Transcript The Truth About Tithing

The Truth About Tithing
By Bro. Wamwara
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• Knowledge and understanding comes from
knowing who you are……
Man Know Thyself
…
Introduction
• This presentation is dedicated to exposing the
false doctrine called tithing. The act of giving
10% of everything we earn to a church is not
found in the Bible. It is a man made doctrine.
• The true tithe that the God of the bible
instituted was about food, not money. It was
part of the law that Jesus (supposedly)
redeemed us from.
Introduction
• This presentation will attempt show that the
present preaching by most pastors on the
issue of tithing is nothing more than purely
polluted presumptions to hold believers in
bondage and gain preeminence over ever
aspect of their financial resources.
Introduction
• This presentation will cover the following
areas:
– What does God (or the so called word of God) say
– Favorite passages (scriptures used to make you
feel like you have to give)
– What was the purpose of tithing in the Old
Testament
– What does the New Testament teach about giving
– What you should do
What does God say
• You cannot give to God. As the Creator and
Sustainer of the universe, He/She already
owns everything. Your life — the very beating
of your heart — is itself a gift from God.
– The earth is the Lord’s, and every thing in it, the
world, and all who live in it… (Psalm 24:1).
• So if the bible says that God says that he/she
already owns everything why are we
mandated to give back to God
What does God say
• Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I
will testify against you: I am God, your God, I do
not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt
offerings, which are ever before me.
• I have no need of a bull from your stall or of
goats from your pens, for every animal of the
forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I
know every bird in the mountains, and the
creatures of the field are mine.
• If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the
world is mine, and all that is in it (Psalm 50:7-12).
What does God say
• It this passage God tells his people that he is the
almighty and that what they have he does not
need from them. He even goes on to say that
“the world is mine”
• If the world belongs to him and everything that
we have belongs to him why are we made to give
back to him.
• The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares
the Lord Almighty (Haggai 2:8).
– This means all money belongs to him already
What does God say
• “Who has ever given to God, that God should
repay him?” (Romans 11:35)
– This rhetorical question is given no answer,
because the answer is obvious. You cannot give to
God with any expectation that God will end up
being in debt to you.
– There is a law of sowing and reaping and there are
rewards for good works. But, contrary to the
teachings of the prosperity crowd, you cannot act
so as to place God in your debt.
What does God say
• God created the universe. He/she sustains it
by the word of His/Her power. He/she doesn’t
need your money, and He/She doesn’t want
your money. What God wants is you, and He
wants you with a right attitude.
– To summarize this section God does not need, nor
want your money for he already owns it and you.
You cannot give someone something that he owns
already. The very idea makes no sense.
Favorite Passages
• The tithing teachers try to prove that tithing
was required by God long before He gave the
Law to Moses. In the following section we will
consider their favorite passages of Scripture.
• Keep in mind that pastors/preachers should
never cut and paste scriptures.
– This means taking one scripture here and another
scripture from somewhere else and placing them
together to fit their doctrine.
Favorite Passages
• When it comes to tithing here is where they
will start:
– Then Melchizadek king of Salem brought out
bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
and he blessed Abram saying, “Blessed be Abram
by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
And blessed be God Most High, who delivered
your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave
him a tenth of everything (Genesis 14:18-20).
Favorite Passages
• They say, tithing was a necessary practice way
back in the days of Abraham. But read the
context which, in this case, is the entire
chapter. The first thing you find is that the
“everything” in question did not belong to
Abram. It was the property of other people,
including Abram’s nephew, Lot, who had been
captured by the armies of several kings.
Favorite Passages
• Abram and a small group of his servants had
gone to battle against these great armies and
against all reasonable expectations had won.
Melchizadek recognized that God had granted
this miraculous victory (v.20).
• Notice Abram’s statements in verses 22-24
Favorite Passages
• He owned none of the property in question
before the battle and, although entitled to the
spoils as the victor, he refused to take any of it: “I
will accept nothing belonging to you…” (v.23).
• Abram gave away ten per cent of other people’s
stuff, in a representative act of thanksgiving to
God on behalf of some people who had been
miraculously rescued from a life of slavery
Favorite Passages
• This was a once-only event. It has nothing to
do with the now common teaching that you
should give ten per cent of your gross weekly
income to a group of professional religious
leaders.
