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The Tithe Challenge
Hello, I’m Pastor Amos, and this is the study: The Tithe
Challenge.
According to the Bible, God challenged Israel to tithe in
Malachi 3:10b.
It reads, “
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.”
As we have learned, the Bible teaches that God’s tithe is
food—not money.
Today, we can test the
validity of this biblical truth.
You see
the same tithe challenge that God gave Israel can also be used to prove that
the modern
cash-tithe is a scam.
In the tithe challenge, God
clearly promises that He
will bless the tither in such a way that, “
there
will not be room enough to store it.”
Now I ask you, do these words make sense if
we’re talking about money?
When in the
history of banking has there ever been a bank that said, “Sorry sir, but you
have too much money.
There’s not enough
room in our bank to store it?”
This proves, yet again, that the Lord’s tithe is food,
because we can understand that the amount of space needed to store food is
limited, but when it comes to money there will always be plenty of room in the
bank for more.
Not even Bill Gates has
problems storing money.
Just think about it.
If the tithe challenge in Malachi 3:10 is applicable to money,
then money tithing would become the greatest enterprise on earth.
The whole world would be tithing.
Just imagine, you give ten percent of your
income and soon the Lord will give you so much money that the bankers are
telling you they don’t have enough room to store it.
Then, you take ten percent of that blessing
(which is already so big that banks are turning you down) and you tithe
that.
You continue this way until you’re
filthy rich.
Imagine, after tithing for just
two or three months, you won’t have to work another day in your life.
Think about it, you won’t have to pay rent
anymore.
You can buy a mansion without taking
out a mortgage.
You won’t need to pay
the electric bill because you can buy the electric company.
Forget about high prices at the supermarket,
you can buy the farm.
You’ll be better
off than the wealthiest CEO of the richest company on earth.
If Malachi 3:10 is applicable to money, then
tithing would replace social security and the stock market.
Sounds too good to be true, correct?
That’s because it is.
In Malachi 3:10 God clearly identifies His
tithe as edible when He instructs Israel to bring it into the “
storehouse, that there may be
food…”
Now I’ve been around cash-tithing Christians for over 50
years and I’m yet to see a money tither receive so much money from the Lord
that there is not enough room to store it.
When it comes to money, the most I’ve
witnessed
is a one for one blessing.
In other words,
some people get back what they put
in.
And this is in accordance with the
words of Jesus when He said, “
with the
measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:38b
Of course, if you don’t believe that God’s tithe is food,
you are
welcome to take the tithe challenge.
It shouldn’t take long for you to realize
that you are
NOT going to get back so
much money that there is no room to store it.
Now some people may say that the tithe “blessing” with no
room to store it doesn’t necessarily have to be food or money.
It could be anything.
To which I answer, regardless of what form
the “blessing” takes; in over 50 years, I am yet to see a Christian receive a
tithe blessing that is so big that there is no room to store it.
The reason for this is that tithing is not a
part of the Gospel of Jesus.
Now some money-loving ministers will tell you, “The Lord is
talking about Heaven.
In Heaven, that’s
where there will be no room to contain our blessing.”
But that answer only proves that when we lie
about God’s Word, other areas of the Bible don’t make sense.
In this case, the part that doesn’t make
sense is verse 11.
Malachi 3:11a reads,
“
I will prevent pests from devouring your
crops.”
Therefore,
if the
blessing (with no room to store it) is in Heaven, then there are problems in
Heaven.
One problem would be that
storage space is limited and another problem would be that there are devouring
pests in Heaven.
And if an idea doesn’t make
sense—it’s wrong.
I understand that because the Bible is ancient many of us believe
that it is out of date with our
modern
society.
Therefore, for today’s
modern Christians, God has a
modern tithe challenge.
Simply ask a
modern rabbi.
Our faith came from the Jewish faith.
It was started by a rabbi.
This is why we refer to our faith as a
Judeo-Christian faith.
Therefore,
although the writings are ancient, modern Jews live all around us.
And we are blessed to have many rabbis with
us here today.
You owe it to yourself to know the truth.
So, why not take the modern tithe
challenge?
Why don’t you see for
yourself whether God’s tithe is food or money?
You have nothing to lose.
Just go
to your nearest Synagogue and ask to speak with the rabbi.
Go ahead, ask the rabbi if the Jews tithe
their income.
Ask him if they tithe
cash-money.
And when you get your answer, go back home and thank the
Lord Jesus for having paid it
all
for you.
Salvation is a gift.
And tithing our income does not show
appreciation for the gift of salvation.
It shows contempt towards God’s holy tithe and it belittles the Grace that
we have been given.
And so, I pray that all those who hear these words and
believe be set free from the shackles of the modern cash-tithe fraud, in the
name of Jesus.
“
It is for freedom
that Christ has set us free. Stand firm,
then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians
5:1.
Thank you for listening.
Until next time, God bless you.