Malachi 3: 7-10 Every person on earth has some time to live on earth, talents to make him live successfully on the earth and treasure to sustain his time and talents on the earth. In other to live a life to count for eternity with the creator, the time, talent and treasure must be profitably use. The problem is that many people are not aware of this. Those who are aware also do not know how to use it effectively. As these gifts are made available to us it our responsibility to give our tithe and offering to the glory of God. From our text God is demanding that from us. He wants us to give tithe and offering of our time, talents and treasure so that we do not be considered as thieves. Tithe and offering are not only taken from our money as many of us think but also from our time talent and treasure. As students of the Bible it suppose of us to learn these and practice it. THE TITHE AND OFFERING OF OUR TIME Ecc. 3:1-8 Eph.5:16 Col.4:5 Every thing has its time and season.Men are exercised with labour. Every thing is beautiful in its season, Men should enjoy thankfully the gifts of God,.What God does is for ever,There is nothing new, The corruption of judgment; but the judgments of God are right,Man is brutish, and men and brutes die in like manner, Man may enjoy the fruit of his own labours, The word redeeming, means, to purchase; to buy up from the possession or power of any one; and then to redeem, to set free--as from service or bondage. Redeeming means, to rescue or recover our time from waste; to improve it for great and important purposes. Because the days are evil. Because the times in which you live are evil. There are many allurements and temptations that would lead you away from the proper improvement of time, and that would draw you into sin. Such were those that would tempt them to go to places of sinful indulgence and revelry, where their time would be wasted, and worse than wasted. As these temptations abounded, they ought therefore to be more especially on their guard against a sinful and unprofitable waste of time. This exhortation may be addressed to all, and is applicable to all periods. The sentiment is, that we ought to be solicitous to improve our time to some useful purpose, because there are, in an evil world, so many temptations to waste it. Time is given us for most valuable purposes. There are things enough to be done to occupy it all, and no one need have it hang heavy on his hands. He that has a soul to be saved from eternal death need not have one idle moment. He that has a heaven to win has enough to do to occupy all his time. Man has just enough given him to accomplish all the purposes which God designs, and God has not given him more than enough. They redeem their time who employ it (1.) in gaining useful knowledge; (2.) in doing good to others; (3.) in employing it for the purpose of an honest livelihood for themselves and families; (4.) in prayer and self-examination, to make the heart better; (5.) in seeking salvation, and in endeavouring to do the will of God. They are to redeem time from all that would waste and destroy it--like recovering marshes and fens to make them rich meadows and vineyards. There is time enough wasted by each sinner to secure the salvation of the soul; time enough wasted to do all that is needful to be done to spread religion around the world, and to save the race. We should still endeavour to redeem our time for the same reasons which are suggested by the apostle--because the days are evil. There are evil influences abroad; allurements and vices that would waste time, and from which we should endeavour to rescue it. There are evil influences tending to waste time (1.) in the allurements to pleasure and amusement in every place, and especially in campuses (2.) in the temptations to novel-reading, consuming the precious hours of probation to no valuable purpose; (3.) in the temptations of ambition, most of the time spent for which is wholly thrown away, for few gain the prize, and when gained, it is all a bauble, not worth the effort; (4.) in dissipation--for who can estimate the amount of valuable tune that is worse than thrown away in the places of revelry and dissipation? (5.) in wild and visionary plans--temptations to which abound in all lands, and pre-eminently in our own; (6.) and in luxurious indulgence--in dressing, and eating, and drinking. Help us to number our days using the personal timetable. THE TITHE AND OFFERING TALENTS matt25:15-46, Exo31:1-6, Eph 4:11, Act20:28,Rom12:1-9, 1cor12:1-10,27-31, 2cor.5:10-12, Rom14:12 His several ability; representing the various gifts which God bestows on different individuals. All our blessings we receive from God, and to him we are justly accountable for the use of them. He does not give the same to all, and he requires only according to what a man hath. Of course, no one will be condemned for not having received more. The spiritual meaning of the parable may be thus summed up: (1.) The servants of God are not all endowed with equal gifts and talents. (2.) They are bound to employ their talents in promoting his honour, and in a proper improvement of them. (3.) By employing their talents in a proper manner, they improve and strengthen them. (4.) They will be judged according to the improvements they have made (5.) All sinners look on God as a hard master, and as unreasonable and tyrannical. (6.) They will be judged, not merely for doing wrong, but for neglecting to do right. (7.) If the servant who kept the talent entire without injuring it, and who returned it to his master as he received it, was nevertheless judged, condemned, and cast away, what must they expect who abuse their talents, destroy by drunkenness and lust the noble faculties conferred on them, and squander the property that might be employed in advancing the interests of morals and religion! THE TITHE AND OFFERING TREASURE Matt6:19-34 Prov.15:6,16 Prov.20:21 1Ti.6:6 21. For where your treasure is--that which ye value most. There Will Your Heart Be Also--"Thy treasure--thy heart" is probably the true reading here: "your," in Lu 12:34, from which it seems to have come in here. Obvious though this maxim be, by what multitudes who profess to bow to the teaching of Christ is it practically disregarded! "What a man loves," says LUTHER, quoted by THOLUCK, "that is his God. For he carries it in his heart, he goes about with it night and day, he sleeps and wakes with it; be it what it may--wealth or pelf, pleasure or renown." But because "laying up" is not in itself sinful, nay, in some cases enjoined (2Co 12:14), and honest industry and sagacious enterprise are usually rewarded with prosperity, many flatter themselves that all is right between them and God, while their closest attention, anxiety, zeal, and time are exhausted upon these earthly pursuits. To put this right, our Lord adds what follows, in which there is profound practical wisdom. If God be the treasure of our souls, our hearts, i.e. our affections and desires will be placed on things above. An earthly minded man proves that his treasure is below; a heavenly minded man shows that his treasure is above. Listen to the conclution of the whole mater. God requires at our hands to give one tenth as well offerings of our time talents and treasure for the expansion of kingdom. 2Co 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation.) b