Kingdom Economy #6: The Give-and-Receive System of God’s Kingdom

The kingdom economy works on a different law from the world: the earth curse system says toil, buy and sell, while God’s system says give and it will be given to you. In this sixth message of the series, the pastor contrasts the corrupted economy that came in when Adam sinned with the give-and-receive economy of heaven, explains how God teaches His people to profit, and shows why every gift goes into a heavenly bank account. It continues from Kingdom Economy #5: Two Kingdoms and Your Heavenly Bank Account.

Below you will find the full video, a structured summary of the sermon, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps you can take this week.

Sermon at a Glance

This message was posted on April 5, 2022, as the sixth week of a teaching series on how God’s kingdom functions. It runs about 81 minutes and closes with communion. The pastor opens by asking how many are beginning to understand the kingdom, then goes back to the moment the old system began: the curse on the ground after Adam sinned.

From there he builds a simple contrast. The world runs on toil and sweat; the kingdom runs on grace, which he is careful to define not as money falling out of the sky but as a give-and-receive economy that God Himself guarantees. He ends with Malachi 3, the meaning of the tithe, and his own testimony of paying off a large debt without a salary.

The Earth Curse System and Two Kingdoms

The sermon starts in Genesis 3:17–19. Because Adam sinned, the ground was cursed, thorns and thistles came up, and man would eat bread in the sweat of his face until he returned to the ground. The pastor calls this the earth curse system, and he says plainly that it is not a great system. Even the beauty we admire in sunsets, waterfalls and mountains is the corrupted version of what God made.

Creation itself, he says, is waiting for the sons of God to be revealed (Romans 8:19). Until then, life under the curse is a battle, and believers have to take the authority God gave mankind on the earth. God will not break His own law. Many people beg Him to act when He is waiting for them to give Him permission.

The pastor applies this to money. Whatever the name of a nation’s economy, corruption is present in it because of the curse. But when a person is born again, God delivers him from the power of darkness and conveys him into the kingdom of the Son of His love (Colossians 1:13). There are two kingdoms and two rulers, and believers have to learn to live in the one they now belong to.

The difficulty is that people get used to corruption. He compares it to someone who stays in an abusive relationship because the familiar dysfunction feels less frightening than the unknown. Many Christians, he says, have learned how to function in a corrupted world, and stepping out into the kingdom feels scary because it means giving up control and giving God the liberty to lead.

How the Kingdom Economy Works: Give and Receive

The center of the kingdom economy is Luke 6:38, which the congregation reads aloud: give, and it will be given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over. The pastor stresses that grace is not bags of money falling out of heaven. It is a give-and-get system, and the measure you use is the measure that comes back.

He notes how God brings that return: through people. Men will give into your bosom. Nobody’s rights are lost in this system. No one is forced to hand over what belongs to them, and the generosity of the giver is answered by the goodwill of others. That, he says, is what makes God’s economy just: it never uses anything to enslave or trap people.

God wants His people out of debt as well. The only debt He wants us to carry is to owe no one anything except to love one another (Romans 13:8). Jesus said to ask and receive so that your joy may be full (John 16:24), and the Father is glorified when that happens. The table below follows his comparison of the two systems.

God Teaches You to Profit

The pastor returns to the verse that opened the series six weeks earlier, Isaiah 48:17: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.” Giving your life to the Lord is not only about going to heaven one day. It means letting Him teach, lead, bless, heal and increase you now, as a co-laborer with Him.

Being a Christian, he says, means living according to the kingdom. Jesus asked why people call Him Lord and do not do what He says (Luke 6:46), and He called His disciples friends if they do what He commands (John 15:14). That is not slavery. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17), and God never uses anything to trap or harm His children.

The pastor teaches that the Hebrew word behind “profit” means to ascend, to rise up and to become valuable. It also carries the sense of being benefited and of what is best for your welfare. God wants to teach you how to become more valuable on your job, so that promotion and increase follow. He tells of working for an engineering firm on a construction job: when the work ended and everyone else was laid off, the company kept paying him for almost six months just to keep him, until he asked them to let him go.

Profit is also personal. After the resurrection, Jesus asked Peter three times whether he loved Him and told him to feed His sheep. When Peter pointed at John and asked about him, Jesus told him not to mind that and to follow Him (John 21:15–22). Like a farmer who knows what must be planted this year for next year, God knows what you will face and tells you what to give and where.

