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Redemptive Plan Of God In Tithing

we to return?’ Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask,
‘How do we rob you?’ In tithes and offerings.”

Because of not tithing, you are far away from God.

Stealing from God, by not paying your tithe, affects your connection
with God and demotes you from your place of authority.

This is the reason why God had to let man out of the garden. Man
had the other options but took what was the Lord’s. The curse fell
instantaneously and he was exiled.

Genesis 3:8-24 (AMP)

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the
garden in the cool [afternoon breeze] of the day, so the man and
his wife hid and kept themselves hidden from the [d]presence of
the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God

called to Adam, and said to him, “Where are you? 10 He said, “I
heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked; so I hid myself.” 11 God said, “Who told you
that you were naked? Have you eaten [fruit] from the tree of
which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 And the man said, “The
woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from
the tree, and I ate it.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman,

“What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “The
serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden
tree].” 14 The Lord God said to the serpent,

Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the

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