HEAVEN ON EARTH: Heaven in Your Money

• God reminds his people that he them.
  • "I have loved you," says the LORD. (Malachi 1:2)
  • …But you say, “How have you loved us?” (Mal 1:2)
• God confronts the way his people him.
  • “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ (Mal 1:6)
  • By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the LORD’s table may be despised. [8] When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? (Mal 1:7-8)
• God confronts his people about withholding what to him.
  • Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. (Mal 3:8)

• God It and We It (Ps 50:10-11 / Haggai 2:8 / Psalm 24:1 / 1Chron 29:14)
  • "Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful." (1 Cor 4:2)
• We God’s House
  • "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house." (Mal 3:10 )
  • On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. (1 Cor 16:2)
    • The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Cor 9:6-7)
    • Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings? In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel. (1 Cor 9:13-14)
• We God with the
  • "And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need." (Malachi 3:10)
  • "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33)
  • "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work." (2 Cor 9:8)

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