Do you know Proverbs 13:22 says, "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children"? God showed Jan and me how to do that for our children. Do you know that our children own a house, and they don't have a mortgage?
They don't make a monthly payment to a bank. Our grandchildren will never have a mortgage on their house. Many ask, "How is it possible to have a house without having a mortgage?
" That's what we're going to cover in this show. Don't go away! Across the sands of time, God's people have walked His ancient paths.
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We've been talking in these broadcasts about God's ancient paths, and specifically the ancient path of finances. You know, Jeremiah 6:16 says, "Stand by the way and see, and ask for the ancient paths where the good way is, and walk in it; and you shall find rest for your souls. " But they said, "We will not walk in it.
" This whole broadcast series has been about a specific ancient path. Again, just in review, ancient paths are universal principles of life that cause life to function. If you understand them, and you go with them, life works.
If you don't understand them, or you violate them, life doesn't work well. We found that to be true in financial principles. There are financial principles; if you understand them and function in them, it's very easy to prosper.
On the other hand, if you don't understand them, you don't realize what's going on, you violate them, and then it's very, very difficult to prosper. This happens generationally. Now, in the last broadcast, which was not on television but on the Internet only, we talked about three things that are critical to do to survive the upcoming season or cycle of the global economy.
We talked about two things you can do that will prosper in that season, because it's a very unique season. If you missed that broadcast, I encourage you to go to CraigHill. org and you can see that broadcast where we talked about those three things that are really critical to prepare for the upcoming season, along with two things you can do to prosper in that season.
But what we want to talk about today is an ancient path from Proverbs 13:22. Do you know this is something that in ancient Israel, I think people naturally did? I think people even here in North America understood this particular principle a hundred years ago far more than they do today.
It is what allowed people not to have any debt, what allowed people to have a house without having debt, and not to take on debt as a norm like we do in our society today. It's the first part of Proverbs 13:22, so let's go ahead and look at that scripture: "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. " I want to focus on that first part: "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
" You know, what's very interesting about that is that it is exactly the opposite of how we normally practice any kind of inheritance that is conveyed to death. Do you know, normally, most people think about giving an inheritance to their children? I just began meditating on that, and I was asking the Lord the question: Why does it say a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, or in other words, the grandchildren?
I just had this thought: think about it. When do most people pass away? Probably in their 80s or 90s.
How old are the children when the parents pass away? They're maybe in their 50s or 60s. How old are the grandchildren?
They're probably in their 20s, maybe 30s. When do you really need an inheritance? When do you need an infusion of capital in your life?
When you're 60 or when you're 20? I realized that's why God said to leave the inheritance to the children's children, because when you're starting out—when you're in your 20s, when you're in your early 30s—that's when an infusion of capital as an inheritance from grandparents would really benefit you, not in your 60s. I believe that's the wisdom of God; why God said, "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
" So, I began meditating on that. Jan and I began thinking, "How would we leave an inheritance to our children's children? " Several broadcasts ago, I shared with you that in the year 2000, we began intensely seeking God about delivering us from the debt strategy of slavery.
We just decided in our hearts we didn't want to be debt slaves anymore, and the only debt we had carried was a mortgage on our home. As we sought God, He gave us a strategy and did something supernatural as we did natural things to eliminate that mortgage on our home by 2003. Then we had no debt.
We said, "Lord, now we have cash that's been liberated—extra cash every month we had been using to pay the bank to pay our mortgage. Lord, what do you want us to do with that? " The Lord led us to Proverbs 13:22: "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
" This is the thought we had: What if we do what many Jewish people, I think, have done in society for years? And may not be limited exclusively to Jewish people; there are other cultures that do this as well. But what if we made it possible for our children to own a home without going to a bank to borrow money?
What if we became the bankers? I want to be a good man. I want to leave an inheritance to my children's children.
So this is the strategy that the Lord gave us: We took the same amount of money that we had been paying on our mortgage every month and we began to invest it in places where it would multiply. Our intent was this: when our children are ready to purchase a home, we can be their bankers, so they won't have to go to a bank to borrow money. We can provide the money to purchase a home for them.
We were asking God about inheritance: How do you leave an inheritance? You know, that's a little bit of a controversial subject. Many Christian parents and godly parents wonder, "What should I give to my children?
What should I give to ministries? How do I release an inheritance? What should go to my children?
What if my children are irresponsible? What if they're not walking with God? Should I leave an inheritance anyway for my grandchildren?
