I was at laudromat today with my anti - tithing shirt on today. It's a black shirt with big white embroidered words on the front that read, IS YOUR CHURCH REPRESENTING CHRIST?On the back in large white embroidered words it reads, DID JESUS EVER REQUIRE A TITHE?I have embroidered on the left sleeve Romans 10:4 and on the right sleeve Luke 16:16.
Anyway, a gentlemen approached me with his wife, and said look honey, read his shirt. She stated that she was a minister and all that of course. She went on to ask me what did my shirt mean. I asked her did Jesus ever require a tithe of any of His disciples? Read the gospels. Did any of His apostles ever mention anything about the Church Christ started ever requiring a tithe? Well, she went on with Malachi 3:10 (One of the prophet's) of course and then she said that Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.I told her that's exactly correct and that Donald trump after completing Trump Towers said the same thing, It's finished. Christ said in John 19:30 - It's finished (fulfilled). I told her that Jesus stated himself inMatthew 11:13 - For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
I really didn't feel led to go any further than this; especially, after she stated how she's been blessed through paying her tithes. I don't think being blessed means anything if what you're doing doesn't line up with THE WORD. I believe Satan will bless you if it means he can keep you in darkness in accordance to God's Word. Jesus said in John 16:33 - In the world ye shall have tribulation.I've told God that whatever I do or don't do, I don't want to go along with tradition, but I want it to have the right nature behind it. Satan tries to shame us into doing things at times that our hearts are not ready for. I'm like Paul. Philippians 3:10-11 - That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. I don't want to pretend to be right through liturgy, ritual, creed, methods, tradition, political correctness, and any other gimmick. I truly want to be right through a rebirth and resurrection (St John 3:1-7). Galatians 5:5 - For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. It gets rough and I've been waiting so long it seems. But I know, Romans 5:3-5 says - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.Acts 14:22 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
I've got a little reprive today, but keep me in you all prayers. It seems like lately i've been under attack from every angle. Not only from the outside, but from the deep inside also. Struggling with things I thought I had overcome.