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GOD’S PLAN FOR FINANCING HIS KINGDOM
IS BY TITHES AND GIFTS
OR OFFERINGS MADE BY HIS PEOPLE ONLY.
TEXT Mal. 3:7-12; Deut. 23:23; Num. 30:2;
Lev. 27:3, 32.
I. THE TITHES:
1. They belong to Jehova—Ps.
24:1, 2; 50:10-15; 95:1-7; I Chro. 29:14-16; Hag. 2:8.
a. HIS BY
CREATION: Gen. 1:1-31; Ps. 95:4, 5; John 1:1-3; Neh. 9:6.
b. HIS BY
PRESERVATION: Ps, 36:6; Acts 17:22-28; Neh. 9:6.
c. HIS
BY Redemption: Rom. 7:14; I Cor.
6:20.
a. IT
WAS THE CUSTOM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIONS: I Sam. 8:15, 17.
“Samuel is here telling the people
What they may expect, if they have a King like other
nations. The Egyptians, the Chaldeans, the
Phoenicians and in fact, all the nations and tribes
of antiquity paid tithes to their gods thousands of years
before the Jews had a national existence.”
b. SEE
CAIN AND ABEL: Gen. 4:3, 4.
c. PAID
BY ABRAHAM TO MELCHIZEDEK: Gen. 14:18-20; Heb. 7:4-9.
d. PAID
BY JACOB: Gen. 28:20-22.
d. DECLARED
BY TI-IF BIBLE TO BE GOD’S: MaI, 3:8; Lev. 27:30-32; Prov. 3:9,
e. GOD
ORDERS ISRAEL TO RETURN THE TITI-IES:—-(Neh. 10:32-39; 13:4-15)
Mal. 3:8-10; II Chro. 31:2-10.
2. TITHES WERE PAID BEFORE THE LAW WAS GIVEN
TO MOSES:
3. PAID
BY ISRAEL AFTER THE LAW WAS GIVEN: Matt. 23:23: Luke 11:42;
18:12.
4. APPROVED BY CHRIST: Matt. 22:19-22; 23:23;
Luke 11:42; 18:22.
5. APPROVED BY PAUL: Heb. 7:4-9.
6. GOD
ORDERED ISRAEL TO PAY TITHES TO THE LEVITES: (Their number—I
Chro. 23:1-7; 9:17-19)
Num. 18:21-25; (Deut. 14:27-29); 18:1-8; II Chro.
31:4-13; Neh. 10:37-39; 13:10-14, 4-6.
7. LEVITES
ORDERED TO PAY TITHES OF THEIR TITHES TO THE PRIESTS
(MINISTERS): Num. 18:19-32; 31:29; 5:5-11;
Lev. 22:10; Ex. 29:26-29; Deut. 18:1-9; Neh. 10:32-39;
13:4-14; 12:44-47; 11 Chro. 31:2-21; Mal. 3:7-13; Ezek.
44:28-31; Deut. 14:23-29; 11 Kings 12:15, 16; Gen. 14:20;
Num. 3 1:28, 29.
8. TITHES
FOR NEW TESFAMENT MINISTERS: Deut. 25:4; I Cor. 9:9-14, 1-27; I
Tim. 5:17, 18; Gal. 6:6-8; Heb. 13:16;
7:5-9
9. THE
3’D YEAR TITHES FOR THE POOR AND THE ANNUAL FEASTS: Deut.
14:27-29; 26:12, 13; Amos 4:4.
10. TITHES CALLED FOR, AND URGED: Neh.
13:4-15; Mal. 3:7-12; II Chro. 31:1-12.
11. TITHES RETURNED: II Chro. 31:10, 1-12;
Neh. 13:5, 10-13.
II. OFFERINGS AND GIFTS ORDERED BY
GOD: Mal. 3:7-13; Deut. 16:10-17.
1.
ISRAEL ORDERED TO GiVE 48 CITIES
AND SUBURBS AS HOMES TO THE LEVITES: Josh. 21:8-19; Num. 35:1-8;
Lev. 25:32-34; Ezra 2:68-70; Neh. 7:73, 39-45.
