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108 Offering and Tithes
Think about this: Christ loved us so much that he gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering to God.1 He made the ultimate sacrifice for you on the cross, loving you to death and beyond. Even as time marches on, His love stays constant.
It's so important for you to grasp that the biggest sacrifice has already been made. But now, you get to be a pleasing offering to God, too. Let your service, your honor, and your giving be a delight to your Heavenly Father. Know that Jesus has given you everything, and anything you offer pales in comparison to His love.
Giving to God, supporting His work, it's an expression of love. Don't see it as a burden or an obligation, but as a response to God's love and Jesus' sacrifice. It's a way of saying "thank you" for everything Heaven has poured into your life.
1Ephesians 5:2
And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.And where remission of these, no more bringing in for sin.
These words spake Jesus in the royal treasury, teaching in the temple: and no one seized him; for his hour had not yet come.
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency.
And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no one; but retire, show thyself to the priest, and bring near the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.
His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord.And he also having received one talent, having come near, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou sowedst not, and gathering where thou scatteredst not:
Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
And Jesus having sat over against the royal treasury, saw how the crowds cast money into the treasury: and many rich cast in much.And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing.And having called his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast into the royal treasury, more than all they casting into the treasury:For all they cast in out of the abundance to them; and she, out of her want, cast in all things which she had, her whole living.
Honor Jehovah from thy substance, and from the first-fruits of all thy produce.And thy storehouses shall be filled with abundance, and thy wine-vats shall break forth with new wine.
And all the tenth of the land from the seed of the land, from the fruit of the tree, is to Jehovah: it is holy to Jehovah.
And I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise; what I vowed I will requite. Salvation is to Jehovah.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people. zealous of good works.
Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all?
Each according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he gave to thee.
Give, and it shall be given you; good measure, yielded, and shaken, and overflowed, shall they give into your bosom: for with the same measure that ye measure, shall it be measured back to you.
For if a forwardness lie before, according as any has, it is acceptable, not as he has not.
Take ye from you an offering to Jehovah: all of a willing heart shall bring an offering to Jehovah; gold and silver and brass,
And because who am I? and who my people, that we shall retain power to show ourselves willing according to this? for from thee all things, and from thy hand they gave to thee.
I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.
And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Taking the tenth, thou shalt take the tenth of all thy produce of thy used of the field bringing forth year by yearAnd eat before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tenth of thy grain, thy new wine, and thy new oil, and first-born of thy cattle and thy sheep, so that thou shalt learn to fear Jehovah thy God all the days.
According to one day of the sabbaths let each of you put by himself, treasuring up that which he is prospered in, that when I come there be no collections.
And he will bless him, and will say, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessing the heavens and the earth.And praised be the most high God who delivered thine oppressors into thy hand; and he will give him of the tenth of all.
There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to wantThe soul of blessing shall be made fat: also he watering, shall himself drink to the full.
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.
And having looked np, he saw the rich casting their gifts into the royal treasury.And he also saw a certain poor widow casting there two small coins.And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all:For all they, of that abounding to them, have cast in to the gifts of God: and she from her want cast in all the living which she had.
And they will bring in the oblations and the tenth, and the holies, with faithfulness: and over them the leader Cononiah the Levite, and Shimei his brother, the second.
I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive.
And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.
And whoever should give to drink one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.
Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke?Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh.
Thou shalt not withhold good from those possessing it in its being to the power of thy hand to do.Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee.
To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;To do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal, qualified for participation;Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life.
Speak to the sons of Israel, and they shall take for me an offering: from every man whose heart shall impel him, ye shall take my offerings
And it was when thou shalt come into the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance to possess it, and thou didst dwell in it:And thou tookest from the first of all the fruit of the land which thou shalt bring from thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, and put in a basket, and go to the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, having met Abraham returning from the cutting off of the kings, and praised him;To whom also Abraham divided a tenth from all; (first truly interpreted King of justice, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
All which Jehovah delighted in he did, in the heavens and in the earth, in the seas and all the depths.Causing the liftings up to ascend from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain; bringing forth the wind from his treasures.
