“Godliness with contentment is great gain.”  We brought nothing in.  We’re taking nothing out.  “Well, I know I can’t take any of it out, but I’m going to leave this in trust for my children.”  And we’re trying, many of us trying to think with the mind of some of the wealthy, the elite.  “We’re going to build generational wealth.  And so, this is going to be left for my kids.  Therefore, my great grandkids will never have to want for anything.”  You can pull that off.  But history says usually they spend it, and don’t even know who you were and don’t care.  And Solomon said it’s vanity.  So, are we going to think generational wealth, or our momentary preservation that’ll propagate and promote the gospel as long as it’s day and we can work?

I’m just wanting to try to move our minds as we experience this abundance that most of us have never had before.  And we have this abundance.  What’s the proper biblical use of it?  What is God speaking to us?  When that age-old question is asked, how much is enough?  How much is enough?  I think there’s no limit on having too much if we have the integrity to use it properly, if it’s being used biblically to glorify God.  We’ll see in this sixth chapter, to communicate, to distribute when there are definite needs.  When it comes to that day that it was in the book of Acts, when things are brought and laid at the apostles’ feet—do you know how much faith that takes?  We read it in the Bible.  Oh, praise God!  Are you in a place where you think that you could do that right now?  These rough times, the whole community—because, see, rough times are going to hit us all a little differently.

Just like right now, our prosperity differs.  We’re going to have different aspects of suffering and lack when those times come.  Is it mine or is it God’s to where all the needs are met in the community and we, having land that others don’t have, we sell it and we bring it, and we lay it at the feet of the apostles and say, use it however best helps the community?  You sure can’t do that if you don’t trust leadership.  That’s why we were reading the other parts earlier coming into this thing.  We sure can’t do it if we’re covetous.  It’s much harder to give up money that you got by unjust gain than money that God provided for you. 

Father, we thank You for Your Word, and we just ask that You would strengthen us and guide us.  This hour that we’re living in, Father, help us to separate ourselves from this world.  That doesn’t mean just in our morality.  It means in our thinking of finance.  It means how we communicate and prepare our lives when these institutions of learning are going into antichrist perversion like we’ve never seen.  What do we do?  How do we feed ourselves out, justifying it that somehow, we will end up on the other side with a paper that’ll make us richer?  You’re going to make us richer.  How should we think in this day?  Business as usual?  Or the Holy Ghost will lead us into all truth.  “Thy Word is truth” (John 17:17).

The righteous have never been forsaken nor their “seed begging bread” (Psalm 37:25).  Help us, Father.  We’re having to contend with our own minds, our own fleshly tendencies, the natural.  Are we spiritually minded?  Are we carnally minded?  Now’s the time to address and answer some of those sayings because the day is coming “when no man can work” (John 9:4).  Father, prepare us.  We ask, in Jesus’ name, amen.  Amen!