“Honoring God with the Tithe” Part Two
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Telos: We miss out on the miracle because we don’t honor the process
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We manifest our honor for God by obeying His Word.
Malachi 1:13 (NKJV): You also say,‘Oh, what a weariness!’And you sneer at it,”Says the Lord of hosts.“And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick;Thus you bring an offering! Should I accept this from your hand?”Says the Lord.
Inspiration
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.
Malachi 3:6–12 ““For I am the Lord, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. 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?’ “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. 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. “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; And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delight…”
Revelation
1. Honor is the highest form of faith. Tithe, anointing, healing. Centurions servant.
2. Honor brings with it excitement, expectation, and excellence.
3. Dishonor is the highest form of doubt. One step from unbelief. Manifests as familiarity. Tithe, anointing, healing. Jesus hometown. January 27, 2024
4. Respect released is Faith released.
5. God’s people don’t have a resource problem, they have an honor problem that manifests in their priorities!
6. Manifests as skepticism, cynicism, and distrust.
Application
Tithing is a test of your Honor of God.
Try= test metal for purity
Tithing is Biblical
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.
500 years before Law
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.”
400 years before Law
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.
Tithe is holy
“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,
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.
“But you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
God sets us in families!
God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which to dwell; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
**The difference between Family and a Guest.
a. Family serves and contributes, guests are not expected to serve or contribute.
then you shall say before the Lord your God: ‘I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.
“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.
Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
3. Tithing is a Blessing!
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.
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.
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.
Transformation
In the third month they began laying them in heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
And when Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel.
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
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.”
This is not about the Church. It’s much more personal than that.
Who will we Honor?
3 Questions:
What is God saying to you?
What are you going to do about it?
How can I pray for you?
Souls, Souls, Souls!!!!!!!!!
