Keys To Biblical Prosperity - Ekklesia

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Keys To
Biblical
Prosperity
Kenneth E. Hagin
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in
this volume are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Second Printing
1996 ISBN 0-89276-
524-0
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BOOKS BY KENNETH E. HAGIN
*Redeemed From Poverty, Sickness and Spiritual Death
*What Faith Is
*Seven Vital Steps To Receiving the Holy Spirit
*Right and Wrong Thinking
Prayer Secrets
*Authority of the Believer (foreign only)
*How To Turn Your Faith Loose
The Key to Scriptural Healing
Praying To Get Results
The Present-Day Ministry of Jesus Christ
The Gift of Prophecy
Healing Belongs to Us
The Real Faith
How You Can Know the Will of God
The Threefold Nature of Man
The Human Spirit
Turning Hopeless Situations Around
Casting Your Cares Upon the Lord
Seven Steps for Judging Prophecy
*The Interceding Christian
Faith Food for Autumn
*Faith Food for Winter
Faith Food for Spring
Faith Food for Summer
*New Thresholds of Faith
*Prevailing Prayer to Peace
*Concerning Spiritual Gifts
Bible Faith Study Course
Bible Prayer Study Course
The Holy Spirit and His Gifts
*The Ministry Gifts (Study Guide)
Seven Things You Should Know About Divine Healing
El Shaddai
Zoe: The God-Kind of Life
A Commonsense Guide to Fasting
Must Christians Suffer?
The Woman Question
The Believer's Authority
Ministering to Your Family
What To Do When Faith Seems Weak and Victory Lost
Growing Up, Spiritually
Bodily Healing and the Atonement (Dr. T.J. McCrossan)
Exceedingly Growing Faith
Understanding the Anointing
I Believe in Visions
Understanding How To Fight the Good Fight of Faith
Plans, Purposes, and Pursuits
How You Can Be Led by the Spirit of God
A Fresh Anointing
Classic Sermons
He Gave Gifts Unto Men:
A Biblical Perspective of Apostles, Prophets, and Pastors
The Art of Prayer Following God's Plan For Your Life
The Triumphant Church: Dominion Over All the Powers of Darkness
Healing Scriptures
Mountain-Moving Faith
Love: The Way to Victory
Biblical Keys to Financial Prosperity
The Price Is Not Greater Than God's Grace (Mrs. Oretha Hagin)
MINIBOOKS (A partial listing)
*The New Birth
*Why Tongues?
*In Him
*God's Medicine
*You Can Have What You Say
*Don't Blame God
*Words
Plead Your Case
*How To Keep Your Healing
The Bible Way To Receive the Holy Spirit
I Went to Hell
How To Walk in Love
The Precious Blood of Jesus
*Love Never Fails
How God Taught Me About Prosperity
BOOKS BY KENNETH HAGIN JR.
*Man's Impossibility — God's Possibility
Because of Jesus
How To Make the Dream God Gave You Come True
The Life of Obedience
Forget Not!
God's Irresistible Word
Healing: Forever Settled
Don't Quit! Your Faith Will See You Through
The Untapped Power in Praise
Listen to Your Heart
What Comes After Faith?
Speak to Your Mountain!
Come Out of the Valley!
It's Your Move!
God's Victory Plan
Another Look at Faith
MINIBOOKS (A partial listing)
*Faith Worketh by Love
*Seven Hindrances to Healing
*The Past Tense of God's Word
Faith Takes Back What the Devil's Stolen
How To Be a Success in Life
Get Acquainted With God
Unforgiveness
Ministering to the Brokenhearted
*These titles are also available in Spanish. Information about other foreign translations
of several of the above titles (i.e., Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Polish, Russian
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Contents
1.Poverty: A Blessing or a Curse?...........................................1
2.Qualifications for Walking in Prosperity...........................31
3.Our Authority in the Area of Finances..............................45
4.The Bible Way To Release Your Faith................................69
5.Honor Your Pastor and Receive God's Blessings................89
6.Sowing and Reaping and the School of Obedience............115
7.Godliness Is Profitable in All Things................................135

Chapter 1
Poverty: A Blessing
Or a Curse?
CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it
is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree.
— Galatians 3:13
Christ hath redeemed us!
If we stop reading right there, we'd know Jesus
redeemed us. But what did He redeem us from? The
rest of the verse says, ". . . FROM THE CURSE OF
THE LAW, being made a curse for us: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Gal. 3:13).
GALATIANS 3:14
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on
the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
I couldn't do justice to a study on prosperity without
explaining the great Bible truth of redemption. Christ
has redeemed us from the curse of the Law! The curse
of the Law includes spiritual death, sickness, and
poverty.
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The first curse that God said would come upon man
for breaking His Law is found in Genesis 2:17. God
said to Adam in Genesis 2:17, ". . . in the day that thou
eat-est thereof [of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil] thou shalt surely die."
Adam and Eve were permitted to eat fruit from all
the trees in the Garden of Eden except the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The curse of
spiritual death was to come upon them if they dis-
obeyed God.
Genesis 3:22-24 tells us that man did disobey God,
was driven from the Garden, and could eat no longer of
the tree of life. Man became the slave of sin and death.
Death has always been a mystery to man. It was not
a part of the creation or part of God's original plan. The
Bible tells us that physical death is an enemy of God
and man. First Corinthians 15:26 tells us that physical
death is the last enemy that shall be put underfoot.
When you die physically, your spirit and soul leave
your body and go to your eternal home (Luke 16:19-24).
Although several kinds of death are spoken of in the
Bible, there are three kinds we should familiarize our-
selves with: 1) spiritual death; 2) physical death; and 3)
eternal death or the Second Death, which means being
cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone
(Rev. 21:8).
Spiritual death is that which lays hold of one's spirit
rather than his body. Physical death is a manifestation
of spiritual death.
Poverty: A Blessing or a Curse?
Eternal death or the Second Death is the ultimate
finality of death or the home of the spiritually dead.
Spiritual death came to earth first and then mani-
fested itself in the physical body by destroying it.
Physical death is a manifestation of the law that is at
work within. Paul called it "the law of sin and death"
(Rom. 8:2).
When God said to Adam, ". . . in the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen. 2:17), He was
not referring to physical death but to spiritual death. If
man never had died spiritually, he would not have died
physically.
What is spiritual death? Spiritual death means sep-
aration from God.
The moment Adam sinned, he was separated from
God. When God came down in the cool of the day, as
was His custom, to walk and talk with Adam, He called,
". . . Adam . . . Where art thou?" (Gen. 3:9). Adam
answered, ". . . I hid myself." He was separated from
God.
When Adam and Eve listened to the devil, it resulted
in spiritual death. Spiritual death immediately began
to manifest itself in the human family. Eventually,
Adam and Eve's firstborn son murdered the second-
born son (Gen. 4:8).
Man had become an outcast, an outlaw, driven from
the Garden with no legal ground to approach God.
Man in his fallen state could not respond to the call
of God without a sacrifice. Man was hindered in his
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response to God because he was more than a transgres-
sor; he was more than a lawbreaker and sinner.
Jesus said to the Pharisees, 'Ye are of your father
the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was
a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar,
and the father of it" (John 8:44).
The Pharisees were very religious. They did a lot of
good things. They went to the synagogue on the Sab-
bath. They prayed. They paid their tithes. They fasted.
They did a lot of other fine things. But they lied about
Christ and murdered Him. They had the characteristics
of the devil.
This explains why man cannot be saved by his con-
duct or good works; he must be born again. If man were
not a child of the devil, he could just act right and he'd
be all right. But since he's a child of the devil, even if he
tries to act right, he'll still go to hell when he dies — to
the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is
the Second Death.
Why? Because man as he is cannot stand in the
Presence of God. Man had to be saved by Someone pay-
ing the penalty for man's sins and giving man the New
Birth.
You might take a flop-eared old mule and try to
make him into a racehorse, but it won't work. You
could dress that mule up by filing his teeth or polishing
his hooves. You could feed him the finest food, run him
around the track every day, and house him in the finest