted rewards and benefits for
being a good financial steward in the kingdom, right? Both in this life and in eternity.
Verse 24, let's carry on. Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. Master,
he said, I know that you are a hard man and harvesting where you have not sown, gathering
where you have not scattered seeds. I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the
ground. See, here is what belongs to you. Point to note here is that this person has
an investor's mindset, right? They harvest where they haven't sown and they gather where
they have not scattered. So they make their money work for them. And Jesus has an investor
mindset, okay? He's looking for a great return. And when it comes to an investor mindset,
look, the guy that's putting up the cash here, he's not doing anything for it, right? He's
making his money work for him. And he's making his money make money through automated residual
incomes. He's just creating income streams that work while he's sleeping, okay? That's
residual income or passive income. And that's what he's after. That's how he makes his money
work for him. So investors are used to having a return on their investment. And Jesus is
looking for a return on his investment and royalty, because we're talking about royal
mindsets and kingdom mindsets, right? Royalty don't work a nine to five for money. Perhaps
for other reasons, you know, perhaps someone who's walks and royal mindsets might have
a job, but they do it out of a passion, not out of a necessity. That's a big difference.
You know, but royalty, they create financial systems that make money for them. They make
their money, make money. Okay, verse 26. His master replied, you wicked lazy servant. So
you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.
Well, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers so that when I returned,
I would have received it back with interest. So take the gold bag off him and give it to the
one who has 10 bags. For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance.
And whoever has little, even what they have will be taken from them. And throw that worthless
servant outside into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Now,
this is a bit harsh, right? So sometimes it sounds like Jesus' words are harsh or Solomon's
harsh. And we talked about that in the last session, right? But to be fair, I used to be
the lazy, wicked servant. And it wasn't because I was, you know, like misspending, or I didn't
even have much to waste, or I wasn't wasting any money. But the point is, the reason, you know,
that we can be a wicked, lazy servant is because we haven't diligently applied ourselves to
uncovering and understanding royal mindsets. Have we diligently applied ourselves to this area
of understanding the sacred financial assignment on our lives. And one of the problems that comes
that if you haven't been told you've got a sacred financial assignment on your life, if you haven't
been told that, you might not actually steward that area of your life. But when you understand
that there is a sacred financial assignment on your life, and that there's a lot riding on it,
that there's big risks and big consequences, big benefits and big rewards in this life and in the
next. If you don't understand that, then you might just be casual about the sacred assignment on your
life. But when you understand and you're like, wow, you're gripped by the relevance, the significance
of the sacred financial assignment on your life, when you're gripped by that, you aren't lazy
anymore, you transition, you work hard, you diligently apply yourself to understand royal
mindsets, and you implement, implement, implement. Let me give you an example. Pastor Sunday Adonijah,
he is a pastor in the Ukraine, really famous revivalist over there, a huge, huge kingdom
impact. Well, he was working his
But off for God, you know, like 14 hours a day, I can relate to
him. You know, just I know how you hustle when you're just
chasing the call of God on your life. And God convicted him out
of this verse and said, you're the wicked, lazy servant. He's
like, how am I a wicked, lazy servant? I work over 12 hours a
day, I'm giving my all for you. And God says, you know, because
in the area of finances, you don't understand kingdom
finances. So he made a decision then, okay, God, you've
convicted me about this, I'm going to be teachable, I'm going
to understand it. So he went all in to understand it. And he
made made a goal to become a millionaire to make a million US
dollars. And I think his goal was for in two years. Anyway, he
achieved that goal to make his first million US dollars by
implementing kingdom economics. He achieved that goal within
nine months. And then he set a goal for his church. He's like,
right church, we are going all in on kingdom economics, we want
you guys to understand this. And listen, his church wasn't super
wealthy people, his church was made up of people who were, you
know, his church was made up of people who were ex drug addicts,
street people, homeless people, and all these, all these people
coming out of addiction and crazy, crazy lives. He said,
right, who wants to learn kingdom economics. And within,
within just a few years, he had raised up over 200 millionaires
in his church by implementing kingdom economics. And it's
because they realized there's a sacred financial assignment on
their lives. And then they began to implement royal mindsets. How
epic is that? So you know, one thing to note here, right is in
this verse, in this parable of the talents is they took the bag
away from the wicked, lazy servants. So if you're not
stewarding, well, you're at you're at a place where you
actually jeopardize what you do have, you're losing favor, and
you're jeopardizing the little that you do have. And there are
consequences for both now and into eternity. And Jesus takes
this really, really seriously. So it's really important for us
to understand we are being tested with our money. And it's
not about the amount, right? It's about the stewardship.
