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Welcome to Ancient Paths with Craig Hill. You know in the last broadcast, which you might have seen on television or right here on the web, we talked about Proverbs 13:22, which says, "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. " I shared with you the plan that God gave my wife and me about how we could leave an inheritance—or literally, how we could leave an ability for our grandchildren to have a house without having to go to a bank to borrow—and our great-grandchildren and all succeeding generations.
If you missed that, it's still online, and you can go back to our website, craighill. org, and have a look at that so that you can understand how you could set up probably the same strategy to where perhaps your grandchildren and great-grandchildren wouldn't need to go to a bank to borrow money. So I encourage you to take a look at that broadcast if you missed it, and you can go there right after this one.
Today, I want to share with you about a concept I learned many, many years ago that I've come to call "financial eunuch. " Now, some people—I didn’t promote that, by the way—because most people listen to that and go, "Eunuch? I don't think I want to become any kind of a eunuch, especially the guys.
" But you know, when you think about that, a financial eunuch is an interesting concept. Think about where eunuchs worked in ancient times. They usually worked around the harem, and the harem were the king's wives who were dedicated to the king.
What would happen if somebody other than the king touched one of those women for his own sexual pleasure? You'd die. The king would kill you because those women are dedicated to the king alone.
So if you're the king and you want to make sure that the people you have working around those women—around your harem—would never touch one of them for their own sexual pleasure, what do you do? You only have eunuchs work there. Now, what's a eunuch?
A eunuch is a man who has been castrated, and as a result of that, his sexual desire has been completely removed. So he has no sexual desire to touch any of those women, and that man becomes someone the king can trust. He's safe to be around the king's wives, around the king's harem.
So that's who eunuchs were. Now, if we take that analogy—I know the analogy may not be the most appealing in today’s society—but if we take that analogy into the financial realm, what is a financial eunuch? A financial eunuch is a person who has let God deal with his heart, circumcise his heart—or her heart, as it were—so that person has no desire after money.
There’s no greed left, no impure motive regarding finances left in the heart, so that person could come before the Lord and say, "God, I simply want to manage Your resources on Your behalf, not for myself. I want to be a bond servant like the servants that we looked at in Luke chapter 19. The master gave each one of them a mina—which was a unit of money, about ten thousand dollars—but it wasn't theirs; it was the master's.
Their job was to manage it on behalf of the master. That's what a financial eunuch is: a person who says, 'Lord, my needs are met, I'm taken care of. I want to apply for the job of managing resources on Your behalf, not on my behalf.
' It's not, 'I want to run a business and give a lot of the money to You. ' No, it's 'Lord, I want to manage Your business. I want You to be the owner; I just want to be the manager.
I want to be the steward. ' And this is where multiplication in sewing and reaping can come in. This is one of the functions of sewing and reaping: for Kingdom multiplication.
We'll talk about that a little more in a few minutes in the broadcast, but I learned this principle from my father. My father is 90 years old, he's still alive and still has much vision from the Lord. But when my father first met the Lord back in 1973, God began to speak to him.
He was so grateful for what God had done for him, what the Lord Jesus Christ had done, that he wanted to give everything he had to the Lord. He, of course, gave his life to the Lord, and my father's training and profession was that of a petroleum geologist. My dad had been involved in oil exploration for most of his life and had gone through various business ups and downs in a company that he had owned and the consulting work that he had done.
One thing that he had done is some consulting work for some oil companies and had ended up accumulating a large number of leases in a particular area—a particular gas field here in the United States. He had sold those packages of leases to two different companies and had received a royalty, or an overriding royalty, on future gas production should those leases ever become productive. They were not productive at that time; it was a large quantity of gas that had been discovered and was known, but the technology was not available to release that gas in the 1960s when he had sold those packages to the oil companies.
So there was maybe. . .
A couple hundred dollars a month coming from those gas royalties, if even that. I'm not sure what the exact numbers were, but it certainly wasn't enough that a person could live on. But when my dad met the Lord, he said, "Uh, you know, I think the most valuable thing I have is the potential from those gas royalties—the what would come when those gas sands become productive one day, and I want to give those to the Lord.
" So he talked to an attorney that worked for him, who was his attorney, and he said, "You know, what I would like to do is I would like to be a manager or a steward. I'd like to be a financial eunuch. I would like to get these gas royalties out of my own name, and I would like to title them in the name of Jesus Christ so that I can be a manager instead of an owner.
How would I do that? " And the lawyer said, "I don't know; nobody ever asked me that before. " My dad said, "Well, it's important to me.
If I'm going to be a manager, I don't want those royalties in my name. I want them literally to be titled in the name of Jesus Christ so if somebody goes down to the county courthouse to see who owns these, it doesn't say my name; it says the name of Jesus. " The lawyer said, "I'm going to have to do some research.
