Intro to Bible Economics, Part 2: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 So let’s look at what a wise worker is. Proverbs 13:11 dishonest wealth will be diminished dishonest wealth is not a wise worker he who gathers by labor will increase the wise guy knows that he shouldn’t treat people dishonestly, do dishonorably in his business he should give his employer an honest day’s work and the employer should give the employee an honest day’s pay. Amen. See if the employer would pay the employee like he would like to be paid if he was reversed we’d have this thing cured and that’s Christian character they there no law big enough to handle that Christian character handle is that it’s a second biggest commandment do unto others as you would have them do unto you okay and Proverbs 14:23 and all labour there is profit increase I can supply the needs of my life my family food clothing and shelter but idle chatter leads only to poverty and the idle suffers hunger.

▶ 1:21 When you’re idle and not working. Nothing’s coming in and you can’t stay with mom and dad all your life. And a good mom and dad wouldn’t let you stay with mom and dad although your. Proverbs 21:25 the desire of the lazy man kills him destroys him for his hands refused to labor and that’s because no one is coming to the rescue oh you poor guy you don’t have any food because you’re too lazy to work oh my gosh here go to McDonald’s and buy you something he goes to the local bar and gets him another jug. Yeah in America Christianity if you’re really a great church you’re helping the drug addicts and the alcoholics you know feeding the lazy bums, but

▶ 2:25 not here in Proverbs father says if you’re idle you’re going to go hungry and the Proverbs also says hunger that tummy will drive a person to work. [unclear]. Christianity’s is the tough road. None of this grace and faith nonsense I get saved that’s what I was told when I got saved, get saved and all your problems are over. Not literally they told me that over and over I set in that pew for a long time [unclear] what they said, you just roller skate through life I got saved and I didn’t know I had so many problems until I got saved, till the light was shined on me.

▶ 3:22 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet whether he eats little or he’s got a little salary always got a decent salary his sleep is sweet why he don’t have to worry about the creditors coming to kick him out of his house okay he pays his bills so he eats beans and tortillas gotta warn the other guys eatin steak and potato. They’re paying their bills they’re supplying their families’ needs, they can go to sleep [unclear], are you there? Ecclesiastes 2:21. There is a man whose labor is with wisdom knowledge and skill.

▶ 4:16 I cannot emphasize enough how important it was that I went to the number one high school in America, that I studied there and I learned there and I got educated there while my friends were dropping out of school and then they want to make big bucks and then you know they want somebody to harm and just make money you know why they goofed off now catting around in there [unclear] catting around in a roadster you know and being cool man being cool. You got to get an education you gotta know how to read you got to write you gotta know to calculate you got to have math and you’ve got to get it in you and you can’t sit there in school [unclear] like a dumb idiot and expect to [unclear] this stuff gets in your head you got to go home and you got to do homework and you ought to get it and you go to bug mom and dad until you get it at home I don’t understand this.

▶ 5:30 But not us oh poor mijo mijo. They’re just under a lot of stress uh-huh they need to play Nintendo games and watch Disney on tv. Yeah. Turn off the tv get into the books and prepare your child for tomorrow can I hear an amen there’s some people that work with wisdom and knowledge and a skill a job skill and we need to go to college or go to a tech school or learn on the job a job skill. That’s a real place for a good amen in church it’s got nothing to do with the second coming got nothing to do with the thrills and the whistles that everybody wants to hear it’s got to do with good everyday life can I hear an amen, yes.

▶ 6:31 And you have a right to work six days. Bible gives you that right. Aren’t you glad you came to church today? I can’t emphasize enough. You say, well, I’m 40 years old. [unclear] Learn a job skill you still got quite a few decades to go my friend. [unclear] women, fifty percent of people are getting divorced. You better have a job skill under your belt ladies because if that knuckleheaded husband gets a hair in his nose and goes off the deep end you don’t [unclear] raising your kids on welfare [unclear] and that’s really a good place for an amen and gentlemen it isn’t just men leaving the women women are leaving the men good men.

▶ 7:36 For some lousy man man and a man has to have his act together you may not have a woman at home to take care of those kids you got to help the money to get it all done wow that was good. But grace and faith don’t let me think that way we know God just, I’m God’s child, he’s just gonna bless my socks off. No [unclear]. My God, [unclear] pray about it. Yeah pray about it and get down in the [unclear] line that’s what you do. Hi. Continuing with wisdom knowledge and skill Proverbs 14:4 where no oxen are the crib is clean don’t have to clean up after that dumb ox don’t have to feed him twice a day don’t have to brush him don’t have to do anything man forget the oxen but Proverbs always has a balance but much increase comes by the strength of the oxen.

