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By Patricia Backora
LIE NO.1: Youll fall under a curse IF YOU DONT TITHE
The TRUTH: Just the opposite is true. Christians who live under
grace are not under Mosaic Law, with all its curses for failure to
keep it perfectly (Gal.5:18). Jesus called tithing part of the law
(Matt.6: 16). The death of Christ ushered in a new, and far better,
covenant, making the Old Covenant obsolete (Col.2:14; Heb.8:13).
Keep one point of law and youre obligated to keep ALL of the Law
(Galatians 5:3). Seeking to gain Gods approval through any
religious act, including tithing, makes you fall from grace (Gal.5:4).
Living under any part of Old Testament Law, including tithing,
brings you back under the curse of the Law: Galatians 3:13.
LIE NO.2: Tithing IS AN ACT OF FAITH WHICH OBLIGATES GOD TO
OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND SHOWER YOU WITH MONEY.
The TRUTH: Throughout the OT, God opening the windows of
heaven meant rain. Period. Observing any part of the Law is not an
act of faith Galatians 3:12 says: But the Law is NOT OF FAITH.
Peter said you cant buy Gods blessings with money (Acts 8:20).
LIE NO.3: GOD COMMANDS ALL BELIEVERS OF ALL TIMES, IN
EVERY PART OF THE EARTH TO TITHE, AND THE PREACHER HAS
THE AUTHORITY TO BEND THE RULES OF THIS LAW TO FILL
MODERN CHURCH OFFERING PLATES.
The TRUTH: Tithing was given as an ordinance to ISRAEL only!
Leviticus 27:30-33 specifically mentions that the LAND is the source
of the tithe, not wages earned at Burger King. Verse 34, which is
the final verse of Leviticus, the Jews Book of the Law, reads:
These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses
FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (not for non-Jews) in Mount Sinai.
Changing Gods laws is an Antichrist activity (Dan.7:25). God gave
no one authority to tamper with the Law of Moses (Deut.4:2),
including the proviso of who was required to keep it (Lev.27:34).
LIE NO.4: SINCE CHRISTIANS ARE SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, CHRISTIANS
MUST TITHE TO ordained ministers, THE SPIRITAL LEVITES.
The TRUTH: Jesus never divided clergy from laity. Were to relate to
one another as brethren only (Matt.23:8) I wonder why spiritual
levites wont accept spiritual dollars. All Christians are Christs Royal
Priesthood (I Pet.2:5,9). The Levites, who the preachers readily
identify with, were actually servants of the priests (Numbers 18:6).
THE LEVITES TITHED TO THE PRIESTS (Num.18:25-32). OLD
COVENANT PRIESTS DID NOT TITHE TO ANYONE. Tithers deny their
own priesthood in Christ Jesus.
LIE NO.5: ALL ISRAELITES HAD TO TITHE ON THEIR WAGES.
The TRUTH: Only FOOD was ever tithed under the Law of Moses.
Tithes were owed ONLY by owners of farms and ranches, not the
poor pea-pickers on their payroll.
Leviticus 27:30: And all the tithe OF THE LAND, whether the seed
OF THE LAND, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lords: it is holy unto
the Lord.
manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy
gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that
thou puttest thy hands unto. Thanksgiving feasts didnt originate in
America, but ancient Israel!
LIE NO. 12: THE CHURCH BUILDING IS THE EQUIVALENT OF THE
JEWISH TEMPLE, SO MALACHI 3:10 IS COMMANDING YOU TO
BRING ALL YOUR TITHES INTO IT.
THE TRUTH: Early Christians HAD no church building. They met
mostly in private homes (Rom.16:5; I Cor.16:19; Col.4:15;
Philem.2). Church buildings originated in the early Middle Ages.
Instead of being told to tithe to the Temple, Christians were taught
that under the New Covenant, they ARE the Temple of God (I
Cor.3:16; 2 Cor.6:16).
So how do you bring tithes into such a sanctuary?
dollar bill?
Eat a fifty-
Notice, the apostles didnt grab this loot and rush off to buy
Cadillacs and Rolexes. The proceeds supported the needy, not the
greedy, in the church! Today a lot of people who get behind the 8ball due to some type of misfortune are made to feel like leeches
when they go to the church for help to put food on their table. Sick
or well, old or young, theyre either told to go get a job or they
don't deserve to eat.
And theyre viewed as failures in the
preachers School of Prosperity!
