New Testament giving prinsiples

How are you raising your children? This is not part

of the message you but your decide to bring this

one up. This money because this video was sent to

me and then it was it caught my attention. I've

sent it on our waterapp group so you can look

at it again. But I want to challenge every one

of us that thinks that disciplining a child, eh, that

you are being wicked to the child, even those of

us that are yet to become parents. All we are

saying is that our future hm, this is church. That

the future is going to be worse than what we

are saying today. That's what we are painting. Some of

us go to farm, we go everywhere. Our children never

go to farm. They just sit down at home. They

waste away and they constitute a nuisance and they become

big boys and girls in the house. They don't know

any think about life at all. And then we think

we are raising children. H. In the last few days

we have the Lord has given us two beautiful children

and with thank God for it. But you see, it's

all in our hands, parents, it's all in our hands.

Do you want to know how the future will look like?

Just wait and see how your children display their attitude.

Then you can tell it's not magic. Eh. There are

some things that you don't need to pray about. You

just see them happening. You just see them happen. But

just want to call our attention to this. How are

you training your children? And for those of us who

are young people, all right, supposing your parents you think

they've not done enough by training you, well, they say, way,

you can turn things around and you can become a

better you. And that's all I want to say about that.

Don't let your children the those that constitute nuisance in

the environment. For us, we don't need any more of

those children. We don't need any more of those children.

And by the way, if you think you are taking

care of your own children, well you see, that's the

reason why we are to do the prayer. We did

this money for our children. Eh, that's one of the reasons.

Some of these are children. They are engaged in different

kind of people out there. School don't start again, so

you don't know what they are going to eat. They

go chop something, We'll be saying, they go come inside

your house. You go begin to see this kind thing.

Way the wait, did your son never have you talk

before you begin. Yeah, wait, did they wront with this

boy like this? But that the no entire brain say something?

Don't they apple spiritualign Please let's be careful our girls.

I begin to dress and there is nothing about it. Eh.

May the Lord help us in Jesus name. You see,

there are some things that we should not be praying about.

That's me personality. There are some things we should train.

That's what the Bible say, train op a child. He

didn't say we should pray. No, there's room for prayer.

H May God help us in Jesus name. Right charge

this money. Let me start from a dickness question. Father,

we ask that you would teach us your word this

day in the name of Jesus. Let it be a

revelation beyond the letters, to the glory and honor of

your name. In Jesus' name, we pray. All right, So

let me begin from the from dickness question last week.

So I'll just touch on it briefly, and then I

will go to what I want us to do today.

It's not going to be too long. I trust God

for it. Then will give room for interactions again like

we've always been doing. So Dickness was asking the matter

of eating one's tight, because some people will say that

the Bible say that we can eat our tight. So

let's understand what the Bible has to say about eating

one's tight, so that we have a clear understanding of

what God has to say for us, because many Christians

are confused when they read the israels that Israel was

told to eat the app and understanding this requires seeing

the three different kinds of tides. All right, we have

mentioned it, but let's take a deeper look into those.

Just if it won't belong, I'll just point at those things,

and then this response will help us to grabs the

meaning of eating the tights and what it meant. So

we look at that. So we look at some biblical texts,

and then us looking at Deuteronomy chapter twelve, seventeen to nineteen,

then chapter fourteen twenty two to twenty nine. I think

there's one other text from numbers. So we just look

at all of those very briefly, and then we see

what God has for us. So let's first go to

Deuteronomy chapter twelve, seventeen to nineteen. Look at what the

Bible says said. It says you must not eat in

your own towns, the type of your green and new

wine and olive oil, or the first bone of your

heads and flocks, or whatever you are vowed to give,

or your free will offering or special gifts. Eighty says, Instead,

you are to eat them in the presence of the

Lord your God. At the place the Lord your God

will choose you your sons and your daughters, your male

and female servants, and the levites from your towns, and

you are to rejoice before the Lord your God in

everything you put your hand to. Verse nineteen says, be

careful not to neglect the levites, all right, as long

as you live in your land. Okay, so that's do

you see what the Bible's saying there, So keep that

in mind. Then the other one says in Deuteronomy fourteen

twenty two, distribute to to twenty nine. But let's take

it portion by portion, all right. Be sure to set

aside a tenth that's the type. Now, what's wrong to

set a tenth of all that your fields produce each year?

It's the type of your grain, new wine and olive oil,

and the first bone of your heads and flocks. In

the presence of the Lord your God at the place

it we choose as a dwelling for its name, so

that you may learn to rever the Lord your God.

But if that place is too distant.

And you have been blessed by the Lord your God

and cannot carry your tythe because the place where the

Lord we choose to put its name is so far away.

So Verse twenty five, then exchange your type for silver.

That is, like you know, selling your type, right, you

sell it, and then the money you not carry the money,

and take the silver with you and go to the

place the Lord your God we choose. Use the silver

that is the money to buy whatever you like, cattle, shape,

wine and other fermented drinks, or anything you wish. Then

you and your household shall eat there in the presence

of the Lord your God, and rejoice. And do not

neglect the levies living in your towns, for they have

no alongments or inheritance of their room. Twenty eight says

at the end of every three years, bring all the

tithes of that year's produce and start it in your towns,

so that the levites, who have no allotments or inheritance

of their own, and the foreigners, the fatherless, and the

widows who live in your towns may come and eat

and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God

may bless you in all the work of your hands. Right,

so three tights are mentioned. Okay, three tights are mentioned.

