DON’T STEAL

“Live Free” Series

Week 7

Tim Bycroft, Lead Pastor  

THE POINT EXISTS TO WELCOME THE UNCHURCHED TO BECOME FULLY DEVOTED FOLLOWERS OF JESUS. 

Pointing People to God  

Pointing People to Jesus  

Pointing People to Community 

A church characterized by Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness.

HAVE YOU BEEN STOLEN FROM? 

Stealing is taking something that does not belong to you without permission or right, especially in secret or by force.

Exodus 20:15, “You shall not Steal.” 

• embezzling
• unreasonably high interest rates
• unfair payday loans
• rigged gambling
• break-ins
• unjust taxation
• burglary
• larceny
• high jacking
• shoplifting
• extortion
• racketeering
• underpaying your taxes
• filing false insurance claims
• governmental waste
• excessive national debt
• falsely billing clients and/or falsely billing an employer
• misappropriating company funds
• killing time at work
• not paying your employees
• taking supplies and/or stocks
• stocked goods and items from your employer
• taking intellectual property
• plagiarism
• illegal downloads
• identity theft

HAVE YOU EVER STOLEN FROM GOD?

Malachi 3:8, “’Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me.’ 

But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’” 

God said, “In your tithes and offerings (contributions).”

Colossians 1:16, "For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him."

STEALING IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEALTH BECOMES YOUR god. 

Malachi 3:9, “You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.” 



TITHE LITERALLY MEANS A TENTH. 

Colossians 2:13-14, “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.”