Tithing: its Purpose, Function and Blessing The Key to an open Heaven
Malachi 3:8-12
What We Do
We pay tithes and give offerings in the Storehouse
Proverbs 3:9&10 Honor God with First Fruits of Income
What God Does
Open the windows of heaven
Poor you out a blessing so big that it exceeds your pace to receive it
Rebuke the devourer for your sakes
Cause all to acknowledge the blessing that is upon you
God will Fill our Barns with Plenty Proverbs. 3:10
Jesus Taught Tithing: Mt 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. The Lord Jesus sides with them concerning paying tithes, but rebukes them for neglecting the moral, spiritual value aspects of the law. Their focus was on works, legalism and religion and not in a genuine covenant connection with God. Tithing was Practiced 430 Years before the Law: Ge 14:17- 20And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. Here the tithe is given in connection with the blood covenant in Christ.The presence of the bread and wine looks forward to our blood covenant in Christ. The blood of Christ recognized as Abram was blessed his tithe connects him to the blood covenant and its promises. I Corinthians 10:16 clearly references this fact as well as I Cor. 11:23-25. Hebrews 8:6b Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established upon better promises.