Blessed Generation (First Edition): Unveiling Jesus In The Tithe. Kenny Mokoena

      

      Blessed Generation

      Unveiling Jesus In The Tithe

      KENNY MOKOENA

      Foreword by Apostle MVG Lephoko

      FIRST EDITION

      Revised and Updated

      A product of Blessed Generation International NPC www.theblessedgeneration.org

      First published in South Africa in 2015 by Kenny Mokoena

      First Edition, Revised and Updated in 2017

      © 2015 by Kenny Mokoena.

      Also available as an ebook and audiobook

      ISBN: 978-1-456-62956-4

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      Foreword

      By Apostle MVG Lephoko

      Pastor Kenny as he is affectionately known in the COTH family of churches, is one of the faithful spiritual sons God has given to me and my wife.

      Pastor Kenny and his wife Tshepile are ordained Pastors in Church on the Hill. They serve with us in our Johannesburg branch of COTH. God has truly blessed him with a teaching and propheticanointing. He carries a special teaching grace on tithe and offering.

      I knew from the first day he stepped into COTH that his life will be connected to mine for life. Pastor Kenny’s life is a testimony of what obedience in the area of finances can do to a life of a believer. His faithfulness in tithes and offerings has moved him from zero to hero.

      My wife and I honour God for the privilege He has given to us to raise Kenny and prepare him for the ministry that God gave him before he was conceived in the womb of his mother. Kenny and his wife have honoured us in many ways, and have also gone an extra mile in ministering to the church with their substance. He is indeed a son of encouragement. I am honoured to be called Kenny’s father.

      I am also grateful to my other spiritual sons and daughters for the encouragement they have given to Kenny and his family over the years. This is the fruit of your love, prayers and positive criticisms.

      I am confident that this book will be a blessing to the Body of Christ in South Africa, Africa and the world. Every local pastor must encourage his church members to buy and read this book.

      The missing puzzle has been found, now the church can take over before the return of Jesus Christ.

      Apostle MVG Lephoko

      Acknowledgements

      I thank the Lord for counting me faithful to be in the Ministry and for entrusting me with the mystery contained in this book.

      To my spiritual parents, Apostle MVG Lephoko and Mother Ofentse, thank you so very much for identifying the call of God upon my life, for believing in me, for the training of many years and for ordaining and releasing me to function in my calling. God used you to make my life Brighter, Better and Bigger. My wife, my children and I love you too much and nothing will ever change that.

      This book is indeed the fruit of your labour!

      I thank all the Pastors, Leaders and Members of our Church for their prayers, encouragement and Support. We are knitted together for life.

      To my wife Tshepile, you are truly a gift from God. I don’t know if I would ever have become a Pastor if you did not come into my life. Thank you for believing in me, for being my best coach and cheerleader, and for being the world’s best mother to our four children: Tshepelang, Tshepiso, Tshepang and Tshediso. I love you and our children very much!

      This book is dedicated to all

      the Believers who support their local

      Churches with their tithes and offerings.

      Preface

      “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last” Revelations 22:13

      Jesus is God’s Firstborn. Through Him, God created everything and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Romans 8:29, the bible says that Jesus is the Firstborn among many brothers. We are the many brothers of Jesus by virtue of our new birth. This means that we have been elevated to a level that is much higher than our minds can fathom. We are joint heirs with Jesus and beneficiaries together with Him. God has made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 2:6), far above all principalities and powers (Ephesians 1:20). As Jesus is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). I don’t know about you, but this is what I remind myself of every day.

      In this book I used types, pictures, symbols and shadows to illustrate various points. Also pay attention to the words and phrases that I have underlined for more or special emphasis. I have mainly used the New King James bible version for the scriptures, unless otherwise stated and also have incorporated the AMPC bible version, which is known as the Amplified Classic Edition.

      The bible is a book of typology, symbols, pictures and mysteries. For example, Romans 5:14 says,

      “...Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.”

      Galatians 4:22 says,

      “For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bond-woman, the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bond-woman was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman according to the promise, which things are symbolic.”

      In Colossians 2:16-17, the apostle Paul refers to foods, festival or new moon or Sabbaths as “a shadow of things to come.” There are many such scriptures throughout the bible. Jesus is in the entire bible, hidden in types, symbols, shadows and pictures.

      Before we can appropriate the reality of the new birth (our born- gain status) and what it means to us, we must first understand how much God loves His Son, Jesus. Understanding how much God loves Jesus, will help us realise how much God loves us. Jesus is the sum total of everything that God has ever created.

      For the Believer, everything starts and ends with Jesus. Anything else that we try to do apart from Him is a waste of time (John 15:5). If what you hear every Sunday in your Church is principles, but those principles are not built around what Jesus has already done on the cross, you are wasting your time. Life is not about principles, but about Jesus. Principles are good, but not apart from Jesus. They must never replace what Jesus has accomplished through His death on the cross.

      To live on principles apart from Christ is a demotion because principles will never ever be able take us close to what Jesus has accomplished for us on the cross. What separates us from the world is not principles, but Jesus Christ (see Galatians 4:3-5). The world operates on principles, but the Church operates on faith in Jesus Christ. If you live on principles as a Believer, then you are trying to buy what has already been purchased and paid for with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. In John 15, Jesus said that without Him