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Sabbath-Circumcision-Tithing- Giving?

30 Minutes 1 Timothy

(14b) 10% Income Tithe?

• The 10 Commandments & the law

• The Jewish laws until Christs resurrection

• Grace from Christ through the Apostle Paul after the resurrection

• Salvation no longer by faith and the law, Salvation by faith (turn to believing in Christs dying for you)

2 Cor 8:1  (31-2-4) - Giving

2 Cor 8:7  (31-3-1) - Giving

After Christs Resurrection Tithing v/s Giving

• Giving to others per your abiltity, not per the old Jewish laws

• Giving to others is encouraged, however it is not mandatory or a law to give to a congregation

• Don't promise or pledge giving to anyone or a congregation, give as you are able

• Neither tithing or giving is mandatory, however giving to others is encouraged

1st Source:  from Les Feldick's Book "Questions and Answers from The Bible" (Copyright 2002)

• 2nd source:  from Les Feldick's Newsletter

1. We continue to get questions concerning tithing and keeping Saturday Sabbath.  It must be the end time deception that we are warned to avoid.  When I show clearly from the letters of Paul that we are not under the law but under Grace, I get a response like, "But the Saturday Sabbath goes back to Genesis 2 when God rested."

2. Abraham gave titles of all in Genesis 14.  He began circumcision in Gensis 17.  Now, all three of these were incorporated into the Mosaic Law.  Consequently, all 3 were set aside when God opened the windows of Grace and set us free from the Law.  So, the early church moved the day of rest and worship to the resurrection day.  Not the day of the Sun as some foolish arguments try to put it.

3. When the Church, which is His Body, is complete, God takes it out of the way by calling it up to meet Him in the air, and with the advent of the 7-year Tribulation the law will once again be in effect.  Matt. 24:14, Revelation 12:17.  Compare Romans 6:14b.

RELEVANT SCRIPTURES

1. SABBATH:  Romans 14:5 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike.  Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.  1Cor 16:1-2 - Now concerning the collection for the Saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.  Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.  Col. 2:16 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an Holy day, or of the New moon or of the Sabbath days.  Acts 20:7 - And upon the firstt day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight.

2. TITHING:  II Cor 8:12 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.  II Cor 9:7 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity;  for God loveth a cheerful giver.

3. Paul never uses the words Sabbath (except in Col. 2:16, above) or Tithe in any of his Epistles.