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TITHING - BIS. DR. ISAIAH Y. FOSU-KWAKYE
You are welcome to the podcast of Dominion Chapel International, the special place we are a church that believes in pure worship on our dot-rated word and family, being enlightened as you listen to this message. Glory to you God. How many of you belong to Jesus yet? I want to see your hand, so I will show you a photograph now if you are there. Amen. Amen. He was obedient even on to death. Do you have that one? Please have your seats. Alleluia. Amen. Amen. Amen. What I'm going to talk about maybe on Saturday, whoever will be ministering will look at the same subject again. Amen. Amen. Amen. If the devil tells you you are his friend and you accept it, then you are tired, it means you are tired of living the life of glory. And every time the devil wants to show you that he likes you so much and he has your good, that heart, whatever thing that he wants to say. And then if you are not careful, because of the correlation or the voice, you may accept that one as true. What I want to share with you now is provost by what I saw on the Internet. Even if you have your churches there, hello, there are some of you here, you come in here as well, I will not be looking for you. Yes come here, one will close you, go to your church, on the net. You don't like one of the truth, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm surprised though. You don't like truth, why? I'm showing you a photograph of yourself, a picture, a reflection of some of you. The net over there is called net, you have a variety of things and it's loaded with good things, but if you are not careful, the louder voice is, hum, it's lead you. I have seen them talking about tithe, now ask myself, why are they not talking about healing? It's becoming very serious in Nigeria. Some of the young man ministers who say that he has received inspirations of the Holy Ghost on revelations, I have been making personal attacks on some of the senior ministers who have gone through the mill and have prosperity and evidences of God's faithfulness in ministry. A serious series of attacks are going on and some of them are very, very loud, some of the ministers are loud, they have gone almost everywhere and they are now talking against tithe. And I saw people here in Ghana also throwing their weight behind them, attacking tithe, who loses if you don't take, is it God? So I felt I should address something just briefly and then we'll go into detail a little bit, until we finish. Where is God? Until we finish. So years ago in Kumasi, I did a teaching on tithe and people who had stolen you from God for eight months plus, they went home to bring the money. It was a huge service, very huge. And my senior pastor came and he saw the amount of money he asked me, "Aghaya, a samben aokaya." Only he came by. And he sent himself a picture of his day, maybe, expression of "bye" and not, and it. Now you see, there are things we can tell you, as you sit down here, that you go and take a loan to come and pay your tithe, the ones we have with you. There are things and scriptures I will show you now, that you will go and look for money to come and pay the ones you have eaten from January to now. But we've been approaching with you on the point of the world, and we are begging you to allow the world to have entrance into you, and the word of God, you have control by your life, that you begin to walk under the power of the word of God. That is why you don't hear so many things that we used to talk about some years ago. Who was still very young and who pretied you, you, you think that you already have. Now listen, when we talk about the end of the age of law, we are not talking against principles. I'm not a lawyer, any lawyer here, who? I want someone to give me a definition of law. Someone wants to help me. It's law. A law. Yes. Only default, you are punished. That's the human legal dimension. The Bible talks about the law of God, and is talking about the principles of God, that will make you enjoy the presence and the fullness of his kingdom. When Pastor Stanley was giving us the charge on Thanksgiving, he made reference to the Ten Lappas, and he said, and indicated what he thinks or what he thought. Ten of them were healed. One went back to Christ. When he saw that he had been healed, to thank him. And then he said, because he went to thank him, something extra came to that person and he gave us some illustrations. Something extra, the wholeness or the wholeness of the healing that took place, in that man was that the traces of neprosy vanished. There was a creative miracle in the life of that person. Fingers have been chopped off already, grew back. The others were healed. The Lappas will not be decimated again, but the mark of the Lappas will still be there. So there is this weight in Thanksgiving that you cannot ignore. The same way when God gives principles, many of you pursue prosperity from the African point of view. You want to practice the words that lead you to prosper. Those words are principles. They govern the effectiveness of God's appointed destination for us prosperity. But there are things you've got to do. Salvation has been brought to all mankind. Christ did that, but there is what a person has to do to enjoy the salvation, to a force. There is therefore also what a person should do in the cause of practicing prosperity that you cannot ignore, but there is something that