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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