THE MECHANICS OF TITHING

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THE MECHANICS OF TITHING

• Gods Righteousness Through The Body Of Christ
• Prepared by Lynne Levandowski, MPA, September,
  2006.
• Based on the Prophetic Teachings/Visions of Roy
  Sauzek.

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The Churches of the World

• Are NOT In Covenant With The Lord

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TO GET MARRIED

• The Church Must Come Into Covenant With The Lord,
  And Then He Is Able To Protect His Bride From The
  Enemy Of Mankind.

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JESUS WALKED IN PROTECTION

• He Had A Hedge, And It Wasnt Because He Was God
  In The Flesh. Its A Position God Wants His Bride
  To Come Into.

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Delivering The Lords Treasury The Right Way
Opens Doors

• That No Other Way Can
• It Warms Up Those Who Are Cold Or Lukewarm And
• It Deals With Unbelief! It Lets The Lord Deal
  With An Unbeliever One-On-One.
• The Lord Said To Give This To You.

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Under The Direction of the Holy Spirit

• Delivering The Lords Tithes The Right Way Helps
  Eliminate the Problem Of Being Conned By People
  Who Go Through The Country Conning The Church.
• When You Deliver The Lords Money, Its Not Up To
  You, Its Up To God. The Only Thing You Are To
  Make Sure Of Is That You Are Delivering It In His
  Name. The Rest Is Up To Him.

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YOU ARE NOT

• To Tell Anyone Where You Go To Church Unless They
  Ask.
• You Are Not To Try To Influence The Person With
  Scripture. To Do So Would Be To Distract That
  Person From The One-On-One Relationship That Has
  Just Been Established With The Lord.

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GIVE GLORY TO THE LORD

• You Are To Take The Lord And His Love To That
  Person, That Is All.
• Trying To Influence Someone To Come To Your
  Church Is A Harlotrous Act In This Situation
  Because You Are Bringing Attention To The Church
  Rather Than To The Lord, Himself!

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A Harlotrous Wife

• Tries To Attract Men To Her Rather Than Her
  Husband, The Lord. He Is The True Life Changer,
  Not Her!
• JESUS CHRIST MUST GET THE CREDIT! NOT The Church!

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DO IT THE LORDS WAY

• Do You Really Care About The Unbelievers Who Have
  Rejected The Gospel, Who Need Something Tangible,
  Like Thomas Did?
• Jesus Did, And He Cares Enough Now To Do It With
  His Tithe.
• He Only Needs Our Hands.

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JESUS CARES FOR US

• Do We Really Care About People Meeting The Lord
  On A Personal One-On-One Basis?
• Do We Care About The Oppressed, Or The Orphans,
  Enough To Let Them Know That Jesus Loves Them
  Enough To Give To Them Out Of His Treasury IN HIS
  NAME, Rather Than A Church, Loving Them In Its
  Name?

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WE HAVE IGNORANTLY DONE THINGS IN OUR NAME
INSTEAD OF HIS

• So, Who Do We Really Love Here?

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IF YOU DONT CARE NOW

• YOU WILL COME JUDGMENT DAY,
• WHEN YOU HAVE TO STAND
• BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY GOD, OUR
• LORD IN HEAVEN.
• YOU ARE HELD PERSONALLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT
  YOU DO OR FAIL TO DO HERE.

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GODS TREASURY

• Is Only To Be Spent For Righteous Purposes
• Everything The Lord Does Is Done In
  Righteousness.
• Righteousness Is An Act.

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The Lord Is Righteous In All His Ways, And Holy
In All His Works.

• Psalm 14517

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Every Act Of Righteousness Is Done Directly To A
Person

• We Need To Understand That God Does Not Consider
  Tithing Done Until It Is Delivered To Those He
  Specified!
• 100 Of Gods Tithes Must Go Directly Into The
  Hands Of Those Specified By God In His Name.
• This was the biggest problem the early Church had.