That's what Jesus is looking for. You're being tested to
you're being tested on how you implement royal principles and
systems and how you are faithful with the call of God in your
life, right? So Luke 19, we're looking at the parable of the
miners now. So minor is different to a talent. A talent
is 20 years wages, but it's a big sum a minor was about four
months wages. So not quite the same amount of money, but a
really significant parable verse 11, Luke 19. While they were
listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable because he
was near Jerusalem. And the people thought that the kingdom
of God was going to appear at once. He said, a man of noble
birth went to a distant country to have himself made king and
then to return. First thing to hear tonight here is that this
is there. This person is a noble person, right? There's there of
a royal class. And that's important because Jesus is
painting a picture of a character here. And the
character is royalty. And Jesus wants us to associate what he's
about to teach us with royal mindsets. Okay, he wants to
paint a picture of how royalty steward their money. And first
of all, what you're going to see that royalty actually take risks
with their money. Okay, second thing that you're going to see
is that royalty are always looking to create multiple
streams of residual income, that means income that they're not
doing anything for the royalty are always looking to make their
money make money rather than trying to go out and get a nine
to five is a really important concept in the kingdom. So
another thing about royalty is that they invest it before they
spend it. So it multiplies so they've got more money to spend
at the end of the day, verse 13. So he called 10 of his servants
and gave them 10 miners put this money to work, he said, until I
come back. So again, let's just say this, this highlight this
royalty don't work for money, they make money work for them. I
want you to say this with me. royalty don't work for money,
they make money work for them. Beautiful verse 14. But a
subject hated him and sent a delegation to him to say we
don't want this man to be our king. He was made king, however,
and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had
given the money in order to find out what they had gained with
it. The first one came and said, Sir, your miner has earned 10
more. Now that is phenomenal. That is a phenomenal return. We
don't know the timeline, but he turned one miner into 10 miners
that is epic. Verse 17. Well done, my good servant, his
master replied, because you have been trustworthy in a very
small matter, take charge of 10 cities. Now this is where it
gets crazy. See, this is where it gets like really powerful.
And we see the bigger picture of what do you why do you
This is really testing us and what Jesus' heart really is.
Jesus is looking for people that He can entrust cities to, nations to.
He wants to find out who He can trust to rule and reign over cities and regions and nations.
So when you steward well, you receive an increase of favor and dominion and authority,
and you are rewarded for stewarding finance as well.
This is awesome.
Verse 18,
The second man came and said,
Sir, your miner has earned five more.
Another great return.
And at this point, the man has just gone into profit.
Okay.
So he gave out 10 to start with, and now he's got at least 15 miners back.
So he went on holiday.
He gave 10 miners.
He went on holiday.
He came back.
He's got 15 miners.
So he's making money while he's on holiday.
Great, more royal mindset, right?
Royalty are always making money.
Verse 19,
His master answered,
You take charge of five cities.
Wow!
Verse 20,
Then another servant came and said,
Sir, here is your miner.
I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth.
I was afraid of you because you are a hard man.
You take out what you did not put in,
and you reap what you did not sow.
This is classic slave thinking, orphan thinking.
We get in this place.
It's like poor people are always like,
Oh, they're so rich,
and they've got all this money.
Like these are poverty mindsets happening right now.
And because of this poverty mindset,
it causes a block for the servant.
The servant's got a poverty mindset,
causes them to block out.
Like, ah, they don't know what to do with money.
This poverty mindset, orphan mindset,
slave mindset is causing them to freak out.
They're like, Oh, I've got this money.
What am I going to do?
I don't know what to do with it.
I don't know.
And they've got no idea how to steward
the sacred financial assignment on their lives.
So they just go and they waste it.
And then so we see now something here to note as well.
It's like we don't hear about the other seven,
but from an investor's perspective,
this guy started with 10.
He's got at least 16.
That servant didn't lose the minor.
So he was scared to take a risk.
And this is something to highlight in the kingdom
is that the kingdom is not scared of taking a risk.
In the kingdom, risk is normal.
In the kingdom, and with investors,
risk is a normal part of life.
You don't live so scared that you never invest.
Like this servant, that was a no-no in the kingdom, right?
You've got to take action.
You've got to do something.
So anyway, we don't hear about the other seven,
but he's got at least 16 minors now.
Again, the point is that royalty don't work for money.
They make their money work for them.
Verse 22.
His master replied,
I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant.
You knew, did you, that I am a hard man taking out
what I did not put in and reaping what I did not sow.
Why then didn't you put my money on deposit
so that when I came back,
I could have collected it with interest?
