When a pastor or preacher asks you to pay tithes, he is either very ignorant of the Bible truth, or he’s trying to take your money using Bible tricks. I know many would hastily blast me without reading this piece, especially members who are fanatic about their pastors and reverends. It is my advice that you read through before criticising. Ask yourself one question, is tithing an obligation for the new covenant Christian? Tithe is the tenth part of an agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God. Tithing is the practice established by God in the Old Testament of returning 10% of your earnings to God. Tithe, which is a Mosaic law, started in the Old Testament. Like any other law under the Mosaic covenant (the Old Covenant), it was strictly observed by all Israelites, and was considered as robbing God when one failed to remit tithe. Malachi 3:8-12 says: “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” says the Lord of hosts, “And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” says the Lord of hosts.” I once heard a pastor say, “The tithe was not given based on the needs of the priests, of the church or of the poor. It was given simply in recognition and gratitude for the blessings that God had bestowed on the individual. Thus, every believer had a need to tithe to God.” As true as that pastor may sound, he might just be wrong. Not wrong because of how he presents his case, but wrong because he thinks payment of tithe is an obligation of the new generation Christians. I told a friend that we were no longer bound by the laws of the Old Testament, he vehemently disagreed with me, citing Matthew 5:17-18: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished” . It is frequently argued just as the case with my friend that if Jesus did not “abolish” the law, then it must still be binding. Accordingly, such components as tithing, the Sabbath-day requirement must be operative still, along with perhaps numerous other elements of the Mosaic Law. This assumption is grounded in a misunderstanding of the words and intent of this passage. Christ did not suggest here that the binding nature of the law of Moses would remain forever in effect. Such a view would contradict everything we learn from the balance of the New Testament (please read Romans 10:4 ; Galatians 3:23-25 ; Ephesians 2:15 ). The Mosaic Covenant is also referred to as the Old Covenant (2 Corinthians 3:14 ; Hebrews 8:6, 13) and was replaced by the New Covenant in Christ (Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Hebrews 8:8; 8:13; 9:15; 12:24). The New Covenant in Christ is far better than the old Mosaic Covenant that it replaces because it fulfills the promises made in Jeremiah 31:31-34, as quoted in Hebrews 8. Based on the argument posed in Matthew 5-17, we would have to take Jesus’ words as enjoining every single commandment and regulation in the Law of Moses on Christians! The reason is because Jesus said that “not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen” from the entire body of the Jewish Holy Scriptures would disappear until “everything is accomplished.” To ask again: did Jesus mean Christians had to keep all the regulations of the Law of Moses, including the “holy time” regulations of the Sabbath, or strict tithing, or the food laws? Consider what that line of reasoning would demand. Christians would be obligated to keep all the sacrificial, ceremonial and civil laws described in the Law of Moses. They would have to keep every single law mentioned in Genesis through Deuteronomy — and the rest of the Old Testament. The Jews calculated that there were 613 laws in their Holy Scriptures. Christians, then, based on the idea that Jesus was telling his disciples to keep the regulations of the Law and the Prophets, would have to keep all 613 laws. No wonder the apostle Paul said that thinking in these terms was wrongheaded (Galatians 3:10). To pick a few examples of this line of reasoning, Christian men would have to be physically circumcised. All Christians would have to offer sacrifices. Men, at least, would have to travel to Jerusalem to keep the annual festivals. Christians would have to keep the various purification rituals. One of these rituals specified that individuals who came in contact with dead bodies would be “unclean” for seven days. They would have to ceremonially wash themselves on the third and seventh day (numbers 19:11-13). If any person failed to do this, he or she would be “cut off from Israel” (verse 13). There are many dozens of such laws in the Law of Moses that would have to be followed. Before you concur with keeping the obligation of tithing, remember that there is a curse attached to keeping some laws and leaving out the rest. Deut. 27 vs 26; says you are cursed if you don’t keep all the laws. Lev. 20 vs 22; says keep all my decrees & laws and follow them. Are you keeping all of them or are you just keeping only tithe. Do you remember what apostle Paul told the Jews who still wanted to practice the laws of Moses in Gal. 3 vs 10? Also in Acts 15 vs 5-11, the apostles made it clear that we are not to observe the laws again. Now let me tell you more about what God said concerning the Old Testament and its law in the New Testament. Hear what Rom. 7v6 says, “But now by dying to what once bound us [the law of Moses] , we have been released from the Law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit [the New Testament] , and not in the old way of the written code [the law of the Old Testament] “ . Hear this again, “Therefore no one wil be declared righteous in God’s sight by observing the law,” Rom. 3v20. Why? Because a new testament has come with its own new law. Heb. 7v18-19 says the former regulation (the old laws of the Old Testament) is set aside because it was weak and useless for the law made nothing perfect and a better hope is introduced (the new testament) by which we draw near to God. Heb. 8v13 says again: “By calling this covenant ”new” He has made the first one or the old one obsolete,” i.e useless or dead. What other explanations will anybody give you that is more clear than this simple statement? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the Old Testament is useless, no, far from it. It’s very useful, but it’s not useful in practice. Remember Romans 15 vs 4 says: “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope” . Whatever is written in the Scripture has been written for our learning. We can learn by reading the Book of Deuteronomy. We can learn by reading Malachi or any other Old Testament book. However, though all was written for our learning, not all is written for our application. The Old Testament is addressed to Jews that were living under the Mosaic law. Jesus Christ had not yet come. The price for the atonement of our sins had not yet been paid. The high priest had not yet arrived. As Paul says in Galatians 3:23-26: “But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” On a final note, this write-up is not meant to discourage our church congregation from providing for the church, because even the Bible supports this in the strongest possible way. The key to understanding how God wants us to give to the church is found in 1 Corinthians 16:2: “On the first day of the week [Sunday] each of you should set aside whatever he can afford, “ and in 2 Corinthians 9:5-8: “So I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for your promised gift [donation] , so that in this way it might be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an exaction” . Consider this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having all you need, you may have an abundance for every good work. To paraphrase: God doesn’t demand a fixed amount of money from us. He wants us to give from the heart. If people are forced by their church to give a certain percent of their income, that’s extortion.
https://www.naij.com/552119-truth-pastor-will-never-tell-tithing.html

