Business Secrets from the Bible

what is it about Jewish people that make them prosper financially well you'll almost never find Jews tinkering with their cars on the weekends or mowing their lawns that's what Daniel lapin says there's a very good reason for that and it lies within the business secrets of the Bible take a look most everyone would like to have more wealth and prosperity few however managed to attain it rabbi Daniel lapin is known as America's rabbi he says financial success is the result of doing the right things in his new book business secrets from the Bible rabbi lapin uses simple concepts to help increase income regardless of your faith it'll change the way you think about money and help you make more of it this is my favorite rabbi it would be an understatement but he's here with us again as a pleasure to introduce once again to the 700 club audience rabbi Daniel lapin damn good that season testing to be together with you again and thank you you've written a landmark book it is a fabulous book is called business secrets in the Bible how come Jewish people don't know their own lawns on Saturdays well it really comes from the end of the book of Genesis where Jacobs 147 years old and time is going by and finally he's about to be taken home to his father in heaven and you think that the you know after a long and difficult life he'd gather his sons together and he'd say boys God bless you I'm gone yeah instead he takes 2030 versus giving up Reuben this is your blessing Simon this is your blessing Judah this is your blessing in other words he's laying the foundation of specialization you're not just one big clump of people each one of you is going to find the area in which you can best serve your brethren and this idea which wasn't found in general economics until the 18th century Adam Smith realized the principle of specialization lies deeply embedded in ancient Jewish wisdoms understanding of the Bible in other words somebody's got to cook the bread somebody's got to make the machine somebody has to sew the cloth they can't all do that do it together exactly and it's even more than that because if we each take care of our own needs then we don't need one another mm-hmm but since we specialize as part of God's plan the result of that is that I pray for the welfare of my customers I pray for the welfare of my vendors I pray for the welfare of the people who work for me because we're all wrapped up in this web of interdependence II which is exactly what our Father in heaven wants us to be doing so naturally when you correctly if you won't in Jewish neighborhoods you do not find Jews lying under there cause on Sunday afternoon for no I pay one of the best mechanics around you take care of my BMW that's what I do I'd be crazy to take my time doing it I sold a mr. Pinker exactly I'm taking care of what I can do best and and then I'm happy to pay him or for me to mow my lawn I'm the worst lawn mower in the world but the young man who lives down the street from me he's one of the best and he's happy to do it I'm happy and so it's really important that each one of us finds our our highest and best way to serve our fellow human beings which is another way of taking care of God's other children and that's why we speak of customer service and worship service because one of the ways of worshipping our Creator is by taking care of his other story is that one of the principles of Jewish finances to look after your customers should be one of the great secrets and again I present 40 secrets in this book which is it's not a book about investing because investing you really got to have some money yet it's not a book and getting out of debt because you want to get out of debt you speak to my friend Dave Ramsey but you this is about making more money this is about saying you know what this year I want to make twice as much money as I made last year not a hundred times not fifty times twice as much is that a biblical concept making money making money yeah let me put it this way if some young person came to you and said look I can't decide what to do I want to go into politics actually they don't say that I want to go into public service I always distrusted a sh instead need a euphemism have you known that's a public service or I'd like to go into business and make a lot of money who is better for America who's better for you who's better for me when somebody tells me he wants to go into public service or politics I think to myself ten more fingers in my wallet when somebody tells me I want to go into business yeah then the only way he can succeed in business or she is by making products or services that enhance my life and that's why I say yes I'm not going to say God wants you to be rich but God wants you to be striving for more money money is a spiritual creation of our Creator it's not something that just came about in something here to that so it surprised most people is that that cities are really a creation of God that men had to get together in cities what was that well that's exactly right we find that after Cain kills Abel God gives him the punishment of isolation from people basically you're always going to have to keep traveling and and things you plant won't grow and finally he realizes and so he names his son Enoch and so but he took one life he shows that he's atoned he shows God that he understands he brings a new life into the world you know in Hebrew in