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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by LesbianBoy(m): 5:48pm On Dec 02, 2017
Buhari sha
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by AuroraB(f): 5:49pm On Dec 02, 2017
He'd call you angry
Ode embarassed
I hope you have shifted your tithing to pastor Chris Church sha undecided
Y'all can mumu laidat cheesy

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by OBIGS(m): 5:49pm On Dec 02, 2017
Pascalville:
sorry bro....same happened to my father....before he went broke cos shît happens...my dad donated 2cars and a bus to our church...people hailed him and pastors always come visiting claiming to pray for our family...when problem happened... all including the pastor disappeared...now popsi is strong financially...and my dad's children...are all on their own...now doing well..any pastor that tells me tith and offering doesn't live to see the next day...I swear undecided
things are happening

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Desyner: 5:50pm On Dec 02, 2017
God checks on people and not pastors. Too many babes in Christianity.

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by crackhouse(m): 5:51pm On Dec 02, 2017
Hmm
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Caleycash(m): 5:52pm On Dec 02, 2017
I experienced such also... I don't take church stuff serious nowadays, but I still adore and worship God, I also do my best in terms of giving, just forget pastors!

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Nobody: 5:52pm On Dec 02, 2017
Castano. I know very well as we went to Yaba-Tech together 17yrs ago... and he's not the one to falsify statements. These commercialized Christianity sha.. God help us.

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Nobody: 5:53pm On Dec 02, 2017
crooked pastors every were! grin

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by wolextayo: 5:53pm On Dec 02, 2017
My post made fp for the first time. I’m so happy
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by chiscodedon(m): 5:54pm On Dec 02, 2017
And this got here... Bloggers I hail thee
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by wolextayo: 5:58pm On Dec 02, 2017
chiscodedon:
And this got here... Bloggers I hail thee
I’m not a blogger bro. I just feel I should share it here. You can see that the source is directly from twitter.

Still on the tithing issue

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Basics007: 5:59pm On Dec 02, 2017
I remember the story my friend told me. Her dad lost her job for a whole year. The pastor met him in church and was asking him if he is still paying his tithes regularly. From which salary? You are not asking a jobless man how he is feeding his family, you are asking him if he is paying tithes?!!!

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by teabully(m): 6:00pm On Dec 02, 2017
Whhere is Daewoorazer on this thread[b][/b][b][/b]
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by dotedote: 6:00pm On Dec 02, 2017
EKORO ROAD FOR ILE-IWE/COMMAND/ABULE EGBA AXIS ABI ?

NA DEM

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by chiscodedon(m): 6:01pm On Dec 02, 2017
wolextayo:

I’m not a blogger bro. I just feel I should share it here. You can see that the source is directly from twitter.

Still on the tithing issue
If you check my moniker and check some comments in the tweet, should know why I said so
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by dotch: 6:02pm On Dec 02, 2017
The fire freeze started will soon consume him.
Putting the cart before the horse
Throwing the baby with the bathwater

Paying tithe doesn't guarantee you a place in heaven, but is necessary for the progress of the church.

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Tattooboy: 6:05pm On Dec 02, 2017
Bad market for pastors. Small small tithe go dey reduce for church.

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Tattooboy: 6:06pm On Dec 02, 2017
wolextayo:
My post made fp for the first time. I’m so happy
Congrats. Expect your alert.

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by mamajaz(f): 6:07pm On Dec 02, 2017
OBIGS:
in 2010 my uncle was was given a message by a pastor that God wants him to sow a seed with his brand new jeep, he finally gave the church pastor the car. 6 months later my uncle passed away.
Eleyi tun gidi gan
Witch cry yesterday, pikin die today,..

