this morning that changed the game up for me a little bit, but we are in, we are here, we are
live, and I'm excited to be with you. Let me just sort out the tech as usual, just be a moment there,
but as you are jumping on board, it'll be great to hear how you're doing. Now, whether you're
jumping on live, whether you're jumping on for the replay, it would be wonderful to hear how
you're doing, what is God doing in your heart, and what are you getting out of the series so far.
All right, we are good to go, and this session is going to be wild. We are going to be
blowing up, we're going to be blowing up poverty in this session. Now, I had a slight technical
difficulty, slight technical issue, my camera crashed on me just before, so this is not my
normal camera, so excuse my slightly different camera setting. We are going to have a blast, so
we're going to look at the three-phase economic training program that Jesus had
that teaches us to dream with Him, to partner with Him, to disciple nations, and to create
multi-generational legacy. So, we're going to pray in just a second, and then we are going to
jump right on into this. So, here we are.
All right, beautiful. Okay, family, let's pray. Let's get ready for what God's going to do in
this session, which I know is going to be powerful and beautiful and really touching hearts and lives.
So, yeah, let's pray. Papa, Jesus, Holy Spirit, wow, we love you, and we want to stop right now and give
you all the glory, and we want to give you all the honor for everything that you were doing in our
lives, and I thank you so much for this time we've been able to share together. Jesus, I thank you
that you have been awakening us to the divine dance. You have been calling us back to your
original intention, to your original design for our lives. Jesus, I thank you so much that you have been
lifting us up into our identity, lifting us up to dream with you. Oh, we love you. We wait on
your presence right now.
Oh, we wait on you. We adore you. We love you. We wait on you. We thank you for your presence.
We thank you for your anointing, and Holy Spirit, we acknowledge we are dependent on your anointing.
We're dependent on your reign of word. We're dependent on your revelation. We're dependent
on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. We love you. We love you. We love you,
and Holy Spirit, I thank you that you are opening up doors of revelation, doors of truth. I thank
you, Holy Spirit, that you're opening up doors of truth that are allowing people to step into
a whole new dimension, a whole new existence, a whole new world of intimacy with you. I thank
you, Holy Spirit, right now for wrapping us up in divine love, in your beautiful name.
I thank you for filling our hearts, for flooding our hearts with the wonder of your divine love.
So right now, we lift you up. We exalt you. We give you all the glory and all the honor,
and we thank you right now for the spirit of wisdom and revelation going before us as we
journey into this session today in your beautiful name. Amen. Wow, family.
Hey, so let me know where you are. Let me know how you are doing. Let me know where in the world
you are jumping on from. I'm really excited to go into this session today as we jump into the
three-phase economic training program that Jesus had for us. Now, we've, so
far, we've explored royal identity, we've explored the royal vision that God has for us, you know,
we are marked by the royal doxor of the King of Heaven. And how beautiful is it, you know,
like something about Jesus that we want to really have in the forefront of our mind is that He is
the King of Heaven. And everything that Jesus teaches, He teaches from this perspective of
being the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the King of Heaven, everything He brings has
a royal dynamic, a royal aspect to it. So when He speaks to us on any topic, like He's bringing
a royal perspective onto that topic so that we can step into the royalty that we're called to
live in as the royal family of the universe. Oh, love it. Hey, quick pop quiz for you. Okay,
quick pop quiz for you to kind of warm you up as we jump into the session today.
So in Matthew 28 verses 19 to 20, did Jesus commission us to A, make some disciples,
B, try not to be contaminated by the world, C, make disciples of all nations and baptize them
in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or D, avoid disappointment and not get
our hopes up. So that is again, A, did Jesus, in Matthew 28, 19 to 20, did Jesus commission us to
A, make some disciples, B, try not to be contaminated by the world, C, make disciples of
all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or D,
avoid disappointment and not get our hopes up. Okay. Well, family, as we jump into this,
the first thing that we're going to look at is the nature of money. But I want to just kind of
touch on, like touch on this with you, like what do you want as your legacy? What do you want your
legacy to be? Do you want a legacy of poverty? Do you want to, listen, King Solomon, who as well
as another king, who's another person who brings an amazing royal perspective to royal economics
and the royal economy that we're called to live in, something that King Solomon said, and this is
from, you know, the wisest king that ever lived, he said in Proverbs 13, 22, that a good man leaves an
inheritance for his children's children. How amazing is that? So let me know what, this is what I would
like to hear from you right now. Chuck this in the comments and get thinking about this, but what
legacy do you want to leave? You know, when you're, when you're all is said and done, when you've run
your race, what is the legacy that you want to leave? What is the impact that you want to have?
