{Open Heavens} THIEVES IN THE SANCTUARY I – Wednesday October 5th 2016
THIEVES IN THE SANCTUARY I – Wednesday October 5th 2016
Memorise;
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour; working
with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him
that needeth. Ephesians 4:28
Read: Malachi 3:8-9, (KJV)
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Bible in one year: Ezekiel 35:1-37:14, Psalms 74:1-11
MESSAGE
One
sad thing going on among the children of God is that some are stealing
from the sanctuary of God and the people concerned are doing it with
impunity. Open Heavens 5 October 2016:-Thieves in the Sanctuary I
There
are many ways a person can steal from the sanctuary of God. The most
common way to almost every Bible reading Christian is when you deny God
one-tenth of your income, Malachi 3:8 says:
“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”
When
someone eats all his income without giving back one out of ten of it,
the fellow is stealing from the sanctuary, because the tithe belongs to
the sanctuary of God.
“Bring
ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine
house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not
open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to receive it.”
Malachi 3:10
Another
way of stealing from the sanctuary is by refusing to give your
first-fruit to the Lord as He requested from His covenant people in
Deuteronomy 26:2:
“That
thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou
shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put
it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God
shall choose to place his name there.”
Some
people will argue that the ordinance of the first fruit belongs to the
Old Testament era. I have always asked them about the numerous promises
of God in the Old Testament which they often quote and claim to their
advantage. Fro example, I asked some of them who took me up on whether
the promise of being “the head and not the tail” isn’t found in the New
Testament. Or “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” Which is also
in the book of Matthew. The truth of the matter is that the scriptures
which are favourable to the flesh are easily quoted and claimed. Those
that take the steam out of their so called personal freedom and finances
are pushed to the background. The first fruit is the property of the
Almighty God in His sanctuary. We must give it to Him through the
custodians of the genuine sanctuary of God. I pray for someone using
this devotional; the Holy Spirit will convince you of the truth about
tithes, offerings and first fruit. 5 October 2016 open heaven.
Prayer Point
Father,
help me to abstain from stealing from you sanctuary, and help me to
perform the required restitution for the damage I have done to Your
honour, when I denied You of Your tithes, offerings and first fruits.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional, written by Pastor E.A Adeboye
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