What's Up With Tithing? (Malachi 3:10-12)

So we're glad to hear this morning, we have a, a new series that I want to start today. Maybe a little uncomfortable for some people. Because I'm going to start talkin about money. Specifically tithing how many of you have heard the word tithe before? I mean is never heard it. Anybody never heard word tile. We're going to start a new series that I have entitled a life. Well, spent And we're going to talk about sewing a lot. We going to talk about stewardship. I'm not sure how many messages we're going to have. I'm going to say somewhere between 8 and 10 so it's going to take us up to Christmas. We going to talk about stewardship, we going to talk about sacrifice, but all of my sermons is going to have something to do it. All comes back to God's plan of economy for his people. And that starts with the tithe that starts with the tire. You say, we're pretty sure you going to start telling everybody, they don't give enough money while. I don't know if you give enough money or not, but we going to talk about money and stewardship and how we are to handle our money. Now, we know that money is not a new human concern. For most of us, most of us spend most of our, our life thinking about money, don't we? I mean, you have to, you have to have money to live, you have to have money to pay your bill, do you know if you want a house, if you want a car to drive in where you have to think about money. So most of us, spend a lot of Our Lives thinking about our education, our vocation How we will provide for ourselves and our family. So, in that sense, money deserves our attention. Nothing. I mean, we need to think about it. We need to be smart with their money. But then Jesus says something, he said something in The Sermon on the Mount, let me know if you remember him saying this. Therefore, I say to you do not worry about your life. What you will eat or what you will drink nor about your body, what you will put on? Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing. Now, let me ask this before we ever get started, how many of you have ever gone to bed at night? And worried about your life or specifically about your financial situation. How many people has done that? Ever, all of us have at some point in time either we didn't have enough money didn't know if we going to have enough but I want you to notice something Jesus didn't say. Not to think about your material life. He said not to worry about it. But how many of us have gone to bed at night and worried about our material at all of us? We all we all have at one time or another and you see there's a fine line of distinction between thinking about money and worrying about money and their reside, the difference between money in the world Kingdom and money in God's kingdom. How the world look up money and how God looks at money, that money is important and God's Kingdom. For the same reason, it's important in the world that we live in it, kind of represents to a degree how we invest the days of our life. It's also a measure of our priorities. We we gain money and we have to buy things, we have to buy food, we have to, we'll buy a house or car or something like that. So we'll use a lot of it for ourselves. But then Jesus talks about how we are to use our money to benefit others as well.

Is to learn to think about money the way God thinks about money. Now what does the world tell you about your money? It says you get all you can and you can all you get You get everything that you can you make the most money that you can and you save it. Nothing wrong with that. And you you be, you get your money and you invested well and you build this great big portfolio of stocks and and real estate and things like that. So that you'll be rich one day. Well, there's nothing wrong with thinking about him planning and having a portfolio. But here's the problem. Why we are learn and exchange and invest. We are giving that money in a world dominated by different priorities than God's priorities. Now Jesus said it was not his desire that we would worry about money and especially worried about not having enough. You see God has an F plan, he has a system but it is entirely different from the world system in the world. We graphs in order to get and keep but in God's kingdom we do the opposite. What did Jesus say? It is better to W to give than to receive. What does the world say you better receive is better to get it instead of giving slow the test of faith. Comes right here.

What if I give? But I'm in need.

I mean, there's a lot of people out there to send me, they don't have a whole lot. am I supposed to give the way the Bible says, specifically the tithe and we'll talk more about that, what a time, it is in a minute, but am I supposed to give that When I'm in need one, if I don't have much wonder if I struggled to make my payments, every month is a pet is a struggle just to pay my bill. Does God expect me to give when it's a struggle for me to pay my bills. This is where God's economic plan merges with his plan for entire life. The Bible says, we walk by faith, not by sight.

