Tithes and Offerings_Bro I H Murandu

1. Tithes & OfferingsTithes & Offerings

2. SCRIPTURES ROBBING GOD BY NOT PAYING TITHES AND OFFERINGS MALACHI 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. MALACHI 3:9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 22

3. SCRIPTURES ROBBING GOD BY NOT PAYING TITHES AND OFFERINGS MALACHI 3:10 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 3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. 33

4. 44 DEFINITION OF TERMS TERM DEFINITION TITHE A TENTH PART OF SOMEONES PRODUCE OR INCOME WHICH THEY GIVE OR PAY TO GOD MAASER IN HEBREW OFFERING SOMETHING YOU GIVE OR OFFER TO SOMEONE MINCHAH IN HEBREW IT COVERS RENTALS, WATER BILLS, ELECTRICITY BILLS, FINANCIAL LEVERAGE TO SAINTS BURNT OFFERING SOMETHING, OFTEN AN ANIMAL, THAT IS BURNT IN HONOUR OF GOD LOVE OFFERING APPRECIATION FOR THE MINISTERIAL WORK MISSIONARY OFFERING USUALLY MONEY GIVEN BY SAINTS FOR MISSIONARY WORK BUILDING FUND A FUND SPONSORED BY THE SAINTS TO COVER FOR BUILDING THE CHURCH BUILDING

5. 55 VISUAL AID TITHES IS PAID OUT OF GROSS EARNINGS KARIBA FISHERIES (PVT) LTD PAYSLIP NAME ISHE MURANDU GOVT TAX $ 40 DEPT ACCOUNTS LIFE ASSURANCE $ 20 PAY DATE 30 JANUARY 2015 HOUSING LOAN $ 30 LEAVE DAYS 20 AIDS LEVY $ 10 SALARY $ 1 000 NSSA PENSION $ 20 HOUSING ALLOWANCE $ 50 OLD MUTUAL PENSION $ 40 OVERTIME ALLOWANCE $ 50 PSMAS MEDICAL SCHEME $ 40 TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE $ 20 T & S ALLOWANCE $ 80 NET SALARY $ 900 GROSS SALARY $ 1 200 BARCLAYS BANK HARARE TITHES CALCULATION 10%*1 200 = $120

6. 66 SCRIPTURES REDEEMING THE TITHE BY 5% INTEREST LEVITICUS 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD. LEVITICUS 27:31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

7. SCRIPTURES CAIN AND ABELS OFFERINGS GENESIS 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. GENESIS 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: GENESIS 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 77

8. SCRIPTURES ABRAM GAVE MELCHIZEDEK (KING OF SALEM) TITHES OF ALL GENESIS 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: GENESIS 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 88

9. SCRIPTURES ABRAHAM GAVE A TENTH PART OF ALL TO MELCHISEDEC HEBREWS 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; HEBREWS 7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 99

10. SCRIPTURES PATRIARCH ABRAHAM GAVE THE TENTH OF THE SPOILS TO MELCHISEDEC HEBREWS 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. HEBREWS 7:4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. 1010

11. SCRIPTURES PATRIARCH ABRAHAM GAVE THE TENTH OF THE SPOILS TO MELCHISEDEC HEBREWS 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: HEBREWS 7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. 1111

12. SCRIPTURES LEVI RECEIVES TITHES , PAYED TITHES IN ABRAHAM HEBREWS 7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. HEBREWS 7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. 1212

13. SCRIPTURES ABRAM WAS VERY RICH GENESIS 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 1313

14. SCRIPTURES BRING OFFERINGS AND TITHES UNTO LEVITES NEHEMIAH 10:37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. NEHEMIAH 10:37 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house. 1414

15. SCRIPTURES IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE ACTS 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. 1515

16. SCRIPTURES GIVE AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU LUKE 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. 1616

17. SCRIPTURES GOD GAVE HIS ONLY SON ROMANS 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 1717

18. SCRIPTURES YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW GALATIANS 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. GALATIANS 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 1818

19. SCRIPTURES YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW GALATIANS 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. GALATIANS 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. 1919

20. SCRIPTURES HE WHICH SOWETH SPARINGLY SHALL REAP SPARINGLY 2 CORINTHIANS 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 2020

21. SCRIPTURES REWARD FOR INVESTMENT MADE BY DORCAS ACTS 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. ACTS 9:37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. 2121

22. SCRIPTURES REWARD FOR INVESTMENT MADE BY DORCAS ACTS 9:38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. ACTS 9:39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. 2222

23. SCRIPTURES REWARD FOR INVESTMENT MADE BY DORCAS ACTS 9:40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. ACTS 9:41 And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive. 2323

24. SCRIPTURES THE EARTH, SILVER AND GOLD BELONGS TO GOD HAGGAI 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. PSALM 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2424

25. SCRIPTURE ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD IN HIM ARE YEA 2 CORINTHIANS 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 2525

26. SCRIPTURE ALL THINGS COME OF THEE I CHRONICLES 29:14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 2626

27. SCRIPTURES PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD EPHESIANS 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. ROMANS 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ROMANS 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 2727

