"The Marketplace" with Ed Silvoso

The Marketplace is a combination of Business, Education and Government. It’s the heart of the city or region. To change a person, you change their heart! To change a city, you change the heart of that city. Is this possible? Is it Biblical?

We can change a Nation by changing the marketplace. The church needs to disciple the Nation. Luke 19:10 “….for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” What was lost? Relationship with God was lost and with each other. Transformation needs to begin in our homes, marriages and so on. When men and women walk in harmony it reflects Christ and His bride.

Our relationship with the marketplace: Colossians 1:19 – 20 “For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross”, Ephesians 1:7 – 10 “… we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins,…….” Changing the Nation is the very heart of the atonement. Luke 19:10 “…for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” The context: The salvation of Zaccheus. Salvation came to Zaccheus and his household in the marketplace. House = home and marketplace.

Luke 19:11 onwards… The parable of the Minas – 110 days wages. Go into the city and do “business”. One place to do business is the Marketplace. We have authority over cities. Why is this significant? The importance is that we have 3 dimensions of Christ’s redemption
1. Personal – He saved us
2. Interpersonal
3. Marketplace
The gates of Hades cannot prevail. Let’s take authority over this. There are 4 ascending levels of the involvement in the Marketplace:

4. Christians trying to survive in the Marketplace
3. Christians who apply Biblical principles in the Marketplace (Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world)
2. Christians who do business in the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit
1. Christians who bring transformation to the marketplace (All about God – who wants Nations)

Summarised by Molly Manhanga

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