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> From:	grimel@icx.net [SMTP:grimel@icx.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 22, 1998 11:39 PM
> To:	higher-fire@prairienet.org
> Subject:	Re: tithes
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> On 09/22/98 at 08:36 AM, lyohnk@juno.com (Lynne A. Yohnk) said:
> 
> >The law was ended, 
> 
> Must be the fourth or fifth time I've seen this statement.  What
> about:
> 
> 
> 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.  Matthew 5:18 For
> verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one
> tittle
> shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.  Luke 16:17
> And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the
> law to fail.  Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith?
> God forbid: yea, we establish the law.  Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law
> [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.  Romans 7:13
> Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin,
> that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good;
> that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.  Romans
> 7:14
> For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under
> sin. 
> Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through
> the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
> and
> for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  Romans 8:4 That the
> righteousness
> of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but
> after the Spirit.  1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the law of
> Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the
> corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 
> 
	[Hanson, Bruce]  
	I would assume that you have not read Galatians to add to your
list of scriptures? But what about the law in the NT? Are you saying we
should bring it and all of its rules forward into the NT? If you are,
you are welcome to try to follow them - get a good Jewish rabbi to help.
If you aren't, what ones do you bring forward and what ones do you leave
behind?

	Isn't the main problem the misunderstanding of when the law was
fulfilled? The first 4 books of the NT are still under the law! Grace
has arrived on the scene in the form of Christ, but the law has not been
fulfilled until the cross and resurrection. Most all of the law is
restated one way or another in the NT but as a love choice (tithing is
not - giving is). If you love God you will do the things of God.

	God Bless - Bruce
	bruce.hanson@lmco.com
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