What do you want your impact, your multi-generational impact to be? Great question. So Jesus had a lot
to say about the nature and the power of money, and so right now we're going to start by just
exploring some biblical dynamics around the nature and the power of money, and then we're going to
get into Jesus' three-phase economic training program that he has for all his disciples that
empower us to dream with him, empower us to get into this place of discipling nations. Oh wow,
I just feel his presence here. Well, I just want to encourage you right now just to enjoy his presence,
just to delight in him. Oh my gosh, Jesus, you are so good. Well, actually someone yesterday in the
comments mentioned that they, they weren't sure if my joy was real. They thought, man, this smile's
got to be fake, this joy has got to be fake, but they said as they went on with me, they realized,
wow, this is authentic, this is the real deal, and my prayer for them and this is my prayer for you
is that your smile would be on earth as it is in heaven, that the joy that you carry, that you're
going to carry in heaven, that that will be the joy and the smile and the delight that you carry
right now. So Papa, I just declare right now on earth as in heaven, in Jesus' name, right now I
declare a joy on earth as in heaven, I declare revelation, I declare freedom right now, I declare
your presence moving and I just declare your presence coming on people's lives. I thank you
for the power and the weight of your glory and your presence touching people's lives right now.
Lord, I thank you that what we're going to say right now is going to be just deeper than just
words and ideas, but I thank you that what we're getting into right now is going to be spirit to
spirit and that your glory is going to be on it. And Papa, that's all we want. We want what your,
we want your heart, we want your glory, we want what you're doing. We don't want our own ideas,
but we want your heart. And so Jesus, I just ask in this session that your very glory will come
upon people. It'll be spirit to spirit and deeper than just minds and ideas, but spirit to spirit
that you would communicate to us and you would break open freedom like never before to step into
and royal economy in Jesus name. Amen. Beautiful. I just feel like some.
Someone just really needed that.
And so just, man, may the joy of the Lord be on you
as we jump into the session.
So we're gonna touch now on the nature
and the power of money, okay?
So money in itself is not good or evil.
Money is neutral.
So everyone gets caught up on 1 Timothy 16,
the love of money is the root of all evil.
So that's the love of money.
And it's not the love of money there
is specifically speaking about greed, okay?
If you look into it in the Greek,
it's not talking about stewarding money
as the root of all evil.
It's not talking about having money
as the root of all evil.
It's not talking about using money
as the root of all evil.
It's stockpiling, it's greed and stockpiling wealth
for your own ambition, regardless of what God has for you.
It's just, it's greed and stockpiling wealth
for your own ambition that's disconnected
from the call of God.
It's just stockpiling it for your own ambition.
So that is the root of evil.
Just it's greed, right?
Greed, not just, it's not about money.
It's greed in any context.
Greed is the root of all evil, okay?
So money in itself is neutral,
but money is a great revealer of hearts.
In Matthew 6, 24, Jesus said,
no one can serve two masters.
Either you will hate the one and love the other,
or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve both God and money.
And listen, here's why Jesus did that.
He said that because you are not called to serve God
and you're not called to serve God and money.
What you're called to, right?
Here's what you're called to as a member
of the royal family of the universe.
You're called to serve God
and you're called to rule over money, okay?
You are not to be money slave.
And Jesus has a three phase economic training program
to help you break free from being money slave, okay?
Listen, money is not your friend.
Money is not your enemy.
Money is neutral.
But there's two ways that money can rule over you, okay?
And Jesus taught us how to be free
from both of the ways that money enslaves us.
So right now I wanna make a declaration, okay?
Join me in this declaration right now, okay?
This is the declaration we're gonna make,
is that I rule and reign over money, okay?
You are not called to be money slave.
Let me know, do you agree or disagree?
Are you called to be money slave
or are you called to rule over money?
Okay, this session is for those who know
that they're called to rule and reign over money.
As royalty, as sons and daughters of the most high king.
So here we go, let's make our declaration.
I rule and reign over money in Jesus' name.
Amen, yes you do.
And let's look at how Jesus taught us to do that.
So there's three phases in Jesus' economic training program.
And most people don't see this.
Most people don't teach this, okay?
When we live in the church,
when it's full of orphan mindsets and poverty mindsets,
they really get lost in the heart
of what Jesus was really trying to teach us to do.
And Jesus is trying to speak to us as royalty.
He's not speaking to us as orphans.
He's not speaking to us as slaves.
He's speaking to us as royalty.
And he is the king of heaven giving us instruction
on how to participate in the ways of the kingdom
and how to participate in royal economics.
So anytime Jesus speaks to us about something,
you have to understand he's bringing the royal perspective.
He is, and listen, people sometimes get hung up
about this concept of royalty.
Like, oh, as though when we talk about kingdom royalty,
we're talking about royal ways of the earth.
We're not.
Jesus redefines royalty,
and Jesus defines the type of royalty
that we're talking about.
So this is all about Jesus, his heart, his perspective.
And Jesus has a way of teaching us
about how to participate in a royal economy
that liberates us to step into,
like to participate in his great commission
of discipling all nations, okay?
So here we go.
Phase one in Jesus' training on kingdom economics
is about economic alignment, okay?
And this first phase, economic alignment,
is about stepping into purity of heart and mind
in our relationship to money.
Because the first way to become a slave to money
is allowing money to rule over our hearts
and rule over our minds.
And when money rules over our hearts and minds,
it produces greed and pride and identity issues
and idolatry and poverty.
And money can begin to rule over our beliefs,
our feelings and emotions and motivations and actions.
Money can enslave us,
but Jesus wants purity of heart and mind
because only a pure heart and a pure mind
can rule over money.
