Shalom to the saints of God, we are happy to bring you the review of our sermon. The word of God is profitable for reproof and correction, and God has been faithful in giving us kingdom principles on how to live. Today, we dealt with the type of business a child of God can do and cannot do.
Scriptures: Ezekiel 33:7, Leviticus 10:10, Proverb 11:15, Jeremiah 17:11, Proverbs 13:11.
Everybody wants to be rich, everybody wants to be blessed, but how do you make your money?
There are certain businesses a child of God must not engage in no matter how much he needs money. For example, a child of God must not be a smuggler (you can’t have the Holy Spirit and engage in such a business. Moreso, it is against the country’s law). A child of God can never be a money doubler. You must not engage in such a business. Any money gotten from such business is devilish –God is not in it. So, it’s not simply about making money, it’s about how such money is gotten. Hence, you shoudn’t envy people who are prospering because you don’t know the source of their prosperity.
A child of God cannot engage in gambling, no matter the name they call it. That is never a means by which God blesses his own people. Gambling is not of God! If you cannot prove how you make your profit, you can be arrested for money laundering, let your business be provable.The love of money is the root of all evil. Money is good, but you should be careful of greed and selfishness. A real businessman doesn’t gamble or attempt to get rich overnight. You should not, as Christians, sell inferior goods and pretend that it is original, nor sell inferior goods with the same price as the original. A child of God must be disciplined and learn to save and invest read investment by prophet WMB
Money doesn’t increase itself unless you invest. It is when you invest that it will yield profit; anything different from that, is gambling. A good businessman knows better than to gamble. Gambling will make you rich today and a pauper tomorrow. Brethren should help one another. If 10 genuine brothers are employed, they can gather together to make contributions to meet one another’s need- there’s no sin in that.
Money lending is not a sin if it is done in a godly manner. Brethren could come to terms and make an agreement on how each person would make profit, the percentage interest, the date to pay back, etc., but problem will come in when you do not keep to your promises (you must not abuse brotherhood). It good pray earnestly before taking a job from a brother because the Devil doesn’t like the bond you share and would like to break it by turning brothers against themselves. Your money must be real, gotten responsibly, if you want to get blessing from God. You must not kill people because you want to get rich! You must run every business with the fear of God. Don’t be anxious to get rich, start small. If you start small, you will rise but if you start from up, there’s high probability that you will fall.
Don’t stand as a surety for anybody if you don’t want to go to prison! If you stand in for someone because you think he/she is nice or he/she is your boss, you will be called a fool at the end of the day. Proverbs 11:15 – He that is surety for a stranger, shall (suffer) for it.