▶ 8:44 You got so much increase you could pay somebody to clean the crib. Now what’s he saying you got to keep up with the knowledge of your generation industrial revolution you got to keep up with it the technical revolution revolution you got to keep up with a church. Nobody wants typewriter repairman’s anymore I used to know typewriter repairman’s the computer just threw the typewriter right out the door. Are you there? [unclear] now you got to get back and get educated you got to be wise you got to give it a program can I hear an amen and if you got a job for goodness sake keep skillful on it. I am, I chose to be a preacher I chose to teach the word I have to spend time keeping on top of things I got to keep that word sharpen me and I gotta keep what’s going on in the generation around me I can’t just sit back and [unclear] yeah this will work today [unclear].

▶ 9:59 You got if you’re a bricklayer you got to stay on the cutting edge of bricklaying. Amen. A wise worker will use technology. Daniel 12 verse 4, the time of the end he’s talking about at the time of the end knowledge shall be increased we told you this before and it happened the industrial revolution the technical revolution and I don’t know what other revenue information revolutions here I don’t know what else is coming but we got to keep up with it and I’ll tell you something if the Amish really understood their Bible they would not have rejected the industrial and a technical revolution because God prophesied it was going to happen and they don’t have to punish themselves riding around and a horse on a buggy and lighting candles because they don’t want electricity God put it in us to use electricity to use the automobile to use the airplane to use the computer Amish, wake up and believe the Bible.

▶ 11:15 Hello there. We’re not some great spiritual person because we’ve used candles or a horse and buggy if you knew your Bible you knew God had ordained it way before it happened Ecclesiastes 5:18 it is good and proper for one to eat and drink and to enjoy the good of all his what? Labor. Say the word labor, in which he toils, say that word, toils, that’s serious labor under the sun right here on earth how many days of his life all the days you woke up all the days you enjoy the good of your labor it is his inheritance it is the gift of God a gift but [unclear] people and a lot of ministers, a gift is a free thing you don’t do anything for it they’re lying to you.

▶ 12:24 Sounds really cool I get something for nothing but what do I got to do to get the gift of enjoying the good of my labor I got a labor I got a toil that’s serious labor this is Bible church not everything is about the foursquare city coming down out of heaven with streets of gold and walls of jasper and pearly gates and all that there is good, solid principles for everyday life in this Bible and most of them are condensed in Proverbs if I could get people to read a proverb a day they would keep common sense in them and keep stupidity away that’s my saying a proverb a day keep stupidity away. Now.

▶ 13:20 Eternal life they’ll tell you God’s love is unconditional there is no Bible for unconditional love. Show me. For me to have eternal life I have to do something what is it I got accept that Christ died on the cross for my sins he took my place my punishment and then I have to admit I’m wrong. When I do things that he says is wrong I got to admit I’m wrong and I got to turn from that wrong then I get eternal life. Most Christians in America living in a fantasy world and it shows by what’s happening to our nation.

▶ 14:21 Ecclesiastes 4:9 and 10. Two are better than one immediately I think of the marriage. Two are better than one. Because they have a good reward for their labor a good reward for their labor you know I can I can work pretty good and get things done but when Mr. [unclear] gets up there and works with me I get things done in half the time. [unclear] comes along. And we get it done and a third of the time why because we work as a team we order ourselves we just we know what we want to get done we just do it we don’t argue who’s going to lead who’s going to do this and do that and let me tell you in your home two are better than one.

▶ 15:24 In the marriage don’t try to run your marriage by I mean you’re home by yourself God has. Scripturally given you power. To get everything you need accomplished in at home because two working together has a great reward but if the wife tries to dominate dominate the man or the man chose to dominate the wife and [unclear] start arguing, start quarreling it says in the Bible it’s better for a guy to live in the desert or a woman then with a brawling woman or a quarrelsome woman a nagging woman in the same house or a nagging man and this is the trick of the enemy he comes and tries to divide the home he wants one of you nagging the other he wants one of you wanting to fight at the turn of every little day well you know like it done that well yeah.

▶ 16:28 He wants you to turn on yourself because he says. If one of them falls the other one is there to pick up his companion but woe to him who is alone when he falls he has no one to help him up and so we got to get this in our marriage we got to get this in our home we got to get it in the church we got to get it in the work world a team gets a lot more done in fact in. Deuteronomy 32:31 one will put a thousand to flight and two will put 10,000 to flight, two can speed up the productivity by ten times. And no where will this work better when a man and a woman who has children they unite around raising those children and and and making that home the best it could be and stop quarreling with each other start brawling with each other fighting with each other realize that’s the enemy Jesus said an enemy has done this. [unclear]

▶ 17:40 Let’s attack the enemy and less work with our spouses and that’s a good place to say amen. And you know in Genesis the helpmate. God brought Adam a helpmate, his wife, a helpmate isn’t ain’t a helper. Hello. If Adam had fallen out of the tree and broke his back who’s responsible to get the whole job done now Eve. She can’t sit around oh no I married you for you can’t even get out of a tree right now here we are we got nothing coming in.

