THE BLESSED LIFE-PART-3
THIS IS A TEST!
Most believers do not know that God gives you a test every few weeks.
Every time we get paid,we take a test.
Here is the test::Who we going to thank for the increase that just came into our lives? Who are we going to worship? Who are going to worship? Who are we going to honor?
. Here is an argument that some give: I can't be cursed because I am a believe and Jesus bore the curse for me so I cannot be cursed..
. Another argument: Tithing is under the law and as a believer I am not under the law but under grace;so I don't tithe.
Under grace we always do more what was expected under the law.
2.Tithing is Biblical.
This is 500 years before the law.
18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said:
“ Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
And he gave him a tithe of all.
Most believers do not know that God gives you a test every few weeks.
Every time we get paid,we take a test.
Here is the test::Who we going to thank for the increase that just came into our lives? Who are we going to worship? Who are going to worship? Who are we going to honor?
Malachi 3:6-12
New King James Version (NKJV)
6 “ For I am the LORD, I do not change;
Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
7 Yet from the days of your fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
Return to Me, and I will return to you,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
“ But you said,
‘ In what way shall we return?’
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘ In what way have we robbed You?’
In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the LORD of hosts,
“ If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
11 “ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”
Says the LORD of hosts;
12 And all nations will call you blessed,
For you will be a delightful land,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
7 Yet from the days of your fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
Return to Me, and I will return to you,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
“ But you said,
‘ In what way shall we return?’
Do Not Rob God
8 “ Will a man rob God?Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘ In what way have we robbed You?’
In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the LORD of hosts,
“ If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
11 “ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”
Says the LORD of hosts;
12 And all nations will call you blessed,
For you will be a delightful land,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
This is the God WHO CANNOT CHANGE TALKING TO US.
Ordinance-comes from the word "ordinary" it is a principle of ordinary behavior. Normal people would follow this principle.
What God wants to do is redeem our finances out from under the curse by us returning the tithe to Him.
1. Tithe is a test.
The tithe means the tenth part or ten percent.
In the bible, the number ten represents testing.
God developed tithing to test our hearts. When it comes to our money, it can be a big test.
Malachi is telling us: If tithe I am blessed. If I don't tithe, I'm cursed.
God does not curse us; we are voluntarily placing ourselves under the curse that is on this planet as a result of man's sins.
1. Tithe is a test.
The tithe means the tenth part or ten percent.
In the bible, the number ten represents testing.
God developed tithing to test our hearts. When it comes to our money, it can be a big test.
Malachi is telling us: If tithe I am blessed. If I don't tithe, I'm cursed.
God does not curse us; we are voluntarily placing ourselves under the curse that is on this planet as a result of man's sins.
. Here is an argument that some give: I can't be cursed because I am a believe and Jesus bore the curse for me so I cannot be cursed..
. Another argument: Tithing is under the law and as a believer I am not under the law but under grace;so I don't tithe.
Under grace we always do more what was expected under the law.
2.Tithing is Biblical.
Genesis 14:18-20-
This is 500 years before the law.
New King James Version (NKJV)
Abram and Melchizedek
18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said:
“ Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
And he gave him a tithe of all.
Genesis 28:22- This is 400 years before the law.
New King James Version (NKJV)
22 And this stone which
I have set as a pillar shall be God’s house, and of all that You give
me I will surely give a tenth to You.”
4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils. 5 And indeed those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to receive tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, though they have come from the loins of Abraham; 6 but he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 7 Now beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better. 8 Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
4 Moreover he
commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to contribute support for
the priests and the Levites, that they might devote themselves to the
Law of the LORD.
5 As soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything. 6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen and sheep; also the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the LORD their God they laid in heaps.
7 In the third month they began laying them in heaps, and they finished in the seventh month. 8 And when Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel. 9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. 10 And Azariah the chief priest, from the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance.”
Leviticus 27:30
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30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s. It is holy to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 26:1-2
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Deuteronomy 26
Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes
1 “And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.If Jesus said to you, "You ought to tithe" would you do it?
Matthew 23:23
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23 “Woe to you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise
and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Hebrews 7:1-8
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Hebrews 7
The King of Righteousness
1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils. 5 And indeed those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to receive tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, though they have come from the loins of Abraham; 6 but he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 7 Now beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better. 8 Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
You may put your tithes into the container when it is received and mortal men may take it out and handle it but Jesus receives it.
3.Tithing is a benefit.
2 Chronicles 31:4-10
New King James Version (NKJV)
5 As soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything. 6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen and sheep; also the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the LORD their God they laid in heaps.
7 In the third month they began laying them in heaps, and they finished in the seventh month. 8 And when Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel. 9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. 10 And Azariah the chief priest, from the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance.”
Malachi says to bring the tithe into the storehouse so there may be food in my house.
Someone is paying for the food in the house of God, our church.
You will never be able to afford to tithe until you begin to tithe.
You may have to downsize so that you can quit robbing God and get out from under that curse. But I can assure you that if you do that, it will not be too long and you will will be up sizing.
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