Abram tithed before there was a law to tithe, he was not under 'mandate' to tithe. He did it out of love for God. He gave His son to die for us out of love, then out of love we should do the things He has asked us to do. If you claim to love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your spirit, then He should not have to make you tithe, you should tithe because you Love Him. If you say you love God then show Him!
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Too many people try to make excuses for being stingy and greedy with their money by saying they're "under Grace" or that tithing is Old Testament etc etc ... the reality of the fact is that they truly don't love God, they may say they do but they are not showing it by their action and they are trying to prevent furthering His kingdom. The whole purpose of the tithe is to keep the local church running so that it can reach people (and no "we" are not the "local church"... yes, we are the body of Christ, but throughout the NT it repeatedly makes reference to not forsaking the assembly of believers as is the manner of some and so forth!) and also, God wants to bless your socks off, He desires to do things but just as we see in the natural world there are the laws of seed time and harvest. When you don't plant that ten percent well that is your harvest, but when you plant that ten percent you will reap a greater harvest. Tithing is not a religious law, it is the door to increase and greater blessing! Don't listen to the lies of Satan, if He can get you outside of the will of God and outside of the Word of God he will keep you bound and defeated and blinded to the truth. He can appear as an angel of light and he is the great deceiver he can deceive even the most elect so just guard your heart and don't let him trick you by twisting the Word of God!
Blessings,
JRT
JRT: Abram tithed before there was a law to tithe.
ReplyDeleteREK: This is false. Abram was obeying the common law of the land which required him to pay tithes of spoils of war to his local king-priest.
JRT: He was not under 'mandate' to tithe. He did it out of love for God.
REK: False. He was obeying well-known laws reaching from Babylon to Egypt. The Bible does not say that he gave it out of love –that is adding to the Word.
JRT: He gave His son to die for us out of love, then out of love we should do the things He has asked us to do.
REK: God commanded his Old Covenant nation of Israel to obey over 600 laws. Tithing was only one of 600+. God never commanded Israel to share its covenant. God never commanded Gentiles or the Church tithe. Tithes supported Levites and priests who, in turn, were not allowed to own property in Israel.
JRT: If you claim to love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your spirit, then He should not have to make you tithe, you should tithe because you Love Him. If you say you love God then show Him!
REK: Gentiles never were under the Old Covenant Law. If you are a Hebrew under the law, then you must also KILL your disobedient children per Exodus 21:15, 17 and must obey all 600+ commands of the Law in order to claim blessings per Deu 27:26/Gal 3:10. Good luck doing that.
So REK where does the scripture say that Abraham was following well know tithing traditions?
ReplyDeleteHebrews 7: 4Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. 5And 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: 6But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. 7And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. 8And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them (present tense), of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. 9And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. 10For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
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