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Biblical Tithing - an unfolding revelation -. Genesis 14v17-24. 1. A Voluntary Response... To Who God is, What He has done. 2. A ‘Once-Off’ Practice. 3. ‘Brought’ to a Man... To Benefit a City Called ‘Jerusalem’. Genesis 28v3-24. 1. A Voluntary Response... To Who God is, What He has Promised.
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Genesis 14v17-24 1.A Voluntary Response...To Who God is, What He has done 2.A ‘Once-Off’ Practice... 3.‘Brought’ to a Man...To Benefit a City Called ‘Jerusalem’.
Genesis 28v3-24 1.A Voluntary Response...To Who God is, What He has Promised 2.A Regular/Ongoing Practice... 3.Associated with ‘Bethel’...To Build/Establish the “House of God”
The Mosaic Law 1.Leviticus 27v30-32...Tithing is Commanded; it ‘belongs’ to God 2.Numbers 18v14, v21-32...Tithing finances the Levites/Priesthood 3.Deuteronomy 12, 14 & 26...Tithing ‘tasted of’ by the giver, the Levites and the poor; still primarily for Priesthood.
The Kings 1.2 Chronicles 31...A ‘one-off’ tithe to restore Temple Ministry 2.Nehemiah 10, 12 & 13...Tithing finances ministering priests and Levites AND the singers and gatekeepers
The Prophets 1.Amos 4v4-5... Worshipping God with tithing, but not their hearts; neglecting weightier issues 2.Malachi 3v7-12...Turned away from God with their hearts AND their tithing; ‘Bring the tithe!’
The Gospels 1.Matt 23v23; Luke 11v42... Worshipping God with tithing, but neglect ‘weightier issues’ 2.Luke 18v12...Obedience to tithing does not lead to righteousness (justification before God).