Educate members on tithes and offerings

Let all who fear God come up to the help of the Lord, and show themselves faithful stewards. The truth must go to all parts of the world. I have been shown that many in our churches are robbing God in tithes and offerings. God will execute upon them just that which He has declared. To the obedient He will give rich blessings; to the transgressor a curse. Every man who bears the message of truth to our churches must do his duty by warning, educating, rebuking. Any neglect of duty which is a robbery toward God means a curse upon the delinquent.—Letter 82, 1896 (September 10); TM 307PCL 255.3

There has been work you [R. F. Andrews] ought to have done that you have not done: to preach the truth everywhere just as it is, pleasant or unpleasant: to impress upon the churches and individuals their God-given responsibilities in tithes and offerings, in selling, and giving alms; impressing them that God had entrusted them with means that must be used to advance His work, that they were handling the Lord’s money.PCL 255.4

The question is asked, “Will a man rob God?” And the reply comes, just as it will come from the conference over which you have presided, “Wherein have we robbed thee?” The answer comes from God’s messenger, “In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: . . . even this whole nation” (Malachi 3:8, 9). The same sacred obligation rests upon you and upon the people.PCL 256.1

You have not done your duty as an overseer of the churches of God in Illinois.—Letter 6, 1883 (November)PCL 256.2

Many presidents of state conferences do not attend to that which is their work—to see that the elders and deacons of the churches do their work in the churches, by seeing that a faithful tithe is brought into the treasury. Malachi has specified that the condition of prosperity depends upon bringing to God’s treasury that which is His own. This principle needs to be often brought before the men who are lax in their duty to God, and who are neglectful and careless in bringing in their tithes, gifts, and offerings to God. . . . They [the words of instruction on tithing in Malachi] are so positive that no one who desires to understand his whole duty to God needs to make any mistake in the matter. If men offer any excuse as to why they do not perform this duty, it is because they are selfish, and have not the love and fear of God in their hearts.—Letter 82, 1896 (September 10); TM 305PCL 256.3