• If such people insist that you follow the
example of Abram in Genesis 14, you should
go to their homes and take ten per cent of
their property and give it away
Favorite Passages
• Bible believers second point of on tithing:
– Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be
with me and will watch over me on this journey I
am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes
to wear so that I return safely to my father’s
house, then the Lord will be my God and this
stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s
house, and of all that you give me I will give you a
tenth” (Genesis 28:20-22).
Favorite Passages
• They say, tithing was a necessary practice way
back in the days of Jacob, long before the Law
was given. But read exactly what Jacob said in
Genesis 28:20-22
– 1. He made a vow, a promise (and there is no
record in the Bible that he ever kept that
promise.)
Favorite Passages
– 2. It was a conditional promise. Notice the five
conditions:
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IF God will be with me
IF God will watch over me
IF God will give me food to eat
IF God will give me clothes to wear, and
IF I return safely to my father’s house
– (which didn’t happen until some twenty years later…),
• THEN, and only then, can God have 10% of whatever
He gives me.
Favorite Passages
• If that is tithing, feel free to make a list of
everything you want from God and once you
have received it all start making your onceevery-twenty-year payments.
• In the meantime, on the basis of Genesis 28,
you don’t owe your religious leaders a solitary
cent.
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
• There were four tithes in the Old Testament
– 1. The people paid a general tithe to the Levites
• I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their
inheritance in return for the work they do while serving
at the Tent of Meeting (Numbers 18:21)
• All the tribes of Israel, except the Levites, had a
designated geographical area as their “inheritance”. But
the Levites in return for their work within the nation
received income tax of 10% from the rest of the
population
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
• The Levites functioned as:
– • the Health Inspectors,
– • the Police,
– • the Justice Department,
and
– • the Education
Department
– To put it simply, the Levites
were the Public Service in
Israel, and they were
supported by a system of
income tax called “tithes”.
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
– 2. The Levites paid a
tithe of the general tithe
to the priests
• The Lord said to Moses,
“Speak to the Levites and
say to them: ‘When you
receive from the Israelites
the tithe I give you as
your inheritance, you
must present a tenth of
that tithe as the Lord’s
offering…to Aaron the
priest…’” (Numbers
18:25-31).
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
• All the priests were Levites, but not all Levites
were priests. The priestly caste were
descended from Aaron and they had specific
responsibilities related to the Temple worship.
• The second tithe guaranteed the financial
security of the priests, and thereby protected
the Temple system.
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
– 3. The people kept a tithe to pay for their annual
pilgrimage to Jerusalem
• Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields
produce each year. Eat the tithe of your grain, new
wine and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks
in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he
will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may
learn to revere the Lord your God always.
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
• But if that place is too distant and you have been
blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your
tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to
put his Name is so far away), then exchange your tithe
for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the
place the Lord your God will choose.
• Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep,
wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish.
Then you and your household shall eat there in the
presence of the Lord your God and rejoice
(Deuteronomy 14:22-26).
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
• The people of Israel were required to assemble three
times a year at Jerusalem (as the place chosen by the
Lord) for the major feasts.
• This was meant to be a time of rejoicing and the Lord
ensured that everybody had sufficient resources
available to enable them to fully enter into the rejoicing
by commanding that they set aside 10% of their annual
income for that purpose.
• Notice the next verse (27), “And do not neglect the
Levites…” This was a reference to the first tithe. In
other words, the third tithe — for the annual feasts —
was not to be confused with the separate and distinct
general tithe for the Levites.
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
– 4. The people paid a tithe for the poor, the
orphans and the widows
• At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the
tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in
your town. And the Levite, because he has no portion
or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan
and the widow who are in your town, shall come and
eat and be satisfied, in order that the Lord your God
may bless you in all the work of your hand which you
do (Deuteronomy 14:28-29).
What was the purpose of tithing in the
Old Testament
• This tithe went to the poor, the widows and the
orphans. In Australia that is called “Social Security”. It
was payable once every three years, which equals onethird of a tenth annually.
• These tithes were not ‘gifts’, they were taxes. The total
tithes paid by the Israelites were 23.3% of their total
income, about the same as what the average Australian
pays today in income tax.
Will a man rob God?
• Bring the whole tithe…
– “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that
there may be food in My house, and test 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 a blessing until it overflows” (Malachi 3:10).
• Here we have the tithing teachers favorite verse in the
whole Bible. On this verse they hang most of their
doctrine. But if we take a close look at the verse, we
will find something very interesting.
Will a man rob God?
– Remember that there were four tithes in Israel
under the Old Covenant. Which one is referred to
here?
