Building on previous definitions in Pt 1:
Matthew 15:32-38, Mark 6:35-44, Luke 9:12-17, John 6:5-13
The description of when Jesus fed the multitudes with only a few loaves and fishes.
Christian Economics says, “”Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii (200 days wages) worth of bread, and give them something to eat? Even two hundred denarii is not sufficient that everyone may have a little. Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat. There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?” The provision is limited by what we have available.
Kingdom Finance says, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way. How many loaves do you have? He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all. They all ate as much as they desired, and were filled.” The provision is unlimited because of what His Kingdom has available.
Matthew 16:5-11, Mark 8:16-21
The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread. Yeshua said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”
Yeshua, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’ Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread?
Christian Economics sees lack and is concerned about supply. The source is limited by what we have available.
Kingdom Finance understands that no matter how much you have, even if you “brought no bread” it doesn’t affect the supply in the Kingdom. In the Kingdom provision is made for whatever the scale of need. The provision is unlimited because of what His Kingdom has available.
Matthew 26:7
a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
Mark 14:3
While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard-very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
Luke 7:37
Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
Christian Economics says “Why this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.” or “Why has this ointment been wasted? For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. They grumbled against her.” The provision is limited by what we have available.
Kingdom Finance says, “Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me. For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me. For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.” The provision is unlimited because of what His Kingdom has available.
