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My name is Todd Van Natta.

I was given a great gift. It is to be passionate about Jesus Christ and the Bible and the spiritual life. I believe in Jesus Christ. I’m in love with Jesus!

I believe the Bible. I love the Bible. For 37 years, I’ve been reading it cover-to-cover, again and again and again. I’ve memorized many Bible verses.

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ARTICLES

Workers deserve their wages. The community is to financially provide for people who teach the faith.

Honoring those who Teach the faith. Some Christians work hard to teach the faith. Or to preach. The Bible calls us to honor them doubly.

The Philippians financially support Paul. Even in the midst of their own financial hardships, the believers in Philippi supported Paul financially.

Supporting the “Builders” in your life. Some people build up other believers in the faith. Christians are called to financially support these Builders.

Nehemiah asks for support. Nehemiah learns of the destruction of Jerusalem. He asks Artaxerxes for the resources to rebuild the city.

King David asks for financial support. Just before stepping down as king, David presents his vision of building the temple. And he asks people for money.

Share all good things with the people who teach you. Christians are called to do more than just receive. They are called to support the people who teach them in the faith.

Joanna supported the Lord Jesus Christ financially. The Lord Jesus Christ subsisted on donations. People supported him, financially. Chief among them is Joanna.

God loves a cheerful giver. People should not contribute out of obligation. Rather, God loves a cheerful giver!


BIBLE VERSES

OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 35:5. Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as the LORD’s offering: gold, silver, bronze,

Exodus 35:21. They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought the LORD’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.

2 Kings 12:4. Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the LORD’s house,

1 Chronicles 29:9. Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

2 Chronicles 24:9. They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 24:10. All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.

2 Chronicles 31:14. Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east gate, was over the free will offerings of God, to distribute the LORD’s offerings and the most holy things.

Nehemiah 2:8b. The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

DEUTEROCANONICALS

Sirach 35:9. With each contribution show a cheerful countenance, and pay your tithes in a spirit of joy. (NAB translation)

NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 8:3Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means. (NIV translation)

2 Corinthians 8:2. how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

2 Corinthians 8:4. begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

2 Corinthians 9:7. Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion. for God loves a cheerful giver.

Galatians 6:6. But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

Philippians 4:15. You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

1 Timothy 5:18. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.” (ESV translation)

1 Timothy 5:17. Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. (ESV translation)

 


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Unless otherwise noted, all Bible quotations on this page are from the World English Bible and the World Messianic Edition. These translations have no copyright restrictions. They are in the Public Domain.