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Tithing: What does the Bible Teach (Often used to 'fleece the flock')

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Tithing: What does the Bible Teach (Often used to 'fleece the flock')
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Genesis 14
Genesis 28
Tithing in the Old Testament
General Tithe
Tithe of General Tithe Paid to Priests
Tithe to Pay for Annual Pilgramage to Jerusalem
A Tithe for the Poor, Orphans and Widows
Tax to Whom Tax is Due
Bring the Whole Tithe
Which of the four tithes is in view in Malachi?
Under a Curse ...
The First Church Council
Did Jesus Endorse Tithing?
Which One Was Justified?
Tithes are Corban
What Does the New Testament Teach?
Mpotivation is Everything
In Response to Need
Secretly and Humbly
According to What We Have
Cheerfully
Tithing - The Curse of the Kings

Tithes are ‘Corban’

He was also saying to them, “You nicely set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death’; but you say, ‘If a man says to his father, anything of mine you might have been helped by is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’ you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother; thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many such things as that” (Mark 7:9-13).

If you have money your family needs, but you withhold it from them in order to pay it to the church as ‘tithes’, you are doing exactly what the Pharisees did. You are saying your money is “Corban” and Jesus taught that by doing so you were invalidating the Word of God.