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by wolextayo: 6:08pm On Dec 02, 2017
Tattooboy:
Congrats. Expect your alert.
Lol.
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Nobody: 6:08pm On Dec 02, 2017
It is from Twitter.

chiscodedon:
And this got here... Bloggers I hail thee
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by wolextayo: 6:08pm On Dec 02, 2017
chiscodedon:

If you check my moniker and check some comments in the tweet, should know why I said so
Oh. I don grab
Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Krafty006: 6:09pm On Dec 02, 2017
Christianity in Nigeria has been commercialised.

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by victorpopoola20: 6:10pm On Dec 02, 2017
Pastor Jones jailed for telling members to tithe 10% of their incomes.

Courtroom exchanges between a Judge of the Law and Pastor Jones.

The truth about tithing
(unknown author)

Judge: Mr. Jones you have been charged with multiple counts of extortion. Your crime spree covers 20 years and thousands of victims. You have defrauded people out of their money with fear and manipulation, telling them they had to tithe 10% of their income as per the LAW to your Regd. organization (called Church) and that God would bless them if they did. You also told them that if they didn't tithe God would curse them.
How do you plead?

Mr. Jones: I plead not guilty your Honor,
I have done nothing wrong. I have only preached what the Bible says. In the Bible Abraham tithed to Melchizedek and God blessed him for his faithful giving. The Bible even says he was rich in silver and gold.

Judge: Is it not true, Mr. Jones, that in Genesis chapter 13 verse 2 the Bible says Abraham was rich with livestock, silver and gold?

Mr. Jones: Yes, you are exactly right, that's what I just told you.

Judge: Ok, we read about Abraham being a rich man in chapter 13 but it is not until Genesis chapter 14 that we read about Abraham's tithe to Melchizedek. So Abraham was already a rich man before he tithed to Melchizedek, wasn't he?

Mr. Jones: Yes, I suppose you are right.

Judge: So his riches were not the result of his tithe to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: No.

Judge: Mr. Jones, you also say God blessed him for his faithful giving. How many times is it recorded that Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: Well, just once.

Judge: So the Bible never said that he gave week after week?

Mr. Jones: No it does not.

Judge: Where did Abraham get the things that he gave to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: Well the Bible says it was from the plunders of war?

Judge: So you are telling me that he gave from the plunders of war?

Mr. Jones: Yes that's what the Bible says.

Judge: So he basically took things that were not really his in the first place and gave them as the tithe?

Mr. Jones: That is what the scripture seems to indicate.

Judge: Is it recorded that he ever took anything from his own possessions and tithed them to Melchizedek or anyone else?

Mr. Jones: I guess not

Judge: You guess not, you are a teacher and you are only guessing, is it or is it not written that he ever gave any of his own possessions as a tithe to anyone?

Mr. Jones: No it is not written anywhere that I have seen.

Judge: Is it recorded as to what exactly Abraham did give Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: I believe it says plunder?

Judge: So plunder could be any number of things?

Mr. Jones: Yes, I suppose

Judge: It could have been food, cattle, sheep, the people's possessions or any number of things. It does not say it was all money correct?

Mr. Jones: Yes you are correct, it does not say just money

Judge: As a matter of fact money is never mentioned in that account at all is that correct Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: Yes your Honor, money is never mentioned just goods and food and people.

Judge: So there is no way you can say with any certainty that Abraham in fact gave Melchizedek any money at all?

Mr. Jones: That is right.

Judge: I only have one last question for you Mr. Jones, did God command Abraham to give this plunder tithe to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: No, it appears that he did this voluntarily.

Judge: So are you trying to tell me that because of this voluntary, one time gift by Abraham, that may not have even consisted of money, all Christians everywhere are obligated to bring 10% of their weekly paycheck to a local Regd.Organization-church?
Considering all the evidence I would say you are beyond any shadow of a doubt guilty of deliberately trying to make the scriptures says things they have not said for financial gain.

Mr. Jones: Ok your Honor, I can see how foolish I was to try and use the story of Melchizedeck to try and get the people to tithe money. But there are many other verses that will support my belief on tithing. Jacob said he would give God 10% of everything. I think we should follow his example.

