Brian continues MYOB

2. Mind Your Own Business
Part 3

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; it is holy to the LORD.

4. Tithing: The Discipline of returning
the first 10% of your income back to
God.

5. Malachi 3:8-9
8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet
you rob me.
But you ask, „How are we robbing
you?‟
“In tithes and offerings. 9 You are
under a curse—your whole nation—
because you are robbing me.

6. Blessed business:
Malachi 3:11-12
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
there will not be room enough to store
it.

7. I will prevent pests from devouring
your crops, and the vines in your
fields will not drop their fruit before it
is ripe,” says the LORD
Almighty. “Then all the nations will
call you blessed, for yours will be a
delightful land,” says the LORD
Almighty.

8. Worldly Maturity:
Dependence -------------------------------
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Independence

9. Independence ------------------------------
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Dependence

10. Ten is a number of testing all
throughout the Scriptures

11. ...but isn't that just the Old
Testament?
Jesus affirms tithing
Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and
Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a
tenth of your spices—mint, dill and
cumin.

12. mercy and faithfulness. You should
have practiced the latter, without
neglecting the former.

13. The tithe in the New Testament is the
absolute beginning point.

14. Acts 4:32-35
All the believers were one in heart
and mind. No one claimed that any of
their possessions was their own, but
they shared everything they
had. 33 With great power the apostles
continued to testify to the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus. And God‟s grace
was so powerfully at work in them all

15. that there were no needy persons
among them. For from time to time
those who owned land or houses sold
them, brought the money from the
sales 35 and put it at the apostles‟ feet,
and it was distributed to anyone who
had need.