III. Regularity {Give Each First Day of the week} 1Corinthians 16:2- Give on the first day of the week. when the Bible tells us an act should be repeated on a certain day, it necessarily implies that the act should be done as often as that day occurs. In the Old Testament, if a holy day was said to be on a certain day of a certain month, then it would be celebrated every year, just as often as that day of that month occurred {Ex. 12:18, Lev. 16 : 29; 23:5,6,24,34}. The Sabbath was the seventh day of the week {Ex. 20: 8 -10}. This meant it should be kept every week as that day of the week occurred. We use the same kind of language today. If we say, "The club meets on the second Tuesday of the month," you expect it to meet every month at that time, right ? If your employer said, "You will be paid on the last day of the week," you would expect to be paid every week. Likewise, 1 Cor. 16:2 so clearly means to give on the first day of every week that serveral translations actually put the word "every" in the translation {New American Standard, New International, Revised standard, and New English}. Attendance & Giving : Many church members fail to give as prospered because they miss worship meetings, then do not "make up " later for what they failed to give when they missed. This is just one of many problems involved in missing. For example, suppose you prosper such that you ought to give $50 per week. If you miss a Sunday then just keep the $50 you should have given, you have disobeyed God`s command to give as prospered. You prospered, but you did not give accordingly. In effect, you just stole $50 from God {cf. Mal.3:8-10}! Think about it. Do you give to the church regularly ?
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:57:58 +0000
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