What do I do about that? " The Lord led us to another scripture in Proverbs 19:4, and I just found that scripture as I was asking that question. The Lord led me to this one, and it says, "Wealth and inheritance are from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
" I was just thinking about that: wealth and inheritance come from a father. I thought, "Okay, here's what I need to understand. What do I want to convey to my children and then ultimately my grandchildren, by way of inheritance?
" Just because of who they are, I want to convey to them an inheritance by grace, not based on their performance, not based on anything they do. I want to give a certain thing just as an inheritance to them because they're my sons. Jan and I have two children; they're both adults now and they're married.
One has his own children. I felt like what the Lord was leading us to do based on this scripture was to make a house available as a blessing to our children and then ultimately to our grandchildren. The other things we might choose to invest in would depend upon the values our children embraced.
If they had embraced values that we wanted to invest in, we might choose to invest in other things as well, but a house would just be based not on their performance, not on their works, but based on their sonship—the fact that they are my children. So what we did is, as I mentioned, we invested the money that we had been spending on our mortgage every month, and it multiplied. Now, my son and his wife got married, and they lived in an apartment, as people do—rented a place for some years—and then it came time where they both felt it was time for them to have a house.
We purchased a house, and God had given us the money by that time; it had multiplied through our investment. As we had invested it, it had multiplied, and we had the money. So we were able to purchase our eldest son and his wife a house.
Now, here's what we did: We didn't just give them the house. What we did is we said, "You're going to repay us for the house, but we're not going to charge you interest because the Bible says don't charge interest to your own. So we're going to give you an interest-free loan.
We're going to pay the purchase price of the house, and you're going to pay us every month just like you would a bank. " Now guess what we're going to do with the money that you pay us each month? It's not for our retirement; it's not for us.
Guess what we're going to do? We're going to put that in a trust account, and we're going to invest it every month just like we have been, and it's going to multiply. And guess what we're going to use that for?
You probably guessed already; you're right! We're going to use that to buy houses for our children's children—our grandchildren. So money is accumulating in that fund that will be available to purchase a house for our children's children.
Here's what I said to my son and daughter-in-law: "If you ever miss a payment on your house, the monthly payment that you're meant to pay us, I want you to look into your little children's eyes. " At that time, they had two little children, and they were probably three and two years old. I said, "Look in the eyes of your little son and daughter.
If you ever miss a payment, you're not stealing from us; you're stealing from them. You're cheating your own children because the money you pay goes into the fund to make money available to purchase a house for your children—our grandchildren. " Do you know my son and daughter-in-law have never missed one payment?
We structured it such that they will pay off their house in about 12 years—not 30 years, but 12 years. By doing that, we made a house securely available to them; the money was available. From within our family, the money that comes back, that they pay us every month, goes into a fund that's dedicated to purchasing houses for their children.
Now, as I ran several scenarios just on an Excel spreadsheet to see what would happen if somebody were to pursue a scenario like that, I just said, "Suppose that somebody was 23 years old, didn't have any benefit from their parents. Suppose that couple got married, went and bought a house at age 23, and suppose they paid that house off in 10 years instead of 30 years. " Do you know anybody could do that by just increasing their payment by about 5% per month?
I ran some calculations on that one time, and I think that's fairly well known: you can pay your house off in 10 years instead of 30 years. So, suppose that this couple bought a house at 23, paid it off at 33, took the same money they were paying for their mortgage payment—just as we did—and invested it. I just used a 10% average rate of return.
By the time they would be 46, suppose they had children right away; their children would be 23. They would have accumulated enough money to buy their first son or daughter a house at age 46. I continued that scenario for three generations and wondered what would happen, and I can't remember the exact numbers that I used.
It's actually in a DVD series that I did called "The Good Plan," which actually stands for "Get Out of Debt. " You can purchase that DVD series on our website, CraigHill. org, but it was called "The Good Plan.
" Do you know, as I ran that scenario out for four generations, the first generation—the 23-year-olds—would be 92 when the great-grandchildren were 23, and we would be ready to purchase a house? The amazing thing, just running those numbers with certain assumptions, is that there would be $52 million that had accumulated in that trust account when the first generation was 92 and the great-grandchildren were 23. That's an amazing thing!
That's not talking about a very wealthy person; that's not talking about somebody who would be a well-known, extremely wealthy person. That's talking about anybody with a job, anybody with an income. Anyone could do this—meaning any one of us could do this.
Jan and I have set about to do exactly that. Now, I don't know that we'll have $52 million; we didn't start at age 23. But what I'm saying is we have set up a perpetual system whereby our children’s houses will be paid for, creating a fund to pay for houses for our grandchildren and then our great-grandchildren.
