“Out of the abundance of the heart the hands giveth”
Once again, to whom much is given, much is required.
Audience: A Young person who has just accepted Christ.
Aim: To teach them how to begin to prosper financially
Style: Using Scriptures to take you on a journey
The word tithe means one tenth of a person’s increase and
The earliest record of tithing in the old testament is in
when Abraham was returning from battle and gave one tenth of
everything to The king of Salem and also a priest of God called Melchizedek.
The next recorded instance of tithing is in
Genesis 28:10-22 when Jacob dreamed of a stairway to
heaven. God then promised to give the land to Jacob and His descendants. Jacob
then vowed to give back a tenth of all the Lord would give Him.
With these two instances, we see a voluntary act of giving
back to God for His deliverance and blessings.
We now on move to The Children of Israel who under the Laws
of Moses tithing became a law. It was instituted because 11 of the 12 tribes of
Israel received land as an inheritance except the tribe of Levi which were
known as the Levitical priesthood and so the other tribes had to pay tithes to
them to support them. This was their
inheritance and when you gave to them, you gave to God. The Israelites were even accused of robbing
God when they withheld their tithes and offerings. This is found in
8 “Should people cheat God? Yet you
“But you ask, ‘What do you mean? When did we ever cheat
“You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to
me. 9 You are under a curse, for your whole nation
has been cheating me. 10 Bring all the tithes into
the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says
the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for
you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it
in! Try it! Put me to the test! 11 Your crops will
be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease.[a] Your grapes will not
fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the Lord of Heaven’s
Armies. 12 “Then all nations will call you blessed,
for your land will be such a delight,” says the Lord of Heaven’s
I now want to move onto some New testament Scriptures and
see what The Lord Jesus had to say about tithing.
23 “What sorrow awaits you teachers
of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe
even the tiniest income from your herb gardens,[g] but you ignore the
more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe,
yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
