Welcome to the For the Gospel podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and as we close this New Year's series, I want to talk to you about wealth and work because it's something that's very practical

and it can often be misunderstood and mistaken as not very spiritual, but it absolutely is.

For some Christians, wealth actually feels suspicious. I think there's a lot of bad teaching

out there on it, and I don't just mean the prosperity gospel.

I also mean the poverty gospel, too, and that, well, real Christians are poor.

Other people say, oh, real Christians are blessed.

You know, God wants you healthy, happy, wealthy.

And then maybe more than that, there's a lot in this generation who just haven't been taught

on wealth or taught biblically about money, so they don't really even

know how to view it. Now, work ties into this as well, so I want to talk to you about wealth and

work, because you can't separate work from your wealth. Work is the source of it. And work has a

prominent place in our lives and in our New Year goals, and it can also become a barrier to health

when it becomes

the ultimate thing. So I don't know if you can really have a good, strong, clear New Year kickoff

series without talking about money and talking about our work. We've got to embrace the tension here.

Work, wealth, and ambition to build things and your faith are not at odds. In fact, your

faith is what should inform those things. We've got to see how God redeems all of these elements

and faith just is the governing anchor over them. And so I want to talk very clearly, very honestly,

very bluntly about these things because scripture doesn't shy away from talking about wealth

or work. So neither should we. God speaks very often about both. very bluntly about these things because scripture doesn't shy away from talking about wealth or

work. So neither should we. God speaks very often about both. And what is the problem? Why can

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