6 Reasons Satan Wants Apostolics Financially Bound

[n david]

Growing up, anytime something on the car would break down, my mom would ask "are you paying your tithes?" I never accepted a connection between not paying tithes and a car breaking down, and I still don't.

When we bring a financial curse on ourselves crazy things start to happen like cars breaking down, losing jobs, having health problems and etc.

I respectfully don't agree with this. I believe things happen in life, whether it's because of dumb decisions we make, God trying our faith or just plain life.

I do not believe in curses, especially on a child of God. The devil cannot curse those whom God has blessed. I don't believe any curse falls on children of God, whether it is financial, health, job or a generational curse. The blood of Christ has defeated the curse.

[KeptByTheWord]

The reason Christians may be financially bound, and burdened is because they are too busy paying a tithing tax, and supporting a pastor and his lavish lifestyle (I've seen it many, many times, and I know there are exceptions, but this is generally what we have observed) and not practicing true Christian NT giving.

Giving is not a tax. We give to others because we love the Lord, and not because we are afraid of losing out on our salvation. Giving is not giving unless it is done out of a heart that wants to please the Lord by loving and helping our neighbor. Paying 10% because you are scared to not do it, and that you might lose your salvation is a tax, and it is not giving.

Also, when you truly give - you expect nothing back in return. When you tithe, at the end of the year, you receive a charitable contribution form, which you then turn in to the IRS, and receive most of what you contributed removed from your taxes. How is this free, no-strings-attached giving? It's not. Tithing as set up today by the churches is a tax, and it is not true giving.

We give generously in ways that are not tracked by a charitable form. We no longer claim any charitable giving on our taxes. We give without leaving a money trail. True giving gives without expecting a return. Whether we suffer financially, or whether we are blessed financially, it matters not. Life happens - it rains on the just and unjust. We give because we love the Lord, not because we expect to receive something in return.

Tithing is the work and teaching of men who are unwilling to trust the Lord with their finances. Teach giving, and then.... you will see the windows of heaven opened. Teach people to give unto the Lord, using the 10% guideline if they must have one... but never attach the teaching of tithing to a curse.... that is a false doctrine never embraced by the NT church, but embraced by men who wanted to financially secure their lifestyle.