Tithe and Offering - Elder Emmanuel Adjei

So this morning we are coming to learn the 2026 main theme song.

So we are all learning it together.

So by the power of the Spirit, by the power of the Spirit, by

the power of the Spirit, the Church is much known.

Through the power of the Gospel. Through the power.

Of the. Gospel salvation comes to all

salvation comes. To.

All by the power of the Spirit, by the power of the Spirit, the

church is marching on. The church is marching on

through the power of the gospel, through the power of the gospel,

salvation come to all salvation comes to.

So it goes like this. By the power of the Spirit, the

church is marching on to the power of the gospel.

Salvation come to all. So we all sing it together by

the power of the Spirit. The Church is marching on

through the power. Of.

The Gospel salvation come to Rome by the power of the Spirit

the Church is marching on. To the power of the Gospel

salvation. Culture.

So we move to the cross. Science and wonders.

Science and wonders. Science and wonders follow our

preaching. Follow our preaching.

Healing the seas, healing the sick, raising the dead.

Raising the dead. Signs and wonders.

Signs and wonders. Follow our preaching.

Follow our preaching. Healing the sick.

Healing the. Sick raising, the dead raising.

The dead. So what I want to is like signs

and wonders follow our preaching, Healing the sick,

raising the dead. So we will sing it together.

So we are starting from the main verse by.

The power of the Spirit the Church is marching on to.

The power of the ground salvation comes to own.

By the power of the Spirit the church is marching on.

Through the power of the Gospel, salvation comes to own.

Sights and wonders swallow are preaching, healing the sea,

raising the dead. So so I am.

So we are singing everything by. The power of the Spirit the

church is marching on to. The power of the gospel,

salvation comes on. By the power of the Spirit, the

Church is marching on to the power of the gospel.

Salvation comes to own. Signs and wonders follow are

preaching, healing the sin, rising the die.

Casting now demons pulling down strong goods in the name of

Jesus Christ. Casting now demons pulling down

strong goods in the name of Jesus Christ.

Signs and wonders follow our preaching.

Healing the Sea, Raising the dead.

Castino demons pulling the straw holds in the name of Jesus

Christ. Castino demons pulling the straw

holds in the name of Jesus Christ by some wonders follow

preaching healing the sick, raising the dead, casting the

demons falling thou stronghold in the name of Jesus Christ in

the name of Jesus Christ Hallelujah we.

Want to check our seating arrangements so humbly?

Those seating in front? If you have a seat before you,

please move forward for us. Signs and wonders follow our

preaching healing. In the name of Jesus Christ,

Amen. Amen.

Oh, Amen. You look so dull.

Are we OK? Hallelujah.

Oh Saints of God, oh sons of God, until the last person gets

up. So we are not leaving here.

Oh, sons of God, it's a, it's a rally week, an evangelism week.

So you should get me. Oh sons of God, sons of God,

Hallelujah. At this junction, we want to

maintain the level where you've got into pull out your Diaries,

your Bibles, even as we receive the administration of Secretary

Elder Emmanuel AJ Amen. Praise the Lord, oh praise the

living God. Hallelujah.

Thank God so much for how far He has brought us and how far He

has brought the church as a whole.

Today is another day that our Lord God has made and Bible says

you must rejoice and be glad in it.

Hallelujah. Thank the church, the pastor,

which I thank our presiding elder for giving me this

opportunity to come and also teach the word of God to his

people. Hallelujah.

This morning we have been tasked to come and teach one of the

tenants of our church for all of us to understand and know what

that particular tenants is used in the church.

So that nobody will be able to convince you about that.

Because that particular aspect has been going on or people has

been talking about it in the Internet or on the Internet and

people are being deceived to take the side of those that are

on the Internet. But thanks be to God that our of

our leaders are following with keen interests and this one they

have tax us to come and teach on it.

So today is not preaching, today is teaching, and I believe we

all bring out our notebooks and write things down so that when

we go home and people are speaking about that particular

aspect will also come out of our chest high and our heads high

and also speak the truth for them to also learn.

Hallelujah. This morning we have been tasked

to speak on the 9th tenant of the church, the 9th tenant of

the church, which is tithe and offering.

Tithe and offering it is the 9th tenant of the Church of

Pentacles. So today we are going to look at

the meaning of tithe, the meaning of offering.

We'll also look at a small historical background of tithe.

Then. Then we'll look at the three

types of tithing that we have in the Old Testament and then look

at another tights that's it was done or a continuation of

tightening in the New Testament. At the end of that, we also look

at the reason why people don't give tights and then why the

need for giving tights. Then we also look at the

consequences of tightening which we look at the benefits or the

the negative aspects and then we also look at the positive or the

benefit aspect of tightening. Then the last one we will touch

on this morning will be the management and the disbursement

of the tides of the Church of Pentecost.

Your monies that you contribute at the end of the month, how

those monies are disburse in the Church of Pentecost.

This is being done so that we all know what our monies are

used for in the House of God. Hallelujah.

So I pray that you follow me with keen interest.

It will not belong. We'll touch on important aspects

that we are supposed to know and then we all go out of the

church. Hallelujah.

So we are going, we are saying we are looking at tights and

offering. So we are looking at tights

first. And as we already know, tights

is a tenth of our income. So as we are working and as we

are going about our daily activities, our businesses that

God has given unto us and the blessings that God has showered

unto us as we work, we believe that we will gain interest

because God is in our business. God is the one who has given us

these businesses that we are taking care of because the Bible

says that we are stewards of all that God has created and because

we are stewards and God has given us all those things to

cater for the land, the animals and other things that we are

taking care of. When we work with all those

things, we believe that God will shower his blessings on it and

then we will get something to take care of ourselves and our

families. So we are saying that giving

tithe, which is a 110th of our income, is an obligation that we

are supposed to do. Why?

Because we are stewards of all that God has created.

So we are saying that as and when we give tithe, which is an

obligation and which is a right for all Christians to do, we are

paying our debts and what we say we are paying our debts.

How do we pay our debts? Because God has given us

whatever we are using here on earth and we are having income

or interest on it, we are supposed to also appreciate God

for what He has done under us. So paying tight is an obligation

because going up and down even our life this morning, it is God

who has given us it under us. So as we are working, we pray

for work and God grant us work. The connections that we are

giving to all the opportunities that comes on our way for us to

get our individual jobs. It is not by our own efforts,

but it is by the grace of God. Some of us here can testify that

even our work that we are in right now, if we want to apply

for those work, we will not even get it.

But all these things are the favor and the grace of God that

we are doing. It is God who has given unto us.

So, we are saying that after these opportunities and after

these jobs given unto us for us to take care of or for us to

cater for, it is our right to pay tight, which is a 110th of

all income that has been given unto us.

So, if somebody gives you a gift which is also an income that you

have not worked for, we are expecting that you pay tight on

three. So we are saying that tight is

110th of our income, which is an obligation, a right to do

because we are paying our debts onto our God.

Hallelujah. So if you are here, we are not

paying our tithes, then it means we are not doing the right thing

that God has asked us to do. When we look at offering, we are

saying that offering is done in the church to show our

appreciation to God for His faithfulness towards us, not us

alone, towards the church, towards our families, towards

our businesses that God has given unto us.

So when we come to church and we give free will offering, this

morning you have gotten up and you are strong.

