502 B Heaven

MARKETPLACE FACTS Module 502 B

PEOPLE NOT GOING TO HEAVEN Mario Denton Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

The kingdom of God • “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither... thieves nor the greedy nor...swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” (I Cor. 6:9a, 10)

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Three classes of people are not going to heaven Thieves - Perhaps you will recognize the Greek word: kleptes - from which we get kleptomaniac.

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Three classes of people are not going to heaven • Thieves - This is someone who is compelled to take what is not rightfully his; is driven to take more than his fair share. In many quarters, it is standard business practice to ask, “How can we bilk from others in such a way that we leave a smile on their face?”

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Three classes of people are not going to heaven: • The greedy - This person, in his scramble to get, or stay, ahead of the rest of the pack, has an avaricious appetite for more, and is willing to defraud others to get it.

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Three classes of people are not going to heaven: • Swindlers - The other night while eating in a restaurant, I observed a man attack his meal. Noodles hung from his lips. His cheeks were stuffed to the breaking point with food, as he gulped liquid to wash it all down. Then another helping. Gulping, etc. That is the spirit of a swindler: Grasping...Gluttonous...Ravenous...Predat ory... In a hurry.

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

As people whose lives have been transformed by the Lord Jesus, are we not compelled to express that change in such a manner that the people around us sit up and ask, “Why are these people so different?�

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

After all, “...You were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (I Cor. 6:11)

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world.

• The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me.

• I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

• Do what it says.

• Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

• But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was …

• I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: …..

• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately.

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!

Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

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Marketplace facts: People not going to heaven

Blessings from Dr Mario Denton as the Africa: Continental Program Director - Marketplace

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