Downloads from the Lord: Let’s Cancel the Cancel Culture! Part Seven
To refresh your memory, here are those seven areas of influence:
1. Academia/Education
2. Family
3. Government
4. Media/News
5. Arts/Entertainment
6. Business/Finance
7. Church/Religion
In the last post we looked at how a biblical view regarding Arts/Entertainment could cause the Powers-that-Be to try to cancel any dialog about said subject. On this post we are going to see how a biblical view regarding Business/Finance could cause the Powers-that-Be to try to cancel any discussion about this very important area.
7. Business/Finance
Titus 1:11 (NIV)
11 They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach–and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
Deuteronomy 25:15 (MSG)
15 Use only one weight, a true and honest weight, and one measure, a true and honest measure, so that you will live a long time on the land that GOD, your God, is giving you.
Mark 8:36 (NIV)
36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
Proverbs 22:7 (AMP)
7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
1 Timothy 6:10 (MSG)
10 Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.
Matthew 6:19-21 (NIV)
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
1 Timothy 6:17-19 (MSG)
17 Tell those rich in this world’s wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage— 18 to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous. 19 If they do that, they’ll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.
Luke 16:11-12 (NIV)
11 So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12 And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?
Ecclesiastes 7:11-12 (MSG)
11 Wisdom is better when it’s paired with money, Especially if you get both while you’re still living. 12 Double protection: wisdom and wealth! Plus this bonus: Wisdom energizes its owner.
Proverbs 23:4 (NIV)
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.
Next time we will take a look at Church/Religion and discover how the Bible views those who are of the Christian faith and those who are of other religious beliefs.