Even the journey from your house to the church, it is by the

grace of God that we have come. Somebody can get up and then

within the few minutes the person will go down again.

We have seen things and we have heard things.

So for God to shower His blessings unto us, bringing us

from our homes here into the House of God, it is a favor that

God has given unto us. So we are also obliged to also

thank God for His faithfulness unto us.

So this offering is not a must, but it is something that is

between you and your Creator. How far God has taken you

through Monday through Friday and today, Sunday we are here

and we are strong, so we have to appreciate what God has done

unto us. So when we come and we give

offering unto God in that direction, it means that we are

giving thanks unto God for His faithfulness unto us.

Hallelujah. So look at a small historical

background of tides. So we saw tides happening in the

Bible in Genesis 14, 17 to 22, Genesis 1417 to 22, where we saw

Abraham or Abraham that God took him through.

He went to a battle and as we already know, God took him

through the battle and then he was successful.

So Bible said that as he was coming home, back home he met 2

kings. Bible said that one was a king

of Sodom and one was the king of Salem.

The King of Sodom's name was not given back.

The king of Salem's name was given as Mechizedek.

Bible said that Mechizedek prayed for Abraham and then gave

him a wine and a bread. Abraham also recognized

Mechizedek as the King of the Most High, which means that he

is representing God on this earth.

So as Bible went on to explain unto us, he gave a 110th of all

that he has gained throughout the battle unto Meghisadeh.

Why did he do that? Because he believed that

throughout the battle and the success that he has chopped or

the success that he has gained, it was not done by his own

efforts. It was not done by his own

strength that he believed that it was God who took him and gave

him success. So he gave a 110th of all that

he has gotten from the battle unto God.

So that is where the tides started and it has continued

unto our time now. So we are looking at the three

types of Titan in the Old Testament.

The first one we'll be looking at this morning is the Levitical

Tides. The second one will be the

festival tights. Then the last one we'll be

looking at is the charity tights.

So we are looking at these three tights that our forefathers

practiced in the Old Testament. So we are saying that the

Levitical tights is the tights given to God like the one that

Abraham gave unto. Matthew said it, we give these

tithes to God, but as now as we are here we can't give this

money physically unto God. So people will be asking in the

Internet, people will be saying how do we give tithe to God

whilst we are here on earth. So they are saying tithe is no

more, but we are here to tell you that tithe is alive and

tithe is working. So as we give tithe unto God, we

can't give the physical money unto God.

So God has given people. To represent him on this earth,

to do the work that he came to do.

So we are saying that we give tithe to God through people who

God have selected to do his work on this earth.

And we all know that we give this tithe to the Levites who

are representing God, the priests who are representing God

or doing the work of God, the pastors, the apostles, the

teachers and the others that are doing the work of God.

So we give this to God. So the first one is the

Levitical tithe that we give to God, that we give to his people

who are representing Him on earth.

We have we will read Namus chapter 1821 through to 24.

Namus 1821 through to 24. So I give to the Levites all the

tides in Israel as their inheritance in retains for the

work they do while serving at the 10th of meeting.

Then we move on to the 22 for now on the Israelites.

For now, no Israelites must. For now on, the Israelites must

not go near the tides, the tent of Meeting, or they will bear

the consequences of their sins and would die. 23 It is the

Levites who are to do the work at the Tent of Meeting and bear

the responsibilities for any offering they might, or for any

offering they commit against it. And this is a lasting ordinance

for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance

among the Israelites in the 24 Instead, I give the Levites as

the inheritance to the tides that the Israelites present as

an offering to the Lord. That is why I said concerning

them, they will have, they will have no inheritance among the

Israelites. So as we have read, as God was

sharing the inheritance to the people of the Israelites, the

the Levites was taken out because God has taxed them to do

a particular activity or a particular work in his house.

They are supposed to take care of the tent, do all other

offering in Tasi for forgiveness of the people of Israel, pray

for their work so that their work will increase, so that at

the end when they bring their tithes to the tents of the

house, our Levites who are doing their work there, they will

benefit. So tithes as a Levitical tithes

is for God and because God is not here with that physically,

those who are working are the people who are supposed to

benefit. So as people are saying in the

Internet that tight is no more this one.

We are here to clarify things. That tight is still there

because you have people who are standing in the presence of God

and they are working in the House of God.

So these people who have no inheritance, who have no job, we

have to take care of them. So we are using this tight to do

as God has instructed us. So we have the next one which is

the festival tithe. We are saying that this type of

tithe is taken every year or it is a yearly activity.

So at the end of every year, our tithe will be taken and will be

guarded in a particular house where God will instruct us or

where God has instructed the Israelites that every year we

come together as a family and then we celebrate this

particular tithe. It went on to explain that this

particular tithe, because God has given us a location and we

are all carrying our tithe to that pool, then we come together

and celebrate as a house. It gave room for people who God

has blessed them abundantly. And it says that those who have

been blessed abundantly and cannot carry whatever God has

given to them to that particular location can sell.

And then when they sell, they go to wherever they have been asked

to join or pull all their tights.

And then when they get there, there are people around who are

selling equal things like what they have sold.

So they will buy and then they will pull all together and then

they will do their celebration. So this is a festival 1.

So we can equally look at this as the one that's Joseph and

Mary went to Jerusalem to do. They were all asked to come to

do that celebration. So that is what they were doing

in the Old Testament. Then we'll look at the last one

that is the charity Tight, which is a tight that is also

collected in the Old Testament at the end of every three years.

So we have the tights that we do daily or monthly.

We have the tights that we do every year, which is the

festival one. Then we have another one that we

do at every three years, which is the charity one.

That one too is gathered in a pool and then Bible says that

they are shared or they are distributed after all has been

collected. Yeah, we are distributed to 1

the Levites, one, the aliens, the fatherless, the widows that

are in that particular community.

So we can see that Tides is doing a lot of things.

Those who have lost their husbands and their wives, we

cater for them with this festival or with this charity

Tides. And then the Levites who we have

just read about, who are working in the House of God are also

catered for. Then we have the aliens who are

also catered for. The next point is saying that

this principle is based on what Jesus said.

So the charity tithe is a principle or it is based on a

principle that Jesus said in Matthew chapter 25, the verse 31

Matthew 25 · chapter mention

through to 46, which says that I tell you the truth, whatever you

did for one of the lowest of these brothers of mine, you did

it to me. So it is a charity things,

whatever you are doing to your brother, whatever you are doing

to your sister, as we pull things together to cater for

them, Bible is saying or Jesus is saying that as you do for

somebody who is in need, you are equally doing for me.

Hallelujah. So when we look at the tithes in

the Old Testament, we are looking at the tithes in the New

Testament. So the tithes in the New

Testament continues. And then in Matthew 23, verse

Matthew 23:23

23, we saw the Pharisees giving tithes for everything that they

have worked for. They gave tithes on their spices

and everything that God has given unto them.

And they thought that giving tithes means that they are doing

the right thing. But in Matthew 23 verse 23 says

Matthew 23:23

that even though they have given all their tithes, accordingly,

as the word of God says, they are not doing something.

They are justice and their messes and their faithfulness

are not in the right direction. So here it is a lesson that we

are supposed to learn. Even though we would say to

ourselves we are giving our tithes as we are expected.

If we are not doing the other things like the Pharisees did,

then our tithes that we are giving has a question mark.