Then he said to some of those standing by,
take this minor away from him
and give it to the one who has 10 minors.
Sir, they said, he already has 10.
See, this is the orphan mindset again,
the slave mindset, poverty mindset kicking in again.
They're like, oh, but he's got lots.
Why are you giving him more, right?
And Jesus, you know, like this guy,
he's got an investor's mindset,
and he's like, I'm giving him more
because he's a better steward.
He makes me more.
I'm not trying to be fair.
I'm trying to be smart, okay?
The kingdom isn't always about being fair.
It's about wisdom.
And so verse 26, he replied,
I tell you that to everyone who has more will be given,
but as for the one who has nothing,
even what they have will be taken away.
So even if you have a little, if you steward it well,
you start creating financial favor and financial momentum.
All right.
Hey, I'm going to share with you something now.
Let me know if you're keen to hear about this,
but a simple system, right?
A simple Jewish system that when I discovered this,
it's so basic, so simple,
but without this information,
I was in a place of, like, terrible stewardship.
I was not stewarding the financial sacred,
the sacred financial assignment on my life.
I had no idea how to steward it,
but this simple system gave me a blueprint
for how to do money, how to teach my kids money,
how we should be doing money in the kingdom.
Okay, so before I share this system with you,
let me share my goal, right?
My goal for my kids.
So my goal as a father for my kids
is to help my kids steward their finances,
even now as kids,
so that when they come to the point of leaving school,
they each have enough money saved
and enough residual income
so that they never need to get a job.
All right, I want to change the economy for my kids.
I want them to have a royal economy.
Okay, I'm not going to be teaching my kids.
Oh, hey, what are you going to do for a job, right?
I'm going to, I never talk to them like that.
I'm like, hey, what are your dreams?
What are your passions?
What do you want to do?
And we're getting busy right now,
making preparations for their destiny.
Okay, so and it's not just like my wife and I saving up.
We are creating for them,
automating.
residual income stream so that my kids when they leave school,
they don't need a job because they're already financially
independent. So remember, there's two ways that money can
rule over us, it can corrupt their hearts and minds. So I
teach my kids purity, you know, I want them to rule and reign
with pure hearts and pure minds. So I teach my kids purity, but
then also lack and poverty can rule can cause us can rule over
us too. So I'm setting my kids up with their own multiple
residual income streams. So my kids already make hundreds of
dollars in residual income on a regular basis. And then we're
actually helping them reinvest it, they're actually about to
start another residual income stream, all of them. And I want
them to rule over money in every way. Because if you don't rule
over money, it will tell you what to do. Okay? When you walk
in the ways of kingdom royalty, you get to tell money what to
do. When money rules over you, it tells you what to do, whether
that's because it's corrupted your heart and your mind, and
it's telling you it's bleeding your motivations and your
priorities, or because you just don't have it and it dictates
what you can and can't do. So I want my kids to be able to tell
money what to do, rather than having money tell them what to
do. I'm just going to shut a window here. Someone cranked up
a chainsaw chainsaw. So anyway, hey, a young Jewish guy, he
goes, he leaves school and he goes and he buys his first home
with cash, right? How cool is that? Would you like to do that?
Would you like your kids doing that? Yes, I'm like, that's so
inspirational, right? And it's not an uncommon thing. And why
was he able to do that? Because he had royal mindset. And
because his dad sat him down and taught him what I'm about to
teach you. So that's, that's, um, we want that, right? We want
that for ourselves. We want that for our kids that we can rule
over money. We don't want money controlling us. You do want that,
right? Like, I want that for my kids. Do you want that for your
kids? Do you want that for your community for your own life for
your family line for you? Do you want your community to be ruling
and reigning over money? Do you want that for your community for
nations? I want that for nations. So let me introduce you
to if you've been following me, you've probably seen me do this
before. And it's because it's simple, but sometimes the most
simple things have the most profound impact. And it's so
simple that it makes it really easily to train easy to transfer
and has a huge, huge impact on our lives. So it's called the
five jars. And I to do the five jars, what I've got here is I've
got $500. Okay, there's five $500. And I've got five jars.
I'm gonna talk you through each of them and how it works. Okay,
this is some really good kingdom economics. Now this is a Jewish
mindset, which they picked up through, you know, through all
the body through the Bible. Now, I'll just say something funny
here is that, you know, Christians are always going and
telling Jewish people that they have the secrets of the Bible.
