I PREDICT THAT IF YOU TITHE, GOD WILL BLESS YOU (3 OF 5)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30
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I Predict That If You Tithe, God Will Bless You (3 of 5)
Series: I Predict
Jeff Strite
Matthew 25:14-30
OPEN: His name was Timothy Dexter and he was born in Massachusetts in 1747. At the age of 20 he took his life savings - a grand total of $9 - and moved to Newburyport, MA where he met and married a wealthy 31 year old widow.
Fancying himself to be a shrewd businessman, he used his wife's money to buy stocks because that was what the other businessmen in the community were doing. But he didn't know which stocks to purchase, so he simply bought the cheapest ones available.
To everyone's surprise his stocks rose in value and he sold them for a profit.
Apparently Dexter bragged a lot about his good fortune, and the other businessmen in town began to see him as an annoying fool. So they began to amuse themselves by giving him lunatic business tips. One merchant told him the West Indies (where colonization was booming) was sorely in need of warming pans, mittens and Bibles. Dexter was so impressed by what the man told him that he went out and bought more than 40,000 warming pans, 40,000 pairs of mittens, and 40,000 Bibles and shipped them out.
What Dexter didn't realize that the West Indies were in an extremely hot part of the world and his investment looked extremely foolish to anyone who understood the region. But it just so happened that when his ship docked in the West Indies there was a religious revival taking place, and his Bibles were purchased at a 100% profit.
As if that weren't enough, a fleet of Russian trading ships was visiting the West Indies and they had their agents immediately buy up the mittens to the last pair.
The warming pans sat idly in the warehouse until some inventive planter discovered that they made ideal skimmers for ladling molasses into vats and so each and every pan was sold for a profit. These incredible sales made Dexter enormously wealthy.
Now, the other merchants were not just annoyed by Dexter... they ...
Series: I Predict
Jeff Strite
Matthew 25:14-30
OPEN: His name was Timothy Dexter and he was born in Massachusetts in 1747. At the age of 20 he took his life savings - a grand total of $9 - and moved to Newburyport, MA where he met and married a wealthy 31 year old widow.
Fancying himself to be a shrewd businessman, he used his wife's money to buy stocks because that was what the other businessmen in the community were doing. But he didn't know which stocks to purchase, so he simply bought the cheapest ones available.
To everyone's surprise his stocks rose in value and he sold them for a profit.
Apparently Dexter bragged a lot about his good fortune, and the other businessmen in town began to see him as an annoying fool. So they began to amuse themselves by giving him lunatic business tips. One merchant told him the West Indies (where colonization was booming) was sorely in need of warming pans, mittens and Bibles. Dexter was so impressed by what the man told him that he went out and bought more than 40,000 warming pans, 40,000 pairs of mittens, and 40,000 Bibles and shipped them out.
What Dexter didn't realize that the West Indies were in an extremely hot part of the world and his investment looked extremely foolish to anyone who understood the region. But it just so happened that when his ship docked in the West Indies there was a religious revival taking place, and his Bibles were purchased at a 100% profit.
As if that weren't enough, a fleet of Russian trading ships was visiting the West Indies and they had their agents immediately buy up the mittens to the last pair.
The warming pans sat idly in the warehouse until some inventive planter discovered that they made ideal skimmers for ladling molasses into vats and so each and every pan was sold for a profit. These incredible sales made Dexter enormously wealthy.
Now, the other merchants were not just annoyed by Dexter... they ...
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