So the first one is the levitical tithe, the sacred

tythe We have talked about it already, so I'll just

mentioned it in past. So it belongs to the tides.

Every year they will have to bring these. It is

ten percent. Okay, that is the levitical tithe. Okay, that's

the first one. So the one that we're talking about

now is is the festival or rejoicing tithe. Okay, the

festival type or rejoicing tight. That is the second type

of tide. So the purpose of that is to be

eating and enjoyed in God's presence as an act of worship.

You don't eat it at all. I hope saw it

in that text, those scriptural passages. I read right, you

don't eat it at all. You must bring it to

where God has chosen for you to worship. Okay, so

today we can take it to the what we call

the swallow ship. H So you bring it here. Everybody

bring whatever they are, and then we eat it together.

But even though it is the title of these people,

but God is saying you are not to eat it

at home, but you we bring it to the House

of God and everybody, your family, everybody that we eat

it today. But it is not only your family that

we eat it, but you also prepare portions for the

priests out of it, all right. So where are there

supposed to do it? The place the Lord chooses, and

it's supposed to be a solemn monthfold duty. No, I

mean not a solemn or monthful duties. A place of

rejoicing where you celebrate, all right, that's what that is

meant for. And so the key future of that again

continues to say, a portion of grain, wine, oil, lifetalk

and all of those things. The entire household we participat

in it, and then it was a festival of that's

what you see in that particular one, all right. So

it is not something that so when somebody comes and

say the Bible say we should eat our tipe, don't

let us just isolate a portion of the Bible and

capitalize on it and form a doctrine out of it.

Let's allow the Bible to so you see that there

are three. So the third one, the third one is

the charity type, okay, which is meant for the poor

people in the community. In those texts I read again,

it says that every three years you're supposed to bring

this together so that the widows, the widows, the offhanse,

and the less privilege in the society, they will also

participate of what the Lord has blessed you with. In fact,

he says, then they levites, the foreigners, all of them,

they will all be they will all participate in it.

All right, is that play? So what's the the theological

significance of this? Now, the understanding here is that typing

was not just a tax. Typing is not a tax,

but it was worship, fellowship and socio key. That is

very important. So it is not you have to you

must bring ten percent and that is this thing you

must if you don't bring it, and you know it

is beyond that, it's a way of worshiping God. That's

what God intends that to be. So God reminded Israel

that he is the source of all the blessings Roman

I mean Deuteronomy fourteen twenty three. So joy, generosity and

compassion at the hearts of true giving. You know this

subject of tax, we investigate more. You know, Nanagia, you

have to go and do your most pay tax now

if you have not been paying tax. The federal government

has put up a law so that by January faus

this year, your team number, everything else to be ready.

So if you're doing business, but we'll find out details

of what it requires so that we can tell all

of us and we know where we stand as a church.

So that But I am sure that even at the

association yesterday, they gave us an understanding that we should

not panic and say that after generally, first you will

not have access to your money. No, that's not what

the law says. You will say have access to your money.

But we get detailed on our understanding about this, and

then we'll be able to inform the church about it.

All right, Okay, so man, is that fair? Bit? So

we all understand. So eating of the tides, it's not

just that you won't bring the tides. There's the one

that you must bring. There's the one that goes to

the let privilege. Even with that world that you are

going to eat, you come, you bring it in the

presence of the Lord, that's where you eat it. So

that's for them. But let's not go to the New Testament.

Something is wrong with this setting. Let's now go to

the to the New Testament and see what God has

for us in that place. So New start Testament given principles.

All right, It is grace based giving. Can we say

it together? Grace based given? All right? So, and that's

what we're going to look at again in the next

couple of minutes. So let's pay attention. So we look

at Matthew chapter six one to four, Acts two forty

four to forty seven, part of where we read in

our commenter Bible reading this morning, and then Second Corinthians

chapters eight to nine. But we just pick out some

points from those places and see how God is going

to help us, all right. So Number one thing that

I want us to understand is that New Testament given

is secret. And since here can we all say it together?

New Testament given is secret? And since here, okay, so

what does that mean? Let's read the Bible Matthew six

one to four. Be careful not to practice your righteousness

in front of others to be seen by. Then when

you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpet. Okay,

that is a pabolic Eh. That writing is a public

of course, you will not carry trumpet and start blowing it,

all right. But the Bible is trying to emphasize something there.

But when you give, do not let your left hand

know what your right hand is doing. So that you're

giving may be in secret. Then your father, who sees

what is done in secret, we reward you. So the

New Testament idea of giving is secret. So the principle

is that what you are giving the other person. Of course,

so when the Bible is say the right hand should

not know ami the left and you don't know where

the right hand is given, is saying that the other

person should not know what you are giving, so you

give it the secret. What do we understand from that?

The key point there is that Jesus wants against giving

for show off or priest. It is only when you

go for the old one base that one is permitted.

Adi that one's permitted. Okay, you are doing launching outside

the church, and you are doing all of those kinds

of things. Eh, then you know you're singing. As you're singing,

they're just praising you. And there your head, is your tony,

is your tony? Ah, then just carry out your bang ballace.

Just begin this praying musician, just the praying musician. Yes,

you can do that outside, it's not I don't have

anything against it. You can go ahead, But as far

as the church is concerned, that is showing off. Don't

do it in the church. Don't do it in the church.

