2. give it
earn it
save it
spend it

3. A Loaded Question
Are you willing to make giving (to God) your #1 financial priority?

4. Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?
Haggai 1:4, NIV

5. Give careful thought to your ways. 
You have planted much, but harvested little.
You eat, but never have enough.
You drink, but never have your fill.
You put on clothes, but are not warm.
You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.
Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build My house. 
Haggai 1:5-8, NIV

6. Genesis 4:1-8 Cain Abel farmer shepherd
gave “some of the land’s produce”
gave “the firstborn of his flock”
God did not accept Cain’s offering
God accepted Abel’s offering

7. #1 (driver’s seat): generosity to God
#2: required bills
#3: retirement
#4: aggressively paying off debt
#5: saving for kid’s college
#6: paying extra toward mortgage

8. Does the New Testament
require “tithing?”
Tithing was expected even before the Old Testament law was given. (Abraham, Genesis 14:20; Jacob, Genesis 14:22).
Jesus commanded the tithe (Matthew 23:23)

9. If you are a Christian and you do not tithe, show God your heart by making sacrifices to help you move toward a tithe.
Remember that our sacrifice and generosity reap eternal rewards!