Sermon Tone Analysis

Giving from the Law or from the Heart or Both

Law

Tithe , Offering and Alms: to whom and what is a tithe, alms and an offering?

In our teaching today we will describe the three types of giving.

We will also see there source did giving come from the law and then in many peoples eyes be done away with under grace.

Or does giving come from the heart and is just detailed in the law then can never be done away with.

What?

tithe what?

tithe

■ noun

1 one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy.

2 a tenth of a specified thing.

5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

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To Whom?

According to it is the Lord’s.

Not only is it His He does not allow you to withhold it ( ).

The Lord also has already determined what he will do with it.

It is for the service of His ministry( , , )

Offering What?

Offering:

a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution.

a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution.

▶ something offered as a religious sacrifice or token of devotion.

Deu 16:10 , 23:23

To Whom?

This also according to is the Lord’s and he has the offering already determined destiny.

Under the law the offering was to be most holy( ) and had many different purposes but most of these were to do with the working of the altar and not for the priest only as the tithe was.

Alms

offering

■ noun a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution.

▶ something offered as a religious sacrifice or token of devotion.

What and Who?

alms /ɑːmz/

■ plural noun (in historical contexts) charitable donations of money or food to the poor.

charitable donations of money or food to the poor.

noun a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution.

▶ something offered as a religious sacrifice or token of devotion.

alms /ɑːmz/

■ plural noun (in historical contexts) charitable donations of money or food to the poor.

offering

■ noun a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution.

▶ something offered as a religious sacrifice or token of devotion.

35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

Heart