He Who Prints the Money Has the Power
March 6th, 2007 | Michael Pink
What would you rather have: A large suitcase packed full of hundred dollar bills or the printing press and legal right to print as much as you needed? He who prints the money has the power. Now, let’s get real. (Of course, the private consortium of banking interests is not about to let go of their death grip on the right to print fiat currency.)
So let me try it another way; would you rather have a loaf of bread and a few fish or the power to multiply some loaves and fish like Jesus did? Well, maybe He was just teasing when He said that greater things than that could be done by those who believe (John 14:12), but I am taking Him seriously. I believe that the true riches that are in glory (Phil 4:19) are not the tangible riches that we can see and touch, but rather the true riches in glory consist of the ability, the authority and the power to manifest in our life whatever we need for the occasion, be that health, wisdom or wealth. And that happens by faith.
In other words, Jesus Christ possessed the true riches and didn’t have to carry around a wagon train full of food to feed the masses. Neither did He have to get the angels to bring a bunch of sandwiches down from Heaven. He simply tapped into those riches to produce the supply when it was needed. I believe we can too, but it’s by faith and that’s where we need some help. To be continued…
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March 7th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Your absolutly correct about Jesus and it sounds like are truly aware of our illegal money system. Most people do not relize the devestating dangers of our privitly owned money system and the evils conected with it. I want to be more like Jesus.
March 7th, 2007 at 4:07 am
These teaching always leave me hanging on the edge of my seat for the rest. Are they excerps from your books? …if so can you mention them by name so we can purchase them. Iconfess that …to be continued makes me just a little… uugghhh…unpatient. thanks
March 7th, 2007 at 5:10 am
When you have a terminal or serious disease you get the real sense of money…worthless, when you face such a need (hunger uf so many people) you get the same feeling, the main thing God is looking for us is FAITH, the young man had it, the loafes an fishes where secondary
March 7th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Michael what you are saying is that true wealth is the ability to hear God in the moment and obey in faith without grasping for an outcome.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:37 am
Nice insight Eric. Jesus was also able to get incredible results with minimal resources…i.e. feeding the multitudes, turining water into wine…
March 7th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Great article Michael. Jesus is the Man! He did not need the silly resources that we constantly search for-He created all matter so He did not concern Himself with the things that we worry about. He wants us to think like Him. On the Federal Reserve, you may want to point your readers to the book “The Creature from Jykell Island,” or the free movie on Yahoo, “America, Freedom to Fascism.” Both excellent resources. Blessings to you my friend. Jay
March 7th, 2007 at 10:07 am
As Christians we need to realize it is faith that pleases our heavenly Father.The faith walk is hard for us. It is difficult to believe it when Jesus said “So I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24
We have to work at this. We need to really hear what our Lord wants to teach us concerning taking him at his word.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Like the anger Jesus felt towards the money changers in the temple, so too is the Federal Reserve in this day and age - stripping the American people of their wealth.
Jay Harris is correct. Everyone needs to see Aaron Russo’s “America: Freedom to Fascism” to understand what has happened to the money system. How amazed people will be when they find that the IRS is simply the collection agency for the Federal Reserve and that inflation is yet another form of taxation. Sit down and see it free online with friends at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198
March 7th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
talk about a timely word…thank you brother.
It seems this is the message to the church. I keep on hearing it reinforced…thank you Lord!
March 7th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Amen to that !
Dare to believe.
Did He not say
O Ye of Little faith
(Will you not trust me enough?)
March 8th, 2007 at 4:17 am
Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. Acts 14:22
God’s people have their trials. It was never God’s plan, when He chose His people, that they should be untested. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen for worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised to them; but when their Lord drew up the charter of privileges, He included chastisements among the things to which they should inevitably be heirs.
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March 8th, 2007 at 4:47 am
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven Involves Giving, Not Accumulating, Here
“Lay up treasures in heaven.” What does this mean? Are you doing it? Jesus says to do it. Are we?
Up to a point the text is plain, isn’t it? Verse 19: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.” Evidently there are two ways to live: you can live with a view to accumulating valuable things on earth, or you can live with a view to accumulating valuable things in heaven. You cannot do both. Jesus says: the mark of a Christian is that his eyes are on heaven and he measures all his behavior by what effect it will have on heaven - everlasting joy with God.