Let me say that again. Only a pure heart and a pure mind can rule over money.
Now when Jesus talks about money, the majority of the time the amount of money is irrelevant,
okay? So don't get caught up on how much money you have and whether that makes, you know,
this is not about the amount of money, okay? Jesus is not that concerned right now with the
amount of money that you have, all right? What he's concerned about is your relationship with
money. It's not about how much you have or how little you have, it's about your relationship
to it and whether or not money is ruling over your heart and your mind. So let's go a little
bit deeper. This first phase, okay, this first phase of economic training is about economic
alignment. It's about dealing with our hearts around the topic of money. It's about dealing
with our perspectives, our values, our motivations. And this is, you know, where Jesus brings all this
teaching, okay? So there's so much teaching that Jesus has regarding to our heart and our relationship
with money. So let me give you some quotes from Jesus. Let me just like rattle off a whole bunch
of quotes that Jesus gave regarding money. And these quotes regarding money, people often misperceive
them and they hate these quotes and they think, oh, Jesus is really endorsing poverty, but he's not.
He's trying to talk about purity of heart. So, seek first his kingdom. Blessed are the poor. Do not
store up for yourselves treasures. No one can serve two masters. Sell your possessions. Give to the
needy. Life does not consist of the abundance of possessions. What does it profit man to gain
the whole world and to forfeit his own soul? It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a
needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. Be on your guard against all
covetousness. Out of her poverty, she put in all she had to live in. If you would be perfect, go,
sell what you possess and give to the poor. Okay, so what should we learn from all these things that
Jesus spoke? And what shouldn't we? Okay, so four lessons that we should learn from this regarding
Jesus' lessons on purity of heart about money is here's what we should learn. Okay, four lessons we
should learn. One, put God first in everything. Don't allow money to become an idol by letting
money have a higher value than following God in everything you do. Two, you can't take your money
with you when you die. So, use it to create a legacy that blesses the poor, expands the kingdom
of God and produces a heavenly return. Three, we should learn that God loves extreme generosity.
And number four, we should always, we should think, we should remember that God is always
thinking about the poor and how to help the poor break free from poverty. Okay, God is not about
stewarding the poverty, but when he talks about economic alignment, he always wants to help people
break free from poverty. He doesn't want to steward poverty multi-generationally. So,
give me a second here, team. Let me just have a little, have a little sip.
Remember, the whole point, the whole point of the phase one of his economic training
is to help us step into purity of heart and mind so that money doesn't rule over us. Jesus does
not want us to be the slaves of money. We're not caught, we can't serve two masters, right? We serve
God and we rule over money, but we have to have purity of heart. It's the first thing we must
master. If we want to rule over money, we must step into purity of heart. So, what happens when
we don't realize that Jesus has a three-phase economic training program is that we take these
scriptures that I've just shared, and because of a lack mindset, we develop a poverty mindset that
gets preached from the pulpit. And one of the crazy issues is that we spiritualize poverty,
and there's so many Christians that actually wear poverty as like this badge of spiritual maturity
when biblically poverty is always a curse. And I just want to declare this, poverty is a curse
right now, like poverty is a curse. And so, I just want to say this, I break poverty off your life in
Jesus' name. I break poverty mindsets off your life in Jesus' name. I break agreements with
poverty off your life in Jesus' name. So, this is a major issue in the church. So many
people just celebrate poverty, but it's absolutely not something that the kingdom endorses.
So, here's what Jesus was dealing with, three things Jesus was dealing with in his
phase one economic training. One, eternity, like our priorities,
are our priorities on point and focused on eternity?
one of the first things that you've got to make sure if you want to rule and reign over money,
if you want a pure heart, you want to ensure that we are in alignment with kingdom values,
righteousness, and keep our focus on eternity. All right, that's Matthew 6.33,
seek first his kingdom. This has to be our priority. The second thing that he was dealing
with is pride, okay? We can take so much pride out of money. It's possible for people to take
pride out of money, and this was a big deal that Jesus was dealing with. He's like, you know, like,
this is a big problem with the rich is that they take so many, they take false identities, they
take pride, and if we're not careful, if we have, if we steward money, if we have a whole bunch of
money, or if you don't have a whole bunch of money, it's possible to take an identity from your money
rather than from Jesus. So Jerusalem had a gate called the eye of the needle, okay? So
when, so Jesus said, you know, it's easier for a rich man, it's easier for a camel to pass through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, right? So when he said that,
what he was talking about is there's a gate in the Jerusalem, you know, in Jerusalem called the eye
of the needle, and a camel, in order to get down through that gate, right, it had to actually get
on its knees, take its load off, take everything off, get on its knees, and actually had to crawl
through that gate, the eye of the needle. And, you know, when, what Jesus was talking about is
we really have to humble ourselves when it comes to this area of pride and money. He's saying you
can't get through, he's saying if you don't want to be ruled by money, right, you can't be taking
your identity from it. Because if you take your identity from money, whether you've got a lot
or a little, then money will actually rule over you, right? The third thing that Jesus was making
sure is that money doesn't become an idol for us, okay? So money has the ability to become an idol
in our hearts. And this is the thing for the rich young ruler, right? This was the problem that he
was addressing with the rich young ruler, is that the rich young ruler comes up to him and says,
hey, Jesus, I've done everything, you've asked, what should I do? And Jesus asked him to sell
everything and give it all to the poor. Why? Because this particular young man, Jesus wanted
to expose the idolatry in his heart. And this is where he uses money as a great revealer of hearts,
okay? He uses money to expose our hearts and our minds. And what we see here is that this guy,
he had money as an idol. And when it comes to following Jesus, following Jesus will cost us
the one thing that we are not willing to give until we are willing to surrender everything.
