Do we have to pay tithes?

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Originally Posted by Nitehawk013

That is because we all know what is packed into that word "tithe". Words have meanings. Connotations.

When someone says tithe, they tend to mean "pay 10% gross or go straight to hell". They say it nicer than that...but we've been around long enough to know what they mean. So yeah...it's easy to tune out when people start harping on how we ought to tithe.

Don't pretend the opposite isn't equally true though. The minute your side hears someone say they don't believe in tithing you also become hard of hearing and think we all mean that no one should give to the church to support it.

Btw no one ever said quote unqoute not paying tithes would send you to hell. Not paying tithes is robbing God (Malachi 3:9)+thieves can't inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)= "go straight to hell" as you said. But I never have met a man stand flat foot in shoe leather and say anything like that. In itself that would be ridiculous.

More than anything it's about the condition of the heart. For we see many different cases in Kings and Chronicles of people who "walked right in God's sight but yet their heart was not perfect before Him." Ita all about the Spirit it's done in. For Paul warned in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way." Iniquity is a powerful spirit, this is exactly the spirit Paul is speaking of in Ephesians 2:2 when he says "the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience" In all things be prayerful and hold tight to the truth given of Proverbs 4:23 "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."

God says something very powerful in Jeremiah 17:9-10 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? [10] I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." In the end only God truly knows. We are not fit even to judge our own heart! I speak blessings over you this day. This is not just to you friend, but spoken to all who will see.