WE OWE IT

 

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he, as the rich become poor for your sake, that you got It s bareness.

2 Cor 8.9

There is nothing more precious than human life. Life is more precious than gold, no one in a position to determine its price, except that the size of the fees paid for it.

If you want to know its price, go to Gethsemane and spend hours with Christ dying and incredible heavy fighting when "his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. Take a look on the cross of the Savior. Hear  the death cry: "Oh my God ! Oh my god ! What have you got left ?"  Look on his wounded head, breaching breasts and pierced with nails of hands and feet ! CHRIST RISKED EVERYTHING FOR THE SAKE OF OUR SALVATION.

And only at the foot of the cross of Golgotha you will be able to understand that Christ brought to himself and then, if he could save a perishing sinner.

 

Salvation is near to us in the duty:

Race for the death, and tottering from the doomed to slaughter? You'll say "here, we did not know this?" And a searching heart did not know? Watching over all your soul knows this, and will reward a man according to his deeds.

Proverbs 24.11-12

People who do not know God and his way, doomed to death. We who know him, is the responsibility of all means and forces to rescue the doomed to death.

The Apostle Paul spoke of his duty to preach:

I have and the Hellenes and barbarians, the wise and to the ignorant.

Romans 1.14

He spoke to all who could reach their sermon.

By the end of the time the Gospel was preached to the entire population must be the Earth ( Matthew 24.14 ).

 

Means certain God to preach the Gospel

When Jesus sent the disciples to preach, he told them that their work is worthy of survival and instructed it to those to whom they preach ( Matthew 10.10 ).

As the priests and Levites "ate from the Sanctuary ( Deut 18.1-8, Lev 27.30, Num 18.21 ) and preachers of the Gospel should live of the Gospel (1 Cor 9.13-14). These capable and talented people with great responsibility, should be devoted to teaching the Gospel all the time.

If the Levites to meet the spiritual needs of one people, preachers have to carry the Gospel to all peoples.

 

Therefore, Christ said about tithes:

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO KEEP.

Matthew 23.23

 

However, the offering must be cheerful and from the heart. God recognizes acceptable only such gifts ( Matthew 5.23-24 ).

That's what said about tithing, the Patriarch Jacob:

And put Jacob a vow, saying, if God will be with me and keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, and I am in the world come in my father's House, and the Lord will be my God - this stone that I have set the monument, will be the House of God; FROM ALL THAT THOU WILT GIVE ME, O GOD, I WILL GIVE YOU A TENTH.

Genesis 28.20-22

He says that God "bestows him everything" and expressed his gratitude, because everything BELONGS TO GOD, since he created it ( Hagg 8.8, Jac 1.17).

Therefore, introducing the tithe, we express our recognition of the mercy of God and his mercy and love (1 Par 29.14).

Failure to pay tithes is considered as the theft of God, then there is a man appropriates something that does not belong to him and not succeed to him  -  Mal 3.8-10

 

Tithing is a 1/10 portion of our income. It is calculated from the net profit.

a) for mercenaries   -  THE AMOUNT OF EARNINGS / 10

b) for owners   -  (GROSS PROFIT - REIMBURSEMENT FUND) / 10

- GROSS PROFIT is the amount of sales of goods and services

- REIMBURSEMENT FUND expenses for raw materials, finished products, fuel, electricity, depreciation, workers, etc.

 

Christ promotes the value of scarce gifts ( Mark 12.41, Luke 21.2-4 ). It calls upon all of us to participate more actively in saving neighbors.

The most valuable treasure is not in gold, and in the acquisition of at least one person for the Kingdom of God  ( 1 Jn 3.18 , Luke 6.38 ).