Scriptural giving is one of the fundamentals of the faith
II Corinthians 8:7, “Therefore as ye abound in everything, in faith and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.”
We are commanded to bring our gifts into the storehouse (common treasury of the church) upon the first day of the week.
I Corinthians 16:2, “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
Hebrews 7:2, 4 , Under grace we give, and do not pay. The tithe “Abraham GAVE the tenth of his spoils”
Matthew 23:23 and this was for hundred years before the law, and is confirmed in the New Testament; Jesus said concerning the tithe, “These ye ought to have done”
We are commanded to bring the tithe into the common treasury of the church
Leviticus 27:30, “The tithe…. Is the Lord’s”
Malachi 3:10, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
In the New Testament it was the common treasury of the church.
Acts 4:34 -35, 37, “And brought the prices of the things that were wold and laid them down at the apostles’ feet…Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it AT THE APOSTLES’ FEET.”
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