The New Strategy

Tithing teachers cannot, generally speaking, teach tithing any longer using scriptures from The Law (Law of Moses / Old Testament) in order to continually deceive people into tithing as they have done in the past.

This is because of the massive amount of books, CD's, Facebook groups, other websites, YouTube videos, and proper live teaching at churches thoroughly proving them wrong, as these liars having done so for decades; people such as Fredrick KC Price and Fredrick Price, Jr., Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland, TD Jakes, TBN and many other false teachers have taken that route.

Their flagship scripture has been Malachi 3:6-10..."bring all the tithes," etc., which said scripture is based solidly on the Old Testament. Tithing teaches also employed tithing scripture cherry picking (taking them out of context) from Numbers, Deuteronomy and Leviticus, to name a few.

I was told this a few days ago while talking to a senior pastor at Eagle Mountain Church in Texas (Copeland's church), that they, and I quote "no longer refer to the Old Testament Law to support tithing." 

"No longer," I asked; "what has changed and why?"

You may still see tithing teachers refer to the Old Testament to promote their so called "tithing," but the bigger organizations have shifted from the Old Testament to a position of trying to establish what they are now calling "Tithing under Grace," or "Tithing because Abraham did," or "New testament Tithing," none of which has any scriptural basis at all.

In recent history, for about 40 years, false teachers such as Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar, have been referring to the Old Testament while spreading their tithing lies, and I was told about a year ago by Dollar's people (by an assistant pastor) that "we are talking about the new Creflo Dollar" who this pastor claimed that for "several years" has not taught that tithing was required but we are to "tithe under grace," this lying pastor even called it "free will tithing," again; there is no such thing as "free will tithing" in the Word of God. 

As I was talking to him, Dollar's assistant pastor, I made sure that I heard him right and said to him; "so you are telling me that Dollar is now teaching that tithing is purely voluntary and that no one has to pay tithes if they don't want to?" His immediate answer was "yes, that's right." 

What this lying pastor didn't know was that as he was telling me his lies, I was looking directly at a webpage of Dollar's teaching notes titled...

"THE REQUIREMENTS OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
by Creflo Dollar | 26 Apr 2015"

(Google it)

NOTE: dated "16 April 2015" ...very recent, NOT several years ago from the "new Creflo Dollar," this was from the same old lying and deceptive Creflo Dollar who is now teaching his current lies calling them, as many are now doing, "Tithing under Grace." Nothing has changed except the strategy and rhetoric; it's the same old game of lies.

I read that title (including the date) to Dollar's assistant pastor, and the phone went suddenly dead with silence (gotta love the Internet!), suddenly that assistant pastor said "look, I'm not going to argue with you anymore, you believe what you believe and we believe what we believe." I answered "what you believe and teach is a lie and doctrines of devils."

As the conversation proceeded, I further read these statements from Dollar's webpage in question...

Dollar claims... "We must demonstrate to ourselves our faith and trust in God through our tithes and offerings (Luke 16:10, 11). Money is the smallest way we can possibly demonstrate our trust in Him."

NOTE: "We must..." which doesn't sound very "free will" to me. And, notice the emphasis on giving MONEY as "the smallest way we can possibly demonstrate our trust in Him." NOT on prayer, NOT on sharing the Gospel, NOT on helping someone, NOT on serving in some capacity in a local Fellowship, NOT on giving something other than money such as clothing or food to a person who made need it; no, as far as Dollar is concerned, squarely on MONEY to "demonstrate our trust in Him." 

And of course you "demonstrate our trust in Him" by handing over lots of money to Creflo Dollar, or perhaps his buddy in crime, Kenneth Copeland.

Does God call for "tithing money" to demonstrate our trust in Him?" Not according scripture, God doesn't...

"For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." - 1 Timothy 4:10

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." - Romans 12:1

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - Hebrews 11:1

"But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." - John 10:38

Dollar claims...  "In the book of Malachi the people were required to give first before receiving God’s favor, and that failing to tithe and give offerings brought a curse and was the same as robbing God (Malachi 3:8-11)."

NOTE: emphasis on "required" as Dollar tried to apply Malachi 3:8-11 to new Testament Christians; again, doesn't sound very "free will" to me.

Because they have been proven wrong in the past, as far as these lying tithing teachers are concerned, their future is in a new set of lies under the general title of "Tithing Under Grace;" more deception and fairly stories to keep the money flowing in and the multi million dollar mansions, private jets and Rolls Royces paid for by gullible uneducated deceived Christians held in demonic bondage to their horrible lies.

You have probably heard some minister somewhere make this comment from behind his pulpit; "the best to prove you trust God is to let Him control your bank balance," or "lots of Christians claim they trust God, but when it come to their bank balance, their trust ends." True or not; statements such as these are usually coming from someone trying to pressure you into handing over ever larger amounts of cash to them.

In closing, consider this...

The new strategy is simply to claim that tithing teaching will no longer be based on the Old Testament (because of being proven false teachers and liars), the teaching of tithing will now be mostly based on twisting scripture out of context from the New Testament such as sermon titles like this from Fred Price, Jr.; "Tithing Under Grace with Fred Price Jr"

The Word of God warns us...

“For there are many unruly, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision [of the law]: whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucere's sake” - Titus 1:10-11

We are called by God to be free will cheerful givers, NOT tithers in any form. There is no such thing as "tithing under grace."

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