And the rich young ruler wasn't willing to surrender his money. So he was exposing the
heart to bring us into this place of purity. So this is heart. Okay, sweet. We are gonna move on.
So that's the first part, okay? First part is economic alignment. So say economic alignment.
And the whole point of economic alignment for Jesus is to ensure that our hearts are a place
of purity in our relationship with money. We're not being, money's not ruling over us, because
if you don't have a pure heart and relationship to money, money will rule over you. So let's keep
keep chugging along. Most of what Jesus taught about money was first to ensure money did not
rule us by corrupting our hearts and mind, okay? So Jesus' first phase, right? We're gonna explore
now the second phase, okay? So the first phase is economic alignment. And the second phase is economic
assignment. But when he starts, you're gonna see a shift here. So watch this, you're gonna see a shift.
After chapter 25 in Matthew, Jesus stops dealing with all the verses about economic alignment, okay?
He stops talking about all the purity of heart ones, all those ones. He actually starts shifting
to his second phase. So after in Matthew, in the book of Matthew, it's after chapter 25, he shifts
into his second phase. And in the book of Luke, it's after Luke 19, he shifts and it's no longer
dealing about the heart and having, it's now dealing about, it's now dealing about
principles and systems, okay? Because the second way that money rules over you is if money controls
your time and resources. If we don't have time and resources, money rules over us. So this is the
second way that money rules over us, is through time and resources. You know, if we have to go to
work or we're obligated to trade our time for money, then we have become a slave to money.
That might be a big concept or a big shock to us, right?
But these are the two ways that money rules over us.
First, money tries to corrupt us.
So the first way, the only way that,
the first thing that we have to establish
if we wanna rule over money is purity of heart and mind.
And that's Jesus' first focus.
The second thing that we have to master
if we wanna rule over money is principles and systems.
Now, this is a bit of a mindset shock
and people aren't used to seeing this in Jesus' teaching,
but hold with me here
because we're gonna unlock how Jesus taught
about principles and systems and stewardship.
Because the second phase is about economic assignment.
And what so many people haven't realized
is that there is an economic assignment on our lives.
Did you know that?
Did you know that there is an economic assignment
on your life?
Yes, there is.
And listen, it's a sacred economic assignment
that's on your life.
This is the second phase that Jesus taught about money.
There is a sacred economic assignment on your life.
And if you don't master the sacred economic assignment
on your life, money will rule over you.
Money will cripple your calling and your dream.
So in order to become money's master, right?
Because we aren't called to serve two masters,
we're called to serve God and rule over money.
In order to become money's master
and get free from money controlling us,
we also have to get free from money
controlling our time and our resources.
And so this is something that people don't often see.
We have to really lean in here
to see what Jesus is teaching us here.
But to break free from the control of money,
we must master systems and principles
and implementing systems and principles
will empower us to rule and reign over money.
So what we can actually get into here right now
is actually some of the ancient biblical mindsets
around money.
Some of the ancient biblical secrets around money
that actually produce time freedom,
that actually enable us to rule and reign over money.
Would you like to rule and reign over money
in the area of time and resources?
This is something that is so key
in what Jesus is talking about.
I mean, so here we go.
Most people, let me just highlight this.
Most people really have never been told
that they have a sacred God-given economic assignment
and responsibility on their lives.
But the truth is that each one of us,
we actually have a sacred God-given economic assignment
and responsibility on our lives.
And God is actually testing us in our finances.
So I just want you to declare this.
I want you to declare this.
I have a sacred economic assignment on my life, all right?
I have a sacred economic assignment on my life.
Listen, God is testing us in the area of our finances.
And God is looking to see who is a faithful steward
and who is a lazy steward.
Oh my gosh, yeah, this is true.
We're gonna see this as we jump into these parables.
So we're gonna look at a couple of parables right now.
We're Jesus teaching us about our economic assignment.
We're just gonna say this one more time.
You have a sacred economic assignment on your life.
So Matthew 25 is the first parable we're gonna look at,
the parable of the talents.
And then we're gonna quickly explore Luke 19,
the parable of the minors.
So are you ready?
Are you ready to jump into your sacred economic assignment?
So first of all, first part of this process,
remember that Jesus taught us alignment,
having purity of heart and minds,
having purity in our relationship with money.
That's the first way that we rule over money.
Listen, the second way that we rule over money
is through principles and systems.
And that's what Jesus is teaching us now.
So Matthew 25, verses 14 to 18.
Let me give you a little bit of context first.
