Proving God with Tithes and Offerings
Malachi 3:8-10 Here is a distinct challenge from God that’s found no other place in the Bible. This challange is made up of 2 things: Bring all the tithes and offerings to God’s house, God promises to bless. I: The Complaints of God: 1. The whole nation has robbed God. a. God’s people knew 2 things: i. God demanded a definate portion of their income to be brought to His house. ii. They knew that they had kept money for themselves that belonged to God. 2. There were 3 kings of Defaulters: a. Some never recognized God’s portion by giving, (never paid). b. Some gave on special occasions. c. Some gave regularly but not according to God’s standards. II: The Curse of God upon them: 1. Upon their Farms and Fruit Trees. 2. Upon their...
Second Hand Religion not Enough
Job 42:1-12 We Americans are a peculiar people. Like the men of ancient Athens, we like new things. We will endure 2nd hand things, but with a grudge. This is true in every phase of our life except the most important. Too often we are satisfied with a 2nd hand experience of God that leaves us luke-warm in a world that is on Fire of Hell. I: A Personal Experience with God: 1. Job hadn’t seen God face to face. 2. Job had been told of God and his requirements. 3. Job had served God with the knowledge he had. 4. But Job needed a new and vital knowledge of God. 5. It’s not enough to believe God. One must walk daily with God. 6. One can’t walk with God and be content with lukewarm living. 7. When Trials come to one who doesn’t have a face to...
Salting Our Community
Matthew 5:13 Jesus looked upon the heart-sickening effect of sin upon the Ancient World and realized that true Christianity would be like Salt. I: Salt keeps fron rotting, A taste all its own. 1. The Sea of Galilee is 680 ft. below the Mediterranean Sea. Temperature usually above 90 degrees. 2. Sweet things soon turn sour and fresh things soon become rancid. 3. These people couldn’t live without salt. 4. Christians are salt to keep moral health, the natural enemies of moral disease. 5. Where sin threatens decay, the Christian salt should be there to stop it. 6. Preserves, flavors, and heals. II: What attitude must we take? 1. Rotteness in our own lives. 2. In Literature. 3. Rotteness in attitudes of slothfulness. 4. Rotteness of grudge and hate. 5....
Stewards of the Mysteries of God
Cor. 1 4:1-2, Cor. 2 4:1-7, and 5:17-20 Blind trumpeter of Pasadenia, (1741 Beya Reconsile). The greatest mystery of the Ages is the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I: The Mysteries of the Ancient Past: 1. It seems that we live in a day when everyone likes a mystery. 2. We have the mysteries of the past told by Archeology. 3. We have the mysteries of Science, that are guarded with great care. 4. There is the mystery of the A and H bombs. 5. There is the mystery of Biological Warfare. 6. There is the mystery of inhuman machines. II: The greatest mystery of the Ages and Eternity is how a soul can be born again. 1. The Israelites were keepers of that mystery for hundreds of years. a. They had the formula by which men could come to God. b. They became...
The Doom of a Fruitless Vine
Isaiah 5:, John 15:, and Matthew 21:18-21 I: The Opportunities of this Vineyard: 1. “A very fruitful hill.” 2. “He fences it.” (Protection). 3. “And gathered out the stones.” 4. “Planted it with the choicest vine.” 5. “Built a tower in the midst of it.” 6. “Made a vine press therein.” 7. What more could He have done? How near does our life compare with this Vineyard? II: “He looked that it should bring forth grapes.” 1. He had every right to accept fruit. (Expectations) 2. He expected good fruit and not wild bitter grapes. 3. Where grace doesn’t work, corruption will. 4. How much like the vineyard when we produce grapes of malice, envy, unfairness, contencious, cursings,...