This document discusses the concept of tithing, or giving 10% of one's income to God and the church. It presents tithing as a test of whether one trusts money or God to provide what is truly important in life like security, freedom and significance. Several bible verses are cited that discuss tithing and how it allows one to put God first, teaches one to do so, and increases one's faith that God will bless those who honor him with their wealth. The document promotes taking the "tithe challenge" by giving the first 10% as an act of faith that God will bless the rest.

1. Part 2:
The Blessed Test

3. The Blessed Test
Will you
love and trust Money
or will you
love and trust God?

5. Luke 16:10-11
Whoever can be trusted with
very little can also be trusted
with much, and whoever is
dishonest with very little will also
be dishonest with much.

6. Luke 16:10-11
So if you have not been
trustworthy in handling worldly
wealth, who will trust you with
true riches?

8. Money Promises What
Only God Can Provide
•Security
•Freedom
•Power
•Significance

10. Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters.
Either he will hate the one and
love the other, or he will be
devoted to the one and despise
the other. You cannot serve
both God and Money.

12. Ecclesiastes 5:10
Whoever loves money never
has money enough; whoever
loves wealth is never satisfied
with his income.

14. The Blessed Test
I will give God
my first and my best
so He can bless
the rest.

16. Leviticus 27:30
A tithe of everything from the
land, whether grain from the soil
or fruit from the trees, belongs
to the LORD; it is holy to the
LORD.

18. Malachi 3:8-9
Do honest people rob God?
But you rob me day after day.
“ Yo u a s k , „ H o w h a v e w e
robbed you?‟ “The tithe and the
offering – that‟s how!

19. Malachi 3:8-9
And now you‟re under a curse
– the whole lot of you –
because you‟re robbing me.

21. The Blessing of the Tithe
Tithing Provides for
God‟s Work Through
My Church

22. Malachi 3:10a
Bring your full tithe to the
Temple treasury so there will be
ample provisions in my Temple.

24. The Blessing of the Tithe
Tithing Teaches Me
To Put God First

25. Deuteronomy 14:23 TLB
The purpose of tithing is to
teach you always to put God
first in your lives.

27. The Blessing of the Tithe
Tithing Increases
My Faith in God

28. Malachi 3:10b
Test me in this and see if I don‟t
open up heaven itself to you
and pour out blessings beyond
your wildest dreams.

30. The Tithe Challenge
Malachi 3:10

32. “It requires faith
to give first;
if you give last,
it doesn‟t
require faith.”

33. Proverbs 3:9-10
Honor the LORD with your
wealth, with the firstfruits of all
your crops; then your barns
will be filled to overflowing…

35. Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own
love for us in this: While we
were still sinners, Christ died for
us.

37. Next Week
Part 3: A Generous
Eye