God's Word tells us;
"Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?" - Malachi 3:7
How does God's word say that one is to return to God in the Book of Malachi?
>> First, God answers with a question setting the stage for His commandment and His answer in chapter three of Malachi;
"Will a man rob God?"
>> Second, God makes a statement and addresses the question;
"Yet ye have robbed me."
>> Third, God anticipates another question;
"But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?"
>> Forth, God answers the question;
"In tithes and offerings."
>> Fifth, relative to this discussion between God and man on returning to Him; what did God say tithing was?
Answer; tithing was returning to His ordinances, to His Law, the Law of Moses...
"Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts." - Malachi 3:7a
"Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." - Malachi 4:4
THE RESULTS;
By tithing based on Malachi 3:10, tithing on the ordinances of God, you're placing yourself back under the Law of Moses which we are given in the New Testament the following warnings concerning...
"For I testify again to every man that is circumcised [a keeper of the Law], that he is a debtor to do the whole law." - Galatians 5:3
And...
"For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all." - James 2:10
And...
"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
CONCLUSION;
New Testament Christians are not under the Law of Moses and have NO COMMAND from God to tithe anything to anyone at any time.
"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." - Romans 6:14
“He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter [the law] but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” - 2 Corinthians 3:6
"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
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