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12 Things more important than Tithe Paying:


Texts: Luke 11:42, Matthew 23:23,
1 Samuel 15:22-23


What things are more important to God than paying your Tithes regularly without failing?

The benefits of paying your Tithes are numerous, but the truth is; how many dollars or pounds you toss into the Church treasury are not more important to God than these things about to be talked/taught about.

"Tithe Payment" without failure is not the most important aspect of being a real born again Christian.

  In Luke 11:42 and Matthew 23:23 Jesus Christ aggressively attacked the Pharisees, Scribes, Saducees, so called teachers of the law etc as Jesus mentioned "The other things that really matter much much more than paying tithes".
What are those things?
In the next segments of this message, we'll talk about these other things that matter a whole lot more than mere " Tithe paying " which isn't unimportant anyways.

1. Obedience to God's Commanents:
God releases blessings to People who obey him, and releases curses to those who disobey him.
Paying your Tithes without failure yet disobeying God's Commandments is like trying to run your gasoline fueled car with water instead. It doesn't work.
God doesn't appreciate sacrifices above an express obedience of his commandments. God doesn't value the highest tithe payers on earth much more than he values those who strive to keep and obey his every commands and keep pleasing him close and inseparable from their hearts.
Read 1 Samuel 15:22-23

2.  Having a Pure Heart:
Matthew 5:8 says "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God".
  Anyone with a heart full of belligerence and truculence can stroll into your Church and toss a bundle/stack of Benjamins into the offering box and then bark obscenities at the officiating Clergyman or in extreme cases of no reverence or fear of what/whom they're dealing with bark obscenities at God.
Such kind of offerings or financial gifts disgust and offend God.
  God isn't moved by the quantity of your offerings, God is moved by the quality of your offerings.
  The offering that has quality and pleases God is the one given with a cheerful and grateful heart.
In Genesis 4 God didn't accept Cain's offering because it lacked quality though the quantity was much.

3. Genuine Love for God's Creations/Creatures:
God doesn't expect you to love him but destroy his creations.
I believe that this is the reason why he's installed mechanisms in nature that makes those who neglect the important roles his creations play in the global ecosystem regret doing so.
  Issues such as global warming, desert encroachment, water table leaching, glacial meltdown, green house emissions etc are all retributions that indicate that God doesn't take the destruction of natural ecosystems lightly.

4 . Living in love and Peace with your Neighbors:
People who make Peace or pursue peace with all men shall be called the Sons of God.
  God loves it if all you have to give are vegetables but with genuine love.
Read Matthew 22:36-40

5. Preaching and Living the lifestyle of Truth:
God wants you to establish his Kingdom here on Earth on a foundation of Truth. Trying to establish God's Kingdom on a platform of lies is like trying to lay down the foundations for a five star estate in the middle of the ocean.
  Hmm, that seems quite possible!
Matthew 18:18

6. Honesty, Genuineness and Sincerity:
   God is particularly interested in your secret lives and secret sins.
What he sees in the secret [/color], he rewards in the open.
Read Matthew 6:8b
Hiding your sins from God thinking you could outsmart God is as dumb as what a dumb person would see and call "very dumb."
Read  Proverbs 28:13,
Isaiah 6:5-6

7. Uncompromised/Uncorrupted Worship:
  God is a Spirit and those who worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth not in flesh.
  There's no indirect way to worship God. Any so called second party worship of God is pure idolatry and it pisses God off. If you sow in flesh you'll only reap corruption.
  Q: What is Corrupted Worship?
A: Corrupted worship is the kind of worship done openly and half heartedly primarily with the intents of drawing the attention and applause of men rather than the acceptance or approval of God.
  Beloved, in front of everyone here, I will eradicate poverty from your life pray for God not to punish me .. bla bla bla ...
Na dem be dat, shine ya eyes.

8. Having Compassion for Lost Souls:
God does not desire that the sinful person should perish but that they should turn from their sins and begin to walk in righteousness.
  He expects us to put in much importance to searching and seeking for lost souls much more than we harp on the strings of money, donations, offerings and of course our celebrity topic "Tithe"
Read Ezekiel 33:1-33

9. Having Eternity in Perspective:
Being the richest Christian that ever lived, isn't more important than being amongst the number when the Saints are marching in.
Is your name, surname and middle name in the book of life?
If you made God smile above 50%  of your time here on earth, your nick name will also be included.

10 . Not neglecting the poor and needy:
  If you oppress the poor and deprive them of justice, God takes it personal to come for your behind. On the positive flip side, if you take care of the poor and needy and make sure they smile, God smiles back at you along with them.

11. Rendering/Delivering Justice to the oppressed, and to those denied or deprived of Justice:
  Of what use are your fat envelopes and tithes when you're the harbinger of injustice to those who need it most?
  Injustice causes the love of many to wax cold. If you're Preaching the Gospel and People sigh, hiss and close their ears, injustice may be lurking in your closets. Deal with it.
Read Matthew 24:12

12. The Establishment of God's Kingdom here on Earth as it is in Heaven:
  God wants you to do more than just be a money bag or financial pillar in your nearby Church, he wants you to be a channel or annex of establishment of his Kingdom here on Earth as it is in Heaven.
 
13. Be Humble before God:
  God is not your dog that you toss stacks at where you've kept him in the boot of your car.
  Many Folks treat God as if God is their dog. I say this because I've encountered such People.

  May God forgive and deliver them. The wiser a man or woman becomes the more he/she knows that being humble before God is the key that opens the gateway to upliftment and prosperity.

Cheers!
Wishing you the best.
Yours Sincerely;
Apostle Constance C. Friday.
Lead Pastor/General Overseer
of Real Life Gospel Church.

Take Some time to watch this video lecture about the importance of Tithe Paying as a real Christian.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23bnvSsEaKE

Refer to Exodus 30 v 13-16 for where God gave the instruction through Moses;

13 This shall every man give, that goeth into the number, half a shekel, after the [a]shekel of the Sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs) the half shekel shall be an offering to the Lord.
14 All that are numbered from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the Lord.
15 The rich shall not pass, and the poor shall not diminish from half a shekel, when ye shall give an offering unto the Lord, for the redemption of your lives.
16 So thou shalt take the money of the redemption of the children of Israel, and shalt put it unto the use of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord, for the redemption of your lives.

Refer to Deuteronomy 14 v 22-29;

22 Thou shalt give the tithe of all the increase of thy seed, that cometh forth of the field year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God (in the place which he shall choose to cause his Name to dwell there) the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thy kine, and of thy sheep, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is far from thee, where the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name, when the Lord thy God shall bless thee,
25 Then shalt thou make it in money, and take the money in thine hand, and go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.
26 And thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thine heart desireth: whether it be ox, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatsoever thine heart desireth: and shalt eat it there before the Lord thy God, and rejoice, both thou, and thine household.
27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, shalt thou not forsake: for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of three years thou shalt [e]bring forth all the tithes of thine increase of the same year, and lay it up within thy gates.
29 Then the Levite shall come, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, and shall eat, and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.