The Seventh-day Adventist Church in northern Peru annually performs different actions of solidarity and love for others, and December was no exception. Members from different local churches, along wit…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/adventists-in-northern-peru-shared-hope-and-love-this-christmas-season
Wednesday: The Tithe Contract
There is a close spiritual connection between the practice of tithing and our relationship to God. The Israelites prospered when they obeyed God and were faithful in tithing. In contrast, they fell on hard times when they didn’t. They seemed to follow a cycle of obedience and prosperity, and then disobedience and problems. It was during one of these periods of unfaithfulness that God, through the prophet Malachi, proposed a bilateral contract with His people.
Read Malachi 3:7-11. What are the promises and the obligations found in these verses?
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God promised the people that if they would return to Him, He would return to them. When they asked what He meant by returning to Him, He explicitly said, “Stop robbing Me of tithe and offerings.” Their robbery was the reason they were being cursed. Here is God’s solution to the problem of the curse: “Bring all the tithes [the whole tithe] into the storehouse” (Malachi 3:10, NKJV). And if you do this, then “I will … open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it” (NKJV). If we don’t have room enough to receive it, we have a surplus with which we can help others and help to advance the cause of God.
“He who gave His only-begotten Son to die for you, has made a covenant with you. He gives you His blessings, and in return He requires you to bring Him your tithes and offerings. No one will ever dare to say that there was no way in which he could understand in regard to this matter. God’s plan regarding tithes and offerings is definitely stated in the third chapter of Malachi. God calls upon His human agents to be true to the contract He has made with them.” — Ellen G. White, Counsels on Stewardship, p. 75.
One of the positive cycles of obedience is recorded during the reign of good King Hezekiah of Judah. There was a genuine revival in Judah, and the people started faithfully returning their tithes and offerings to the temple storehouse. So much came in that it was piled in heaps at the temple. Second Chronicles 31:5 tells what happened when the people “brought in abundance the firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything” (NKJV).
| What does your tithing (or lack thereof) say about your own spirituality and relationship to God? |
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Adventist History [First Adventist Baptism in Germany; and other happenings]
This week in Adventist history, we look at the first Seventh-day Adventist baptism in Germany in the person of John N. Andrews. An American missionary leader in Europe, he traveled to northwestern Germany to meet with a group of Sabbath-keeping Baptists. His baptism was conducted by the German-speaking Adventist Swiss pastor, Jakob Erzberger. Dr. David Trim expounds on this story and others on This Week in Adventist History. Visit https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/ for more Adventist stories and events. Established in 1863, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a global Christian family with over 21 million members who hold the Bible as the ultimate authority. We are believers who help people understand the Bible to find freedom, healing, and hope in Jesus. To learn more about the Seventh-day Adventist Church, visit https://www.adventist.org/. Subscribe to this channel and click the notification bell so you’ll never miss a new video. Follow us on these social media platforms:
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2.4 The Tithe Contract – GOD´S COVENANTS WITH US | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series MANAGING FOR THE MASTER with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
2.GOD´S COVENANTS WITH US
The highest of the universe makes a covenant with us.
Memory Text: Deuteronomy 28:1.2 – Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
2.4 The Tithe Contract
Promises of God will be fulfilled if you follow his commands.
My God bless you today and always.
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