28. SCRIPTURES DO NOT MUZZLE THE OX THAT TREADETH OUT THE CORN DEUTERONOMY 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. I TIMOTHY 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. 2828

29. SCRIPTURES DO NOT MUZZLE THE OX THAT TREADETH OUT THE CORN I CORINTHIANS 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? I CORINTHIANS 9:10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 2929

30. SCRIPTURES DO NOT MUZZLE THE OX THAT TREADETH OUT THE CORN I CORINTHIANS 9:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 3030

31. SCRIPTURES MINISTERS SHOULD LIVE BY THE THINGS OF THE TEMPLE I CORINTHIANS 9:13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? I CORINTHIANS 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 3131

32. SCRIPTURES REWARD FOR THE INVESTMENT MADE BY THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN II KINGS 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. II KINGS 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually. 3232

33. SCRIPTURES REWARD FOR THE INVESTMENT MADE BY THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN II KINGS 4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. II KINGS 4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there. 3333

34. SCRIPTURES REWARD FOR THE INVESTMENT MADE BY THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN II KINGS 4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him. II KINGS 4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people. 3434

35. SCRIPTURES REWARD FOR THE INVESTMENT MADE BY THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN II KINGS 4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old. II KINGS 4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. 3535

36. SCRIPTURES REWARD FOR THE INVESTMENT MADE BY THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN II KINGS 4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid. II KINGS 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life. 3636

37. SCRIPTURES THE POOR WIDOWS OFFERING MARK 12:41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. MARK 12:42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 3737

38. SCRIPTURES THE POOR WIDOWS OFFERING MARK 12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: MARK 12:44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living. 3838

39. SCRIPTURES CORNELIUS GAVE MUCH ALMS TO THE PEOPLE ACTS 10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, ACTS 10:2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. 3939

40. SCRIPTURES CORNELIUS PRAYERS AND ALMS CAME TO A MEMORIAL BEFORE GOD ACTS 10:3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. ACTS 10:4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. 4040

41. SCRIPTURES PAUL BROUGHT ALMS AND OFFERINGS TO HIS NATION ACTS 24:17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings. 4141

42. SCRIPTURES TABITHA (DORCAS) WAS FULL OF GOOD WORKS AND ALMSDEEDS WHICH SHE DID ACTS 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. 4242

43. SCRIPTURES ELIJAH AND THE WOMAN AT ZAREPHATH I KINGS 17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. I KINGS 17:11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 4343

44. SCRIPTURES ELIJAH AND THE WOMAN AT ZAREPHATH I KINGS 17:12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. I KINGS 17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. 4444

45. SCRIPTURES ELIJAH AND THE WOMAN AT ZAREPHATH I KINGS 17:14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. I KINGS 17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. 4545

46. SCRIPTURES ELIJAH AND THE WOMAN AT ZAREPHATH I KINGS 17:14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. I KINGS 17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. 4646

47. SCRIPTURES ELIJAH AND THE WOMAN AT ZAREPHATH I KINGS 17:16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah. 4747

48. SCRIPTURES THEY THAT SOW IN TEARS SHALL REAP IN JOY PSALM 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. PSALM 126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. 4848

49. SCRIPTURES DO NOT YOUR ALMS BEFORE MEN, TO BE SEEN OF THEM MATTHEW 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. MATTHEW 6:2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 4949

50. SCRIPTURES LET NOT THY LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT THY RIGHT HAND DOETH MATTHEW 6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: MATTHEW 6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. 5050

51. SCRIPTURES IF ANY WOULD NOT WORK, NEITHER SHOULD HE EAT II THESSALONIANS 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. II THESSALONIANS 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. II THESSALONIANS 3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 5151

52. SCRIPTURES A MAN SHOULD PROVIDE FOR HIS OWN AND HIS HOUSEHOLD I TIMOTHY 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 5252

53. SCRIPTURES OWE NO MAN ANYTHING ROMANS 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 5353

54. 5454 QUOTE 1 EVERY CHRISTIAN IS OBLIGATED TO PAY TITHINGS 44 But I do believe that every Christian is obligated to pay tithings because it is a commandment of the Lord. "And blessed is--are they that do all His commandments, that they might have a right to enter into the Life, the Tree of Life." Now, I do believe that tithe- paying is essential to a Christian experience. 61-0723E GOD.BEING.MISUNDERSTOOD_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_

55. 5555 QUOTE 2 A MEMBER OF A CHURCH, THEIR FIRST OBLIGATION IS WITH THEIR TITHE AND OFFERINGS, IS TO SUPPORT THEIR CHURCH 28 But, you know, I feel like this, that a member of a church, their first obligation is with their tithe and offerings, is to support their church. If you're members of these fine churches that's represented here, you support your church. That's your first duty to God. "Bring your tithe and offerings into the storehouse." And the storehouse, you surely know what that is; it's where you get your food. So there's where you get your spiritual food, and your obligation is to your church and not to an evangelist like me. 59-1129 LET.US.SEE.GOD_ SAN.JOSE.CA V-14 N-2 SUNDAY_

