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The Ministry of Prosperity--"There Should Be No Poor Among You" (Dt. 15:4) Does money matter? Would you like to earn income while you save? Need money for a home or an automobile school? Say NO to credit and interest schemes! From the O.T. it can be easily seen that God desired his people to be richly blessed. He did not desire any person who had a need in the land he gave to his people to continue having that need. He expected an Israelite to loan to a fellow Israelite without interest and without fear of cancellation of the debt due to time, a seven-year maximum limit depending upon the time of the year of cancellation, a proclamation of the Lord. The Lord chose Israel as a treasured possession from all the peoples (Dt. 14:2). Similarly, today Christians are a people for a treasured possession, a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation (I Pet. 2:9). Israel was given preferential instructions (commandments) that distinguished them as a holy people unto the Lord. For instance, they were disallowed to eat anything found dead, but they were permitted to give it to an alien living in their towns or to sell it to a foreigner. Likewise, Christians are commanded to abstain from things strangled (Acts 15:29). The Israelites were permitted to require payment of a loan from a foreigner continually, but they were not permitted to require a loan payment from a fellow Israelite after the year of canceling of debts. Perhaps Christians should also be willing to drop loan debts to Christian brothers and sisters according to the same year for a limit of seven years so that there will be a recognizable year of financial release of debt among the brotherhood. That way, maybe we could get collectively, as a whole, unified body, our economic bearings and establish a sense of financial unity and togetherness for the purpose of the prosperity and economic freedom as God instructed his people Israel. The subsequent obedience of Israel to God's preferential laws demonstrated in reality the preference of one Israelite to another. Similarly, by serving one another according to God's commands, we Christians strengthen the body of Christ (the church). |
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