Tithes & Offering message By Pastor Vernon Jacob

Tithes & Offering message

By Pastor Vernon Jacob

PLACE OF 1ST MENTION

• Gen 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

• Gen 14:19 And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;

• Gen 14:20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything

• Tithing is a principle • Break a principle • The principle will break you!• Eccl 10:8 – Whoever breaks the edge will be

bitten by the serpent.

FINALLY…..THE BLOOD

A Communion Message by Pastor Vernon

• J E S U S - IN U THE HOPE….

• R E S U R R E C T I O N … POWER

CHRIST – THE SENT ONE

• Luke 4: 18 …. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

• Mat 10:40 "Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.

•WHEN ADAM SINNED & FELL, ALL OF CREATION FELL.

• YOU CANNOT TRUST IN CREATION

JOHN 9: 6

• John 9:6 After he said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the spittle; he rubbed the mud on the man's eyes

• SAND GENERALLY BLINDS YOU

• John 9:7 and told him, "Go and wash your face in the Pool of Siloam." (This name means "Sent.") So the man went, washed his face, and came back seeing.

•CREATION DID NOT OPEN THE BLIND MANS EYES, REDEMPTION DID.

• Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"--

• We are redeemed from the curse of sickness, depression, poverty and even death.

• WHERE THE WORK OF CREATION CANNOT SAVE, THE WORK OF REDEMPTION HAS.

•WHAT CREATION CAN’T,

REDEMPTION CAN

OXFORD DICTION

• REDEEM – VERB : TO BUY SOMETHING BACK, TO PAY OFF A DEBT

• REDEEMER – NOUN : ONE WHO PERFORMS THE ACTION…

• 1Co 6:20 for you were bought with a price.

ENSLAVED

• Exo 5:4 But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens."

NINE PLAGUES

• WATER BECOMES BLOOD• FROGS • LICE• FLIES• DISEASED LIVESTOCK• BOILS • HAIL• LOCUSTS• DARKNESS

THE PURCHASING POWER OF BLOOD

• Exo 12:23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

REDEMPTIVE BLOOD

•WHERE THE BLOOD OF CREATION CANNOT SAVE, THE BLOOD OF REDEMPTION CAN.

• Exo 12:34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

• THE BLOOD KEPT (PROTECTED) THEM, THE BREAD FED THEM.