Provincial Acc Adepoju: 📖📖📖 Open Heavens Devotional 📖📖📖 BY Pastor E.A. Adeboye. Date:- Wednesday, July 01, 2015. Topic:- RETURN REDUCED WAGES!

[03:43, 7/1/2015] Provincial Acc Adepoju: 📖📖📖 Open Heavens Devotional 📖📖📖
BY Pastor E.A. Adeboye.

Date:- Wednesday, July 01, 2015.

Topic:- RETURN  REDUCED  WAGES!

Memorise:
Owe no man any thing,  but to love one another:  for he that loveth  another hath fulfilled  the law. . . . Romans 13:8

Read:
Genesis 31:36-42
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

Bible in one year:
1Chronicles 7:14-9:34
Luke 15:1-24

Message:
God is a righteous God, and as a result, He hates all  forms of fraud. According to Leviticus 19:13, it is a  crime to delay your workers salary for 24 hours.
Do you promptly pay your staff - whether church Or  secular? Another aspect of fraud is manipulating your  workers' salaries. One Bible character who was a victim of  this was Jacob. All the years he worked for Laban, he  suffered a great deal. He was deceived, cheated, made to  bear the losses his boss should have borne and earned an  ever-decreasing wage. Laban was extremely wicked. But  do you know that some employers today are like Laban?  They take all the gains of their businesses and push all the  losses to their staff, irrespective of what caused such losses.  Also, while they plan to make more profit and push their  staff to work hard at it, they hardly ever plan to increase  their salaries. If anything, they continue to come up with  excuses as to why such salaries should remain at the same  level, or even be reduced.
Laban reduced Jacob's wages 10 times. If you are happy to  cut down your staff salaries rather than increase them,  though your business is not diminishing, you are toying  with Hell. If your business cannot afford an employee  anymore, it is better to let such staff go after paying their  entitlements. Take note of the words of Romans 13:8:

"Owe no man any thing, but to love one  another: for he that loveth another hath  fulfilled the law"

Every cent, kobo or penny you fraudulently cut off the  wages of your staff amounts to a debt you owe them. Also,  the fact that you owe your staff shows your lack of love for  them. You cannot be cutting down the salary or wages of  those you love, while your business is doing fine. Do not be  surprised that some employers who claim to be believers in  Christ will die and get to the gate of Heaven, only to be told  that they cannot enter in because of the debt they owe their  staff. At that checkpoint, the entire amount owed will be  found on them. They will then say "I am sorry; I am now  prepared to pay the debts I owe my staff", but the angels  will say "Sorry, it's too late." The money such persons  fraudulently stole from their staff will follow them to Hell- fire and torment them there for eternity. For your own good,  go and restitute all the wages you have cut off without just cause!

Key point:
Besides pride, another vice  that Cod cannot stand in  people is breaking of