56. 5656 QUOTE 3 PAY YOUR TITHES, THATS WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO E-7 Brother, sister, the church ought to get in God's program, then the church will move all right. Just like suppers and dinners and so forth to appropriate money, that's not God's way of doing it. Pay your tithes; that's what God wants you to do. See? Just keep in God's program, and He'll bless the giver and so forth. He promised it. 53-0605 THE.BEGINNING.OF.JESUS.FAME_ CONNERSVILLE.IN FRIDAY_

57. 5757 QUOTE 4 THEY REJECT GODS WAY, OF PAYING TITHES 128 That's how worldlyism is born here. That's why we're having a Council of Churches. That's why we're going into this confederacy and the things that we're doing, is because that they have rejected the Word. Why they have a soup supper in the church, to pay the pastor? Because they reject God's way, of paying tithes. Certainly. Why do they take a creed? Because they don't want the Bible. Why they take an error? Cause they don't want the Truth. 63-1130E GO.AWAKE.JESUS_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-9 SATURDAY_

58. 5858 QUOTE 5 BRO. BRANHAM WAS LOYAL TO TITHES PAYING 184 But just as loyal as I ever could, I paid tithes. And when I took my own money from the church here or from my campaigns, I'd take more... I'd give a tenth. Then I'd give it out to the ministers, and give the rest of it to ministers. Then when I couldn't do that, then the thing I did, I kept ten percent and give God ninety. And then, when the law told me I couldn't do that, I'd have to take... And if I did, it was going to be charged to it, then I had to take and bypass it into foreign missions and so forth, and then just take a wage out of that of a hundred dollars a week; and I pay my tithes from that. Yes, sir. I believe in paying tithes. It's one of God's blessings that's proven to be a blessing. You say, "That's of the Old Testament." It is of the New Testament too. Yes, sir.

59. 5959 QUOTE 6 BRO. BRANHAM HAD TO PUT IN HIS TITHES AND OFFERINGS IN CHURCH INORDER TO BUILD THE BRANHAM TABERNACLE 239 And I went down there and worked during the depression, and--and they brought their tithes in. Instead of me keeping it and not working, I put my own tithes in, and my offerings in, and the money in, and we built the tabernacle here. And it's built on the alms of the people that they give to me to make a living with. I worked and put it back in the tabernacle, and that's the reason they call it Branham Tabernacle. 54-1024 THE.UNPARDONABLE.SIN_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-26 N-8 SUNDAY_

60. 6060 QUOTE 7 BRO. BRANHAM PAID HIS TITHES FIRST 146. Brother Branham, don't you feel that everyone who claims to be a Christian should pay tithes, pay their tithes into the storehouse of the Lord? Please give Scripture to this question. All right, if you will... That is right, that the Bible said in Malachi the 4th chapter, "Will a man rob God? And you say, 'Where have we robbed Thee?' In tithe and offerings. Bring all your tithe and offerings into My storehouse and prove Me," saith the Lord, "if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that there'll not be room enough to receive."That's a challenge to any individual. And if I only had the time, and would not get to this little Scripture that I wish to get to in about the next ten minutes, I would like to give you a personal testimony of how that I was even hungry, and my mother and them hungry, and my daddy sick, but I took my tithes out first and give it to God, and you ought to see what happened. I have never seen in my life, that any man or a woman, that if you only make one dollar a week, will bring the ten cents of that money and put it into your storehouse, your church where you come, if God don't bless that, call me a hypocrite. Yes, sir. That's a challenge to anybody. And every Christian... That goes to this other question. Every Christian should pay tithes. That's right. It should be done. 61- 0723E GOD.BEING.MISUNDERSTOOD_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD

61. 6161 QUOTE 8 BRO. BRANHAM WORKED AND PAID TITHINGS RIGHT AT THE CHURCH E-9 A minister, he's to live by the Gospel. But I was young; I was healthy, why shouldn't I work and not be an obligation to the people? Not because that they wouldn't do it; they would be glad to do it. But I just felt like if the rest of them worked, then I'd work also. So I worked and-- and paid my tithings right at the church. I believe in tithe paying. And I... God has blessed it to me any millions of times. 50-0820A MY.LIFE.STORY_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_

62. 6262 QUOTE 9 THE CHURCH ARE THOSE WHO SUPPORT BY THEIR PRESENCE, TITHES AND OFFERINGS HAS A LEGAL SAY-SO IN THE PLACING OF THE CHURCH OFFICERS 1 And the church are those who come and support the church with their presence, with their tithe and offerings, are always the ones that has legal say-so in the placing of such. 58-0720E THE.PLACING.OF.DEACONS_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_

63. 6363 QUOTE 10 LEVI PAID TITHES WHEN HE WAS IN THE LOINS OF ABRAHAM, HIS GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER E-57 And to you people that don't believe in tithe paying, look at this. The Levitical priesthood paid tithes. And the Bible said that Levi paid tithes when he was in the loins of Abraham, and that was his great, great grandfather. And when Levi was in the loins of Abraham, when Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec, the Bible reckoned Levi paying tithes. How ought you people to live. If your sins are visited to the children, what about your blessings? 59-0415E THE.FAITH.OF.ABRAHAM_ LOS.ANGELES.CA WEDNESDAY

