As the Witness of the Financial Summit (Genesis 26:1-5)
The Field of Answers of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC: 4/11/2021
As the Witness of the Financial Summit (Genesis 26:1-5)
Financial problems are the biggest problems with the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a certain conclusion is that there is a separate finance economy) that children of God who are in the covenant will enjoy. Like Isaac from the passage, the crisis can instead become an opportunity to become a financial summit.
- God raised people who had the covenant as financial summits in each age for at least three reasons in the Bible.
1) It is because finances are the start of all spiritual wars. What does this mean?
① God created all humans in His image and gave them the blessing to rule over the earth according to His will in Genesis 1:26-27.
Humans were not the only ones who suffered after Genesis 3. The ground was cursed as well (Genesis 3:18, Romans 8:19). All income that man receives from their labor is finance. The issue is that we need to enjoy the fruits of blessings as much as our labor but that crumbled. It is not a blessing of finance. It is a finance of curses, finances of corruption, finances of darkness, and finances of idolatry. Satan is the one moving these. He dared to attempt to tempt Jesus (Matthew 8:4-9).
② God blessed Abraham to the where he raised 318 trained men (Genesis 14:14), and Isaac to enjoy a hundred-fold blessing, source of springs, and the blessing of Rehoboth. At this point, one is a financial summit.
Why did God bless him that much? He blessed Abraham and had the corrupted King of Sodom to see the evidence of a person of God. He had the Philistine King who was the enemy see the blessing Isaac received (Genesis 26:29). This is how God had them fight a spiritual war.
③ How is the world now? People get discouraged, fight, betray and lie because of money. It is all the works of the authority of darkness, the works of Satan. Hence, the Bible warned that the love for money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10).
2) Financial blessings can become the support in fighting a spiritual war.
① God raised Obadiah and had him hide 100 prophets in a cave during the times of King Ahab who significantly worshipped Idols.
② There is another similar evidence during the Reformation Age.
There is a memorial of Jan Hus who fought to reform the corrupted church and those who helped him in the Czech Republic. There is Frederick the Wise who hid Martin Luther for the Reformation movement and the Wartburg Castle in Germany.
3) Financial blessings become the practical support for God’s will which is world evangelization to save all nations.
Paul did not do world evangelization alone. There were the patrons, coworkers, and hosts of Romans 16. The patron needed to realize the prayer of a watchman. Coworkers actually went to the evangelism fields with him. Hosts by definition did not only support the church but also all of Paul’s finances. This is what we call the financial summit.
- There are three finances that God desires to give us who have the covenant.
It goes beyond the level of merely making ends meet. We must know the finances that God desires and prepare the vessel to receive the blessings.
1) Gospel finances.
It is a financial blessing that we who have been saved through the power of the gospel will enjoy as we live with the power of the gospel.
① What does it mean for us to be saved through the gospel?
It is not by our skill nor our might. It is God’s absolute power. We who are in original sin and bound by Satan cannot save ourselves. Therefore, the Son of God came as the Christ. With His death and resurrection, we have been delivered from all sin, curses, and authority of Satan and have received eternal life. The basis for this blessing is God’s absolute grace (Ephesians 2:8-9). Whatever we do, we must live lifelong as witnesses of that grace (1 Corinthians 15:10).
② All the answers, blessings, and especially financial blessings that we will enjoy on earth must come from this.
We must have the mystery to be triumphant from the forces of curses and forces of Satan that are working in my life. We have already been delivered. Now, we must bind all the forces of Satan that block us and lead us into the greed of self-centeredness, flesh-centeredness, and world-centeredness. This is why we must enjoy all the grace that God gives us through worship and receive strength in prayer. Doors open and we experience things working out when we know the spiritual fact, receive grace, and enjoy strength (Acts 1:8). Forces of darkness are bound in all we do, and we experience the works of the Holy Spirit (kingdom of God).
2) Summit finances.
① The covenant, vision, and dream that God gives are summit blessings.
That is why it said that when light shines in the darkness, all the finances of all nations and kings will return (Isaiah 60:1-5). It is the summit finances. It because the minority who have fallen into darkness, idolatry, and Satan have a grip on the world’s economy and move all the things of the world.
② Even if problems and crises come like Isaac, it does not matter. Prepare to receive the answer of summits.
That is why we must see afar and above. Do not be haste, discouraged or excited because of the small immediate gains. Do things with honesty. It won’t matter even if you yield everything like Isaac. The source of springs, Rehoboth blessing, and blessing of victory are prepared. That is where the nine mysteries of true communication come forth (height, depth, width, past, present, future, above, side, below).
③ My vessel is made as much as the covenant is deeply imprinted, rooted, and nature in me. It is the space where God works.
This is why we must meditate on the word and follow the word (Joshua 1:8-9, Psalms 1:2-3). That is summit time. Have summit time before you study, before going to work, or by waking up earlier in the business place.
3) Finances of evangelism and missions.
① Evangelism and missions, God’s conclusion, the conclusion of the world (Matthew 24:14).
This is the rightful reason for Him who has all the authority of heaven and earth to be with us until the end of the earth (Matthew 28:18-20). It is the inevitable reason why Christ needs to work in all our fields as He sits on the right hand of God’s throne (Mark 16:17-20). This is the absolute reason why all darkness crumbles in all our ways and God needs to give us answers and blessings (Acts 1:8).
② Tithing from the income that God has given me is basic, and calculate the materials used for evangelism and missions.
The start to financial training is saving(conserving) training, investment training. Save up with a reason for the works that please God and make investments that have a reason. The investment of investments is the investment that is stacked in heaven. That is the life of offering. God can do world evangelization without my offering. It is a blessing I will receive. He desires to bless me and use me. That is why we must give financial training, offering training, and evangelism and mission training (short-term missions, missions internship) at a young age.
Conclusion – The financial summit follows the spiritual summit. May we become the main figures of that answer in this age.