I don’t think that the point is about the money. It is what you do with what God has given you. If you takes the gifts that he has given you, whether that be encouragement, preaching, compassion, whatever and are too afraid to do anything with it for fear of failure (rejection, losing friends, being bullied) then you will end up with nothing.

But if you take risks, invest what God has blessed you with in simply who you are then you will reap the benefits, and maybe not always in the now. You may be ridiculed right now but in the long run, God will never leave you and will bless you more over than what you sowed. God isn’t absentee, but He lets you decide what you want to do with what he has given you. He won’t spoon feed you. He gives us wisdom when we ask for it but knowledge is the container in which we can catch that wisdom. If we only have a thimball of knowledge we will only catch a thimball of God’s wisdom, but if we have a bath full. Wow that can be alot of wisdom.

People perrish everyday because we were too afraid they might reject us if we tell them about God. I think we are in for more than we realise for not doing what we should be rather than doing what we shouldn’t be doing.

If you want a chat about what we get up to, call me on 01274 727034, or just pop in to 2 Ashgrove, I live above the chapel!

Cheers,

Revd Chris Howson

Neelum

Isaiah 24 verse 2 warns of a sifting sand,
When loansharking’s allowed to stalk officially the land:
“And it shall be, as with the people, with the priest, no joke,
As with the servant, so with master; none escape the yoke,

As with the maid, so with her mistress; enmity at stake.
As with buyer, so with seller; all must suffer rake,
As with the lender, with the borrower, it shall yet be,
As with taker and the giver of the usury.

The land shall utterly be emptied, spoiled while decadent,
Beloved fools, they have transgressed His law on money’s rent.
So therefore hath the curse devoured earth, not Heaven-ly,
And desolate are they who dwell in Hell “with” usury.
(Isaiah 24:2-6).

What a great warning about one and one sin mentioned.

Jct: Welcome to the ranks of the paupers. The only good thing is that
there’s even more of us and less of them.
You are absolutely right that Christ’s brilliant parable was intended
to fool the readers into thinking it was an approbation of interest on
the master’s money. I’ve had a judge tell me that my contention Christ
was showing us how to stiff and unreasonable debt that has grown
beyond the capacity to repay was wrong that that since the Master was
Jesus, “you should have put my money with the bankers and brought me
what was mine with interest before he stated Christ’s incredible
differential equation for debt:
To him who has abundance will more be given,
From him who has no abundance, even what he has will be taken away.”
That’s how interest work. Just as demanded.
There’s more.

kotp015 King of the Paupers: How Christ fought banks
Poem on what Christ said to do to fight usury (interest on money)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd1iAqpWpXM

kotp014 King of the Paupers: Parables of the Talents-Minas
Explanation of the parables of the talents and minas as bank-resisting
strategy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs-Vdk4LnT8

kotp013 King of the Paupers: Christ on usury
John Turmel reading bible poetry on a new understanding leading up to
the Parables of the
Talents and the Minas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mchrPvt1KtM

kotp012 King of the Paupers: Old Testament usury
John Turmel reads from http://www.johnturmel.com/poembibl.htm about old
testament injunctions against interest
by Ezekiel, Nehemiah, Isaiah, Habbakuk, Leviticus, Haggai, Proverbs,
Psalms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWX-dPIE1-0

kotp011 King of the Paupers: Christ’s Golden Mules
Christ was not a poor carpenter, the Magi left him rich in gold. How
he probably evaded a Roman
execution writ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHyBzflF1Js

To save yourself, you’re going to have to form a Local Employment
Trading System (time-trading barter network) or get your company to
pay you in small denomination company bonds that can be redeemed for
product. And you’ll accept any other registered companies bonds too.
And bonds must be linked to the “Time Standard of Money.” Fortunately,
it’s easy and it’s saved the Argentinians before it saved their
country.

I’ve done my Christian duty, I’ve engineered the LETS software and got
it in the UN Millennium Declaration, the UNILETS Resolution C6 to get
your time valued as collateral for an interest-free loan just like
gold.

I’ve told about the blueprint of the economic lifeboat you must build
to save yourself until it’s so large it’s no longer a mere “lifeboat.”
But once you’re credit-worthy once again, not to jump back to using
government-authorized bank money like they’re back in Argentina. It’s
to stay stable forever.

Look, the highest child mortality rate in El Paso Texas, (Mexico) went
down when nuns installed a time-trading database where every new mama
and baby in the barrio could hire from a list of experienced mothers
to show them how to take care of their babies in exchange for an IOU
for the Time in Timedollars. Hours. Young mama or baby will care for
older lady later. It works. And it’s spread to lots of the Third
world, mainly Latin America.

Oh right, our media has not explained how Argentina’s went from a
busted 1/(s-i) banking system in 2001 and “Argentina pays off massive
debt two years early.”?

I’m the only internet writer who predicted the Argentine resurgence
when I found they their provinces were going to issue small
denomination bonds, maybe corporations too, backed up by product. And
I was right. And I reported how they did it. No one else has.

So if you want to know how Argentinians pulled through after going
bust, I’d better get onto my next video on that.

John “Banking Systems Engineer” Turmel
20081118
Just Google for any of the quotes and I’ll come up.