Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. If you've been following us this year,

you know that we take a single question from each week's lesson and talk about it for

Follow Him Favorites. This week, John and I are in the book of Malachi and we're going

to talk tithing. John tithing can be a difficult principle for some people. It can be a really

sensitive subject. So let's say I'm listening to this and I think, well, why should I pay

my tithing? What benefit does it do for me? What does it do for the Lord? What does it do for the

church? Why should I pay my tithing? What would you say? There's two words that the Lord used in

Malachi, right? Prove me. I mean, it's just try it. I think we all love the story when they asked

Jesus, where did you get your doctor? And he said, it's not mine. It's him that sent me. And if

any man will do his will, he'll know of the doctrine. And this is one of those that I go back to my own

little family history. My dad who joined the church at age 24 started paying tithing before he was

baptized because the missionaries read that promise out of Malachi. The language is just beautiful.

Like I will open you the windows of heaven and pour you out of blessing. There shall not be

room enough to receive it. My dad thought really? And so he tried it. And I think this is a wonderful

little test. The Lord is giving us that he really wants us to take the test and to show us

what will happen. To me, it's one of the easier things to do because it's mathematical. I can just

do it. And then I can just throw it all on the Lord and say, okay, you said, prove me so I'm

proven it. I wish some of the other commandments were as easy. Can I say that, Hank? Do you know what I'm

saying? Because it's so easy to figure out. Some of them are really hard and you struggle in here

and in here, but tithing, piece of cake. As I've grown older, I've had a sense for how pervasive

money can be in your life. And the Lord is offering you an opportunity to make sure that money doesn't

corrode. Yeah. Good point. That it doesn't corrode your soul. I remember our friend Jamie Nielsen,

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