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How Blessed Do You Want To Be?

There Can Be No Continued Blessings In Our Lives Without Giving God What Belongs To Him, First!

It’s What We Should Do!

Matthew 23:23 …for ye pay tithe … these ought ye to have done…

No matter how much you:

• Fast
• Pray
• Worship
• Are involved in the church
• You still must pay tithes; there is no substitute.

Non-Tithe Paying Christians Rob God!

Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

• Why would a Christian even entertain the thought of NOT giving God the tithe?
• It’s His. The tithe Is the Lord’s!

All Non-Tithe Payers Are Cursed!

Malachi 3:9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

If you don’t give God the tithe, He’ll see to it that you don’t get to keep it either.

• The dentist may get it.
• The auto mechanic might get the money
• The doctor or hospital may even be the one that gets it.
• The list is long…

Here is a Bible precedent for what happens when God doesn’t receive His portion.

God said to Israel through Jeremiah, to let the land rest every seventh year. Israel ignored God’s request for 490 years. God took his portion. For seventy years He allowed Israel to live in captivity. They paid a huge price.

2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

2 Chronicles 36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

2 Chronicles 36:21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

Those That Bring God Their Tithe Are Blessed Abundantly!

Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

The Tithe Is The Lord’s, Not Ours!

Matthew 22:21 They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

• God will stretch the remaining 90% farther than you could have with 100%.

Paying Tithe Did Not Begin Under The Law!

Abraham

Genesis 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

Jacob

Genesis 28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

Give God Tithe Of All

Leviticus 27:30 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 unto the LORD.

Deuteronomy 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

2 Chronicles 31:6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.

Accurately paying tithe may seem a bit more simple when there is a check stub in your hand from you boss.

• Farmers need to be careful and keep accurate records.
• Businessmen need to be careful and keep accurate records.
• Other Self-Employed do too.
• Just because there is a Tax loophole, doesn’t mean there is a tithe loophole.
• Just because there is a Tax break, doesn’t mean there is a tithe break.
• I personally benefit by paying tithes on my gross, and suggest you do too.

Unpaid Tithe Results In A 20% Penalty.

Leviticus 27:31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

• This cannot be ignored.
• Tithe should be the first-fruit of our income.
• Giving God what is His first, always saves money!

God’s Continued Blessings To The Tithe Payer

Malachi 3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

How Blessed Do You Wish To Be?

2 Corinthians 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Mark 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.