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Hank Smith & John Bytheway
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Hank Smith and John Bytheway answer a question from this week's Come, Follow Me study.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. If you've been following us this year, |
| 0:10.2 | you know that we take a single question from each week's lesson and talk about it for |
| 0:14.6 | Follow Him Favorites. This week, John and I are in the book of Malachi and we're going |
| 0:18.5 | to talk tithing. John tithing can be a difficult principle for some people. It can be a really |
| 0:23.9 | sensitive subject. So let's say I'm listening to this and I think, well, why should I pay |
| 0:28.7 | my tithing? What benefit does it do for me? What does it do for the Lord? What does it do for the |
| 0:32.5 | church? Why should I pay my tithing? What would you say? There's two words that the Lord used in |
| 0:37.4 | Malachi, right? Prove me. I mean, it's just try it. I think we all love the story when they asked |
| 0:44.5 | Jesus, where did you get your doctor? And he said, it's not mine. It's him that sent me. And if |
| 0:48.0 | 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 |
| 0:53.6 | little family history. My dad who joined the church at age 24 started paying tithing before he was |
| 0:58.8 | baptized because the missionaries read that promise out of Malachi. The language is just beautiful. |
| 1:05.9 | Like I will open you the windows of heaven and pour you out of blessing. There shall not be |
| 1:11.0 | room enough to receive it. My dad thought really? And so he tried it. And I think this is a wonderful |
| 1:18.8 | little test. The Lord is giving us that he really wants us to take the test and to show us |
| 1:24.4 | what will happen. To me, it's one of the easier things to do because it's mathematical. I can just |
| 1:30.1 | do it. And then I can just throw it all on the Lord and say, okay, you said, prove me so I'm |
| 1:36.0 | proven it. I wish some of the other commandments were as easy. Can I say that, Hank? Do you know what I'm |
| 1:42.1 | saying? Because it's so easy to figure out. Some of them are really hard and you struggle in here |
| 1:46.8 | and in here, but tithing, piece of cake. As I've grown older, I've had a sense for how pervasive |
| 1:52.8 | money can be in your life. And the Lord is offering you an opportunity to make sure that money doesn't |
| 1:58.8 | corrode. Yeah. Good point. That it doesn't corrode your soul. I remember our friend Jamie Nielsen, |
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