MODERN LIFE IS IMPROVING

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1 MODERN LIFE IS IMPROVING

2 Prof. Homer Dixon “Humanity is on the brink of a planetary emergency.”
University of Toronto “Humanity is on the brink of a planetary emergency.” Next 100 years: great violence, hardship, instability.

3 5 Critical Global Stresses:
Environment Population Disease Poverty Energy

4 POVERTY IS WAR POVERTY KILLS 3,000 people die every day from malaria.
8,000 people die every day from AIDS.

5 1) POVERY 600 million children around the world live in extreme poverty

6 2) DEBT

7 3) UNJUST TRADE " It's unfair that you pay $3.00 for a cup of coffee and yet we only get a couple of cents.“ Hamed Sahehussan, aged 55.

8 GOD’S ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES 1) SHARE & BE GENEROUS TO THE POOR
James 1:27, “Pure and true religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for orphans and widows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us. “ $70,000,000,000 will end poverty. If Koreans and Americans give $250/year we can end poverty in the world.

9 GOD’S ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES 1) SHARE & BE GENEROUS TO THE POOR
“하나님 아버지 앞에서 깨끗하고 순수한 신앙은 어려운 처지에 있는 고아와 과부들을 돌봐 주고 자신을 지켜 세속에 물들지 않는 이것입니다.” 야고보서 1:27 $70,000,000,000 will end poverty. If Koreans and Americans give $250/year we can end poverty in the world.

10 GOD’S ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES 2) CANCEL DEBTS EVERY 7 YEARS
Deuteronomy 15:1 “At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.” (NIV) **Debt destroys up to 50% of poor people’s income. If we cancel their debts, this can help them get out of poverty.

11 GOD’S ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES 2) CANCEL DEBTS EVERY 7 YEARS
`여러분은 7년마다 그 해 연말에 여러분이 받을 빚을 다 면제해 주십시오.” 신명기 15:1 **Debt destroys up to 50% of poor people’s income. If we cancel their debts, this can help them get out of poverty.

12 GOD’S ECONOMICS 3) TRADE FAIRLY
Amos 8 says, “5…you cheat the helpless and measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales…6..Then you enslave the poor for a debt of one piece of silver or gold or a pair of sandals. 7Now, the Lord has sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel, “I will never forget the wicked things you have done! Every year, poor countries lose $700,000,000,000 because of unfair trade. If we stop unfair trade, it will help end poverty.

13 GOD’S ECONOMICS 3) TRADE FAIRLY
*너희는 이렇게 말하고 있다. `언제나 초하루가 지나가고 우리가 곡식을 팔며 언제나 안식일이 지나가고 우리가 장사를 할 수 있을까? 물건은 적게 주면서 값은 올려 받고 저울을 속여 팔며 *은으로 가난한 자를 사고 신 한 켤레로 빈곤한 자를 사며 찌꺼기 밀을 팔자' *이스라엘의 자랑이신 여호와께서 맹세하며 이렇게 말씀하셨다. `그들이 행한 일을 내가 절대로 잊지 않을 것이다. 아모스 8:4-7 Every year, poor countries lose $700,000,000,000 because of unfair trade. If we stop unfair trade, it will help end poverty.

14 FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO ARE HELPING

15 If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ...
you are richer than 75% of this world.

16 If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish some place ...
you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

17 If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

18 If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore ... you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

19 Psalms 24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to Him. (다윗의 시) 땅과 그 안에 있는 모든 것이 여호와의 것이요 세계와 그 안에 사는 모든 생명체도 다 여호와의 것이다.

20 Haggai 2:8 8The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD Almighty. 은도 내 것이요 금도 내 것이다.

21 Psalms 50:12 If I were hungry, I
would not mention it to you, for all the world is mine and everything in it. 내가 굶주려도 너에게 말하지 않을 것이니 온 세계와 그 안에 있는 모든 것이 다 내 것임이라.

22 Psalms 139:13-14 주는 내 몸의 모든 기관을 만드시고 어머니의 태에서 나를 베 짜듯이 지으셨습니다.
“13You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--and how well I know it. 주는 내 몸의 모든 기관을 만드시고 어머니의 태에서 나를 베 짜듯이 지으셨습니다. 내가 이처럼 놀랍고 신기하게 만들어졌으니 주를 찬양합니다. 주의 솜씨가 얼마나 훌륭한지 나는 잘 알고 있습니다.

