Kingdom Economy #7: Your Heavenly Account in a Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

The kingdom economy is a second economic system that every believer can live from, and in this message the pastor teaches that what you give to God’s work is not lost but deposited into a heavenly account that this world’s shaking cannot touch. He moves from Paul’s thank-you letter to the Philippians, through Malachi’s invitation to test God, to Haggai’s promise that the silver and gold belong to the Lord, and ends with Mary pouring out her costly perfume on Jesus. This is part seven of the series and follows Kingdom Economy #6: The Give-and-Receive System of God’s Kingdom.

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 for living in God’s economy this week.

Sermon at a Glance

This message was posted on April 13, 2022, as the seventh teaching in the Kingdom Economy series at NTC Ministries. It runs about 73 minutes and ends with a prayer of commitment. The pastor opens by saying that the economy of this world is collapsing and that most Christians have no idea they hold another account outside this earth’s cursed system.

His aim, he says more than once, is not to make anyone afraid. He is teaching so that believers will have no fear while the world’s systems crumble, will be confident in God, and will let Him do what He said He would do. Notice too that he never took up an offering after any of these teachings.

Your Heavenly Account and the End of Giver’s Remorse

The pastor returns to Philippians 4:17, where Paul tells the church he is not seeking their gift but seeking fruit that abounds to their account. Reading the Amplified Bible, he describes it as the harvest of blessing that keeps accumulating to the giver’s credit. Paul was on a mission trip, yet his concern was what their giving did for them.

He makes it concrete with two church projects. After an outreach in Okara, Pakistan, where only about one percent of the population is Christian, the church bought land and put up a building for 7,500 dollars so the new believers would have a place to meet, trusting that Easter Sunday would be their first service there. In the Philippines they bought land in a village built on stilts over a sewer system and raised a facility that now serves as a clinic, school and church.

His point is that every gift for those projects went into a heavenly account. When you give into ministry, it is not simply gone. Everyone has known buyer’s remorse over a purchase that turned out to be junk, but nobody feels remorse about putting money in the bank. In the same way, he says, “there’s no giver’s remorse” for someone who understands what giving does.

That is why God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7): the cheerful giver knows he is helping Jesus build His kingdom and storing up something for himself at the same time. Paul’s promise follows in Philippians 4:19, that God will supply every need according to His riches in glory. People who miss this hold on to what they have, but the pastor insists you never gave it away; you put it in a heavenly account that gains interest.

Test Me in This: Malachi 3 and the Windows of Heaven

Next he turns to Malachi 3:8–10. The tithe is ten percent of your increase, brought into the storehouse, the place where you are fed. Offerings are above and beyond that; the church in Pakistan was built with offerings, not tithes. He adds that the Hebrew word carries the sense of wealth as well as a tenth, so bringing it in creates wealth.

This is the one place, he notes, where God says to test Him. The promise is that He will open the windows of heaven, a word he explains as floodgates, like a gate thrown open and doves beating their way out in a great commotion. Another economy kicks in, and God pours out a blessing too large to receive.

But you have to expect it. Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Obeying while privately believing that Christians should always be broke makes a person double-minded, and such a person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord (James 1:6–8). He calls that mindset stupidity rather than humility. God promises to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).

He then reads Deuteronomy 8:18: it is the Lord who gives the ability to produce wealth, and He does it to confirm His covenant. God does not need our money, he says, but He wants us to move into the economy of His kingdom just as He wants us to move into His healing, wisdom and love. An economy means the efficient use of material resources, and also of non-material ones: your effort, your language and your emotions.

He warns against resenting people who build businesses, since everyone does not do equal work. In the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14–30), the servant who buried his one talent lost it, and it went to the one with ten. We are not saved by works, he says, but we are saved to do good works and rewarded accordingly.

A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

The pastor explains that money is meant to hold real value, which is why it was once backed by silver and gold. He remembers silver certificates that a bank had to redeem for silver, notes that paper money no longer works that way, and asks what backs digital currency at all. His ministry once had to use cryptocurrency simply to get support to missionaries overseas.

He reads Hebrews 12:25–28: God has promised to shake not only the earth but also heaven, removing what can be shaken “that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.” Since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, we are to have grace and serve God with reverence. Fear of God, he explains, means reverence, listening and obeying, not trembling.

Listening takes faith, and faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Yet everyone carries some doubt from the news, naysayers or schooling, and Jesus said unbelief goes out only by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:20–21). Without that, he says, you might hear God and still not obey Him.