64. 6464 QUOTE 11 AS THE ROYAL SEED OF ABRAHAM, WE ARE TO FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE 62 Notice, we want to go back and think. Paul here is referring back to an Old Testament character. In the Book of Genesis we take up the life of Abraham from the 12th chapter of Genesis: God giving Abraham the promise, and through Abraham would come the righteous Seed. And Abraham, as believed by many to be a Jew, he was not. Abraham was a Gentile, a Chaldean from the city of Ur. And he became God's servant, not because he was different from anyone else, but because of the election of God. 57-0418 THE.COMMUNION_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN ER 21-34 THURSDAY_

65. 6565 QUOTE 12 NOTHING WILL EVER SUBSTITUTE GODS TITHINGS 73 Today they're trying to take the place of God's tithing. They're trying to adopt something. They're trying to make it different. They go down and have bunco games in the churches, play lottery. Lottery will never take the place of God's tithings. Suppers, blanket selling, picnics to raise money to pay different debts off. It'll never take the place of God's eternal tithe and offerings; it'll never do it. But yet we're trying to do it. 55-0724 ENTICING.SPIRITS_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN DE 79-112 SUNDAY_

66. 6666 QUOTE 13 PAY YOUR TITHES AND THE PASTOR WILL BE PAID E-75 We got to have some kind of a sale to pay the... When it gets to a place like that, the church ought to close it's doors. Pay your tithes and the pastor will be paid. 60-0804 AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRRETH.UP.HER.NEST_ YAKIMA.WA THURSDAY_

67. 6767 QUOTE 14 TITHES GOES TO THE MINISTER 176 -161. Would it be wrong to use tithes on church building funds? Well now, here--here's a touchy little thing for the church now. No, correctly, tithes is to go to the minister. That's right. In the Bible they had a box they'd set at the door in the Old Testament when the--building. This box was a fund where the people put in there for the repairing... You've read it many times in the Old Testament. They kept up the buildings and things like that... All the repairs on the buildings was taken care out of that fund. But a tenth of that went--a tenth of the tithings--all the tithings went to their priests, their pastors. Yes, tithings are to go for nothing else. I know people take their tithes and give them to a widow woman. That's wrong. If you've got anything to give the widow woman, give her, but don't give her God's money. That's not yours in the first place. That's God's. 61-1015M QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFFERSONVILLE .IN COD

68. 6868 QUOTE 15 WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO GIVE GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO 14 So you remember, Jesus seen a widow passing by, one day, where the rich man was putting in much of their treasure in the treasury. And this widow passed by, maybe a couple little, hungry children walking by her side, and gave everything she had, three pennies. And Jesus said, "Who paid the most?"15 Now, if I had been standing there, I'd a-said, "Don't do that, sister. We--we, look, we got plenty of money." But He never stopped her. See? He--He knew He had something greater for her down the road. So, see, after all, she had a home in Glory, that she was going to. And He never stopped her. He let her put her three pennies in, because it was just she wanted to do it. And she had to want to do it; with children, and a widow, and only three pennies to live on. She, she had to want to do that. So, you see, when people want to give, you've got to give them the opportunity to do so. 65- 0217 A.MAN.RUNNING. FROM.THE.PRESENCE. OF.THE.LORD_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-5 N-8 WEDNESDAY_

69. 6969 QUOTE 16 WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR SOUL? 160 What would you give in exchange for your soul? After all your buildings, and you--you leave it for your relatives to fight over, and everything, what about that soul and where you going to be? Remember, you'll be somewhere, thousands of years from tonight. This might be a time for you to make your decision. 64-0314 THE.INVESTMENTS_ BEAUMONT.TX SATURDAY_

70. 7070 QUOTE 17 MISSIONARY OFFERING AND LOVE OFFERING E-7 And then, won't be no debts left in this city, and so forth, everything will be clear. And our missionary offering, and a couple of hundred dollars, whatever it was, left over out of the other, will be placed right into the missionary offering. It'll all go overseas work, which I know you'd be pleased with that to know that that... And in my love offering, whatever it'll be, two or three hundred dollars, when I get home, or whatever it may be, I'll... What debts I have, I'll pay it, and go right into another meeting. And what's left over of that will go right straight into foreign missions. That's exactly the truth, and God knows that to be true. I thank every one of you.