So we have a perpetual fund set up where money comes from one generation to another and is multiplied to create money available for the next generation for houses. We have a perpetual system so that nobody in the future in our family will ever need to go to a bank to borrow money from the world system at interest to have a house. Now, I want to talk to you a little bit more about that right after the break.
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Again, the number to call is 303-797-1139. And now, back to Craig. So we're talking in this broadcast about the ancient path of leaving an inheritance for at least two generations, and I believe any one of us could do this.
You know, really folks, this is simple stuff. As they say, this is not rocket science. This isn't something that you'd have to be a genius to do; this is not something that you'd have to be a very wealthy person to be able to do.
This is something really that anybody could do. I go back to Proverbs 22:7, which says, "The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender. " Remember several broadcasts ago, we were talking about a Jewish father training his son.
"Son, would you like to be rich or poor, a master or a slave? " And the son chooses, "Dad, I want to be rich, and I want to be a master. " The father explains to him how to do that.
You know what was occurring to me? I mean, when Jan and I got real serious about eliminating this crazy debt that we had been in. .
. Of having a mortgage, paying a bank all of our lives, being a slave to a bank all of our adult life, I thought, "Why on Earth did we choose slave instead of master? " And I said, "God, I mean, we have done that for at least 20 years of our adult life.
Why do we do that? " And do you know what the Lord said to me? "It's because you have no vision.
Where there's no vision, people perish. " What I realized was that I had no vision to get out of debt. I had no vision to be a master.
I had just chosen to be a slave because everybody around me was a slave. Everybody around me, even in the Christian culture, told me, "You have to take a mortgage in order to have a house. " And you know what?
I believed them instead of believing the word of God. It's an amazing thing: Here are two people growing up who have the exact same Bible, can read the exact same Bible, and they can both read Proverbs 22:7, which says, "The borrower is slave to the lender. " One person says, "I choose to be a lender so I want to be a master," and the other one says, "I choose to be a slave, so I'm going to be a borrower.
" I thought, "God, why on Earth for 20 years of my adult life did I choose to be the slave? " And I realized it is a cultural bondage; it's a cultural deception; it's a demonic spirit we talked about called Mammon that has captured an entire culture of people, captured generations of people, and it doesn't need to be. And you know, when we just dug our heels in in the year 2000 and said, "I am doing whatever it takes to get out of this demonic slavery to debt.
I'm not going to continue this, and I certainly don't want to perpetuate this into my children's generation," something shifted in the spirit. As I've said many times, when you begin to do the natural, God begins to do the supernatural. So we did what we could do; we did natural things.
But you know, I think the most important thing that shifted for me in that paradigm shift in the year 2000 was we got a vision: We do not want slavery for our children. We do not want debt slavery for ourselves anymore. We're going to break the power of that thing.
We're getting out of that right now. You know, I just feel something quicken in my spirit right now that you are listening to this, and God had you tune in to this program. You might not have even been planning to watch this broadcast today, but God had you watch this broadcast, and the reason is that God is quickening in your spirit that exact same thing: "That's enough!
I want out! I don't care how long it takes. I'm going to begin to do the natural things I need to do to eliminate debt, to quit being a slave, and start being a master; to quit being a poor person spending 100% of all of my income; and to change that to voluntarily limit my spending, to begin to manage appropriately the Lord's time, and to begin to have something for multiplication, for offering, and for saving.
" I want to just pray that for you right now because I just feel quickened in my spirit that there is an anointing here right now for you for something to shift on the inside of you just like it did for us in the year 2000. So, I'd just like to pray that right now. Father, I pray for my brother and sister listening right now, watching this broadcast, that you're quickening something, Father, right now in the spirit.
I declare over you, in the mighty name of Jesus, a vision that comes into the depths of your spirit that you will no longer be a slave; that you will be a master; that you will no longer be a person who spends 100% of your income; and that you will no longer be a person who is a victim of banks, a victim of circumstances, a victim of demonization by the spirit of Mammon. I break the power of that spirit over your life this day, and I release you this day to begin to prosper, to begin to walk in God's supernatural anointing, and to begin to do those things that will deliver you from debt. And Father, I pray for a supernatural plan to come to every one of my brothers and sisters listening this day—Father, a plan of step one, step two, step three—how to step out of this bondage to debt in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen. Now, if you prayed that prayer, I wish that you would email me at the email on your screen and just let me know so that we can agree with you in prayer. Our staff just loves to pray for our viewers on this broadcast, and I wish you'd just let me know; write me, and we want to pray in agreement with you that God would do that.