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WHO JESUS CALLED RIGHTEOUS

• Then shall the King say unto them on His right
  hand, come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
  kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
  the world. For I was ahungered, and you gave me
  meat I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink I was
  a stranger and ye took me in naked and ye
  clothed me I was sick and ye visited me

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(Righteous Continued)

• I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then
  shall the righteous answer Him
• Matthew
  2534-37

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Little children, let no man deceive you he that
doeth righteousness is righteous even as He is
righteous.

• 1 John 37

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When thou hast made an end of tithing all the
tithes of thine increase the third year, which is
the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the
Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the
widow, that they may eat within they gates, and
be filled.

• Deuteronomy 2612, 13

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TITHING

• Was one of the main tools the early Church used
  to convert others to Christianity
• The Church today has NOT impacted the world as
  did the early Church because of how we tithe
• The delivery of tithes during the early Church,
  along with prayer and study of Gods Word was a
  priority.

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Who Is The Church To Deliver Gods Treasury To?

• 1. The Levite (Apostle, Prophet, Teacher,
  Evangelist, Pastor)
• 2. The Stranger (anyone who doesnt know Jesus)
• 3. The Fatherless (orphans, includes children
  whose fathers have deserted them) and the
• 4. The Widow (whose families arent taking care
  of them or cant take care of them.)

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CONTINUED

• 5. Singers (Gods minstrels. People with an
  anointing from God and who are ministering to him
  and others. Its not just a talent. For one
  thing, they get new songs from the Lord. This
  does not include Choirs and such.)
• 6. Porters (is not one who carries burdens like
  today but is a gatekeeper a janitor, porter,
  gatekeeper.) Was a person who took care of the
  doors of the temple. Porters were appointed
  Levites to keep the doors.

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• The Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Teacher,
  Singer, Porter, Pastor are all basically full
  time for the Lord.
• The full time deacon lives out of Gods treasury
  as well.

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THE EARLY CHRISTIAN JEWS

• Bought seats in the synagogue to pay for its
  building and upkeep
• Never used Gods tithes for unrighteous purposes
• Were His hands and feet, so to speak.

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GOD BUILT HIS TEMPLE WITH THE WEALTH OF EGYPT,
NOT HIS TITHE

• God doesnt do things He tells us not to do.

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GOD

• Does not put His treasures in something that
  disappears through time
• Puts his treasures in men where His kingdom can
  be built, which is in men, not buildings and
  things of comfort, meetings and paper, or things
  that rust away, etc.

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IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY FOR PRINTED
MATERIAL TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. IT IS NOT GODS
RESPONSIBILITY, NOR DOES HE PAY FOR IT.
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GOD COMMANDS

• THAT WE USE THE FIRST AND GREATEST COMMANDMENT
  WHEN TALKING ABOUT TITHING.

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SERVE BY LOVING HIM PERSONALLY

• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
  heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
  mind. This is the first and greatest
  commandment.
• Matthew 22 37, 38

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Do You Love The Lord Enough To Deliver His Tithe
To Those He Wants To Touch?

• THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WILL.

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A True Bride Has Her Eyes Set On Her Husband

• And With All Her Heart, With All Her Soul, And
  With All Her Might, She Wants To Please, Honor,
  And Obey Him.

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WHAT CHANGED AT THE CROSS CONCERNING TITHE

• God is out to exalt His Son in the earth. Prior
  to the cross, in the temple, God got credit for
  the tithe.
• Jesus Christ is now to get the credit in the
  dispersal of the tithe.

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JESUS DID NOT SPEND ONE PENNY OF GODS WEALTH FOR
ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN GODS PURPOSE

• Jesus used the wealth of the wicked to pay the
  tribute.

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ALL TITHES BELONG TO GOD

• Giving to a church that is unknowingly spending
  it for harlotrous purposes is robbery. We are
  robbing God, man, and even the whole nation.
• People of the world pay tribute to people by
  putting their images on money. We are to render
  what we should to governments and heads of state,
  and unto God the things that are Gods.

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Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But
ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes
and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse for
ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

• Malachi 3 8, 9

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IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE, SAITH THE LORD

• God is a God of absolute Truth. He works with
  truth and only truth. He knows all truth there
  is nothing hid.
• He is a legal God. We know He does all things
  legally. All His records must hold up in court.
  Jesus death at the cross had to legally hold up
  in the courts of heaven.