Nobody ever asked me that before. " So he did, and he came back some months later and he said, "You know, this is how I believe we could do it. I think we could create some irrevocable trusts, one for each package of leases, and those trusts could be owned by the Lord Jesus Christ, much as they would be owned by a person who is absent or who's not physically present.
They would be managed by a Board of Trustees for the benefit of ministries and churches and people you would like to designate that money to go to, and you would appoint a Board of Trustees yourself, of course being one of the trustees. You would manage those trusts then on behalf of the Lord Jesus Christ, who's not physically present but who is the actual owner of those royalties. " My dad said, "That sounds like what I want to do.
" So he asked the lawyer to prepare all the documentation. It took quite a while; I think it was over a year for them to prepare the documents for that. Finally, the day came when the documentation was all prepared, and the lawyer said to my dad, "Again, Mr Hill, I want you to understand that once you sign this document, it's irrevocable.
You can never take those assets back into your own name; you permanently give them away, and they're deposited in those trusts and can only be used for the purposes of the trust. You can never use them personally again. Are you sure you want to do that?
" He said, "Yeah, that's exactly what I want to do. I want to give them to the Lord. " So, what happened is the day came to sign the trust agreements, and he did.
An amazing thing happened. Do you know that the next day, the largest of those two oil companies that managed those gas properties called him on the phone? They said, "Mr Hill, we just thought you'd be interested to know, since you're a royalty owner in that particular area, that technology has improved quite a bit and the price of natural gas has risen.
As a result of that, we're going to embark on an intense drilling program out in your area and we're going to drill 40 exploratory wells out there this year, and it should increase your royalty a significant amount. We just thought you'd want to know about that. " My dad said, "Well, actually, I'm not the owner anymore.
" The man was quite shocked. He said, "Well, you're not? That's too bad.
Who is? " He said, "Oh, I've given those away to the Lord Jesus Christ. " Of course, the guy was shocked.
"What are you talking about? " And only a few days later, the second company called up and told my dad a very similar thing: that gas prices had risen and technology had improved and it was going to make that area very productive. My dad said, "Isn't that interesting?
I received that information the very day after I irrevocably signed those documents conveying those royal interests to the Lord, and I became a manager or a steward instead of an owner. Isn't it interesting? " He felt like it was as if the Lord was saying to him, "See what I will do now that you're no longer an owner.
Now that you're just a steward, you're just a manager, watch what I will do with my project. " Do you know that over the next couple of years, those royalties increased over a thousand times—a thousandfold, not a thousand percent, a thousand times. My dad and the trustees of those two trusts enjoyed the pleasure of directing funds into ministries for many years to come.
Those are no longer producing revenue now at this time in those trusts, but for many, many years, my dad enjoyed the pleasure of directing those funds, and it was incredible to watch the multiplication that came. Now, I believe that's a part of the purpose of sowing and reaping. See, what my dad did is he took something that was in his name; it was his.
He gave it 100%. To the Lord: do you know an incredible thing that happened? As he gave that to the Lord, it multiplied.
It was a soup for natural multiplication, and that leads me over to Mark chapter 4, which is the primary chapter on sowing and reaping. Jesus tells a parable here, starting in verse three. Jesus said, “Listen to this: behold, the sower went out to sow.
And as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. And after the sun had risen, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.
Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. And other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold. And he was saying, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
’" So we see multiplication taking place in the good soil—not 30 percent. See, today people think it would be wonderful if you could find an investment that would return 30 percent. Wow!
Thirty percent—that would be a good investment! No, Jesus is not talking about percentage increase here. In man's system, percent is the best he can ever hope for; in God's system, it's not percent increase, it's multiplication fold.
So we're talking about thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold. My father experienced a thousandfold. Remember, in a broadcast several broadcasts ago, we talked about Sparrow faith, and we talked about the fact that provision doesn't come by sowing and reaping.
Jesus said in Matthew 6:26, "The birds of the air neither sow nor reap in order to receive provision, nor gather into barns; yet your Father feeds them by grace because he loves them. " So what is the purpose of sowing and reaping? It's for Kingdom multiplication.
Kingdom multiplication! So you take money, you put it in your investment jar, you sow it into ministries, you sow it into projects. My father took this royalty that he had, and you know, one thing that he did—I think I made a mistake earlier: he didn't give a hundred percent of it to the Lord; he gave three percent to a business partner that had been working with him.
In addition to that, he reserved four percent that he put in the name of my mom, his wife, for security. He said, “You know, women like to know that their house will be okay and their living expenses will be okay in retirement. ” He asked the Lord how much would be enough, and the Lord said four percent.
Now remember it was almost nothing at that time; four percent was probably four dollars a month or something like that—that's how much he felt to just reserve for my mom. And so he did that, and then he conveyed the remainder into these trusts, and it multiplied—not thirty-four, not sixtyfold, not even a hundredfold. It multiplied over a thousandfold!