the Lord's language Enoch means I'm educated education I've got it I caught on what I did wrong and now he builds a city what for three human beings well that's not the point you know build it and they'll come a city is a glorious place a city is where you've got the best of everything sadly you can also have the worst of everything if you build your city without God in a godless manner you'll have massive problems but a city built in it basically as as people like Cotton Mather and and some of the great Christian leaders of colonial America the city on the hill if it's that kind of a city a godly City it's the city where everybody can make more money than they can anywhere else these principles and Hebrews I know you you one thing in your book you talk about of course the word for hand is young and you've got you said of friendís this is Yahya yes of course okay well what's interesting about that is that it's curious how throughout Western civilization and Western civilization's sprang from the pages of the Bible I mean obviously what we think of as the West is is the creation of God's book basically God's message to mankind right and it's funny that the the symbol law or action of friendship is shaking hands why isn't it rubbing elbows or you don't know no noses yeah like what's with hands and and one of the fallacious explanations which are debunked is that all of this is because when people used to meet on the road if they shook hands with one another then they couldn't be reaching for their sword well all I know is I can handle a knife with my left hand as well wouldn't that be a surprise for the guy whose right hand I'm holding while I take him out with my left hand it's nonsense complete answers so the reason is because in the Lord's language which people used to all know I mean Hebrew was widely understood and and everybody that's why I say today everyone needs a rabbi right because not everyone knows he brother should help people along a little bit but but when they did the idea of in Hebrew is that one of the great words in Hebrew for a friend is year did which is spelt hand hand two Hebrew words basically two hands clasping becomes and enter the stays of the the picture of clasped hands is a symbol of friendship what else where did the word money come from is that Hebrew word money the word money itself yeah well yes the the Hebrew word is counting and that money is the Hebrew word for kafir for Rene is is count is counting and what are you if you say to anybody counting what do you count first thing you think of I think is you count money well you mentioned in your book that people had to keep accounts that if you wanna succeed you don't know where your money is look it's I mean if you want to lose weight or if you've got to keep a record you've got to measure your way and keep records if you want to become biblical in your money and and I really I I do what I mean when I travel the churches Pat I got to tell you my heart breaks when I sometimes I speak at 3040 churches a year giving down that I come to a church where I see deferred maintenance I see a stressed-out pastor who hasn't been able to pay the mortgage I see members of the church who just not and and it for me it's the greatest blessing it's what my ministry is all about to bring them business secrets from the Bible so that when I come back a year later I see a different institution a totally different Church the whole idea of knowing how to do balance sheet accounting or you know you don't have to become a CPA but you do need to be able to understand financial statements and and it's easy to do you just got a bit but that's a key I mean the Jewish person from the Bible will always know how to count his money and know where it was not only that but the Hebrew words for counting yes not only means money in the case of one heir but each of the four Hebrew words that mean counting also mean successful person of accomplishment - tell me about those that this successful person yeah in Hebrew this word pock aid or how about word no se means to count but it's also the same word in the Book of Numbers where Moses appoints the princes for each tribe that's exactly the same word the princes they so in other words people of accomplishment people have achieved when people have Arastoo kradic bearing are all people who can count and that's true in everything you've got to be able to measure your achievement because if you don't the days pass and nothing gets accomplished was there any truth with john d rockefeller he was a basically an accountant he was a kept exquisite books every penny he spent everything he gave away down to the last dime he had it already in a book of accounts if people offered that and and you know that he may have been a little extreme but then his wealth was also extreme he came to the richest man in the world yes exactly right but for most of us the other extreme is more common where there's no record keeping and and no meticulous accounting for our time for our money for our achievements it's important and then if that accounts for failure you learn and that's that's one of the secrets is keeping there keeping records not only financial but also life records a journal plan there's no word in Hebrew for a retirement I told you that and I'm very pleased last time we were together I told you there's no number word for retirement and the general rule is when there's no Hebrew word for