Ramsey Creek Baptist Church

If we don’t understand giving on the individual level, we won’t understand why we give when we come together as a body. We were designed to proclaim the virtues of God. How? By our verbal communication as well as our actions toward others at home, in the church, in the community and in the marketplace. Sacrificial Giving is an exercise of this submission to Christ and an example to the world and principalities that I do not serve the flesh or it’s desires. When God spoke in Malachi, about bringing all the tithes into the storehouse and blessing those who obey, God was not really concerned about their outward actions of giving. The lack of giving, and tithing was rather an outward gauge that exposed their heart. The consequences of disease, pestilence, & financial ruin were not because of their refusal to tithe and give, but rather their rejection of a relationship with the one true God. He was rehearsing all the ways He had demonstrated love to them and provided for them in the past, and