ACCURATE
BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
ANSWER: “YOU DON’T”
WHERE
DID TITHING COME FROM?
It was the law that God
required the
Jews to perform under the old Covenant
And all the
tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of
the
tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD. Leviticus 27:30
Yes. But Christ was
fulfilling the law.
Christ watched the widow give her “living” (Mark 12:44). Christians are set free of the tithing
bondage … to
now ‘give like a widow’.
Fearful pastors push this
line to make
you feel guilty. Put it this way – temporary Old Testament salvation
cost ten percent
but eternal salvation, under the new testament, is free. Now, what do
you
reckon it is worth never to be lost and not to burn in hell forever? 5,
10, 20,
50 or 100 per cent? Forget the pastor’s guilt trip - the Lord owns
everything,
including your soul. How much will you give him back?
BUT I STILL THINK THAT
THE CHRISTIAN SHOULD PAY A TITHE.
Put it this way, if it was
something
so important you’d think that God would have allowed Paul to mention
‘tithing’
at least once (Read 2 Cor 8-9), but he doesn’t. Because a Christian has
eternal
security, God releases the Christian to cheerfully give to him for what
he has
done (2 Cor 9:6-7). The Jew was fulfilling the law with his tithe but
with a
grudging heart.
That might be so. But the
Lord wants
this support from cheerful giving not lawful tithes. Churches imagine
their
heavenly rewards because of the works that were performed under their
tithes.
God will take the glory, but Christians will go unrewarded. “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Galatians 3:2)
“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.” (Galatians 3:10). If Pastors want
to endorse tithing, they need to think about performing all the other
aspects
of the law.
BUT SO MANY PASTORS
PREACH TITHING?
True. Let’s put it down to
their
ignorance of what the scriptures say or their fear that the church will
go
broke. Against a false religious back-drop of a church posing as
spiritual
Israel, pastors sinfully slip the tithing bondage in the back door.
BUT THAT WON’T BRING
MUCH MONEY?
Maybe not. The church plans
may suffer
- carpets, expansions, overseas missions outreach. But there you have
it – a tithing
but lukewarm church. The Lord reveals their true heart. Does the Lord
want a
church with a fat budget and cold hearts?
WHAT DOES THE LORD SAY
ABOUT THIS?
The Lord wants cheerful
giving. The
Christian owes the Lord 100%! The question is how much will you give me
out of
love, now that you can never be lost?”
HOW SHOULD A CHRISTIAN
GIVE?
“…He which soweth
sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully
shall reap
also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so
let him
give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful
giver.”
(2 Corinthians 9:6-7). Christians
give cheerfully … not of guilt, fear, law or duty.
Harley
Hitchcock
www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com
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