It is Compulsory to the best of my knowledge

Give the money to the poor or ophanage home is better than...

Paying tithes in ma opinion should be a Free will thingy... You can't compel smone to give thanks.. It should be between him and his creator.. These days people brag about it Like it's a passport to heaven.. Only God will judge...

benedictnsi:
It is Compulsory to the best of my knowledge

It is fraud to the best of mine.

Tallesty1:
It is fraud to the best of mine.

Then you will need to grow up in Christian life

benedictnsi:



Then you will need to grow up in Christian life

Actually you are the one that needs to search for the truth.


Everything you need to know is there in your bible,

Tallesty1:
Actually you are the one that needs to search for the truth.


Everything you need to know is there in your bible,

So what are you tryna make me understand Buttress your points with references to the Holy Book..... I'm not arguing yet

benedictnsi:
It is Compulsory to the best of my knowledge

NOTHING is by compulsion in the Bible, God wants a willing heart of giving and doing. God has given us the power to choose and thus laid before us life and death but ADVISED us to choose life that we may live. ANYTHING done out of compulsion or grumbling/unwilling heart is not acceptable to God.

The Bible is about works and consequences, so it isn't made compulsory ...

AdeniyiA:


NOTHING is by compulsion in the Bible, God wants a willing heart of giving and doing. God has given us the power to choose and thus laid before us life and death but ADVISED us to choose life that we may live. ANYTHING done out of compulsion or grumbling/unwilling heart is not acceptable to God.

The Bible is about works and consequences, so it isn't made compulsory ...

It is important when attempting to derive
spiritual principles from the Bible on a particular
subject to go back to the time it was first
mentioned. When was "the tithe" first
mentioned?

Gen 14:18-20
18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out
bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
19 and he blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be
Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and
earth.

20 And blessed be God Most High, who delivered
your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave
him a tenth of everything.

(NIV)
Verse 20 says Abraham gave Melchizedek a
tenth of everything. What is a tenth of
everything?
Here we turn to the Living Bible for more
clarification...

Gen 14:15-16
15 He divided his men and attacked during the
night from several directions, and pursued the
fleeing army to Hobah, north of Damascus,
16 and recovered everything-- the loot that had
been taken, his relative Lot, and all of Lot's
possessions, including the women and other
captive


Gen 14:19
19 Then Melchizedek blessed Abram with this
blessing: "The blessing of the supreme God,
Creator of heaven and earth, be upon you,
Abram; and blessed be God, who has delivered
your enemies over to you." Then Abram gave
Melchizedek a tenth of all the loot.
(TLB) Emphasis mine.

From the verses above, it is clear that Abraham
gave Melchizedek a tenth or ten percent of all
the loot that has been recovered (verses 16 and
19 above) not of all that Abraham possessed.
See also Hebrews Chapter 7 verse 4.
This is important because the tithe is based on
the increase, not the capital.

The next time we hear of the word "tithe" is in
Bethel after Jacob had his famous dream of
angels ascending to and descending from
heaven.....

Gen 28:22
22 and this stone that I have set up as a pillar
will be God's house, and of all that you give me I
will give you a tenth."

(NIV)
Notice that Jacob promised a tenth of what God
intends to give him not a tenth of what he
already had (not much though at this point in
time). So once again we find that tithing is
based on increase not capital.



So, what do you think

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