We can give our tithes and even overdo it, but if the other

things that we are expected to do to love our neighbor as

ourselves, to have mercy upon others, to be faithful at our

workplaces that will not add zeros and other things to read

and we are doing everything as we are expected.

Then our tides will be accepted in the House of God.

God will accept it in heaven, but as we if you do it like the

Pharisees, the Bible is saying that our tights will have a big

question mark. So today as we are learning

whatever thing we are doing that is not right about our Titan, we

are here this morning to remember ourselves that Titan is

in the right direction. But the other things that we are

expected to do, if we are not doing it, then our Titan has a

question mark. Then it will be like the

Pharisees. It is my prayer that as we are

learning, we will learn and we will do the right things that we

are expected to do. So that it will not be like the

Pharisees, but it will be people that God Himself will point out

and say that indeed, these are the people that I have trust in

them, that they will do it and do it well.

Hallelujah. Let's look at why some people

fail to give tithe in the House of God.

The first one we look at is share on gratefulness, Share on

gratefulness. Why do we say share on

gratefulness? People think that all that they

have acquired, all that they have gotten is through their own

efforts, is through their own strength, and is through their

own ability. But this morning I'm here to

tell you that we are just stewards of all that God has

given unto us. So people think that because

they have worked, they have gotten up and done and they have

done all the things by their own strength and they are not seeing

God in it as physically as they go out their daily activities,

they think that all that they have, they had it on their own

ability. So why then do they have to give

tithe? So they will not even give

tights and they're not even listening for us to explain unto

them. So this morning we are telling

you that all that you have when you sleep, you know how you

sleep. We have holes all over.

Our nose is open, our ears, our mouth, some of our when we

sleep, we open our mouth, we slow, we will sleep here.

When we get up, we are the other side of the bed.

How do we sleep? How do we get up?

It is all by the grace of God. How do we go on our daily

activities, the air that we take in?

Do we even pay for? So for a person to say that all

that he has is by his own ability, then you, you, you know

that this person don't know what he or she is saying, but that is

their stand. So by saying that they do not

pay the tithes. So we are saying that those of

us who do not pay our tithes or who fail to pay our tight

things, that all that we have is through our strengths.

This morning we are here to remind you that the air that you

breathe in, if God takes that air, what are you?

If you go and sleep and you don't get up again, all that you

have acquired, what is the meaning or what is the essence

of it? So sheer ungratefulness is

something that we have to take out from our dictionary.

Hallelujah. Some people also do not give

tithe because they think they are poor.

But I'm here to tell you that that the Macedonian Church, the

members in the in that church Bible say that they were

extremely poor, but they try to give their tithes.

How much more you look at the auditorium that we have guarded

found all over and check the vessel by a condition.

Now Becca said you are poor. Bible is comparing you that you

are saying you are poor to the Macedonia church.

The members in it Bible use a word that's the members there

were extremely poor just say on Matario crown at it.

But those people in at that time Bible said they gave their tithe

and they did it beyond their ability or they tried that.

Whatever they have, they will at least do something to appreciate

what God has done for them. So we don't have any rights to

say that we are poor. So we will not pay our tithe.

So poor or poverty should be out in our dictionary eyes.

I said we should take share on gratefulness out of our

dictionary. So those people who have putting

these things in their mind that they are poor.

At the end of the month, Sikakra in Arminga may see me, Laura

Fair may see me, Water may light Bill the Akanukra Isha

Miyarukra, how can I take care of myself at the hospital?

We are saying that test God in this and see that if God will

not protect us, Hallelujah. People as people have done it,

people have tested it and people have testimonies over it.

So this morning, don't say that you are poor, don't say that all

that you have is for you alone, but give all that we have unto

God and He will give it back unto you.

Hallelujah. Why the need to pay tithe?

Why at all do we have to pay tithe?

We are saying that the tithe that we pay is the unbiblical

code of the church or it is the lifeline of the church.

Why are we saying that it is the lifeline of the church?

Because the church rely on these monies that we pay.

So the church buildings will get there.

Everything that we do in the church from the from the clergy

down, we do it with the tithes that we pay.

So we are saying that the tithes that we pay is the lifeline of

the church. Without the tithes, there will

be no church. The church will eventually die.

So it's like your heart that is pumping blood to make sure that

you are alive. If your heart stops pumping the

blood, it means that your body will be dead.

So the tithe is the heartbeat of our church.

So this morning we are encouraging ourselves that the

reason why we have to pay the tithe is to make sure that the

church is living on. Our forefathers left the church

for us and we have to continue. And how do we continue?

By paying our tithe so that the church will continue.

We are also saying that that we are supposed to pay tithe

because we are stewards of God's possession.

Everything Bible say that God created everything and handed it

over to man at the point that man gave names to all that God

has created. What a wonderful God that we

said He created His own things and gave it to man to name them.

And up to now what man did is what we are still doing.

So because we are stewards of all that God has given unto us,

there is a need for us to pay tithe.

The next point is that it is a command and then a depth that we

own. I've already touched on it.

We own gold, so we have to pay tithe on it.

The next one is that we brought nothing into this world and we

will take nothing. We are just stewards At the end

of the day. When your time is up for God to

take you and bring somebody to come and continue with whatever

He has given unto you to hold on onto, you will go without all

those things. As I said earlier on, you have

your cars, you have your buildings, you have everything

to your disposal, but when your time is up for you to be called,

you will go as the way you came. So why don't we give what God

has given unto us back unto Him to show appreciation?

Hallelujah. Now let's look at some

consequences of paying and not paying our tithes.

What are the positive and then the negative things that we will

gain or it will come unto us when we pay or we do not pay our

tithes. We will first look at the

negative aspects of not paying our tithes.

I hope you are taking notes so that at the end of the day, if

you have any question you ask and then it will be clarified.

So one negative thing that you gain for not paying our tithes

is that God will you attract poverty.

Say the point is that you will attract poverty and kiss into

your life. So if you are not paying tithes,

you will attract poverty and case into your life.

Malachi 93 says that you are under case the whole nation of

you because you are robbing me. Oh, when we rob God, God is

saying that he's going to case us.

Can we stand the case of God? Babu is saying that it will

continue from the nations that you are in.

So it means that everything, your children, your children's

children, all of them, this case and this poverty will be unto

them. Can we stand the case of God?

There's no way we'll be able to stand the case of God.

So we are urging ourselves this morning that we ought to pay our

tithe and pay it well. So that will not attract

poverty, will not attract case unto ourselves.

Hallelujah. One negative thing is that God's

protection will be withdrawn from us.

Bible say that when we pay our tithes we are being protected.

So that's the one who steals will not come and steal from us.

So Malaka 3, the verse #11 says that I will protect or I will

prevent pets from devouring your crops, and the vine in your

field will not cast their fruits, says the Lord Almighty.

So this is what God is saying, that when you pay your tithe He

will prevent pets from devouring your crops.

Now I believe that this one was written in the olden days whilst

the Israelites were farming. So we have things or animals or

insects that comes onto their farm to destroy their crops.

So God was telling them that when they pay their tithe is

going to protect them, not their families alone, is going to

protect their jobs, their farms and their crops.

And no other pets will be able to go and destroy their tents.

In this, our dispensation, we are not farming, but we have our

individual jobs there. We are going bankers.

We are teachers, drivers, police, security personnels are

here. We go to work.