has been happening over the period of time. In the history of mankind, to talk about divine healing was an abomination. People were bent alive. People were thrown to death because they considered that thing that they were saying as what? Sacrilegious. But it wasn't a Bible, it was death. Now God talks about tight. I was reading something yesterday in the night and I saw that the teaching, the practice of tight preceded the law by over 500 years. For the first person we hear of in the Bible, talking about tight was Abraham. He gave a tithe of whatever he had gotten after defeating the allied kings, who had come against his own people, who also had adopted a lot, his nephew. He came back with hoodies and he paid title of it. He gave it to my consider. But he himself refused to take anything. Even when he was offered something by the kings he refused to take. And then the second time we hear, it came from his grandson, his grandson, Jacob. Jacob told God, "I'm going on a journey, but you, you know, if you'll be with me and take me there and prosper me and bring me back to my father's, I will give you attention of everything that the Lord will bless me with." And it worked for them. Then law, the law of Moses, the commandments included tightening as a major instrument to enhance their prosperity. Jesus came, he became the fulfillment of the law, and he did not condemn tight. He only said, "You are very, very generous and committed to tithing, but there are other very important values and virtues that you have abandoned." And he mentioned law. He mentioned taking care of the poor and the rest like that. He did not at any point cancel tithing. The apostles age did not cancel tithing. When somebody comes to tell you that tithing is in law and it must be abolished, then tell the person that healing also has principles in the Bible. So there's a law of healing, there's a law of faith, there's a law for everything. The arrangements, whatever have been packaged to be the practice pattern for those who want to enjoy something that God has sent our way, constitute a law. This is at the time when financial darkness has engulfed the world. And the Scripture came to throw light into it. And believe us, I enjoy some kind of a brief time of breathing from freshness, paying the attack. The tithe is the anchor of your giving. If you give all the offerings in this world and you don't pay tithe, there is no land for God to send his reign upon you. And God himself in the book of Micah described those who don't pay tithe and give offerings as robbers. Hello, I'm going to have you up with me a tip before I think that was caught and people were beaten, you join them, small, one slap, or look for a stick and hit him once. Or if you don't, you organize people, beating them. Why? Because their man has robbed somebody. From time ago, I thought on Titan and I said, there are many of you that should be taken out of the room and then people should be called and they told you, they beat you, they spit on you and they read because you are, your own case is not human rubber, it's not anything. You rob God. That's what the Bible says. It's the teachings for them became so serious that in some places, the moment you make reference to Micah, they know you are talking about money, you want to collect money from them. On the issue of Titan, I know of a friend who suffered serious injuries when a mansion was made and he took it as such. I was in a Bible screen in 1998, the guys who taught us came in from the U.S. Almost all of them were turnaround ministers in evangelists and they talked about tithe and said no tithe. God's judgment alone made some ministers to leave the Bible screen and then it made some people to go to their check is to announce no tithe but the owner of the church is always waiting for you to open the door for him to give you specific instructions. So in that school, at that time, I took my time to listen carefully to what you are teaching and I wanted to see if indeed you were saying you don't play type but there was one thing they said that has been a blessing to you. I saw it and I believed it and I have taught it. A friend, he was doing very well. Somehow he embraced that thing against some warnings that I may have sounded in the class and then spoke against tithe, the people shouldn't give that to the church and all that and after that is business. He went down, rebad, rebad, he even had shops here in a crowd. Young man, he was doing very well but he had a nest at time and he was speaking against tithe and he crushed him. Why? What? The leader of the group that came from the US was talking about was what I want to talk to you about now and I have started. You don't do anything for God outside the frame of love. God sold love the word that he gave so you also sold love the Lord that you are giving. It is not a business that you are into with God, it is how you love him and as you do it you stand to gain God does not need money for anything, it doesn't. You go to heaven and there is no cities there, no dollar, no pound. The streets of heaven we are told are what, pay wood what, boat. Himself he said, the silver and the gold are mine. He said, "I catch you on a thousand hills, you belong to me, Eva, I am hungry, I will not ask you because you don't have anything. What you have is amala and cocontae and kegke of all sorts, now there is different sorts of groom, kegke, they are kegke of millets kegke, all of them have come