You're showing off. So Jesus wants against such kind of

a thing. And then the one that you say, pastor,

announce my name. I am giving ten billionaire for the

church for this one, this one announced my name the church. No,

God doesn't want that show off. God doesn't want that

show off. But can the pastor announce that someone has given? Yes,

why not? And I've done that several times. The family

is blessing the church with this. There are times that

I don't mention the family, but there are times that

the family will come and you know, so it could happen.

But what is their heart? Their heart is key to God.

All right. True giving is not for public display. But

it is between you and God. Ah, that is true giving.

It's not for public display. Everybody, come and know what

I'm giving, all right, God, rewards sincere secret and spirit

led given. But of course there's a way you can

do it. So once you do it your own way,

you would have received the blessing. But the wound that

God actually worthy world is what you have here. So

what is the context. Let's put it today. In some

churches today people give just to have their names on

the donation list or to be given front seats. Jesus

says that that is all the reward that we get.

That they will just mention your name and they will

put you in front seat. That's all you get. God

looks at the heart, not the hype. Is that strange? Eh?

Is that strange? But that's exactly what the Bible wants

us to do, all right. Number two, New Testament given

is voluntary and community focused. New Testaments given is voluntary

and what community focused? Voluntary? That nobody has forced you

to do it. You have decided in your heart to

do it, and so you do it. Why community focused?

Because you have seen a need to do it, and

then you are convinced of that need and you go

ahead to give. Look at what the Bible says Acts

Chapter two four, forty five and forty seven. So I've

got it. So all the believers were together and had

everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give

to any one who had need, and the Lord added

to their number daily those who were being saved. What's

the point. The key principle that you see here is

that any Christians were not first to give. They did

it willingly. And that is our model. Nobody first and

anybody to give. No, they were willing. In fact, when

you get to chapter four again you will towards the

latter part of it. You will see We're bannerbas contributed

to the growth of the church. And then in chapter

five you will now see Annias and Saphira they decided

that they will sell their plot of land, and they

sold the plot of land. After they finished selling the land,

they now came to the apostles and they say, Pastor,

this is what we have sold. It's no more than

that too, and we too, we have come. And if

you listen to the conversation, Peter was telling them that

it is not something that belongs to you. Why are

you going to lie to the old spirit. It belongs

to you. They didn't force you to bring it. Others

are doing it. They are not saying because others are doing,

but because you also want to say, everybody notice me

or me too, I don't contribute to And that was

where the challenge was. So the pipe is saying, that

is not the kind of thing that God expects of us.

So what God expects of us, be willing. And then

it should be a voluntary thing, not something that somebody forced.

You know, it is you that decided in your heart.

So they are giving was a way to meet the

needs and build unity in the body of Christ. They say,

focus is community. We do it for the benefit of everybody.

As a result, what happened, God increased the church. God

increased the church. Imagine a church where the wealthy help

the struggling members, schoofies, lend food all of those not

by force, but from love. That is the New Testament,

given in action. I have what other people don't have,

and I say a need in the life of their child,

in the life of that family, and I take a

step to go and bless the family. I don't need

to announce it, or perhaps you don't even want them

to know you, all right, And that happens a lot.

It happens back then, Mother Church, there's a family that

we always give the dickens every year at the beginning

of the year. This man will always, you know, get some.

It doesn't matter the number of the dickens. And in

that church they have I think, I don't know, maybe

they are less than twenty five now, but I know

they have up to twenty five twenty twenty five dickens

in Garrikeee. But all of them, all of them, there

will be something packaged for them. Every year. A woman

just passed. Just in fact, they just went for the

barrier yesterday, I think yesterday or this past week. Each

time they are having the annual Thanksgiving in the church,

this woman, because she's a caterer, she will get a

stand of her own. She will make body make different

kinds of things, and then she would distribute and give everybody.

She will bring our workers to come and do it.

And it got to a point that some people started

complaining that this woman, it's only some people that she

used to give. She doesn't even give anything. And after all,

we are the world who gave our money to do

all these things. And I came to the church and

they are to see this one that you're seeing or

not be anybody give. It is out of our own

that she gave it. The church did not give her

a penny, and she has been doing it year in

year out. During VBS, she would do something for the children.

Did they force her to do it? Nobody does, No

one ever did that. That is giving you see in

need in the life of the church. That is the

level that God wants us to get to. It is

not a time to say I don't have anything. That's

which you have. How do you think you can become

a blessing to the body of Christ through what you have?

It is not money. This woman didn't. It wasn't even money.

It's just part of what she knew that she can

use to bless and she's doing it. So which one

is yours? Number three? New Testaments Given is grace based

and spirit laid. New Testaments Given is grace based and

spirit laid. We have touched on this before, but I'm

bringing it up again. Second Corinthians from chapter eight three

to five, then chapter ninety six and seven. For I

testify that they that they gave as much as they

were able, and even beyond their ability. They audiently pleaded

with those for the privilege of sharing these are the

Macedonian Christians. They were even begging Paul. They don't have

so much. It's a poor community. But they were even

begging because Paul was saying, hey, don't even give, don't

you you don't don't let us bother you. But they

said no, please give us the opportunity to give. Why

they say the giving beyond just giving. They are saying

it as an opportunity to contribute to the growth of

the Body of Christ. Each of you should give what

you have decided with in your heart, what you have

decided in your heart, Give it not reluctantly or under compulsion.

