ENDNOTES

1. The assumption is that most people would not choose to die by bursting open in a car accident. Most people commit suicide quickly with a bullet, or painlessly with drugs.

2. God controls EVERY aspect of a man's life, including his will. God controls man's . . .

• love for God. Dt 30:6; 1Kg 8:58; 1Chr 29:18; Jer 24:7; Eze 11:19, 36:26; Ro 2:15; Rev 17:17
  
• heart. Ex 4:21; Dt 2:30, 28:65, 29:4; 1Sam 10:9; Ezr 6:22; Pr 21:1
  
• wisdom. 1Kg 3:12, 4:29; Acts 16:14
  
• strength. Ps 27:14, 31:24
  
• obedience. Gen 20:6; 1Sam 25:26, 34
  
• disobedience. Ecc 3:11; Is 63:17; Ro 1:24, 26, 28
  
• despair. Eze 32:9
  
• blindness. Ex 4:11; Act 9:8-9
  
• deception. 1Kg 22:22-23; Eze 14:9-10; Jer 20:7; 2Ths 2:11-12;
  
• footsteps. Ps 37:23; Jer 10:23
  
• goings. Pr 20:24; Is 30:21; Dan 5:21
  
• thoughts. Job 4:12-13, 23:16; Pr 16:1; Mt 10:19-20
  
• understanding. Is 29:10-11; Jn 12:39-40; Ro 11:8
  
• prosperity. Dt 8:18; 1Sam 2:7; Job 1:21, 42:12-13; Ps 75:7
  
• repentance. Ps 51:10; Jn 6:37, 44, 65; Act 5:31; 2Tim 2:25
  
• tongue. Pr 16:1; Mt 10:19-20
  
• gladness. Ps 4:7
  
• praise. Ps 40:3, 51:15; Is 42:8, 61:11, 62:7; Mt 21:16
  
• righteousness. Is 33:5, 45:8, 61:11; Mal 3:3
  
• willingness. Phil 2:13
  

3. Gen 28:22; Lev 27:30, 32 A tithe is equivalent to 1/10 (10%) of one's increase, whether that increase is wages, salary, profits, dividends, bonuses, commissions or gifts. See Mal 3:8-12.

4. Gen 16:3, 25:1, 5, 29:21-30:21; 1Chr 3

5. Harper's Bible Dictionary, M. Miller and J. Miller, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952), p. 139

6. Ex 21:22-25

7. "Reprobate" = morally unprincipled; utterly rejected of God; without hope of salvation. American Heritage Dictionary, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981), p. 1104.