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.”
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
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
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
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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.”
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.
Preached By Pastor Brad
http://springhill.cc/