Your Heavenly Bank Account

Many people think that once money leaves their hands, it is gone. The pastor answers with a bank. When you deposit money, you do not think it stops being yours; you put it there to keep it and to increase it. Every time a believer gives, he says, it goes into a bank account in heaven. It does not leave your life. It goes to work for you, and the one who guarantees the return is God.

He who gives to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will pay back what he has given (Proverbs 19:17). Holding on to money for fear of losing it, he says, is the spirit of mammon. That mindset may make sense among the sharks of this world, but in the kingdom you never lose what you sow.

He links this to Hebrews 12:26–28: God will shake not only the earth but also heaven, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. The more things change, the more we have to look at what never changes. Since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, we serve God acceptably, and serving others is serving Him (Matthew 25:40).

The pastor rejects the idea that you should never give to get. A farmer with a 50-pound sack of corn does not feed it to the cows; he puts it in the ground, and the harvest can fill a crib many times larger. Isaac sowed in a time of famine and reaped a hundredfold in the same year (Genesis 26:12), and God promised to make His people a thousand times more (Deuteronomy 1:11). Expecting a harvest is not greed; false humility only pushes the blessing away.

Paul called this an account. In Philippians 4:14–19, read from the Amplified Bible, he thanks the Philippians as the only church that opened a debit and credit account in giving and receiving with him, and says he seeks the fruit that increases to their credit. The pastor also reads the Williams and Moffatt wording, which speaks of the interest that accumulates to your divine account. Verse 19 is the guarantee: God will supply every need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Tithing and the Windows of Heaven

God wanted Israel in the kingdom economy too, but by Malachi’s day the people had settled for life in bondage. In Malachi 3:8–12 the Lord asks, “Will a man rob God?” and names tithes and offerings. The pastor explains the curse there not as punishment for one year’s mistake but as being swept back into the earth curse system and fighting it all your life.

The tithe goes to the storehouse, the local church where you are fed. Then God says, “Try Me now in this.” The pastor notes that this is the only place in the Bible where God invites people to put Him to the test: “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.”

God also promises to rebuke the devourer, so that what you have lasts longer. The pastor gives the testimony of John, a farmer in the church whose vet bills were a fraction of the usual, and who refused to give up on a cow that lay dead in a mud hole and saw it rise. Verse 12 says all nations will call you blessed. A growing kingdom economy also means more churches planted, and he mentions churches the ministry has built in the Philippines, Mexico, Africa and Pakistan, and the graduates sent out from its Bible college in Uganda each December.

He then explains the Hebrew word for tithe, which he gives as ashar. It carries a dual meaning, and in Hebrew both are needed for the full sense: a tenth of your income, and wealth. So a tither gives ten percent and also expects wealth. Wealth and riches will be in the house of the righteous (Psalm 112:3), and whatever a man sows, that he will also reap (Galatians 6:7).

Give Beyond Your Means: Wealth Without Sorrow

No economy can run with one person, the pastor says. If you were the only person in Wisconsin, you could not get a job, buy food or get an education. Every way of making money involves interacting with other people. That is why holding on never builds wealth, and why he sums up the kingdom economy this way: “We don’t give once we get; we get once we give.” He also says to put a portion away for yourself, but to put God first.

He adds a principle of wealth to remember: “don’t live beyond your means; give beyond your means.” People who say they will give when they win the lottery will not, because as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7). God promises the desires of your heart when you commit your way to Him and trust Him (Psalm 37:4–5).

The corrupt system wants us to live by feelings, which the pastor calls a familiar spirit, and it hooks people with credit and the good feeling of buying. God gives the real thing when we do it His way: in His presence is fullness of joy (Psalm 16:11), and Jesus came to give life more abundantly (John 10:10), not life eventually.

Money is neutral, he says; it takes its character from the hand that holds it. Proverbs 15:6 sets the house of the righteous, which holds much treasure, against the trouble that comes with the revenue of the wicked. The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it (Proverbs 10:22). God causes those who love Him to inherit wealth and fills their treasuries (Proverbs 8:21), and a faithful man will abound with blessings (Proverbs 28:20).

The pastor closes with his own testimony. When the economy fell years ago, he and his wife took no salary and ran up about $45,000 on two credit cards at 13 and 18 percent interest. Someone advised them to stop paying, but he would not let others carry his debt. They kept tithing and giving, followed what the Lord told him to do with every extra gift, and paid it all off in 18 months. He says he had nothing in an earthly bank, but his heavenly bank account was full.

