Matters of the Heart: Tithing
July 30, 2023
Key Verse: Matthew 6:21 KJV
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also
Malachi 3:6-12 KJV
“For I am the LORD, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them.
Ordinance- a principle of ordinary behavior
Malachi 3:6*12
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse:
Malachi 3:6-12
for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Bring ye all the** tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house,
House = church , the temple
New Testament -
Jesus- “My house should be called a house of prayer”
Malachi 3:6-12
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. 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. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.”
1. TITHING IS A TEST
2. tITHING IS BIBLICAL
Genesis 14:18-20 KJV
“And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.”
Matthew 23/l23 NLT
““What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.”
Hebrew 7:8
Here mortal man receive the tithes, but there He receives them, of whom it is witness that he lives