Food on the table

 

The workman is worthy of this meat.  (Matthew 10:10)  Some workmen are however not paid enough.  (James 5:1-6)  If you are guilty of underpaying you will not reap what you should.  (Malachi 3:8-11) On the other hand you also get the “so-called preachers” (2 Peter 2:1 and 2 Timothy 4:3) who is misleading the church.  They call themselves preachers, pastors, reverends, evangelists etc. but Gods people are not growing in their presence.  They bring the letter and with it now spiritual growth.  (2 Corinthians 3:6) If you are in such a situation the vultures are taking from you because you are spiritual dead.  You have no life of God.  You are sitting in their sermons year after year and there is no growth.  Even your friends that visit you after many years say.  My friend you are the same old John.  What a curse!  He should long ago has noticed the difference!  He should long ago has left you for other friends that fall in with his wrong lifestyle (Luke 6:26)

 

When your fellowship with God is correct He is your head and He will also correct your tithing.  You will then also be in a situation where you are served with the living Word that creates spiritual growth in you.  They will keep them busy with praying and preaching the Word and not the tables.  (Acts 6:1-7)  Here your tenth will be used to help them eat and for those in need.  You will then no longer be part of the Pharisees that devour the widows’s houses.  Because they need shiny, new motorcars, good looking houses, church buildings etc. After these luxuries have been deducted there is nothing left for those in need.  (Acts 2:37 – 47) Your tenth will then be used for food and clothes.  (1 Timothy 6:6-9)  Just ask the Pharisees what percentage of your church is going to those in need of food and clothes and you will know what percentage of your money is going where it should be going. 

 

On the one hand you may be very grateful of what God is doing in you life through revelation that God gave you after reading these pages.  Or you are not very grateful - it didn’t mean much to you.  You just act accordingly.  (2 Corinthians 9:6—11)  I don’t want to be a thief and take from somebody when he in fact got nothing from me.  So if there is no growth through my service in your life I am entitled to nothing from you.  Only the workman is entitled to meat.  (Luke 8:3, 2 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 9:1—14).  But I am sure that you also don’t want to be a thief and get spiritual growth from these pages and you go from here and pay somebody else.  You don’t pack your trolley at the OK and go and pay Shoprite – do you?