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Odingo1:


, funny poor masses don suffer at the hand of pastors in Nigeria. The money they suppose to use to feed their family they given it to someone.

Dtruthspeaker:


15% of your first earnings eg first salary, that is (tithe) 10% + 5% (First Fruit).

And 15% whenever your earnings/ salary increases on the First Increase.

It is important because a Christian Knows God and Understands all things and loves God very very much.

tunjijones:


Why do you have to give it to the church? Why do church make it compulsory for members to bring their first salary

brosom:
First fruit is biblical and very important,

But gods of men have abused it thus it lost it's importance.


U can give ur first fruit to someone, family, the needy, the motherless that are in need of.

Don't give it to any pastor.

silibaba:



Did the law say you should hand it over do pastor? God talk say bring it to the store house.

Is your pastor the storehouse?

LET me begin by shocking you: In the entire Gospels, there is not a single place Jesus clearly commands us to pay tithes! I shock you the more: In the only two places Jesus mentions tithes, he is discernibly cynical about it!

Admittedly, he never tells us not to pay tithes, either. However, from the Gospels, it could be deduced that his overall attitude towards tithes is that of cynicism and ambivalence.

I think this point is very important because it brings you (the reader) face-to-face to the fact that this whole ado about tithes is actually about something our Lord treats with so much cynicism and ambivalence.

So, one begins to wonder why the fuss about something Christ himself didn’t consider worthy of attention. If it weren’t for ideological and financial interests, the people emphasising tithes today would have been the same people who would ask their typical question: “Where did Christ say it?”

Now, let’s check out those two places in the Gospels. (As a matter of fact, Jesus uttered the word “tithe” only three times, but one is essentially a synoptic version of the other – so we are basically left with only two). The first: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith.

It is these you ought to have practised without neglecting the others” (RSV. Matt 23: 23; cf. Lk 11: 42). The second: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus: ‘God I thank you that I am not like other people … I tithe a tenth of all my income.’” (Lk 18: 10-12).

These two passages buttress my argument to the effect that Jesus’ overall disposition towards tithes is that of cynicism and ambivalence. In the first passage, Jesus clearly indicates that the concern about truth, justice, fairness, mercy, love, etc. is “weightier” than, and therefore preferable to, tithe-paying. Tithe-paying is secondary and must take a subsidiary position.

Dtruthspeaker:


15% of your first earnings eg first salary, that is (tithe) 10% + 5% (First Fruit).

And 15% whenever your earnings/ salary increases on the First Increase.

It is important because a Christian Knows God and Understands all things and loves God very very much.

Dtruthspeaker:


15% of your first earnings eg first salary, that is (tithe) 10% + 5% (First Fruit).

And 15% whenever your earnings/ salary increases on the First Increase.

It is important because a Christian Knows God and Understands all things and loves God very very much.

beautyfunke:


Pls can someone explain first fruit, is it important a Christian must give first fruit?

beautyfunke:
Pls can someone explain first fruit, is it important a Christian must give first fruit?

Wealthinwealth1:
From my understanding, I think it's the profit from your harvest or if you are a salary or wage earner your first earning of the year, Prov 3:9, Ex 34:26 Ex 44:30. One thing I know is IT BRINGS BREAKTHROUGHS AND IMCOMPARABLE UPLIFTMENTS. sometimes it might be difficult to release all the proceeds but if you can jst adhere and fulfill your part, your life will never remain the same.

Abraham adhered by giving Isaac, he became the father of nations
The widow of Zarapeth releases all that remained with her, she was blessed immeasurably
God releases Jesus Christ, the power of devil was defeated FOREVER 1Cor 15:20.

I pray God should always bless me so that my first fruit will be like GMD of oil companies annual income. He has started it already and He wont stop blessing me in Jesus name, Amen

Odingo1:
African pastors milking their gullible members to live large with fleet of private jets and enough battalion of police to protect them while going out.

Dtruthspeaker:


15% of your first earnings eg first salary, that is (tithe) 10% + 5% (First Fruit).

And 15% whenever your earnings/ salary increases on the First Increase.

It is important because a Christian Knows God and Understands all things and loves God very very much.

beautyfunke:
Pls can someone explain first fruit, is it important a Christian must give first fruit?

beautyfunke:
Pls can someone explain first fruit, is it important a Christian must give first fruit?

Dtruthspeaker:


And the poor is still poor even when he did not Listen to what God hath Said hence "the destruction of the poor, is their poverty" as they hath chosen to destroy themselves!

HonestFriend:
I don't know it... But a friend of mine say its means your first pikin...


But I no believe am..

Another person say na ur first salary of the year u come use everything do tithe for church..

beautyfunke:
Pls can someone explain first fruit, is it important a Christian must give first fruit?