Welcome to the Graham Cochran Show, where each week I help you create more money, margin,

and meaning in your life. I'm your host, of course, Graham Cochran. Let's get into it.

There's a story in the Bible most people overlook, but it's actually a blueprint for multiplying

money. In just a few verses, Jesus shows us that making money is a game, one with rules,

risks, and rewards. Some play to win, others bury their chance and lose it all, but the ones who get it, they unlock

their unfair advantage that changes everything. Once I saw this, I couldn't unsee it. So today,

I want to unpack it with you together. And before we jump in and read this passage,

I just want to pause and say, it's fascinating to me

how few people understand what the Bible really is. I mean, most people, let's just say most

Christians, I don't know, because maybe non-Christians don't even read the Bible, many do,

but most Christians think the Bible is a book of rules or it's a book of morality when it's really not. Even they limit it to

just being a spiritual book that it's only about how to get into heaven. That is not the purpose of

the Bible. In fact, the more you read the Bible, you realize that heaven's actually coming down to

earth and it's all about establishing God's kingdom. And so it's a

book about the way God's kingdom should be run, the way things should be done, the way people

should be treated, the way happiness is found, the way relationships flourish, the way to

create and sustain wealth and to improve the livelihood of your family,

the way to be a blessing and to create a life of blessing.

There's so much instruction in this book on how to be a husband or a wife, how to raise your kids,

how to multiply your money, how to multiply your money, how to

start a business, how to change the world, like how to be healthy, like even how to eat.

Like there's all kinds of helpful practical things in the Bible. And so, yes, there are spiritual

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