Some of us use guns and other things.

We see what's happening in the Internet in Ghana while people

are being shot, our security agents, our security workers are

being shot and other things. Teachers are being beaten to

death. All other things are happening

to us, but God is saying that when you pay your tithe, it's

going to protect you. And I believe that our God who

swears are ye and Amen will do that when we do it.

But if we fail to do it, which is a negative aspect, is going

to redraw all this protection. And when God withdraws his

protection, then what is left for us?

You will be like a broom that somebody can take a broomstick

and break it and then you are there and then you are out.

It is my prayer that this morning this negative aspect

that we are talking about will not happen to us, but rather the

benefits or the positive aspects will happen on to us.

Hallelujah. Let's look at some benefits that

has been given to us to talk about.

If we give tight, these are the benefits that we are going to

get. Divine blessings in one

business. So God is saying that He's going

to bless us abundantly. What he's saying is going to

bless us abundantly, so he will bless us.

Divine blessing in good health is also part of it is going to

protect us and give us security. It's also part opportunities and

resources for wealth creation. God will also give unto us, will

also work under open heavens, which means that the heavens

will be open unto us. And then we'll get direct

contact unto God. And as we pray, we'll give unto

us. Let's look at some management

and disbursement of our tights. So as we already said, we give

tights in our local assemblies where we worship.

So tight is given to us in our local assembly where we worship.

After we have given these tights, we collect these tights

and then we take 10% out of it which is called the LDF, which

is called the local Development Fund, which is used to run the

church. But before these things are

done, we also take our allowable deduction which is electricity

and rent. If it is applicable, we take it

out of it before we take our LDF which is the local Development

Fund. After that, all locals will take

the rest of their monies to the district level.

The district level to AS our leaders has brought will also

take the allowable deduction which is rent.

If they are renting a mission house, they also take their rent

from it. They also take electricity and

other things. Then they also forward the rest

to the area. Then the area will also do the

same, take the allowable. Then they also take their 10%

which is the the area Development Fund and push the

rest to the headquarters where the headquarters pull all these

tights from all areas and then they use it for the work of the

church. Some of the things that they use

our tights for at the area level is to support the university

that we have created because they give people scholarship.

They also support our hospitals and clinics that has been built

by the church. They also support our schools.

That is the basic and then the Senior High schools.

They also use some of the money to pay the clergy of the church.

They also cater for the new ministers that are being trained

at BCC. They also support church

building as I believe that this church was supported by the

headquarters. So when our tides go there, they

bring it down to us, to people who need church buildings.

When new districts are created, they also support by giving them

money and other things that are all coming from our tides and

offering. They also support it by building

CBCB. When we go to the missions

field, they have a church called the CBCB that they built for

them a very small deuterium to enable members there to also

worship. They also contribute, give money

to that aspect. So in conclusion, we are saying

that tithes that we give has benefits and we are praying that

we will not go to the negative aspect as I've already said but

we will be try much possible to give our tithes and give it to

all. So that all benefits that has

been said in the Bible, you and I will benefit it.

Let us not stop giving tithe as I said because tithe is the

lifeline of our church and we can see all that we are doing in

the church, the development, the support of our students, our

hospitals, our schools. Even now we are going into

prisons and we are building churches in the yards of prison.

We are building even prison yard for members who have been

convicted or people who have been convicted so that they go

and have training so that when they come out they will their

lives will change. This morning it is my prayer

that is you have made-up your mind not to pay tithe again.

This small teachings that we have done, you will change up

your mind and begin to pay tithe, not to pay it because of

what we have or what the church is doing, but we'll pay it so

that you and I will gain blessing unto our Lord.

I pray that God himself will reveal himself unto you and

explain it deeply so that you understand it well and do as he

has ordered us to do. May God bless us all.

Amen. Oh, you are clapping.

You are clapping unto Jesus. What do we tell our elder?

God bless you, let's add another one, God bless you.

And the final one, God bless you.

Right, so the floor is open for comments, questions and

contributions. Feel free come up here and ask

your question. If you have any comments to make

you can do that. Carriage lead.

Who's taking it first? Super.

Quick one, I just need a bit of explanation where there are

three types of tides. He mentioned the Levitical

festival, then the charity. I think I understood the 1st and

the last but the festival tides I didn't really get the

understanding that much so I want further explanation.

Thank you. Any other question?

Any other question? Any other question set?

I see a question running through your mind.

Come and see Any other question. Question, comments,

contributions. Oh, just one.

So we are saying that the festival Titan is for is for all

of us is a tight that we have to partake in yearly, is a yearly

activity, as I already said. So this tight God commanded the

Israelites that they should pull all these tithes, all these

resources at a particular location.

So it is given to support those who don't have.

So if it is pulled at a particular place, like tension

here, we are pulling all our tithes into this church at the

end of that particular year. When we pull it, we give it out

as donations. So the Levites who are working

in the House of God will receive their portion.

Then we will go round and look at people in the church or as

Israelites. We support them because it's

like a festival, something that we are doing every year.

We go out to support people who are in need, whether they are in

the House of God or they are not in the House of God.

So the explanation is saying that it is done in their

community. So the community that God has

asked them to pull all these resources in, they go around,

but I believe that before God will ask them to even pull all

their resources in a particular location, then there are people

there who are in need. So after they have done that, I

believe that there will be a direction on how to share all

these things to the widow, to the fatherless, to those who are

begging by the roadside at that particular community.

Not only for those who bring their tithe, but those who bring

their tights will also have their share.

So that particular tight is like a ritual, A yearly activity.

That is why it has been named a festival Titan.

So at the end of every year, we believe that we go out as the

Church of Pentecost do. At a point in time, they go to

prisons and then we pull all our resources together, we go to

prisons and then we give to those who are in need.

We are still doing it. We are still doing it, but it is

not like the olden days that all Israelites are to pull at one

particular place and do. But as the church we also pull

our resources as the need arises and then we go out there to

support the rest. But at the time of the

Israelites it is a must, something that every year we do

it, but as at now, we do it as the need arises.

Hallelujah. So I with my understanding, I

think we are talking about a yearly offering and I want to

believe that the Easter we, we, we organize the Easter yearly.

So I want you to look at the offering that we normally offer

during Easter. For me, I think that is my mind,

maybe I think that the Easter offering is a yellow one, that

one can be related to the festival one or maybe the

Christmas conventions. These are yearly programs, so

maybe we can relate those ones just like the festival tight.

That is my understanding. Let's read the Scripture

Deuteronomy chapter 14 verse 22 to 27.

Deuteronomy 14:22–27

I think it will also help us. Deuteronomy chapter 14 verse 22

Deuteronomy 14:22–27

to 27. Be sure to set aside a tenth of

all that your fields produce each year.

As the speaker said, during those days they were mainly

farmers buying our dispensation. We have different professions,

so we should consider that. And so be sure to set aside a

tenth of all that your field produce each year.

It's the tides of your grain, new wine and oil, and the first

born of your heads and flocks in the presence of the Lord your

God, at the place He will choose as a dwelling for his name.

And in our dispensation, that is the church, a place he will

choose as a dwelling for his name.

So that you may learn to Revere the Lord your God always.

But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the

Lord your God and cannot carry your tithes because the place

where the Lord will choose to put His name is so far away

then. And you see, during those days

the only place you could offer is Jerusalem.

