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LINDSAY ROBERTS

DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries
Thursday, October 7, 2004
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GOD'S WILL
Lindsay Roberts
Oral Roberts Ministries
www.orm.cc

There are three positions we can place ourselves in before God: out of His will, in His permissive will, and in His perfect will.

If we are out of God's will, it means we are not in obedience and are not in position to receive God's blessings. Being in god's permissive will is okay, and we can get by with that, but we're not positioned to receive God's highest and best that He has for us. God wants us to be in His perfect will.

One day as I was praying, I said, 'God, how can I get out of just being in Your permissive will and get to the place where I am in Your perfect will, perfect and complete, lacking nothing, as James 1:4 says?' God showed me that one way to obtain that position is to be obedient in honoring Him through tithes and offerings.

God led me to Malachi 3:7 NKJV which says, 'From the days of you fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them.' So how do we end up out of God's will? By not doing what He has told us to do, by failing to obey Him.

Then God led me to verses 7-10: 'Return to Me, and I will return to you.... Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ""In what way have we robbed You?"" In Tithes and offering. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me.... Bring all the tithes into the storehouse.'

The way we get into God's perfect will is by obeying His ordinances in His Word. When we do that, we position ourselves to receive such blessings that there will not be room enough to receive in (v. 10)."

ON DOCTRINE NOTE:
Whether Lindsay Roberts was led to Malachi 3:7 by God or not, the reader can decide. However, her statements correspond to the same message taught for many years by her husband Richard Roberts, her father-in-law Oral Roberts and virtually every other teacher who claims that tithing is a Christian duty and obligation commanded by God. There is nothing unique about the verse and is the primary passage used in order to claim support for tithing by the church and has been used innumerable times.

The problems inherent in her application of the verse are the same as those found in another of here commentaries on the same subject, SEE: BREAKING THE POWER OF DEBT

The basic problem is that she brings an Old Testament command to Israel and places it in the New Testament as an obligation for Christians. That is an attempt to rewrite the New Testament in order to sustain the concept of tithing being an obligation for Christians in order to provide monetary support for ministries. However, there is no teaching regarding tithing to be found in the New Testament, either by Jesus Christ after His resurrection, or the apostles or any writer of the New Testament. At best, it is a supposition to place tithing into the New Testament, and suppositions have no force of doctrine.

SEE:
"Does God Require Me To Give A Tithe Of All I Own?"
"A Question About Tithing"

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