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Mind Your Own Business #3

LEVITICUS 27:30

30 A tithe of everything… from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD.

tithe: ma` aser (mah-as-ayr'); a tenth.

•Christians should be faithful in giving their tithes, like the Israelites, the 11 tribes give their tithes to the Levites. •But some Christian are having hard time in giving their because of ignorance.

The power to get wealth is activated through your faithful giving to establish

God’s covenant on the earth.

DEUTERONOMY 28:13

13 The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I

give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top,

never at the bottom.

Wealth is not the covenant but the blessing that

follows the person who keeps the covenant.

GENESIS 12:1-3 1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

(1) THE

COVENANT:

ABRAHAM

•I will make you into a great

nation.•I will bless you.•I will make your name great.•I will bless those who bless you.•All peoples on earth will be

blessed through you.

THE COVENANT: God’s Part

•Get out of the world system

- dependence upon the old

economic base.•Leave your country.•Leave your people.•Leave your father’s household.•Go to the land I will show you.

THE COVENANT: Man’s Part

ISAAC

GENESIS 26:3-63 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws." 6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

JACOB

GENESIS 28:20-22  20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear 21 so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord[a] will be my God 22 and[b] this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”

JACOB HAD ALREADY LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THIS

TRANSFER.

JACOB, made a vow to tithe.

God’s desire for all of us is to be a blessing to

others.

MATTHEW 24:14

14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

(2) CURSE:

Has no power against you

ABRAHAM

 GENESIS 17:17

17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

ISAAC

GENESIS 26:1-2

Now there was a famine in the land--besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time--and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.(NIV)

JACOB

GENESIS 31:6-96 You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength, 7 yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me. 8 If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked young. 9 So God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.

LABAN COULD DO NOTHING TO STOP THIS TRANSFER OF WEALTH

TO JACOB.

(3) COUNT

your blessings.

ABRAHAM

GENESIS 12:16

He treated Abram well for her sake, aand Abram

acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants,

and camels.

GENESIS 13:2

Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in

silver and gold.

ISAAC

GENESIS 26:12

Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold,

because the LORD blessed him.

JACOB

GENESIS 30:43

In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks,

and maidservants and menservants, and camels

and donkeys.

 If God wants to bless you,

nobody could stop.

Along with a spiritual inheritance comes the earthly inheritance.

•The enemy is trying to contain us because we are the ones who will finance the end time harvest of souls. Unbelievers will never finance the Gospel so Satan doesn’t contain them.

•Gospel must be preached in the entire world. This requires a great amount of wealth!

•Unless we have a financial breakthrough the Church will never rise to the fullness of the vision God intended.

Being poor is not a Godly thing, it is not a Biblical sign.

THE ISRAELITES

HEBREWS 7:5 Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham.

LEVITICUS 27:30  “‘A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.

CHRISTIANS

MALACHI 3:10

10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in

this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and

pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough

for it.

TWO KINDS OF

BUSINESSES

TWO KINDS OF BUSINESS

THE CURSED BUSINESS.

MALACHI 3:8-9Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse - the whole nation of you-because you are robbing me

rob: qaba` (kaw-bah'); defraud, rob, spoil,

embezzle.

THE CURSED BUSINESS.

If I don’t tithe, I’m embezzling from

God.

HAGGAI 1:6

You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.

THE CURSED BUSINESS.

TWO KINDS OF BUSINESS

THE CURSED BUSINESS.

THE BLESSED BUSINESS.

MALACHI 3:11-12I will prevent pests from devouring your crops…says the LORD Almighty. "Then all the nations will call you blessed…”

THE BLESSED BUSINESS.

90% with God’s blessing is far more than 100% without

it.

MALACHI 3:10

10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

TITHING & THE THREE-MONTH CHALLENGE

A tithe is 10% of your income. This is a big commitment for anyone. So, try the three-month challenge: Tithe for three months. If God doesn’t hold true to the promises in Malachi 3:10-11, we’ll give it all back.

THE TITHE IS THE STARTING POINT!

MATTHEW 23:23-24…You give a tenth of your

spices-mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the

more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and

faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without

neglecting the former.

Tithes opens the blessings in heaven and your offering determines the amount of

your blessings to be poured out.

•Have you ever stolen something? If so, how did it make you feel? (Remember, not tithing is stealing from God.

•If you’re not tithing, what’s holding you back?

•What is your idea of a “blessed business?”

•If you are tithing, encourage others with stories of God’s faithfulness.

THE TITHE IS THE STARTING POINT!