Topic:Understanding Wealth
Text: Colossians 1:25-27

Many people are poor today because they refused to be rich. How? They rejected God’s condition on how to be rich. There are some that are however poor because there are certain evil forces working against them. Many refuse to be rich for several reasons. Some do fear that if they become rich, they will become targets for robbers and assassins. Let it be clear to you that if God buys a car for you, He will live in that car. If God builds a house for you, He will live in that building with you twenty-four hours a day throughout your life. You may say, “But I know Christians who lost their cars to armed robbers. “That could be possible but why should you think that the evil that befell Mr. ‘A’ must of necessity happen to you?

Some people have their thinking caps worn on the wrong side and they would always conclude that any evil that happened to anybody is also waiting for them. They are always hoping for evil, whereas the Bible says, “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). It did not say, “Christ in you the hope of death. “Therefore do not refuse to be prosperous. God is good and the Bible says that God is rich. There are several Biblical references to establish the fact of God’s wealth.

Let us examine just one of them. Psalms 24:1 says: “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.” If this is the only thing that is written in the Bible, it means God must be very rich. Can you imagine a man, who owns all the land in Nigeria, Africa or the world? If you have ever traveled from Lagos, which is in the Southern corner of Nigeria to Maiduguri on the Northern part, you will understand the point clearly. Alternatively, if you have flown in an aircraft for six hours non-stop from Lagos to London, or to New York in America, which is fourteen hours by air, you will appreciate what it means to own all the land in the world and the fullness thereof (Psalms 24:1). This means anything in this earth, whether on the earth’s or in the bowels of the earth belongs to God.

Memory Verse: Psalms 24:1 -: “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.”