Tithe

I want to write about tithe. But i am not interested to spend my time totally on it. So i thought of starting it now and edit, add little by little later and shuffle it to put it in order...

1. Tithe means 1/10 of something. (hmm i started to write :)) It also can be called a 10% of something. Same way "fifth" part means it is 1/5 of something and it cannot be called 5%. It is actually a 20%. If you wanted to redeem your 10%,  you have to add 20% more to its value and redeem it. (Lev.  27:31)

2. Offering is consecrated when you give and tithe is consecrated before you give.  Same like the first born, you cannot consecrate which was already consecrated by nature (Lev.  27:26). You just give it back. Free will offering is yours until you give. (Act. 5:4). Tithe is not counted as a free will offering though both are given by a single person. When you give tithe since it is already consecrated, blind or lame it has to go to the sanctuary. (Lev. 27:32-33.) Jacob vowed that he will give tithe. (Gen. 28:22). Something can be a vow until it becomes a commandment. After that it cannot be a vow.

3. When Abraham gave tithe he did not give because of the commandment but because of his faith. (the law was not there at his time). Tithe is not from the law. It is older than the law. It was added to the law. In New Covenant, we are not without any priestly order. We did not have the order of levites now because it is replaced by the order of Melchizedek. We are now royal priests and Jesus is our High Priest. (1Pet. 2:9; Heb. 5:6-10). Priests have to give their tithes to the high priest. (Num. 18:26). If you see the order of levites, those who would die received tithes. If you see the present order the One who lives is receiving tithes (Heb. 7:8).

The One who lives said not to stop tithing (Matt.  23:23). But he doesn't like that you ignore justice, mercy and faithfulness which are more important matters of the law. Tithing will not replace the observance of justice, mercy and faithfulness. And observing them will never replace the tithing.

4. Giving a consecrated thing doesn't make you a "giver". It frees you from an obligation. Giving a free will offering doesn't make you a generous person. What you give to God is an "offering" and it's not an alm. If you wanted to be called as a giver or a generous person give to the poor and needy. But when you give to the Giver, don't give it like you give to the needy. Give to needy but don't call it an offering. Give to God and don't call yourself a generous person. Give your offerings to the needy if God tells you to but don't call yourself a giver. You actually obeyed to the Giver.

Yes offerings also can go to the poor but from the Object of the offering and not from the worshiper (Deut. 14:28-29). Otherwise calling it an offering doesn't make sense. Jesus told us to give to the poor. I give to the poor. Sometimes i also want to pour oil upon Jesus. While i was pouring i hear someone say "give to the poor." When i look around to see who was that, this time its not Jesus. Hophni and Phinehas took from the offering while it was still in the process. Off course they paid for it later (1Sam. 2:15-17; 4:17). Don't take it for yourself before offering to God or while offering to God.

In 2Cor. 9:5 Paul was talking about a gift that they promised. He was not talking about tithe or any consecrated offering.
 
5. Give 100% to God if you want to but, keep it in mind that it doesn't free you from your action of holding His 10% unless you don't mix both consecrated and normal. Your 100% will never equals with His 10%. When God said that tithe belongs to him (Lev. 27:30), he did not have a memory loss that he should forget the fact that all belongs to him. He said it and i do it. Give if someone asks you. Obey if someone in authority commands you. When you give tithe you are giving because you are obeying.

That prophet

John the Baptist was the Elijah (Matt. 11:14, 17:10-13) yet he said "i am not" (Jn. 1:21). He doesn't know that he was Elijah. Later he was also puzzled about Christ. Luke 7:9.

Now if John the Baptist doesn't know about himself, then how can he know who was Jesus? They asked him "are you the Christ?" He said "no". Then  they also asked,  "are you that prophet?" (referring to the prophet that Moses spoke about.  Deut.  18:15-18) He said "no".  For them both Christ and "that prophet" are two different persons. Their ignorance made them kill Jesus. They asked about it a person who doesn't know about himself yet.

Before the baptism of Christ John the Baptist knew Jesus very well but as a relative. (Luke 1:36). He knows the character of Christ that is why when he saw him he said, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” (Matt. 3:14). After the baptism when the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus, then he realized that his relative Jesus is the Son of God. Let's hear it from his own words, "And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.” John 1:33‭-‬34.

Later before his death John was puzzled about Christ and asked “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?” Luke 7:18‭-‬19.

You may be in the same position and puzzled about Jesus. Even Mary who heard Gabriel was stumbled, disciples who have been with him and heard the Father in heaven saying "listen to him" (Deut. 18:15-18) have stumbled, now John the Baptist who heard the heavenly Father and testified him have stumbled. To you i want to tell this. Do not look for some other prophet. He is "that prophet" (Act. 3:22). Listen to him (Mark 9:7).

"Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.” Luke 7:‬23.