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ROBBING GOD OF EVEN ONE DOLLAR MAKES YOU GUILTY.
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THE BOOK OF JOB

• Job worked righteousness and feared God.
• God lifted the hedge of protection around Job in
  order for us to see the mechanics of the legal
  system in Heaven. God had a purpose.
• So what did Job have that Christians dont have
  today?

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THE CHURCH IS UNDER A SIGN

• Curses are the result of disobedience of Gods
  commandments and statutes.
• See Deuteronomy 28 15-46

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The Price of Disobedience

• Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall
  lie with her
• Thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not
  dwell therein
• Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shall not
  gather grapes thereof

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Curse Continued

• Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto
  another people, and thine eyes shall look, and
  fail with longing for them all the day long and
  there shall be no might in thine hand.

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Curse Continued

• Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee,
  and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till
  thou be destroyed because thou hearkenest not
  unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep His
  commandments and His statutes which He commanded
  thee. And they shall be upon thee for a sign and
  for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever.

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If these things are happening in your life

• You are under a curse.

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We, The Church, are a part of on thy seed
forever

• Divorce,
• Sexual Perverseness, and
• All sorts of other signs mentioned in Deuteronomy
  are very apparent in the churches.

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This Is A Legal Matter

• The Holy Spirit breaks our inability to see that
  we are under a curse.
• Satan is on the move in churches because no one
  is watching our backside.

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If The Church Will

• Start to be a wife to the Lord, He will gladly be
  a husband and protect His wife,
• but
• As long as we steal from God, Satan has a right
  to go to God and accuse us.
• What can God do, being a just God?

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JESUS ALWAYS HAD A HEDGE OF PROTECTION

• Jesus was never attacked by the devil
• Jesus never stole from God
• Jesus never broke the law, so Satan could not
  accuse Him
• Jesus was tempted by Satan, but Satan could only
  attack Him through temptation and through men.

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We Are Admonished To Become Like Jesus

• We live under a covenant of better promises
  which must include the promises of the old
  covenants.

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Under The Old Promises

• God said He would rebuke the devourer.
• It is better to have God do it than for us to do
  it ourselves He will cover our hindside by
  putting a hedge around us, something we cannot
  do.
• He did it for Job, and Job was not sinless.

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New Testament

• Cornelius was Jobs counterpart.
• (Isaiah. 58 6-8)
• Cornelius feared God and gave alms to the
  poor way over Gods tithe. This produced a
  memorial before God.
• The result God covered His back side.

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And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
and he shall not destroy the fruits of your
ground neither shall your vine cast her fruit
before the time in the field, saith the Lord of
hosts.

• Malachi 3 11

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Remember -

• It is disobedience that brings the curse.

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SATAN

• Wants to destroy what God is doing.
• When you disobey God, Satan accuses you.
• He wants to kill, steal, and destroy.
• He wants to keep you down.

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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What happens when you tithe in error?

• 1. You are perpetuating harlotry and that makes
  you part of the harlot.
• 2. You are preventing God from being able to
  legally protect you and others!
• 3. You are robbing God and you leave a wide open
  door into your back yard for the enemy to pass
  through at his will.
• 4. The truth is simply You are robbing God and
  are under a curse!

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Every Man Owes A Tithe To God

• The accumulation of debt is impossible to pay,
  but the Lord has provided us a way out!

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Forgiveness of Debts

• Pray and ask God what amount He will accept as
  payment of your back debt.
• Pray over the money and break the curse of debt
  over our lives, in the Lords name.

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DO NOT

• Give your tithes and offerings to unholy altars
  (churches that are not handling Gods money in
  righteousness), or you will again fall under a
  curse.

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FINAL REVIEW OF TITHING

• Step One Pray and ask God for the figure He
  will accept for the forgiveness of debt.
• Step Two Thank God for giving you the amount.
  Break the curse in the name of Jesus! Then
  deliver the amount. (Be sure it gets to Gods
  appointed purposes, a person, not a ministry,
  unless you know that ministry will deliver 100
  of it to those appointed by God.)

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Then make sure your tithe is delivered right from
then on.