Not surprised at all that Hal Finney recognized that God created the human heart to desire and pursues beauty, even in money.
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Simon Pranaitis
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Child of the One True King. Bitcoin and the Bible podcast. Live a quiet life and work with your hands.
My daughter has a great sense of humor
Fathers, if you don’t take the time to lead your wife and family through the start of the school year, you are not walking like Jesus.
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
— Mark 10:45
“Many are now in hell that purposed to repent.”
Thomas Watson — The Doctrine of Repentance p. 93
“Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.”
Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance, p. 83
Your work/money are part of God’s sovereign plan
The eyes of all wait on You,
And You give them their food in due time.
You open Your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
— Psalm 145:15-16
The last thing they want is millions of people being informed without regulation.
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If #bitcoin was how you first learned to value your work and time, then you likely haven’t read your Bible.
Do not grant, O Yahweh, the desires of the wicked;
Do not promote his evil scheme, that they not be exalted.
— Psalm 140:8 (LSB)
He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.
— Ephesians 4:28
When you shall eat of the fruit of the labor of your hands,
How blessed will you be and how well will it be for you.
— Psalm 128:2 (LSB)
God can satisfy your soul’s hunger and thirst.
For He has satisfied the thirsty soul,
And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.
— Psalm 107:9
What are you delighting in today?
They are satisfied from the richness of Your house;
And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.
For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see light.
— Psalm 36:8-9
Do you know the Father?
Yahweh is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.
— Psalm 34:18
To whoever panic sold this weekend, Thank You! My teenage sons were happy to stack sats under $70k while they can. #bitcoin
Those who save in #bitcoin learn that it is important to zoom out.
This is not new wisdom. Moses told us in Psalm 90 more than 3,000 years ago.
For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night.
— Psalm 90:4
Make sure that your way of life is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,” so that we confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid.
What will man do to me?”
Heb13:5-6
How do God’s people handle wealth?
Lessons from King David in I Chronicles 29
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Genuine question. Do you believe that working in espionage is a legitimate God-ordained vocation?
Why or why not?
“The tyrant wields his sword and rod, and puts us on trial,
because he fears freedom just as he fears fire.
He is afraid that once we find freedom,
his throne will be shaken, his fate will be dire.”
Lin Zhao in the Chinese poem Seagull