Giving - Money

Money is the root of all evil! Is that correct?

The correct verse is 1 Tim 6:10

Who owns the money? We are only stewards of it - a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.

God is a great giver. Expand (Creation, Christ, Salvation)

Tithing – what is it?

Lev 27:30-33

Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Number 18:20-22, 26-28 The tithe was for the Levites. And the Levites gave to the priests.

In a time of spiritual decline the people had stopped tithing. Read 2 Chron 31:4-12

Neh 13:10-12

Mal 3:7-12 – Have you robbed God?

Do we need to give a tithe? Read 1 Cor 9:9-14

Acts 11:29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa:

1 Cor 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. (To get the context read verse 1 -4)

Our giving should be regular, systematic and without fuss.

Matt 6:1-4

Luke 21:1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

What can we learn from this?

1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Our giving should be joyful, cheerful, ungrudging, an act of will, without external pressure, and a matter of individual determination. 2 Cor 9:5-7

Why do you work?

Eph 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

We please God when we give. Heb 13:6

In our giving we will never be without. Phil 4:15-19

Our works prove our faith. James 2:15-16

Buy a good insurance policy. 1 Tim 6:19

We can know God's blessing in the present.

Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Should we give a 10th or tithe? I don't believe that we should be curtailed by it.

Matt. 25:14-30

God is the creator of the universe and therefore 100% of our time, talent, and treasure belongs to Him. We are just merely stewards with what God has entrusted to us.