Tithing
171Tithing
7 Aug 2023
16:34¶ 62
“As we read through scripture we see it’s 10% of the increase, not 10% of your capital goods. God is not out to decapitalize…”
17:54¶ 65
“Again there’s no positive commandment that we know about beforehand, and yet both of these men believed that this was something they ought to…”
19:51¶ 70
“Here’s a trick question I put on tests for my kids. “If you have 22 new sheep, how many do you tithe?” When it’s…”
163Priorities and Providence
5 Jun 2023
22:54¶ 71
“Well, if you’re objecting to legalism and you want to give joyfully and thankfully, don’t you think that 10% would mark a bare minimum…”
23:22¶ 72
“How much does an offering have to be?” That’s where your joy and thankfulness gets to kick in, and the Spirit’s leading can do…”
22:31¶ 68
“If you’re looking for a percentage you can start with God’s, which is 10% of your net.”
101A King to Save Us
17 Jan 2022
10:11¶ 33
“The last point has to do with the tithe. God demanded a tenth of all these things, and this is what marked God as…”
10:45¶ 34
“Presumably you could be excommunicated, but it would take a while. There was no mechanism set up to check on such things. You were…”
11:03¶ 35
“This is a highly symbolic number. One-tenth shows that everything I have belongs to God, so giving one-tenth indicates that he is my God.”
98Ruth - Immigration and Welfare
27 Dec 2021
32:41¶ 126
“The second thing is the 3rd-year tithe – well, both tithes together. Every year you were to tithe, and since Israel was an agricultural…”
33:18¶ 127
“One of the functions of the normal tithe was to help out people who had legitimate needs, the legitimate poor, the deserving poor. The…”
34:33¶ 130
“So there was that, but every third year – and this can be taken in a number of ways, and I don’t have a…”
51Prophecy and the Ten Commandments
20 Dec 2020
6:08¶ 26
“In other words, you’ll recognize the tyranny when this king dares to claim 10% or more of your income, because 10% is what God…”
5:37¶ 25
“This is I Samuel 8, and I’m not going to read all of it since this is not our main point, but he talks…”