Kingdom Economy #5 Your heavenly bank account ~ Dr William P. Hohman

Kingdom Economy Overview

In this fifth installment of the Kingdom Economy series, Dr. William P. Hohman opens with a powerful contrast between the corrupted economy of this fallen world and the grace-based economy of the Kingdom of Heaven. Drawing on Colossians 1:13, he reminds believers that at salvation, God translates us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light — yet most Christians continue to live solely by the sweat of their brow, never engaging the heavenly system God designed for them. Dr. Hohman introduces the central metaphor of a heavenly bank account, grounding it in Philippians 4:14-19, where Paul tells the Philippians they opened a debit and credit account by giving into his ministry. The message unfolds how every act of giving toward the work of God constitutes a deposit into that divine account, one that accumulates interest and yields a guaranteed return. Referencing Matthew 6:19-21, Deuteronomy 28:8, Hebrews 12:25-29, and Luke 6:38, Dr. Hohman challenges believers to stop hoarding, resist the spirit of Mammon, and begin functioning in both the earthly and heavenly economies simultaneously — trusting God to supply every need according to His riches in glory.

Kingdom Economy Outline

• 0:00 – Welcome and Series Recap: Dr. Hohman reintroduces the Kingdom Economy series, reviewing the two kingdoms that emerged after the fall of Adam and how God uses this fallen world to bring blessing into believers’ lives.
• 7:30 – The Curse System vs. the Grace System: The sweat-of-the-brow economy is explained as the earth’s default mode after Genesis 3. The contrast between toiling to earn and God’s unearned grace system of giving and receiving is established using Luke 6:38.
• 16:00 – The Meaning of Economy and the Flow of Blessing: Dr. Hohman traces the Greek root of the word economy — meaning to flow down — and illustrates how damming that flow, as governments and corrupt leaders do, harms everyone. God’s system requires permission and free giving.
• 26:00 – Permission, Faith, and the Kingdom of Gifts: From Abraham to Mary, Dr. Hohman shows how God always works through permission given by faith. He connects this to salvation, the gift of faith, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit as the foundational logic of heaven’s economy.
• 35:30 – Your Heavenly Bank Account — Philippians 4: The core teaching is unpacked from Philippians 4:14-19. Paul’s language of debit, credit, and accumulating interest reveals that believers who give into God’s work open a joint divine account with God-guaranteed returns.
• 44:00 – Deposits, Interest, and the 100-Fold Return: Dr. Hohman walks through multiple Bible translations of Philippians 4:17 to show that interest is actively mounting in the believer’s divine account. He connects this to Jesus’ promise of a hundredfold return in this life.
• 51:00 – Storehouses and the Will of God to Prosper: Using Deuteronomy 28:8, Dr. Hohman declares that God commands blessing upon believers’ storehouses — plural — and that poverty is not God’s design. Money is shown to be neutral, neither good nor evil in itself.
• 57:00 – Lay Up Treasures in Heaven — Matthew 6: Jesus’ command in Matthew 6:19-21 is examined. Dr. Hohman explains the Greek word for lay up as meaning to heap up or amass deposits, and connects heavenly investment to the coming global shaking described in Hebrews 12.
• 1:01:00 – Practical Call to Action and Missions Report: The message closes with an update on a church built in Pakistan through NTC Ministries and a call to invest in God’s work, reminding the congregation that every gift is a deposit into an unshakeable eternal economy.

