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TITHE AND OFFERINGS

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TOPIC: TITHE AND OFFERINGS

SUNDAY OCTOBER 8TH

TEXT: MALACHI 3: 8-12 

Key verse: Malachi 3: 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 
Tithe is one tenth of all your earnings and this is to be given to God in appreciation of His kindness and blessings upon you. It is God's demand over all men on earth, just as the Government demands tax from its citizens. Tithe is expected from salaries, wages, dividends, interests, farm produce and all earned income. Note that tithes are not paid over gifts. What you give to God from gifts received is offering. If anybody chooses to pay tithes of gifts received, he is free, for some give God more than one tenth of their earnings as their personal commitment. 
Offerings are what you bring to God in your freewill to promote His worship and service among men. The percentage is not defined as in tithes you determine by yourself how much to bring as offering, in the case of your earned income. Some erroneously believe and teach that payment of tithes does not apply to New Testament believers. Let such know that one of the functions of God's priests is to collect tithes from the people of God. Melchizedek collected tithes from Abraham because he was the priest of God. 
The Lord Jesus today is a priest after the order of Melchidezek and collects tithes from us believers who are children of Abraham. Tithe payment did not start with the commandment of Moses but had been in practice before it, and so was not abolished with the law in Christ. It was the addition to this practice that were enacted during the law of Moses that were abolished in Christ. Believers today continue to pay tithes to God through Christ our High Priest. Not to do so is to sin and incur the wrath of God. 

Thought for the day: Tithe is one tenth of all your earnings and it should be given to God in appreciation of His kindness and blessings upon you. 

Song for the day: Give, it shall be given unto you…

Bible reading for the day: Isaiah 39-40; Philippians 4
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