A listener named David writes in to ask this, Pastor John, is tithing for all Christians

today?

This is really a question, isn't it, about the relationship of the Old Testament law

to the Christian today?

Because we all know that in Leviticus and in Deuteronomy and in Numbers, tithing was

taught as an obligation for the covenant people in the Old Testament.

So the question becomes, how does that mosaic arrangement relate to us in the new covenant

today?

And it's a huge question, a book after book is being written about this, but I'll just

give you the text and just simple as I can, state where I am on this and give the answer.

Psalm 7 4, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may be long

to another, to him who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit for God.

We are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive so that we serve

in the new way of the Spirit and not the old way of the written code.

So that's Romans 7 4 and 6, or Galatians 2, 19, through the law I died to the law so that

I might live to God or Ephesians 2, 15 in the cross of Christ.

He was abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances or Romans 6, 15.

But then are we to sin because we are not under law, not under law, but under grace?

So my answer is that in the new covenant, in the new relationship to God through the Messiah

who has fulfilled the law for us, we are not under the law, it is not the primary way

by which we relate to God or by which we discern and find strength to do what is pleasing

to God.

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