Living the Kingdom Economy This Week

The message ends with communion and a prayer of commitment to live by the kingdom’s principles. Here are practical steps drawn from the sermon:

• Name the system you live by. Ask where you have grown comfortable with the earth curse system and choose to step into the kingdom economy by faith.
• Give with expectation. Sow like a farmer plants corn, believing the measure you give will come back pressed down and running over.
• Ask God to teach you to profit. Pray Isaiah 48:17 over your work and look for ways to become more valuable to the people you serve.
• Bring the tithe to your local church. Take God at His word in Malachi 3 and expect Him to rebuke the devourer.
• Give beyond your means, not live beyond them. Set aside a portion for yourself, put God first, and refuse debt that enslaves.
• Refuse self-pity. The pastor says he and his wife never acted down or felt sorry for themselves during their hardest years, because that attitude would repel what they were believing for.

Communion, he explains, is accepting the commitment God made with His own body and blood. Jesus was wounded for our transgressions (Isaiah 53:5), and in the pastor’s words, “I did the suffering, you do the living.”

Timestamped Outline

• 0:00 Week six: the curse on the ground in Genesis 3
• 1:11 Creation waiting and taking our authority
• 2:14 Two kingdoms: Colossians 1:13
• 3:27 Why people get used to corruption
• 10:27 Grace is a give-and-get system: Luke 6:38
• 16:22 Nobody’s rights are lost in God’s economy
• 19:16 Owe no one anything but love
• 20:32 Isaiah 48:17: God teaches you to profit
• 22:48 What the word profit means
• 23:47 Kept on the payroll for six months
• 25:42 Jesus, Peter and “what about that man?”
• 30:54 Money in the bank does not stop being yours
• 33:22 The spirit of mammon and Hebrews 12
• 37:54 A 50-pound sack of corn
• 40:38 Isaac’s hundredfold harvest
• 43:06 Philippians 4: a debit and credit account
• 50:08 Moffatt: interest on your divine account
• 52:20 Malachi 3: will a man rob God?
• 57:00 Windows of heaven and the devourer rebuked
• 59:11 The dual meaning of the tithe
• 1:04:24 Give beyond your means
• 1:05:36 Feelings, a familiar spirit and Psalm 16:11
• 1:09:11 Proverbs 10:22, 8:21 and 28:20
• 1:10:23 Paying off $45,000 in 18 months
• 1:16:27 Communion and closing prayer

Kingdom Economy Series

This message is part of a ten-part teaching series at NTC Ministries. Start from the beginning or continue where this one leaves off:

• First message: Kingdom Economy #1: The Two Economies — Learning How Heaven Works
• Previous: Kingdom Economy #5: Two Kingdoms and Your Heavenly Bank Account
• You are here: Kingdom Economy #6: The Give-and-Receive System of God’s Kingdom
• Next: Kingdom Economy #7: Your Heavenly Account in a Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

Frequently Asked Questions

Is it wrong to give in order to receive?

The pastor says no. He calls the idea that you should give and expect nothing back a false humility that pushes blessing away, and he points out that God Himself attached a promise to giving in Luke 6:38. He still gives out of love and charity for people, but like a farmer planting seed, he expects a harvest. The motive he describes is building the kingdom, so that more people come to Jesus and more churches are planted.

Does the kingdom economy mean I should stop working?

No. The pastor says believers still have to work the earth curse system while they work the kingdom system, and he tells them to set aside a portion for themselves. The difference is who comes first and what you trust. God is concerned about your money-making capacity and wants to teach you to become more valuable, so work and giving go together rather than replacing each other.

Should all giving go to the poor?

The pastor says giving is not only for the poor. Paul received gifts from the Philippians while he was in prison, and Jesus received costly gifts, including the alabaster flask of perfume poured on Him. The tithe belongs to the local church where you are fed, and offerings can go to missions near and far. The question is where God tells you to sow, not only who has the greatest need.

Scripture References

All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:

• Genesis 3:17–19 — the curse on the ground
• Colossians 1:13 — translated into the kingdom of the Son
• Luke 6:38 — give, and it will be given to you
• Isaiah 48:17 — the Lord teaches you to profit
• Hebrews 12:26–28 — a kingdom that cannot be shaken
• Philippians 4:14–19 — an account of giving and receiving
• Malachi 3:8–12 — the tithe and the windows of heaven
• Proverbs 10:22 — the blessing of the Lord makes rich

How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.

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