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The Ministry of Prosperity--"There Should Be No Poor Among You" (Dt. 15:4) God's people are potentially an economically prosperous and authoritative organism. Our prosperity as a people is dependent upon our response to the needs of our Christian neighbors. The administration of loans and rule belongs to us. God guaranteed [and still does] rich blessings unto His people for their overseeing providence of one another: "For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you" (Dt. 15:6). This financial commandment was given for the economic advantage and benefit of Israel. It also prevented debt or financial bondage to peoples who did not serve the Lord. Analogically, today in the US you can see how God's people (Christians) have lost their economic direction and are financially subject to peoples who do not serve the Lord nor abide by his interest-free and open-hand loaning rules. It is awesome to think how many Christians have been seduced into the economic error of earning income through bank interest accounts, stocks, bonds, etc. For instance, banks, credit card, and other financial institutions disregard, "If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest" (Ex. 22:25). How many misdirected Christians do you see these days who choose to belong to and earn income through an institution that charges interest and ignorantly does not discriminate in favor of a Christian's God-given preferential right? This is an existing inherent evil. I realize Christians should not expect non-Christians to initiate this distinguished principle. But then again, somebody should. Well then, who? We should! We have to separate ourselves from non-Christian financial institutions and make our own. Modern day Christian financing needs to be turned around. We should loan to other peoples, but not borrow from them. However, we should not charge interest to a fellow Christian: "Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it" (Dt. 23:19, 20). In order to correct our economic situation we must not charge interest among ourselves. Since we would like others to become part of our Christian family we should not want to charge interest to anyone. Personally, I will starve myself before deliberately earning income through interest.
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