on board and welcome them. They are meant to do our bodies boot but God doesn't need these things. What God needs from you and from me is the heart of love for him. It is that heart of love that makes you to praise him, it makes you to give him thanks, like what we are doing here, if you don't have the love for God in you, your presence and your thanksgiving will not amount to anything. So, give to God as a token of love that you have for him and for his kingdom. You are paying your tithe to him because he is the major partner in your life enterprise. He is what? The major partner. I used one lady's one time to ask illustration. There was a lady in the church that I was privileged to pass to the associate, pass to over there and there was a lady, she had a shop, a meat shop in the market. The market was just a stone throw from the church. She will come for morning devotion. She will go to sweep the church and tidy up the place. Anything that you have to do in the church, you will do it before going to the shop. And people will kill in front of the shop, waiting for her to come to buy others where other shops where the networks like the quality are just you, tomatoes are just you, and you may have about 30 people lined up and selling that commodity. The woman will be in church working and they will be there waiting for her. So they ask her, "Why? Why do you do the duty?" They say, "It's in that building." The woman appointed, they said, "That building, if you can follow me to that place, that is where the view is coming from, pointing to the church." And that woman took time to talk to them. She said, "Whatever I get, it is God that makes me happen, makes me happen." So he has a share in what I get, one-tenth, and I do that one really jostly. I give to him, "Without anybody reminding me, it's my partner. If he is not there, I will fail in business." So my success is stressful to God, the influence of God upon this business. Some people followed her to the church and they saw and began to give testimonies. But you are in the church. You have seen God's giving you salvation free of charge at the expense of his own son. You have seen God do things in your life and you have given testimonies, but when it comes the issue of your money, God becomes an enemy. You betray him, that he has no hand at all in the work you are doing. God is your crucified partner and if he is a partner, then the dividends must also reach him. One business is going down, you know the way to church, you won't pray. You know the way to your pastor, if your pastor please stand with me in prayer. Business is not going the way you should go. What if it begins to go the way you should go, you forget about God, why aren't grateful are we? So before you get infested by those people on the internet, don't give you fear of them, they live in their web. What if they live in their web? Before you get entrapped, I want to tell you that it is God's giving way for you and I to prosper financially. Not that alone, our health is secured in the release of God. If I ask you to give testimony to many of you who do give your tithe, you pay your tithe, you have testimony to share. But the enemy is targeting that one because that is also the place where the church is able to gather money for the work of God. If you cross your mind, is that why you wish no time defending? No, it's not that one. It is that you will give room for the devil to rejoice. My future after 22, I think I will just look at that scripture, that is the only thing I want to reach, and then I will sit down, glory to God. 22, that is 6. Okay, if you like that before, hearing that Jesus has silenced the policies, I am reading from the voice translation, a group of Pharisees who met to consider new questions that might trip up Jesus. 35, a legal aspect, thought of one that would certainly stomp him. And they asked, "Teacher, of all the laws which commandment is the greatest, and Jesus could just scripture for them, love the eternal one, your God, with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your what might, the totality of your being. Use that one to love the Lord, your God, that this is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is nearly as important, love your neighbor as yourself, you put it two together, the central element is what love, to the rest of the law, and all the teachings of the prophets are but variations on these themes, on these themes, loving God with all of your might, with all of your soul, with everything that you have, and loving your neighbor as yourself. Now the scripture says that upon this, all others, they are uncalled on this, love, and he calls it commandment, and he calls it law. And then Jesus came as the fulfillment of the law. So you are accepting Christ, brought you into a regime of law that is different from what your testament talked about, but Titan is not a product of law, it's a product of someone's understanding of the faithfulness of God, faithfulness of God, Lord, you help me to win battle, whatever came in as booty, I give you a 10th of it. And he gave it to my today, who was said to be what? What did you buy with you about him? Is what priest of the most high and the king of Salim, where was Salim? And what is Salim, Jerusalem, what does Salim mean? Peace what? Okay. Oh, why are you laughing now? But that's tiny, he was the priest of the most high and he was the king of Salim, a strange unique person who has become very