23 GOD’S INCREDIBLE GIFTS

24 2 Corinthians 8:13,14 내가 여러분에게 짐을 지우면서 다른 사람을 편안하게 하려는 것이 아니라 골고루 나누어 갖게 하려는 것입니다. 지금 넉넉하게 사는 여러분이 가난한 사람들을 도와 준다면 그들도 넉넉할 때에 여러분을 도와 줄 것입니다. 그렇게 되면 결국 서로 도움을 받게 됩니다.

25 MANDELA: WE CAN STOP POVERTY!
“Poverty is not natural.  It is man made and can be overcome by the action of human beings.” Mandela

26 Money Can’t Buy Happiness
Australian researches say: If you make less than $30,000 a year, money can increase happiness a little. But, after that, it doesn’t increase happiness at all. If you have decent food, housing, education, medical care…more money will not make you happier.

27 JUBILEE: Equal ownership of land
Each tribe and family had land of similar value. This could never be sold. So, every generation had land, no matter what their parents had done.

28 1) BASIC ECONOMIC RIGHTS FOR ALL:
Everyone has a basic right to food, housing, medical care and education IF they work.

29 2) TAX PEOPLE FOR USING NATURE
Leftist countries (high taxes) Most governments tax your house, work, interest and many things. This is not economic justice. People should keep what they earn. Many people are poor because of unjust taxes used for military and machines instead of people. Rightist countries (low taxes) Centrists (medium taxes)

30 The Alternative way—tax land
BENFITS Security for all Incentives and freedoms for all Poor are not taxed and so can save up People keep 100% of the profit from their work. Land productivity is maximized. Unused land sold. Monopolies and privilege is prevented People didn’t make nature. So, it’s economic justice for the government to tax nature and use it for the benefit of everyone

31 3) NATURE CAN’T BE INHERITED
Land and and nature can’t be inherited. They are shared with all OR the person using them pays land rent.

32 Pliny the Elder (23-79) Roman naturalist
"Land monopoly ruined Rome."

33 Abraham Lincoln “The land, the earth God gave to man for his home, sustenance and support, should never be the possession of any man, corporation, society or unfriendly government, any more than the air or water”

34 Thomas Jefferson "The earth is given as a common stock for men to labor and to live on.”

35 Mencius (the philosopher and contemporary of Confucius
“In the market places, charge land-rent, but don't tax the goods; Do this, and all the merchants in the realm will be pleased and will want to set up shop in your markets.”

36 Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), father of modern China
"The (land tax) as the only means of supporting the government is an infinitely just, reasonable, and equitably distributed tax... The centuries of heavy and irregular taxation for the benefit of the manchus have shown China the injustice of any other system of taxation."

37 Voltaire—French atheist and author
"The fruits of the earth are a common heritage of all, to which each man has equal right."

38 Rousseau—French atheist & philosopher
"You are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to no one."

39 DOES LAND RENT WORK 1) TAIWAN: 10% higher GDP…YES! 2) KOREA, JAPAN, HONG KONG..YES! 3) CALIFORNIA…..YES! ~30 other cities and countries in history!

40 CHINA’S GREAT WAY

41 Joshua 1:8 “Study this Book of the Law continually. Meditate on it day and night so you may be sure to obey all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.” 이 율법책을 항상 읽고 밤낮으로 묵상하며 그 가운데 기록된 것을 하나도 빠짐없이 지켜라. 그래야 네가 잘 되고 성공할 것이다.

42 Romans 12:8 “Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them.” 권면하는 사람은 격려의 말로, 남을 구제하는 사람은 후하게, 지도자는 열심으로, 자선을 베푸는 사람은 기쁨으로 하십시오.

43 NATIONALISM OR PEOPLE It’s our choice—men or machines!
A better life for 2 billion people only needs 10% of our military spending.

44 Expensive Security If people didn’t commit crime, we could spend trillions on science, education, religion, technology, vacations, etc.

45 Future Einsteins wasted
It would cost ~5,400,000,000,000 won a year for every child in the world to go to school (this is 3% of the world’s military budget)!

46 AIDS—people’s self-centeredness kills many innocents

47 ENRON DECEPTION

48 1 Timothy 6:10 “The love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil.” 돈을 사랑하는 것이 온갖 악의 뿌리가 됩니다. 이것을 가지려고 열망하는 사람들이 믿음에서 떠나 방황하다가 많은 고통을 당하고 마음의 상처를 입습니다.

49 Proverbs 29:7 “God’s people know the rights of the poor; the wicked don’t care to know”. 여호와의 소리가 번갯불과 함께 울려 퍼진다.

50 Hosea 7-8 “Riches cannot make up for sin.”

51 Albert Schweitzer—2 time Nobel prize winner
“One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. “

52 Together we can MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY

53 JUBILEE MOVEMENT