YOU HAVE TO ENGAGE ONE LAW TO BE FREE FROM THE OTHER. IT IS NOT A FREE FOR ALL JAMBOREE KINGDOM, WHERE YOU SPEAK GRAMMAR AND THINK YOU ARE MAKING MARKS.
A NUMBER OF MINISTERS WHO PREACH GRACE, DON’T PREACH AGAINST TITHING, THEY DON’T PREACH AGAINST GIVING. IN FACT, THAT IS WHAT THEY PREACH THE MOST.
THERE IS NO DEPARTMENT IN OUR OFFICE THAT CHECKS ANYBODY’S TITHES. YOU MAY NOT PAY TITHES FOREVER. BUT IF YOU HAVE A NEED, WE WILL STILL RUSH IN AND SERVICE THAT NEED BECAUSE WE ARE BLESSED BY DOING WHAT YOU WON’T DO.
WE HAVE NEVER FELT ANY ECONOMIC HEAT IN THIS NATION. WE WERE UNDER THE STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMME: IT DIDN’T HAVE TO ADJUST US. WE ARE JUST BLESSED, JUST GOING ON!!
-Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
*Life in the Kingdom is not a jamboree Kingdom, it is not a ‘do what you like’ Kingdom. It’s not a ‘talk-talk’ Kingdom.
- Christianity brings you and me under the law of Christ
- Tithing is not a church technique to raise money.
Heavenly Father, thank You again for today, for Your Word is alive forever. Thank You for proving that and validating that in our midst, in diverse testimonies. Speak again Your Word to us this morning, to the glory and praise of Your name, in Jesus precious name.
EVERY COMMANDMENT OF SCRIPTURES IS FOR OUR PROFITING
Job 36:11, Isaiah 45:19
Every commandment is for our profiting – 2 Timothy 3:16-17
His Word is for our decoration, our beautification, our elevation, our honour and our glory. Every commandment of scriptures is ordained for our profiting and I pray that shall be the experience of everyone of us as we connect with utmost delight, with the commandment of scriptures and working in the light of them, in the name of Jesus.
To be lawless is to be lifeless. The law of life demands that you breathe in and breathe out. No matter how civilized you are, no matter how educated you are, if you won’t breathe in and breathe out, you get out of existence, it is a law. You don’t only eat, you also defecate, if you don’t defecate, you are dead. They are laws of nature. You don’t make moves, you sit down in the same place: you become floppy. Church Gist. So everything about life is guided by laws. When you have this extreme message in quote of Grace, it can squeeze life out of people.
Matthew 5:17-24
Very interesting, you will see the higher laws of the Kingdom. So you hate laws, you hate commandments, you don’t have a place in the Kingdom.
Matthew 5:27-28. It is not a jamboree Kingdom, it is not a ‘do what you like’ Kingdom. It’s not a ‘talk-talk’ Kingdom. It’s a Kingdom guided by rules.
1 Corinthians 9:20-22. Life in the Kingdom is guided by laws. Christianity brings you and me under the law of Christ, some of which I was reading in Matthew chapter 5. We are under the law of Christ, we are not a lawless people. We don’t belong to a lawless Kingdom, we belong to a Kingdom that is guided by laws.
Those young men building 200 Megawatts of solar energy (documented testimony). You know the meaning of 200 Megawatts, from 1000 …, by aligning with the law of the Spirit.
Romans 8:1-2. You have to engage one law to be free from the other. So it is not a free for all jamboree Kingdom, where you speak grammar and think you are making marks. You are guided by rules and laws.
Sir, if you don’t set rules around your life, you will just fall flat and fail for nothing.
Let’s talk about the Tithing Commandment for the few seconds we have.
TITHING COMMANDMENT
Tithing is a commandment that opens the windows of heaven over the lives of believers – Malachi 3:10-11
It’s a law.
Matthew 23:23 – you ought to pay tithes and not to leave what I have listed there undone. Jesus was validating the place of tithing in the Kingdom. If you are not a delightsome tither, a consistent tither, you are not a candidate for financial fortune.
“This ought you to have done”: you pay the tithes from every of your endeavours and not to leave the others undone. Church Gist. A number of ministers who preach grace, don’t preach against tithing, they don’t preach against giving. In fact, that is what they preach the most.
“This ought you to have done and not to leave the other undone” – Matthew 23:23
Some of them were tithing, but they were tithing mournfully. “We have walked mournfully before thee” – They were not cheerful, it was a weight on them and also it was not answering, for God only responds to cheerful givers – 2 Corinthians 9:7
Malachi 3:14 – Can you see where their problem is? They were engaging mournfully, they were engaging ‘complain-fully’: All the time, murmuring. All the time, complaining. So they mess up their lives.