So a talent, the value of a talent
was about 1 million New Zealand dollars, okay?
It was 20 years worth of wages, okay?
So that's a lot, 20 years wages
is how much this one talent is, okay?
So it's a solid amount of money,
20 years worth of wages.
It was 18 kilograms of gold, okay?
So the man calls the servant
and he gives out five bags of gold, okay?
So the five bags, that's 90 kilograms.
You know, that was 100 years worth of wages.
Then one gets three bags of gold and one gets one bag.
So here we go.
Matthew 25, verse 14 is where we're starting at.
So 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,
100 kilograms of gold, you know what I mean?
that's a hundred years wages that he just got given to another two bags to
another one bag each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man
who had received five bags of gold went once and put his money to work and again
gained five bags more. So also the one with two bags of gold gained two more
but 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 him. The man 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. Okay so there's one of the
first things that we can see about our economic assignment is what does it look
like to to be winning in your economic assignment. So when you're winning in
your economic assignment winning looks like this is a blueprint for what what
winning looks like. Winning looks like multiplication okay. And here's another
thing is that the like in the kingdom like a hundred years worth of wages was
considered a few things. Wow that's wild. Okay so let's let's carry on. 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 have been faithful with a few things I will put you in
charge of many things come and share your master's happiness. So there's there
are multi-faceted rewards for good financial stewardship in both this life
and eternity okay. So you just want to note that down okay. So there's
consequences and rewards when it comes to our financial stewardship. Verse 24
then the man who had received one bag of gold came. Master he said I knew that you
were a hard man harvesting where you have not sold and gathering where you
have not scattered seed so I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the
ground see here is what belongs to you. Okay what I want to touch on here right
what I want to touch on for you here is that there is an investor mindset. Jesus
is highlighting investors mindset okay so and the the servant here understands
that the master has an investor mindset. He says you are harvesting where you
have not scattered that's an investor's mindset. So Jesus is an investor and he is
looking for a return. He's looking for an automated a residual return on his
investment in your life. Jesus has planted good seed in you and he's
looking for a return. So investors are used to having their investment make a
return for them okay. So this is listen here's a real dynamic around royalty
okay. This is a real real mindset shift around royalty and I want you to kind of
like we have to kind of go through this carefully in a sense because I don't
want to like blow your minds out too much but royalty right you understand
this right you understand that royalty don't work a nine-to-five job right you
know royalty don't work a nine-to-five for money. Now yes they do work and
they're very very diligent and the focus of royalty is actually usually
discipling nations not just doing a nine-to-five job. So but here's the thing
and Jesus remember Jesus is speaking to us from the perspective of royalty as the
king of heaven he's speaking to us and we can catch so much here about royal
paradigms and royal perspectives about money. See royalty have other financial
systems in place that create residual income for them so that they are free to
pursue their dreams. Listen to me listen to me and hear me hear me with this.
Royalty okay royalty aren't dependent on a nine-to-five for money and so what
do they do with their time? Royalty first of all royalty have systems and
principles in place that create wealth for them and as a result of having
systems and principles in place that are creating money for them royalty then get
to utilize their time for discipling nations. Now what could that look like
for you if you had systems in place that made money for you automated systems that
made money for you even while you're sleeping so that you can steward your
time to disciple nations. Now this is so important and this is something that we
want to make sure that we don't don't miss here. The money that's being made in
the system the way that Jesus is teaching people to make money here is
not through a nine-to-five.
He's actually really highlighting the dynamic that royal mindsets are investor mindsets, okay?
Royalty, so just note this down because remember there's two ways that money rules over us. The
first way is through, you know, if it can corrupt our hearts and minds. But if you have purity
in heart and mind, then you can, you're actually empowered to rule over money. But the second way
that money will rule over you is if you don't have any, okay? It doesn't matter how pure your heart
and mind is, if you don't have money, right? Money is going to dictate where you can go, what you
can do. If you're in poverty, right, you don't have many options. If you're in poverty, then
money is ruling over you. So let's carry on with this. Verse 26. This master replied, you wicked,
lazy servant. So you knew that I harvest where I have not sold and gather where I have not
scattered seed. He's like, that's the investor mindset, okay? I'm just making my money work
for me. That's what the, that's the investor mindset. Well, then you should have put my money
on deposit with the bankers so that when I returned, I would have received it back
with interest, okay? So again, it's the investor mindset. It's like this money should be making
money, all right? That's a royal mindset that your money makes money for you. Verse 28. So
take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has 10 bags for whoever has will be given
more and whoever does not have 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. Okay, so this is
a crazy concept, right? That, you know, this servant was called a wicked and lazy servant.
Those are pretty strong words, right? A wicked and lazy servant. So he's called a wicked and lazy
servant. Do you agree? Was this servant a wicked and lazy servant? If so, why do you think he was
a wicked and lazy servant? All right, so let me share a story about a pastor from the Ukraine
called Pastor Sunday Adonijah. And a lot of people haven't heard of Pastor Sunday,
but a lot of people have. So he was reading this parable here and God really was actually
in a conversation with God. God really convicted him and said, hey, you're like the wicked lazy
servant. Pastor Sunday Adonijah, the last thing you would say about him is that he was
wicked or lazy, right? You know, because this guy, he's like full on devoted to the kingdom.