But Jewish people actually laugh at poor Christians, because
they're like, you're trying to tell me you've got the secrets
of the Bible, and you're poor. It's because of the secrets of
the Bible that I'm wealthy. Okay, we know that we, you know,
there's a blessing attached to being Jewish, but so much of
that blessing actually comes from the wisdom they walk in
where they get that wisdom from the Bible. Okay, so here's how
they implement and teach kingdom economics from a Jewish
perspective, understanding the secrets of the Bible. Okay. Oh,
man. Okay. Okay. I just see that some of you guys have had a
black screen. I don't know when that black screen appeared, but
it should be sorted out. Now. Let me just check the comments and
just see what's happening here. Okay, sweet. So should be good.
It should be all sorted now. Okay, cool. Cool. We are back in
the game. That is fantastic. Sorry about that. I've got no
idea what caused that. But we're back in the game. And here we go.
So the first job is about tithing. Okay. Now, some people
aren't into tithing. I personally don't mind about tithing. In
fact, I think you should be super abundantly extravagantly
generous. But in the Jewish five dollars system, the first thing
is tithing and tithing gets 10% of my $500. Oh, that's 50 bucks.
So there you go. 50 bucks goes in there. The second job is the
job of offerings and offerings gets 10% as well. So your
offerings one, that's just things that you want to give
away. Now I teach my kids this I do this with my kids, my kids
so into a human trafficking things. They bless people. It's
awesome. And the next one is savings. Okay, so savings is 10%
as well. So with the savings one, what we often do is with the
savings is we often save up and then actually use that money
that we save up to put into the next one, which is investing.
Okay, so investing is 20%. So
that gets $100 of my 500,
boom, that's in the investing jar.
And then the spending jar gets 50%.
One, two, three, four, oh, there you go.
That's why, five, one more.
So the spending gets 50%.
Now, an important concept to know.
So there you go.
There's 50% in the spending,
like that down, 50% in the spending.
Then there's 20% in the investing,
10% in the saving, 10% in the tithing,
and 10% in the offerings jars.
Right, there you go.
I've got my five jars there.
Now, when I first heard about this,
it was not possible to live off 50%, right?
Living off 50%, I was like, what?
I can't do that, why?
Because I didn't have much income.
When you don't have much income,
it's really hard to live off 50%.
If you're living off a million dollars a year,
50% is pretty easy, right?
But if you're living off $30,000 a year,
50% is really, really hard.
So something interesting as well is that Jewish people,
they live off what is called a circle inside a square.
So if you imagine a circle inside a square,
it takes up about just over 79% of the square.
And so what that means is they live within their means,
okay, and they give away, say, roughly 20%.
So they live within their means.
In New Zealand, the average family lives off
113% of their weekly income,
which means every week, people are going into debt.
And the Western world has a huge debt culture
because they have got this way out of whack.
And if you aren't doing this from the time you're a kid,
it sets you up to get caught
in the Western world debt culture.
So my friend Dave Riddell has a good quote here.
He says, if your outgoings exceed your incomings,
then what you keep will be your downfall.
Now, I want to get you to say right now,
I want you to say incremental and sustainable change, okay?
This is my challenge to you,
incremental and sustainable change.
When you want to change,
it's often impossible to make the big change
and get all the change that you want in your life right away.
But you have to start somewhere.
So what can you do?
I want to suggest, and I want to ask you,
could you make a one-degree change
somewhere in your finances?
Think about it, tiny, tiny change.
Because over a period of time,
a tiny change will make a huge transformation.
And when it comes to journeys like this,
I'd encourage you not to measure by perfection
or not to do comparison, right?
Don't compare to other people.
Don't measure by perfection.
Just look at transformation in your own life.
And over a period of time,
you're going to notice transformation.
That's what you want to celebrate.
And as we want to create a multi-generational legacy,
we have to break the cycle at some point.
We have to start this at some point.
I'm so delighted, when I was growing up,
I didn't get taught about this.
I just got taught about tithing.
And in church, in church,
they'll just kind of really,
really, they'll teach you about tithing.
It's really all you get taught.
There you go, there's the tithing jar.
In church, you only really get taught about tithing.
But if you were going to be teaching kingdom economics
instead of tithing, you would teach,
look, here's the investing jar.
Sorry, this is spending.
Here's the investing jar here at 20%.
If you're going to teach kingdom economics
you actually teach about investing
twice as much as you talk about tithing.
Have you ever seen that in a church
where you talk about investing
twice as much as you talk about tithing?
Well, that's why Jewish people
are disproportionately wealthy.
And that's why Christians are so often poor
is because we've got our priorities mixed up.
We talk about tithing all the time,
but we don't talk about kingdom economics
and this five-generalist principle of tithing,
offering, saving, investing, and spending,
and living as a circle inside a square,
living inside our means.
