Kingdom Economy #6 Your Heavenly Bank Account ~ Dr William P. Hohman

Kingdom Economy Overview

In this sixth installment of his Kingdom Economy series, Dr. William P. Hohman delivers a powerful, wide-ranging teaching on the fundamental difference between the world’s corrupted economic systems and the financial principles of God’s kingdom. Drawing from foundational texts including Isaiah 48:17, Luke 6:38, Philippians 4:14-19, and Malachi 3:8-11, Dr. Hohman contrasts the earth-curse system — born from Adam’s fall in Genesis 3 — with the heavenly give-and-receive economy that God designed for His people. He exposes how socialism, government control, and the spirit of mammon all operate on the same principle of fear, enslavement, and scarcity, while God’s kingdom operates on abundance, generosity, and guaranteed return. Central to this message is the revelation that every act of giving deposits into a real heavenly bank account, as illustrated through Paul’s letter to the Philippians. Dr. Hohman also unpacks the Hebrew meaning of the word profit in Isaiah 48:17, showing that God desires to teach believers how to ascend, increase in value, and be supernaturally provided for. He closes with a bold call from Malachi 3 to tithe faithfully and test God’s promise of overflowing blessing and divine protection from the devourer.

Kingdom Economy Outline

• 0:00:00 – Introduction to Kingdom Economy Series: Dr. Hohman opens the sixth week of the series by reviewing the earth-curse system established in Genesis 3:17-19 and contrasting it with the kingdom of God into which believers are translated at the new birth, as described in Colossians 1:13.
• 0:10:00 – Two Kingdoms, Two Economic Systems: The sermon explores the two distinct kingdoms operating in the world — the kingdom of darkness under Satan and the kingdom of light under Jesus Christ — and why Christians so often default to living by the corrupted world system out of fear and familiarity.
• 0:22:00 – Capitalism, Socialism, and Biblical Justice: Dr. Hohman draws on economist Walter Williams to contrast capitalism’s principle of serving others with socialism’s enslaving control. He connects these systems to biblical justice and warns against any government economy that strips individuals of their God-given rights.
• 0:35:00 – The Give-and-Receive Kingdom Principle: Using Luke 6:38 as the anchor text, Dr. Hohman unpacks how God’s economy works not by toiling and hoarding but by giving generously and receiving abundantly — good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.
• 0:47:00 – Your Heavenly Bank Account Explained: Drawing from Philippians 4:14-19, Dr. Hohman reveals the concept of the heavenly bank account — every act of giving deposits fruit that accumulates to the believer’s divine credit, guaranteed by God Himself to be returned with abundance according to His riches in glory.
• 0:58:00 – God Teaches You to Profit and Ascend: The Hebrew word for profit in Isaiah 48:17 is examined in depth. Dr. Hohman explains that God promises to teach believers how to ascend, increase in value, and be led into what is best for their welfare — illustrating this with a personal testimony of being retained by an employer far beyond the job’s end.
• 1:07:00 – The Tithe, the Test, and the Devourer Rebuked: Malachi 3:8-11 is opened to show that withholding tithes and offerings places believers back under the earth-curse system, while faithful giving invites God to open the windows of heaven and actively rebuke the devourer — with a vivid testimony of a farmer’s cattle and dramatically low veterinary bills as evidence.
• 1:17:00 – A Call to Kingdom Courage and Expectation: Dr. Hohman closes with an urgent exhortation to step out of the world’s economy in faith, believe for the return on every investment made in God’s kingdom, and actively expect supernatural provision to come from unexpected places and people.

Scripture References

Genesis 3:17-19, Colossians 1:13, Isaiah 48:17, Luke 6:38, Hebrews 12:26-28, Philippians 4:14-19, Malachi 3:8-11

Key Takeaways

• God’s kingdom operates on a give-and-receive system, not the world’s toil-and-sweat economy, and every act of generous giving deposits directly into your heavenly bank account.
• Isaiah 48:17 promises that God Himself will teach you to profit — meaning to ascend, increase in value, and be led into what is best for your personal welfare and future.
• Luke 6:38 is not a passive suggestion but an active kingdom law: give, and it will be given back to you in good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over by the hands of other people.
• Philippians 4:19 guarantees that God will liberally supply every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus — this promise is activated through faithful, expectant giving.
• Malachi 3:10-11 is the only place in Scripture where God invites believers to test Him, promising to open the windows of heaven and rebuke the devourer for the sake of those who tithe faithfully.
• The spirit of mammon is nothing more than a fear-based mentality that convinces you holding tightly to money protects you, when in reality releasing it into God’s economy causes it to grow and return multiplied.
• Just as a farmer plants seed to multiply a harvest rather than hoarding a fifty-pound sack of corn, believers must sow financially into God’s kingdom with confident expectation of a supernatural return.