• And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the
Levites when the Levites receive tithes, and the Levites
shall bring up the tenth of the tithes to the house of
our God, to the chambers of the storehouse
(Nehemiah 10:38).
Will a man rob God?
• Which of the four tithes is in view in Malachi?
– The tithe payable by the Levites, not the tithes
payable by the people. Malachi is not rebuking the
people, he is rebuking the Levites.
– When our modern day tithing teachers point this
verse at the people, they are really pointing at
themselves — except that most of them are too
ignorant to recognize the fact.
Will a man rob God?
• So when they read to you…
– Malachi 3:8-12
• 8Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye
say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and
offerings. 9Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have
robbed me, even this whole nation.
– … know that this is not directed to you. This was a
question directed to the Levit priest by Malachi
(Will a man rob God?) to which they responded
(Wherein have we robbed thee?)
Will a man rob God?
– Malachi goes on to answer their question by
saying (in tithes and offerings) and for their crime
he tells them (the Levit priests) that THEY are
cursed with a curse. This means them and not
YOU.
• Why is it that these few verses in Malachi are the only
ones that we are told and had drilled into our heads.
• Lets take a look at another verse out of Malachi that
your pastor either does not know about our doesn’t
want you to know about.
Will a man rob God?
– Malachi 2:1
• 1And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
– what this means that everything that Malachi is
about to state or command from God is directed
to the priests. So when you get to Malachi 3:8 we
now see who the question is directed too.
• Under a curse
– If you want to understand the book of Malachi,
read Malachi 4:4, “Remember the Law of
Moses…” That is the whole thrust of Malachi.
Will a man rob God?
– But we do not live under the Law, we live under
the grace provided in Jesus Christ. If you choose to
submit yourself to even part of the Law of Moses,
you have a problem.
– For as many as are of the works of the Law are
under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is
everyone who does not abide by all things written
in the book of the Law, to perform them”
(Galatians 3:10).
Will a man rob God?
– If you choose to place yourself under the works of
the Law, you are under a curse for the simple
reason that you cannot keep the Law of Moses.
Your fallen, sinful nature will see to that.
– The purpose of the Law is to act as our tutor, or
“school master”, to lead us to Christ, that we may
be justified by faith (Galatians 3:24).
The First Church Council
• The first Church Council
– In the early church, there were those who tried to
force the Gentile Christians to live under the Law.
A dispute arose which quickly lead to the first ever
church council.
• And some men came down from Judea and began
teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised
according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be
saved.”
The First Church Council
• And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and
debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul
and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up
to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this
issue.
• And when they arrived at Jerusalem, they were
received by the church and the apostles and the elders,
and they reported all that God had done with them.
• But certain ones of the sect of the Pharisees who had
believed, stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise
them, and to direct them to observe the Law of
Moses”.
The First Church Council
• And after they had stopped speaking, James answered,
saying, “Brethren, listen to me. It is my judgment that
we do not trouble these who are turning to God from
among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that
they abstain from things contaminated by idols and
from fornication and from what is strangled and from
blood” (Acts 15:1-2, 4-5, 13, 19-20).
– The question being answered by this council (v.5)
is:
• Do Christians have to observe the Law of Moses (which,
of course, includes tithing)?
The First Church Council
– What was the answer?
• They were given four instructions:
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Abstain from:
things contaminated with idols,
fornication,
what is strangled, and
blood
– Where does tithing come on the list?
• Nowhere! The first ever Church Council decided that
Christians are NOT required to tithe. And you are not
required to tithe either.
What does the New Testament teach about
giving
• Did Jesus endorse tithing?
– “But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of
mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and
yet disregard justice and the love of God; but
these are the things you should have done
without neglecting the others” (Luke 11:42).
– When Jesus said “these are the things you should
have done…”, did He mean that we should tithe?
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Look at His comment in context. Who was
Jesus speaking to? The Pharisees.
• What was significant about being a Pharisee?
They considered themselves to be “separated
unto the Law” — that’s what the word
‘Pharisee’ signifies.
• Paul was a Pharisee. He said of himself that he
was blameless before the Law (Philippians 3:36).
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Jesus was saying to a group of people (who
prided themselves on keeping the Law
perfectly) that they should do their thing
without neglecting justice and the love of
God.
• Jesus was not speaking to the disciples, and
He was not imposing tithing on them.
Christians are not under the Law, they are
under grace.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Jesus taught us about two men, one of whom
tithed and one of whom did not.
