Series: Last Word Reminders
March 13, 2022 | Dr. Wes George
Passage: Malachi 3:8-12
God calls withholding tithes and offerings robbery.
8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.
Robbery is personal crime.
It is committed by a person. “you are robbing Me”
It is committed against a person. “Me” God Himself
God pronounces serious consequences when you rob God.
9 “You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!
God blesses obedient generous giving. (10-12)
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test 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 a blessing until it overflows. 11 Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the LORD of hosts. 12 “All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land,” says the LORD of hosts.