Re: Jesus Taxed the Poor More Heavily Than the Rich -
06-18-2011, 06:16 AM
It is utterly reprehensible when poor people prioritize spending on themselves or their earthly families over returning to the LORD what is already His.
Haggai 2:8
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
The tithe is the LORD's and He expects us to pay it to Him. At the same time, He does not receive it until we give it to Him. He does not give us the authority to use His tithes for other purposes, but we have the power to spend it as long as it is in our hands. Nevertheless, a person is condemned if he spends God's money.
Malachi 3:8-9
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Some people put their money into "a bag with holes" (Haggai 1:6). They do not give God His tithe, bit they eventually spend the money for automobile repairs, medical bills, and a thousand other things that they might have avoided if they had been faithful to God in their giving.
Similarly the GREEDY POOR would likely not be so destitute if they would have done the right thing in the first place and given what little they have over to their local Independent Baptist Church.
II Thessalonians 1:7-9
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power
The man who is being progressively sanctified will inescapably sanctify his home, school, politics, economics, science, and all things else by understanding and interpreting all things in terms of the Word of God and by bringing all things under the Dominion of Christ the King. -R.J. Rushdoony
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