– “Two men went up into the Temple to pray, one a
Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer. The
Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself,
‘God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people:
swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this taxgatherer. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all I
get.’
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
– But the tax-gatherer, standing some distance
away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to
heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God,
be merciful to me, the sinner!’ I tell you, this man
went down to his house justified rather than the
other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be
humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be
exalted” (Luke 18:10-14).
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Which one was justified before God, the tither
or the non-tither?
– In this story it’s the non-tither because he
humbled himself unto God. It was because of his
attitude towards God that exalted him.
– What this means is that its not what you give or
the fact that you give your tithes it’s the overall
attitude towards God that stands out to him.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• He was also saying to them
– “You nicely set aside the commandment of God in
order to keep your tradition. For Moses said,
‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He
who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be
put to death’
– but you say, ‘If a man says to his father, anything
of mine you might have been helped by is Corban
(that is to say, given to God),’ you no longer permit
him to do anything for his father or his mother
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
– thus invalidating the word of God by your
tradition which you have handed down; and you
do many such things as that” (Mark 7:9-13)
• If you have money your family needs, but you
withhold it from them in order to pay it to the
church as ‘tithes’, you are doing exactly what
the Pharisees did. You are saying your money
is “Corban” and Jesus taught that by doing so
you were invalidating the Word of God.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• What does the New Testament teach about
giving
– We are to agree with God that He owns us, and in
keeping with that belief we are to present
ourselves to Him.
• I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice,
acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of
worship (Romans 12:1).
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Now brethren, we wish to make known to you the
grace of God which has been given in the churches of
Macedonia, that in a great ordeal of affliction their
abundance of joy overflowed in the wealth of their
liberality. For I testify that according to their ability, and
beyond their ability they gave of their own accord,
begging us with much entreaty for the favor of
participation in the support of the saints, and this, not
as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to
the Lord (2 Corinthians 8:1-5).
– Your giving must stem from your relationship with
the Living God
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Motivation is everything
– For God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in him
should not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16)
– Most people ignore this verse in the context of
giving, but God’s giving has to be the very
foundation of our giving.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Notice three things about God’s giving:
– 1. His motivation was love.
– 2. In giving His Son, the Father gave of Himself.
– 3. God’s giving was in response to our need, not
our greed — that we should not perish.
• There is a form of sacrificial giving that God despises:
– And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I
deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits
me nothing (1 Corinthians 13:3).
– God looks on the heart, and He is not impressed by loveless
giving. Your motivation is everything.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• What you need to take from this scripture and
this STORY is that you true willingness to give,
support, or provide is what's important to the
creator. In this story God gave the best thing
he had his son so that the world might be
saved. His motivation was for all of mankind
to be helped. God did not give out of
obligation or tradition, or under the influence
that if he didn’t he would be cursed.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• In response to need
– We are to give in response to need, not in
response to greed.
– Christians today are beset by demands that they
give ever increasing sums of money to
professional church leaders who live in luxury
homes, drive the latest cars and jet around the
world, while building multi-million dollar, familycontrolled empires — all for ‘the glory of God’, of
course.
What does the New
Testament teach about
giving
Typically, these greedy
empire-builders demand that
the people tithe to them, with
the threat that God will turn
the devil loose on their
finances if they don’t.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
– The Bible says nothing to encourage giving to the
greed of such people. Rather, it teaches that we
should respond to genuine need.
– For there was not a needy person among them,
for all who were owners of land or houses would
sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales, and
lay them at the apostles’ feet; and they would be
distributed to each, as any had need (Acts 4:3435).
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
– Now at this time some prophets came down from
Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabus
stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit that there
would certainly be a great famine all over the world.
– [ Notice that the genuine prophets predict famine.
The modern false prophets in the various Pentecostal
churches always predict ‘prosperity’ and ‘revival’.
Then they whip the people into a grateful frenzy of
enthusiasm before relieving them of huge offerings for
the purpose of “supporting their ministry”. ]
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
– And this took place in the reign of Claudius. And in
the proportion that any of the disciples had
means, each of them determined to send a
contribution for the relief of the brethren living in
Judea (Acts 11:27-29).
• They responded to need
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Secretly and humbly
• Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be
noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your
Father who is in heaven.
• When therefore you give alms, do not sound a trumpet
before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in
the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Truly I say
to you, they have their reward in full.
• But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing that your alms may be in
secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you
(Matthew 6:1-4).
– We are to give in a secret and humble way.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• According to what we have
– We are to give according to what we have.
