I sometimes watch the TV and some of these super preachers, who carry on like career professionals in business. They want your money, and people who are naive are taken in by this all over the world. It’s true that believers should tithe when they are actively part of a particular church, but we shouldn’t expect to get a blessing proportionate to the size of the gift.
I watched with some dismay and the news of what is going on in South Africa as this Al Jazeera article shows.
The prophet Micah wrote:
Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
its priests teach for a price;
its prophets practice divination for money;
yet they lean on the LORD and say,
“Is not the LORD in the midst of us?
No disaster shall come upon us.”
Micah 3:8 English Standard Version.
I’m reminded of Isaiah 55, and what Yahshua said in Matthew 10:8 (Complete Jewish Bible):
You have received without paying, so give without asking payment.
Video: courtesy Al Jazerra.
You can’t buy the truth and you can’t buy salvation.