Our brothers go on and on that if we say the law is abolished, why then do we still speak of giving to charity at all, show love etc since they are all in the law. we'll answer by painting this scenario. Assume my brother works in office A and he resumes for work at 8am. He works there for 4 years then gets a better paying job at office B where resumption time is also 8am. Whose rules is he obeying when he resumes at the new office B at 8am? The rules of office A? Of course NO!!. Its only a coincidence that both offices share the same resumption time. He’s effectively obedient to the constitution of the new office B. so it is with our Christian life. If we do things with similarities in the law, it's simply a good coincidence. We DO NOT LOOK to the law for leading. We look to the spirit. The death of Jesus on the cross and his resurrection brought in a better hope, a better testament hence a better constitution. He is the end of the Mosaic law

We don’t look to the law for lessons on love, There’s teaching on love all over the epistles of the apostles. We don’t look to the law to get lessons on mercy because mercy is an offshoot of love and once again, we have teachings on love by Christ which was repeated in all the epistles of the apostles. Love for my parents makes me honour them, not Mosaic law or are my brothers saying they wouldn’t love and honour their parents if not for Mosaic law? Love is the fulfilling of the law and it’s the one commandment that Christ left for his disciples.

Joagbaje:

Spot on. It's only anititithers who creat such propaganda . "IF YOU DONT TITHE YOU WILL END UP IN HELL FIRE" etc .

Pastor Kun:
[size=15pt]It is impossible to be a tithe preacher and be honest, the two just don't mix.[/size]

Mark Miwerds:

We have no problem with the fact that “all Scripture is given for doctrine.” The problem we have is when one tries to make Scripture that God specifically stated was for the nation of Israel doctrine that every nation is to obey. Using the logic that all Scripture is for doctrine and therefore to be practiced and obeyed, we must re-examine the following passage:

Exodus 32:26-27 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

Hmmm, the Word of God says we should kill our neighbors, our brothers and our friends. After all, the Word is for doctrine, is it not? Of course we are not told by God to kill. Yet God did say “kill.” And all Scripture was given for doctrine. Just as the command was for the Levites to kill in Exodus 32 does not mean we are to kill our neighbors, our friends and our brothers, so also another commandment that was given to the Levites was not for us.

Hebrews 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

The Levites were given the commandment to take tithe. We were not. Context is very important when studying scripture.

DrummaBoy: I think this is a SOLID point:


In other words, the only to interpret Exodus 32 correctly is to read it in context. Realizing that God gave a command to the Levite at that time; a command that does not apply to everbody. Therefore it is not wrong to see the context in which God's command are giving in scripture; thus we have

Hebrews 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

Impeccable!

Luke 10:3-8 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

Who did the hiring in that passage? Was it the people to whom the seventy were sent witnessing? Or was it the Lord Jesus Christ Himself? Why, it was the Lord! He sent them for a work. Their reward for obeying the Lord was being fed and being given drink by certain people. Jesus did not tell the seventy to go look for jobs. No, He sent them on a mission to preach the kingdom of heaven. He did the hiring of those seventy. He would lay it on the hearts of people to give food and drink to the seventy.

But notice also, while these seventy were seen doing the work of the ministry, they were NEVER asked by Jesus to receive tithes. They are never seen receiving tithes of the people they were preaching to. This is an important lesson. None received tithes who were not given the tithes in the first place irrespective of whether they worked for God or not. Elijah did not receive tithes, John the Baptist did not receive tithes, Jesus did not receive tithes, the apostles did not receive tithes. All these wonderful people who worked for God including our Lord and savior DID NOT RECEIVE TITHES because they were not Levites working at the temple. The one given the tithe were the Levites (Numbers 18:24) and the tithe of tithes to the priest (Numbers 18:26,28).

DrummaBoy: I saw this book "Eating Sacred Cows" on a website Nora54 put up on a post. Here is a free download:

http://www.tithingdebate.com/EatingSacredCowsDownload.pdf

It brings the whole tithe matter to a head. Rather than rehearsing the many and sometimes worn out arguments by anti-tithers, it shows the tithe matter in a clear and easy to read discuss.

I recommend it for anyone who want to learn more on the biblical tithe.

Pastor Kun:

Can't seem to open the link from my mobile is it possible you post extracts from the site here?

Candour:

God made promises to Abraham and he exhibited faith by believing all God said even though the evidence at the time suggested otherwise. This was the work of Abraham that Jesus was asking the Jews to do. It couldn’t have been tithing as they were evidently paying tithes at this time. It couldn’t have been circumcision as they were champions of circumcision. It couldn’t have been burnt offerings as they had abundance of this practice. Infact it couldn’t have been telling of lies as their religious leaders and themselves were master liars like the devil that was leading them(John 8:44). So what was the work Christ was asking them to do? It was to simply believe him when he told them he came from God.

John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent

It’s this work of believing in Jesus as sent from God that he was asking the Jews to engage in if they were truly the children of Abraham because Abraham believed God without question and it’s the one thing we are asked to emulate of Abraham today: BELIEVING IN GOD. God said Abraham’s children will keep the way of the LORD (Gen 18:19), but we must not read into the text what is not there. Scripture does not say Abram’s tithe was the “Way of the LORD.” Had Abram’s tithe been the “Way of the Lord,” God would not have had to have established a different Levitical tithe under the Law. Brethren the way of the LORD is believing God. We expect our brethren to know this.