{"id":36521,"date":"2022-09-13T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/malachi-310-bring-the-whole-tithe-into-the-storehouse-does-it-apply-to-all-christians-to-both-jews-and-gentiles\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:59:25","slug":"malachi-310-bring-the-whole-tithe-into-the-storehouse-does-it-apply-to-all-christians-to-both-jews-and-gentiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/malachi-310-bring-the-whole-tithe-into-the-storehouse-does-it-apply-to-all-christians-to-both-jews-and-gentiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Malachi 3:10, \u201cBring the whole tithe into the storehouse,\u201d does it apply to all Christians? To both Jews and gentiles?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Malachi 3:10 says, “‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.’”\u200b<\/p>\n

The whole book of Malachi is written to the nation of Israel<\/strong>. The nation had neglected their love for God. God had promised to bless Israel with children, domestic animals, crops, and status among other nations (Deuteronomy 28:1-14). To receive these blessings, Israel needed to follow God’s laws.\u200b<\/p>\n

The prophet Malachi was tasked with telling them they had not been faithful. They brought damaged and diseased offerings to the Lord<\/strong>. They brought things they would not think of offering to a visiting King, yet they expected God to be happy with second-rate gifts. They focused on growing personal profit<\/strong> – thus becoming corrupt. Additionally, they married idol worshippers and were led away from God. But even after all of this, God gave them another opportunity to repent<\/strong> and be blessed.<\/p>\n

This book, while not written to Christians, has many lessons for us (1 Corinthians 10:11). While we are not subject to the Law which was given to Israel (Romans 6:14), we are to keep the spirit of the Law<\/strong> (Matthew 27:36-40; Matthew 5:21-28). The Christian no longer belongs to himself, but now belongs to God. The Jews were to give a tithe<\/strong>, or tenth, of his earnings. The Christian is to give all <\/strong>to the Lord. The Lord allows His people to keep what they have and use it for Him. Christians are not given specific laws to follow, but are given principles<\/strong> to be guided by.<\/p>\n

The other difference is that the Jews were given earthly promises<\/strong> of land, children, food, animals, and crops. Christians are not<\/strong> given such earthly promises<\/strong>, but are promised to have persecutions<\/strong> in this life (2 Timothy 3:12, 1 Corinthians 15:19). However, the reward for faithful Christians is glory, honor, and immortality <\/strong>(Romans 2:7).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malachi 3:10 says, “‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.’”\u200b The whole book of … Continue reading “Malachi 3:10, \u201cBring the whole tithe into the storehouse,\u201d does it apply to all Christians? To both Jews and gentiles?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}