Judge: Let's see what Jacob said. Please read the verse you are talking about for me Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones: In Genesis chapter 28 starting at verse 20 it says. Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God, then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."

Judge: You said we should follow Jacobs example, is that right Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: Yes that is right, he vowed to give a tenth and we should too.

Judge: Let me point out one thing for you Mr. Jones, Jacob said he would Give God a tenth, ONLY if He blessed him first. So as you said previously, we should follow Jacob's example and tell God that we will only give him a tenth if he blesses us first. Is that right?

Mr. Jones: That is not what I meant.

Judge: What did you mean then?

Mr. Jones: That we should give God a tenth also.

Judge: There you go again, trying to make the scripture say what you want it to say for your benefit. I would also like you to tell me the scriptures that say that Jacob kept his vow with God. I would also like to know where he gave the tenth to because there was no temple or levites to give it to at that time.

Mr. Jones: I can not think of any scriptures that say where or if he ever tithed after his vow.

Judge: It seems fairly obvious to me that Jacob made a voluntary and conditional vow to God. This in no way can be used as a reason to demand others to bring their income to you or any other place.

Mr. Jones: I do have a few more scriptures that I believe will show that we are supposed to tithe.

Judge: You have not said anything yet to convince me one little bit that people are obligated to tithe money to the local organizational institutions -churches and that you were justified in what you were doing. You have taken scripture and misapplied it to your beliefs and for your gain. But in order to be fair to you I will allow you to present more evidence.

Mr. Jones: In the book of Malachi chapter 3 starting at verse 8 it says, will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. So you see your Honor, we are commanded to bring the tithes into the storehouse or God will curse us.

Judge: Answer me this Mr Jones, Who was God Speaking to here?

Mr Jones: To the People of Israel

Judge: Can you please read Malachi 2: 1 Please Mr Jones

Mr Jones: Now This command is for you O PRIEST !!

Judge: Did God stop talking to the Priest in chp. 3 Mr Jones?

Mr Jones: No your Honor!

Judge: Answer me this Mr. Jones, were you aware that God never required anyone to tithe money?

Mr. Jones: No I didn't know that.

Judge: The tithe spoken of here was always edible products never money.

Mr. Jones: well your Honor that is because they didn't have money at the time so God had them tithe food instead.

Judge: Not true, money is first mentioned in Genesis and Malachi was written hundreds of years later. God had them bring food in so that the levites, the fatherless and widows may eat and be satisfied. The tithe was used mainly to take care of people. Also notice it says in the verse you quoted, that there may be food in my house. The food was the tithe. How do you completely overlook the word food in those verses?

Mr. Jones: I don't know

Judge: I also want you to know that these verses speak to nation under the Old Testament law. As you may or may not know Jesus fulfilled the law, it is no longer binding.
Once again you have tried to completely take a scripture out of context and apply it to others for your benefit. Can you give me a single scripture where God changed the tithe from food to money?

Mr. Jones: I do not know of any.

Judge: So if God never changed it from food to money who did?

Mr. Jones: Man must have.

Judge: So far all you have done Mr. Jones, is take Old Testament scriptures out of context and try to apply it to believers under the New Covenant. Is this all the proof you have?

Mr. Jones: I do have a New Testament scripture that will show that Jesus told us to tithe.

Judge: Ok let me hear it.

Mr. Jones: Jesus said in Matthew 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. See Jesus said we should be tithing.

Judge: Let me ask you a question, who was Jesus talking to?

Mr. Jones: The scripture says the Scribes and Pharisees.

Judge: Are you a scribe or Pharisee?

Mr. Jones: Of course not.

Judge: Jesus also said in that passage, you have left undone the weightier matters of the law. Are we under the law Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: No.

Judge: Why not?

Mr. Jones: Because Jesus fulfilled it.

Judge: When did Jesus fulfill the law?

