Pastor Clint Williams
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√ Test question: Who will you honor first?
(Malachi 3:6 NKJV) “For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
(Malachi 3:7 NKJV) 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?’
(Malachi 3:8 NKJV) “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.
(Malachi 3:9 NKJV) You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation.
(Malachi 3:10 NKJV) 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.
(Malachi 3:11 NKJV) “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;
√ The tithe is ORDINARY
(Malachi 3:8,10 NKJV) “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings……….. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house……
(Genesis 14:18-20 NKJV) Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said: “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And he gave him a tithe of all.
(Exodus 13:1-2 NKJV) Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.”
(Leviticus 27:30 NKJV) ‘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. IT IS ROBBING GOD BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOURS………
√ The tithe BELONGS to God.
(Malachi 3:10 NKJV) 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.
(Malachi 3:11 NKJV) “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;
√ The tithe REDEEMS the rest.
(Psalms 103:1-5 NKJV) …..Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases,
(Psalms 103:4 NKJV) Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
(Psalms 103:5 NKJV) Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.