Kingdom Economy

You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
  "God opposes the proud
      but gives grace to the humble."

What exactly is “friendship with the world? We are told that we should not conform to the pattern of this world, in 1John we read, “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.” It is the ideology of the world, it’s attitude and desires that we are told to avoid.

The kingdom currency, if you will, is grace. The fuel that keeps America in running is oil, without this fuel we would be at a literal standstill. It is Grace, God’s grace that keeps His kingdom going. Grace has been called, God’s riches at Christ’s expense. So in our analogy Grace is the kingdom money.

Big Kingdom business then, is carried on with Grace. How is Grace acquired? It is humility that gains grace. First of all God opposes the proud. In a football game the team that you are not on will do all it can to keep you from the goal line, they oppose you, they are against you. God opposes the proud.

In the kingdom of God, we love our King, And humility gains God favor.