Financial Foundation of the Primitive Church

Psa 22:25  My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
Psa 22:26  The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
Psa 22:27  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Psa 22:28  For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the nations.
Psa 22:29  All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
Psa 22:30  A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
Psa 22:31  They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Act 4:32  And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Act 4:33  And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
Act 4:34  Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
Act 4:35  And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Act 4:36  And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
Act 4:37  Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Transforming Power Statements:

1) The Gospel of Jesus Christ has always been in the mind of God to be the means of salvation to all who believe, as it was promised to Abraham, and this centrality of God’s great love for all people was concealed within many passages in the Old Testament and was not fully revealed nor understood until the first Advent of Jesus the Messiah and it’s full revelation was given during these times through the Apostolic Church by the Holy Spirit, but can now easily be seen in passages such as Psalms 22 and many others as well.

2) When the infant Church was born out of Judaism, there were mostly Jewish believers initially, but the message of the Gospel was so powerful, and was always intended to be a global broadcast to all the nations, that it automatically produced a generation who were sold out to the progress of the Church, to the point that the initial members valued the Church above all their earthly possessions and pledged it all for the sake of the Gospel.

3) The magnitude of the Gospel was counted worthy the of dissolving of everything to those to whom it was first entrusted, to the point that sold everything and laid the proceeds at the Apostle’s feet to support this last movement of God for the salvation of all people, which was the global mission to which they had been entrusted., if they accounted this mission to be worth ALL, what is it worth to YOU?