The prophet Haggai said more (Haggai 2:6–9). God will shake heaven, earth and all nations, and the desire of all nations will come. The New Living Translation renders it the treasures of the nations, and the Message speaks of bushels of wealth. The pastor asks who God would rather have in charge of His silver and gold: corrupt rulers, drug lords and pimps, or His own children raised up in His household economy?

The same passage promises that the glory of the latter temple will be greater than the former, which he connects with Pentecost, and that in this place God will give peace. With His presence comes peace, and perfect love casts out fear (1 John 4:18). Proverbs 13:22 adds that “the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous,” and Romans 5:17 says those who receive grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life.

Why the Kingdom Economy Always Wins

The pastor wants believers to have money because he wants people saved. After the building in Pakistan went up, another crusade there saw dozens give their lives to Jesus, all for what he calls 7,500 measly dollars. He recalls five years on satellite television and describes a television station in the Philippines and radio reaching Ghana and Togo, all supported through the kingdom economy. It takes money to reach people, and God cares about that.

In this world’s system, he says, you can buy stock and watch the company tank while the owners file bankruptcy and run. In the kingdom economy it is a win for you, a win for the people reached, and glory for the Lord. In his words, “with god it’s never a you lose ever.” The table below sets out the contrast he draws between the two systems.

He adds that you cannot take money out of a bank you never put money into. God may help us in our ignorance for a while, but there comes a time of accountability. A seventy-year-old who still lives at home while his ninety-year-old parent cooks his meals shows an economy that is not working.

So God expects His children to mature. Reading 1 John 3:1–2, he describes sons of God as mature and battle-ready, able to take a place and keep it. He says that, as he understands it, the Hebrew has no true word for retirement in our sense; nobody is meant to stop helping others grow, because we keep investing in an economy that will always produce.

The Rich Young Ruler and the Hundredfold Return

The longest passage comes from Mark 10:17–22. A man runs to Jesus asking how to inherit eternal life. He has kept the commandments, and Jesus, loving him, tells him to sell what he has, give to the poor, and he will have treasure in heaven. He goes away sorrowful because he has great possessions. The pastor says God once told him to give everything away and he did, but that does not mean everyone must.

What Jesus offered, he explains, was entry into a different economy. In Mark 10:23–27 Jesus clarifies that the problem is those who trust in riches. The disciples were astonished because they were not poor: Peter owned boats and a fishing business with partners and workers, and one of them had been a wealthy tax collector. Jesus answered that with God all things are possible.

The pastor reads the Passion Translation, which speaks of entering God’s kingdom realm, and explains that the Greek basileia means rule and reign. To enter the kingdom is to enter God’s rule, His working environment. The young man could not, because his heart was tied to the beggarly elements of this world.

Then Peter says they have left everything, and Jesus promises in Mark 10:28–30 a hundredfold now in this time, with persecutions. No lending institution on earth offers that. Jesus was not trying to make the man poor; He wanted to give him more while freeing his heart from attachment, the same way we lift up our senses as gates so the King of glory can come in (Psalm 24:7–10).

He also rejects the Gnostic idea that the world is too evil to enjoy, pointing out that John opened his letter by saying they had seen and handled the Word of life (1 John 1:1). God wants you to love life and see good days (1 Peter 3:10), but warns against spending money you do not have, because the borrower is servant to the lender (Proverbs 22:7).

Mary and the Alabaster Flask

The message closes in Bethany four days before the cross, at the house of Simon the leper, with Lazarus at the table and Martha serving (Mark 14:3–9). Mary breaks an alabaster flask of spikenard and pours it on Jesus’ head. Some call it waste, saying it could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, which the pastor describes as a good year’s wages.

The nard came from the Himalayas, some 3,500 miles away. Jesus answered, “Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me,” and said her deed would be told as a memorial wherever the gospel is preached. The pastor links this to Cornelius, whose gifts rose as a memorial before God (Acts 10:4).

Mary anointed Jesus so He could do what He came to do for her, and days later she was the first to see Him risen. That, he says, is what your gifts do. He notes it was Judas, who stole from the money bag, who spoke up for the poor. A person for whom it is always only about the poor, he says, has a poverty mindset that needs to be broken.

