But neither GOD or the kingdom of GOD is in dire need of your carnal money.
For GOD is not broke, and neither heaven or the kingdom of GOD is going out of business or into foreclosure, and GOD is not taking up a collection for the heaven building fund……………..lol
And you surely cannot pay for all your sins with 10% of the money you make, for if that was the case, then JESUS died in vain.
And if you are trying to pay for your sins with 10% of your money, then that’s like slapping JESUS in the face, for you’re saying the precious blood of JESUS was not good enough for you or your sins, that you’re going to pay 10% of your money for your own sins, when JESUS gave HIS life for the sins of the world.
And what sense does it make to walk past the homeless, widows, the fatherless, orphans, the poor, and the needy of the world, to give 10% of your money to man, and the building called church?
When you could have given to the sick, the poor, the homeless, the needy, widows, the fatherless, and the orphans you see everyday, on your way to the building called church?………
(Psalms 50:7-23) Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am GOD, even your GOD.
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mines. If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto GOD thanksgiving; and pay your vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. But unto the wicked GOD says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth? Seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you. When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes. Now consider this, you that forget GOD, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. Whoso offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of GOD.
(Micah 6:6-8) Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high GOD? Shall I come before HIM with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? GOD has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your GOD?
(Hosea 6:6-7) For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of GOD more than your burnt offerings. But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
(Amos 5:21-27) I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Have you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The GOD of hosts.
(Isaiah 1:11-20) To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
(Psalms 51:16-17) For you do not desire sacrifice; else would I give it: you do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of GOD are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O GOD, you will not despise.
Brothers and sisters, you cannot beat GOD at giving, for GOD gave the world HIS only begotten SON, and JESUS willingly have HIS life for the sins of the world, while you’re giving GOD 10% of your carnal money, as if GOD is broke or in dire need of your carnal worthless money…….lol
(Luke 14:33) JESUS SAYS, “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that not forsake all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.”
Vincent says
For that same reason it makes sense to walk past the homeless, widows, the fatherless, orphans, the poor, and the needy of the world, to give 10% of your money to the church elders who God has called to lead the church, and to build his building called church so we as christians may come together and follow the teaching of Christ Jesus.
So, when God says pay your 10%, do not argue with God, just pay your 10% and you will obey God.What man are doing with the 10%, is nobody’s business. It’s become Gods business.
Do you ask your Tax office what they are doing with your tax money? or do you decide not to pay taxes because they are stealing it and do other things with it what isn’t your concern?
You see, that your understanding is not Gods understanding. As a Christian we must obey God and do His will only. We can not think for our self unless we speak to God first.
Obedience is therefor the gift to God.
Reese Kemp says
“The true tithe is spiritual, not carnal!”
“The true tithe!”
It’s far too many religious leaders caught up in the system of this world, and operating within the system of this world, that they reproduce young men and women after their own kind, NOT after the image of GOD in CHRIST JESUS.
Now we don’t even have many real leaders who raise up men and women to seek after GOD with all their hearts, minds, and souls anymore, that they might become GOD’S true anointed prophets, apostles, leaders, kings, queens, and GOD’S present day anointing in the earth.
Now in the institutions called church, they push our young men and women in the world to become business men, ball players, athletes, lawyers, doctors, politicians, movie stars, and famous people.
While their churches are full and over run with religion, religious lies, religious entertainment, religious programs, religious organizations, false doctrines, false teachings, false prophets, false apostles, and false leaders.
And when they see a young man or woman seeking the spiritual things of GOD, and going further in their faith in GOD, then they say stupid things like, “don’t be so heavenly minded, that you be no earthly good”……….lol
But their so earthly minded, that their no good spiritually or heavenly…..
Brothers and sisters, if you want experience the fullness of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, and you want to be pleasing in the sight of GOD, then seek those things which are above, where CHRIST sits on the right hand of GOD. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
(Colossians 3:1-4) If you then be risen with CHRIST, seek those things which are above, where CHRIST sits on the right hand of GOD. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hid with CHRIST in GOD. When CHRIST, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.
Brothers and sisters, the church is powerless today, because your religious leaders made it powerless.
And instead of them offering GOD a true TITHE, a true TENTH, and a true REMNANT.
Their offering GOD worthless money, and giving GOD their polluted sacrifices, not understanding, GOD is looking for a true TITHE, a true TENTH, and a true REMNANT, for a REMNANT shall be saved……
For many are called, but only a few are chosen.
(Isaiah 6:11-13) Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a TENTH, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
(Zechariah 13:7-9) Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, says the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my GOD.
(Romans 12:1-2) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of GOD, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto GOD, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of GOD.
(Hebrews 10:1-12) For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when JESUS comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not desire, but a body you have prepared for me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O GOD. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure in; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O GOD. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of JESUS CHRIST once for all. And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of GOD.
Brothers and sisters, the true TITHE is not your money, for the TITHE is a people, for the true TITHE is a TENTH of the people, who are an offering unto GOD, and are dedicated to GOD.
For the priest/pastors duty is to raise up spiritual men and women unto GOD, and offer them unto GOD, that GOD might always have a remnant in the earth, prepared for the masters use…..
(Malachi 6-8) A son honours his father, and a servant his master: if I then be a father, where is my honour? And if I be a master, where is my fear? Says the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name? You offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the Lord is contemptible. And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now unto your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept your person? Says the Lord of hosts.
(Malachi 1:12-14) But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, says the Lord of hosts; and you brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? Says the Lord. But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifice unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
Brothers and sisters, the TITHE is spiritual, not carnal, but if you don’t understand the word of GOD spiritually, then you will never see the spiritual explained in the natural.
And you will think carnally and naturally about spiritual things, that should be understood spiritually……
(1 Corinthians 2:14-16) But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of GOD: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of CHRIST.