So wherever you are, you have to move to Jerusalem to go and

offer. So please take note of it verse

25 then exchange your tithe for silver and take the silver with

you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose.

And so why change or exchange your tithe for silver for

silver? Because maybe before you leave

one place to Jerusalem, by the time you get there your produce

might have rotten. I hope you understand.

So if you should exchange it into silver, at least you can

maintain it and then present it. Verse 26 Use the silver to buy

whatever you like, cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented

drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household

shall each day in the presence of the Lord your God and

rejoice. And do not neglect the Levites

living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance

of their own. 28 verse 28. At the end of every three years,

bring all the tights of that year's produce.

And OK, I think we are interested in up to 27.

So from the question I'd rather ask this tithe.

This tithe was to be taken every year to be eating with the

person's household at a specifically designated place

that is Jerusalem before the Lord.

If such designated place was far away, then it could be sold and

the money used to buy whatever they like for the enjoyment of

the house in the presence of the Lord.

And so from this explanation, how do you understand it?

Now I'll complete it. But from this explanation, what

did you, what are you deducing from it and how do you

understand it? And from the scripture we have

read, and taking the current church into consideration, how

do you understand it? It's not the address to him, but

to all of us. How do you understand it?

Yes. All right, so from the scripture

then the readings think it is obvious.

So the festival tides, it's more like a festival each year.

And the purpose of this is the whole year you bring whatever

you end 110th of it, the purpose is to celebrate in the presence

of the Lord with your family, just like how the reading said.

So it is a festival each year to be celebrated in the presence of

the Lord with your family. That's my that's what I got from

the reading. With your family, right?

And also with others, not only your family, because it is a

household, something that we are doing.

So in your household maybe you know, we know that in the olden

days they live in a compound house, very huge houses.

So I believe that. So as the end of the day, as we

have food, all our tides and we are celebrating not only our

household but people who are around, we can also call people

who are around so that we all celebrate because it is a

festival thing that we are doing.

I mean. And so from this morning's

lessons, you could see that we have other types that we have

not been talking about or we don't know much about.

But from what we just read and from what our elder said, when

did we organize our love fest? Last two weeks.

Last two weeks we had our love fest.

Where did we organize it? Where did we organize it in the

church? Where did we get the resource

from? And so from this explanation,

what it means is that God is expecting and one keyword that

came out from the Scripture and the definition, he said that the

money used to buy whatever they like for the enjoyment of the

household in the presence of the Lord.

Hello. So when we come to the House of

the Lord is not only Shrababa. Shrababa, we have to find time

and enjoy ourselves in the presence of the Lord.

And if we want to do it and do it well, then we have to do it

well. What we did the other time, it

is not it is not what I hope you understand.

And the reason why it is like that is because because you

don't have the understanding and maybe I don't have the

understanding the types that I was to supposed to bring for

this purpose, I didn't bring it. I hope you understand.

So please let's take note of it. So what it also means is that

you see from the presentation our elder gave, he made mention

about 3 different types, but we are talking about the festive 1.

The festive one. The purpose is that we will come

to the presence of God as a family or you come in the

presence of God as a family. We all come together and then

enjoy, have an enjoyment in the presence of God.

I mean, I hope it's clear. Have you responded to that

question? Yeah.

Any other question? Any other question?

OK, If there is no question, I will ask you, why don't you

tight? Yes, Why don't you tight,

please? Yes, since you don't have any

question, I'm asking why don't you tight.

If I say why don't you tight, We have spoken about three types of

tights, the charity, we have spoken about the Festive 1 and

we have also spoken about the Levitical tights.

So why don't you tights, I hope that question is clear is that.

Is it personal or general? It's a general.

If you want to personalize, it's fine.

If you want to generalize, it's fine.

OK. Praise the Lord.

So for me, I the reason why I don't tight for the festival.

I didn't know about the festival tights.

So that was that's why I don't tight for that one.

But then since I've lent it today, I'll make sure that I, I,

I put in the efforts to give my tights on that one.

Thank you. Hello.

OK, I was a bit sceptical about coming out to speak because I

don't know if it's personal or but you said we can, it's a

contribution. So I think I want to start by

saying as a church, maybe we have to start looking at the way

we teach about Titan because the times have changed.

Why am I saying so? I might have a difference or I

was born into the Christian religion even though I didn't

start from Pentacles. I started as a Christian before

I joined Pentecost. And I've learned a lot about

Titan from the church and then from my own research.

But what of others who joined us and all they hear is we are

Titan because we want to take care of our pastor or most

people think that we tight because the Titan is used to

take care of pastors or as the Bible says the Levites.

And in this dispensation, can you point me to the Levites in

the church? If I don't know anybody who

comes from that line, why am I giving them giving money to for

that person to be taken care of? I don't know if you are getting

me because I believe that the Levites are purposely or

basically living in Israel and in Ghana.

We don't have their lineage here.

I don't know if you're getting me.

So that is why the question, why don't you tight?

That's my understanding and I also want to put it out as in

Titan comes from a certain background.

What does God want from us? He wants us to give.

Titan is a form of giving and I personally, yes.

Let me make it clear, I don't believe in Titan.

I believe in giving. I pay my tithe though, but I

don't say I'm Titan, I'm giving to God.

Why am I giving to God? Because he gave his only

begotten son for me. He didn't give 10%, He gave all.

So when I'm giving to God, I must give my all to God.

Even though we are teaching about Titan, we must teach the

people to understand why they give to God and why they must

give their all. I don't know if you are getting

me but this is my understanding. So I think the teaching or how

we go about Titan must be crafted in a certain way.

To carry this message is a form of giving and when you are

given, give your all. I don't believe in giving my 10%

to God, I believe in giving my all to God.

Amen. Titan in the New Testament times

Titan in the New Testament times Giving of tithes and other

offerings was in existence before, during, and after the

New Testament times. During the Persian period, the

Jews were obligated to support the Temple and its priests and

Levites by contributing the first fruits of the earth and

trees, the first born of animals and humans to be redeemed, a

dough offering wine and oil, and it can be found in Nehemiah

Nehemiah 10:32–39

chapter 10, verse 32 to 39. Additionally, they were expected

to pay imperial tributes. During the Second Temple period,

representatives of the priests and Levites collected tithes as

a second set of taxes for the temple and priesthood.

By the time of Malachi, the prophets, because the Jews had

come under Roman colonization and were paying taxes to them,

the economy had become so bad that it was difficult for some

of them to give tithes. Those who were giving tithes at

that time were only giving partially.

The Lord considered the partial giving of tithes and offerings

as robbery. He therefore asked them to bring

the whole tithes or the tithes or the full tithes into the

storehouse into his storehouse. It can be found in Malachi

Malachi 3:6–12

chapter 3, verse 6 to 12. The emphasis is mine, mine.

This is what sometimes happen to some contemporary Christians.

They think that by giving some monies as tight, they have

fulfilled the requirements of the Lord.

The hard fact is this, as far as tithing is concerned, it has to

be given in full and not partially.

This shows that the Lord demands our total commitment and

obedience to Him. The Pharisees however did their

best to tight on even the mini test items such as garden herbs

and spices such as mint, deal and coming.

It can be found in Matthew chapter 23 verse 23 and Luke

Matthew 23:23 Luke 11:42

Chapter 11 verse 42. Jesus spoke one Pharisee.

