Owners and Slaves
It seems that all the promises for
substance prosperity that God makes are hinged on being self employed. Again,
in the Bible there are only two kinds of employed people, Slaves and Business
Owners.
Proverbs 12:11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of
understanding.
Proverbs 28:19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons
shall have poverty enough.
Deuteronomy 30:9
And the LORD thy God
will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy
cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD
will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
Again, if you
don’t have cattle or land (your own business) God can’t bless it.
Can someone prosper as an employee?
Certainly they
can if that business has room for an income that is sufficient to meet the Biblical
or individual’s criteria of Prosperity. The fact is that “prosperity” is very
subjective. For some, prospering is making $50,000 a year and to others 50k
would be poverty. It depends on the individuals dream or goal that determines
that. Usually prosperity is “having more than enough”. God wants us to have
“more than enough” so we can help others. The poor can not help the poor, they can’t
even help themselves.
The most
successful employee (slave) in the Bible was Joseph. The position he finally
held was second only to Pharaoh. He was the second
most powerful man in
1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all
fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.
Some employees
that make serious incomes work on Commission or a salary plus commission or
productivity bonuses. It is said that the highest income earners in the world
are salesman. To a certain degree they are all in business for themselves. As a
realtor my wife always said, when asked if she was self employed, “No I’m God
employed” acknowledging the source of her success. God doesn’t care how much you make as long as
He gets the credit and you don’t heap it upon yourself.
In the movie “Schindler’s List”, Schindler, a
business owner, traded his entire sizeable fortune to help save 1200 Jews from
certain death in Nazi death camps. Once God touched his heart his abundance was
put to God’s purpose. Only the rich who don’t know the real purpose of
abundance, feel guilty about being rich, and go out of their way to keep others
from being rich thinking they are saving them. Families such as the Kennedy’s
are perfect examples of this. The father amassed huge wealth from whiskey
smuggling and when his children went into politics, they focused on taking
money from other rich people to give it to the poor people. And all this was
driven by rich white guilt. Schindler
didn’t feel guilty he was rich, he felt guilty when he ran out of money trying
to help. If the Kennedy’s had given away their money to the poor their guilt
would have gone away and we would not have been inflicted with their judgment
for an entire generation.
I heard one time
someone say, “Liberalism is a
mental disorder”. After
watching many of these rich liberal
politicians; trying to make everyone equally
poor, yet living like spoiled Kings and Queens themselves; Acting like they
are doing everyone a favor and demanding they should be honored for their
hypocrisy, (+“Oh Bama won’t
you buy me 3 more Gulfstream Jets. We already fly
first class, but we’re important as heck” +.)
I think I know now why God
kicked Lucifer out of Heaven.
It is the difference
of using wealth to lord over people or to serve people. God wants us to serve
people; He has the lording thing under control. (God is not tempted nor can He
be corrupted.) Lording is like Communism,
it only works in Heaven with God in charge. When tried by man it only creates
dictators and tyrants. When Lucifer tried it, even angles fell under the weight
of it.. Serving on the other hand, works for everyone,
every time it is tried. It is the purest form of giving and GOD
LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER.