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\"Economics\"Biblical Economics<\/h3>\n

\u201cLet as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed.\u201d I Timothy 6:1<\/p>\n

Servants and Masters
\nEmployers and Employees
\nCapitalists and Workers
\nBourgeois and Proletariat
\nHave\u2019s and have Nots<\/p>\n

Economic systems come and go but the truth remains: some people have and some people don\u2019t. Karl Marx, next to Charles Darwin one of the most influential men of the 19th century, interpreted all of human history through the lens of \u201cclass struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his famous works: The communist manifesto and Das Kapital, Marx outlined a system that would throw off disparity by placing all personal property in the hands of the government.
\nAll the means of production as well as all the profits of labor would be united under the \u201cbenevolent\u201d and watchful eye of the state.
\nThe state\u2019s utter objectivity would then redistribute the wealth in proportion to need and- Waa la\u2019 everyone would be happy! Right!! We now know how that song ends- misery!<\/p>\n

If the inherent flaws of communism and socialism are now obvious to us; it doesn\u2019t seem that they are so obvious to a younger generation of Americans. Disingenuous political leaders are exploiting the greed of people by promising them everything (free this and that) for nothing, while all the while we are burying ourselves as a nation under massive deficits and debt.
\nSomeday this chicken will come home to roost. We\u2019ve all heard the phrase before: \u201cIf it sounds too good to be true- it is!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bible envisions an economic system where work is rewarded by profit and production is decentralized and in the hands of people. God recognizes that some will be masters and some will be servants but God also enforces guidelines for how both are to act.
\nThe master recognizes that he is a servant- a servant of God- and one that will give an account. The servant recognizes that he is the Lord\u2019s freedman and works not \u201cwith eye service as men pleasers, but as a servant of the Lord, doing the will of God from the heart\u201d Ephesians 6:6. Ultimately, all wealth is in the Lord\u2019s hands;
\nwe brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can take nothing out.
\nBecause of grace,
\nTim<\/p>\n

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