@ Reggie,
Comments on Hebrews 7:8. You say: �The only way to pay tithes today is to witness that Jesus lives... Our life then becomes a living epistle, in honoring our Great High Priest�.
While I like very much the idea of honoring our God by our lives, as �living epistles�, I don�t agree with your idea of not paying tithe. Here�s why: The �tithes and offerings� principle/law was established by God way before Sinai. Remember Abraham paying tithe to Melchisedec ( Genesis 14)? The tithes were supposed to take care of the �men of God�, the poor and the orphans. The tenth belonged to God before the cross, and is His today. The same Apostle Paul says: �The labourer is worthy of his reward� ( 1Timothy 5:18), and �Even so hath THE LORD ORDAINED that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel� ( 1 Corinthians 9:14). You don�t suppose the Gospel Workers should be paid of government subsidies?! � Your reference to Romans 10:4 doesn�t apply. Here�s what bro. Malachi says: �Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?: In tithes and offerings ( Malachi 3:8).
But the best argument of paying tithes and offerings is made by Jesus in Matthew 25:40, �Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me�. And you know what will happen to those who don�t� God bless.
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Comments on Hebrews 7:8. You say: �The only way to pay tithes today is to witness that Jesus lives... Our life then becomes a living epistle, in honoring our Great High Priest�.
While I like very much the idea of honoring our God by our lives, as �living epistles�, I don�t agree with your idea of not paying tithe. Here�s why: The �tithes and offerings� principle/law was established by God way before Sinai. Remember Abraham paying tithe to Melchisedec ( Genesis 14)? The tithes were supposed to take care of the �men of God�, the poor and the orphans. The tenth belonged to God before the cross, and is His today. The same Apostle Paul says: �The labourer is worthy of his reward� ( 1Timothy 5:18), and �Even so hath THE LORD ORDAINED that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel� ( 1 Corinthians 9:14). You don�t suppose the Gospel Workers should be paid of government subsidies?! � Your reference to Romans 10:4 doesn�t apply. Here�s what bro. Malachi says: �Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?: In tithes and offerings ( Malachi 3:8).
But the best argument of paying tithes and offerings is made by Jesus in Matthew 25:40, �Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me�. And you know what will happen to those who don�t� God bless.
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