Jesus spoke about 1 Pharisee who was boasting that he gave tides

of all he had. That is Luke chapter 18 verse

Luke 18:12

12. Please project Luke chapter 18

Luke 18:12

verse 12 the Pharisees even thought that everything that is

eating and everything that grows out of the earth was to be tight

on he said that if Luke 18 verse 12 I fast twice a week and I

Luke 18:12

give 10th of all I get. Let me continue here.

The Pharisees even thought that everything that is eating and

everything that grows out of the earth was to be tight on.

Meanwhile, they were not faithful or merciful and also

administered injustice. Jesus sought to correct them

when He said Woe to you, teachers of the law and

Pharisees, you hypocrites. You give a term of your spices,

mint deal, and cumin, but you have neglected the more

important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and

faithfulness. That is Matthew 2323.

You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the

former. Now when we say you should have

practiced the latter without neglecting the former, what does

it mean? Yes, the Scripture is the word

to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites.

You give a term of your spices, mint, dill and cumin, but you

have neglected the more important matters of the law,

justice, mercy, and faithfulness.

You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the

former. What does it mean?

Pay what Jesus said? Yes.

Yeah, please give him the mic. OK, he says.

You give a 10s of your spices. That's that's the you should

have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

So the latter is them neglecting important matters.

So they should have given the tent of their spices and mint,

Dylan or and not also neglect giving justice, mercy and

faithfulness to others. So what it means is that they

attach so much importance to tighten, neglecting

faithfulness, neglecting mercy, neglecting justice, and Jesus is

telling them that all are very, very important.

Even in our dispensation. Some people think that when you

tight it is enough, you can live your life anyhow.

And so Jesus is drawing the attention of the Pharisees that

the way they attach importance to Titan, they should attach

importance to living a righteous and a holy life.

It can be seen here that Jesus did not condemn or nullify the

giving of tithes. He rather thought that it was

not enough for a person to give tithes when that person was not

just merciful or faithful. In his view, givers of tithes

should also impartially administer justice, be involved

in acts of mercy, and be faithful in all their activities

to please the Lord. A typical example.

You carry your tithes and then you come and pay or you do your

very possible best and you pay your tithe faithfully at every

given time. And then you have money, have

resources. Your neighbor don't have what to

eat. Your neighbor is seriously sick

and he's dying, but you are no merciful towards your neighbor.

Your neighbor don't even have what to weigh, but you prefer to

come and pay your tight faithfully and then your

neighbor who is next to you, who is dying, who has not got what

to eat. You can support him.

And so we dream the Ding Ding. You know, there are some people

who have, but they are very, they are very stingy.

And so Jesus is saying that yes, we should pay our tithes, but we

should be merciful. Yes, we should pay our time, but

we should be faithful. Yes, we should pay our time, but

we should we should be people who who are just how we say

someone is just what does it mean?

He mentioned justice. Why we say someone is just?

What does it mean? Yes.

Oh, are you here? Oh, Please wait.

You are not the only wait. You are not the only person.

Please set help us. Why we say 1 is just?

What does it mean? Does being honest?

Honest. Yes.

Any other person? Yes.

I also think the person is on pain CCA the person is If it is

this, it is there's. No cheating, no cheating.

Yes, yes, Waka waka with you. You speak into the mic, so I

will hear your voice. OK, so I wanted to say that the

person is fair. He.

Is fair, he. Was saying on pace CCA.

On your bias, yes, there's one hand at the back there.

The person stands for what is right.

The person stands for what is right.

God bless you all. Do you know that in our

dispensation and even in in the church now who?

Yeah. OK, so giving to someone what

they deserve. What he deserves yeah.

OK, God bless you. Do you know that in our church

now, there are some people who have their mindset that when you

have money, you'll be ordained as an officer.

And there are some people also have their mindsets that when

you have money and you are ordained as an officer, you can

live your life anyhow. And we have some people who have

managed to enter the they are rich.

They, they, they, they have money.

They have become officers. Some are not officers.

They are members. They live their life anyhow.

Some of them are womanizing, some of them are drinking, and

some of the members and some of the officers who know, but they

are afraid to talk about it. Hello.

Yeah. Yeah, we can.

Have you Have you seen some before?

No. Are you sure?

And even at times when we talk about it, when we talk about it,

and at times soon when we talk about one, we are afraid to talk

about it. And there are times when you

manage to talk about it and it gets to a point some people want

to. I hope you understand.

So we are talking about justice. What is not good for coffee is

not good for could you? I'm saying it because we, the

members, we are the same people who talk about it all the time.

How come somebody issue will come and then within the

shortest possible time we are finished talking about it and

the decision is taken and then another person issue, can we

talk about it and talk about it and talk about it again?

Maybe it's the same issue. One has money, one don't have

money, one supports the church so much that the church don't

want to lose him. If we lose him, the church is

the financial status of the church will just come down.

And so they presided. I don't want to lose him, so

they presided. I will try and then, oh, you be

patient. Oh you let's do it this way and

another person who the Bible sees and then straight.

I'm not saying I'm being that or someone is being that, but the

point is that we should be just Amen.

The problem it can be seen that Jesus did not know.

The problem with the Pharisees was that.

They thought that by Titan they were better acceptable to the

Lord, who would probably overlook all other things they

did, the Pharisees began. The Pharisees began to think

that giving tithe was a substitute for the moral law of

justice, mess, and faith. Jesus therefore had to correct

their evil thoughts and belief. For the Pharisees, full tithing

was a mark of loyalty to God, but Jesus considered their

hypocritical motive behind it. One of the main New Testament

teachings is that Christians must offer their bodies as

living sacrifices to God. Romans 12/1.

This implies that as they offer their bodies to the Lord, the

giving of their substance to the Lord is also included.

Titan was practiced during the times of the early Church

Fathers, such as Iranians who lived between 1:30 and 200280,

wrote that if the Jews regularly paid tithes, the Christians who

were serving the Lord in a new spiritual dispensation should

save him with all that they had because they had a hoop of

greater things. With this understanding, the

giving of 10% tight is basic. There are some Christians who

have chosen to give more than 10 of their income to the Lord as

tight. Amen.

Amen. I hope it's clear and so please

the New Testament believer. At times some people say Jesus

did not talk about tights because Jesus did not mention

the word tights. But from what we read, you could

see that Jesus brought clarity to it.

And Jesus also made us to understand that tights, tights

is very important and we shouldn't replace tights with

the moral laws. And then when I was speaking, he

talked about the Levites. Someone would say in our

dispensation, who is the Levites?

And then he made us to understand that when God was

distributing the inheritance to the people of Israel for the

Levites, they didn't have any shame.

And God commanded that the other, the other, the other

persons should work and then support or bring their tithes to

the House of God. And that was going to be the

source of income for the Levites.

So it is scriptural in our dispensation.

And because we are in the Church of Pentecost, I can talk about

the Church of Pentecost because every church and its

administration, there are some churches, when you pay the

tithe, it goes to the pastor. And so there are some people who

think that all the tithes we pay in the Church of Pentacles goes

to the district past. No, that is not a situation in

our church. In our church, why do you pay

your tithes? 1 You must ensure that you pay

your tithes in your local church.

The reason why you pay your tithes in your local church is

because that is your, your spiritual home.

