I find out today that there are many people who are concerned with what the Church does with its money. Really really concerned on God’s behalf. Very concerned.
I understand their perspective because there are dishonest leaders in Church and it is not new. They’ve always been. We’ve always had dishonest and greedy religious leaders.
Example
Mark 7:9-13
Those were the religious leaders in the days of Jesus and the Bible says they were lovers of money. Jesus used to take them on. He took on their doctrines. They used to get deep revelations. Each of them had to do with money and how to squeeze more out of people’s pockets.
“And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”
Example, Jesus took them up one day. He said you people tell people that whatever it is you’re supposed to give to your parents, if you name it corban which means a gift to God, they said it is acceptable, thief.
Honour your father and your mother. Take care of your parents, If you bring it instead to Church we will sanctify it. Church Gist.It is okay for you not to take care of your parents as long as it’s Church you bring the money to. That’s a thief with a deep revelation.
Everybody is not a thief. So our encouragement is don’t cry more than the bereaved. If anybody is messing up God’s resources He has a way of terminating their stewardship. Have you noticed, it’s not every Church that was in town twenty years ago that is still here. Church Gist.He loves His sheep and has a way of taking them elsewhere.
Leave Him let Him take care of His sheep. Don’t work on the assumption that those of us that give in to Church are foolish people. Your problem is that you’re looking at the pastor, it’s not pastor we came to worship. We came to worship God.
We have a Covenant with Him. It’s Him we’re giving our resources and He is the one we’re giving our promotion.
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