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So we're glad to hear this morning, we have a, a new series that I want to start today.

Maybe a little uncomfortable for some people.

Because I'm going to start talkin about money.

Specifically tithing how many of you have heard the word tithe before?

I mean is never heard it.

Anybody never heard word tile.

We're going to start a new series that I have entitled a life.

Well, spent And we're going to talk about sewing a lot.

We going to talk about stewardship.

I'm not sure how many messages we're going to have.

I'm going to say somewhere between 8 and 10 so it's going to take us up to Christmas.

We going to talk about stewardship, we going to talk about sacrifice, but all of my sermons is going to have something to do it.

All comes back to God's plan of economy for his people.

And that starts with the tithe that starts with the tire.

You say, we're pretty sure you going to start telling everybody, they don't give enough money while.

I don't know if you give enough money or not, but we going to talk about money and stewardship and how we are to handle our money.

Now, we know that money is not a new human concern.

For most of us, most of us spend most of our, our life thinking about money, don't we?

I mean, you have to, you have to have money to live, you have to have money to pay your bill, do you know if you want a house, if you want a car to drive in where you have to think about money.

So most of us, spend a lot of Our Lives thinking about our education, our vocation How we will provide for ourselves and our family.

So, in that sense, money deserves our attention.

Nothing.

I mean, we need to think about it.

We need to be smart with their money.

But then Jesus says something, he said something in The Sermon on the Mount, let me know if you remember him saying this.

Therefore, I say to you do not worry about your life.

What you will eat or what you will drink nor about your body, what you will put on?

Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing.

Now, let me ask this before we ever get started, how many of you have ever gone to bed at night?

And worried about your life or specifically about your financial situation.

How many people has done that?

Ever, all of us have at some point in time either we didn't have enough money didn't know if we going to have enough but I want you to notice something Jesus didn't say.

Not to think about your material life.

He said not to worry about it.

But how many of us have gone to bed at night and worried about our material at all of us?

We all we all have at one time or another and you see there's a fine line of distinction between thinking about money and worrying about money and their reside, the difference between money in the world Kingdom and money in God's kingdom.

How the world look up money and how God looks at money, that money is important and God's Kingdom.

For the same reason, it's important in the world that we live in it, kind of represents to a degree how we invest the days of our life.

It's also a measure of our priorities.

We we gain money and we have to buy things, we have to buy food, we have to, we'll buy a house or car or something like that.

So we'll use a lot of it for ourselves.

But then Jesus talks about how we are to use our money to benefit others as well.

Is to learn to think about money the way God thinks about money.

Now what does the world tell you about your money?

It says you get all you can and you can all you get You get everything that you can you make the most money that you can and you save it.

Nothing wrong with that.

And you you be, you get your money and you invested well and you build this great big portfolio of stocks and and real estate and things like that.

So that you'll be rich one day.

Well, there's nothing wrong with thinking about him planning and having a portfolio.

But here's the problem.

Why we are learn and exchange and invest.

We are giving that money in a world dominated by different priorities than God's priorities.

Now Jesus said it was not his desire that we would worry about money and especially worried about not having enough.

You see God has an F plan, he has a system but it is entirely different from the world system in the world.

We graphs in order to get and keep but in God's kingdom we do the opposite.

What did Jesus say?

It is better to W to give than to receive.

What does the world say you better receive is better to get it instead of giving slow the test of faith.

Comes right here.

What if I give?

But I'm in need.

I mean, there's a lot of people out there to send me, they don't have a whole lot.

am I supposed to give the way the Bible says, specifically the tithe and we'll talk more about that, what a time, it is in a minute, but am I supposed to give that When I'm in need one, if I don't have much wonder if I struggled to make my payments, every month is a pet is a struggle just to pay my bill.

Does God expect me to give when it's a struggle for me to pay my bills.

This is where God's economic plan merges with his plan for entire life.

The Bible says, we walk by faith, not by sight.

And that includes our money.

You say, is it possible to live in a money bass world?

Without worrying about money and is it possible to have Financial Security when we're told to give our money away?

That's the question.

That is the question right there.

Well, God's economic plan.

We're going to explore it as we go out through this series, but I just want to say this.

God used giving in the Old Testament and he used giving in the New Testament, to refocus his people's attention from money to himself, if you worried about money, if you grab and get as much as you can, and if you've got a tight grip on that money, And you think it's yours because your names on my paycheck, each and every week I work for it.

This is my money.

If you have that type of thinking about money, you need to refocus your attention on God, and not your money.

God has no shortage of money.

He has enough to accomplish his purposes.

The only shortage is ours, which is State, whether we're willing to embrace his stewardship principles,

In order that he may bless us.

Did you hear what I just said?

If we give, he has promised to bless us.

All right.

Now we're going to, we're going to talk more about that today as we get to it.

So here's what I want to do the the message today.

It's what's up with tithing.

What what what in the world does that even mean?

Wow, tithing.

What does God expect me to do now?

Why are we going to talk about this?

Well, this this brings me to our Point here, the overview And what I want you to do is I want you to turn to Malachi chapter 3. Now you say, well, I've never heard of Malachi.

Where is that at?

Well, it's the last book of the Old Testament.

Just turn to the last book of the old tap.

Now, when I was at Fruitland, we had a young lady stand up in class one day, she was giving her devotion.

And she said, I want everyone to turn to my life chapter 2.

She called him a lot.

E in the professor said, oh yeah, I remember him.

He's the Italian prophet in the milatchy.

Yeah.