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Bill, banks and Jesus
Bill very carefully folded away the Financial Newspaper, and put his head in his hands. His stocks and shares had hit rock bottom, and he was on the verge of bankruptcy. All of his past problems seemed to flash through his mind, his recent divorce, Bill taking on his ex wife's share of the payments to keep his lifestyle the same; his current alcohol consumption, drinking bottles instead of glasses, and his love of the devil's pleasures in life, and little faith in Jesus. His roll of honour or in Bill's case dishonour continued. "OK," Bill said out aloud. "I will put my contingency plan into operation and visit the bank for a loan." This failed. No capital or estate as a failure deposit. The life seemed to drain away from Bill, he looked grey, and very unhappy. "Jesus please help me!" Bill looked up to the sky to see if he could see god but nothing.
Everything seemed to be going bad, like an apple nice and red and green on the outside, but rotten on the inside; the opposite and even worse than his external appearance of looking outwardly grey. The sun did shine though, and Bill was lit up. This was god's nature coming through, where god works in mysterious ways. "The truth can be found in the Holy Bible!" What was that Bill thought to himself. It was the voice of god. God decided to have mercy on Bill, and god was going to save Bill. Bill went to his local bookstore and brought the King James Holy Bible. The badness within him began to leave him. He was broke and yet he was feeling a sense of elation; god had spoken to him for the first time.
Whilst buying the bible he also brought an electronic concordance and Holy Bible combined, which seemed to be the perfect tool to do any Holy research on. Bill wanted to know what god had to say about money, so he typed the keyword money and chose the following verse which was John chapter two verse fifteen which read :- and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; ...Bill was firstly made aware that although Jesus did this aggressive act towards the sinners in the temple, in fact it was god his father, and more importantly to grasp the wrath of god that was telling his son Jesus to do this. Like God else where in the bible stated money is the root of all evil. Bill, in one way or another had been like one of those money changers, doing sinful dealings in the lords temple, the temple in this case being Bill's own body. God had made Bill bankrupt, by clearing his money and his dealings out of Bill's body and being. In effect, Bill was clean now to start afresh in life, inside his new and spiritually born again body. The money in Bill's life was what was making everything negative, everything devilish. Jesus had cleaned Bill out, and cleaned Bill up to start life anew the Christian way, the good way.
For the first time in his life Bill was able to talk in a kind way to everyone, now that there were no banking issues causing money problems. What did god say about being kind? Well Bill found in Luke chapter six verse thirty five god said:- But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Bill realised that those words were like treasures from heaven, making him extremely wealthy in a spiritual way. They were virtually a carbon copy of the second commandment being love thy neighbour as thyself, with the added bonus that god's words contained words that Bill understood all to well from his profession, like lend. How can one lend and not expect anything in return? But this was the correct godly way. Understand this, and believe this, and practice the second commandment, and you will surely be the tippity top, you will surely be a child of god, very rich, very spiritually rich, that richness that no amount of money can buy, love.
Bill became involved with churches, and was invited to many home groups, where the worship of Jesus and fellowship amongst people created friendships. Bill used his teaching skills, and spoke some very impressive testimonies about himself and how he found the lord. One particular night he listened to a lady, giving her testimony, and well Bill fell in love with her straight away. They got to know each other and ended up being very similar and alike in everything. The very similarity of like people attract each other. She had suffered financial hardship through divorce, although she did have an inheritance from her late father which included estate and stocks and shares. They later married and lived a new godly life together, with the added bonus, the red ribbon which was tied around their marriage, which was the knowledge of being aware that 'the best things in life are free'. Jesus is free, and their love for one another and mankind was free. Bill later showed his wife a scripture about being 'free', from his electronic bible which came from the gospel of John chapter eight verse thirty two which reads:- And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They both concluded that the main bank was the treasury of heaven, and heaven is free to all people who believe that god's son Jesus is the saviour of the world.
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