Sending Out The Word Ministries

THE ANSWER:

THE WORD TITHE MEANS A TENTH OR TEN PERCENT AND IS BASED ON ALL OF YOUR INCREASE. SECONDLY, YES ALL BELIEVERS SHOULD TITHE. THIRDLY,  A BELIEVER WHO DOES NOT TITHE IS NOT CURSED. AND FINALLY , YES THE TITHE AND OFFERING BOTH FOLLOWS THE SAME RULES... THEY BOTH SHOULD BE DONE WILLING AND BY "CHOICE".

NOW LETS QUALIFY THE ANSWERS WITH GODS WORD.

TITHING IS FIRST MENTIONED IN GENESIS 14:20, WHEN ABRAHAM GAVE MELCHIZEDEK (WHO WAS A KING AND A PRIEST) A TITHE OF ALL THAT HE HAD. THE SECOND MENTION OF TITHING IS FOUND IN GENESIS 28:22 WHEN JACOB WAS ON THE RUN FROM HIS BROTHER ESAU, JACOB VOWED TO GIVE A TENTH OF ALL THAT GOD WOULD GIVE HIM. IN BOTH CASES THE TITHE OR TENTH WAS OFFERED NOT BECAUSE OF A COMMAND OR LAW OR FEAR OF NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES, BUT BY " CHOICE".

THE NEXT MENTION IS IN LEVITICUS 27:30-34 WHEN GOD INCORPORATED TITHING INTO THE LAW HE WAS INSTRUCTING MOSES TO GIVE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. AT THIS TIME TITHING BECAME  A COMMAND AND A LAW WITH NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES (CURSES) IF NOT OBEYED. THE REASON FOR THIS IS FOUND IN NUMBERS 18:21-32. THIS IS WHERE GOD SEPARATED THE LEVITES FOR THE PRIESTLY OFFICE TO DO THE SERVICE OF THE TABERNACLE. THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO OWN PROPERTY OR TO WORK OUTSIDE OF THE MINISTRY, THEREFORE ALL OF THE TITHES OF THE PEOPLE WERE GIVEN TO THEM AS THEIR PROVISION, INCOME AND INHERITANCE( NOTE... GOD DID NOT HAVE A PROBLEM GIVING THE MEN OF GOD THE BEST OF THE BEST, HOW ABOUT YOU OR YOUR CHURCH?). THIS WAS THE LEVITES ONLY RESOURCE, THEREFORE GOD MADE IT MANDATORY WITH PENALTIES IN PLACE ACCORDING TO THE LAW TO INSURE THE PEOPLES OBEDIENCE.  

NEXT WE GO TO MALACHI 3:8-9 TO UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES (CURSES) FOR ROBBING GOD IN TITHES AND OFFERINGS. EVEN THOUGH THE TITHES TECHNICALLY BELONGED TO GOD, THEY WERE ACTUALLY GIVEN TO THE PRIEST. IT IS HERE THAT WE SEE THAT THE NON-TITHER IS CURSED WITH A CURSED ACCORDING TO THE LAW.

SO FAR WE CAN SEE THAT BEFORE THE LAW, TITHING WAS BY CHOICE AND AFTER THE LAW IT WAS BY COMMAND.

NOW, SINCE THE BIRTH, DEATH BURIAL AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST, AS A BELIEVER WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE LAW AND IT'S NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES. IN FACT ACCORDING TO GALATIANS 3:16 " CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW". IF WE ARE REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, THEN WE MUST ALSO BE REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF THE TITHE WHICH WAS GIVEN UNDER THE LAW. UNLESS THIS IS THE ONLY CURSE THAT THE BLOOD OF JESUS HAS NO POWER OVER.

FINALLY, IN HEBREWS 7:1-8 IT ALL COMES TOGETHER. ABRAHAM PAID TITHES TO MELCHISEDEC WITHOUT THE LAW (CHOICE), THE LEVITES RECEIVED TITHES OF THE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND NOW JESUS WHO HAS BECOME OUR HIGH PRIEST TODAY, NOT AFTER THE ORDER OF THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD (LAW), BUT AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEC (CHOSE), RECEIVES TITHES FROM US THE BELIEVERS, WHO ARE SPIRITUALLY THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, THROUGH  CHOICE AND NOT LAW.

IN CONCLUSION, EVEN THOUGH THE BELIEVER IS NOT CURSED IF HE OR SHE DOES NOT TITHE, YET HE OR SHE DOES NOT RECEIVE THE BENEFITS OR THE BLESSINGS OF THE TITHES EITHER AS STATED IN MALACHI 3:10-12. REMEMBER CHRIST ONLY REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE NOT THE "BLESSINGS OF THE LAW".