{"id":1212,"date":"2011-12-15T22:39:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"proving-god-with-tithes-and-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Proving God with Tithes and Offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Malachi 3:8-10<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Here is a distinct challenge from God that&#8217;s found no other place in the Bible. This challange is made up of 2 things: Bring all the tithes and offerings to God&#8217;s house, God promises to bless.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Complaints of God:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The whole nation has robbed God.<br \/>\na. God&#8217;s people knew 2 things:<!--more--><br \/>\ni. God demanded a definate portion of their income to be brought to His house.<br \/>\nii. They knew that they had kept money for themselves that belonged to God.<br \/>\n2. There were 3 kings of Defaulters:<br \/>\na. Some never recognized God&#8217;s portion by giving, (never paid).<br \/>\nb. Some gave on special occasions.<br \/>\nc. Some gave regularly but not according to God&#8217;s standards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: The Curse of God upon them:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Upon their Farms and Fruit Trees.<br \/>\n2. Upon their Spiritual life, immoral, greedy, giving God to the lame, halt, and blind. A weariness to serve God.<br \/>\n3. Robbery and Spirituality never go together.<br \/>\n4. Every spiritual cause was suffering for lack of funds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: The Call and the Challenge. vs. 10-12:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Bring all of God&#8217;s property to God&#8217;s house.<br \/>\n2. Believe that God will keep His promise.<br \/>\nHe will rebuke the Crop pest and give a good harvest, (but we don&#8217;t farm)!<br \/>\n3. Other people will see the results and be led to God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dare you and I accept such a challenge from God&#8217;s word?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malachi 3:8-10 Here is a distinct challenge from God that&#8217;s found no other place in the Bible. This challange is made up of 2 things: Bring all the tithes and offerings to God&#8217;s house, God promises to bless. I: The Complaints of God: 1. The whole nation has robbed God. a. God&#8217;s people knew 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}