controversial in the minds of many theologians, they don't know where to place him, they don't know it, so they keep on arguing, you say he has no father, no mother, and yet he was a human being, and they are arguing on that one. I love to sit down and hear them argue, one way I was in school over there, one issue like this will come, they'll be talking, talk to a yesterday I'll be laughing. And then the prof will ask, be sure, they will be laughing, something is wrong, I will sit up, I won't say anything, I won't say anything, because anything that you say you must have time to explain, and there are some people who will not listen to anything, but what they know, they want their lecturers to say and admit what they know as right and force those things on fellow students and you don't get me like that, I didn't go there to Aga when there is to learn, right. Now this Machisadek, the Bab was going to say that Jesus was a priest after the order of Machisadek. When we receive tithe here, we receive the tithe on his behalf and originally the tithe was meant for those who were on the altar, who were printed at the altar, and other is where with them, and then to make provisions that will enhance the work of the kingdom. Your church here, we don't use tithe for pastors, we don't give you a tithe to pastors. I know of setting ministries in Ghana, where the tithes go to the pastors, the pastors in charge. If we had added that to our constitution, by now some of us would be rich. You see, but when you sit down as one that has the Holy Ghost, you will see an act of wickedness, it is for the kingdom, and there are some people that collect this, but I'm not talking about you in Machisadek. I'm talking about what I've seen before. They collect after we have dropped whatever we should drop in the backpacks when they are taking that into the account session, they see, yes, yes, somebody dropped a fat envelope of dollars in your frame basket, and then decided to hint us. The administrator was the one that told me money, and the security man saw him. He deliberately made sure that money didn't open, the empty wasn't open, and he took other envelopes on it, went and dumped it there, and the security man saw that he went to pick. You pointed him, it was heavy, somebody's threat, and their person had an understanding that that's God's posture. Friends, the work you are doing, it is just God that gives you favor to bring customers to you. He gives you life, he brings customers, he protects you. And what is due him, because you don't want to give it, you listen to what people say, and you go about practicing what people are saying, without going back to your Bible or asking the Lord, what really is the matter? Because the one you have challenges, you go to him to ask him questions. What about your type issue that you want to listen to somebody else? The person you have never even met before. If you want to be safe in this Christianity, don't go by titles and names, go by the Bible. Because not everybody who has a name is being what is right. Hello? I can vouch for people here. I can't, and I can't say before God, I've never taught church money. No. They count, and they send me paper, this is how much came in this, what we want to spend. Now, because this is called that we are serving, you see, often you go on to the term. And I tell you, I try to go to your home, and you start dancing, you have to go to your Bible. The day you throw a stone across a metallic, a motor itself, across it, it's not that same day you begin to feel pain on your ribs. A few days after, your breathing becomes a problem. So God is slow, to anger, slow, but he does not ignore, he will act. If he turns his back to you and your family and your business, calamity will take place. So please, don't let anybody confuse you about the issue of time. If you have not been paying, I won't talk about the interest. I don't know what interest is now, you will say, he might be put in there, it's in the Bible. One fifth of the amount, that's 20%, is the interest for stealing God's money, or say, hey, Lord, it's also your business man. Praise God. So I just came to advise you, don't listen to what people are saying, it's there on the net, it's there on your Facebook, it is there. Plenty of people are talking, and they are excited, why are they excited because the issue about money, why not about the healings that they go for, why not about the wives they go for, they ask God, Lord, give me a good life, I won't wonder if he has you. That one, you decide to pick and choose when it comes to things that you do with God. The scriptures, the ones that bless you, you pick, the other ones, no, or not. That's the only thing I want to tell this money. On Thursday, a teaching on tightening would take place, it's not because I'm looking for money from you, it's because this cancer must not affect you. Praise God. You may not understand. You may not understand, if God left his hands away from you, you will now understand. And let it not be that by the time you discover that because of your attitude towards God that you are suffering, it might be too late, too late. People commit suicide when they get stressed, they call it water, they say they become withdrawn and they say they are depressed, they say they are depressed, who oppressed you? You press yourself. So as we give thanks to God in this seventh life, we know to you that your obedience to God is the greatest thanksgiving that