This is possible in New Testament

1. Coming short of the grace of God. (Heb. 12:15)

2. Children can be killed for parent sins. (Rev. 2:23)

3. Can be weak, sick, and sleep for not being careful at the communion. (1Cor. 11:30)

4. Excommunicate a person from the church for the fornication. (1Cor. 5:13)

5. Divorcing a person but saving from stoning for the same sin. (Matt. 19:9, Jn. 8:11)

6. You can Question a slap of injustice. (Jn. 18:23)

7. Judging between brethren. (1Cor. 6:5)

8. Not by faith only, but can be justified by works. (Jms. 2:24)

9. Winning husband without preaching to him. (1Pet. 3:1)

10. Turning the grace of God into lasciviousness. (Jude 1:4)

Det Proverbs 9

1. You've been singing for a long time "the cross is before me, the world behind me". But did you reach the cross yet?

2. God banned unclean animals not because they are unhealthy. They are unhealthy because God has banned them. Try a clean animal when he says not to.

3. A command is perfected in conviction. Yet better to obey before any conviction.

4. People put their hard work in front of them and hide their undisciplined nature behind it.

5. Your roots will come to the surface when you meet your own kind.

6. Love blinds herself the moment her both eyes: purity & knowledge are closed.

7. Blind love gives blind results because the Author of love closed His eyes on it.

8. A seducer's smile is an advance payment to secure a possible adultery in future.

9. Don't make every felt burden as your every responsibility, then you will be found everywhere being scattered from your destiny.

10. Concentrate on the head Jesus and all that scattered from you will come back and be joined.

11. It is impossible to overcome the world even before you overcome the flesh

12. It is difficult to have no clash in a team work.

13. It is impossible to enjoy in Holy Spirit, missing Jesus.

14. Doors are meant to open the way and not to lead the way. Mary is to give birth to a revival and not to lead it.

15. God's favor can pay your exam fee but it never writes your exam.

16. Do not stone an adulterous woman because you have forgiven her and divorce her because she is no more one with you. Same with the man.

17. Some are talented because they have disciplined their timings. Some are disciplined because their talents dictated their timings. 

18. Destiny cannot be brought to you by somebody. You have to reach it. Dont be silent. Move to move the Mover. 

19. Faith is moving towards God, to move God, to bring a move in your life. 

20. Blessings can be a benefit but benefits may not be a blessing. Sometimes even your benefits can be cursed. 

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His house and your's

Daniel prayed at his house. Gabriel came and helped him. When he prayed he did not took care of ceremonial cleaning or bathing anything like that (Dan.10:3). David also prayed at his house, prayed seven days for his child. 

But when his son died, he took bath and then went to the Lord's house (2 Sam. 12:20)

It seems that the requirement for the presence of God is varying between your house and his house. 

Det proverbs 8

1. Man chosen by God can be selected by Devil.
    So the paths selected by God have to be chosen by man.

2. God's every plan is his will. God's every will may not be his plan.

3. Finish up all your begging skills before you leave your prayer closet.
    You will never become an expert beggar outside of it.

4. A person who decorates himself much is an occupied person.

5. Every place touched by most holy becomes holy.
    So every most holy place is accompanied by a  holy place.

6. A world-lover never misses a glutton's company.

7. Uncertainty never attract investments.

8. If faith has a mouth and if it speaks, the word it first spells is "move".

9. Truth contains Urim & Tummim.

10. Some might quit their night time but might be still in darkness.

11. Some parents come home from their office yet do not off their positions.
      Some stop the car and forget to stop the engine.

12. Humbleness is not a skill. Its a beautiful paint on your skill.

13. Sometimes your perfection has taken the help of your betrayer.

14. To save Lot, either your faith moves to fight people or it fights to move God.

15. Sometimes God's forgiveness is hidden in your own love towards God.

16. Ego is a glass that blurs the answers for poverty.

17. Jacob was blessed. Not because he fought but because he prevailed in fight.

18. Commandment is the lamp and teaching is the light.
      Yet it is the teaching that motivates.

19. When your views are same with the views of God, he let's you see what he sees.

20. Christianity may not be a religion yet certainly it is not without a form.

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Det proverbs 7

1. Forgiveness doesn't mean that God's ok with your sin.

2. Forgiveness is not a solution to stop the sin.

3. If you don't give an offering it is not consecrated yet. 
    If you don't give tithe, you are holding a consecrated thing.

4. Success and coincidence can deceive you as God's approval.

5. The eyes of those love God are very sharp. They can locate the thin line that divides black and white.

6. They asked for a king over them. They did not reject his Godship but his lordship.
    Same are his people today.

7. If you know how to present yourself in Christ, you no need to be blessed.

8. All promises of God are yes and amen in Christ because all commandments of God were yes and amen in him.

9. Faith life has tears in it, that is only a while, while you are sowing.

10. God doesn't need a rest, a reminder-rainbow and the baptism.
 Yet he had all those stuff to be a model for us.

11. Love your enemies and never include God's enemies in them.

12. Repentance is like a death. Confession is like a resurrection.

13. Daniel was carrying the curse of his fathers. He is not a cursed man.

14. Spending your time in prayer may not be turning from your ways to the Lord.

15. Anointing doesn't prove your integrity.

16. Truth is a great counselor and kindness is the introduction and conclusion of it.

17. Attention is the center of gravity for your future.

18. Within hierarchy if a subordinate's free will survives the superior's approval by the divine intervention, his development goes beyond his borders.

19. Not just being a model but be with child to whom you wanted to be a model, then he will never leave it when he has grown up.

20. When I regulate a command, it pleases God. When he blesses me out of that peace and that blessing brings me peace.

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