god’s interest in your financial interest
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Sermon - 26 August 2012 by Bruce McCallumTRANSCRIPT
God’s Interest in your Financial Interest
In the financial system there are terms like: profit / loss;
debits and credits; mortgage;
gearing; leverage; interest;
security etc
In biblical economics the terms are: tithing,
sowing and reaping, offerings, terumah,
seed
The principle of tithing or tithes
8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse--the whole nation of you--because you are robbing me. 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.
Malachi 3:1-18 (NIV)
"Jesus doesn't want to take your money, He just doesn't
want your money to take you“
"The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about
how much money has you." AW Tozer
23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
pay tithe of mint and aniseed and cummin, and have neglected the
weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without
leaving the others undone.
Matthew 23:23 (NKJV)
11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the
vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the Lord
Almighty. 12 "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,"
says the Lord Almighty.
Malachi 3:11-12 (NIV)
11 And I will rebuke the devourer [insects and plagues] for your sakes and he shall not
destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine drop its fruit before the time in
the field, says the Lord of hosts.
Malachi 3:11-12 (AMP)
11 For my part, I will defend you against marauders,
protect your wheat fields and vegetable gardens against
plunderers." The Message of God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
Malachi 3:11-12 (MSG)
First Fruits or Terumah (before taxes)
First Tithe (before taxes)
Taxes to government
2nd tithe
3rd tithe
Offerings
2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you
will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.
Malachi 4:2 (NIV)
5 "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and
dreadful day of the Lord comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the
fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their
fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."
Malachi 4:5-6 (NIV)
2nd tithe
3rd tithe
First fruits / Terumah
Offerings
God’s Interest in your Financial Interest