You know, one other thing I just feel led to say right now: There is a CD that I did called "Sparrow Faith. " We have talked about that from Matthew 6:26, the faith of a sparrow or a bird, to realize that God is my source. You know, I would like to give that away to anyone watching this broadcast today if you'd like to receive a free copy of.
. . That CD, Sparrow Faith.
Would you just email me again and give us your details? Uh, we'll get you a copy of that CD free of charge. As Sparrow Faith, I just want to get that in the hands of anybody that, uh, you're getting that anointing; you're getting that unction on the inside.
I don't want to be a slave anymore; I want to be free. So, it would just be my pleasure to be able to get that teaching in your hands. Sparrow Faith goes into more detail than we were able to do on this broadcast.
Uh, let's turn over to Psalm 112, verse 14, and this is another scripture that talks about that: how blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in His commandments! I hope that's you, a person who fears the Lord and greatly delights in His commandments. It says his descendants will be mighty on the earth; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. Light arises in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious and compassionate and righteous. It is well with the man who is gracious and lends, for he will maintain his cause in judgment; for he will never be shaken.
The righteous will be remembered forever. And again, regarding money, who are the righteous? Those who show mercy and give.
And I pray that for you, that you would be one who shows mercy and gives; that you would be one whose generations endure; that you would be one whose descendants are mighty on the earth. Do you know what I believe God has for each one of us? Increase in every generation!
Wouldn't it stand to reason that your children ought to be more blessed than you, and that your grandchildren ought to be more blessed than your children? And not just financially, but spiritually, emotionally, relationally, socially—in every area of life. I believe that that indeed is God's plan: that we would experience increase in each generation.
That's a critical, critically important thing. And so, this concept of leaving an inheritance for two generations, I believe that that is an ancient path—that's just a natural way of God that God designed for us to leave a generational inheritance, not just to our children, but to our children's children, to multiple generations; that they would be blessed, and that we would see each generation a little more blessed than the last generation. Can you imagine the vision that grandchildren could get if they were not enslaved to the bondage of debt from the beginning?
And this is what excites me. Do you know my children don't have the idea that you have to borrow money in order to have a car, or you have to borrow money in order to have a house? They don't have that idea!
We taught them that's wrong; that's not how our family functions. That might be how everybody around you functions, but that's not our family. And I discovered debt is a culture; it's a culture—it's something that's passed from generation to generation.
And I believe it started as a demonic strategy to enslave nations and to enslave generations. If you really look at the reason that we're in the economic situation where we need a debt reset in our nation, the bottom line is—too much borrowing on every level. People have borrowed more than it's possible to pay back: families, individuals, companies have done that; governments have done that.
And that's what creates the need for Jubilee. That's what creates the need for a national and probably global debt purge: an entire culture of debt has been set up. So we can teach our children, just like the father I was sharing about several broadcasts ago, teaching his sons to put the money in jars, but also teaching him: why not choose to be a master instead of a slave?
Why not choose to be wealthy instead of poor? Instead of spending 100% of all you have, why not put it in jars, voluntarily limit your spending, expect supernatural multiplication, leave an inheritance for two generations? You know, that is such a powerful concept.
And again, this is something that anybody could do—this is not limited to just wealthy people, this is not limited to geniuses, this is not limited to intense Bible scholars. This is available for every believer, every one of us that gets a vision. I would like to leave an inheritance to my children's children; you can do that!
You know, you can get more detail from "The Good Plan," which is a video series with actually a spreadsheet on it of how to actually work that out. But you know this information is just critical for us to understand. Now, I want to give you, in the next broadcast, really what is the purpose for sowing and reaping.
My father had an incredible experience several years ago—actually, a few decades ago—where God gave him an understanding of sowing and reaping and how to actually manage resources on behalf of the Lord instead of for himself. And he saw more than a thousandfold multiplication when he made a critical decision. I want to share with you what it was my father learned in the next broadcast, which will be online at CraigHill.
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org or call to receive the Ancient Path to Wealth package for your gift of just $45 or more. I hope you've been enjoying this broadcast series on financial management. I want to let you know this is the last television broadcast in this series, and next week.
. . We'll be starting a brand new series, so this is the last time we'll be offering, uh, this package of five wealth secrets 96% of us don't know, and God's power to get wealth.
If you haven't gotten your copy yet, I really encourage you, uh, to get that because we won't be offering this on television again after this time. I also want to remind you, you can get your free copy of *Sparrow Faith,* that teaching, by going to the web and ordering that. I want to get that in your hands for free.
Please make sure to tune in to the last broadcast in this series, which is going to be on the web at CraigHill. org. We'll see you there.
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