For God loves a cheerful giver. We have dealt with

this before when we looked at the heart of the giver.

But what's the key insight that I want to get

from here? The Macedonian Christians gave sacrificially even though they

were poor. So before somebody say me, I am cookoo poor,

You're not just cuckoo poor. It is just that your

mind is poor. And if your mind is poor, it

will affect your physical life too. These Christians, the Macedonian Christians,

were poor people from every standard, yet they pleaded that

they wanted to also give, and they gave sacrificially beyond

what they could ordinarily have given. Giving should be planned

from their hearts and joyful plant plan you're given, Oh today,

Oh God has blessed me. This is what I want

to give, and you go ahead and give it. There

is no fixed amount, only a call to give generously

and cheerfully. The difference between Old Testament and New Testament given.

In the Old Testament given it is ten percent. But

in New Testament everything is combined. It is not ten percent.

In fact, by analysis, eh, it is more even more

than ten percent. Because if God had taken care of you.

Somebody had an accident and the person is in the

hospital spending millions and you God has rescued you, eh,

and you are opportune the same road where you follow

the person follow that road and the person nearly can

put but God stay keep in life. And the they

hospital and they say make it bring five million before

they go solve the problem with in life. But you

easily you pass that road and you reach out safely,

and then as you come you won't Comet does do

this thing. They can look for one this wife foundering alies. Okay,

that's all God deserves for his protection over your life,

and then you come and give, give generously and cheerfully.

The contrast, yet, between the Old Testament and New Testament

is that in the Old Testament, giving like tides, was require.

You don't have a choice, it was required, you must

give it. And I'm sure that you can notice it

from those three types of tides that I mentioned earlier on.

Nobody nobody is exempt. Everybody. Everybody must give, everyone must give.

In the New Testament, giving is free will, but goes

deeper because it comes from the hearts and is guided

by the spirit. So it is expected that it is

the only spirit that has prompted you to give what

you have given. That's the difference, So you're not first.

It's a free will. The important thing to notere is

that New Testaments given is not about less giving, no,

but about better giving. And a better giving is something

that is intentional, something that is sacrificial, something that is

spirit led, something that is joy fielled. That is the

kind of giving that the New Testament has pushed to us.

So let's do a comparison between Malachi chapter three. You

remember that six to twelve and then second coninnfience six

to eight. So if you look at those two sites

in Malachi, the Bible says, bring the ald tides. And

if you don't bring it, what apple you are rubber?

Is that also? Eh? Malachi says bring the old time

all of them, don't remove. And if you don't bring it,

what happened? You're a thief. You're a robber. But in

New Testament, give what you decided in your heart, not

on that compulsion, not because they force you to give it.

Do we get a just are we following? Is it Claire?

Is it Claire? Okay? Some people are here too, They're

still confused. A Malachi giving was a command. In the

Old Testament, failure brought a course. So if you don't give,

you you're in trouble. You are bringing course over yourself.

That's Old Testament. But in New Testament giving is voluntary,

it is spirit led, and no purse is attached to it.

That is New Testament. Again. In the Old Testament, the

motivation is obedience and fear. That's are you most operate to.

You?

Remember when we're looking at it last week, we said

that if this one you feel, this one is even No,

I don't let me give that one, let me give

this other one that is not looking good. The Bible says,

the one that you early are chosen, you have chosen

earlier on and the one you want to replace it.

Two of them together, Eh, they now become God to

It's it's it's obedience and fear. But in New Testament

it is love, joy and peace and grace. So it's

it's it's a grace of God that you have to give.

It's not everybody that gives, but that you are able

to give. It is the grace of God. In Old Testaments,

the promise that you have there is material blessing and protection,

all right. But in New Testament the promise is the

Bible say, grace to abound in every good work. Grace

to abound in every good work. So it is not

just about material blessing. It is not just about protection.

It is an all round that blessing. That's what the

New Testament says to us. And finally, there the amount

in Old Testament is what ten percent is a required

thing that you must give. But in New Testament, as

a lead the spirit, it can be more, it can

be less. So when you hear some people who say

I am giving ninety percent. Well, it is the grace

that has been given to them. If God has not

given you such grace, eh, let the only Spirit help you.

But willingness, voluntary giving is important in all of this,

all right, So let's conclude typing in the Old Testament

was like paying taxes. Giving in the New Testament is

like giving your parents a gift, not because you must,

but why because you love them. Because you love them,

so grace giving goes beyond ten percent. It gives everything

God leads you to give. The key take away from

us in all of this is that giving in the

New Testament is not first but from a willing and

a generous heart. Grace based giving comes after encountering the

love of Christ. So all of this word that we

are discussing, if you have not encountered the love of Christ,

it will still be a burden to you, right, it

will be a body. So somebody who has encounter Christ.

That's where it begins from. That's where it begins from.

Because you will never be able to see the reason

to give, because you have not recognized the fact that

God gave his only begotten son. The only Spirit guides

each believer in what an hour to give? So what's

the only spirit telling you this money to give? As

we give the offering this morning, God still a word's

faithful giving, not just with money, but with grace, with

peace and opportunities. You don't give to buy blessing or

avoid courses. That's not the reason why you give, is So,

that's not the reason why you give. You don't give

because you want to buy blessing or to avoid courses.