He's extremely focused. He is working, you know, 12 plus hours a day to advance the kingdom.
But God said to him, you're the wicked and lazy servant. And Pastor Sunday was like, what? How
am I the wicked lazy servant? And God said, well, listen, in your understanding of money,
you haven't learned the principles of kingdom economics. You haven't learned the systems and
the principles of kingdom economics. So he really felt convicted. He's like, okay, God will teach me
the principles of royal economics. Teach me these things. So what I'm talking to you about now are
the things that Sunday Adonijah, he then went away and learned them. He went away and actually
really studied what Jesus said about kingdom economics. And then he began to steward it and
implement it. It's an amazing story. He made a goal to create a million dollars, a million US dollars.
He made it his goal. He said, okay, God, if you're teaching me about kingdom economics, let me then
put it into place. Let me see that it actually works. So he set a goal. He said, okay, God,
then I want to make a million US dollars in my first year of business. And the crazy thing
was that he actually, he implemented kingdom economics, right? These are the things that I'm
sharing with you now. Purity of heart and mind and then mastering systems and principles. So he put
these kingdom economics into place. And in less than a year, he had returned over a million US
dollars, right? In his first year. And so he's like, wow, this really works. So he took it back
into his church. And listen, his church, right? His church is people who would come off the streets,
prostitutes, drug addicts, all sorts of chaos and trouble and out of prison and out of jail.
And what he started to do is he started to teach them the royal economics that Jesus had been
teaching him. And in less than three years, he had raised up over 200 millionaires in his church.
Wow, that is wild, right? Let me know if you think that is wild. Now, is this him just being
worldly? Is this him just teaching prosperity doctrine? Is this just him just going off the
rails? No, it's not, my friends. It's actually what happens when someone understands that there's a
royal economy that we can step into and that Jesus taught us how to rule and reign over money.
See, we're going to see in the next phase, the third phase, how important this is and how this
relates to our assignment. But the first phase is economic alignment. The second phase is economic
assignment. And so the economic assignment on your life is to be in place.
to be applying Kingdom principles that actually cause abundance, that produce multiplication.
So let's carry on. Oh, this is a crazy concept, right? That they, Jesus said, take the bag away.
Okay, so take the bag off that servant who hasn't been stewarding well. So what you see here is,
you know, and the other servant gets the reward. So what you're going to see is that when you
start implementing, when you start being faithful, implementing Kingdom economics in your life,
what you're going to see is the momentum of heaven will come on you. Favor of God will come on you
as you're stewarding well. Favor will come upon your life. And that's exactly what Jesus is
highlighting here. Now, if you aren't stewarding money well, it is possible to, you know, like
what Jesus has shown here, it's possible that you will lose favor. This is an interesting concept
right here, that God really is testing us. And it's not the only way he's testing us, but it's
important for us to understand that God takes our relationship with money seriously. God takes
our stewardship of money seriously. And for those who will really steward, who will lean in and like
Pastor Sunday at a night, you go, okay, God, I'm going to take this really seriously. He will breathe
massive favor in this area. So remember, it's not about the amounts of money, okay? When God
is stewarding us, and that's what we see as well, you know, with these servants here, it wasn't about
the amount of money. God wasn't worried about that. You know, Jesus isn't concerned about that
so much in the parable, but he did say, you know, according to their ability. So to those who'd
actually shown that they were proficient and that shown that they had been good stewards, he was
already like, okay, I know this guy's a good steward. I'm going to give the good steward way
more. Those that don't have so much ability, I won't give them so much. But listen, what the key
is here is it's not about the amount of money and you shouldn't feel good or bad, really about the
amount of money. That's not what Jesus is really focused on. He's focused on your stewardship of
that money. Okay, let's jump into Luke 19. Now, Luke 19 is the parable of the miners, and we're
going to race through it. So a miner is different to a talent. A miner was about four months wages
as opposed to 20 years wages. So here we go. Luke 19 verse 11. When 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 worth went to a distant country
to have himself appointed king and then to return. The point here to just be aware of is that this is
a noble man. So he's actually kind of drawing this to us as a royal class. So you can expect
royal mindsets, royal paradigms. So you want to pay attention to that because that's
what you want to get out of this. It's important in this parable that the character is royalty
because Jesus wants us to be thinking like royalty. He wants to paint a picture of how
royalty steward their money. So first of all, royalty take risks with their money. They
actually use it, they take risks. Secondly, they are always looking for ways to create multiple
streams of income. These are some royal mindsets. You're not going to hear this from someone
who's celebrating poverty, but when you're hanging around Jesus, he's going to celebrate royal
mindsets and these are some of his royal mindsets. Royalty are looking for ways to create multiple
streams of income and to create residual income. And royalty invest their money before they spend
it so that it multiplies. That's a big point. So 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. Now here's another
massive concept for royalty. Royalty don't work for money. They make money work for them. Okay,
I make money work for me in Jesus name, right? Royalty don't work for money. They make money
work for them. Verse 14. But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him 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 his servants to whom he had given the money in order to find out what they had gained with it.