And that includes our money. You say, is it possible to live in a money bass world? Without worrying about money and is it possible to have Financial Security when we're told to give our money away? That's the question. That is the question right there. Well, God's economic plan. We're going to explore it as we go out through this series, but I just want to say this. God used giving in the Old Testament and he used giving in the New Testament, to refocus his people's attention from money to himself, if you worried about money, if you grab and get as much as you can, and if you've got a tight grip on that money, And you think it's yours because your names on my paycheck, each and every week I work for it. This is my money. If you have that type of thinking about money, you need to refocus your attention on God, and not your money. God has no shortage of money. He has enough to accomplish his purposes. The only shortage is ours, which is State, whether we're willing to embrace his stewardship principles,

In order that he may bless us. Did you hear what I just said? If we give, he has promised to bless us. All right. Now we're going to, we're going to talk more about that today as we get to it. So here's what I want to do the the message today. It's what's up with tithing. What what what in the world does that even mean? Wow, tithing. What does God expect me to do now? Why are we going to talk about this? Well, this this brings me to our Point here, the overview And what I want you to do is I want you to turn to Malachi chapter 3. Now you say, well, I've never heard of Malachi. Where is that at? Well, it's the last book of the Old Testament. Just turn to the last book of the old tap. Now, when I was at Fruitland, we had a young lady stand up in class one day, she was giving her devotion. And she said, I want everyone to turn to my life chapter 2. She called him a lot. E in the professor said, oh yeah, I remember him. He's the Italian prophet in the milatchy. Yeah. And we all just Malachi's the way you pronounce it when it does look like milatchy the Italian profit but Malachi chapter 3 willing to go to look at about 3 or 4 or 5 verses in there. But these are the, the greatest verses on tithing. I think in the Bible even better anything in the Old Testament. But what I want you to see if why, why am I teaching on stewardship? Why am I even talking about money? It's kind of a sacred thing. We don't go around telling people what we make. We don't go around telling people how much money we have saved, and probably not many people go around telling people how Should I give to my church? We just don't do that. It's kind of a sacred thing. We don't talk about our money to people that much. So why am I teaching a series on stewardship? Well, Call Sister priority of the Bible and I want you to listen to this. Did you know that there's 40 verses in the Bible that talks about baptism 40 vs? There's 275 verses that talk about the importance of prayer. well, that makes sense prayer 275 Faith in the Bible. is spoken up in 350 versus Love, which is the greatest faith. Hope and love. Love is the greatest of those three love is mentioned. 650 times in the Bible. So you would think that we would preach more on love, then say baptism which most preachers do stewardship Financial stewardship. I'll explain the word stewardship in a minute money and material possessions or wealth. Is mentioned in 2350 versus in the Bible. The Bible makes it a priority to preach and teach on financial stewardship. So why don't we do it? And I say we talkin about me as a preacher. How many sermons have you heard me preach on money? Maybe one or two? In my four years since I've been here. From another perspective, Jesus in the four gospels, spoke of financial stewardship, money or possessions in 15% of his teaching. Why did he talk about it so much? Because he knew how powerful it is. He knew that if we don't manage money, well, that we're not going to manage anything else. Well in our life, you know, that. I know some of you probably think, gosh, I wish you wouldn't say that cuz I just can't balance a checkbook. I just don't manage my money. Well, well we we can all say that at one time or another some people know exactly where every penny goes other people that make a little bit of more money, they just go out and buy what they want. They don't, you know, they always got money in their account, they don't they don't really pay that much attention to it, but if I drew up my preaching calendar, and if I preach no money, 15% of the time like Jesus, did, I would preach each year 8 to 10 sermons on money wealth or possessions Yeah, I try to be balanced. You know, we're always talking about prophecy. I love prophecy you do I do that? I try to go back between the Old and New Testament. I do that, but I don't talk about money that much, not as much as I should not as much as Jesus did. I just don't do it that much and I don't think any other a lot of preachers don't. I think the reality is that the large doesn't make Finance the same priority that Jesus did where we want to make it a priority in the next coming months. Number to, why do we teach on stewardship is preparation for greater service? Now, let me show you a verse Luke 16, 11. therefore, if you have not been faithful, In the unrighteous Mammon. What's Mammoth money?

If you haven't been faithful in the unrighteous money, who will commit to you, the trust of the true riches. I miss is what Jesus is sent what are true riches. These are the spiritual truths about the kingdom of God true that Jesus told his disciples that he wants. All of us to know he used the way that they handle money. As a way to judge their preparedness for True riches and I think about that, you know, I know some pastors of churches and I don't think this is a bad idea. If they're looking for someone in their Church to be a deacon or the be on the finance committee or any type of leadership position, you know what they do? They look at that person's giving record in the church. They will not enlist a person to serve if they don't give to the church. If they don't tithe you're not going to be a deacon. You not going to be on this committee that committee you're not going to. We're not going to ask you to serve if you're not faithful financially. Jesus said if you've not been faithful in money who's going to commit to you the true Riches of the Kingdom? So he says we need to be faithful in the way we handle money. God's whole plan of stewardship is first of all to entrust us with a little and this is not only talkin about money but it's also talkin about areas of service and gift. He gives us a little to see how we're going to handle it and if we are faithful over little he promises to do what to give us more. He promises to give us more. So the finances or any other responsibilities faithfulness is the doorway to Greater responsibility and to Greater service and then see. Why teach on stewardship by the way? What is a steward? A steward is someone that takes care of something, that's not his.

