Tithes & Offerings

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.

2 Corinthians 8:12

"Oh,
Q: must Christ, the Majesty of heaven, the King of glory,
--bear the heavy cross and
--wear the thorny crown and
--drink the bitter cup,
while we recline at ease,
glorify ourselves,
and forget the souls that He died to redeem?
A: No;"
E.G.W.

To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all;

first being by interpretation King of righteousness,

and after that also King of Salem, which is,

King of peace;

Without father,

without mother,

without descent,

having neither beginning of days, nor end of life;

but made like unto the Son of God;

abideth a priest continually.

Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

Hebrews 7:2-4

Tithing is Biblical:

MONEY (1/10 to God)

TIME (1/7 to God- the 7th day of the week, called the SABBATH)

Will a man rob God?
Yet ye have robbed Me.
But ye say,
Q: Wherein have we robbed Thee?
A: In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:8

"God's plan in the tithing system is beautiful in its simplicity and equality. 

All may take hold of it in faith and courage, for its divine in its origin. 

---In it are combined simplicity and utility, and does not require depth of learning to understand and execute it......

He has given His blood; 

He asks our silver. 

---it is through His poverty that we are made rich: and will we refuse to give back to Him His own gifts?...Systematic benevolence should not be made systematic compulsion. It is freewill offerings that are acceptable to God." 

E.G.W.

No man can serve two masters: 

for either he will hate the one, and love the other;

 or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. 

Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 

Matthew 6:24

"Mammon is such a familiar deity to mankind, because mankind is naturally so worshipful of Mammon. 

And yet it is all idolatry; 

it is all a denial of the true God; 

it is a breaking of the First Commandment, 

which says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” For, says Jesus: "Ye can not,"—not, Ye ought not; not, Ye should not; but,—"Ye can not serve God and Mammon."
Since the true worship of God is to love God with all the heart, and

all the soul, and all the mind, and all the strength; and anything that draw away either the heart, soul, mind, or strength to it, and comes between man and the true worship of God, is another god; 

so the allowing of money, 

---the desire for money, 

---the love of money, 

to come between a man and his true service to God, is the worship of Mammon." 

E.J. Waggoner