This isn’t a message where there will be a lot of shouting.
Paul said in order to present every man perfect in Christ,
you have to do two things:
1. WARN
2. TEACH
As children, we don’t usually mind getting taught by our parents.
We definitely don’t like warnings.
Warnings save our lives.
People are in such a state they don’t heed warnings from God.
Read Genesis 1:5. (NAS)
God did not respect Cain’s offering.
1. This ought to blow some Christian’s away.
2. We have tradition in the church.
3. God will accept you the way you are as long as you repent.
4. Try telling that to Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 1:5.
5. Repent- turn around.
Look at this: Not only did God not respect Cain’s offering, He didn’t respect Cain either.
Genesis 4:5 (NAS)
“but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.”
NAS
1. This is exactly what happens to a religious person when they get confronted with the truth.
2. They get angry.
1. Cain and Abel both loved God.
2. They were both bringing an offering.
3. Cain was probably working harder than Abel.
4. Farming can be more difficult than shepherding.
5. So- why did God reject Cain?
We have to go back to the Garden of Eden.
After Adam and Eve sinned, they sewed fig leaves together to make clothes.
God came down, killed an animal, and covered them.
He did it His way.
Adam and Eve were ignorant, but Cain and Abel weren’t.
When Cain brought his offering from the ground, he was doing it his way.
He thought it was right.
Genesis 4:7 (NAS)
If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.
What does it mean to do well?
What does it mean to obey God?
What does God desire more than anything else? Obedience!
God told Cain that if he would just take some of his crops, trade them with Abel for livestock, and bring them to Him, he would be accepted.
Genesis 4:7 (NAS)
Notice sin has a desire. That desire is to get you.
God is letting us know from Cain and Abel that there is a door to the Spirit realm.
That door leads to evil (demonic power)
Cain opened that door. He could have shut that door by obeying God.
If we don’t obey God, we open up a door to the enemy.
Cain continued in his own way.
Anger entered into his heart.
This was followed by jealousy.
Followed by offense.
This young man, who started out serving, ended up murdering his own brother.
How could this happen?
God tells us from the beginning it is disobedience.
Go to 1 Samuel 15
Here we have two guys’ personalities.
The first guy was Saul, who was the first king of Israel.
There was also Samuel, the prophet.
The word of God came to Samuel to tell Saul to utterly destroy Amelek,
and to kill every thing.
Saul attacked Amelek.
He spared the king.
Trophy!
He saved the finest of the live stalk.
People were probably saying what a great king they had.
He saved the best animals so they could sacrifice them to Jehovah.
READ verse 9 (NAS)
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.
He did 99.9 percent of what he was told to do.
Partial obedience is not obedience at all.
Saul ran out and told Samuel he did what God told him to do.
He was deceiving himself.
James 1:22 (NAS).
22. But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
Have you ever done something wrong and felt guilty?
Maybe you talked about a leader, and defend what you say by saying you are right..
You felt guilty.
You did the same thing and you felt guilty, but not as much.
This continued and then you didn’t feel guilty at all.
That’s how Saul was, He had disobeyed.
He had done it over and over.
He might even have felt what he was doing was right.
God sent a prophet to reveal his sin.
Samuel confronted Saul.
Saul blamed the people.
Samuel drove him with the word.
1 Samuel 15:22-23 (NAS)
22. Samuel said, “Has the lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the lord? Behold to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
23. For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also rejected you from being king.”
Saul now had an evil spirit around him, It was a controlling spirit.
If you would have told him when he was younger that he would kill 85 Priests of God, He would have told you that you were crazy.
He opened the door through disobedience
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Galatians: 3:1 (NAS)
1. You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed or crucified.
We get bewitched by deceit.
No witch can put a curse on me if I’m obedient to God.
If I’m not, I open up doors where the enemy can work.
How many know God doesn’t give suggestions?
Hebrews 10:25 (NAS)
25. Not forsaking our own assembling together, as the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
Now I’m heading where God wanted me to go.
Malachi 3:8 (NAS)
8. Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you say, how have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
Is a thief or a robber going to heaven?
I would rather rob a bank than God.
If you rob God, you are cursed with a curse.
Some say tithing was the law.
Before the law was given Abraham paid his tithes to Melchesadek, the high priest.
Hebrews 7 (NAS)
Jesus who lives after the order of Melchsadek to receive our tithes.
Matthew 23:23 (NAS)
23. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the
weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
TITHE is 10 percent of total income.
It is to be paid to your local church.
This is your storehouse; this is where you get fed.
God is able to take care of us.
When we go on vacation, don’t use God’s money.
If I miss church, I make sure God’s tithes get paid, It’s not our money, it’s Gods.
Barnum survey showed that 11 percent of people who say they are born again pay tithes, that’s scary.
DREAM PASTOR JOE ROWLAND 12-12-2002 Thursday morning
I dreamed I was at Trinity Full Gospel church. My wife was up front speaking. I heard someone say they had just seen
an angel. They went out into the hallway. I followed them and was wondering why I couldn’t see an angel.
I asked the person who had seen the angel, what the angel had talked about. They said the angel talked about tithes. As soon as the angel spoke, it disappeared.
Two other individuals walked out. They saw angels which talked to them about tithes. The next thing I knew, two individuals walked up to me. One of them gave me a message. He said, “If people refuse to pay their tithes to God, they will go to Hell.” The individual disappeared. I knew I had just received a message from God. It was angels who delivered the message.
I walked into the sanctuary. My wife was now doing a little dance, along with her mother and three other ladies. When she was finished, I told her what happened. I asked her if she noticed that four people had seen angels. I emphasized the number “4”. I woke up.
Interpretation:
People who refuse to pay their tithes will go to Hell because they robbed God. Trinity Full Gospel Church represents something that is established. If you know to do good, but don’t, then it becomes sin.
Hebrews 10:26-27 (NAS)
For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.
.Closing
If I don’t pay the whole 10% of my tithes, I’m robbing God. (side job, every job)
If I don’t deliver this message to you, then I will be held accountable.
I‘m not going to be the reason that someone goes to Hell.
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