“‘Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Arawnah the Jebusite.’“When Arawnah looked and saw the king and his men coming, he went and bowed down before the king and said, ‘Why has my lord the king come to his servant?’ ‘To buy your threshing floor,’ David answered, ‘so I can build an altar and make sacrifices and worship the Lord.’ Arawnah said to David, ‘Let my lord the king take whatever pleases him and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. O king, Arawnah gives all this to the king.’ (2 Samuel 24.18-23)
(vs. 24) “But King David replied, ‘No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God that which costs me nothing.
In Malachi chapter 3 verse 8 God says to the people, “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me?” But you ask, “How do we rob you?” In tithes and offerings.
(v.10) “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”
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Does what I give God cost me anything?
I gotta ask if what I give to God is something that costs me something, something that's an actual sacrifice, or is what I put in the bag something that I won't really miss? This is about you and me and worship: and gifts of love always cost me something. And that's why God talks about tithing: there's something about that particular percent.
It's about “God, you're my God, you've given so much to me, I wanna give back to you.” Worship is responding to the God who really is my God. If a person is gonna tithe, odds are there's some things things they're gonna have to do without. It's gonna really cost us something.
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