You gave because you are grateful, because you are blessed already,

because you want to be a blessing. That's to be

the reason why we should give. God doesn't count nairah

and cobble. It looks at the heart the sacrifice and

the jury behind it. So this week, don't just give

because it is Sunday. No, but give because you love

the Lord. Give as a spirit leads you and made

the Lord apples to be faithful in this in Jesus' name.

So all right, before we pray any question and interaction.

So let's go quickly over this and then we'll be

able to we'll be able to say some I mean,

we sing our hand and then we go on giving.

We take some announcements and then we'll be on our

way home. Yes, anybody okay? One mister Uji, two mister Soho,

three mister Dugara. Four Bae bae. Okay, that's all, thank

you very much, sir. So mister where's the mic? Please?

What is mike? I don't know what to bebout. People

use it last night and you didn't charge it. Eh.

My question is like this. I noticed that some churches

they used to give their title without recording it, but

baptize nowadays all since they are recording it. Why. The

reason why that is done in the Baptist is primarily

for accountability, and it is between you and God. So

at the end of the year, you look at that card,

that card, because usually you should have the card. At

the end of the year, you should have the card

so that new year they will give you a fresh card.

All right, So you have to look at yourself and

in your room have a personal talk with God. So

have you been faithful? Have you been faithful? Have I

been faithful? That's just the reason for that. It's just

to app us to be accountable, is to help us

to be accountable. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's

nothing wrong with that, you know it. When the spirits

say you should do this, you should do this, all right.

The point is this, where you faithful, when God says

should do that, you yourself, you will know now, and

I should guide them so that in the new year

I should do as the Lord leads me to do

so just for the purpose of accountability, not because anybody

is going to you know, mark or do anything. No,

God doesn't need it. It's just for you. It's for

each and every one of us, so that when we

look at it and we are accountable, all right, that's

just the purpose for it, yes, ma'am. The cards, well,

I think from what we have studied in the scriptures,

I don't think it is the business of that pastor

to do because as first Bible is concerned, what you

are giving is between you and God. Yes, some people

are doing it. In fact, for me as a person

earlier when I came, when I first came, because I

always transfer my tithe straight to the church's account, all right,

and not until somebody from the account how to clarify,

because there was an understanding that pastor doesn't give tide,

you understand, So it was asked and only then that

one of the people in the accounts because they see

the alerts and they say, oh, no, it is not

so this person gives all right. So it is not

between even for the money counter the only just recorded.

It is between the individual member and God. So as

far as I'm concerned, no, I don't think, not just me.

I'm sure the way we have looked at the Bible,

it is not for it's not for anybody to use

it and use it to preach. But I can tell

you that in some of the churches they do. Now.

In fact, if we are going to come for your

name of your baby, we will bring out the tithing

card and we'll check how much you are being contributed

to the growth of the church. If your popsy die,

your mom say die, make we go, we go look now,

or you want, mardy, we go carry the card. Come.

Dispersing on the contribute to the growth of the church,

he said, no, they will keep it aside. They won't

do anything. But excuse me, let's come to the knowledge

of the Bible. Is that exactly what God wants us

to do? No, as far as the Bible is concerned,

why are we doing that? We are doing that just

to encourage us so that we will be able to

you know, will be, will give. But it's one thing

about God is this You can see it from the

New Testament. It's a lon the very thing. Even you're

coming to church. I can only at best I can say, Ah,

I can encourage you. Please come to church, Let's worship together,

Let's do this one together, and all of that. That's

the best I can do. I can never force you

to come to this place. No, I cannot. It is

not the mandate that God. Even God does not force anybody.

In the Old Testament, he says I have placed before

you life and death. But he says, choose life. It's

just advising, no, choose life. But you know that when

people see choose, they choose death.

Right.

Is it God's fault? It's not God's fault. The Bible says,

for Gods all love the world that he gave you,

only begot you, so that whosoever listen, whosoever believed in him,

we're not perishh Is that not that? That's what God

has said. Didn't force anybody to come to him. No,

he didn't force anybody. It's your choice. So if you

decide that I want to follow Jesus today is your choice.

But the best thing I can do is to appeal.

And that's what Corinthians is saying. We appeal to you

in Christ Jesus be reconciled to God. So we can

only appeal that you come and reconcile with God. But

I cannot force you to do what you don't want

to do. And on the day of judgment, it is

your what you have decided. That's what is going to

speak for you. All right, May God help us in

Jesus name. All right, honorable?

So who.

Of the parsonal constituency they we hear you praise alone?

They do?

Some question is on ten percent? Okay, sir? I want

to know that. Is it good for me to touch

a ten percent? I want to appeal to you not

to touch. If that is what you have decided to give,

don't touch it, give it, okay. The reason why I

asked this question is that there was a time I

asked this question in one of the Baptist church. For example.

Now I have packaged my ten percent and I'm ready

and I'm going to church. On my way to the church, oh,

I just came out from the house and I discovered

that one of my neighbor was seriously sick, which I

don't have any other money that I can assist him

to go to hospital. Is it good for me to

touch that ten percent and send him to hospital? No, sir, no,

it is not good. The same thing with your offering.

And that's why the Bible saying it's about your heart.

What have you decided? You have decided this money you

are going to give it? If it's not just about

tide now or offering. Even if you have decided in

your heart that, oh, there's a family that are indigen

and you want to assist them, and you have decided that, Ah,

thank you God, I want to give them this one

thousand and as you have going and you see another

person with another kind of challenge and you are related

to those people too. No, you have decided in your

heart that that is what you want to give these people. No,

let God help you to provide something for that other family.