2.
ISRAEL ORDERED TO GIVE 13 CITIES
AND SUBURBS AS HOMES TO THE PRIESTS AND THEIR FAMILIES:
Josh. 21:1-8, 13-19.
3.
GIFTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
TABERNACLE: Ex. 35:1-30; 36:3-8.
4.
GiFTS FOR ITS DEDICATION: Num.
7:1-89.
5.
GIFTS FOR THE BUILDING OF THE
TEMPLE: I Chro, 29:1-5, 6-10, 14-19.
6.
GIFTS FOR ITS DEDICATION: I Kings
6:1-38; 8:62-66.
7.
GIFTS TO REPAIR THE TEMPLE: II
Kings 12:1-17; 11 Chro. 24:4-15; Ezra 2:68-70; 3:1-8; 7:11-24;
8:24-35.
8.
GIFTS AT ITS DEDICATION:
Ezra 6:16-19.
9.
GIFTS FOR REVIVALS:
II Chro. 31:1-12; Mal. 3:7-12; Acts 2:43-47; 4:34-37
“Brought Price,” etc.
10.
GIFTS FOR THE POOR:
Matt. 25:40; Prov.
14:21; Ps. 41:1; Luke 14:13, 14; Pray, 19:17; 28:27; Ex. 23:10,
II; Deut. 15:7-11, 24:13, 14, 15; Ruth 2:8-13; Luke 6:38; Deut.
14:28, 29; 26:12, 13; Ps. 112:9
11.
GIFTS
FOR THE POOR SAINTS: Acts 11:29, 30; Rom. 15:25-27; II Car. 9:1,
2, 6, 7; ICor. 6:1,2;IJohn3:17;Prav.21:13;llCor.8:18
Ill. TITHING AND GIVING TAUGHT IN THE
OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS:
1.
BY CHRIST: Matt.
22:19-22; “Render” 23:23; Luke 11:42; 18-12; 4:25, 26; (I Kings
17:9-16) widow at the gate; Mark 12:41-44; widow’s mite.
2.
BY PAUL:
Heb. 7:5, 1-Il; I Car.
16:2; 1 Car. 9:1-27. 13, 14; II Car. 9:1-14; 11:7-10; 8:1—8.
3.
WE ARE TAUGHT BY CHRIST. PAUL AND
OTHERS HOW TO GIVE:
a. AS WE PROSPER: Pay one-tenth and give a part of our
nine-tenths—I Car. 16:2.
b. GIVE WITHOUT
SHOW: Malt. 6:3.
c, GIVE CHEERFULLY: II Car. 9:7; 8:1-8;
Rom. 12:7-13.
d. GIVE LIBERALLY: Pray. 11:25; 3:9, 10;
Ram. 12:8, 13; II Car. 9:6, 7; 8:1-8.
e. GIVE SACRIFICIALLY: II Sam. 24:24; Not
what I can spare but what I greatly need.
f. GIVE SYSTEMATICALLY — ORDERLY, WEEKLY,
METHODICALLY:—I Cor. 16:2.
g. GIVE PROPORTIONATELY: I Cor. 16:2.
(God’s Share)
h. GIVE ACCORDING TO YOUR ABILITY: Acts
11:29; Deut. 16:10-17; Ezra 2:68-70; Lev. 14:30; Matt. 5:42;
I Car.
16:1. 2.
I. GIVE WITH FAITH AND LOVE: Heb. 11:6.
j. GIVE FREELY: Matt. 10:8; Luke 6:38.
k. GIVE AS YOUR LEADER: l Chro. 29:1-10,
14:19.
I. GIVE WITH SIMPLICITY OR LIBERALITY:
Rom. 12:8, 13:
m. INDIVIDUAL GIVING: Ex. 35:4-9, 20:29;
36:1-7; 1 Cor. 16:2 “Each one” —preacher, deacon, member,
old,
young, rich, poor.
n. GIVE AS CHURCHES OF MACEDONIA: II Cor.