Scripture References

Colossians 1:13, Genesis 3, Luke 6:38, Hebrews 12:25-29, Joshua 1:2-9, Philippians 4:14-19, Philippians 4:17, Deuteronomy 28:8, Matthew 6:19-21

Key Takeaways

• When you give your life to Jesus Christ, God translates you out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Heaven, calling you to live by its economy of grace rather than the world’s sweat-of-the-brow system.
• Every time you give to the work of God — whether to ministry, missions, or the local church — you are making a real deposit into a heavenly bank account that accumulates interest guaranteed by God Himself.
• God is a God of laws who works through permission, which is why faith, agreement, and giving are the legal instruments through which He releases His blessing into your life.
• The Greek root of the word economy means to flow down, and God’s design is that blessing flows freely through people who give rather than hoard, breaking the spirit of Mammon that drives the world’s corrupted system.
• Paul’s language in Philippians 4 is explicitly financial — debit, credit, fruit abounding to your account — making clear that heavenly prosperity is a teachable, learnable, and participatory system.
• Money is neutral; it is the love of money, not money itself, that is the root of all evil, and God wants righteous hands to hold abundant resources so they can be used for righteousness.
• Because God promises to shake everything that can be shaken, the wisest investment a believer can make is into the unshakeable Kingdom of Heaven, where returns are eternal and divinely guaranteed.

Kingdom Economy Notes

Two Economies Running Simultaneously

Dr. Hohman establishes early in the message that believers are not asked to abandon the earthly economy but to master both. Jesus Himself said to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s. The problem is that most Christians only engage the world’s system and never learn how the Kingdom of Heaven’s economy functions. This leaves them grinding under the curse of Genesis 3 — toiling, sweating, and straining — when God has already provided a parallel system of grace through which He can legally and lavishly supply every need.

The Biblical Meaning of a Heavenly Account

The teaching pivots on Philippians 4:15, where Paul tells the Philippians they were the only church that opened a debit and credit account with him. Multiple Bible translations are cited — Williams, Moffatt, New American Standard, New Jerusalem — each confirming that giving into the work of God creates a real divine account from which the giver receives compounding returns. Dr. Hohman compares this to a joint bank account: what one partner deposits, the other can withdraw. The believer’s giving opens that joint account with God, and God Himself becomes the guarantor of the return.

Hebrews 12 and the Coming Great Shaking

Dr. Hohman places the entire teaching in an eschatological frame using Hebrews 12:25-29. God has promised to shake not only the earth but the heavens as well, so that only what cannot be shaken remains. In practical terms, this means that investments tied exclusively to earthly economies — currencies, markets, governments — are vulnerable. Heavenly deposits, by contrast, are unshakeable. This is not presented as cause for fear but as motivation to prioritize the Kingdom economy now, before the shaking intensifies.

The Spirit of Mammon and the Danger of Hoarding

Drawing on Jesus’ warning that no one can serve both God and Mammon, Dr. Hohman identifies the spirit of hoarding as the primary obstacle to Kingdom prosperity. He illustrates this with a vivid personal story about a relative who buried over eighty-five thousand dollars in mason jars in his basement while his wife lived without running water or electricity. This image captures the absurdity of hoarding: the resource existed, the need existed, yet fear and mistrust kept both separated. The same dynamic plays out in the lives of believers who refuse to give because they fear losing what they have.

God Wants Storehouses Plural Not One Account

Deuteronomy 28:8 is presented as a declaration of God’s intent: He commands blessing on your storehouses — deliberately plural. Dr. Hohman argues that poverty is never God’s design for His people, that Jesus Himself had enough wealth to employ a treasurer and wear a garment valuable enough for soldiers to gamble over. The righteous are meant to have an abundance not for personal indulgence but so they become channels of resource into the Kingdom, funding churches, missions, clinics, schools, and radio stations as NTC Ministries has done with a handful of committed believers.

Practical Step Heap Up Deposits Consistently

The closing exhortation centers on Matthew 6:20, where the word translated lay up comes from the Greek word thesaurus, meaning to heap up or amass. Just as a thesaurus accumulates all known words, believers are called to heap up deposits in heaven consistently and intentionally. Dr. Hohman urges the congregation to start trusting for a hundredfold return, to give into missions and local ministry, and to shift the focus of their hearts toward the eternal. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be — and a heart anchored in the unshakeable Kingdom is the most secure position any believer can hold.

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