I mean here's a baby sit before. What would you do? And you was taking care of children. That wasn't yours. They paid you to take care of their children until they got home. That's what they did. And you were our Steward over those children now, why does the bible call us Stewart's, simply because of this weather, it's the Earth, the environment. A job, your finances, your education, whatever it is, we're nothing but Stewart's because it all belongs to God every bit of it. Every bit of money that we owned no matter what you worth belongs to God. Cuz it hadn't been for him, we wouldn't be able to work and get it. He gave us to help so we could get out and get it. It all belongs everything on this Earth, but cattle on a thousand hills belongs to God your children. Don't belong to you. You are a steward to raise them, and then send them out in the world. Because who do they belong to their God's children? He just uses us as parents for a brief time to raise them in the way that they should go. That we all belong to God, all of everything that we have belongs to God. Well, this is God's economic plan to bless people and what I'm talkin about is tithing and the use of our of our finance. So let's look at it for. So, what in the world does the word tithe mean? It means a tenth. Table means a tenth now. I've heard people say, well what I do is I tithe 5% of my income. Well, know you give 5%. because if you're tired and you going to type in percent because that's what that means, Now, I wonder as we sit here. How many of us tithe? When I say tithe, write your check to the church. You Grace Church. How many of us tithe? 10% you say, you don't like gross or after taxes gross. So let's just give an example, let's say you have a job and you make $60,000 a year and you come to New Grace Church. If you going to a Bagon and ties, you going to give 10% of 60000 which is what 6000. Now, if you say, okay, I'm going to give the church, $6,000 of my 60. I'm going to give God ever how you want to look at it. That means if I just want to make let's just say I'm going to write my time once a month, you would write a check to new Grace Church for $500, every month in 12 months that would add up to $6,000. All right. That's for $60,000 salary. Well, the biblical definition of a tithe is 10% of what God gives you before taxes, gross. Gross 60,000 is $6,000 a year. So just look at your own salary and know what a tithe really is now Malachi 3:10 12. I think is the foundational passage in scripture for financial stewardship and let's read it. So we're in Malachi chapter 3. Look What the Lord says. In verse 10, bring all the tithes into the storehouse know, what's the storehouse, the temple, the church. All right. Bring all the tithes into the church that there may be food in my house. Now watch what he says here. Try me. Now, in this that word try means past or prove God is saying to the people. You test me on this. If you will bring all your times 10% into the storehouse. This is what I'll prove to you. That listen what he says. If I will not open for you, the windows of heaven and pour out for you, such blessing that that will not be room enough to receive it. now you hear that promise, he says, if you bring your tithes into the storehouse 10%, I'm going to open the windows of heaven and I want to pour out so much blessing on you. It's going to smother you. You won't be able to dig out from under the blessing that I'm going to give you. That's what he says if you will put God first. And that's the first point I want you to see here today when we tithe when we tithe, we put God first Now, why was he telling? These people that's not it. Here's what I'm saying. When we put God first, It means when you set down each week to write your bills, but the first check you write is to God. You're 10%. You putting God first, we pay God before anyone else. If we pay our tithes last, you say, what do you mean? If you sit down and write all your bills? And you say, if I've got any money left, I'm going to give it to the church. If we pay our tire from what is left, we pay others first because we are paying a tithe of not what God has given us, but we're paying from what we have left, he doesn't want our leftovers. He wants you to pay him first when you tithe, you put God first that's obedience. Now, why would he tell these people that Play for about two pages to Malachi chapter 1. Look at what he says, the people were doing. Look at verse 8.