71. 7171 QUOTE 18 BRO. BRANHAM WORKED AS A GAME WARDEN AND FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY E-5 I worked seventeen years as game warden and for a electrician, as a public service company, and pastored the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville, taking what tithe that was giving in, never even seen it, passed right through the church, and built the church and so forth. And paid tithes and offerings to the church, seventeen years without one penny. And I wo--wished I had a job that I could go to with a pick and shovel, or a hammer, or something another, is about all I could--got gumption enough to do, dig a ditch or something, work, some electrical work, and wouldn't have to take up an offering any time. If I could do it, I'd gladly do it. 58-0620 THE.QUEEN.OF.THE.SOUTH_ GREENVILLE.SC FRIDAY

72. 7272 QUOTE 19 IF GOD CALLED YOU TO PREACH, PREACH IF YOU STAND ALONE E-27 But we want some kind of a backing up. A man thinks because he become a minister, if he don't go up to some great organization to get them to back him up, well, he will not be able to preach. If God called you to preach, preach if you stand alone. Preach anyhow. God spoke to you. Stand out there and preach. It's your God- given right. 59-0609 WHAT.HEAREST.THOU.ELIJAH_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_

73. 7373 QUOTE 20 IF GOD SENDS YOU HELL TAKE CARE OF YOU 154 If God sends you He'll take care of you. If He hasn't sent you, then let the denomination take care of you then. But-- but you... if God sends you, He'll take care of you. 59-1219 QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.HOLY.GHOST_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SATURDAY_

74. 7474 QUOTE 21 PAY YOUR DEBTS. OWE NO MAN 280 Clean your lives up. Pay your debts. "Owe no man," Jesus said. Now, now, I mean, like your house rent and stuff, you got to do it. Get all your things off your hands. Get everything right. Make ready. Get ready. Remember, in the Name of the Lord, something is fixing to happen. 65-0815 AND.KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-2 N-10 SUNDAY_

75. 7575 QUOTE 22 OWE NO MAN NOTHING LINGERING DEBTS 12 "Owe no man nothing." That's lingering debts that you could pay. Pay them. It don't... That's owing no man nothing. It doesn't mean... My, we owe our rent, our telephone bill, we... and whatmore. We--we owe those things, and we pay them. But, an old lingering debt that you could be paying on, pay it off. See? Now, don't go with anything hanging on you like that. 13 I remember a time when I was sick, once when I was a boy. I came out of the hospital owing about two thousand dollars. And used to be a drugstore here, Mr. Swaniger, I owed him about three or four hundred dollars, a medicine bill. He didn't even know me. And the man... I went to him. I didn't know him. And he just send it up there, anyhow, never refused to send it. And I said, "I owe you."And I said... I believe, Swaniger... It was Mr. Mason down on Court Avenue and Spring. And I said, "I owe you. And I'm--I'm just still awfully weak, but I'm trying to go to work. Now, if I can't pay you..." I just become a Christian. I said, "First thing, Mr. Mason, as my duty to God, I owe Him my tithes. I want to pay Him my tithings, first." And I said, "Then my next duty is pay my debts." I said, "My father is sickly, and he... And we got... There's ten of us children in the family." But I said, "I'll... If I can't pay you no more than twenty-five cents on that bill, each payday; if I can't pay you even the twenty-five cents, I'll come by and tell you about it. I'll tell you, 'I--I--I can't do it this time.'" Now, by the help of God, I paid every bit off. See? 65-0822M CHRIST.IS.

76. 7676 SCRIPTURES THE ORIGIN OF THE TENTH GENESIS 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. GENESIS 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: GENESIS 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

77. 7777 SCRIPTURES THE ORIGIN OF THE TENTH GENESIS 28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, GENESIS 28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: GENESIS 28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

78. 7878 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH OF THE LAND BELONGS TO GOD LEVITICUS 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD. LEVITICUS 27:31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

79. 7979 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH OF THE LAND BELONGS TO GOD LEVITICUS 27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD. LEVITICUS 27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. LEVITICUS 27:34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

80. 8080 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH PART GOES TO A HIGH PRIEST NUMBERS 18:25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, NUMBERS 18:26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.

81. 8181 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH PART GOES TO A HIGH PRIEST NUMBERS 18:27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. NUMBERS 18:28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest. NUMBERS 18:29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

82. 8282 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH GOES TO THE LEVITE NUMBERS 18:20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. NUMBERS 18:21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. NUMBERS 18:22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

83. 8383 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH GOES TO THE LEVITE NUMBERS 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. NUMBERS 18:24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

84. 8484 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH OF ALL GOD HAS GIVEN YOU DEUTERONOMY 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. DEUTERONOMY 14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

85. 8585 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH GOES TO THE LEVITES DEUTERONOMY 14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: DEUTERONOMY 14:25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:

86. 8686 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH GOES TO THE LEVITES (PRIESTS) NEHEMIAH 10:36 Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God: NEHEMIAH 10:37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

87. 8787 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH GOES TO THE LEVITES (PRIESTS) NEHEMIAH 10:38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house. NEHEMIAH 10:39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

88. 8888 SCRIPTURES THE TENTH GOES TO THE LEVITES (PRIESTS) NEHEMIAH 13:10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field. NEHEMIAH 13:11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. NEHEMIAH 13:12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.

