Our New Nature in Christ Does Not Need Us to Be Tithers, or Require Any Artificial and Non-scriptural 10% Rule of Giving.

>> God's gift to us; the new person in Christ.

Imposing an artificial "10% rule" of monetary, or any other form of tithing, on Christians is trying to govern Believers by the Law of Moses. One problem that arises by doing so is that the tithing teacher is appealing to the flesh in an attempt to use force by law compelling people to give.

Tithing for the Nation of Israel was law, it was compulsory. When such laws are forced on Christians they violate the freedom Jesus went to the cross to purchase for us.

The result is that people "give" motivated by fear, wrong reasons, greed, ignorance, false doctrine, legalism, and giving under compulsion, which the Apostle Paul warned against in 2nd Corinthians 9:7...

"Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; NOT grudgingly, or of necessity [under compulsion]: for God loveth a cheerful giver."

>> At the beginning of His ministry, Jesus Christ declared, “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.  He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners." - Luke 4:18.  Jesus fulfilled this mission by dying on the cross and setting us free!

"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death." - Romans 8:1-2

>> New Nature in Christ.

Our new nature is to be governed by the Law of Christ ("Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." - Galatians 6:2), not the Law of Moses where God commanded tithing was established. Being governed by the Law of Moses is like living in one country and having the laws of another imposed upon you. That is what a tithing teacher is doing when falsely teaching tithing as a requirement for a New Testament Christian; imposing the Law for the Nation of Israel on New Testament Believers who are free from the Law of Moses...

"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." - Romans 10:4

"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." - Romans 6:14

"But now we are DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." - Romans 7:6

"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster." - Galatians 3:24-25

"Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave NO such commandment:" - Acts 15:24


>> We are to learn to give naturally, naturally in a spiritual sense as part of our new nature in Christ, as free will generous givers as Jesus would have us be, no longer in need of "standards" of giving because of laws that compel us to do so; we simply grow into a life style of freely giving that comes naturally to us.

Tithing laws retard the growth of us as free will generous givers, and keep us "giving" for the wrong reasons; that is giving under the law and compulsion, not because of our new nature in Christ.

One of the worst crimes committed by tithing teachers against Christians is revealed in this verse of scripture...

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." - Galatians 3:10

A great crime in the light of this...

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." - Romans 8:2

>> To tithe compelled or deceived by false teachers to do so is to be in chains of bondage. To give freely is to be free in Christ! Our new nature is one of freely giving, not one of needing to be forced to "pay up or be cursed!"

Paul referred to the Law of Moses as a "ministry of death" (2 Corinthians 3:4-11) and warned...

"not of the letter [law] but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." 

>> We are new creations in Christ created by God...

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." - 2 Corinthians 5:17

"Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:" - Colossians 3:9-10

Who is "him" who created "him the new man?" Jesus! Who is the new man who was created? You, the Believer!


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