So this whole concept, right?
You know, it's supposed to be implemented from day zero.
So my little girl, Alia,
we'd heard about it by the time she was born.
So by the time she was born, she was born into this.
So from the time she's, you know,
like been walking around, you know, talking,
she's already been making money.
She's already had residual income systems
working on her behalf.
And it's so exciting that, right,
we get to break the cycle and we get to create,
bring things back to the blueprint,
the divine blueprint for our lives.
And in a perfect world, dads teach this to their kids,
and it might not be a perfect world that you live in.
We've all got a different story in family,
but it's our chance right now to break the cycle
and start to restore the standard.
So all of our kids have residual income streams,
and I think that's exciting.
And here's one of the reasons why.
So we're going to look now,
we looked at this verse with Z in the first session,
but let's look at it again,
because this is a real mindset where we focus on,
like royalty is focused on setting
the next generation up to thrive.
This is 1 Chronicles 22 verse 5,
and I'm reading in the NIV.
All my readings have been in there.
NIV today. Verse five, David said, My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be
built for the Lord should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the
nations. I will make preparations for it. So David made extensive preparations before his death. I'm
going to ask you, did your parents make extensive preparations for your destiny? If not, then be the
change. All right. My parents, they didn't have this to impart to me. So we get to break the cycle
and change things up. So David prepared for Solomon's destiny. And remember, these are
royal mindsets. You know, what type of mindsets have you had in your family? Have you had orphan
mindsets, poverty mindsets, slave mindsets? Have you had royal mindsets at work in your family that
have set you up for this? So we need to break the cycle, you know, of all the other bad examples.
And if you're going to look to an example, look to an example that's amazing. Look to an example
like royalty. Look to an example like King David. What a phenomenal example. And restore the royal
standard in your family. Let's pair them like this. Let's make extensive preparations for the
destiny of our children. Let's make extensive preparations for the destiny of the next
generation. Verse 14, it says, David says this, I have taken great pains to provide. Say that again.
I've taken great pains to provide the temple of the Lord. This is Solomon's destiny. A hundred
thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to
be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them. And we looked at this in the first session,
that that is over 200 billion dollars in value of gold and silver alone, right? So this is wild.
David set aside over 200 billion dollars worth of gold and silver for Solomon to run in his
destiny. That is an amazing royal mindset. So let me recap quickly on the five jars. It's
tithe 10%, offering 10%, save 10%, invest 20%, and live off or spending 50%.
And my suggestion, right, is that this should become the blueprint for our families, for our
churches, for our ministries, that this is the model we should be teaching and imparting
into the next generation, setting the next generation up with these mindsets. So,
I mean, this is my challenge. We're going to wrap it up right here. We're going to wrap it up with
this. But my challenge to you is, can you make a one degree shift somewhere? How can you make
incremental and sustainable change? Can you make a one degree, five degree, 20 degree change? Can
you make even a little change somewhere? See, what we see in the parable of the talents and the
miners is that when you start stewarding well, even if it's a small amount, you grow in favor,
and God brings resources to you. And as you make these little changes, great things are possible.
I'm a testimony of that myself, that starting with little changes, we're able to redesign our
whole world. And we'll talk about investments more, principles more, systems more, stewardship
more going forward in the next session, which I'm really excited about my next session with you
tomorrow. And a great session up is coming up this afternoon, New Zealand time, 3pm. The next
session is with Bruce McDonald, who stewards tens of millions of dollars for the kingdom. We're
excited to hear from him and Zania in the next session. But let me just ask this as we wrap up,
do you want to be like King David, who prepared for his kids for their destiny? Who thinks that
would be a better system, setting up our kids for the future and flipping the economy from slavery
to royalty and from finances to destiny, from finances to passions and empowering our kids to
thrive? I believe that's the way to go. So let's pray. And I'm excited for the rest of the
masterclass. Really wonderful having you today. Let's pray. Jesus, I thank you so much for every
person here. I thank you for the sacred financial assignment on their lives. I thank you that
you have a phenomenal assignment for them. I thank you for your blessing on them. And I thank
you that you lead them and guide them into all that you have for them. Lord, I thank you for
favor increasing. I thank you for resources being magnetic to them. I thank you for drawing them
into all that you have for them. I thank you for marking them with favor. I thank you for new levels
of wisdom and insight. I thank you for divine appointments, divine wisdom. I thank you for
breaking open a way. I thank you for divine creativity that will allow people to step into
their sacred financial assignment. Amen. Bless you guys and see you for our next session
tomorrow. Same time, same place. Bless you. Bye-bye.