I don't know the exact number, but it was very, very large, and that was for Kingdom multiplication. Now, you may be listening to this and watching this broadcast today and thinking, “I would love to do that. ” You know, wouldn't you love to apply for the job of a financial eunuch?
I encourage you to pray that prayer—say, "God, it's like I heard on that broadcast today: I want to be a financial eunuch. I want to apply for that job. " Of course, the first qualification would be, have you passed the first minor qualification test?
Are you managing the Lord's tithe? Do you have something in your investment jar, in your offering jar? Are you managing what God has given you now appropriately?
Remember, if we go back to the little analogy that I used several broadcasts ago about the three rivers—and I hope you heard that one. If you didn't, I really encourage you to go online and purchase all fourteen of these broadcasts so you can go back and review them again and again and share them with other people. They're available on our website, or you can call the phone number on your screen to get hold of all fourteen of these television broadcasts.
But we talked about three rivers: one where a family lived that just consumed all the water and dammed up the river so that none went past; a second family that used all the water—they didn't dam it up, but they just used 100 percent; and the third river, where people perceived there was so much water, they were channeling water out to other people, digging canals. They had a closed circle; they had limited their consumption of water. But you know, when you move into that third river, that's where sowing and reaping really begins to function—where you can take water that's coming down your river and sow it here, sow it there, sow it to another place and expect Kingdom multiplication.
And you know, that is an incredible, incredible thing to see multiplication take place like that. People again that I define as the poor—that's people that use 100 percent of all the water or 100 percent of the money. Those are the people that live on the first river; they will never see Kingdom multiplication take place because they consume 100 percent of everything they have.
So, where multiplication and sowing and reaping. . .
Really, it takes place when you move over onto that Third River, where you begin to take water and sow it here, sew it there. You can put it into projects that are on earth here that God shows you. You can put them into ministries, sowing into ministries.
By the way, I would certainly invite you to become a partner with this ministry. We have a vision to expand this to many, many more networks—not just the ones that you're seeing this broadcast on now—but if this has blessed you, would you consider being a partner with this ministry financially and in prayer? Together, we could multiply the message of these ancient paths, this ancient path of financial principles.
We're going to start a brand new series that will be shown on television and here on the internet with the next broadcast, and I encourage you to consider and pray about becoming a partner with this ministry. This is the final piece that I wanted to share with you: the testimony of my father, and to ask you to consider becoming a financial eunuch, praying that prayer: “God, would you allow me to be a manager instead of an owner? That I could take that which you've put in my hands and dedicate it 100% to you, and watch it multiply 30, 60, 100, maybe a thousandfold for Kingdom expansion; to bless many, many other people; to bless ministries; to bring increase and to bring fruit.
” So I hope you've enjoyed this financial series. As I said, in the next broadcast, we're going to start a brand new teaching topic that I don't think you're going to want to miss. I encourage you to stay with us and watch that one on television or on the internet in the next broadcast.
We'll be praying for you that God will use this series to bring life to you, for you to move out of the natural into the supernatural, into multiplication, that you can fulfill the destiny and the vision that God has for you. God bless you! Again, be sure to get the Wealth Pack, including Craig's book "Five Wealth Secrets 90% of Us Don’t Know," and his eight-part CD series, "God's Power to Get Wealth.
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Thank you for joining us for this series of broadcasts. We've had 14 broadcasts on "God's Angel Path to Personal Financial Management," and I hope they've been a blessing to you. You know, you could purchase your own set of these entire broadcasts by just clicking on the button right here on the internet, and you can get sent the entire DVD series so you can view it at your leisure or share it with other people.
I also want to invite you, if this series has been a blessing to you, would you consider becoming a partner with us in this ministry? We send out a partner update CD and a special teaching to our partners each month, just to let you know what's going on in the ministry and how you can pray for us. We would really appreciate it if you would pray about and consider becoming a regular monthly financial and prayer partner with us in the ministry.
I also want to mention that this is the last time we'll be offering this package, "Five Wealth Secrets 90% of Us Don’t Know" and "God’s Power to Get Wealth," together as a package. If you didn’t get yours yet, please click on the button right there on your internet, and you can get this package as well. One other thing I want to mention: I offered earlier, and I want to make the offer again, to you—to get the CD or MP3 download of the teaching I did called "Sparrow Faith" from Matthew chapter 6, verse 26.
That talks about a revelation that God will provide for me because He loves me more than He loves the birds. If you’d like to get that for free, just click on the button on your screen, and we can get that to you. Again, thank you so much for joining us for this series.
We’re going to be starting a brand new series with the next broadcast, which will be shown both on television and right here on the internet. God bless you! We'll see you then.
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