Why does God need money?

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

Whether this question comes from a confused but sincere follower of Christ or from an insincere scoffer, it still has the same source. It is not coming from the Holy Spirit. In the final analysis, there is only one source other than the Holy Spirit for every thought, word and action. That source, in the final analysis is Satan. Whoever asks a question like this needs to be set free from bondage. Remember that the battle is for the mind. You cannot set anyone free. Only the Holy Spirit can set people free. Your part is simply to be a witness to the truth. Yield to the Spirit of God and give your testimony by that same Spirit.

Let's examine the question. Notice that it contains an embedded presupposition. A supposition is something that is made up. Pre means ahead of time. And embedded means that it is hidden. So, there is a lie hidden inside this question and the lie, by the way that the question is stated, is assumed to be true--but it is not true. This is how we know that this statement is from Satan. God cannot lie.

The truth is this: God owns all the money. And the Holy Spirit tells us this over and over through the Bible.

Looking at some of the things that are done in some churches, one might think that God does need money. A little disorder can extend itself into total Babylon. Some followers of Christ don't realize that God has a plan for finances and a pattern for His Church. Some only receive a portion of God's pattern. As a result, they act as if God needed money. Their appeals go out to whoever will listen. "If you care about this ministry, then send money so that we can continue." "It is only by your generous gifts that we are able to air this program." Some organizations use fund-raisers like the unbelievers use. Some go around and make presentations to churches to get money. Some hold carnivals or even gambling events to generate cash. On the other hand, God's pattern just quietly works, and finance is taken care of by God.

God has a plan by which every member of Christ the Body brings his or her finances into the spiritual realm. They bring their whole financial life into the power of the coming eon. God has a pattern by which we give to the poor, give tithes and offerings to the Church, and do careful budgeting, seeking the will of God for every dollar that we spend? God is working with us and we are working with God. The money all belongs to God and we are just stewards of His property.

God has a pattern for everything. His pattern for finance is that the tithe (10%) be gathered weekly in the local assembly along with any gifts. The Holy Spirit will sometimes lead a member to give a gift beyond the tithe. A portion of this is kept in the local church and is the responsibility of the local elders to use in ministry. The money all belongs to God and we are just stewards of His property so the administration is Holy and there is no room for human opinion. Elders must be lead by the Spirit of God. This is how the communion wine and bread is bought. If a room must be rented, this is what pays for the rent. This is what helps the poor on the local level. None of this money is to be used to pay salaries of local elders. There is no such thing as a locally abiding salaried pastor in Scripture, so that ought not to be an issue. There are no paid musicians or singers. The tithes and offerings are not to be used for grandiose buildings of other schemes.

If a local need goes beyond the amount that is left in the local assembly, the elders contact the traveling ministries who seek God over the matter. If it is the mind of God, the traveling ministries, the apostles, send the needed money. This is the pattern clearly laid out, by the Holy Ghost, through Scripture.

The apostles (traveling ministries) are responsible for the decisions as to the administration of this money. There is no opportunity in this pattern for anyone to become rich on something that they then call "a ministry." The apostles take the major part of the tithes and offerings for ministry to the church universal. It is to be used to help the widows and orphans and others who cannot help themselves. It is also used to pay for the cost of the apostles as they travel.

Since this pattern has been restored to the Church, there has never been any shortage of money among those who have been able to receive this teaching.

Why does God need money?

How can we know anything about anything

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