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Tithing and Other Giving Questions for NT
Believers
Revision:
1. God is not a beggar (Psalm 50:10-13).
2. There’s lots of money God does not want (e.g.,
sordid gain, family needs, aged care, etc).
3. God wants willing givers (2 Corinthians 8-9).
Are NT believers obligated to tithe?
Televangelist Cre o Dollar Renounces Past
Teachings on Tithing, But Questions Persist
By Josh Shepherd
• July 7, 2022
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https://julieroys.com/cre
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Dollar, senior pastor of World Changers Church
International in College Park, Georgia—a multiethnic megachurch with nearly 30,000 members
—said his past messages were “not correct.”
“Tithing isn’t required or even encouraged for
believers in Jesus Christ,” Dollar stated in his
June 26 message, “The Great
Misunderstanding.”
The televangelist, who began his preaching
ministry in 1986, even encouraged his ock to
“throw away every book, every tape, and every
video I ever did on the subject of tithing.”
Referencing the New Testament passage of Romans 6:14,
Dollar preached that he had a revelation about grace
superseding Old Testament law.
“Today, I stand in
humility to correct some things I have taught
for years and believed for years but could never
understand it clearly because I had not been
confronted with the Gospel of grace, which has
made the difference.”
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“Dollar owns two jets—a Gulfstream G-IV and
Learjet 60—which are ‘registered to a shell company
named World Heir.’
In addition, Dollar and his wife,
Taf , own two homes near their church which are
collectively valued at $5.7 million, according to Red n
data compiled by Trinity Foundation.”
Are NT believers obligated to tithe?
What is a tithe?
a tithe = 1/10th
Leviticus 27:30–33 (ESV)“Every tithe of the land,
whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the
trees, is the LORD’s; it is holy to the LORD.
31If a man
wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fth to
it.
32And every tithe of herds and ocks, every tenth
animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall
be holy to the LORD.
What did tithing look like for OT believers?
1.
An annual tithe of all one’s crop and livestock
increase over the past year.
Note: The person tithing got to eat some of this tithe
at the annual festival.
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Deuteronomy 14:22–27 (ESV) “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed
that comes from the eld year by year.
23And before the Lord your God,
in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall
eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the
rstborn of your herd and ock, that you may learn to fear the Lord
your God always.
24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are
not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because
the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set
his name there, 25then you shall turn it into money and bind up the
money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses
26and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or
wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves.
And you shall eat
there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.
What did tithing look like for OT believers?
2.
An second annual tithe of all one’s crop and
livestock increase over the past year for the Levites
and priests.
Numbers 18:21–24 (ESV) “To the Levites I have given every tithe
in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they
do, their service in the tent of meeting, 22so that the people of Israel
do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.
23But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and
they shall bear their iniquity.
It shall be a perpetual statute
throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they
shall have no inheritance.
24For the tithe of the people of Israel,
which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given
to the Levites for an inheritance.
Therefore I have said of them that
they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.”
What did tithing look like for OT believers?
3. Every third year, an additional tithe for the Levites,
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