That is where you are fed spiritually and so you own

allegiance to that local church. Hello, at times someone, maybe

you came from Kumasi and then now you are living in Accra, you

are working in Accra and then maybe you have brought your

transfer card or you know that you are not going back to

Kumasi. Maybe you came from your

hometown to a different location.

You are attending church at a different location, but you are

not paying your tithe today. You pay your tithes at where you

are coming from. Meanwhile you are being fed in a

different local church. If you do that, it is totally

wrong. Where your name is recorded and

registered, where you are fed spiritually, that is where you

must be your tithes. Amen.

So if you are here and you are doing like that, please take

notes and do the right thing. And in our church, when a pastor

is when a pastor is what? When a pastor is called into the

full time ministry, I was being careful of the way to choose and

so I needed to consult whatever a pastor is called into the full

time. Do not forget the pastor is

called from among the people as you are seated there.

When we see the call of God upon you, the presiding elder and the

presbytery will recommend you to the districts and the district

pastor also will confirm the calling and they will also

recommend you to the area. And when the area also confirms,

the area will recommend you to the national.

And when you go to the National and you pass the interview, then

the call upon you is confirmed. Then you become a full time

minister of the church. Do not forget that some of these

people, in fact all the people who are cold, they are some are

well to do us. They are all working.

We don't just we don't just Amen.

But the point is that they are all well to do.

There are some who are doctors, there are some who are lawyers.

There are some who are they are all professionals.

Should they do their normal work, they will be earning so

much, but when they receive the call and they respond to the

call in the Church of Pentecost, you have to stop everything you

are doing. That is why we have full time

ministers. They are full time.

You don't do any other work apart from the ministerial work.

It is of late that the Church of Pentecost has introduced and is

accepting 10th ministers. The 10th ministers, they are

professionals who do other works, yet they are still and it

is now coming. But I'm talking about the full

time. Majority of our ministers are

full time ministers. So what it means is that when

they are cold and they stop whatever work they are doing and

they are doing them in a serial work, how are they going to

survive? How are they going to feed their

wives and their children? Do not forget that they are

family men. And so from what you read the

Levites, the Bible is saying that the tights that was brought

into the temple, that is what they depended on.

So in the Church of Pentecost, when you come and pay your

tithes, maybe let me read it for clarity sake.

Then we'll bring it to a close. Management and disbursement of

tithes. In the Church of Pentecost, the

Bible teaches bring the whole tithes into the storehouse that

there may be food in my house. Because of the different types

of administration being run by the churches, every church

determines its storehouse in the Church of Pentecost.

Tides should be given in a person's local assembly because

that is where they get their spiritual guidance, care,

feeding, teaching. From there it is sent through

the districts and the area to the headquarters.

So this place, let me also be quick to add, that's the local

assembly. That is where the member get his

spiritual guidance, care feeding and the teaching.

The member get his spiritual guidance.

There are some members, they are in the church but they don't

have any spiritual guidance because they are refusing to be

good members. Hello.

Hello. I am trying to draw your

attention. I'm not yet to judge or

whatever, but as a member in the local assembly, you should have

spiritual guidance. How can you have spiritual

guidance when the leaders even don't know your name?

The leaders don't know your name.

How can you get care when the leaders even don't know your

name? You don't even come to church.

And how can you be fed and be taught?

So let's all think about it. This means that the Church of

Pentecost operates a centralized system of financial

administration. This constitutes the where the

storehouse of the Church of Pentecost in the Church of

Pentecost. They are allowable deductions

that may be taken from the tights.

In the Church of Pentecost there are allowable deductions that

may be taken from the tights. These include church rents where

applicable. So, for example, if we are

worshipping in a place that we are renting, at the end of the

month, whatever tight we get, it is allowed for us to pay from

that tights and then our electricity bill and water bill

as well as electricity and water bills at the local church level.

After that, after deducting all the allowable deduction, after

that 10% of the remaining money is taken at the local assembly

level as a local Development Fund for local administration.

So let's say at the end of the month, all the tides we got from

the church is 2000 Ghana CD. If we are renting a place, we

pay our rent from it, we pay our lights and our water bill from

that 2000. After taking that money out, the

remaining money, the local assembly deducts 10%.

So let's say after all these deductions is left with 1500,

the 1500, the local assembly would deduct 10% from it, which

is 150 CD. Is that correct?

10% of 1005 is 150 CD. So when the local takes that 150

CD from the 1005, it will be left with 1350.

That 1350 will be paid to the into the district account and so

the local assembly will depend on that 150 CD for local

developments. So what it means is that our use

the city, whatever we need to do in the local, whether we are

doing construction, we are the running of the local we want to.

So in our case, for instance, at the end of every month when we

do deductions of our lights and our tights, and then we get our

10%, the 10%, some of the things we buy is what water.

And what if I say what are the drinking water, The drinking

water? We buy cups, we buy tissue.

I mean we pay. We pay for the rubbish and the

wastes and so all those expenses are made from that 10% no matter

the amount whether it will reach or it will not reach your

expenses. That is the policy I mean.

And so while we send 1350 to the districts, that district also,

if the district is paying water bill, light bill, they pay from

that money 1350. So let's say they also pay 150

from US expenses from the money forwarded to them.

If they pay 150, it will be left with how much 1002.

And then out of 1002, the district is supposed to also

maintain 10% as the district Development Fund. 10% of 1002 is

how much 120 CD. So you could see that the local

assembly, the local assembly had 150 CD to run the affairs of the

local and the district had 120 CD.

The same way the district is to depend on that 120 CD for the

running of the district affairs. When it comes to running of the

district affairs, maybe there is a program that the district must

attend in the name of the district.

The district must make expenses from lose, lose money.

And so the point is that at times, depending on the types we

get, and even in our case, at times, the local Development

Fund and industry Development Fund is not enough to cater for

our expenses, our men. The reason why I'm taking my

time to explain this is at times we have the notion that the

local or the district has a lot of money in its accounts sitting

there. But let me continue.

So after the district has done its deductions, these include

church rents where applicable as well as electricity and water

bills at the local assembly. After that 10% of the remaining

amount is taken at the local assembly.

The remaining amount is sent to the district office by all

assemblies constituting the districts.

So here also let me explain. Assuming our district we have

about in our case, let's say we have two local assemblies.

So English will bring its the Economist, after the deductions

they will forward or pay their tights to the district.

The local people will be you bring it together, you do your

deductions and then the district will also forward the rest to

the area. At the district level, the

mission house rents where applicable as well as mission

house water and electricity bills are deducted. 10% of the

remaining amount is taken for administration and district

level. This is referred as District

Development Fund. From the district office, the

remaining amount is sent to the area. 10% of all types received

from the district constituting the area are taken at the area

level. This is known as the area

Development Fund. Then take note, the area gives

support and scholarship to needy students.

So when the money leaves local to district and then from

district to area, from different districts, when it gets to the

area, the area gives support and scholarship to the needy

students. Currently, I know that tension.

What area? Our area, we are sponsoring

almost 300 students at the Pentecost University College.

Almost it's between 2:52 fifty plus.

That's why I said almost 300 students at the Pentecost

University College. But the area is not making noise

about it. Amen.

And some of our members in this church are beneficiaries of it.

So the point is if we don't pay the tights, how can this be

done? And so you could see that the

tights, you are paying the tights I'm paying.

