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The powerful message behind “Sixteen Tons” is that just as the coal miners were held in lifetime bondage through debt to their the coal mining  companies, we are enslaved through debt to the governmental  and economic system in which we live. It controls everything we do and even our choices.

The government shutdown was a distraction

The government shutdown gave the appearance that the Democratic Party was fighting for Medicare subsidies. The truth is that the decision not to fund Medicare was already made before the government shutdown. The government down gave the illusion that a fight way made for healthcare subsidies.

Resources are being pulled out of the system

Resources are being sucked out of the economy into the hands of the wealthy.

Proverbs 22:7, the rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant zo the lender.”

Those who borrow come under the control of those who lend to them. The borrower gave up their future resources by borrowing now to pay later. The borrower pays to be part of the system. 

The president stated that trillions of dollars are being generated for the government through tariffs. The truth is, tariffs are a tax on the people. Price increases are causing a cash outflow in many quarters of society, funneling money into the coffers of the government and the wealthy who control the majority of the wealth.

A Different Perspective

The Bible states that the Pharisees were attempting to find a reason to trap Jesus in his words. They ask him whether it was lawful to pay taxes. Jesus responded by asking for a coin, noting it had the image of Caesar on it. This was a complicated issue for Jesus. Either way, yes or no, Jesus was coming against powerful political forces. If he said yes, then the Pharisees would accuse him of siding with the oppressor of the Jewish people. If he said no, they would accuse him of income tax evasion.

Jesus responded, ‘Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.’ Give to God what belongs to God.

The Kingdom of God

God’s government is perfect. God’s system is perfect. In Genesis 1:31, God certified that everything that was made was very good. The created order is perfect. It produces 30, 60, or 100 times more. The problem is, we have been deceived into using debt instead of seed. We have been educated to operate in a capitalist system in place of the kingdom of God.

They are not of this world system

There is a powerful prayer in John 17, particularly verses 16 & 17, that  Jesus prayed for his disciples. He said, ‘They are not of this world, even as I am not of this world; keep them from evil.’ What did he mean? Jesus lived in the world but operated independently of its systems. For example, he fed seven thousand people from two fish and five loaves of bread. He healed all those who came to him for help.

Colossians 1:12, We have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of his dear Son.

You can not serve God and money

Jesus created the system. All things were created by him and for him, Colossians 1:15-19,

Jesus created the spiritual and natural order of things (John 1:1-4). In him is life (an infinite power source on an unimaginable scale)

The Word was made flesh (John 1:14)

He is the Word of Life (1 John 1:1-5), the message and messenger of life

Jesus taught that you cannot serve both God and money. For you, either love one and hate the other. Or you hold to one and despise the other. There are a lot of people who love God, but they are enslaved to money.

For the love of money is the root of all evil, 1 Timothy 6:10.

Jesus said,

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:19-21

The question is not about being a responsible steward over the resources entrusted to you. It is biblical to have a savings account and save toward retirement. The question is, what do you treasure? What do you worship? What do you obey? Who do you follow?

The kingdom of God

In Luke 12:31-34, Jesus said,  ‘Seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your is, there will your heart be also.”

It is the kingdom of God that is the treasure. It is learning how the kingdom operates. Jesus said, ‘Sell that which you have. Give and be a blessing to others. You will have treasure in heaven. Those treasures are not limited to finance. It includes healing, deliverance, mercy, right standing with God, grace and the gift of life among other benefits.

Grace & peace!

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In John 6, Great multitudes followed Jesus in those days. Jesus, testing Philip, asked, Where can we buy bread to feed them? Jesus already knew what he would. Philip said, ‘A year’s wage or a small fortune is not enough to feed all these people.’

Peter said, ‘Here is a little boy who has five barley loaves of bread and two small fishes, but what are they among so many?

Jesus took the bread and fish. He prayed over them and blessed them. He gave them to his disciples to pass out. Everyone eats and is filled. They took up twelve baskets full of fragments that were left over!

Jesus modelled the kingdom

The kingdom of God is the original system that God established at the beginning, as described in Genesis 1-2. It is God’s blessing on man. God gave Adam dominion over creation.

When you are operating in God’s kingdom with God’s blessing on; it will take out of dependency on man’s system.

Jesus cursed a fig tree that died from the roots up in 24 hours. Peter called attention to the fig. Jesus said, Have faith in God. He said, they could speak to a mountain, and it would obey them.

Jesus said, ‘The works he did, we would do and greater, because he was going to the Father.’

The Problem

Jesus said, It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. People don’t understand this because they have experience in working with God. They don’t understand that God works in partnership based on a covenant.

The problem is, there is no experience in the kingdom. When I was in the military, I was utterly immersed in military life. I was honorably discharged, and a few years later, I was still worrying about missing formation.

I know people who retired from military service. These people’s lives were consumed with military plans and purposes. When they leave the service, they often struggle to adapt to civilian life. They start over, having to adapt to a new way of life.

To function in kingdom life, you have to learn the ways of God. It takes years of growth and development. To achieve this, you are going to make mistakes. There will be seasons of struggles, growth, and development.

Jesus said, ‘Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness (his way of doing things). For example, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice by which he obtained witness from God that he was righteous, God testifying about his offering. Abel gave God what was required, and God rewarded him.

People been trained in the system of man from five years of age

In our educational system, education begins in kindergarten. A newborn Jewish baby is circumcised into the covenant of Abraham at the age of eight days old. Then we ascend higher levels of education, indoctrination and debt to the system.

We live our lives controlled by a credit score. This score predicts how well you manage debt. People submit themselves to the masters of debt.

True source of dominion

Genesis 1:26, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion

Your base of power is not something you get or something you exercise because the system of man delegated to you.

The people recognized that Jesus taught with authority. The Pharisees recognize that Jesus has authority, and they ask him, ‘By what authority and by whose authority you do these things?’

The answer to this question is that God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, Acts 10:38

Your base of power comes from the dominion God invested in you at birth and developed over a lifetime. It comes from the gifts and calling of God. He that anointed us is God, 1 Corinthians 1:21

The difference between heavenly provision and your paycheck is a miracle!

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Colossians 1:12-14,

“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sin.”

It is becoming increasingly evident from the things that are being seen that a system is being developed to control every decision that you make.

The hook that is drawing people into this hole is money, specifically debt. Money is worth less every day.

Jesus could pay his and Peter’s taxes from a coin found in a fish’s mouth, Matthew 17:24-27.

In the days of Israel inheriting the promised land, there were a few battles where God used hornets to clear the land. They didn’t have to fight, as stated in Exodus 23:28 and Joshua 24:12.

We are living in a different day and time. It requires faith in God and his way of doing things.

Knowing God’s ways

Hebrews 3:10-19, God was angry with the generation that came out of Egypt. They didn’t know their ways, and so he swore in his anger that they should not enter into his rest.

Although God renewed the problem of rest in the days of King David, according to Hebrews 4:7, they never fully entered into the rest he wanted for them.

In Christ, the promise of rest has been renewed. We are told to labor to enter into that rest.

Hebrews 4:9-11

“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also ceased from his own works, God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest , lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.”

According to Genesis 2:1-2, God finished his work on the seventh day. He ordained the seventh day as a day of rest, a Sabbath. This was a day God planned to share the benefits, the bounty, and the blessings of his work with the family of man. Adam didn’t have to work for it; all he had to do was receive it. This is a universal biblical principle of creation. Freely you receive, freely you give.

What is God’s way: FAITH!

“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Hebrews 11:6

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