[Kingdom Business Culture]

33 The perils of worldly profits

Outline: The devil takes advantage of the greed that exists in people's hearts to eat everything, even the root! Therefore, we must be vigilant against the word "greed" in business activities, and we must not resort to any means to achieve our goals.

Speaker： GLOBAL JIREH

Translator: Jacey GAO

Narrator: Angelie GACASAN

But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. ⁸ But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. ⁹ Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. (1 Timothy 6:6-10)

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Thanks for tuning in to GLOBAL REACHOUT. I am Sister Angelie, and starting from November, we have launched the program called the "Kingdom Business Culture". This program is based on the workplace training course by GLOBAL JIREH entitled, "Christ-centred Entrepreneurship". This course was compiled by Pastor Tony TAY Meng Hiang to help brothers and sisters live out Christ in the workplace.

We encourage brothers and sisters to sign up for this course, so that they will not only have the opportunity to communicate directly with the instructors, but also establish long-term and close contacts with the kingdom business operators in the group, learn from each other and encourage one another, and put the theory into practice. Living out Christ in the workplace. For those who are interested, you can refer to the end of the manuscript and register by email.

In today's show, we're going to talk about "The Dangers of Worldly Profits." The "worldly profit" we are talking about today is the profit obtained through illegitimate channels, the ill-gotten gain that people make out of greed. In Greek, the word "greed" means "desire to have more." Therefore, "greed for money" is an endless desire to have more money, rather than a desire to fulfill God's destiny for oneself. We often see in the news that some people who are greedy for money will even harm others in order to obtain money. Clearly, selfish greed can lead to confusion and corruption......

Discussion 

1. Today, many money games such as scam, loan sharks scams, gambling cheats, etc. are still prevalent. From the perspectives of the organizers and the victims, please try to analyze the influence of "greed" on people's decision-making.

2. What is the debt situation of your company? Is there a reasonable control system?

3. Delight in the Lord and be crucified with Christ. How to implement this spiritual truth into the business operations that we pursue to create profits?