Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.1
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The Just died for the unjust; and because He did, the unjust may now live, with the Just in complete moral congruity. Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift.2
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God always gives us an overplus.3
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If I should pray for all of the spiritual gifts listed in Paul’s epistles and the Spirit of God should see fit to give me all seventeen, it would be extremely dangerous for me if, in the giving, God did not give Himself, as well.4
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People testify that they give their tithe because God makes their nine-tenths go farther than the ten-tenths. That is not spirituality; that is just plain business. I insist that it is a dangerous thing to associate the working of God with our prosperity and success down here. I cannot promise that if you will follow the Lord you will soon experience financial prosperity, because that is not what He promised His disciples. Down through the years following the Lord has meant that we count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ.5
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Oh, yes, we do tithe! But the nine-tenths that we keep is still a hundred times more than our mothers and fathers used to have. It is right that we should tithe because it is God’s work, but it does not really cost us anything—it does not bring us to the point of sacrificial giving.6