▶ 18:36 My mama told me you’d be like this you [unclear] idiot. They’re not Satan doing it he wants you to attack each other he wants you to divide it. Not only will it destroy your spiritual life it will destroy your children and it will destroy the church and that’s what he knows to do the best is destroy you now. That was good preaching right there if you can catch that that was good stuff you got to put your attention on the real enemy in Leviticus 26:8 it’s a five times increase a hundred will put so many to flight and a thousand will put so many so it’s a he starts with a hundred okay and it’s still 5 times the increase in the church world we need to quit arguing and fighting and unite against the enemy amen in the home we need to stop quarreling and fighting in unite against the enemy that wants to destroy our home.

▶ 19:53 And shame on Christians that haven’t got this basic stuff down. Now how serious is God about work how serious is he. Is he just suggesting that I work. Is it just a nice political suggestion yeah. Politically correct you know got to be politically correct. 2 Thessalonians 3:7, follow us Paul said us apostles follow us apostles. We did not eat any man’s bread for nothing mmm. But we worked to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us this example is not in prayer it’s not in prophecy it’s not in gifts of healing this example is in work can I hear an amen Paul was a tentmaker he had a a group with him seven or more all the time to help him in his ministry and they worked.

▶ 21:14 When we were with you we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat we hear some of you do not work at all but are busybodies, meddling in other people’s affairs now to them we command whoo did he say we suggest now we suggest I’m going to put a lot of empathy in this I’m going to sweeten my voice so that you know you can accept what I got to say and you know I would highly recommend I would highly suggest that you work and provide for yourself you know no he said like a drill sergeant get to up if you know what you need don’t you feed those people over there not working.

▶ 22:12 Whoo yeah hey man I got one amen. And then he adds I exhort this by the Lord Jesus Christ and what’s he saying if Jesus were here he’d be saying the same thing get to work. Amen. But oh we don’t want to be a tyrant over the people they don’t want to be brutal we don’t want to use tough language how do you command I guarantee you them guys in war leading soldiers don’t go troop number one would you guys take the left flank over there and troop number two which you guys take the other flank over there no bullets are flying all over [unclear].

▶ 23:11 And do those troops then I go whoa no we don’t want it you’re not you’re not being nice yes this nice. That with all quietness they work and eat their own bread you know how many people I meet they can’t talk and work at the same time. Yeah I start talking to them and they just stop what they’re doing and [unclear] yeah I go, It’s supposed to be working. Shut up and work if you can’t talk and work shut up keep working. And then we wonder why we can’t keep a job and we can’t make a living you know how many people it’s off its off the scale how many people have gone as business man supposedly business man I’ve gone I’ve examined their business and the bottom line they were charging twenty dollars an hour fifteen dollars an hour but the bottom line they were really making about five bucks an hour.

▶ 24:25 When I got it on paper and showed them I said you know the best thing for you is go work for somebody you’re just not a businessman you can’t even remember to bring all your tools to work we got to learn to work and talk or just taught work and mostly talk is meddling in other people’s affairs also you’re supposed to work not being eye service only when the boss is around and not men pleasers you do things so people will like you so the other employees want to do this and you want them to like you so you do wrong things on the job. Bible says you can’t do that you got to give your employer an honest day’s work.

▶ 25:14 Second, Acts 20 verse 33, Paul said I’ve coveted no one’s silver gold or apparel you know these hands provided before my necessities and for those who were with me Paul was a tentmaker he worked and he provided for his whole team I have shown you in every way by labouring like this that you must support the weak remember the words of Jesus it is more blessed to give than to receive now he’s not talking about the sickly weak the physically weak he’s talking about the financially weak he’s talking about the poor folks and how did he support the poor folks he didn’t give him anything here how did he support the weak by not taking anything from them.

▶ 26:15 He didn’t go to these poor folks okay give me your time come here offering okay give me your food workman is worthy of his hire come on gimme gimme gimme gimme no he supported those that were weak financially by working himself and taking care of himself and his team now you get a mega church minister to do that. 1 Timothy 5:8 how serious is God about work if any provide not for his own especially for those of his own house he has denied the faith he is worse than an infidel you’re worse than unbeliever if you break the fourth commandment you’re worse than unbeliever [unclear] unbelievers work. Grace and faith has to produce fruit the fruit of work.

▶ 27:11 Matthew 5:16 let your light so shine before men that they may see your good what not faith your good faith your good grace you’re good what works and what will that do will glorify bring honor to God up in heaven and so our example to the world church begins with providing for ourself and our family that is important can I hear an amen and not leave the other undone. And I submit to every Christian that’s listening to stand up for Bible economics. Stand up for embracing Bible morals and stand up and lead the way to national success in America. We need to stand up and lead the way we’re supposed to be leaders.