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Tithing
This post may anger some and it is well that they should get angry.
Many Black Churches in the South where I live, and I am speaking of large congregational churches, are not paying preachers and guest preachers fair wages for services rendered. And that is a shame before God.
Anybody or any institution that calls themselves Christian should be about fairness, righteousness and obedience to God’s command. But instead, many of them are stingy misers and unfair paymasters who are always preaching about giving into their ministries and into their own pockets while robbing other servants of YHVH. GOD IS NOT PLEASED and NEITHER AM I!
GOD Instructs All Believers To Financially Take Care Of His Man Servant Who Labors Faithfully In TEACHING/PREACHING GOD’S WORD and DOCTRINE.
Galatians 6:6 says, “Let him who hears the word share all good things with him who preaches to him.”
And 1 Corinthians 9:14 say, “In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.”
And 1 Timothy 5:17 says, “The elders (Male Leaders) who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.”
Now I ask you, who in their right mind, thinks that $100.00 or $125.00 is fair wages for a preacher to receive after ministering the WORD of GOD to a congregation of 100, 150, 200 or 400 souls?
Which one of you think that $100.00 or $125.00, as Galatians 6:6 puts it, is a “A good thing?”
How many of you would like for your sons to spend hours studying and preparing and then laboring just to receive “chump change?”
If a preacher preached every weekend and received only $125.00 per weekend, he could not pay his mortgage or rent. Yet, 1 Corinthians 9:14 instruct him to receive his living from the Gospel. How can he comply with this command when the ones he must serve are sabotaging him and undervaluing his service and ultimately undervaluing the WORD of GOD that was sent to them through him by FATHER YHVH?
GOD IS NOT PLEASED WITH THIS AND NEITHER AM I.
Many Black preachers know what I am saying to be true but will not stand up on the TRUTH and say anything about it. They have been indoctrinated to believe the lie that says it is their place to remain “humble” and accept whatever chump change that the congregations or churches decides to give them. And some of the Black churches praise the preachers who accept such meager offerings. They praise them instead of paying them. And the ones who accept such empty praises are doing a disservice to God, the Word of God and to their fellow servants.
Well, I can’t pay my bills with praises and they who offer such praises don’t work on their jobs just for praises and insignificant salaries.
Many of these well able churches and congregations who pay their preachers and guest preachers trifling salaries aren’t aware that they are robbing GOD and that they cannot be truly blessed by God nor have the Spirit of God abiding in them. THE WORD SAYS SO. And I am making it known so that they might repent and future servants might receive what God commands of the congregation to give.
Malachi 3:8-10 says, “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house.”
And 1 John 3:17 says, “Whoever has worldly possessions and sees his brother who has a need and withholds his compassion from him, how is the love of God in him?”
Malachi 3:8-10 is the most preached scripture in the Bible yet no one seems to realize that God is admonishing the congregation to provide for his priests who serve in the temple and who have no inheritance to the land. He is not telling the congregation to pay tithes and offerings for the sake of the modern-day institutional church. God is telling the believing congregation to pay the priests so that there will be meat (resources and sustenance) in His House.
Furthermore, 1 John 3:17 points out that it is every born again saint’s obligation to share their worldly possessions and wealth with other saints of God as they see their brothers and sister in need. How much more does this apply to the Man of God?
This is why I say that those who treat the Chosen, Sent and Anointed laborers of the KINGDOM of GOD in such a disrespectful and shameful manner as to undervalue our service and undermine our ability to support ourselves and our families, are cursed and the Spirit of God does not reside with them.
GOD is a God of generosity and love. He is not stingy nor cheap.
Now that I have exposed some of the shameful hypocrisies and practices of some of the well established and well able Black Christian congregations and churches in the South, maybe some of my fellow slaves of Christ will be better treated and supported as some congregations and churches repent of their backwards thinking and stingy behavior.
After this article, I don’t suspect that I will be called upon to preach anywhere but it was never about me. It is always about the righteousness of the Kingdom of God and obedience to the leading of His HOLY SPIRIT.