VERSE 36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas,
(which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation, a Levite, and of
the country of Cyprus). * * * We need more "sons of consolation"
in the church today, and fewer "sons of condemnation".
VERSE 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it
at the apostles feet.
Acts 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife,
sold a possession,
VERSE 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy
to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles feet.
VERSE 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath satan filled thine heart
to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the
land?
Now we have reached a key verse skipped over by one
unscrupulous minister who didnt want a monkey wrench thrown
into his doctrine of devils:
VERSE 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine OWN? and after it was
sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this
thing in thine heart? THOU HAST NOT LIED UNTO MEN, BUT UNTO
GOD.***Contrary to what fear peddlers would have you believe, the
apostles DID NOT REQUIRE each church member to sell their land
and give the money to the church, and the word "tithing" occurs
nowhere in this context, and nowhere is it implied. The land was
Ananias to do with as he pleased. His sin was in lying to God about
what he did with his OWN money, not withholding tithes and
offerings! If Ananias had told the apostles that he was only donating
part of the money to begin with, he would not have been guilty of
lying to the Holy Spirit and he would not have died for giving less
than the total price of the land. But Ananias wanted credit for
donating an amount he didnt give. Plain and simple.
After skipping over this key verse, the preacher zoomed on up to his
favorite part, where the non-tithers get bumped off:
VERSE 5 And Ananias hearing these things fell down, and gave up
the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
VERSE 6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him
out, and buried him.
VERSE 7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his
wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
VERSE 8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the
land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
VERSE 9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed
together to TEMPT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD? behold, the feet of
them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry
thee out.***Sapphira was an accomplice to Ananias sin. In lying to
the Holy Spirit, they tempted (provoked) Him to wrath. Again, no
mention of failure to tithe on his earnings, as greedy preachers
twist this text.
VERSE 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up
the ghost: and the young men came in, and carrying her forth,
buried her by her husband.
VERSE 11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as
many as heard these things***Through this sad incident, the early
church learned that God must be held in reverential fear, not for
non-sins like non-tithing of wages, but to avoid REAL sins like lying
to Him to provoke Him!
In that church scenario where believers sold lands and houses and
"possessed all things in common", the needy were so well cared for
out of the church fund that not one among them lacked for the
necessities of life. This sent out a very strong testimony to the
world of the Love of Jesus, much more effective than verbal
witnessing only. I John 3:18 exhorts us to love not just in word, but
in deed and in truth. But truth was absent in Ananias life. He and
Sapphira were the equivalent of welfare cheats, in that they wanted
to live off the church fund and still hide away a nest egg to save for
a rainy day. That could be why they withheld part of the price of
the land. If the apostles believed Ananias and Sapphira had been
left destitute by giving the full price of the land, they could have
taken charity from the church common fund, like other needy
believers. Through their lie, they would have filched limited church
resources from poorer believers.
If anybody is sinning against the Holy Ghost, its those M$INISTERS
who are using fear of this sin to go against what He taught at the
apostles church council of Acts 15!
In years past, I would sometimes travel to three-day conferences at
a campground where the worship was wonderful and the spiritual
gifts flowed. One gifted speaker in particular would delve deep into
the Old Jewish Law and its many ceremonial ordinances, to show us
how they were spiritually fulfilled by Christ. Know what? The ONLY
old law they neglected to conduct a serious Bible study on was the
tithing law and the many ordinances which comprised this law.
Despite the complex nature of the Tithing Law, the leadership still
insisted that while the law of tithing was not binding on believers as
such,
un-Biblical monetary tithing was still a PRINCIPLE God
expected us to observe.
Out of all the hundreds of passages these Bible experts quoted,
they never got around to Deuteronomy 14:26 where God instructs
the tither to buy any food or drink he wanted with money from the
sale of tithed farm produce. I wonder why! BTW, the ONLY time
money had anything to do with tithing was when it was too far for
the worshipper to haul his tithed produce to his place of worship.
Then he could sell it, take the money and buy another tithe for
people to eat and celebrate before the Lord.
For all their singing and rejoicing about how Christians are free from
the law of sin and death and living under grace, your typical
charismatic church is very reluctant to say adios to tithing.
Religion is a money-making racket, and too much of it is at stake.
It only takes one (1) link to tie you to the chain of the Law.
Prove ALL THINGS, hold fast to that which is good (I Thes.5:21).
The other side of the coin is to reject that which is bad.
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