I was talking with one management staff of Peugeot automobile company then, he said the Peugeot car is made of 3,000 parts. So it is not one part, 3,000 parts that gets it on the road. You ask a layman like me, I can’t name more than 10 of the parts. But for your life to get on the highway of life, don’t do one and leave the other. Just understand the comprehensive picture of it, what is it that makes my giving profitable? Find out and you will find out that you are off key, that is why it is not working.
Every time, “God, this is it. Take it again.” It never works. Why don’t you eat with your money? God is not in need, He is not challenged, the earth is His and the fullness thereof – Psalm 24:1
You can’t keep doing it mournfully and expect returns.
Joel 1:12
It takes joyful engagement with the law of tithing and giving to ever be entitled to returns. Joyfulness and gladness of heart. Stop faking this thing Sir, it is working. Too many people in this Commission and around the world in many Churches are swimming in the affluence of the blessing of tithing by doing it correctly, doing it scripturally, doing it joyfully, doing it with utmost delight. So join the group, join the army. It is working.
The law says in Leviticus chapter 27 verse 30, “all the tithes of the land belong to the Lord.”
Matthew 5:17
Today, Jesus Himself receives our tithes in Heaven as our Melchizedek. That will just put you on the spot.
Hebrews 7:7-8,1-6
So every tithes we give goes into Jesus’ account who has the key of David that opens that no man shuts. So He uses that key to open the window of heaven over your life when your tithing is done according to the rule of scriptures. Not enforced, not coerced. Not under pressure, not under tension. He opens the heavens over your life.
Somebody who pays tithes of 3 Naira under duress, under pressure; will he ever pay 300 Naira of tithes? No, he will run away. Somebody who is under pressure to pay a tithe of 300 Naira from his income, will he ever pay 3000 (Naira)? No, he can’t.
He that is faithful in the least, is also faithful in much. So your faithfulness to tithing must start from where you are. I won’t need to tell you how much my tithes was in those days. Because a tithe is a tenth of my income, what comes my way. And if I am still giving a testimony of 1000 (Naira) a week, 1989, please wake up and start from where you are. All this hit and run won’t help you. Hit and stick: He will keep changing your level as you are due.
It is the blessing of God that makes rich and adds no sorrow – Proverbs 10:22
That is the tithing commandment, that is where it stands. Don’t think it is one Church technique to raise money. You feel your tithe, if you have one, you think anybody is reading it? There is no department in our office that checks anybody’s tithes. You may not pay tithes forever, you have a need, we will still rush in and service that need because we are blessed by doing what you won’t do.
This Church will forever be blessed, there is no, we will never borrow forever and we never cry for things to come.
We have never had to pray on this prayer altar, “Oh God, send us money.”
Why are we still flowing in affluence? God wants to do something in your life, allow Him. He doesn’t force His way into anybody’s life. I knock at the door, you open, I come in; you don’t open, I pass on, there are too many people I am looking for – Revelation 3:20
Today, Jesus receives tithes in Heaven. Therefore, complying with the commandment of tithing makes a difference between one believer and another in hard times.
Malachi 4:1-2
Now see how your Church is growing up and growing forth. We have never felt any economic heat in this Nation. Never once.
We were under the Structural Adjustment Programme: it didn’t have to adjust us. We are just blessed, just going on!!
-No one here shall be a misfit. Prosperity is our global identity around the world. I mean, you can’t be part of this and then remain a pauper. If you will do what He commands us to do; if you will do what your Church is doing.
-It is your turn to experience a massive financial turnaround.
Can you say with me, “I believe in the commandment of tithing. Thank You Jesus for strengthening me again, to stand in this covenant, to my profit, for my benefit.”
SPEAK TO THE DAY
Thank You Jesus. Today is the 3rd day of the Spiritual Week of Emphasis. On the 3rd day, He will raise us up and we shall stand in His sight.
Ask God for a re-positioning of the 3rd day, at the evening Service today which has started already. A re-positioning of the 3rd day. You want a re-positioning encounter of the 3rd day and it is yours, in the name of Jesus. So shall it be.
Remember, Sunday is our Covenant Day of Escape, every captive that comes in here shall be liberated in the name of Jesus Christ.
Give Him thanks and speak to the day. Speak to the day please.
The day must bring forth in raw obedience.
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