1) WHEN WE WERE ALL KIDS WE OBEY OUR PARENT NOT BECAUSE WE LOVE THEM BUT BECAUSE WE WERE AFRAID OF PUNISHMENT OR EVEN BEATING AT TIMES.

2) AS AN ADULT WE RESPECT THEM BECAUSE WE REALISE HOW PRECIOUS THEY ARE NOT BECAUSE THEY WE PUNISH US OR BEAT US IF WE DONT.

3) WHEN THEY BECOME OLD WE PAMPER THEM LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN BEACUSE OF THE AFFECTION AND THE LOVE WE HAVE FOR THEM.

4) AN OLD COVENANT TITHER DID IT FOR FEAR OF DEVOURER NOT LOVE. that is why you see them protesting to GOD in prayer when something bad happens to them even when they roll from one sin to another. they pay tithe as if they are GOD business patner, its ridiculous. IF CHRIST APEAR TODAY AND REMOVE MALACHI 3 8-10 FROM THE BIBLE 99% OF TITHER WE STOP PAYING TITHE, IS THAT WHAT WE CALL GIVING. THEY ARE GIVING BASE ON THEIR NEED NOT FOR LOVE. i also pay tithe for fear of devourer before but now i realise its against the scripture.

4b) THERE WAS A TIME MY SPIRIT LED ME TO PLEDGE  A PROJECT WORTH 450,000 TO A CHURCH not even my church. WHEN TIMES COME TO FUFIL THE PLEDGE I AM SO BROKE BUT I DID IT FOR THE LOVE AND THE PLACE I PLACE GOD IN MY HEART. TO MY SURPRISE GOD SUPRISE ME WITH UNEXPECTED PROFIT OF 4.5 M EXACTLY MUTIPLY BY 10  OF MY PLEDGE.

5) A NEW COVENANT GIVER GIVES TO GOD FOR THE LOVE HE HAS FOR GOD AND AS THE SPIRIT LED. NOT BECAUSE OF ANY COUSE OR DVOURER, FOR THEY REALISE THEY ARE NO LONGER UNDER ANY CAUSE. AND LOVE AS REPLACE THE OLD LAW.

6)  AS A BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN DO WE REALISE GOD DID NOT GIVE US 10% OF CHRIST, christ did not sacrifice his leg or arm or eyes , he sacrifice all ,GOD GAVE US ALL OF CHRIST. SO TO BE SINCERE WE SHOULD NOT BASE OUR GIVING ON PERCENTAGE IT SHOULD BE AS THE SPIRIT LED US. IF I WAS LED TO GIVE ALL MY PROFIT TO GOD, I WILL SINCERLY DO IT WITH LOVE, I PRACTICE IT BEFORE AND IT WORKS.

7) You claim to give tithes to be obedient, if that is so then why give them in the wrong way to the wrong people, at the wrong place, in the wrong time and for the wrong reasons? Read Deuteronomy 14:22-29 for how the tithe was actually carried out.

You claim to have a personal relationship with God yet don't know the truth of His word. How is that so? Isn't the bible the word of God? If so, then isn't keeping His word correctly a form of obedience

AND LASTLY I WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE TO GOD BASE ON WHAT THE BIBLE SAY. CHEERFULL GIVING. I WONT PAY TO CHURCH ALONE, I WILL GIVE TO THE POOR, WIDOW, FATHERLESS AND EVEN STRANGER.
IF MY PASTOR DONT KNOW HOW TO SHARE MY MONEY I HAVE STARTED DOING IT MY SELF.

9) IN JUNE OUT OF MY 150,000 I HAVE TO GIVE TO MY GOD, I GAVE 50,000 TO MY CHURCH AND 100,000 TO THE POORER CHURCH THAT NEED MONEY FOR EVANGELISM.

10) IN JULY OUT OF THE MONEY I INTEND TO GIVE GOD, I PAY WITH LOVE TO MY CHURCH 20,000 AND SHARE THE REST WITH WIDOWS, OPHANS, AND LESS PRIVILRDGE PEOPLE AND EVEN BUY FOOD STUFF FOR MY STAFF.
True Christianity is not what we do in Church. It is a street thing. God has called us to be practical Christians, every day people who are making a difference in ordinary ways.
I WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE TO GOD AS MY SPIRIT LEAD ME AND I WILL CONTINUE TO LOVE HIM MORE. GOD DESERVE ALL NOT 10% AND WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE HIM ALL.

PART OF THE TITHE ARE MEANT FOR LEVITES BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE PORTION OF THE LAND. WE HAVE PART TIME PASTORS TODAY WHO EAT FROM TITHE AND STILL HAVE PORTION OF THE LAND.

CHRIST HAS REPLACE THE PRIEST, HE IS NOW MY HIGH PRIEST AND THE ONLY WAY I CAN REACH HIM WITH MY RESOURCES  IS TO FUFIL MATHEW 25 V 40

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
                  For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,
                  and have neglected the weightier matters of the
                  law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought
                  to have done, without leaving the others undone.

   Luke  11:42    But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and
                  rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice
                  and the love of God. These you ought to have done,
                  without leaving the others undone.


Christ spoke these words during His ministry and this teaching was in
harmony with the directives of the Old Covenant.


The following verse explains the position of Christ in relation to the
existing Old Covenant Law.


   Gal    4:4    But when the fullness of the time
                 had come, God sent forth His Son,
                 born of a woman, born under the law,
           :5    to redeem those who were under the
                 law, ,



Christ planted the seeds of the New Testament while acting and speaking
in harmony with the law of the Old Covenant. It is for this reason that
He also commanded a cleansed leper to obey the law of Moses.


   Matt   8:3    , And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
           :4    See that you tell no one; but go your way, show
                 yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that
                 Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.


The physical offering of animals does not apply under the New Testament,
so why did Christ compel this compliance with the Law of Moses?


For the same reason he compelled tithing in Matthew 23:23. The Law of
Moses was still in force during the life of Christ. It would have been
'sin' for Christ at this time to have taught against the Law of Moses!


In the Matthew 23:23 and Luke 11:42 verses Christ was not teaching
that tithing was required by the New Testament, but rather was just
re-enforcing that this was a requirement under the Old Covenant!

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,
and have neglected the weightier matters of the
law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought
to have done, without leaving the others undone.

Luke 11:42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and
rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice
and the love of God. These you ought to have done,
without leaving the others undone.


Christ spoke these words during His ministry and this teaching was in
harmony with the directives of the Old Covenant.


The following verse explains the position of Christ in relation to the
existing Old Covenant Law.


Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the time
had come, God sent forth His Son,
born of a woman, born under the law,
:5 to redeem those who were under the
law, ,



Christ planted the seeds of the New Testament while acting and speaking
in harmony with the law of the Old Covenant. It is for this reason that
He also commanded a cleansed leper to obey the law of Moses.


Matt 8:3 , And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
:4 See that you tell no one; but go your way, show
yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that
Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.


The physical offering of animals does not apply under the New Testament,
so why did Christ compel this compliance with the Law of Moses?


For the same reason he compelled tithing in Matthew 23:23. The Law of
Moses was still in force during the life of Christ. It would have been
'sin' for Christ at this time to have taught against the Law of Moses!


In the Matthew 23:23 and Luke 11:42 verses Christ was not teaching
that tithing was required by the New Testament, but rather was just
re-enforcing that this was a requirement under the Old Covenant!

hold on people, hold on people. the wedding is almost here. did the mans family not meet mercys family? how come the family did not mention any of these to mercys family?