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No, I’m not suggesting it. I’m saying it outright because it’s in the Bible. Luke 6:38 says to both rich and poor alike, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
It’s the devil who came up with the idea that a poor man shouldn’t be expected to give. It’s the way he keeps poor people poor. God wants everyone to tithe and give offerings so He can make them rich.
Jesus proved this by the way He responded to the destitute widow when she gave her offering at the Temple. Because He always did the will of His Father, if God didn’t want poor people to give, Jesus would have objected when that widow threw her last two pennies into the offering bucket. He would have said something like, “Hold on there, sweetheart. God doesn’t need your money. There are plenty of rich people around here to finance His work. You just keep those two pennies for yourself because you’re going to need them.”
But Jesus didn’t say any such thing. Instead, he blessed her offering and called it the biggest one in the bucket. He told His disciples: “Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living” (Mark 12:43-44).
One of the things I’m looking forward to when I get to heaven and they open the archives of Church history, is finding out what ultimately happened to that widow. She probably became a rich real-estate tycoon and ended up as one of the biggest givers in the early New Testament Church. What makes me think so?
She tapped into the revelation Paul preached to the believers in Macedonia! A deeply impoverished bunch, those saints actually had to beg Paul to let them contribute to the offering he was receiving for another group of believers. When Paul agreed to accept their gifts, God revealed this to him: “He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully...for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:6-8, emphasis mine).
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