Abram meets two kings in one day. He gives a tenth to one and refuses a thread from the other, so nobody can say they made him rich — declining wealth that was legitimately his to avoid a claim he was unwilling to carry.

Famine drives Abram into Egypt as an economic migrant with no standing, and he trades his wife’s safety for his own — profiting by it. Pastor Adam won’t soften that, but he also won’t pretend the fear behind it was irrational.

Two brothers bring offerings and one is received. The text is precise where it matters: some of the fruits of the soil, against fat portions from the firstborn. Pastor Adam reads the difference as being about what was held back.

A reign ends, and that is when the vision comes. Dr. James Smith III preaches Isaiah 6 on a sequence the year-end usually reverses: seeing, then undoing, then cleansing, and only then “here am I, send me.”

Rondi Pogue starts generously: the crowd follows Jesus because they have seen him heal people, which is not a pure motive, and he feeds them anyway. The question he asks Philip was never for information — Jesus asks questions to teach.

Simon fishes all night for nothing, a carpenter tells him where to put the nets, and the catch nearly sinks two boats. His first response is to ask Jesus to leave. Pastor Adam takes that seriously: discipleship exposes sin before it does anything else.

Abram gives a tenth of everything to a priest-king centuries before any law requires it, then refuses to take a thread or a sandal strap from the king of Sodom. Pastor Adam uses both halves to make the case for the corporate tithe and the local church.

Pastor Adam puts the weight on the first verb: honour the Lord with your wealth. Generosity is an overflow of honour, not a formula, and Isaiah 61 widens what “favour” even means, since almost none of what it promises is financial.

Malachi 3 is one of the few places God invites people to test him, and it is about money. Pastor Adam opens SPENT there, traces the tithe back to Abram and Melchizedek before any law required it, and refuses the transactional reading the title names.