– For if the readiness [to give] is present, it is
acceptable according to what a man has, not
according to what he does not have (2 Corinthians
8:12).
• If you have $10 and owe $10 to someone, but rather
than pay your debt you give the money to a religious
organisation, God does not accept your offering. It is
“unacceptable” to Him.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Don’t ever give what you do not truly have.
• And don’t be sucked in by the “give in faith, expecting
God to return to you one hundred-fold” manipulative
rubbish that is commonly dished up in Pentecostal
churches these days.
– The Bible says clearly that such ‘giving’ is
unacceptable to God.
• Cheerfully
– Let each one do just as he has purposed in his
heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for
God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7).
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
– What the Bible is saying here is: Give what you are
genuinely happy to give.
– It is not saying: Give more than you can afford, and
then pretend to be happy about it.
– The closest thing to a formula for giving in the New
Testament is found in the words, “…as he has
purposed in his heart…”
– God wants you to give what you want to give, what
you are comfortable in giving. If you cannot give it
cheerfully, don’t give it at all. God doesn’t want it, and
He won’t accept it.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• …from every man whose heart moves him…
– “Tell the sons of Israel to raise a contribution for
Me; from every man whose heart moves him you
shall raise My contribution (Exodus 25:2).
– This offering was for the construction of the
tabernacle, the most important thing in the Old
Testament. God only wanted contributions from
those who were genuinely happy to give them.
– And in the New Testament, nothing has changed.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
• Tithing — the curse of the ‘kings’
– And (Samuel) said, “This will be the procedure of
the king who will reign over you: he will take your
sons and place them for himself in his chariots
and among his horsemen and they will run before
his chariots…
– And he will take a tenth of your seed and of your
vineyards, and give to his officers and to his
servants.
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
– He will also take your male servants and your
female servants and your best young men and
your donkeys, and use them for his work. He will
take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourself will
become his servants.
– Then you will cry out in that day because of your
king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but
the Lord will not answer you in that day” (1
Samuel 8:11-18).
What does the New Testament teach
about giving
– When you submit yourself to the spiritual
authority of a man (no matter whether he is called
the king, the Grand Pooh Bah, the Fuehrer or the
National Superintendent), instead of to God, you
will end up:
• Paying him tithes,
• Being a virtual slave to him, his family and his
organization, and
• Having God ignore your prayers.
– [ God cannot answer you, for you have placed your faith in a
man. If He answered your prayers, He would be reinforcing
your confidence in the flesh. ]
Conclusion
• The first point that I want to bring out is that
your church is a business. It has a state
mandated board with elected officials. It has
bylaws and standard operating procedures.
(http://www.renewalcs.org/Helps/ADFChurch
BylawsMemo_7ThingsEveryChurchShouldHav
e.pdf)
– Click on this link to see 7 by-laws every church
should have
Conclusion
• With that being said the church has to bring in
money ,as any other business, in order for it to
become a success. The revenue generated
must come willingly from its members. Your
church cannot force you to give to them in
order for it to survive. This would be a state
violation and could result in the church
loosing its tax-exempt status.
Conclusion
• So what most pastors tell you is that you are
mandated to give or you will go to hell. This
my sisters and brothers is a form of extortion.
– Extortion - the obtaining of property from
another, with his consent, induced by wrongful
use of actual or threatened force, violence, or
fear, or under color of official right." 18 U.S.C. S
1951(b)(2).
• So when they say that if you don’t give 10% of your biweekly net earnings to YOUR church, you will go to
hell, you are being extorted.
Conclusion
• So here’s the question, what should you do?
– The answer is very simple, you should give WITH
AN OPEN AND FREE HEART what you can afford to
give.
– You should take care of your house first before
you take care of the church. What good is it that
the lights of the church are on but the lights of the
houses of its members are off.
– You should pay your bills on time and insure that
you have food to eat and clothes to wear.
Conclusion
• And once you have taken care of what God
has blessed YOU with first, then you take care
of the church.
• To the ministers or deacons or pastors reading
this ask your members to do this and after
they have taken care of their house they WILL
take care of the church. The use scare tactics
to entice people to give is wrong and you will
be judged for that.
Conclusion
• Last thing the use of the word pay should be
totally taken out. No one should have to pay
God, the very thought is impossible. We
should give and it will come back to you,
pressed down, shaken together, and running
over.
• It is my hope that this presentation has
inspired your mind to say “wait a minute, that
cant be true let me look this up on my own”
Maat-Hotep