May YHVH always be glorified and His TRUTH Proclaimed Faithfully and Boldly with Passion, Power and Purpose.
God can’t use no coward soldier!
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“You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you! “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.
I have received a revelation from the LORD regarding the Spirit and eternal purpose behind Malachi 3:10.
It is this:
“Take care of the income needs of my sent and assigned shepherds and I will take care of you. If you make them suffer lack, I will cause you to suffer want. Your support of my sent servants is an indication of your love for me and an invitation for me to open the windows of heaven where I might hear your petitions and pour you out the answers to your prayers. But to deny my little ones your support and make them suffer is to rob from me for it is I who sent them unto you saith the LORD; to be my voice in the earth and my shinning light of hope, promise and salvation.”
“DON’T BE DECEIVED!”
“Your systems of tithing that makes Christian institutions rich in my name are not sanctioned by me nor acceptable to me. I am the LORD your GOD. What Do I Need That You Can Give Me? I am the Creator and Sustainer of All Things. What do you have that you can persuade me?” I am HOLY, saith the Spirit of the LORD.
“Therefore, REPENT! I don’t want your giving to be compelled by some temple tax law. (2 Corinthians 9:6-7) I don’t want your offerings to be compelled (forced) by some false notion that if you give to those religious institutions and priests of Satan who say that they are authorized to receive my tithes that I will be obligated to give you more and more things and/or money. This is not so. Satan gives blessings too, especially to those who help to continue his deceptions.”
DON’T LET YOUR GIVING BE IN VAIN.
“It is an obedient, cheerful, loving and grateful heart that brings acceptable offering to THE LORD. It is the one who earnestly desires first and foremost My KINGDOM and My Righteousness that I will give the desires of his heart.” (Psalm 37:4 and Matthew 6)
As with the keeping of all of YHVH’S Eternal Commandments, supplying the needs of HIS chosen vessels is also a commandment of righteousness to be kept and honored. (Matthew 19:16-22, Luke 18:18-23, 1 Corinthians 9:13-14 and Galatians 6:6)
1 Corinthians 9:13-14
Don’t you know that those who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple, and those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrifices offered there? In the same way, the Lord directed that those who proclaim the Good News should get their living from the Good News.
“If you secretly give to my servants, I will openly give unto you. But don’t expect anything from me when you have caused my sent and appointed servants to starve and suffer lack while ministering my WORD and MY WAY unto you.”
REPENT! FOR I AM A JUST GOD!
REPENT! THE SPIRIT OF YHVH HAS SPOKEN.
REPENT!
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Have you noticed that there is an ever-increasing demand by Christian religious leaders to make their followers pay tithes to support their ministry? They use all type of tactics to shame folks into paying tithes. They make empty promises of “supernatural increase” or wealth and prosperity for those who tithe regularly into their ministry or into their churches. They use the Old Testament Law of Moses to browbeat unsuspecting believers into tithing into a manmade ministry. They use Malachi 3:8 to imply that those who don’t tithe rob God as if God need their tithes.
However, Malachi 3:8 has reference to the Levitical Priestly System that supported the priests of God who had no inheritance in the land.
I have known some churches to keep a record of who tithes and who doesn’t. However that system of temple (Tax) support was nailed to the cross in Christ Jesus and is no longer viable or approved by God for His ONE TRUE EKKLESIA (Church).
I have known churches and pastors to keep a record of who paid tithes and how much that they paid in order to speculate on a church member’s income. I have known churches to keep financial records on who paid tithes and who didn’t in order to discriminate between church members and segregate certain privileges and rights of members – honoring one more than the other.
Would God allow such a system in His One TRUE Ekklesia? Does this represent a God who loved the world so much that He gave? (He didn’t tithe but gave His only begotten Son to reconcile the world to Himself.)
If in deed we are born again, we don’t need to prove to anyone that we are givers. Giving is a part of who we are in Christ. It is our new nature in the HOLY SPIRIT.