The first one said, sir, your miner has earned 10 more. Like that's an amazing return, right? That's
a tenfold. That's a crazy, crazy return. Turn one miner into 10. That is an epic return.
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 really, really powerful in terms of
God. We see the bigger picture of why Jesus is testing us, okay? This is wild. Jesus is looking
for people that he can entrust to rule and reign over cities. That is exciting, okay? So you might
think, oh, why is it important? Why is God worried about my money?
God's worried about your money because it's not really just about your money, it's about
how you steward everything that he's placed in your hand. God wants to see you stewarding
everything that he has placed in your hand like royalty. He wants to see you stewarding like
royalty because he's looking for the great stewards to entrust with authority over cities.
How wild is that? He's looking for people to entrust dominion to. He's looking for people
to entrust authority to. He's looking for people to entrust power to. And he's wondering, he's
looking and he's testing you and your finances to see, are you a good steward? Are you a faithful
steward? Can he entrust authority over cities, authority over nations, dominion over regions?
Can you be entrusted with that? He's going to check your bank balance, not your bank balance,
but he's going to check your stewardship, how you steward the resources, not just money,
the resources that he's placed in your hand. Are you a good steward? Can you be entrusted
with authority over cities? The second came and said, sir, your miner has earned five more. At
this point, the man has just gone into profit. So he gave out 10 miners when he went away and
he now has 15 miners. So this is the second thing you can see is that this guy, he's already made
a profit. That's just off the first two servants, he's already made a profit. So that's good. His
master answered, you take charge of five cities. Then another servant came and said, sir, your
miner, here is your miner. I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. I was afraid of you
because you were a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.
So again, Jesus is highlighting the investor mindset here. It's a royal mindset of your money
makes money for you. And we don't hear about the other seven, but either way, he's already in a
profit. So he started with 10, he's now got 16. And regardless of what the other seven did,
he's already made money. So the point is, one of the key things here is that royalty make money
work for them. Royalty don't work for money, they make money work for them. So this is a question
for you. Jesus is looking to see whether or not you have understood that you can make money
for you. It's possible. And Jesus wants to, he's interested. He's not scared of your money. He's
interested to know, hey, have you learned yet how to make your money make money for you? Or are you
dependent on a nine to five? Because royalty make money work for us. That's just something Jesus is
looking to see in our lives. This is one of the ways that Proverbs 13, 22 is fulfilled that a
righteous man or a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. How? Because they,
throughout their life, learn to make their money make money for them. So his master replied,
I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant. You knew, did you, that I'm a hard man
taking out what I did not put in and reaping what I did not sow. Why then did you put my money,
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 those standing by, take this money away from him and give it to
the one who has 10 miners. Certainly, they said, he already has 10. But he replied, I tell you that
everyone who has more will be given to them. 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 momentum,
you start creating favor, you start creating even financial momentum on your life. Beautiful.
All right. Hey, I want to give you something practical right now and just share a story with
you from a Jewish friend of mine. So I've got a Jewish friend and she was telling me before she
met Yeshua, before she met Yeshua and became a follower of Jesus,
her and her Jewish friends, they always used to just laugh at Christians, okay? She was like,
this is, they just, they thought that Christians were a joke, to be honest. It was like, oh my gosh,
here's all these Christians coming up to us and telling us that they've got the secrets of the
Bible and that we've completely missed it. But the Jewish people thought that was so funny because
it's the secrets of the Bible, right, that actually teach Jewish people how to be wealthy,
how to steward their finances. And that's why Jewish people are disproportionately wealthy,
nearly everywhere you go. And listen, it also doesn't really matter what context that you put
Jewish people in, they find a way to thrive because they understand biblical principles around
money. It was actually the Rothschilds are a Jewish family. And when the Rothschilds were
actually in a ghetto situation, when the Rothschild story started, they were being
persecuted and Jewish people in Germany weren't allowed to even own property. So they had to do
other things. And so they actually created the world banking system, okay? Jewish people are
disproportionately wealthy and they understand finances, but where does that understanding come
from? It comes from the Bible. It comes from their understanding of the Old Testament and how
Proverbs and Solomon taught them how to utilize and steward money. So let me quickly share with you
five ways that Jewish people steward money.
And this is what they teach their kids, okay?
And I think this is just so amazing,
you know, to see that they teach their kids
how to steward finances right from the very beginning.
Okay, so this is called the five jars.
Okay, this is called the five jars principle.
And I actually do this with my kids
and it's how we've been able to help our kids
start creating residual income for them.
So our kids have residual income streams.
Even my little girl, when she was a baby,
she already had residual income streams
starting to happen for her in her life.
And it comes through this principle of the five jars, okay?
So the five jars, what you've got to imagine is that,
well, you don't have to just imagine this,
but this is what we do with our kids.
When they get their money,
and this is the Jewish principle of the five jars, okay?
And one other quick story is that one Jewish kid, right?
His dad taught him how to do this.
And so by the time he left school,
he'd been doing this so much
that he was able to buy his own house with cash, okay?