And something else is clear: laying up treasures in heaven and laying up treasures on earth are not good bedfellows. You have to choose between them. You can’t say, “Well how about both?” That’s the point of verse 24: “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
There is something about God and money that makes them tend to mastery. Either you are mastered by money and therefore ignore God or make him a bellhop for your business, or you are mastered by God and make money a servant of the kingdom. But if either tries to master you while you are mastered by the other you will hate and despise it. This is why Jesus said it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Much money makes a cruel master.
But let’s be more specific. If Jesus means “devote your life to accumulating treasure in heaven” - which I take to mean increasing your joy in God in heaven - what is the main thing he has in mind that we should do now? My judgment from the context would be that it is giving rather than accumulating. If laying up treasures in heaven is the opposite of laying up treasures on earth, then probably laying up treasures in heaven will be NOT laying up treasures on earth but giving them away in ways that magnify the worth of Jesus.
There are several other teachings of Jesus that confirm this meaning: laying up treasures in heaven is giving money away for Christ’s sake rather than accumulating it.
For example, consider Luke 12:32-33, “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.”
Here Jesus explains how you “provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old” and how you “provide yourselves with treasure in the heavens that does not fail,” namely, “Sell your possessions and give to the needy.” That’s how you do it.
In other words, possessions on earth are not for accumulating, they are for distributing in ways that Christ is honored and our joy in heaven is increased (see Ephesians 4:23). When we give - especially when we give so generously that we have to sell something to have anything to give - we show that Christ is our treasure and that we love others more than we love our own security and comfort.
You can see the same thing in Luke 14:13-14 where Jesus tells us to give to those who can’t pay us back. Why? Jesus answers, “You will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” In other words, when you give freely and generously because you trust Jesus to take care of you, you are laying up treasures in heaven. You will be rewarded at the resurrection of the just.
Randy Alcorn, in that little book, The Treasure Principle, says, “I’m convinced that the greatest deterrent to giving is this: the illusion that earth is our home” (p. 44; see Colossians 3:1-3). It’s not; Christ is our home. And therefore to live is Christ and to die is gain. And it will be all the more gain as we learn to lay up treasures in heaven by giving.
March 9th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Dear Kern;
Your comments don’t seem to address the blog but rather appear to have an agenda of putting forth the position that wealth in this world is somehow wrong. That our responsibility with money is to give it all away and only live at a level that meets our basic needs. What level is that anyway?
We are to be generous and we are to lay up treasures in heaven but if accumulating wealth was wrong, then there will be a serious price to pay for some of our Bible heroes. If owning stuff is wrong, then God is the biggest of all sinners because He owns it all.
Neither wealth nor poverty are virtuous in and of themselves and it takes a lot more mastery to have wealth and serve God than to not have wealth and serve God. Wealth and godliness are not mutually exclusive as your comments seem to indicate. Wealth is not the product of godliness and neither is poverty. One should not be promoted above the other as being holy. When living at a subsistence level is promoted as holy, that is dualism. Dualsim is basically the idea that things that are spirit or spiritual are good and things that are material are basically not good or evil.
You emphasize giving quite a bit. That is good. A person who is successful in business can attract much wealth and if they choose, give more away as a wealthy person than they ever could as a person who is not wealthy. And they can do that while still growing their asset base.
March 9th, 2007 at 8:08 am
I just took the advice posted above by Jay Harris and later by Carolyn G. and went to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198 to watch the video.
After doing so, I ordered the DVD. This is a must watch! But I fear we lack the courage as a people to do anything but scoff or moan. May I be terribly wrong about that!
Thanks Carolyn G. for the link and thanks Jay for mentioning it as well.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I did the same. It was a powerful video. But I agree, if Congress is unwilling to do anything, it takes a lot of courage for us as individuals to be willing to have our lives completely turned upside down in order to possibly make a change.
The Fed Reserve portion is enlightening, especially with my being in the mortgage industry.
Basically, it appears that neither of these will go away soon, if ever. We need to do our best to make others, especially our politicians aware of teh IRS issues, and follow Dave Ramsey’s approach towards debt. Don’t have any.