He tells of a crusade in Bugalabi, Uganda, where two young men asked for the power they had seen. He told them they had to give their lives totally to Jesus. When they walked away, he asked whether the local king, whose daughter’s wedding he had attended, would give his power to someone who refused to be part of his kingdom. Neither will Jesus.

His summary is pointed: “We have to stop giving Jesus the least of our time, the last of our money and the leftovers of our worship.” The costly gift may be time. He describes parents at a restaurant who stayed on their phones and never spoke to their daughter, refusing to build an economy with their child. He ends with Proverbs 8:17–21: riches and honor, enduring wealth, and treasuries filled for those who love the Lord.

Living in God’s Economy This Week

The pastor closes by inviting everyone to tell the Lord they want to enter His kingdom reign and to ask Him what, when and how to give. Here are practical steps drawn from this message on the kingdom economy:

• Give without remorse. Treat every offering as a deposit to your heavenly account, not money lost.
• Expect what God promised. Bring tithes and offerings in faith, believing for the open windows of heaven rather than giving with a doubtful heart.
• Clear out unbelief. Read the Word daily and set aside time to pray and fast so that you hear God and also obey Him.
• Check where your trust is. Ask whether anything you own has a hold on your heart, and let it go if it does.
• Pour out something costly. Give Jesus your best time, money and worship instead of the leftovers, as Mary did.
• Build an economy at home. Put the phone down and invest attention in your children and your church family.

Lay up treasure in heaven (Matthew 6:20), he urges, because you need better than this crumbling world has to offer.

Timestamped Outline

• 0:00 Another account outside this world: Philippians 4:17
• 1:15 Building a church in Okara, Pakistan
• 3:21 The Philippines project and no giver’s remorse
• 5:24 My God shall supply: Philippians 4:19
• 6:24 Malachi 3: test Me in this
• 9:24 Deuteronomy 8:18: the ability to produce wealth
• 10:30 What the word economy means
• 12:47 The parable of the talents
• 16:14 Money, silver and gold
• 19:32 Hebrews 12: a shaking is taking place
• 20:33 Prayer, fasting and unbelief
• 22:38 Haggai 2:6–9 and the Lord of hosts
• 26:40 The treasures of the nations
• 30:23 Glory and peace in the latter temple
• 32:31 Proverbs 13:22 and Romans 5:17
• 36:56 With God it is never a loss
• 39:14 No such thing as retiring from growth
• 40:33 The rich young ruler: Mark 10
• 45:53 God wants your heart, not your poverty
• 49:13 A hundredfold now in this time
• 55:13 Mary and the alabaster flask: Mark 14
• 1:03:08 A crusade in Uganda
• 1:09:55 Proverbs 8: riches and honor are with Me
• 1:12:32 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 #6: The Give-and-Receive System of God’s Kingdom
• You are here: Kingdom Economy #7: Your Heavenly Account in a Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken
• Next: Kingdom Economy #9: Working to Build a Strong Economy as Citizens of Heaven

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between a tithe and an offering?

The pastor explains that the tithe is ten percent of your increase, brought into the storehouse, which he describes as the place where you are fed. An offering is given above and beyond the tithe. He uses the church building in Pakistan as an example: it was paid for with offerings, not with tithes. Both, he teaches, are part of what God invites believers to bring when He says to test Him in Malachi 3.

Does the pastor say every Christian must give away everything?

No. He shares that God once told him to give away everything he owned and that he did, but he says plainly that this does not mean everyone else has to. Jesus asked it of the rich young ruler because the man’s heart was tied to his wealth. The goal is a heart that is not attached, not a believer who is poor.

Do we still have to work within the world’s system?

Yes. The pastor says we still render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and we still have to learn, work and grow within the world’s system. His point is about focus. Our focus has to be on God’s kingdom, because the kingdom economy is the system that cannot be shaken. He encourages anyone who earns money to do well, while keeping their trust in God rather than in riches.

Scripture References

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

• Philippians 4:17 and Philippians 4:19 — fruit that abounds to your account
• Malachi 3:8–10 — the windows of heaven
• Deuteronomy 8:18 — power to get wealth
• Hebrews 12:25–28 — a kingdom which cannot be shaken
• Haggai 2:6–9 — the silver and gold are the Lord’s
• Proverbs 13:22 — wealth stored up for the righteous
• Mark 10:17–22 and Mark 10:28–30 — treasure in heaven and the hundredfold
• Mark 14:3–9 — the alabaster flask
• Proverbs 8:17–21 — riches and honor

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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