Credit Reports and Sin - Part Three

This is part three of a three part hub on learning how to forgive more in this life so as to secure a perfect score on the greatest report of all – the book of life.

Matthew 10:17-18 ‘But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; and ye shall be brought before governors and kings for My sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.’

A person who does not abide by the religion of wealth and money is going to be delivered up and scourged for not behaving responsibly with their money, for not acting selfishly, and for not trying to save themselves from financial ruin.

Not so long ago there were debtor’s jails and if the conservative agenda in America gets its way, there will be debtor’s jails again.

Citizens who don’t carry out the sacred rituals and appease the three high-priests of finance will be labeled unnecessary “burdens” and be left to trust in the Creator they so vigorously profess.  They won’t be able to get healthcare, food or housing from the very government that was set up to protect them from getting sick, going hungry and being homeless.  The government will only protect their financial interests and leave everyone else to fend for their own necessities.  People who profess charity and love will be left to die on their poles (Christ told us to pick up our poles and follow Him), stabbed in the side, dogs licking their open sores.  Without wealth, the character of person we are will not be allowed to shine.

Matthew 27:43 ‘He trusted in the Creator; let Him deliver Him now. . .’

The world is operating under the spirit of the devil and that devious and wicked spirit wants you to lose your faith in the Creator.  To this end, he will use the world to persecute you, revile you, defile you, slap you, spit on you, drive nails into your flesh and crucify you.  The world will do all these evil things to you and worse, and never forgive you or help you.  In and of itself, the world and its governments and religions must hold some measure of authority over you through intimidation and fear.

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The ones that represent the government, religions and financial institutions that injured you will be the same ones standing by as you starve and freeze, their hypocritical greedy lips mocking and saying to you, as they did to Christ, “Save Yourself and then we will believe you!”

Don’t become one of these people.  Don’t become an onlooker.  Don’t stand by while others less fortunate than yourself are in need.  Don’t tell people that are poor, hungry, cold and homeless that it is their duty to save themselves.

Listen to the words of the chief priests and elders who mocked Yahshua while He was hanging on the pole.

Matthew 27:42 ‘He saved others; Himself He cannot save. . .’

If you want to be Christ-like, then your duty in this world is to save others – AND – whether they like it or not, it is the duty of others to save you.  It was the rich man’s duty to help poor Lazarus.  It was not Lazarus’ duty to save himself; and, in fact, by being taken up to the bosom of Abraham, Lazarus was saved.

Matthew 27:42 ‘. . . If He be the King of Yisrael, let Him come down from the pole, and we will believe Him.’

Those that obey the religion of money only want to follow a leader who knows how to save himself.  Right now, many who are speaking about the next election in this country want to choose a leader who has a business mind, who knows how to manage money effectively and efficiently.  That is their priority in a leader because money is their god.

America (nor any other country in the world) would ever choose Yahshua as their leader.

John 319 ‘And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.’

Greed is not about what you have.  Greed is all about what you do.  And most people in this world prefer to stay in the dark because their deeds are evil and covetous.  A leader like Christ would expose them. 

The three-priests of high finance don’t care about the inside.  They just want to make the outside of the platter clean.

1Corinthians 16:14 ‘Let all your things be done with charity.’

A “credit report” is a false light for a false world that exposes nothing but monetary sins.  It is a book of iniquity for those who are irresponsible with money, the great god they serve.  It is a place where those who trust in uncertain riches can keep tabs on those who behave like the poor widow, and foolishly waste all their living.  (Mark 12:42-44)

The worldly need to make sure they don’t ever trust their riches into the hands of those fools who don’t hold money to a sacred standard.  Charity is fine with the rich, as long as it comes from their abundance and doesn’t affect their self-sufficiency. 

Trusting that some invisible “God” will come along and save people is foolishness; a fable for children and the imagination of the mentally ill.

2Corinthians 5:7 ‘For we walk by faith, not by sight.’

1Corinthians 3:19-20 ‘For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Yahweh.  For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.’

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Philippians 4:3 ‘And I entreat thee also . . . my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.’

There is nothing new under the sun, and that which is new is of old times.  Keeping score, keeping tabs, keeping records and monitoring the behaviors and deeds of other people are as old as life itself.  Mankind has been trying to play “God” since they first took of the temptation offered to them by the devil in the Garden of Eden.

Genesis 3:5 ‘For the Creator doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’

Yahweh has books as well – better books than those the accountants working at Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian have.  Yahweh’s book is filled with the whole history of mankind, every sin men have perpetrated on other men, as well as their sins against His basic commandments that should have provided all human life with peace and liberty.  That is a book that puts all of mankind’s books to shame.

1Timothy 1:8 ‘But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.’

But mankind doesn’t use it lawfully, so there was a need for a change to the priesthood.  The priesthood as well as the people listening to the priesthood had grown covetous and greedy and began praying and serving at the altar of money.

Revelation 20:12 ‘. . . and the books were opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.’

It seems that according to the story of Lazarus and the rich man, having a job and making money is not “works” in the Lord’s book of life.  In fact, making money and being a benefit to the society you live in, has nothing to do with being a good Christian.

Don’t let Satan and the world fool you into believing that wealth and the health of the economy are the beginning and the ending of all that is important in life.  If you do, then businessmen become your angels and money becomes your “God”.

Hebrews 11:1-2 ‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it (by faith) the elders obtained a good report.’

The most important report any of us are ever going to receive is the one we get at the final judgment.  Although we all sin and there are numerous blemishes on that report – we are not alone – and we who truly believe in Christ have an advocate willing to forgive those of us because we trusted Him and served Him during our lives here on earth.  We were not afraid to give our all when all was asked of us – by Him – not our governments, denominations and financial institutions.

There are really only two schools of thought when it comes to debt.  There is the world’s way and the Lord’s way. 

I prefer the Lord’s way.

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(The world’s way)

Matthew 18:29-30 ‘And his fellowservant fell down at his feet and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.  And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, til he should pay the debt.’

Matthew 26:75 ‘And Peter remembered the word of Yahshua, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny Me thrice.  And he went out and wept bitterly.’

Luke 22:45-46 ‘And when He rose up from prayer, and was come to His disciples, He found them sleeping for sorrow, and He said unto them, Why sleep ye?  Rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.’

John 18:39-40  ‘But ye have a custom, that I should release one unto you . . . will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?  Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas.  Now Barabbas was a robber.’

Acts 4:26 ‘The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against Yahweh and against His Anointed.’

Galatians 5:19-21 ‘Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like . . .’

(Yahshua’s way)

Matthew 6:9-15 ‘After this manner therefore pray ye:  Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For Thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever.  Amen.  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.’

Colossians 3:13 ‘Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another. . .’

Luke 7:47 ‘Wherefore I say unto thee, her sins which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much:  but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.’

It’s time we, especially Christians, started loving more and forgiving more.  We need to destroy the idols and the false “credit reports” that keep people in bondage to the gods of wealth and money.  These uncertain riches only serve to hide the true character of people who are living faithfully in Christ and giving of all their living.  Give all and give abundantly.  Don’t weigh the costs of what your faith and heart instruct you to do.  Step out on faith when the Lord commands you to do so.

Those who want little forgiveness from you and who give little forgiveness to you also love you little.  Why in the world would you listen and obey them?  Selah.

Amen