Project Description
A Grace Perspective on Tithing
Bible Verses:
Genesis 12:2 – I will make you a great nation;I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. (NKJV)
Matthew 6:24 & Luke 16:13 – “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (NKJV)
Proverbs 10:22 – The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it. (NKJV)
2 Peter 1:4 – Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust. (Message Paraphrase)
2 Peter 1:4 – by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (NKJV)
2 Corinthians 1:20 – For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. (NKJV)
Romans 10:9 – that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (NKJV)
Galatians 3:9 & Genesis 15:6 – So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham (NKJV) / And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. (NKJV)
Galatians 3:13 – Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”) (NKJV)
Genesis 14:18-20 – Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said: “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And he gave him a tithe of all. (NKJV)
Malachi 3:10-11 – Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says the Lord of hosts; (NKJV)
For more information and further teaching on Rejecting Mammon, Chris Cree’s book is available online from: https://rejectingmammon.com/