There is no such thing as "volunteer tithing," tithing for people God had commanded to tithe was a MATTER OF THE LAW," the Law of Moses was to be obeyed, not "if you want to, if you volunteer to do so."
The "volunteer" nonsense is garbage coming from tithing teachers merely looking for yet another sneaky and deceptive way to convince people to hand over ten percent of their income...
"we're not telling you to tithe, no sir, not us, we're just saying you should volunteer to tithe, God will be pleased at your willingness to do so."
When you tell someone that God's commanded tithing is of the Law of Moses, "the law," many will inevitably say something like "that's legalism, we don't tithe legalistically, we volunteer to do so." They may also add "we tithe under grace."
The word of God makes it clear that God's commanded tithe was in fact of the law, a matter of the law, not a matter of grace, NOT A MATTER OF VOLUNTEERING," and is indeed therefore legalism...
Jesus explained it...
> ref. Matthew 23:23 - "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."
Hebrews confirmed it...
> ref. Hebrews 7:5 "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:"
Malachi instructed it...
> ref. Malachi 4:4 - "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments."
God's Tithe was NEVER an issue of "volunteering."
A question you can ask your tithing friend is this...
Can you show me any scripture...EVEN ONE...outside of the law (the Law of Moses), or scripture referring to the law, instructing a Christian to tithe?
Where is tithing instructed or commanded non-legalistically OUTSIDE of the law? Please provide chapter and verse clearly, and in proper context, stating that God has done so.
> 2. Jesus did not state that tithing was a matter of Adam, Cain, Abel, Abraham or Jacob; NONE of them are ever cited in God's Word as examples of tithing to be followed.
> 3.The Law of Moses, The Torah, is described by the writer of The Book of Hebrews in Hebrews 7:18 clearly as...
- Weak,
- Unprofitable,
- Annulled.
> 4. Malachi 3:6-10 was written pursuant to the Law of Moses, The Torah, of which the Children of Israel were under and subject to at the time of it's writing - Malachi 4:4, and Malachi was addressing the corrupt Priests of the day, Malachi 2:1
> 5. The Law of Moses, the Torah, where God instructed tithing originates from, has been annulled, and even as much of the moral principles of the Law are now part of the New Testament, nowhere in the New Testament did God transfer any instructions to tithe to anyone, to neither Jew or Gentile.
> 6. Tithing is not advised, suggested or commanded for any Christian living under the New Testament. God instructed tithing has nothing to do with New Testament Christianity.
> 7. If you have been told that you, as a Christian, must or should be tithing, YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO. Don't believe the lie...
2 Timothy 4:3 - "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they draw to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto myths."
Titus 1:10-11 - "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: WHO's MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for FILTHY LUCRE'S SAKE."
> 8. Christians are instructed to be free will cheerful givers as God leads, not tithers in any way shape or form.
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