Text- Hebrews 7:1-10

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Text- Hebrews 71-10

• SEVEN BIBLICAL REASONS WHY WE PAY TITHES

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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

• SEVEN MEN WHO JOINED BOTH SUCCESS
• AND INTEGRITY IN AMERICAN BUSINESS

• Henry P. Crowell, founder/president of Quaker
  Oats Co.
• William Colgate, founder/president of
  Colgate-Palmolive.
• William Proctor, founder/CEO of Proctor
  Gamble Co.
• J. C. Penney, founder/president of the J. C.
  Penney Corp.
• John D. Rockefeller, Sr., founder-American
  Standard Oil.

They all had one unusual habit they all practiced
without exception during their entire lifetime.
Tithing!
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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

• The Powerful God-given Principle
• of Tithing

• Paying one tenth of all your income (increase)
  into Gods storehouse- the church treasury.

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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

1. We Pay Tithes to Recognize and Worship Gods
   Sovereignty as our Creator and Lord
   (Genesis 1419-23)

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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

• 2. We Pay Tithes
• to Give Thanks
• for His
• Provision
• (Genesis 2816-22)

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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

• 3. We Pay Tithes to Rebuke the Devourer from
  our lives. (Malachi 38-11)

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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

• 4. We Pay Tithes to Bring Discipline to our
  Finances. (I Corinthians 162)

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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

• 5. We Pay Tithes to Bring Joy
  to our Daily Lives
• 2 Corinthians 96-10

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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

• 6. We Pay Tithes to Support Gods Ministers
• (I Corinthians
• 97-10)

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Seven Biblical ReasonsWhy We Pay Tithes

• 7. We Pay Tithes to Express Our Belief in the
  Body of Christ. (Ephesians 44-7)

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SEVEN BIBLICAL REASONS WE
PAY TITHES

• The story of a disappointed missionary forced to
  return home from Africa
• The Welch Family Legacy of Tithing