Go ahead and bless this one and let it be

between you and God. It is about the heart, and

that's why the Bible is saying, what you have decided,

So what you have decided is what you will give.

They move out of it, because that's which you have decided.

It means that there is a connection between you and

the spirit, that that is what he wants you to give,

and then you give it. It's tough, very tough. Secondly, yes, sir,

I want to know, is it every money that ones

can give us a ten percent? When we studied the

beginning from the beginning when Abraham gave to make kissedech

the tenth that I gave from where did they give it?

M hmm. From the blessing? From the blessing? What has

God blessed you with this week or the past week?

What has God blessed you with in the past week?

That is where you remove. It's just an out of

appreciation God. I am thankful to you for this blessing.

And you bring it, and you bring part of it

and give it to the Lord if you want to

give it. But God will not force you to bring

it in the first place. So if you want to,

you just want to give it to appreciate God. That sitter.

Every blessing, every blessing that comes to you is what

God wants you to appreciate Him with that that you do.

So it's that of the blessing. Yes, it everywhere, every everywhere,

every way. Because there are some blessings, people call it blessing.

And it come in different ways. Lessen. For example, now

where I'm working, okay, and it happens that the money

there are some of us as a Christian, maybe from

your working place, your boss send you that go and

buy so so so things for me. And maybe you

tell your boss that this is the amount of what

I'm going to buy for you. And it happens that

it's not the writer it. Maybe you top something on,

you put something on top, So can I use such

money to give him the church? I don't have scriptural

backing for this. Just like Paul, we say there are

some matters that he didn't have. Boy said, counsel, this

is my counsel. Please don't please don't why because God

knows where you are bringing it from. You have been

dubious to get that money. I don't know because I'm

not the one receiving it. Take the instances of Annas

and Sapphirah what happened. What you have just done is

to lie and God will not bless you for that. Yes,

the money you know is big. You see it is tough.

But you see, if it can just be obedient. Let's

just be obedient. Your salary is paid. It is two

hundred K this month. As the spirit of God leads

you bring something out for the Lord. The Lord blesses you.

Somebody gave you a blessing. Out of it give to

the Lord. But you have torn old. You have cheated somebody.

And then because you have cheated, you are bringing out

of the proceeds of your cheats to God. No, I

may not know, and God will not. If you bring

it here, you put it here, we pray God receive it.

But the point is this, you can never be blessed.

It is biblical principle. It is the heart. You will

not be bleased. So why bringing what you will not

be bleased? Why don't you bring what God will blesse you?

That is my counsel final, Liza, it will be listen.

I will plead with you, as a leader and as

a pastor of this church, to create time so that

you will teach us, the members of this church. Because

if you look at what is going on in our

churches now there are some of us as members. Sometimes

we'll come to church and will bring on clean money

and offer it to God, which I know that there's

no blessing, and this is what some of some of

us don't know. Please create time to teach us. Let

us know what type of money are you supposed to

bring in the church and what type of the money

are you not supposed to bring the church? Thank you

very much, thank you, sir, h mister. So, who ah,

how long have we been teaching this? I think we're

teaching some overy a month. This teaching has actually been

going for over a month. And we don't even rush

it every Sunday, every Sunday. This is how we do

it every Sunday in the last over a month. Now,

I think it's only one Sunday that we just you know,

we pushed out of it and then we came back

to it again. All right. In fact, where we add

a situation in question, just like I I started with

a question from last week, I said, I will find

out more about it, then I will come and explain it.

And that's how we've been doing because it's not something

to be rushed. There are a lot of things going

on there. So I just feel that it is best

that all of us look at the Bible and then

we get the information from the Bible and we act

in that way. There are so many things that see,

you will not see black and white in the Bible,

just like you will never see in the Bible. Where

the Bible we say just in adga, this your wife

is kindly? What was that for my this day? No,

it is not written in the Bible that that is

our wife. No. But somehow because of the principles of

the Bible, you have been following. You have been reading

the mind of God. We shape your thoughts and that's

how it happens. May God help us in Jesus name.

That did you hold on? Four? Sir? Let me take

mister Garra, and then after mister who else? No, no, no,

and bye bye here, so let me take all those people.

Just old on, yes, sir, praise amen. My question is

that I want to ask questions about the task. So

you talk about three types of tasks that we support

to GIF. So my question there is is that you

said three type of Thir is inside time person you

will come up or from where? All right, thank you sir. Now,

the the understanding is this, sirn It is not like

that in the Old Testament. Yes, in the Old Testament.

If you were around last Sunday, we talked about these

types and because of dickness point that she released that

some people we not gift tights, or some people will

say that they can, the Bible say they should eat

their tights. And that's why I had to come from

that direction against this morning. But when we're looking at

it in fact, the entire fights like we started last week,

sometimes it could be twenty three percent of your income

of the blessing that God has given to you. It

is not just ten percent, but a cap is ten percent,

but sometimes it goes even beyond that ten percent. But

in the Old Testament, the Bible clarifies that there are

three types of tides that the people of Israel we give.

