Repentance- to turn away from. Then, Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for our remission of sins, and ye shall recieve the gift of the Holy Gost. Acts 2:38
We should all repent of our sins. When we repent, we are asking the Lord for forgiviness and telling him we want do that paticular sin anymore. We have to come to the Lord with a sincere heart. Repentance doesn't mean we will be spared sin wounds. It does mean once we repent we will be restored back to the Lords fellowship. Our joy and peace will also be restored back to us too.
Tithing- to give 10% of our income to the Lord. Everything we have belongs to the Lord. If we don't give the Lord his 10% he will find a way to get his. My experience with not tithing, has been my tires on my car. In the past month, I can say every tire has gone flat. They've all had a nail in them. This has not happened all on the same day. Just periodically through out the month. I've walked out of my house to get into my car and one or two of the tires would be flat. This is not happening ironically. This is the Lord. He works in misteries way. So, I have repented of this sin. I will tithe for now on. The Lord has been merciful to me. I thank him for loving me and teaching me.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Mathew 6:33
Woe into you, scribes and pharisees, hyporcrites! for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgement, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Mathew 23:23
How has the Lord taught you lessons on tithing?
NO ONE, absolutely NO ONE pays the Biblical tithe today.
ReplyDeleteLeviticus 27:30-33, Numbers 18: The First Tithe - a tenth of crops and animals and commanded to take the tithe to the Levites.
Deuteronomy 14:22-27: The Second Tithe aka The Festival Tithe - a tenth of crops, plus add to that the firstborn animals, and take for the yearly feast.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29: The Third Tithe aka The Three-Year Tithe aka The Poor Tithe - a tenth of crops, kept at home, and invite the Levites, widows, orphans, stranger to eat.
Now, tell me. Which of the above three tithes commanded by God does anyone follow today?
The ONLY people in the Old Testament that were commanded to tithe were those who INHERITED THE PROMISED LAND WITH EVERYTHING ON IT. They got the land, house, animals, crops, etc. ALL FREE AND CLEAR. No mortgage payment or rent to pay. And THEY were commanded to tithe on the crops and animals and take it to the Levites who INHERITED the tithe INSTEAD OF the promised land with everything on it. No one else tithed. Wage earners did not tithe. Jesus didn’t tithe. Paul didn’t tithe. Peter didn’t tithe.
I find it quite offensive that pastors have appointed themselves to be the receiver of what belongs to God. After all, the pastor says the tithe belongs to God. Then he self-appoints himself to receive the tithe!!!
God never gave any pastor or church permission to receive his tithe or his gifts. God commanded His tithe be taken to the Levites, FOREVER, in Numbers 18.
Since the tithe belongs to God, if your pastor accepts it isn't he stealing it from God?
Lucky for those of you who think you tithe, you are merely giving a tenth of your income to your church. You aren't paying the Biblical tithe or you would be disobeying God's command to take His tithe to the Levites. But then, if in your heart you are paying the Biblical tithe, wouldn’t that be sinning by breaking God's commands?
The New Testament teaches generous, sacrificial giving, from the heart, according to our means. For some, $1 might be a sacrifice, while for others, even giving 50% of their income might not induce a sacrifice. In the Old Testament, ONLY the farmers tithed, and it was equal percentage (a tenth). The New Testament teaches the principle of equal sacrifice instead of equal percentage. Equal sacrifice is much harder to achieve, if not impossible, than giving ten percent.