So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.
And God able for all grace to abound in you; having always all sufficiency in everything, ye abound in every good work:
And remember Jehovah thy God; for he gave to thee strength to make wealth in order to set up his covenant, which he sware to our fathers, as this day.
And I knew, my God, that thou triest the heart, and from uprightness thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness of my heart gave willingly all these: and now thy people were found here; I saw with gladness to show themselves willing to thee.
The unjust one borrowed and he will not repay: and the just one compassionated, and gave.
Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.For where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.
When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right does:That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly.
And this stone which I set a pillar shall be the house of God, and all which thou shalt give to me, the tenth I will tithe it to thee.
For Macedonia and Achaia were contented a certain mutual participation be made for the poor of the holy ones in Jerusalem.
And Moses will command, and they will make a voice pass through in the camp, saying, A man and woman shall do no more work for the offering of the holy place. And the people will withhold from bringing.And the work was enough for all the work to do it, and more than enough.
In willingness I will sacrifice to thee: I will praise thy name, 0 Jehovah, for it is good.
Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar?Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news.
Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
And it shall be at the end of days, and Cain shall bring in from the fruit of the earth an offering to Jehovah.And Abel, he also brought in the first-born of his sheep, and their fat. And Jehovah will look to Abel and to his giftAnd to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall.
Give to Jehovah, ye families of the peoples, give to Jehovah glory and strength.Give to Jehovah the glory of his name: lift ye up a gift and come to his enclosures.
Give to Jehovah the glory of his name; worship to Jehovah in the splendors of his holy place.
He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.
By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name.
The first of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.
Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.For the writing says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox grinding. And, The laborer worthy of his hire.
Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God.
And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me.
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith.
And ye also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I went out from Macedonia, no church participated with me in the word of donation and accepting, except ye alone.For also in Thessalonica, and once, and twice, ye sent to my necessity.
Chanting of David. Jehovah my shepherd, and I shall not wantHe will cause me to lie down in pastures of tender grass: he will lead me to the water of rest
And yet in my delighting in the house of my God, there is to me property of gold and silver I gave to the house of my God, to above from all I prepared for the holy house,
And thou shalt give out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the humble soul; and thy light rising in darkness,, and thy thick darkness as the noon.
To the overseer: chanting of David. Happy he attending to the weak one: in the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.Jehovah will watch him and preserve him alive; he shall be happy upon the earth, and thou wilt not give him to the soul of his enemies.
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not through, nor steal.For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Giving, thou shalt give to him, and thy heart shall not be evil in thy giving to him; for because of this word Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all the sending forth of thy hand.
He scattered, he gave to the needy; his justice stands forever; his horn shall be exalted in glory.
And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God given in the churches of Macedonia;That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.For according to power, I testify, and above power chosen voluntarily;Praying us with much entreaty that we receive the grace and participation of the service for saints.And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.
And praised be the most high God who delivered thine oppressors into thy hand; and he will give him of the tenth of all.
And the people will rejoice for their showing themselves willing, for with the whole heart they showed themselves willing to Jehovah: and also David the king rejoiced with great gladness.
Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.
To him asking thee, give thou, and him wishing to borrow from thee, thou shouldst not turn away.
He did judgment for the oppressed; he gave bread to the hungering: Jehovah loosed those being bound.
And when I be present, whom ye approve by letters, these will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.And if it be suitable for me also to go, they shall go with me.
Enriched in everything in all simplicity, which works through us gratitude to God.
Thou wilt give to them, they will gather up: thou wilt open thy hand, they will be filled with good.
And the work of justice was peace, and the service of justice, rest and confidence, even to forever.
If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.
Cast thy giving upon Jehovah and he will sustain thee: he will not give forever a wavering to the just one.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap.
Raising up the poor from the dust, he will lift up the needy from the dunghill.To sit with the nobles, with the nobles of his people.
And behold how great this one, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave the tenth of the first fruits.