But we must balance it because now we are a

New Testament church. But big fact that we are New

Testament church does not mean that we should throw away

everything in the Old Testament. But there are principles that

we can learn from the Old Testament. But we are

no longer under the law, and that is why we

are bringing this balance. Okay, we are under the grace,

and that's why it is bad grace based giving. So

we are under grace. We are no longer under the law,

so the law of giving those three types does not apply.

But however, the principle is still applicable. Do we have

needed people in our midst Yes, we have needed people.

Do we need to give to them? Yes, we need

to support them. Do we have people who are working

for the Lord and missed us. Yes? Do we need

to give? Yes at their times? That even the other one,

I just I just put it under the guise of

a swallow ship that we have loved fist in the church,

everybody will bring something and we share it. Yeah, it's

happen even in the New Testament too, all right. But

in all of this, what is most important is your heart.

It is not the size of what you have brought,

but your heart. That's where God is concerned. Not that

you are forced to give, not that you are pushed

or anything, all right, But this is what you desire

and then you give it. So the Old Testament, that's

how it is structured. But in the New Testament it

is not. And that's why you see that it is

tight and offree. That's what is given, all right.

So according to the teaching, So even certify, I understand

very well. That accordance to Malarcha chafter three that you

talk about that bring all your tats. Yes, so, and

I see that the truth of the matter, we are

roping God. No one is no one is perfect among

all of us. So attaind that we have have a

long way to go and that is the truth.

Thank you very much, sir. So we have a long

way to go or less not rob God, but then

beyond that in the in the New Testament. Uh, that's

where our focus is now. Praise God. Amen.

I want to ask my question on the Matthew. Don't travels?

Don't it rain?

Okay? Sir?

He said, what sorrows await you teachers of religious law?

And you, pharasi is hippocrate, for you are careful to

type even the tinness income from your halt Guardian, but

you ignore the more important aspect of the justice of

the law, that is justice, mass and faith. And look

at what Jesus said you should tight, yes, but do

not neglect the more important things. So when I'm looking

at it, he is talking to the I don't know,

can I pharasees who still believe in the ten percent?

And Jesus is still telling them, yes, tight, and you

still you see as if it's still referring to the

ten percent, so how do you yes?

That is also to Jesus is not against the typing.

Contrary to what people often say, Jesus was not against

the typing. And the fact it's pointing out in that passage.

I think we made reference to it last week or so,

or maybe they had to give or so. You see,

Jesus is not saying don't pay the tight. But what

Jesus is saying is that there is something even much

more important, eh than just following the ten percentral Because

for these Pharisees and Sarduces, oh yes they want to

your show. Yes, they just come and then do like

this and give their ten percent and all of those things.

And the the other time that Jesus was sitting and

it was looking at everybody, that widow that gave her

two pieces of penny that you kept in that Jesus said, no,

that woman has given more than all of these people

bringing their big amount of money. Why it is the heart,

It is the heart. So against Jesus in this passage

is making it clear that yes, you give the tides,

but there is something more important than that. Take care

of the less privileged, take care of them, take care

of them. So there is giving that you bring to

church to say, Lord, I am grateful. You can also

give to those that are around you to bless your lives.

And that's why we must strike the balance. And that's

what Jesus is trying to push across to road. There

strike the balance. And just like what mister Soul said

the other time, can I give what I've decided to

give us tight to someone else losing? No, you can't

do that. You can't do that. You have this, I

have to give that to the Lord. Give you to

the Lord. Then as the Lord blesses you again, now

help the other person. That's the balance I mean, goes

brand us deeper understanding in Jesus. All right, so two

more people, okay, three more, let's beget from bye bye here.

Then we'll go to mister came up, and then we'll

come to Babar, my man, and then we close Praise God.

I have to constantly ask, okay, sirm, first is this

please let's be patient. There are people that end money

before month end. Yes, so does that end morning before

the month ending? Can they wait till the weekend the

month end before. They're not bring the air tight to

avoid touching it. No, because there are business people in

the house here, ehm that every week there is something

that they gets has gained at the end of their sales.

Somebody who is a market to my in karom or

in market today, that person can give every and that's

why the ushers will always bring the card every every Sunday,

all right. They always bring it every Sunday, okay, So

you can give it at any time, all right. In fact,

there are people who have sent it to churches account

during the week it is coming from the account. They

just send it straight to the account of the church

and it is done so they don't wait even until Sunday.

So as as much as it comes so that you

won't touch it, give it and let it go of you, okay,

Praise God. Amen. The second person is this like if

you are giving tits, it's between you and your God. Yes.

Then maybe you end some money within the week before

the weekend you love, Maybe you are in somewhere else.

Maybe you use another peas to send one to church

account as tight. Once you called the church to tell

them that you have seen your tight. It's between you

and your God. It is between you and God. The

highest thing that you can do to airpost in record

keeping in the church, because we want to identify what

is tight and what is offering. It is good because

in our cooperative assignment to the association, to the conference,

to the convention, we're also going to you know, we're

cooperating with all these bodies. So out of the tights,

offering and thanksgiving, we're also supposed to share this part

with all those bodies. So it helps us to be

able to know. But if you're giving towards maybe the

tea of the children, no you That's why we always say,

please indic kate what you are giving so that it

to apples in proper accountability. Yes, mister came up, praise

the lords. My aunt goes to the question that mister

Soho asks, and my own first and foremost, I'll share

the testimoney, and no, no, no, no, don't share testimony.

Now goes to question you're not balance it when he

asks about time is don our side? When he asks

about when you are coming out from the house and

that is your last money off, I'm tied. You made

somebody and it may be sick. You're not supposed to

touch that money.

