Money Multiplication

Money Multiplication

1. Yeshua taught money multiplication: His parables in Math. 25:14-30; Luke 19:13-27 deal with plain money matters and not to be spiritualized with gifts and talents.

2. The Master entrusted money to his servants: They are to do business/occupy/trade and multiply His money. God called us to be wealth creators and good money managers. (Luke 19:13; Matt. 25:16).

3. Multiply Wealth: Doing so should make you a ruler of five, ten or more cities. Yeshua died to make you a priest and a king to rule on earth.  Before you can become a ruler you have to prove that you can multiply your money. No money, no rulership. You cannot become a king and have no wealth to rule over your kingdom. (Rev. 5:9,10)

4. Rulership includes taking care of the needy: Provide for the hungry, thirsty, strangers, naked, sick and the prisoners. Do not create dependency but help them to multiply their little possessions so that they can also have abundant life. (Matt. 25:31-46)

5. There are several ways you can use your money.

A. You can waste it just like a prodigal son did.

B. You can spend it, just like many of us do, and have nothing left at the end of the month.

C. You can passively invest it in safe deposit in the bank and earn a low annual percentage. But the purchasing value of that money would have depreciated by then. (Matt. 25:27).

D. You can actively invest it and put the money to work just as the two servants did, earning 100 percent profit in a short time and thereby become rulers. However there are risks involved in doing business. (Luke 19:17)

6. Money does not make you rich.  A rich man, even after losing all his money, can become rich again because he knows how to make money, whereas a poor man, upon getting much money, is likely to lose it all, because he does not know how to manage money.

7. Do not pitch  your tent in prosperous Sodom: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, Esther, Nehemiah, Daniel, Joseph, Governor of Cyprus, Treasurer of Ethiopia, Lydia, Phoebe, Cornelius and many others were extremely rich and yet righteous. Not money but “the love of money” is the root of all evil. (1Tim. 6:10)

8. Yeshua came to give abundant life: This is not the same as abundance of things. It is to be content when you are abased or abound, hungry or full, because you can do all things in Christ who strengthens you (Matt. 19:24; John 10:10; Luke 12:15;18; Phil. 4:11-13; 2Cor 6:10).

9. In the NT church “no one lacked anything”: If you have poor and needy in your church then you are not practicing biblical principles of wealth creation and management. It is not governments or the rich or the multinationals that will solve the economic problems of this world. They are part of the problem and not the solution. Only biblical sharing and caring will solve it. (Acts  4:34).

10. The Objective: It is not only to feed the hungry and the thirsty but to make them streams of living waters and sources of abundant life for others (Isa. 55:1,2; John 7:37,38).

11. Change Your Mindset: The first step to change your financial profile is to change your financial paradigm. You need to change from consumer culture of spending on your greed rather than on basic needs to a culture of saving, investing and multiplying your wealth. Be a job creator and a wealth manager. (Luke 16:8-13)

12. Do not give loans: This is the best way to lose friends. Either give it away or better still start partnerships with the destitute believers after teaching them biblical multiplicative financial principles.

13. Do not borrow money: Start business with what you have. Do not get into shady deals and share everlasting habitations with the crooked. God will not bless dirty money (Luke 16:9; Deut. 23:18-20). Do not give up because of failures. Try again. 

This is what you should do with your money:

1. Freewill offering: Take out first what you  have purposed in your heart (2Cor. 9:6,7). It does not belong to you. It is for saving of souls. Even the priests should give tithe of the tithes (Neh. 10:38). Do not give to those who have no burden for lost souls (2Pet. 3:9). Lay this money at the apostles’ feet that save perishing souls.  (Acts 4:34-37; 20:33-35; Luke 6:38).

2. Parental Support: “Honor your parents” (Kabad in Hebrew and Time’ in Greek means “making rich”), lest your life will be cut short. Yeshua took care of his mother even as He was dying on the cross. (Exo. 20:5; Mark 7:10-13)

3. Save and sow Seed Money: Set aside 20-30 % or more of your income for yourself. This is seed money. If the farmer will eat his seed then he will have nothing to sow. Do not give it to anyone. Abundant sowing in good soil will bring abundant fruit. The rich do not necessarily work hard, they invest wisely. The more you invest, the more you can maximize money and ministries. Plan on multiplying your wealth so much that you can live royally on 10% and invest 90% of your income on advancing the kingdom. (2Cor. 9:6-11)

4. Family Budget: Carefully plan your family budget for food and other necessities. Cut out all the wasteful expenditure and delay purchasing that which is not urgent. If you do not provide for your own family needs then you are worse than an infidel (1Tim. 5:8).

5. Do not store surplus wealth: Hoarding invites moths and thieves who steal. Plow your wealth back into the kingdom business, lest like the rich fool you too lose the Kingdom. Multiply wealth and have the joy of extravagant giving. (Matt. 6:19-24; Luke 12:15-21; 6:38).

6. God does not give wealth: He only gives the power to earn wealth. The wealth does not belong to you. All your wealth belongs to God. We are only channels to fulfill the covenant He made with our forefather Abraham, “You shall be a blessing to all the families of the earth” (Deut. 8:17,18; Hag. 2:8; 10-12; Gen. 12:3; Ecc. 2:26).

7. How wealthy are you? It depends on how many saved souls you have in your savings account. Since Yeshua came to seek and to save the lost, all your wealth must bless seeker-centric and disciple making ministries. Paul worked with his own hands and taught that everyone should have fruit credited to their own account. (Phil. 4:17; Acts 20:33-35)

8. Form unencumbered partnerships: A “paid laborer” reaps the harvest but it is credited into his master’s account. Paul planted and Apollos watered as independent partners, and God gave the growth (1Cor. 3:6-10).

9. Aim to Progress from a tither to a total giver; from cheerful giving (2Cor. 9: 7), to liberal giving, to sacrificial giving (2Cor. 8:2,3), so as to be a sweet smelling aroma, well pleasing to God who will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory. (Phil 4:18,19)