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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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_
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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
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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
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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...
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