THE SIN SERIES: Biblical Principles Of Wealth You Should Not Ignore Or Disobey Unless You Want To Remain Poor

I want to start a mini series which I will cover for the next few weeks on 'Biblical principles of wealth which will result in poverty, if flouted'.

So let's begin.

The Sin Series I: To Be rich, You Shall Not Have One Source Of Income
Last time, I gave an expose on the biblical Parable of Talents, which I call Parable of Investment. Today’s article brings us back to that passage -Matt 25:14-29 (KJV).


To be rich and comfortable on this earth, you must have at least two (2) sources of income. Nobody, business or family flourishes on just one source of income. You may survive and barely get along, but to be rich and comfortable, you have to seek multiple sources of income.


However, what most people don’t know is that it does not mean –get another job or work two jobs.... No! In the simplest sense, it means HAVE A REGULAR JOB AND SAVE/PAY YOURSELF REGULARLY. In the article How to be very very rich, I already explained that.

 So let's begin.

Let’s see the biblical correlative.

In the passage above, the servant got a talent from his master, and instead of making it give him another source of income, he hid it. What got the wicked servant’s master angry was not the fact  he had 1 talent (or the equivalent of 1 job or 1 business), it was that he did not put that talent to use. Putting that talent to use will have ensured that that one became productive bringing in another extra one. And you know that with the power of compound interest, two will definitely bring forth more than one, subsequently.

When people don’t pay themselves (save), instead giving excuses, what they are doing is effectively disobeying a principle of wealth. And this will only ensure one thing – Poverty. Look at the most successful businesses in the world, most of them started with just one product e.g. Coca-cola, which today has Fanta and Sprite and Eva water, and Five Alive, etc. Or one brand/line of product or service but then diversified e.g. Google with google search, mail, youtube, etc. 

While it is imperative that you begin with and master one, you must never stay at that level. You must constantly seek newer ways, methods, and ideas on leveraging on your most successful asset, idea, product or service in order to ensure exponential growth. Staying with one will only give you a linear growth curve at best.

[Don't forget that when you start at one, you can learn to become very good at it till you eventually diversify into other things. But if you don't start at one, you can't be successful with multiple.]

A family can survive on the income of just the husband or wife (as the case may be) but it will flourish if it has multiple sources of income – even if those multiple sources come from one spouse alone. 

If the servant's talent had been fixed in a bank to generate interest, it would have doubled in value over time, and with the power of compound interest, multiplied in value.

It isn't a good thing to not be ambitious or fruitful or desirous of growth. In fact God is against mediocrity. And it becomes a sin to not want to multiply in everything we set our hands on to do or become, according to his commandment. Gen 1:28, John 15:2.


Seek growth, think multiplication.