To Tithe or Not To Tithe, That is the Question!
This sermon will look at what the Bible says about tithes & offerings. Specifically what was taught in the OT and what is the responsibility of the NT church.
1. Old Testament teachings on the topic of Offerings & Tithes.
The Old Testament represents sacrifice most of all as giving to God, even though it is he who has given to his people all that they have—land, identity, and sustenance
2. How do we know apply Offerings & Tithes in the NT church?
The difficulty with trying to apply part of the Old Testament law to Christians is the lack of any biblical substantiation for such a division on the one hand and the biblical teaching regarding the unity of the law on the other hand. Paul in Gal 5:3, for example, declares “to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law” (also Jas 2:10–11). God’s moral absolutes are eternal because they arise from his own character. But how those absolutes are manifest and administered in the different economies of old and new covenants will likely differ. An obvious example is that under the old covenant adultery was not only wrong but was punishable by execution (Lev 20:10). Under the new covenant the absolute prohibition remains, but the penalty apparently does not (Heb 13:4). What can be learned from the Old Testament prohibition is the seriousness and destructiveness of the sin.