Be Generous

And then in Malachi 3, I think we have to look at this. Malachi 3, verses 8 through 10.

“Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.”

Now, I’m not teaching that all Christians ought to pay tithes, because, as I understand the New Testament, it’s not law, it’s grace. But I would suggest to you that grace should make us more generous than law. We’re told we have a better covenant, established on better promises. Do you think on that basis we could offer less than the Israelites?