Tobi Adebayo
Founder of Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeomie has berated those who refuse to pay tithes to their churches, describing them as criminals.
Ibiyeomie said this while preaching to his congregation on Sunday, February 20.
The clergyman stated further that failure to pay tithes was responsible for the near-success syndrome of some Christians.
“Tax is the government’s share, so you don’t say I want to give the government my tax, you say you want to pay tax, that is how the tithe is God’s own. Leviticus 27:30. God is the owner of the tithe. So, what do you do?
“You pay, it’s only in Nigeria you don’t pay tax and they can leave you, in the Western world it is a big criminal offence, if you don’t pay tithe, you are a criminal, your offence is punishable, a tithe is simply one-tenth of your income, 10 per cent of your income goes to God.
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“Near success syndrome will not happen. If you’re experiencing near success syndrome don’t go for deliverance, you’re not a tither. Anything that I do, when it is close to manifestation, the thing will just go off, you’re not a faithful tither.
“Many deliverance ministries, they just go for deliverance, this is the problem, they don’t pay tithe faithfully. Yet, they will say anything I want to do, when it is about to click it will just go off.
“It is near success syndrome. Correct it from tithing, don’t correct it from seven days deliverance. Hear this, tithe must be paid first otherwise the curse will remain,” Ibiyeomie said.
