1. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving

2. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving Malachi 3:8-10 – “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now

3. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”

4. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving The Israelites relations with God had turned from relational to ritual:  As a result they offered blemished sacrifices – 1:6-14  The priests had become unfaithful – 2:1-9  Divorce was commonplace and easy – 2:10-17  Their words wearied God – 2:17

5. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving The Israelites relations with God had turned from relational to ritual:  Business men were defrauding their workers, cheating their customers, and taking advantage of widows and orphans – 3:1-5  But the worst offence was that they were robbing God – 3:8-10

6. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving I.The Tithe is the Minimum Malachi 3:8 – “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me, But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”  The tithe comes from the Hebrew word that means one tenth  The tithe was recognized as God’s

7. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving II.The Curse came from Disobedience – v.9 Malachi 3:9 – “Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.”  While there are spiritual and financial consequences for failing to give to God, we should never make the mistake of thinking that we will be cursed if we haven’t tithed

8. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving II.The Curse came from Disobedience – v.9 Malachi 3:9 – “Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.”  Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us

9. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving II.The Curse came from Disobedience – v.9 Galatians 3:13 – “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree”  Remember partial obedience is no obedience. No one benefits from a tithe he holds on to.

10. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving III.The Storehouse represents God’s Work – v.10 Malachi 3:10 – “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house”  The purpose of the tithe is to support God’s work  But the primary purpose for the tithe is to put God first in our lives

11. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving III.The Storehouse represents God’s Work – v.10 Deuteronomy 14:22,23 – “Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.”

12. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving IV.The Test that Challenges God to Bless – v.10 Malachi 3:10 – “Bring ye all tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts”

13. What is the Biblical Concept of Giving? The Obedience of Giving V.The Blessings are Out of this World – v.10 Malachi 3:10 – “If I will not open you the windows of Heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”  When it comes to giving, we are no match for God