89. 8989 QUOTE PAY TITHES FIRST 190 "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God." Have you ever witnessed that to be the truth? Put God first. Pay your tithes first. Pay everything first. Pay God. Pray first at morning. Pray all through the day. Give God the first place in everything. You'll be a witness. She runs right in. She had two sticks. In the old oriental way, they use two sticks. It was two sticks crossed, like this, and the fire was in the middle. The Indians still use it, and they move the logs up as they burn. That was the cross, Christ, where the fire was in the middle. 53-0405E WITNESSES_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-25 N-6 SUNDAY_

90. 9090 QUOTE I BELIEVE IN PAYING TITHES 184 I could stand here till in the morning, telling you just what happened when I seen that, and what condition I was in. But just as loyal as I ever could, I paid tithes. And when I took my own money from the church here or from my campaigns, I'd take more... I'd give a tenth. Then I'd give it out to the ministers, and give the rest of it to ministers. Then when I couldn't do that, then the thing I did, I kept ten percent and give God ninety. And then, when the law told me I couldn't do that, I'd have to take... And if I did, it was going to be charged to it, then I had to take and bypass it into foreign missions and so forth, and then just take a wage out of that of a hundred dollars a week; and I pay my tithes from that. Yes, sir. I believe in paying tithes. It's one of God's blessings that's proven to be a blessing. You say, "That's of the Old Testament." It is of the New Testament too. Yes, sir. 64-0823E QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_

91. 9191 QUOTE GOD PROMISED TO BLESS THE TITHES PAYER E-7Brother, sister, the church ought to get in God's program, then the church will move all right. Just like suppers and dinners and so forth to appropriate money, that's not God's way of doing it. Pay your tithes; that's what God wants you to do. See? Just keep in God's program, and He'll bless the giver and so forth. He promised it. So if we substitute something else, just like we've substituted theology today to take the place of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it'll never work. It can't. We've substituted multitudes instead of power. It'll never take the place of power. God is power. He's the Almighty God. The power of all powers is God. 53-0605 THE.BEGINNING.OF.JESUS.FAME_ CONNERSVILLE.IN FRIDAY_

92. 9292 QUOTE TITHES AND OFFERINGS SUPPORTS THE CHURCH E-13 The Church is to be operated by nine spiritual gifts, by the Holy Spirit. He has gifts, signs, and wonders in the Church. That's God's provided way of perfecting His Church. We try anything else: theology, teaching, anything else, it'll never work. It never did, and it never will. We've got to come back to God's way. God has a way to support a Church, not making blankets and having soup suppers, but every man paying his tithes and offerings into the church, doing the way God said do. That's God's provided way for that. E54-0305 GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.OF.DEALING.WITH.SIN_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_

93. 9393 QUOTE TITHING IS A GREAT SUBJECT 10 Now, tonight, we're starting now for a little teaching lesson. And if I'm... I don't think we'll get down, maybe we will tonight, to... This is the great chapter of teaching on tithings, to the church. And it's a great subject, which we could stay on it for weeks and weeks, on that one thing, how Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec, and whether it's essential. 57-0915E HEBREWS.CHAPTER.SEVEN.1_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN HEB SUNDAY_

94. 9494 QUOTE TITHES & OFFERINGS ARE FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL E-2 I was just looking across the street there where you're going to build a new church, or something over there, that he was telling me about this morning at the breakfast table. And that's wonderful, seeing you--you progress like that. That just shows that you're--you're backing up the right thing. And God's servant is trying his best to give the best he can to God's people. I'd... Every congregation will appreciate a pastor like that, that you see what your finances, your tithes, your offerings, and so forth, you are... He's going straight into the Kingdom of God, to embetter the Kingdom of God, make a better place, not for himself, for you. He--He's got the sheep on his mind, the shepherd always has. 56-0129 THE.SUPERNATURAL_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_

95. 9595 QUOTE TITHES & OFFERINGS ARE FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL E-5 Someone, some time ago, was going to give me a large offering. He said it was a tithing, but it was too much for me; and I told him I wouldn't receive an offering like that. He said, "But Brother Branham, I must give it to you." Said, "It's tithings. I said, "Well now, if it's tithings, it goes to God's church. He said, "That's right. And I said, "Well, if the Lord is giving you those tithes, He's got people somewhere to give it to. They're all out on the field everywhere." And when I know of missionaries preaching on the field with no shoes on, two meals a week, I can do without something myself. And I think we all could do that to help those poor brethren who are struggling for the cause of Christ. 59-0415E THE.FAITH.OF.ABRAHAM_ LOS.ANGELES.CA WEDNESDAY_

96. 9696 QUOTE SUPPORT THE CHURCH WITH TITHES AND OFFERINGS E-51 Search the Scriptures, friend, join the church ain't enough. Now, joining the church is fine. I believe that every person should join the church. I absolutely believe that every person should stand at their post of duty, and--when their pastor's there preaching or evangelists or something, I think they ought to stand at their post of duty. They ought to support that church with everything they got in them with their tithes, with their offerings, with anything that they're called on to do. Be willing and happy, if your pastor ask you to do something in your church. You should do it. That's good. But don't let that just be the only thing. get inoculated first. That's what I'm trying to tell you; get the Holy Spirit first, then the rest of it comes on all right. Then you go get into whatever you wish to, whatever church that you--of your choice.

