Alright now, where did we leave off? Yes, would a man rob God or would he not rob God? That is the question. The priests were engaging in thievery as recorded in the book of Malachi and God cursed them and their baldheaded kids. (Dang, He did that!)
I made a very bold statement in part I of this post, "THERE IS NO REASON FOR THE TITHE!" I made that post to get your attention. There is NO REASON for the tithe because JESUS became the tithe. You see tithing was a law as I showed in Hebrews 7 but also recall in Malachi 3, I stated that God told the priests that a messenger would come and wipe the priests clean.
Malachi 3:1-4
“Look!
I’m sending my messenger on ahead to clear the way for me. Suddenly, out
of the blue, the Leader you’ve been looking for will enter his
Temple—yes, the Messenger of the Covenant, the one you’ve been waiting
for. Look! He’s on his way!” A Message from the mouth of God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
But who will be able to stand up to that coming? Who can survive his appearance?
He’ll
be like white-hot fire from the smelter’s furnace. He’ll be like the
strongest lye soap at the laundry. He’ll take his place as a refiner of
silver, as a cleanser of dirty clothes. He’ll scrub the Levite priests
clean, refine them like gold and silver, until they’re fit for God, fit to present offerings of righteousness. Then, and only then, will Judah and Jerusalem be fit and pleasing to God, as they used to be in the years long ago.
That messenger was JESUS! Once Jesus was nailed to the cross all those curses including the Malachi 2 curse was nailed with him. Thus meaning the priest and anybody else no longer was tied to the tithe! The tithe is real. But the curse of the 10% is more real. People have been conditioned to believe because of how Malachi 3:10 has been presented, that if they squeeze dimes out of every dollar then they will get it back times ten! That they will get that car. That they will get that house. And then when people don't see anything after years of squeezing, they either get mad at God (not the pastor) or leave God and the church altogether.
Sad! You will not be cursed if you don't pay tithes. You should give freely from your heart because you love God, not because you want something from him. Pastors have been using the tithe against you because THEY want something from you! You give to the church to keep it functioning. You give to the church because you want it to be able to help those in need even when that person in needs winds up to BE YOU! No excuses! If you don't have it, you don't have it. If you just want to pay offerings good for you. If you do or don't want to pay tithes and offerings, then do you honey.
However, the church will survive off of what everyone gives collectively without the twisting of arms, pushing, selling, and hustling.The premise of tithes have been abused and used to whip parishoners over the back like a slave on a cotton field. You work to give and yet you're still struggling because you've been brainwashed to focus on ONE THING....PAY YOUR TITHE, YOU GET BLESSED. Well I'm crying, "FOUL!"
Galatians 3:11-12a
The obvious
impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain
that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who
lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God
arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into
what God does for you.
If you are operating in the Holy Spirit you will automatically feel some provocation to give. Don't get me wrong when you give FROM YOUR HEART you WILL reap. But if you give because you've been threatened nothing will happen for you. I've given to complete strangers at the direction of the Holy Spirit and gotten it back double, sometimes triple. Yet I've been a "faithful tither" for three and half years and I can't even calculate what I've gotten back...yes I can
ZERO!
This is one reason why people don't want to go to church because they feel like they will be hustled! It shouldn't be that way because God didn't design it to be that way.
Galatians 3:2-4
"Let me put this
question to you: How did your new life begin? Was it by working your
heads off to please God? Or was it by responding to God’s Message to
you? Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people
would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by
God. If you weren’t smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do
you suppose you could perfect it? Did you go through this whole painful
learning process for nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but it
certainly will be if you keep this up!"
You know I received this revelation a year ago and guess what? I still was doing the same thing expecting a different result because I was CONDITIONED. It's hard to break a habit. Especially a bad habit. So, if you're a tither and your TIRED. Stop! Ask God to give you an amount and the first thing you hear, you give that. I'm probably going to get a lot of flack for this, but if God says nothing, YOU GIVE NOTHING. This will test your obedience to him.
There is no reason to tithe because it encompasses your obedience and FAITH. When people start putting REASONS outside of that on tithes that's when things get real complicated.
I'm almost done. (For real for real ;-) ) Now I promised that I would show you how to give without feeling humiliated or hustled. This is your hard earned money, you should want to give how God wants you to give as a believer. The scripture below were the instructions to the believer after Jesus' death.
2 Corinthians 9:6-7
Remember: A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop. I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over, and make up your own mind what you will give. That will protect you against sob stories and arm-twisting. God loves it when the giver delights in the giving.
THIS WRAPS UP THE CURSE OF THE 10%
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT TAKE GOD'S WORD FOR IT AND OPEN UP THE BIBLE
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