We know what God’s word says and we pay our tithes to the Lord, but what is the underlying attitude of paying tithe? What motivates us to return to God tithes and offerings? The following examples are what I have heard people say in reference to tithes, which have given me the indication that they have a false understanding of the right motive and the right attitude for tithe. We render this to Him, but it is our attitude and motives that we want to examine. I am preaching this message to a people who know what God’s word says regarding tithes. This is not to solicit your tithes under any motivation of mine. In preaching this message I am not presenting it from a perspective of solicitation.
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Scripture reading: 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 not enough. These words “when the heavens fall” come from the following quote: Read the rest of this entry → When the heavens fall, when everything that we have depended upon is suddenly lost, and there is nothing to rely upon by vision. This is our prayer-to be kept by the Lord whatever the future bringeth, smiles of joy or tears of grief, still be able to cling and find our soul’s relief in Him. 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither fruit in the vines the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Scripture reading: Habakkuk 3:16 When I heard, my belly trembled my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
This story illustrated to me what Jesus had foreseen and expressed in Matthew 24. And as she described in her book, primitive godliness was being made small of in her eyes by the members of the church. She had beautiful long hair, but now there was a picture on the front with her short cut hair. Because of her simplicity and primitive godliness, the church in the United States told her it wasn’t necessary to have these kinds of simplicities. But what a sad story unfolded as I continued to read. Then, after the war she and her husband emigrated to the USA. There she was with her long hair and all the simple realities of primitive godliness. And the Lord provided them with a job at the last moment, but they got it. But they decided that they would give the Lord their tithe even though they had no work, and they claimed His promise.
When it came to give of their tithe, they were out of a job because of the Sabbath-Sunday question, and they just had enough money for tithe, and after that, no job. The story of her conversion and of her simplicity, the way she and her husband trusted God, is beautiful. One of the few books I have read in my years was the story of Hunze, a German lady who was in the Hitler’s Youth, and who was converted into Adventism.
Because iniquity abounds, the love of many grows cold. There is something that we need to understand for the time in which we are living, that we may be able to conquer this sad announcement of Jesus.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. Scripture reading: Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
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