Even though it's doing the work of God, it is also being a

blessing to other people. But the head context directive,

10% of the ADF that is area Development Fund for every area

is used to support church administration and ongoing

church building and mission house projects within the area.

So when the area also get the the tights, they use 10% to

support the works of the area, the area administration, maybe

one district is building it's temple, just as when we were

building our temple, the area came to support us.

Should it be dependent on only us to build this Chapel?

It should have taken us more than 20 years.

Hello. And you go to some places, some

areas they start building a Chapel.

They don't finish five years, 10 years every year.

They keep on raising funds building, building, building and

the dolphin. But in our case when the ties

from all the district goes and they support the district, that

is how come we have our building like this.

I mean another 10% of the title received at the area office from

the district is taking us Accelerated Infrastructural

Development Fund. AIDF to support ongoing church

building and mission house projects in the area.

The remaining amount is sent to the headquarters into the

Central fund from the Central fund.

At the headquarters, the salaries of full time ministers

and non ministerial staff are paid every month.

Every month the headquarters releases grants to the areas to

support the construction of mission houses and church

buildings. Every month the headquarters

releases another grant called CBC.

As Elder spoke about, the headquarters also gives support

in the form of scholarship to the needy students.

The headquarters is responsible for the training expenses of new

ministerial students currently at the Pentecost University

College. The church is responsible for

their feeding, accommodation and other expenses of the students.

Because no student is made to pay anything, the headquarters

supports newly created districts to acquire mission houses for

their ministers as well as basic evangelism equipment.

The headquarters is responsible for transporting all transferred

ministers to their new stations. The headquarters financially

support the Pentecost University College, the Pentecost

Hospitals, clinics and Basic Schools, Senior High schools,

among others. The headquarters has been

financing the construction of police stations as well as

drilling boreholes for deprived communities.

The headquarters is responsible for the purchase of vehicles for

most area heads. The headquarters has been

financing the construction of church buildings for pencil

groups and the campuses of the tertiary institutions.

Similarly, in addition to supporting the travelling

secretaries in constructing church buildings, the

headquarters has been providing financial support for the

construction of the church buildings and mission houses at

the various military barracks. The headquarters runs its

administrative expenses and uses part of the tight to expand the

church work across the country. It is a rule in the Church of

Pentecost that to engender greater transparency and

accountability, money counters should be changed every month.

Tights must be counted and recorded in the presence of

other persons. Tithes should not be used for

giving loans to church members. Tithes should not be used

directly by any individual or church leader.

Church leaders to support the construction of any project.

It is important for Christians to know that there is a

difference between tithes and offerings.

A tithe is 1/10, which must be given to the Lord.

All offerings must be voluntarily taken from the

remaining 90% of income that the person retains in other ways.

It is inappropriate for a person to use his or her tithe as an

offering. It is inappropriate for a person

to use his or her tights as an offering this.

Please let me comment about it tomorrow.

You could see that at times when the local church is, let me use

our church for as an example, since December up to this

period, we've had a lot of programs, a lot of activities.

And then we always encourage the members to support, support,

support in five years from December.

And we realized that from some, for some time now, our tights

keep on going down, down, down, down.

And I think I've said it here before and I was thinking that

the officers, we have discussed about it, church workers, we

have discussed about it. And I'm thinking I may be right,

I may be wrong. I'm thinking that some people

don't pay their tights at all and some people also don't pay

their tight fitfully. And I want I, I read this

material. What also came to mind is

probably because of the other things we decided to do, some

people decided to channel some of their tights through.

I hope you understand, Barbara. I hope you understand.

Send a tight year 2000. We say we want to do party, they

tight 2000 / 200 around 3000 is the same church.

We say recently what activities did we do that people supported

us. We did, we just did yesterday we

just did a Valentine. The topic was a Ville doubt

Ville, some people supported us. So from the same 2001 in two

people who know at the end of the day, no, the tights that is

supposed to pay which is 2000 not a swat TR with abaca 500.

The other 1005 no, it still went into the church activity.

But what we are saying is that the other 90% you have, you can

do other expenses, you can give other free will offering from

it. You shouldn't go into the the

10% of your tights, please. Is it clear?

Hello and she said what it is, why?

And then your last stop. Amen.

Tide should not be used to give arms to the poor, beggars and

needy. The reason is that it will never

be acceptable by the Ghana Revenue Authority for any reason

to use his or her taxes to support the needs of the poor

and needing. Tithes should not be paid to the

districts of a person's hometown because the individual church

member has a moral and spiritual responsibility to his or her

local assembly. It is in the person's local

assembly that he or she gets spiritual guidance, care,

feeding and teaching. Tithes should not be paid to

another church or organization because the individual church

member has a moral and spiritual responsibility to his or her

local assembly. This place to let me comment

tomorrow. Maybe you are a member of this

church. And then this coming Sunday, we

are having a fundraising to maybe buy a bus or for a project

and then another person invites you or maybe the church in your

village or your town, they are also having a fundraising and

they invite you and they invite you.

When it happens like that. Brother Cornelius, what will you

do? You 2, you are one man.

Your offering is 1. What will you do?

Come and tell us. Why is that, Mike?

Oh please give him the mic for me.

Hi. In such a case, I think the best

thing to do is to. Contribute to your local church

and then also the 90% that's left of your income.

You can decide to allocate some portion to your church in the

village. Yes, any other person.

Any other person. So let me also add this time I'm

not talking about the tides though we are talking about what

I really says that I should not be paid to another church or

organization. Let's say this organization full

Gospel, full Gospel businessmen, they have India program.

They still brother said we are inviting you and then you go

there or any other organization and then they are having their

program and they are taking tights and you are you are

invited. When it happens like that, you

don't pay your tights there. That is what we are saying.

You pay your tights at the local assembly.

But from what our brother said, the other 90% you have out of it

you can give to supports. But this one, I'm talking about

a special offering in the local church.

We are having a program and then you are invited elsewhere and

then you leave your local church and you go elsewhere.

That is not the right thing to do Amen.

I hope you understand if we finish, maybe we'll give you 3

minutes for questions, then we'll end there.

But our time is far gone. Tides should be taking on a

person's gross salary and not the net.

The person is. The reason is that the taxes

that are taken from the person's salary constitute a financial

obligation or he obligation he or she owes to the states.

It is from these taxes that the state provides security and

other social amenities to the cities.

Cities, citizenry, church leaders and money counters are

to be careful not to misuse or misapply the tides of any

unapproved purpose because the Bible says we have an altar from

which those who minister at the Tabernacle have no right to eat.

Hebrews 13, verse 10. Church leaders and money

Hebrews 13:10

countries are expected to demonstrate a high sense of

faithfulness, integrity and integrity and transparency in

the handling of tithes and offerings Are men because of our

time? We want to end here.

We'll continue later. Maybe we want to dedicate 2

minutes for any question clarification, then we end.

Amen. Any question, right?

So if there is no question, Adam will pray for.

Us Father, Lord, we thank you this morning for the revelations

that you have revealed unto us about Titan.

We pray that Father we cannot do away without you.

Pray that Father you grant us the strength and the Greece to

tight well a lot of men a lot of people do not tight well read

our Father you help us to tight world and continue to guide us

in whatever that we do. We thank you Lord, in Jesus

scenario period Thanksgiving, Amen.

He said Amen. So we want to practicalize what

you've learned this morning, our brother Joshua, and that will

take us through tight Joshua.