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  2. Very interesting and well-thought. Thank you for sharing! The section on “despised offerings” brings to mind Saint/Mother Teresa’s alleged penchant for gratefully accepting monetary donations from various dictators, criminals, and murderers. I have the highest respect for her, but this often bothered me. I guess the quoted verse from Deuteronomy applies only to the giver, not the receiver (?)…

    1. What makes you think that you can make up your own rules and have the Lord credit the result to you? Who is the judge of what is good – you or the Lord? The purpose of the article is to show how the Lord has laid out specific rules to worship him through giving.
      The pastor is held to a higher standard than the layman of the church. He has presented himself as a teacher of the Word.

  4. So let’s say a rich uncle left me $1,000,00 (legitimately earned) in his will. According to your interpretation, if I blow it all on fancy cars and expensive vacations or give it all to God honoring ministries, it doesn’t matter to God? Haven’t you taken things just a little too far? I find the rest of your arguments solid, but this seems problematic.

    1. BCM in TX,
      It seems strange because of the indoctrination we have received from an apostate church who focuses only on the money.

      “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” – 1 Timothy 6:10

      Our giving shouldn’t be about the money at all. It’s not even about doing good for the poor.

      “For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.” – John 12:8

      Our giving serves two purposes:
      * It teaches us stewardship and direct involvement in the ministry, and
      *It demonstrates our love of the Lord to both us and the Lord
      Since sacrifice is an extremely important part and you don’t demonstrate either of those things without the sacrifice, any “gift” without sacrifice has no value.
      If your uncle “gives” you $1000, you have no sacrifice in the value of that money. If you turn around and give it to a ministry, there is no value in it because it cost you nothing. If your uncle is alive when he gives it to you, it is a sacrifice to him so there may be some value in the gift, especially if you needed the money for some emergency and it met the qualification of caring for your family, but the value is credited to your uncle. If you uncle leaves it to you as part of an inheritance upon his death, it doesn’t even have that value then because it is no longer a sacrifice to him.
      That’s not to say that how you spend the money isn’t important though. If you blow the money and earn no increase on the money, then you would fit the parable of talents and would be the servant who made no increase on the talent entrusted to him by the Master. Obviously, the Master takes a dim view of that because you aren’t being a good steward. If you just turn around and give the money away, how does that meet the criteria needed to have it valued by God? You didn’t earn it (it wasn’t an increase due to you or your efforts) and it cost you nothing. If it cost you nothing, its value is nothing as a gift.
      It is a hard mental habit to break because we have been so indoctrinated by lovers of money in the church. It’s also one of the reasons the vast majority in the church do not see the blessings God bestows upon those who follow his commands and why their lives are in such a mess over debt.

      1. So then if I inherit money, the least I should do if I want to honor God is to put it in the bank, earn some interest, then use that increase for God’s purposes?

        1. BCM,
          There is no tithing or gifting police 🙂
          What you do is between you and the Lord. I suspect given today’s interest rate and the declining dollar that you’d actually lose money by putting it in the bank to earn interest. But a direct reading of the passage would indicate that is an acceptable thing to do as long as you tithe on the increase. I would think that there are better ways to invest the money though. In my case, I made the transition from “working for the man” to self-employed. There were some lean years there and many “inheritance” gifts were directly applied to getting the self-employment up and running. Now, I’m doing pretty well (much better than when I worked for the man). I regularly tithe and give out of my increase and the amounts are far more consistent and larger than they were before. The gifts are also more than just money, because now that I’m self employed, I have much more flexibility on my time and talents. That’s just my case though. Only you and the Lord can determine how best to work your setup.

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