97. 9797 QUOTE PAYING TITHES IS GODS PLAN 129 And what do we have in our Protestant churches? Soup suppers, entertainments, skating, (Oh, my!) rag sales, and everything else, see. Now, you know that's the truth. Well, now, if that--if that is God's Word, friends, it's the Truth. And all Protestant churches are guilty! See? Now, never was God's plan to--to have soup suppers and dances in the basements, and all that there carrying on, to pay off the pastor and the things. If people was just taught to pay their tithes, that would be all there would be to it. That's God's plan. But God has a plan, but man wants to make his own plan, hybreeding God's plan. All right. 60-1207 THE.PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN ROJC 229-285 WEDNESDAY_

98. 9898 QUOTE TITHES PAYS THE PREACHER E-31 God will provide the works. If you'll just walk in grace, you'll be more at work than you are right now with the Ladies Aid Society and all this other nonsense that's been added into the church. Soup suppers to pay the preacher, where'd you ever get such a thing as that Scripture? Tithes pays the preacher. He's to live by the tithes of the people. But we had to get something else to do. We have to have our part into it. And then if the--they can't make it up, there's another society will do it, another society. God's way is right. Tithes and offerings goes to Levi, which was the minister. If everybody would pay their tithes you wouldn't have to have any soup suppers. See, you adopted something else and leave the tithings off. Say it's an Old Testament ar--argument. I'd like for you to prove it to me. That's right. You can't do it by God's Word; it's a New Testament order too. God makes one order, it can never be changed. It has to remain that way.61-0316 THE.CHURCH.CHOOSING.LAW.FOR.GRACE_ MIDDLETOWN.OH THURSDAY_

99. 9999 QUOTE GOD BLESSES THE TITHES PAYER 111 146. Brother Branham, don't you feel that everyone who claims to be a Christian should pay tithes, pay their tithes into the storehouse of the Lord? Please give Scripture to this question. All right, if you will... That is right, that the Bible said in Malachi the 4th chapter, "Will a man rob God? And you say, 'Where have we robbed Thee?' In tithe and offerings. Bring all your tithe and offerings into My storehouse and prove Me," saith the Lord, "if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that there'll not be room enough to receive."That's a challenge to any individual. And if I only had the time, and would not get to this little Scripture that I wish to get to in about the next ten minutes, I would like to give you a personal testimony of how that I was even hungry, and my mother and them hungry, and my daddy sick, but I took my tithes out first and give it to God, and you ought to see what happened. I have never seen in my life, that any man or a woman, that if you only make one dollar a week, will bring the ten cents of that money and put it into your storehouse, your church where you come, if God don't bless that, call me a hypocrite. Yes, sir. That's a challenge to anybody. And every Christian... That goes to this other question. Every Christian should pay tithes. That's right. It should be done.61-0723E GOD.BEING.MISUNDERSTOOD_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_

100. 100100 QUOTE THE TENTH BELONGS TO GOD 176 161. Would it be wrong to use tithes on church building funds? Well now, here--here's a touchy little thing for the church now. No, correctly, tithes is to go to the minister. That's right. In the Bible they had a box they'd set at the door in the Old Testament when the--building. This box was a fund where the people put in there for the repairing... You've read it many times in the Old Testament. They kept up the buildings and things like that... All the repairs on the buildings was taken care out of that fund. But a tenth of that went--a tenth of the tithings--all the tithings went to their priests, their pastors. Yes, tithings are to go for nothing else. I know people take their tithes and give them to a widow woman. That's wrong. If you've got anything to give the widow woman, give her, but don't give her God's money. That's not yours in the first place. That's God's. 61-1015M QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN

101. 101101 QUOTE TITHES AND OFFERING HELPS THE MINISTRY GO ON 98 Hold yourself clean and clear, to your calling. Stay with God's Word and don't move for nothing. And stay, abide in your calling. If He give you a job out there, as a farmer, farm good. God bless you at it, and pay your tithes and whatever it is, your offerings, to help the ministry go on. If He made a mechanic out of you, and blessed you in that work, stay with it and thank Him for it. See? You just abide where God calls you. 64-0315 INFLUENCE_ BEAUMONT.TX SUNDAY_

102. 102102 QUOTE A CHRISTIAN SHOULD PAY TITHES 180 307. Should a person pay tithes to an individual, or should a Christian work? Sure he should. He's the one man that will work, is a Christian. "Pay tithes to an individual?" It depends on who the individual is. See? That's right. In Hebrews 7, the first time tithings was talked about in--in a stand that we... Wait a minute, I believe, number two question. No. Uh, uh. No. For Brother... Said, "Two questions for Brother Branham. When... In Hebrews the 7th chapter, when Abraham, returning from the slaughter of the kings met Melchisedec, he paid Him a tithe. That was Melchisedec, the King of Salem, which is King of Peace, and King of Righteousness, which was nobody but God Himself. See? 64-0823E QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_

103. 103103 QUOTE I CHALLENGE ANY MAN OR WOMAN TO PAY TITHES 180 307.But when you pay tithings... Really, where you owe tithings is where you get your food. "Bring ye all your tithings into My storehouse, saith the Lord. (That right?) And prove Me wherein saith God, that if I'll not open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that you would not have room enough to receive it." I challenge any man or woman that's not a tithe payer to accept that. 64-0823E QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_