Mr. Jones: When He was crucified.

Judge: So the law was still in effect until Jesus death?

Mr. Jones: That is correct.

Judge: I think you know where I am going with this don't you?

Mr. Jones: Yes your Honor. Since Jesus had not yet been crucified and the law was still binding the Pharisees were required to tithe because it was part of the law. Once the law ended, tithing ended also.

Judge: I want you to take a look at that verse again. Also tell me, what were they tithing?

Mr. Jones: The scripture says it was mint, dill and cumin.

Judge: Is money mentioned?

Mr. Jones: No it was not.

Judge: Once again it was edible products that they were tithing, not money. Do you have anything else you would like to say?

Mr. Jones: If people only tithed edible products like the scripture says, then how would the church survive? We have our mortgage payment, utility bills, staff salary and a host of other things that we have to pay each week. We depend on the money from the people.

Judge:By "church" you mean your organization isn't it Mr Jones ?
-The need does not justify the means. In other words, just because you have all these debts does not give you the right to twist and manipulate scripture and cause people to give under fear of being cursed by God to meet your needs. Does It Mr Jones?
In closing, let me recap a few things for you Mr. Jones.
-The tithe was never money;
-The tithe was an Old Testament law, which is no longer binding. When it was binding the tithe was used to take care of people, not buildings.
- We are under a new covenant now.
Paul instructs the Corinthian believers how they are to give. He says in second Corinthians chapter 9 verse 7, Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. So each believer is supposed to give as he or she has determined in his or her heart.
If they determine to Give 10% well and good, If they keep aside some every week to meet this more better.If you are trying to make people give under the threat of being cursed or any other reason even blessing, you are wrong. Someone can not give cheerfully if they are being forced to give. If 'your church can not survive on freewill offerings maybe God is not part of your church at all.
Mr Jones, Do you intentionally put your people under a Curse or a Bondage?

Mr Jones: Of Course Not !!

Judge: Can you Read in context Gal 3:10-11 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them ....
AND
Gal 5:1-4 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage....

Mr. Jones: I never realized all these things, I have always been taught that we had to tithe money to the local church and that is what I have always taught. I can see now that I was completely wrong. I did not study the scripture for myself, I only took mans word for it.
Yes ' am guilty. I will not teach this error anymore.

Sentencing....... All Arise .......

Let here ur take on this?......

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by wolextayo: 6:11pm On Dec 02, 2017
virus05:
No proof, nothing . Anybody can say anything. Anyone can come to social media to talk trash
What are you saying bro. Which proof. You mean receipt of the tithe he paid?
Or picture of accident scene or screenshot of bank account

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Truflexunits(m): 6:11pm On Dec 02, 2017
I can relate to this

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Nobody: 6:14pm On Dec 02, 2017
I'm not getting??
Is the guy expecting to get is tithe back??
Is that how giving works now??
Is this what giving in church has become??

go and give ur money to the orphanage and poor blind beggars on the street....so that when calamity befalls u, you can quickly locate them and ask for them to help u back....

Pple attach so much importance to flesh and blood.

#na only God dey send help...hardly has he ever send me help from the same place I gave help to.....I only look up to God...
put ur trust in man they fall ur hand sharp sharp...

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Martin0(m): 6:16pm On Dec 02, 2017
gypsey:
crooked pastors every were! grin

Crooked pastor's

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Nobody: 6:20pm On Dec 02, 2017
You refused not to speak on the matter because you are lukewarm just as mentioned in the same scripture.
BIGTinfotech:
undecided That's just one in a million churches.


By the way, some of us have chosen not to speak on the matter as to whether it is right or not right.

Our Lord Jesus said give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's, and I don't know why TiThing should cause a fuss or buzz.

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Re: "I Paid My Tithes At 4square, I Had Accident, Lost My Job, Pastor Abandoned Me" by Nobody: 6:22pm On Dec 02, 2017
You seem surprised

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