Be safe when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you offer the lane and sick, is it not evil. He says, I tell you what you do offer it, then to your Governor, would he be pleased with you? Would he accept? You favorably says the Lord of hosts. Now, look at verse 14, same chapter chapter one, but curse it be the deceiver who has in his flock, a male and takes a vow, but sacrifices to the Lord, what is blemished and other worst? The people is going out there and they were sacrificing animals to the Lord. But instead of getting the best that he wanted, they would go out and get something with the blemish. Something it wouldn't cost a month. They wanted to keep the bass for themselves. And say, they wouldn't give him the Lord, the first they were giving him the last. He says, For I am a great king. Says, the Lord of host at my name is to be feared among the Nations. All right. Now, turn back to Malachi chapter 3. Why is he telling these people that look at verse 8? Will a man rob God. He says yet, you have robbed me, but you say in what way have we robbed you? And what does he say in tithes and offerings. when we don't give When we clinched the what we have and we don't get, we don't tie the way we should. We are robbing God. He said that I did. All right, look at it again. Endlessly. We we just read verse 8. Look at verse 9. You are cursed with a curse for you have robbed me, even this whole nation. And then he says, I look, here's what you do. You bring all your tithes into the storehouse. That's where we started birth 10. They were robbing God because they were keeping back for themselves. Now, let me tell you something. It's hard to do. It is hard to sit down when you ride your pay, your bills. It is hard to write the first check to new Grace Church, Now, I know that. Because I struggle with it in my life, it is hard to write the first money off the top. When you have electric bill car payment house payment, all the other groceries, Insurance, all this other stuff. It's hard to write a $500 check or whatever it may be to the church first. But God says, if we're not we're robbing him. Let me tell you a good way to write your check to the Lord first.

Just don't write a check, give online. I signed up to get our money online, you know why? Because every month the first day of month, the money is drawn out of our account and it comes over here to New Grace Church. I don't have to sit there and write it. Too much Temptation, not to write it. It comes right out our account and goes right. And there's a small fee, by the way, if you want to give to our church, general fund building fun. You can do it online. But obviously I don't want to do that. There's a fee charge. Well, that's true. But what I'm saying is, if you don't write your check first, or sometimes you in a rush and you forget the right at this week, while pay it next week. Well, then all the sudden he's Bill. Start adding up. Now, I'll make up for it next month. No, we won't make up for it. Why? Because I can always find other ways to spend my money. Do you know? I don't care how much money I make. I can always pay this. Bill down. I can use it for this. All we need this. I need to find a thousand things ways to use my money. So we God says, if you don't give it to me the tie, if you don't give it to me first, you're robbing me because he knows the Allure of money that we want it and we live in this world that says get all you can and cannot do you get and we want to keep it and we want to have things but it is our stewardship responsibility to keep God first, no matter how tight things get in our life. That's what he is saying that. Let me tell you a best way to determine if God is first in your life. That's what you doing. I'm just tell if you want to know, if God is first in your life, don't look at him. Don't look at your church attendance. Don't look at how often you read the Bible or house and you pray if you want to know if God is first in your life, you go over your bank statement. What you spend money? Because Jesus said for where your treasure is, there will your heart be? You look at the best way to tell if God is first in a person's life is to look at their bank statement. That is the best way number 2. So when we tithe we put God first we do it right. Number to when we tithe we prove his promise, imma get this promise again and verse 10 He said, bring all your tithes into the storehouse and then he says, if you'll do that, if I will not open for you, the windows of heaven and pour out for you, such a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. So here's the reason that I'm talkin about money and financial stewardship, it's not because I want you to give a whole lot of money to this church so that we can spend it on all this. And that we know that we have to keep the heat in the air on, in the lights on things break down. We're looking at paint in the church, were trying to beautify the church, all that cost money. So I understand that the reason I'm talkin about financial stewardship. And the reason I want you to take this seriously is because I want the lord to bless you, and I want you to see his Blessing. When you take your finances, seriously. If we let me say this, if you will live by God's plan, 90% is yours in. 10% is his, if you live by that place, you will be more blessed than if you live by the world's playing a hundred percent for you. I can guarantee you that you will be more blessed if you live by the 90/10 plan because that is his plan. And he's already said what he will do. You say where that kind of seems arrogant on our part? No. This is something that God wants us to do. Look what he says. And try me now in this, he says, test me, prove me you give your ten percent of what you make and you see if I don't pour out on you. So many blessings, you can't even tell him. This is what he is saying. So it's something that he wants us to do and I heard people say before well I think what I'll do, I'll start giving to the church, I'll start giving the guy when I get my finances in order and God wants you to trust him. When your finances are in disorder that way he can help you to get them in order. So you start trusting him when they're in disorder you start giving him the way he says to give. When you think even when you think you don't have to give, you may think that you're needy, doesn't matter. You give what did the Widow lady do? She came to the treasury and she threw in two pence, you know what that is? That was the lowest amount you can get in our day. It be two pennies. I would you like to go to church and Law Firm light and somebody put into Pennies from somebody you can't do better than that. What Jesus say? He said, I tell you, one thing, she's giving more than all of you because she gave out of her property. She's given more than any of you. So yes even when we don't think when we think we're the ones in need we still need to give number 3. So what we say when we tired when we die we put God first will be tired. We proved his promise number three when we tithe we profit from God's provision now what type of blessings did he say that he would get? He said he's going to pull them out on us. And these blessings going to come from three different directions. That look at Proverbs 3:9 and 10, only show you this. Honor the Lord with your possessions. And with the first fruits of your increase in a w s what's the first fruits of your increase?

