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Apr 26, 2015

Is Your Giving a Duty or a Response?

Passage: Malachi 3:8

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: Major Texts in the Minor Prophets

Category: Malachi

Summary:

Main Text - Malachi 3:8; OT Reading - Malachi 3:6-12; NT Readings - 1 Corinthians 16:1-4, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Detail:

Major Texts In the Minor Prophets

Is Your Giving a Duty or a Response?

Malachi 3:6-12 8  Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.

 

God Expects Every Christian to Give to Support the ministry of the Local Church Where They are a Member

 

1. Malachi Meets Moses

 

               The Details:

 

               The reason for the text - They “under…

 

               The seriousness of it –

 

2. Malachi Meet Jesus

 

               Matthew 23:23

               They “over…

 

3. Malachi Meet Living Hope Presbyterian Church

 

               Three positions on Tithing

 

               We are not to over give or undergive but to “give….                                                    

 

               1 Corinthians 16:1-4 & 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

 

               Biblically Informed of Consequences - 2 Corinthians 9:6

 

               Regularly - 1 Corinthians 16:2

 

               Individually and Purposefully -1 Corinthians 16:2

 

               Proportionately - 1 Corinthians 16:2

 

               Willingly and Joyfully - 2 Corinthians 9:7

 

               Evangelically =-2 Corinthians 9:13-15

 

               Generously - 2 Corinthians 9:11

 

                              2 Cor. 8:9

                              Luke 12:48

 

A Fourth Position – The General Equity

 

How IS the ministry of the church of Christ to be financed?????