Bring Your First and Best

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The Village Church

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🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

If we bring our first and best to something other than God, we bring an offering to something unable to sustain our worship. We have worshiped at weak altars. Yet God pleads with us to return, seek first His kingdom, and steward well the resources each of us has been given.

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0:00.0	You're listening to audio from the Village Church.
0:03.6	If you'd like to check out more resources or donate to this ministry,
0:06.7	please visit tvcresources.net.
0:09.2	Good morning, Church.
0:11.6	My name is Marissa Castilletha and I am on staff here at the Village.
0:16.4	I also volunteer in LV and I am a care advocate in our care ministry.
0:21.9	I will be reading Malachi 3-7-12.
0:25.5	From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them,
0:32.9	returned to me and I will return to you as the Lord of hosts.
0:38.0	But you say, how shall we return?
0:40.8	Well man, Rob God, yet you are robbing me.
0:44.4	But you say, how have we robbed you in your ties and contributions?
0:49.7	You are cursed with a curse for you robbing me the whole nation of you.
0:54.3	Bring the full tie into the storehouse that there may be food in my house and thereby
0:59.5	put me to the test says the Lord of hosts.
1:02.8	If I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until
1:07.0	there is no more need, I will rebuked the vowl for you so that it will not destroy the
1:12.3	fruits of your soil and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear says the Lord of hosts.
1:18.3	Then all nations will call you blessed for you will be a land of delight says the Lord
1:23.7	of hosts.
1:24.7	This is the Word of the Lord.
1:26.3	Thanks be to God.
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