THIEVES IN THE SANCTUARY I – Wednesday October 5th
2016
Read: Malachi 3:8-9, (KJV)
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein
have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even
this whole nation.
Bible in one year: Ezekiel
35:1-37:14, Psalms 74:1-11
MESSAGE
One
sad thing going on among the children of God is that some are stealing from the
sanctuary of God and the people concerned are doing it with impunity. Open
Heavens 5 October 2016:-Thieves in the Sanctuary I
There
are many ways a person can steal from the sanctuary of God. The most common way
to almost every Bible reading Christian is when you deny God one-tenth of your
income, Malachi 3:8 says:
“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have
robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”
When
someone eats all his income without giving back one out of ten of it, the
fellow is stealing from the sanctuary, because the tithe belongs to the
sanctuary of God.
“Bring ye all the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith,
saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour
you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
Malachi 3:10
Another
way of stealing from the sanctuary is by refusing to give your first-fruit to
the Lord as He requested from His covenant people in Deuteronomy 26:2:
“That thou shalt take of the
first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that
the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto
the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there.”
Some
people will argue that the ordinance of the first fruit belongs to the Old
Testament era. I have always asked them about the numerous promises of God in the
Old Testament which they often quote and claim to their advantage. Fro example,
I asked some of them who took me up on whether the promise of being “the head
and not the tail” isn’t found in the New Testament. Or “The Lord is my
Shepherd, I shall not want.” Which is also in the book of Matthew. The truth of
the matter is that the scriptures which are favourable to the flesh are easily
quoted and claimed. Those that take the steam out of their so called personal
freedom and finances are pushed to the background. The first fruit is the
property of the Almighty God in His sanctuary. We must give it to Him through
the custodians of the genuine sanctuary of God. I pray for someone using this
devotional; the Holy Spirit will convince you of the truth about tithes, offerings
and first fruit. 5 October 2016 open heaven.
Prayer Point
Father, help me to abstain
from stealing from you sanctuary, and help me to perform the required
restitution for the damage I have done to Your honour, when I denied You of
Your tithes, offerings and first fruits.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional, written by Pastor E.A
Adeboye
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