FOURTEEN SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS OF PEOPLE WHO DO NOT PAY TITHES.

Text: Malachi 3:10, John 12:4-5

INTRODUCTION: Most people who do not pay their tithes are in a poor spiritual state i.e their spiritual life is at 0%. They lack knowledge of the word of God, and what you don’t know you cannot practice. So the first spiritual problem of people who do not pay tithes is:

1.  People do not pay tithes because they are disloyal; John 12:4-5 – one of the reason why people do not pay tithes is because they are disloyal to God; they are disloyal to the church, and disloyal to their pastor and his vision. So the tithes that people pay will always give you a good picture of how loyal they are to the vision of the church they worship.

2.  People do not pay tithes because they are rebellious. 1Samuel 15:21-23 – A rebellious person will not pay tithes, many rebellious people have an outward show of obedience but in reality, they are very rebellious to God. Saul is the best example of rebellious person who presented many sacrifice to the Lord, the prophet of the Lord rebuked Saul for disobedience and rebellious.

3.  People do not pay tithes because they only obey section of the word of God. 2Corinth 8:7. Most Christians obey section of the word of God; they believe some scriptures and disbelieved some.

4.  People do not pay tithe because they are greedy. Proverb 1:13, 19 – Many people are so greedy. Greed is an excessive desire to acquire and posses more than you need. Greed destroy lives, greed takes away the blessing and opens the door to curse.

5.  People do not pay tithes because they are not spiritual minded. Only spiritual minded people can do something like paying tithes to God, men who are carnal do not pay tithes .

6.  People do not pay tithes because they are immature. Hebrew 5:12, 14.

The Bible has two types of teaching:  (1) teaching of milk (2) teaching of meat.

Instruction to pay tithes is a teaching of meat; you cannot expect babies to obey the instruction to pay tithes. Strong meat is for the matured Christians. So it takes great maturity to rise above the carnal reality of our personal lives.

7.  People do not pay tithes because they do not really believe the Bible; but if Christian believed in the blessing and curses that are associated with the concept of tithing, every church would have a hundred percent tithe paying congregation. There are a lot of people who believe that there is God, there are a ot of people who have churches and pastor but do not believe the things in the Bible. This is one of the reason why so few people pay tithes.

8.  People do not pay tithes because they are backsliding. Luke 16:13 – one of the first sign of backsliding is not paying tithes. You must be spiritual and mature to pay tithes, so when a person’s spiritual life is dieing, paying tithes is one of the first things he stops doing.

9.  People do not pay tithes because they have very little love for God. 1 chronicle 29:3.  Love is such a beautiful thing. If you loved God, there would be nothing too difficult for you to do. David love the Lord and he set his affection on the house of God and because of this, he gave much gold and silver on the house of God. And also prepared many gift and gave them to the house of God. Nothing is the same as not loving God.

10.              People do not pay tithes because they are ignorant. Act 17:30. – they are ignorant of the word , they are ignorant of the truth but when you read through the Bible ignorance will no longer be an excuse for you not paying your tithes.

11.              People do not pay tithes because they are afraid. Matthew 25:25 – many people are afraid of being poor, they think when the remove such amount for tithes they will be suffering in poverty, so they fear. God has not given you the spirit of fear. So overcome the fears and be a committed tithes payer.

12.              People do not pay tithes because they are offended by something the pastor has done and want to punish the pastor by not paying tithes. They also feel that they are robbing the church and pastor. Hear this, when you do not pay tithes, you rob God and not the pastor. Because no pastor can reward you for paying your tithes. The blessing for tithe paying does not come from pastor. They come from the Lord. In other word tithe paying is your obedience to God and not to man. So when you don’t pay you punish yourself and not any other person.

13.              People do not pay tithes because they do not care whether the church exists or not. Heb 1:9-10 paying your tithes demonstrate your care for the house of God. The tithes are used to maintain the house of Lord. So when you do not pay tithes, the church cannot be built and the work of God cannot go on. So people who love the house of God love to pay tithes because it is their Joy to see God’s house being built.

14.              People do not pay tithe because they do not care whether the pastor are paid or not 1corith 9:13-14 – do you not know that priest and pastors live on the tithes. If tithes are not paid, how will the priest stay in the house of God and do their work.

Everybody wants to have a priest or pastor for their important occasion. But most of us do not want to think about how pastor exist or what their needs are.