you can do for God. Your obedience to God is a greatest thanksgiving that you appreciate God, so whenever it tells you, you are going to do it. Don't do kalukalu, God. God, if you do this for me, I will do that for you. When I hear people talk like that, I get frightened. Lord, if you don't do this in two weeks, so me as you have played, I think on radio and TV like that. I say, "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." What is that? "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." "Radi bahum yafariyu." I'm talking about God like that, what or does it you have to talk to God in such a manner and people do it? If you don't do this, I will do that. If you don't bring, I won't come to church again, you can go to anywhere you want to go. I'm telling you the truth though, don't do that kind of thing with God. It's not because it's a lot of personal fight and it's okay so now that you are throwing the, you are through the first blow, let's see how you go. Now you are your own, that's the day you have an experience that I'm robust. After you are done, all this is, they come to your shop and preserve your money or your life. Then you make you shrink, it is the reason why you are alive. This God, the reason why you are alive is the reason why I'm alive. It's the reason why we go out to do business and we get something for the home. God is the reason, we go and we come. You had just money that I pass again, sometimes I think you are good drivers. The day I fell down from a motorbike, that's why I got to know that sitting on a motorbike and getting to your destination is not because your bike guy is good, it's just a grace of God. I'm telling you, price, that's a big good food to go. I like you to take your time and read Psalm 18, Psalm 18, you love what is there, David was giving thanks to God over the encounters that God has given to him, God's message and goals, it's amazing. The one who are free, somebody tell me what is there, I'm closing now, one who are free. I say it now, don't be afraid. Yes. And all that is within me, agree your interest, bless his holy name, go ahead, bless the Lord, oh my soul, forget not all his benefits, the things that God has done for you, I did not be in for the Lord, where we be now, because the enemies on your life, they are well prepared and heavily armed, you have seen us with a hit bed, pam, you had no reason to hit the pillow, you are gone, you sleep, you want to be able to sleep, and this God watches over you, he puts his angels around you to keep you, the one your enemy is coming, they deal with the person, and yet you won't let us have word, I mean what do you call it, peace. It's even you are talking to like this, you have cops, that is here to drop. So let's be grateful to God, bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name, and they began to talk about the things that God has done, God has been very faithful with you, it is not also, you have a lot to say about what God has done for you, hallelujah, may your mind not become an object of attack of the enemy, in the name of Jesus Christ, that in spite of the things you hear and the things you see, you will just stand strong on the web of God, and your prosperity cannot be shut down in the name of Jesus, it has no matter who he is speaking, the most high God's word is what stands forever, it is settled in heaven, it is sure, I will always use, I want you to put out those people, forget about their lives, forget about their lives, forget about, I will not know if you know about Papaji Boyd, that small boy, the one that is making noise now, the one that moved a few are following, he was insulting him, he was insulting you he said, I am not rubbish, and he has a large following on the net, and people are pressing him for that rubbish, an abomination that he is spewing, I don't want to go deep in the body, I will become emotional and it will not be good, you are all the best, you are growing up, what to make you distinguished is your knowledge of God's word and your application thereof to your life, that will keep you in the midst of storms, you will still stand strong, that is my prayer for you, but you will not be persuaded by anybody, and you will not go off target, in the name of Jesus Christ, may the Lord keep on revealing things to you, to build you up in the face, in the name of Jesus, it is well with you, it is well with you, and Jesus broke the bread, and as you do he opened the understanding and saved them, so the communion is equally meant for God's intervention in our system of thinking, of thought pattern, whatever evode thing the enemy has put in your mind is uprooted today, as you partake of the communion, the excellency of mind shall become your portion, in the name of Jesus Christ, glory to God, if I say something that is not true, come to me and tell me, or if you like sit there and shout it, the bishop is not true, or no fight, you know, see, I am saying this to him because if I am here today, and the Holy Ghost reminds me and I don't come to correct it, it was time against me one day, so be faithful, don't be a greedy person, who is grabbing from everywhere, and you sell your conscience, and you sell the things that God has programmed for your life, it shall not be your kiss, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen, so take the communion and give thanks to God, and the Spirit God will visit you today. 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