Uh.

Twenty seventeen, I traveled to village. It was June. I

have some more project by then and I was not

having money. When I was in the village. I travel

Friday Saturday and the only word will remain the captain

to do the work. And I borrowed money the carpenter

front here I sent him. I told him that I

don't have money, but take transport if you do the

work for me. After I don't get the money, I'll

pay you back. You agree when I travel together out

you It was on Saturday evening. One elderly man made

me and what I was having only transport to come

back and the titan offree. The man made me. It

was it was sick. Tell me that my son, please,

I'm sick and my drugs don't finish. Can you help

me see the the sample of the drugs. Can you

help me give me something sugar and buy the drugs.

The thought of that borrowing tight and offree. If you

can't give somebody, don't borrow it. Most pe I reminded.

It hit my chase. I tell him, sorry, I don't

have money. All lay title offering. But in my heart

I decided that if I come back then a week,

any amount of money I get it, I would send

five thousand to him. Better. I didn't tell him. I

just decided in my mind. So Sunday I lead the money.

We went to the church. We finished on the school.

When the men's harvest start, when they called afree and

tighter stand up, I just thought, hit my chase, and

I heard him voice saying that you didn't help the

sick man. You are going to give Titan afree which

blazing and benefit I are going to receive. Tears just

come in my heart, my mind, my eye. I sat down,

let her stand up. I gave the tights and offering.

I come back. I tried to God to forgiven ess

because what I supposed to do I didn't do. Away

give Titan offrey, and I decided in my heart, by

God grace, no matter it be, I'll help the man.

And then one of my friends is living here. Tight

friend Isaac, that repairing shoe. Sam know him to sixteen.

He was having problem with his wife and he went

to the market bower if you want to hang himself,

He was praying, first thing, let God show him the

way to solve the problem with his wife. No option,

no answer that I travel the village on Sunday. But

he traveled with Majen on Sunday. I want to go

to the church early morning before I come back to

a Budja. He was on the way. He need one

man dressed like a mad man, and he was the way.

He told me. He said, only offer and tight he

was having. The man asks him, please, I'm feeling hungry.

Can you give me money? Let me go and buy food?

They eat and that borrowing of titan Orfrey hit his chase.

He said, don't have anything. He passed back, you know

which from here to this route. He had a voice

telling him that you didn't help them, and you want

to give titan offering, which blazing are you going to receive?

When you turn back, you don't see the man. You

go around asking people either you see somebody like a madman.

You don't see anybody here the choice that you didn't go.

You come back and sat down cry to God, okay

this one. How can we balance it that if you

meet a sick person, you have the money, you cannot

use it to save their life. How can we balance

on it. Thank you. So contextually, this is simple. It

is not difficult. The two instances you have given, you're

not going to see those people again. And see, all

of this is about our connection with the spirit of God.

It's our relationship with God. The two instances you have given,

we put ourselves under the law. Eh. We put ourselves

under the law, and that is what that's why we're

having that pressure. This person needs that help and you

know you may not likely be able to get back

to this Father. I'm going to give this person this,

but don't be unfaithful because the dimension the reason why

answer mister Soho, what many of us do is that

once you have given it to that person is done.

That is where it is wrong. That is where it

is wrong. You have made up your mind. But now

there's a challenge with someone that you need to assist

the person. Let's balance it. Go ahead, assist the person. Lord,

I'm having to assist this person. God, we know that.

And then later on you now get the money and

do what you intend to do for God. That balances it.

That balances it, That balances it. So let's not let's

not feel that. Uh, somebody is in it and the

title or the offering that you have decided in your

heart to give because you have given it to somebody

and you feel that that is all. No, no, no,

what you have decided when you now have the money

or when you get back home, take it and then

give it and that balances it. And the Lord blesses

you that the mama the last person a man.

Issue of bringing dirty money into the church. Actually, like

what he said, it's not supposed to be so dirty money.

When you know that this is dirty money. You have

a boss and he asks you to go and do

to buy something, you all you need to know that

you are a child of God and you have to

do the needfool from the first at the first place,

in the first place, you're supposed to do the needful.

Whatever change that is remaining, we turn it back to him.

That's not your money. So if you eat that money,

it's a sin. And I make I'm a civil servant

and I know what is happening in the civil service.

All others are doing it. I said it in the

Sunday school during the Sunday school. Others are doing it.

So if I do there is nothing. I'm not the

only person doing it. What you know that it is

a sin. Please don't do it, even others. When others

are doing it, and you do you get the money

you want to bring it to the church. Yes, there's

not nothing bad to bring it in the church. But

you know the the, the the the the the whatever

that will follow you. So go help us in Jesus' name.

Thank you very much Church for this opportunity to go

through this Bible study. I want to believe that we're

being God has ept us all right, and the Lord

we continue to help us in Jesus name. I know

there are so many things and the way our world is.

So many confusing things are there, and the only way

for us to balance it is for us to search

the scriptures. There are some things that are not particularly

written in the Bible, but how do you know how

to navigate such things? There are principles in the Bible

that we guide us in taking the right decision. I

pray God will help us in Jesus' name, all right,

So we will take him as we are taking to him.

Well at the same time, be given our offering as

we are taking to him. And then the secretary we

come afterwards. Where's the So we take the end count

to your blessings, named them one by one,