Kingdom Economy Notes

Earth Curse Versus Kingdom Economy

Dr. Hohman anchors this entire series in the consequence of Adam’s fall recorded in Genesis 3:17-19, where God declared that mankind would eat from the ground through toil and the sweat of his face. This earth-curse system, the doctor explains, is the foundation of every corrupted human economy — whether capitalist, socialist, or communist. When believers are born again, Colossians 1:13 declares they are translated out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of God’s Son, which operates by entirely different financial laws. The core challenge, Dr. Hohman argues, is that most Christians never make the transition in their economic thinking and continue living as though they were still under the curse.

Every Gift Deposits into a Heavenly Account

The heart of this message rests in Philippians 4:14-19, where the Apostle Paul writes to the church at Philippi about the debit-and-credit account opened between them through their consistent financial support of his ministry. Dr. Hohman draws out the Amplified, Williams, and Moffat translations to show that Paul was not merely thanking them for a gift — he was pointing to the fruit accumulating to their divine account and the interest compounding in heaven on their behalf. The analogy is made to a savings account: just because money leaves your hands does not mean it is gone. It has been placed in a safer, more productive location, and God Himself guarantees the return.

God Promises to Teach You to Ascend

Isaiah 48:17 is examined with particular attention to the Hebrew word translated profit, which Dr. Hohman explains carries the meaning of ascending, rising up, becoming more valuable, and being led into what is best for one’s welfare. This is not generic prosperity preaching but a precise promise: God personally trains each believer, on an individual basis, in the skills and wisdom that will cause them to become more valuable to employers, communities, and the kingdom. A personal testimony reinforces this — Dr. Hohman describes being retained on full pay by a construction engineering firm for nearly six months after every other worker had been laid off, simply because God had taught him to be indispensable.

Malachi’s Bold Invitation to Test God

Malachi 3:8-11 presents what Dr. Hohman calls the only place in all of Scripture where God invites His people to put Him to the test. The passage opens with a sobering question — will a man rob God — and identifies the failure to tithe and give offerings as the mechanism by which the nation had brought a curse upon itself. Yet God’s response is not condemnation but an open challenge: bring the full tithe into the storehouse, and watch whether He does not open the windows of heaven and pour out blessing beyond the capacity to receive it. The promise extends to the rebuke of the devourer, meaning that what believers possess will supernaturally last longer, break down less, and produce more than what natural circumstances would allow.

Rejecting the Spirit of Mammon

Dr. Hohman identifies the spirit of mammon not as money itself but as a fear-driven mentality that tells a person they will lose whatever they release. This is the same psychological mechanism that keeps victims in abusive relationships — the world they know, however damaging, feels safer than the unknown freedom of God’s economy. The antidote is not willpower but faith: believing that the heavenly bank account is real, that God is a guarantor more reliable than any FDIC insurance, and that what goes into the ground in generosity will return as a harvest far exceeding the original seed. Dr. Hohman urges believers to actively expect and confess the return on every financial investment made in God’s kingdom.

Growing the Kingdom Through Financial Faithfulness

Dr. Hohman closes by connecting personal financial faithfulness to the expansion of God’s kingdom on a global scale. He describes NTC Ministries’ ongoing work of building churches across the Philippines, Mexico, and Africa, and graduating two hundred bible college students annually in Uganda who each plant an average of twelve churches in their first year of ministry. The point is direct: the more believers grow in kingdom economy and experience supernatural increase, the more resources flow into the mission of reaching the lost. Giving is not a religious obligation — it is a co-laboring partnership with God that simultaneously builds the giver’s heavenly account and extends the light of the gospel to communities still bound in darkness.

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