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Honey From The Rock Psalm 81:16 |
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THIEVES IN THE CHURCH This entry was posted on 06-02-2008 and is filed under uncategorized. We are studying the Christian life and in particular things that grieve the Holy Spirit. "He who has been stealing must steal no longer" (Eph. 4:28a NIV). Every once in awhile we learn of someone - sometimes a church treasurer - who has been stealing from the church. I guess this shouldn't come as a shock since Judas, one of the 12, was a thief and embezzled from the apostolic treasury.
A thief cares only for himself. He (or she) does not care about those whom they have robbed or bilked. Stealing is a serious sin. It will keep one out of the kingdom of heaven (1 Cor. 6:10). So Paul writes: "Let him who stole steal no longer" (NKJV). Stop stealing. You are now a Christian. Stealing grieves the Holy Spirit. When I was a little boy I went to the grocery store. I wanted to buy a plastic ring so bad. Everyone at school it seemed had one except me. Mr. Thomas, the owner of the store, was up on a ladder stocking shelves with his back to me. I picked up a ring and started to leave the store. "Put it back!" came the voice from the top of the ladder. How had he seen me? I don't know but I put the ring back and walked with head down out of the store. When you think about it, nearly every church I have visited is full of thieves. "That is a shocking thing to say," you may be thinking. Perhaps not. "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it" (Mal. 3:8-10 NKJV). CommentsDisplay comments as (Linear | Threaded)
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