He said the first fruits you give God the few pay God first is what he say. Then he says, honor to lower your possessions with the first fruits of all your increased and watch what he says he'll do. So your barns will be filled with plenty and your bath will overflow with new wine. He's saying the same thing as Malachi. You honor me with your increase, on a poor out, so many blessings on you, you won't be able to counter, your brains are going to Overflow what? He's talkin to a Agricultural Society there. So that's why he used wine and Grain and things like that. He said you were going to have more than you want several years ago when I was in Fruitland. A guy came to preach and he was kind of doing what I called a children's sermon and he was doing it on stewardship and he went up to the stage and he was told my stewardship and he had two shovels with him. He had one was a little plastic shovel you know like you say little child use on the beach or in the in a sandbox and then he had a shovel. I know that was that? Why not what I called that was a chicken house trouble? I don't know. Y'all probably don't know what that is but we raise chickens. When I get home, we had to clean out those chicken out and we need to get a big Pitchfork about that wide, or my daddy. Say here, you take this shovel. It was a huge and I start shoveling that chicken manure to clean that house out. Well, he he did and he says, just think of it like this, when we give God 10%, which is we still keep 90. When we give him our 10, that's like us, giving him a little child, shovel. But what he promises to do is to take that chicken out shovel and just pour it all on us if we will a man that's the way to look at it. You give God 10, you keep 90. He's going to take the big chicken out shovel and come over on you. So he gives us a personal blessing, but not only that he promises material blessing. Look at Birth lab. He says, I will rebuke the Devourer for your sakes so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground. Again, agrarian contacts nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field. The Lord says, if you'll give to me, here's what's going to happen, you'll never experienced a drought. I'm going to make sure your crops grow and you're going to have a harvest is what you're going to have. If you will just test me and prove me on that God is promising to protect their livelihood if they will put him first in their life that Peter wrote about their someone who seeks whom he may devour walking around like a roaring lion. Who is that Satan? I truly believe what the Lord is saying here is that if we will trust God with our finances that he's going to put a hedge of protection around us. If we put him first in our life, I think this is what the Lord is saying the safest place to be. Is not with the biggest bank account. The safest place to be is to be walking in obedient to God, especially when it concerns our finances. And then he promised is a spiritual blessing. Look at it in verse 12. He says, if you'll do this, All Nations will call you blessed for you will be a delightful land. He has promised to lift up the nation. God wants the world. The lost world to see. What bless people Christians are. And the way that we do that, if when we put God first and give to him, he has promised to shower us with blessing so that I lost world will see it and All Nations will call you blessed. And that wonderful. He wants other people to see how he is, blessing us, if that's what he wants and he wants to bless his church and his people today.

And let me say this.

Without us resorting. To the world methods of fundraising. As a church. You see when we are faithful to God with what we have. He's promised to bless us. And I don't think we'll need rifles and bingo games in car washes and bake sales to make money. You give to God what he gives to you. You give 10% of it back, he has promised, it will put him first. That he will bless us over and above every. We could even ask for number for speed it up here, when we tithe, we praise God's night. Proverbs 3:9 one more time, honor the Lord with your possessions key word, there is honor that word honor me. The praise God. Remember when Abraham's wife, Sarah died and was looking for a place to bury her and he wanted to buy some land out of cave on it. And the people who owned land that Abraham, you don't have to pay us sent you. You can have this land to bury your wife, you know what Abraham said? He said, no, I'm going to pay you full price for

Offer me laying like that for free. Why would I say why I want to pay full price? because friends, if fight this, we honor whatever, we spend money on And Abraham did not want to dishonor his wife. Byberry and her on land, that was given to him. So he paid full price for it. What am I saying here? Money always represents a cost think of what it cost to honor the human race by sending Jesus. It cost him his life. It always money, honoring, God will cost something. And if we honor God with our finances, it's going to cost us something. That's just the way it is, but we would have it no other way. So when we tithe, we praise God's name, number 5.

