HRea, thank you for posting here on this subject. I will repost this one(post) I did earlier regarding the Tithe and the Law....I did not see any evidence of tithing to the ministry in your post, however I did see the ministry has a right to be blessed by the giver for their efforts. I totally agree with that, but tithing in itself was of the Law and was disanulled along with the rest of the Law to the New Testament Believer(see below)...
.Keep in mind that
ALL believers have only
ONE priest in the N.T.church....JESUS. Nobody can designate to a believer to tithe to their ministry.
All of us(everyone) in the N.T. church(The Royal Priesthood) are a "type" of the Levitical priesthood and are EQUALS in Jesus. Jesus is a "type" of the High priesthood(
our only Priest), and sinners are a "type" of the 11 tribes of Israel(needing a sacrificial covering), and needing us to direct them through the preaching of the Gospel and intercessions to the "High Priest"...JESUS.
This is why we(believers) do not tithe to fellow believers. That is why Paul did not dare to speak of tithing as a "continuing" doctrine into the N.T. church......
Posted earlier by Sean....
Well bro...... to start your post you misinterpreted the verse that says the Law is our schoolmaster...
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
The Law is still in effect for sinners today(not for saints though), but if you want to quote the Law and live by it, you will be judged by it at the end. The Lord absolutely will not honor
Mal. 3 when we ask the Lord to "rebuke the devourer in our lives". A saint cannot twist the Lords' arm to honor the Law in which Jesus died to disannull for the saint to be free from.
Hebrews 7:18
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
The "principle of tithe teaching" is a completely fabricated myth, with its roots in Catholicism, (concerning the Church).
It is one of the greatest stumblingblocks the true oneness, Jesus name church has held on to that came from the dark ages for the world to stumble over.
It should not even be mentioned in the Church of our Lord, and I feel sorry for those that teach it. Grace does not cover the teacher, teaching the SAINTS that they must follow the Law....
Hebrews 7:5
5 And 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:
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