104. 104104 QUOTE EVERY CHRISTIAN IS DUTY BOUND TO PAY TITHES 123 What would a Man take tithings for, if He had any... If He never was born, and never will die, and was from beginning to end, and--and never had no father or mother or descent, and owned the whole Heavens and earth and all in it, why would He take tithe? Why would He ask Abraham to pay tithes? You see what a strict thing it is to pay tithes? Tithing is right. Every Christian is duty bound to pay tithe. That's right. Never has been changed. 57-0915E HEBREWS.CHAPTER.SEVEN.1_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN HEB SUNDAY_

105. 105105 QUOTE WHEN TITHING YOU ARE GIVING TO GOD E-56 O Lord, You're God, and You're God forever more. And we are-- we're so happy to know that You promised that You would have a remnant when You come to the earth. Regardless of what goes or comes, there's going to be people that's going to be ready. And we know that there's a tithing that man gives to God, and there's a tithing amongst the people. Perhaps maybe we'd say a tenth of all the world's harvest, through the ages will be that elected that's been called. 59-0525 IMAGES.OF.CHRIST_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN MONDAY_

106. 106106 QUOTE THE TITHES BELONGS TO THE LEVITES 115 When God was setting in order, He said, "All you Levites, I've called you out and made you priests. And all your brethren, the other--the twelve tribes--and not--other eleven tribes will pay you a tithing. "When you get a--nine bushels of apples, pour one bushel to the Levites. When you run your sheep through the--the hall here, pick up the tenth sheep. I don't care if it's a little one, or a big one, fat one, or poor one; that belongs to the Levites. "Now, Levites, when you get all this, then you tithe too to the Lord. You make the wave-offering, the heave-offerings, the different offerings. You tithe to the Lord. 59-1216 WHAT.IS.THE.HOLY.GHOST_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-4 N- 2 WEDNESDAY_

107. 107107 QUOTE A SISTER PAYS TITHES E-28 Thank you, my little sister, for this tithing. As a minister, I'm supposed to receive tithing. So, I thank you very kindly, my little girlfriend. And may God ever bless you. And don't you let your mommy tell you you're fat. You're not. See? All right. She said in here (I didn't read that.); she said, "Mommy says I'm fat, but I'm not." I don't believe you are either. So, if you are, God give you the desire of your heart, honey, is my prayer, if it means anything to God to you. 60-0716 FROM.THAT.TIME_ KLAMATH.FALLS.OR SATURDAY_

108. 108108 QUOTE PAY YOUR TITHES E-17 Now, we're going to read a Scripture and just have a little--a little few words tonight. And tomorrow night now, we're going to be down at the Municipal Auditorium. And I'm sorry that--that we made this little junction right quick, way we did, change, rather. I--I think, the brethren, some of them thought that maybe it would give the people more room so they could attend the church. And I hope that no one that goes to these fine churches around here, will--will miss their services tomorrow night; I--I hope they don't do it. If they got a post of duty, stand at that. That you stand to your post of duty at your church, wherever you go to, and pay your tithing into it, and you love your pastor, and pray for him. And if you need to be prayed for, ask him; he's a man of God; he will pray for you. And He will answer his prayer same as He will mine or anyone else's, 'cause after all, it's your own faith in God that does the work. That's right, just exactly. 61-0218 BALM.IN.GILEAD_ LONG.BEACH.CA SATURDAY_

109. 109109 QUOTE BRO BRANHAM PAYING A MEDICINE BILL 13 I remember a time when I was sick, once when I was a boy. I came out of the hospital owing about two thousand dollars. And used to be a drugstore here, Mr. Swaniger, I owed him about three or four hundred dollars, a medicine bill. He didn't even know me. And the man... I went to him. I didn't know him. And he just send it up there, anyhow, never refused to send it. And I said, "I owe you."And I said... I believe, Swaniger... It was Mr. Mason down on Court Avenue and Spring. 65-0822M CHRIST.IS.REVEALED.IN.HIS.OWN.WORD_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-4 N-10 SUNDAY_

110. 110110 QUOTE BRO BRANHAM PAID TITHES FIRST 13And I said, "I owe you. And I'm--I'm just still awfully weak, but I'm trying to go to work. Now, if I can't pay you..." I just become a Christian. I said, "First thing, Mr. Mason, as my duty to God, I owe Him my tithes. I want to pay Him my tithings, first." And I said, "Then my next duty is pay my debts." I said, "My father is sickly, and he... And we got...There's ten of us children in the family." But I said, "I'll... If I can't pay you no more than twenty-five cents on that bill, each payday; if I can't pay you even the twenty-five cents, I'll come by and tell you about it. I'll tell you, 'I--I--I can't do it this time.'" Now, by the help of God, I paid every bit off. See? But that's what I mean, see? Just don't somebody say... 65-0822M CHRIST.IS.REVEALED.IN.HIS.OWN.WORD_ JEFFERSONVILLE .IN V-4 N-10 SUNDAY_

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