something it's a bad idea so for instance there's no Hebrew word for adolescent because when you think about it in adolescents just somebody who wants all the privileges of adulthood with none of the responsibilities right so no word for adolescent no word for retire and I'm very happy to see that you've taken that lesson to heart only the heart I just AM but they won't let me retire trying but they won't let me absolutely out of the question but there's no word in Hebrew for it no there isn't because it's a bad concept what have we done in our country we have violated that totally people we've got to pay them under 65 years well we violated a lot of things in this country I mean right now for instance there is the implication that if you've made money there's something morally suspect about you mmm that somehow making money is a bad thing there's another word in Hebrew doesn't exist the word fair because you'll hear politicians say well he is rich he hasn't paid his fair share the funny thing about fair is it's not defined it's not sure I would I would think that when many politicians say we want people to pay their fair tax they probably mean a hundred percent less there is anything short of that you know fair doesn't mean anything at all fairs whatever I choose to want it to me but there's no word in Hebrew for free no word for fair yeah well is word there's words for justice yes are there because in in the Bible and in biblical thinking agreements and contracts are sacrosanct they're very important if we shake hands on something that is an agreement but we'd never say pact I got an idea why don't we go into business together and we'll just we'll have a fair equitable distribution of the profits no we don't do that we say here's what it's going to be it's going to be 50 percent and 50 percent or is going to be 43 percent and 57 percent but we don't just use loose and ill-defined concepts because that creates bad Arrangements bad relationship what is another key principle of wealth that you found in the Bible well one of the the great ones that that has always served the Jewish people very successfully and very very well and I mean I'm not saying there's no purges but Jews are disproportionately financially effective and I wanted to bring 40 of the most important secrets from the Bible to everybody one that's beautiful is in the second book of Kings the Prophet Elisha is approached by a widow who has nothing yeah and absolutely nothing and he says to listen you got to go back and search you in your house she's I got nothing how many times do I have to tell you says you got to find something so she finds one teensy weensy little jar of oil right and then he's okay this is gonna work in there she says now go borrow fifty gallon oil drums from everybody thousands of them right and she becomes the first oil tycoon in the Middle East now this is a miracle it's an absolute miracle too once it's a miracle why couldn't Elijah have poured oil out of his thumb I mean God can fill thousands of barrels of oil from a thumb just as easily as from a little bottle of oil yet he made this poor Widow go back and search until she found because each and every one of us has a bottle of oil inside of each we have that tiny little reserving overlook something we think is insignificant she said I got nothing he said go back and search little bottle of all Oh that's very significant sorry you've got to have something inside you every one of us has that little spark of potential that's why it's oil oil contains energy God packed chemical energy into oil we've got that inside each every one of us that is the kickstart of our own economic miracles what what is the modern state doing to violate God's principles and destroying itself in the process what are we doing you have an hour to spend on that well let's make believe you're Adam Smith in you wrote your book and in two places and a number of number of things one of them of course is increasing the size of government and an increasing taxation essentially that turns people into slaves ultimately the the marxist vision is slavery you work for us you give everything to us and we take care of everything we take care of your children's education we take care of your retirement we take care of your health care oh wait a sec we're already there that's exactly what they're doing and this they also think they can borrow what about borrowing what is the we'll have to see about that and needless to say a very bad way to go about doing business it's a very bad way to try and build a sustainable economy whether it's an individual or a family or a nation the borrowing is immoral it's essentially taking from people who are not yet born but then many of the people are doing that are really fairly comfortable with taking a lot of things from the unborn including their lives is this book available where that book is absolutely available where can one get copies you can get them anywhere that books are sold you can also you know my website which can be found on on your website is you need a rabbi calm or unity and that's that that's available there is what's a fantastic book you ought to get it if you want to learn how to keep money make money and do the biblical way it's called business secrets of the Bible and Daniel lapin

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Length: 16min 29sec (989 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 31 2014