God’s Kingdom Economy
- The spirit of mammon is perhaps the greatest direct enemy of God in the world today!
- Mammon represents the world monetary culture and incorporates selfishness, covetousness, greed, possessions, pride, and power.
- It causes us to try to accumulate as much stuff and pleasures as we can.
- Mammon’s authority is rooted in fear:
- Our fear that God cannot or will not fulfill His promises.
- Our worry that we will not get our fair share.
- Our anxiety that we will lose out on things that others are getting or appearing to have. This is the danger of comparison!
- The foundation of this fear is our inborn sense of selfishness, greed, and materialism.
- Money (actually, the love of money) is the ultimate substitute for God in the world. Our possessions, pleasures, power, prestige, and control have become idols before God in most people’s lives.
- Matthew 6:24 – “No one can serve two masters … You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Teach – Biblical Financial Principles Seminar Curriculum:
Lesson 1: Where Do We Stand Today?
- Satan has a counterfeit version for everything that God gives to us freely and completely.
- The clash of the kingdoms – the kingdom of myself compared with the kingdom of God.
- Kingdom economics and the culture of the Kingdom.
- Universal Principles: Sowing and Reaping; Giving and Receiving.
- What does God say about money?
- Tithing – key to defeating money as your dominant belief system!
Lesson 2: Kingdom Principles
- Principle of the First Born (Exodus 13:1-2, 12-13).
- Principle of First Fruits (Exodus 23:19).
- Principle of Multiplication (Luke 9:12-17).
Lesson 3: The Heart Test
- The Heart Test (Malachi 3:6-12).
- Tithes and offerings are not just an Old Testament decree: God Does Not Change!
- Old Testament = LAW; New Testament = GRACE
- Tithing and Giving are two entirely different things.
- Do what the Holy Spirit is directing you to do.
- Husband and wife MUST come into agreement on offerings.
- Revelation about Tithes and Offerings (Luke 21:1-3)
Lesson 4: Breaking the Spirit of Mammon – (Luke 16:9-15 and Matthew 6:19-21, 24)
- Understanding that ALL money has a spirit on it!
- The spirit of mammon wants to rule over and control us.
- What are the lies of the spirit of mammon (and have you fallen for them?)
- Money is NOT evil – the spirit on undedicated money is evil!
- Want to get out of debt? GIVE your way out – follow God’s financial plan!
- What should we do on the practical level?
Lesson 5: Keys to Making Jesus Our Business Partner
- Breaking the back of the poverty spirit.
- You must understand the law of the seed.
- Three keys for making Jesus your business partner
- The tithe is NOT Law, it is worship!
- We serve and give because God first served us and gave His Son for our salvation.
- You do the natural steps and let God take care of the supernatural.
- CONFESS, PRAY, and FAST – GIVING completes us! (Philippians 4:19).
Seminar Duration: 7-8 hours or two 4-hour sessions.