Jim's Little Reading Place: February 2015

Commit Your Way to the Lord - Nehemiah 10:28-39

Malachi 3:8-10* -- Malachi 3:8-10Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

⁸“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me!”

You ask: “How do we rob You?”

“By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions. ⁹You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me. ¹⁰Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this way,” says the Lord of Hosts. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.

1 Corinthians 4:1-2 -- ¹ A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries. ²In this regard, it is expected of managers that each one of them be found faithful.

Titus 1:7 -- ⁷For an overseer, as God’s administrator, must be blameless, not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not addicted to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money,

1 Peter 4:10 -- ¹⁰Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God.

Genesis 14:20 -- ²⁰and I give praise to^[a] God Most High who has handed over your enemies to you. And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Leviticus 27:30-32 -- ³⁰“Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord. ³¹If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value. ³²Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd’s rod, will be holy to the Lord.

Numbers 18:20-32 (see below)

Deuteronomy 12:4-6 -- ⁴Don’t worship the Lord your God this way. ⁵Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there. ⁶You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions,^[a] your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Proverbs 3:9 -- ⁹Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest

Malachi 3:8-12* (see above)

Mathew 23:24 -- 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, yet gulp down a camel!

Mark 12:41-44 -- The Widow’s Gift

⁴¹Sitting across from the temple treasury, He watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums. ⁴²And a poor widow came and dropped in two tiny coins worth very little.^[a] ⁴³Summoning His disciples, He said to them, “I assure you: This poor widow has put in more than all those giving to the temple treasury. ⁴⁴For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she possessed—all she had to live on.”

Numbers 18:20-32 (HCSB)

²⁰The Lord told Aaron, “You will not have an inheritance in their land; there will be no portion among them for you. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

²¹“Look, I have given the Levites every tenth in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the work of the tent of meeting. ²²The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die. ²³The Levites will do the work of the tent of meeting, and they will bear the consequences of their sin. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations. ²⁴For I have given them the tenth that the Israelites present to the Lord as a contribution for their inheritance. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

²⁵The Lord instructed Moses, ²⁶“Speak to the Levites and tell them: When you receive from the Israelites the tenth that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the Lord—a tenth of the tenth. ²⁷Your offering will be credited to you as if it were your grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress. ²⁸You are to present an offering to the Lord from every tenth you receive from the Israelites. Give some of it to Aaron the priest as an offering to the Lord. ²⁹You must present the entire offering due the Lord from all your gifts. The best part of the tenth is to be consecrated.

³⁰“Tell them further: Once you have presented the best part of the tenth, and it is credited to you Levites as the produce of the threshing floor or the winepress, ³¹then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting. ³²You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites’ holy offerings, so that you will not die.”

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