Accusations, Denial, Stealing From God

ACCUSATIONS, DENIALS: STEAL, ROBBERY. (THREE THINGS)

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes) (2 or 3 part lesson)

What a sick world: I just read where a man stabbed his girlfriend to death over dicing onions? Wow?

YES, THIS LESSON IS ABOUT GIVING TITHES, BUT IT IS MY DESIRE TO GO MUCH DEEPER THAN THIS. WE DENY THAT WE TAKE THINGS FROM GOD. (MONEY? YES? REVENGE? YES! THE BATTLE: YES, IT IS NOT YOURS!)

Young teenagers were playing near the interstate. They were watching the trucks speeding up and down the highway. One of the boys found a long rope and was dangling it over the bridge and watching the reaction of the drivers. Another boy found a concrete block and they decided to tie the thick rope around the concrete block. Then the boys let the concrete block down over the bridge to scare the drivers. As the trucks got near the boys would jerk the block up and listen to the loud horns blast. They would laugh and laugh.

Well you know the rest of the story. On one attempt, the truck was going so fast the boys grabbed the rope to pull it up real fast. One boy had the rope wrapped around his arm. As the concrete block mashed the windshield the rope pulled the young boy’s arm all the way off. The police and the ambulance rushed the young boy to the hospital. He lived but he lost his arm.

The truck driver was arrested and sued. When he went to court he heard the judge announce the charges against him: ARMED ROBBERY! (JOKE!)

THIS WEEK LINDA TOLD ME THE YELLOW WARNING LIGHT CAME ON IN THE VAN. SEEMS ALL 4 TIRES WERE LOW AND THE RIGHT FRONT TIRE WAS REALLY LOW. SEEMS WE UNDERSTAND WARNING LIGHTS BUT WE REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE SPIRITUAL RED FLAGS.

DO PEOPLE TODAY KNOW THE COMMANDMENTS? I WOULD LIKE US TO LOOK AT THE 8TH COMMANDMENT. HOW CAN WE KEEP WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW?

IF YOU DESIRE TO GO TO HEAVEN THERE ARE 10 COMMANDMENTS, NOT JUST MERE SUGGESTIONS OR OPTIONS… THEY ARE COMMANDMENTS. WHAT ARE WE TEACHING?

THOU SHALT NOT STEAL

Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.

Leviticus 19:11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Leviticus 19:11 (MSG) "Don't steal. "Don't lie. "Don't deceive anyone.

Ephesians 4:28 (MSG) Did you used to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can't work.

*WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO STEAL?

*To take what is not yours, to keep something that from another, shop lifting, embezzlement, to take advantage of another, fraud, insurance, gambling, to take property without permission, not to intend to return, dishonest, LARCENY.

* HALF-HEARTED EFFORT, to withhold love or affections. I saw a lady switch the price tag on a large package of meat with a smaller price. She said: THIS IS NOT STEALING I AM PAYING FOR IT.

DEFINE ROB, ROBBERY: TO USE FORCE, to take unlawfully, by threat, force,

CIRRHOSIS OF THE GIVER: DOES GOD ALWAYS MAKE SENSE TO HUMAN REASONING? FAITH AND TRUSTING GOD MIGHT SURPRISE YOU. TEAM WORK! YOU CAN DO MORE WITH 90% AND GOD ON YOUR SIDE THAN YOU CAN DO WITH THE 100%. (See a previous lesson I prepared on CIRRHOSIS OF THE GIVER.)

Malachi 3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

Malachi 3:7 (MSG) You have a long history of ignoring my commands. You haven't done a thing I've told you. Return to me so I can return to you," says GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies. "You ask, 'But how do we return?'

8 "Begin by being honest. Do honest people rob God? But you rob me day after day. "You ask, 'How have we robbed you?' "The tithe and the offering—that's how!

** GOD FILES A GRIEVANCE AGAINST THE CHURCH. PEOPLE DENY THE ACCUSATIONS THAT THEIR AFFECTIONS ARE SET ON MONEY AND MATERIALISM.

WE OFTEN HEAR THE COMPLAINT: DO I HAVE TO GIVE TO GOD? RESEARCH RECORDS THE MAJORITY OF SO CALLED CHRISTIANS, DEPENDING ON THE CHURCH: 75% TO 90% OF ANY CHURCH MEMBERS DO NOT PAY TITHES. BY BEING STINGY AND NOT GIVING WE OPEN THE DOORS OF OUR ETERNAL ENEMY.

Dave Ramsey the financial adviser recommends all people pay tithes. Dave’s daughter RACHEL CRUZE teaches tithing helps bring godly contentment to families. Dave tells the story of how he lost everything before he learned this GREAT LESSON. They say TITHING IS NOT FOR GOD’S BENEFIT. God does not need our money. The lesson is clear: OUR SACRIFICE REMINDS US THAT WE DEPEND ON GOD. We put God first and He will take care of us.