Kolawole Oyeyemi - Wealth Without Theft: You can be Rich without Stealing

WEALTH

WITHOUT THEFT

You Can Be Rich Without Stealing

WEALTH

WITHOUT THEFT

You Can Be Rich Without Stealing

KOLAWOLE OYEYEMI

Wealth Without Theft...You can be Rich without Stealing

Copyright2012 by Kolawole Oyeyemi.

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Kolawole Oyeyemi
Chapel Of Uncommon Grace
Plot 14, Olugbesan Close, off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
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+234 803 200 2362

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible: King James
Version (KJV) of the Holy Bible. All Rights Reserved

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Kolawole Oyeyemi

Wealth Without Theft..You can be Rich without Stealing

ISBN-13: 978-0-985-08151-5 (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-9850-8151-1 (Paperback)
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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all men and women in pursuit of kingdom truth who are willing to give and be given for it.

Acknowledgements

My absolute and unqualified gratitude goes to God for His uncommon inspiration and access that I enjoy. Thank you Lord.
I am grateful to my wife and children for allowing me to juggle time meant for them to do my writings. Thank you so much. I appreciate you for your sacrifice to enable me fulfilvision.

My sincere thanks goes to Pastor Ghandi Olaoye of Jesus House DC for being a friend and a sincere co-labourer. I ap preciate your genuine support.

My appreciation also goes to Pastor Ayo Oluwatosin for your candid feedback after reading the manuscript, may we all live to our Fathers praise.

Thanks to Winnie who did the editing and managed the publication. I appreciate your very useful comments. May the Lord bless you.

Finally, my gratitude goes to the entire leadership team and congregation of the Chapel of Uncommon Grace who serve as my practice field for the awesome revelations God blesses me with. May we remain a source of pride to the Father. Thank you all.

Kolawole Oyeyemi

Foreword

This erudite, eloquent, and immensely thought-provoking work gets to the heart of the deepest passions and aspirations of the human heart, to be financially free and secure. No poor man wants to be poor. The plight of years of colonial oppression in developing countries has left in its wake, billions of souls pursuing the natural human desire to climb out of the hole of financial despair and experience the joy of a secure life.

Without the opportunities and leadership management skills perfected by those of the industrial states of the world, many of these emerging nations are left at a disadvantage. The result is usually a culture of survival of the fit at any cost and all cost. This social and economic philosophy always ends in the cultivation of corruption. Corruption could be defined as the violation of the moral and ethical laws to achieve a goal. In many nations, this has become a reality and must be addressed if the emerging third world is to raise itself from the shadows of historical poverty by not imposing its own system of oppression through the spirit of corruption.

This book by Kolawole Oyeyemi is indispensable reading for anyone who wants to break free from this destructive web of self-imposed oppression and live life above the norm. This is a profound authoritative work which spans the wisdom of the ages and yet breaks new ground in its approach on the subject of ethical and moral conscience on business and life, and will possibly become a classic in this and the next generation.

This exceptional work by Kolawole Oyeyemi is one of the most profound, practical, principle-centered approaches to this subject of Financial Morality and ethics in business I have read in a long time. The authors approach to this timely issue brings a fresh breath of air that captivates the heart, engages the mind and inspires the spirit of the reader.

Kolawole Oyeyemis ability to leap over complicated the oretical, theological and metaphysical jargon, and reduce complex theories to simple practical principles that the least among us can understand is amazing.

This work will challenge the intellectual, while embracing the laymen as it dismantles the mysterious of the soul search of mankind and delivers the profound in simplicity. This should become required reading for all business leaders and employees alike.

Kolawole Oyeyemis approach awakens in the reader the untapped inhibiters that retard our personal development in the area of financial mastery and success in our pursuit of financial and economic security, and his antidotes empower us to rise above these self-defeating, self-limiting factors of short-cuts to a life of exploits in moral, ethical and decency in all of life, as we chart our financial destiny.

The author also integrates into each chapter the time-tested precepts giving each principle a practical application to life making the entire process people-friendly.

Every sentence of this book is pregnant with wisdom and I enjoyed the mind-expanding experience of this exciting book. I admonish you to plunge into this ocean of knowledge and watch your life change for the better.

Dr. Myles Munroe

President: BFM International
Chairman
International Third World Leaders Association
Nassau Bahamas

The issue of wealth and the Christian faith is one that has over the years attracted heated debates from within and without the Church. Different perspectives have evolved over the ages with attendant vocabularies. Once upon a time, an extremely poor person used to be likened to a church rat. The expression was; as poor as a church rat. This meant that the Church/believers were so poor that they barely managed to survive and so could not have anything left over for the rat in the Church to feed upon.

Teachings at this period were on righteousness, holiness, integrity, sanctification and austere living. These were great, but not balanced. It was difficult around this time to imagine a wealthy, but righteous individual. In some parts of Africa, this doctrine actually evolved a proverb of its own that the foundation of great wealth is dirty. The poorer a man was therefore, the closer to God he was believed to be. What an error and a tragedy!

It made the faith unattractive to the rich because they were scared of losing their wealth. It closed the door of salvation against the wealthy and left it open only for the poor. It was so bad that fellow believers would brand you as carnal if they saw you enjoy certain basic comforts that were above average. Today, in the 21st century, there are still ardent believers in this doctrine.

Then came the prosperity message. The Church woke up to the reality of the fact that the earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof. The Church realised that poverty does not glorify God and that it can actually be counterproductive to Gods agenda. Teachings on prosperity flourished and charlatans invaded the arena with half-truths and outright lies. The maxims: if it is good, it is God and My God is not a poor God became popular, and criminals in cassock capitalised on this paradigm to infest the body with strange doctrines on wealth. Integrity and right living no longer occupied pride of place in Sermons and the teachings. Getting rich at all cost and not at Gods cost became the order of the day.