"For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 7From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statues and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?' 8Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions. 9You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the window of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until tueres is no more need. 11I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts. "
10 Facts about the Tithe:
1. Tithe means 10 percent.
2. It describes the immediate gift of ten percent of your income at your first opportunity.
3. It's a symbol.
4. It is to be off the top.
5. It is a universal law like the Sabbath rest.
6. It was part of the law but predates the law and continues after the law.
7. It was practical throughout church history.
8. It was a thermometer of spiritual vitality.
9. It's important to God.
10. It's the starting place for New Testament giving.
Malachi 3:8-9
Do not rob God of what He has given to you. Imagine if God gave everyone around you first then left the last ten percent for you...
Akon robbed from God. Old Testament.
Acts 5, New Testament.
Malachi 3:10
God wants us to test Him when it comes to our financial needs. Give His portion and test Him to let Him provide for us.
90 percent with you and God is more than a 100 percent with you on your own.
Why Tithe to the Local Church?
1. You get the wisdom of a group.
2. It avoids "send and forget".
3. It avoids the tendency toward control.
4. Sow back into the fields that you have harvested from.
Malachi 3:10b
Put God to the test... "...and see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you."
Tithe is allocating ownership.
Tithing is saying everything I own belongs to God, and that I am giving back what should be God's.
Accountibility.
He has done so much for us, is it not "right" for us to repay Him?
Malachi 3:11 ESV
"I sill rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts."
Principles
1. Stealing from God has significant consequences.
2. Financial partnership with God brings significant blessings.
3. Faith comes before miraculous provision.
4. Prove the tithe.
Be challenged to tithe :)
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