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WHY THE OFFERING, THANKSGIVING AND THE TITHE OF GOD?
FOR IT IS BETTER TO KNOW IN ORDER NOT TO GIVE IN VAIN
OR TO BE STRIKED BY A CURSE
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I speak like the one who created money and I bring this paper or coin to submit itself or to prostrate in front of me. For, I am and remain the god of my creature (money) and not the contrary. I am the one who has been sent by God to speak in his name and I am not here to justify myself in front of the men, but in front the one who edifies me because he is the one that has been established judge of the living and the deaths (Acts 10/42). For money is the god, the master and the cause of all type of evil in this world. It has become a big barrier that prevents the spiritual body of man to enter in the Kingdom of heaven. Men of God and children of God, be careful! Because in God, nothing is to be simplified, neglected and despised.
Let us speak firstly of the offering that we bring to God. The offering that we bring to God has no constraint concerning what must enter or must not enter in the basket, contrarily to what I see certain men of God doing today, where they constraint the people not to put certain coins in the basket; for this instruction does not come from God but from man. We give the offering to God according to our feeling and good heart as it is said: “The LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give” (Exodus 25/1-2).
The basket of God receives all what is like money (bank notes, yellow coins…) but this must be given with a sincere heart. This offering basket which thus receives all (without distinction of money) is different from the one that select money or which receives special money even when those who give it do not do it with a good heart. Giving the offering to God is something good, but if we do not walk in the ways of God, even if we bring him one billion of francs like offering, it will not be received because our heart is in darkness and is dark. But if we walk in the ways of the truth, our heart will be in the light and will be light. From this fact, even if it is a franc that we put in the basket, it will be approved by God and not by the man to whom money is the master. Therefore, everybody must give the offering according to how he has decided in his heart, without any constraint as it is said: “Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9/7).
In addition, it is then better for the men of God to look at people’s hearts to see if the Lord Jesus is up in his form, that is his life in order be in joy, than to be in joy when they see how people stretch their hands or stand up to give the offerings. For, somebody can give 10.000 Frs like offering and another one gives 25 Frs. In the eyes of man, he who has given 10.000 Frs has given much, what is not always the case in the eyes of God. You will even see that it is the person who has given 25 Frs who gave much because he knows that this last has given much with regards to what he possess. In other words, a person can have 50 frs and he gives 25 Frs like offering to God, another with 100.000 Frs and gives 500 Frs or 1.000 Frs like offering to God, among the two, you will find that it is that one who has given 25 Frs who gave much according to God. It is even the reason for which it is said in the book of Mark: “And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, ‘Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance , but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on ” (Mark 12/41-44).
Secondly, let us talk of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is neither an offering nor tithe, but it is something special. It can be thanks that a man gives for something that he asked or something that he has obtained. According to this, he can decide to thank God, not only by words, but with a material thing that he gives according to his will. In addition, the thanksgiving that we give to God can also be the seed of something, but this seed is not given like the prophets, pastors, apostles… of this world ask the people to do in the following words: “the person who has such amount of money should come and give to God in order to receive a prayer of grace!” They give the amounts from the biggest to the smallest. Others say: “the person who wants the marriage, a job, travelling, a house, the childbirth should bring such amount of money in order to receive a prayer of grace”. For, this manner of sowing is from man and not from God. You will give this money and even receive what you want, but it will never be in the justice of God. Men of God, all what we have to do is to guide the man to know God and to fear him because when man is faithful to God or when he becomes a disciple of Jesus, he knows himself how he must sow, as it is said: “The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully” (2 Corinthians 9/6).
You should not be that kind of man as it is the case in this world, who asks to the people: “the person who wants to sow one million, let him come and give to God”. For, these things are given in secret. Therefore, if the man wants to give money for his thanksgiving, he put it in an envelope and deposits it in the basket. Only God and him will know what is done or what is given. When we give something to God, either the offering or thanksgiving, we must shut our mouths so that it should be given according to God and not according to man. But if we tell it to whoever wants to listen, we do it in vain. And we must know that even if we give a billion to God, we have not given something great because we owe him all without end.
Thirdly and finally, we will talk of the tithe. The tithe is neither the offering nor the thanksgiving that the man will say that he will give according to his will. The tithe is an order of donation by percentage which is the 10th (tenth) of our income. For the word of God which comes from the servant of God bless the man who listen, practice it and this word is the bread, water or the wine of the soul.
It is this word that blessed Abraham who gave the tithe of all. That is why Genesis 14/18-20 says: “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High), and he blessed him, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth. And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything”. Even Abraham who has been chosen by God gave the tithe to whom it belonged. Therefore, we give the tithe of all what the Eternal God gives us. And that is why Jacob called Israel said: “and this stone, which I have set up for pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you” (Genesis 28/22).
In fact, I speak not because I need money, but what I want is the manifestation of the justice of God in the man who delivers his spiritual body (his soul) from the eternal death. For, not giving the tithe is to be a thief, a crook, an embezzler of someone’s goods and a deceitful as it is said: “Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and the vine in your field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts” (Malachi 3/8-11). For we must know that when we are cursed (malediction), we no longer talk of tests nor persecutions because the curse comes from the disobedience to the word of God, what leads without doubt to the destruction and death. In addition, when we give the tithe in the form of money and that we decide to put it in an envelope, we must not write our name on this envelope like certain men of God ask people to do today.
Whereas, many people say that the tithe was in the ancient time, and the others think that it is for the man that we give it; it is one of the reasons for which some people do not give the tithe, and others give it like their heart ask them to give. But I always ask myself the question to know why certain people refuse to remove a share that belongs to God when they have money? Do they do it because they are dominated by money? But you should know that it is better not to give instead of pretending. Do we fear God in order to firstly remove or preserve his tithe in what he gives us? For the person who seizes the tithe of God cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven and his blessing. We have the tithe of God that comes from the monthly work, from the commerce, from the ground such as fruiterer trees as it besides said: “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD’s; it is holy to the LORD” (Leviticus 27/30).
The same, the tithe of the harvest of the ground can be changed into money if we want, and especially if someone finds that the distance which separates him from the person who must receive the tithe is far as it is said: “And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there, then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses” (Deuteronomy 14/24-25). Another thing: Other people say that the New Testament said nothing concerning the tithe, but it is ignorance and wickedness towards themselves. But Apostle Paul goes further by saying: “Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches” (Galatians 6/6). Men, you must equally know that the offering, the thanksgiving or the tithe brought to God by the one that does not teach the truth (the unique gospel of transformation Galatians 1/7) are vain. But what madness for the man to carry a luggage on the head which serve nothing to him!
To God only by Jesus Christ love and pity for the deliverance and life of men’s souls for the eternity.
CHAMPI Apostle not behalf of man, nor by a man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father. God’s power is the knowledge. To know, avoid sin and to be free from the eternal death. (John 8/32)