2. Mind Your Own Business #3

3. 30 A tithe of everything… from the land,
whether grain from the soil or fruit from
the trees, belongs to the LORD.

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

5. •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.

7. 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.

8. Wealth is not the covenant but the
blessing that follows the person who
keeps the covenant.

9. 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.”

11. ABRAHAM

12. •Iwillmakeyouintoagreatnation.
•Iwillblessyou.
•Iwillmakeyournamegreat.
•Iwillblessthosewhoblessyou.
•Allpeoplesonearthwillbeblessedthroughyou.
God’s Part

13. •Getoutoftheworldsystem
-dependenceupontheoldeconomicbase.
•Leaveyourcountry.
•Leaveyourpeople.
•Leaveyourfather’shousehold.
•GotothelandIwillshowyou.
Man’s Part

14. ISAAC

15. 3 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.

16. JACOB

17. 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.

18. made a vow to tithe.

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

20. 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.

21. Has no power against you

22. ABRAHAM

23. 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?"

24. ISAAC

25. 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)

26. JACOB

27. 6 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.

28. LABAN COULD DO NOTHING TO STOP
THIS TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO JACOB.

29. your blessings.

30. ABRAHAM

31. He treated Abram well for her sake, aand
Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and
female donkeys, male and female servants,
and camels.

32. Abram had become very wealthy in
livestock and in silver and gold.

33. ISAAC

34. Isaac planted crops in that land and the
same year reaped a hundredfold, because
the LORD blessed him.

35. JACOB

36. In this way the man grew exceedingly
prosperous and came to own large flocks,
and maidservants and menservants, and
camels and donkeys.

37. If God wants to bless you,
nobody could stop.

38. Alongwithaspiritualinheritance
comestheearthlyinheritance.

39. •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.

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

41. THE ISRAELITES

42. 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.
“‘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.

43. CHRISTIANS

44. 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.

46. TWO KINDS OF BUSINESS
THE CURSED BUSINESS.

47. Will 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.

49. 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.

50. TWO KINDS OF BUSINESS
THE CURSED BUSINESS. THE BLESSED BUSINESS.

51. I 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.

52. 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.

53. 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.

55. …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.

56. Tithes opens the blessings in heaven and
your offering determines the amount of
your blessings to be poured out.

57. •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.