We personalize God's word that you say, what do you mean by that? Because when you give when you tithe to the church, That is an individual Act. Churches don't give to God individual Christians, give to God the individual Christians. That's in the church. Look at what Paul said. When he was raising money to send to the suffering church at Jerusalem. he says this on the first day of the week, let each one of you lay something he didn't say, Let each church. He says, Let each one of you lay something aside storing up as he may Prosper. That there may be collections when I come, he was talking individual Christians. Not to the truck. Don't just write a check from the church. All you people in the church you lay aside an offering. So, he has to individual members to set aside. Friends list of when we stand before the Lord someday. He's not going to ask you how about your Church's budget or how about what you give to missions in church. He's not going to ask you that. He's going to ask you. What did you do with what I gave? You. What did you do not with the 10%? Not with the tithe. What did you do with the hundred percent? We're going to have to stand before him and give an account of our stewardship. And when we put God first in our finances, what we're doing is, we're personalized in this General command in scripture and applying it to our life. Why? Because each of us will give an account to the Lord for our stewardship. Not only of our service and our gifts, but our money. It's that important. Now see my my outlines are so long. We couldn't get it all on the book but I have a number 6 hear as well when we tithe, We practice godliness. When you tie your practice, got it, you say well what do you mean by that? Well, we don't we won't turn here but in Hebrews 11:7 the Bible says Noah. Moved with Godly fear. when he evade the Lord and built the ark, He moved with Godly fear. So listen to the central focus of Israel's relationship to God in the Old Testament.

Was there a beating for his lost? All you have to do is go back to Old test and you'll see. God says, if you'll do this this, this, this, then I'll do this. All these conditional promises. If you will worship me and me only, I will bless your nation. You'll be safe. You'll take this like, you're in turn into the. Everything was conditional and see when we obey the Lord, with our money. We're practicing godliness of we're doing. What God has asked us to do, is honor me first with your first fruits that you received from me and for me not to do That is Disobedience, which means that's ungodliness, but obey him is obedience, which is godliness. So, we practice godliness when we obey the First with our money. So, I'm going to close and I'm just going to ask this. Are you in the practice of tithing? Attempt, are you in that practice? Do you know exactly what you make and do you give 10% of that or when the plate comes by, do you just throw in a dollar or $5 or $10 or whatever? Or do you actually take it? Seriously, friends, I want to encourage you today. The test and prove God on this. If you do, he's going to bring out the chicken house. Shovel. I'm just telling you he will bring the chicken house, shovel out. Ute ask God to see if he doesn't bless you beyond your expectation. And don't wait until you get your finances straightened out most time, none of us ever. Get it straightened out, don't wait for that obey him. Now even when it's hard when you feel like you don't have much go ahead and Obey and if you're already tired and consider giving more, He promises that he'll blessed because he only wants to make want to use it to prove that he is ready to bless us beyond measure. As we eat, what we have only 10% of it back to him. Why does he do that? Because it all belongs to him anyway. Amen, let's pray. Father, we is you and love you today, Lord. What is first message? I just wanted to convey to the people Lord that what time and will do for us what it means to you. Lord, it means that when we tithe correctly that we're putting you first in our life and Lord help us to see if we will put you first that we will prove and test your promise. In verse 10. That you going to open the windows of heaven and pour out such blessing. There's not going to be enough room to receive it before. We know if we will do that, that we're going to profit personally materially spiritually when we give to you, we praise your name where the Lost Nation, see that we are a blessed people. We personalize your word as we know that one day. We going to stand before you and give an account. And Lord, even when we tied, we're practicing godliness, we're practicing obedience, Lord, thank you for everything that you've told us today, and we look forward to the rest of this series. As we look at our money, how we can Faithfully handle our money, And what we just asked, you just bless us as we studied as in Christ name I do pray, amen. All right. Well, thank you for being here. Today, we're going to