So let me know if you think that would be cool
to have your own kids buy their own house with cash
when they leave school.
So the principle of the five jars is that you take a jar,
just imagine, look, this is my cup of tea.
Just imagine this is your jar, jar number one,
and you put 10% in there for your ties.
Then you take jar number two,
you put 10% in there for your offering.
You take 10% in the next one,
and you put 10% in there for savings.
You take your next jar, and this is for investing,
and you put 20% in the investing jar,
and you take the next one for 50%,
you put that in there, and you live off 50%.
And I heard about this.
It was not possible to live off 50%.
Could you live off 50%?
Let me know.
Let me know if you could live off 50% of your income.
To me, that was a crazy concept.
I'm like, what?
I couldn't do this.
But this is the principle.
And actually, how amazing is this, right?
So for the Jewish people,
they would focus on putting 10% into tithing,
10% into offerings, 10% into savings,
20% into investments, and 50% into living off.
Now, you can only live off 50% if you master the 20%, okay?
So this is so critical.
This is one of the mindsets that Jesus was teaching.
Royalty, have their money, make money for them.
Now, if the church actually taught kingdom,
like actually taught biblical wisdom around finances,
we would teach more about investments
than we do about tithing, okay?
Because Jewish people, they invest 20% at least
and tithe only 10%, okay?
So what that should show us is that
if you actually want to step into like royal economics,
kingdom economics, biblical wisdom around finances,
and if the church was stepping into that,
if we wanted to really break poverty,
if we want to break that curse off people's lives,
we would teach them about investing.
So just say, investing is the missing ingredient.
It's the missing key, okay?
Investing is the missing key.
But when I first heard about this concept of the five jars,
you know, you tithe 10%, you give 10% in offerings,
you save 10%, you put 20% into investments
and you live off 50%.
Well, that to me was like,
well, that's a crazy, crazy concept.
But when I looked at the fruit of it,
you know, like kids being able to buy their own houses,
freeholder, I'm starting to realize,
oh my gosh, this is amazing.
What an amazing system.
And I started to chat to my Jewish friends and like,
yeah, this is why we are wealthy
and this is why we laugh at Christians
because they tell us, they know the secrets of the Bible,
but they're living in poverty.
And to Jewish people,
the concept that you're living in poverty,
it's like, to them that's a curse,
to them that's like,
well, why aren't you applying the principles of the Bible?
You know, like, why aren't you applying this wisdom?
Because then it's like, you're living in a curse.
So what we started to do is we just started to make,
and say this, say, small, sustainable change, okay?
And this will be my challenge to you in terms of finances,
you know, as you're stepping into your financial journey,
if you're gonna go on a journey of transformation,
if you wanna actually step
into the economic assignment on your life, right?
Because the first part of Jesus' teaching
is economic alignments,
that's having purity of heart and mind
so that money can't rule over your heart and mind.
And then the second part is kingdom assignments.
So this is what Jesus is trying to communicate,
is that you have a sacred economic assignment on your life,
and it's all about how you steward your money.
And have you learned how to make money, make money for you?
Because if you haven't learned how to make money,
make money for you,
then money will control your time,
money will control your resources.
Jesus actually wants us to step into a place of wisdom
and principles and systems
that actually breaks the power of money over us.
And it's just like the Jewish people
are walking in this already,
and Jesus is like, okay, come on, Christians,
I want you to catch the heart of this.
But for us, when we wanted to start making change in this,
you know, like when I started out,
out of my financial journey, we were having $20. I had $25
support a fortnight, and $20 of that went to my sponsored kid in
Africa, right. So I had like $5 a fortnight. And that's where I
started my journey. And so for me, we kind of started right
through a lot of poverty, and my wife had credit, credit card
debt, and pressure on our marriage and all of these
things. But change happened, and big things happened. And they
even started happening financially for us, when we
started making small sustainable changes. So, you know, could you
make a one degree shift somewhere in your finances, you
know, like, could you start saving, you know, 5% or a
little bit just so that's what my challenge to you is, is there
somewhere in your world regarding your finances that you
could start making a small sustainable change? Right. So
the third, the third part, right, the third phase of Jesus
teaching on finances is reformation. Okay, say
reformation. So we've got economic alignment, economic
assignment, and economic reformation. So when you really
master the economic alignment, you're in purity of heart, and
you can help people step into purity of heart. When you master
your economic assignment, you actually start breaking the
curse of poverty off your life. And that's what Jesus is so
passionate about seeing is breaking the curse of poverty
off your life. And then you get to step into the third part,
which is economic reformation, which is where Jesus really
wants us to be in as a place of economic reformation, where
we're breaking poverty off other people's lives. We're expanding
the kingdom of God, we're growing the kingdom of God. And
we're bringing heaven to earth through our finances. So guys,
we're going to get into that next part of economic
reformation issues and really exciting stories with you about,
you know, how God is bringing economic reformation in the
world, how you can be a part of just awesome stuff. So that's
our next session is economic reformation and bringing heaven
to it. So really, really excited about that, fam, and bless you.
And I'm going to see you real soon in our next live. So bless
you. We'll catch you soon. Love you. Bye bye.