However, there are many Christian organizations and institutions monitoring the tithing behavior of believers in their membership. They represent themselves as storehouses for the LORD. But God never called them storehouses nor sanctioned them to collect tithes on His behalf. (Matthew 7:21-23)
Tithing is a mandatory tribute commanded by Moses’ Law for the upkeep, care and support of the Temple and The Priests of FATHER YHVH. But who are the anointed Priests of YHVH today that keep All Of His Holy Commands and Observe All of His Holy Days as the Levitical Priest did.
God has done away with the temporary Laws of Moses and it tithing ordinances. Those who worship Him now must do so willingly and in Spirit and Truth.
God did not setup any “church” or man or religious organization or institution to collect tithes for Him. Tithing was a part of Moses’ law that was nailed to the cross. That is why we don’t find any New Testament Christians paying tithes. The New Testament Christian doesn’t give out of obligation or legal compulsion which is what a tithe is. The New Testament Christian gives out of Love for GOD and a desire to please God since God loves a cheerful giver.
However, there are many who prosper by keeping the Christian masses ignorant of this truth and burdened with the legalism of tithing. They have attached a negative stigma to anyone who doesn’t tithe into their pockets or who doesn’t tithe into their organization. But this is not from God little children. God has set us free from the Law of Moses and that includes tithing. (Colossian 2:14)
The Law of Moses was a temporary schoolmaster meant to lead us to Christ. But since Christ came, Moses’ Law has ended and so has tithing.
Although they cannot disprove this truth using the teachings of Christ and His Apostles, many aren’t willing to accept this truth.
Although many have tithed faithfully for years, they are no better off financially had they not tithed. The proverbial windows of heaven never poured them out a blessing that they didn’t have room enough to receive. And the few testimonials that exist about receiving financial blessings after tithing is just bait to trick someone else into tithing and keep the insanity going. (Remember that Satan gives blessings too.)
If tithing made people rich, there would be more rich people in some of these churches that preach tithing. And since God is no respecter of persons, everyone who ever tithed should be wealthy. But they are not.
Many folks have become dead to the TRUTH and cannot see the uselessness of a legalistic/compulsory tithe in a Grace relationship founded upon the promises of God. (Galatians 3)
Although they pay tithes, they remain in the same financial fix they were always in – with few exceptions – and cannot see the uselessness of their tithing efforts.
Although they pay tithes, they remain sickly and in poverty while the one to whom they tithe grow wealthy and rich.
Although they pay tithes, many folks are living in financial ruin while the one to whom they pay their tithes enjoys financial security and the best that the world has to offer.
Is anyone hearing what the Spirit is saying to the CHURCH?
Now I know that you can’t tell a man the truth if he will not hear the truth. But it is my prayer today that someone is listening and that someone hears the Truth for it is the TRUTH that will make you free and not bind you or burden you.
It also is my prayer that the FATHER (YHVH) uses this lesson to draw someone out of darkness into His marvelous Light and fill them with His Holy Spirit for where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Now don’t get it twisted!
I am not saying that we shouldn’t financially support the work of the Kingdom Ministry of Christ and those who labor faithfully in the TRUE Word and Doctrine of Christ. God commands us to do so.
However, He desires that we do so willingly and out of Love and gratitude for God and for Christ and not because we are taxed. God Loves A Cheerful Giver.
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
(2 Corinthians 9:7)
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“Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” ~ Matthew 5:18
We can preach hard, long and passionate on the Old Testament (Moses’) Law of tithing but in comparison we are silent when it comes to teaching on sexual purity, moral integrity and the absolute need for every believer to obey all Ten of God’s Eternal Commandments, especially the fourth commandment – the perpetual covenant sign/mark).
We tend to excuse and explain that commandment away but it never occurs to us to excuse and explain away the tradition of tithing.
Let it be known here and now that one is eternal and the other is temporary. One is written by the finger of God and the other by the hand of a man.
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