8:1-8.
4. WHEN TO GiVE:
a. SUNDAY: 1 Cor. 16:1-3.
b. WHEN YOU MEET IN CHURCH FOR WORSHIP:
Ps. 96:8.
c. WHEN OTHERS ARE GIVING: Ps. 116:14,
18, 19; 50:14.
d. GIVE WEEKLY: I Cor. 16:2.
e. GIVE AS YOU HAVE OPPORTUNITY: Matt.
5:42; 1 Cor. 16:15; James 1:26, 27, Ga. 6:9, 10.
f. GIVE WHEN YOU ARE RIGHT WITH YOUR
BROTHER: Mattt. 5:23, 24.
g. GIVE WHEN POOR AND RICH—AS ISRAEL: Ex.
35:1-30; 36:3-8; 30:11-16, 15. AS WIDOW AT GATE:
I Kings 17:9-16; Luke 4:25, 26. AS WIDOW’S TWO MITES:
Mark 12:41-44. NONE TOO POOR: Ex. 30:15.
RICH AND POOR PAY THE SAME: Ex. 30:15.
5. PREPARE FOR GIVING AS OTHERS: Acts
4:34-37; I Cor. 16:2, 3; 11 Cor. 8:1-8; 9:1-15.
6. PAY AND GIVE CLEAN MONEY TO GOD: Deut.
23:18, 18; Prov. 7:1-27.
a. MONEY MUST BE MADE IN A RIGHTEOUS WAY
TO BE CLEAN AND ACCEPTABLE
WITH GOD:
Deut. 23:18; Matt. 21:12, 13; John 1:13-18.
b.
IT MUST BE GIVEN WITH A
RIGHTEOUS
MOTIVE TO BE
CLEAN AND ACCEPTABLE WITH GOD: II Kings 5:15-17, 20-27; Dan.
5:13-17; Acts
8:9-24; Matt.
21:12, 13; John 2:13-18.
c.
IT MUST BE GIVEN AS AN ACT OF
DIVINEWORSHIP TO BE ACCEPTABLE WITHGOD: Ps. 50:14, 15;
22:25. LOVE OF MONEY HINDERS: I Tim. 3:3, 8; 6:9, 10.
7. WHERE TO GIVE IT: (In God’s House) Ps.
116:14-19; II Chro. 31:10; Deut. 23:18; Ps. 96:8; Neh. 10:32-39;
Mal. 3:10,
8. BECAUSE GOD ORDERED IT:
II Chro. 24:4-15;
31:1-21, 10; (Ex. 35; 36: 25;) Ezra 2:68-70; (Num. 18; Deut.
18:) Neh.
13:4-14; 10:28, 29; Mal. 3:7-12.
9. WE ARE BLESSED AND GET BY GIVING AND
TITHING: Mal. 3:10-12; Prov. 3:9, 10; 11:24-26; Isa. 55:2; Ps.
63:5; II Cor. 8:7-9; Rom. 12:8-13; Luke 6:38; 11 Col.
9:5-13; Ps. 112:9; Prov. 19:17; 22:9; Acts 20:35; Matt.
25:34-40; II Chro. 31:10; 11 Chro. 31:4-13; Ezek.
44:28-30; WIDOW—I Kings 17:9-16; Luke 4:25, 26.
10. WE ARE CURSED AND LOSE BY NOT GIVING AND
TITHING: Mal. 3:8, 9; Prov. 11:24, 26; II Chro. 29:7, 8; Neh.
13:10, 11; Deut. 23:21, 23; EccI. 5:4-6; Num. 30:2,
11. COVETOUSNESS IS IDOLATRY AND SHUTS
ONE OUT OF THE KINGDOM AND THEREFORE, THOSE GUILTY OF SUCH
SHOULD BE
EXPELLED FROM THE CHURCH: II Tim. 3:2; 1 Cur. 6:9, 11; Eph.
5:3-5; Col. 3:5; I Cor. 5:9-11.
Information provided by: Or. A. C. 0. Vaughn
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