The Ohio Independent Baptist, November 1963

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H e ,, ., , (' hl ,c ·1 f fl)t11 a111t)c1g hr, t1 a 11, ('t.'rt .. l1n n1cr1 t l1c p .. 1,tor, .. ln(i 111i ion- .1r1t ..\ pc('1 .. 1l calling. t~ Q record t l--ic ... n, er 100 t)f c.1t1l of ara~ ti . al- "-" h1 · call to the 1111ni tr) 1 • In \Cf e I - • the rd aid to nania "Go th, 1 ,,,a,, · f r h 1.. a cho en \e el tinto n1e. bear n1) nan1e before the Gentiles. and king , and the children of I rael: For I will hew h1n1 h ,, great thing he mu t uffer for m) nan1e· ake.' ' He wa a cho en , e .. el. n1) me enger. The que t1on i thi . a the Lo~d ha cho en u . i there any place 1n the "e,, Te tament where it i clearly tauoht that God ha a method to up- o port u ? Fine Bible teacher known and re pected over the United State and abroad ay that the ew Te ta– ment doe not teach tithing. If it did. it \\ ould put u under the law. Dear friend . God didn't give tithing under the la\\. He gave it fir t to Abram under pure grace. And it did not put Abram under the law. You'll agree with me there. won't you? But I 'll tell , ou \\·hat tithing does do, it puts z,s ;,,1der tlze laiv of the Spirit becaitse tlze H ol)· Spirit ha written in E.ph. - : 1 ... Be not drunk with wine where– in i exce but be filled with the Spirit... That is the /a1,v of the Spirit. And v;.·e are re ponsible. Just the same a He ha v;ritten. ' 'The tithe is the Lord's' '. I \.\'Ould like to how you from the \\'riting of the Apo tie Paul the very clear teaching. to me, at lea t, that God· method bas not changed from the Old Te tament to the ew Testa– ment. Let me briefly bring us up to date again. 1. In Ex. 13: 2 God said "The first– born is mine". 2. In 1 rum. 3: 45 He said, 'I have chosen the Lev1te instead of the fir tborn". 3. In Lev. 25: 23. ·•the land i . .. mine . 4. In Lev. 27: 30, ··the tithe of the land is the Lord's... . ~. In 1 um. 18: 21. HI have given all of the tithe to the Levites". 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Will ) 'Oil face it? The answer is found very clearly in I Cor. 9: 1-14. Will you follow, please? Paul answers Paul write "Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not een J e u Chri t our Lord? Are not ye m y work in the Lord? If I be not an apostle unto other , yet doubtless I am to you: for the eal of mine apo tleship are ye in the Lord. Mine an wer to them that do examine me is thi H ave we not power to eat and to drink? Have we not power to lead about a si ter, a wife as well as other apostles, and as the bre thren of the Lord and Cephas? Or I only and Barnabas, have n ot we power to for– bear working?" So many people ay, Paul made tents, he worked for a living, he didn't take anything. But did you read thi chapter to see what he said about it? Paul goes on in verse seven to a k ome questions which I really enjoy, as I tudy this. ' Who goeth a warfare any time a t his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard , and eateth not the fruit thereof?' ' Why, he would be a fool, wouldn't he, to ab tain when he could h ave eaten of the fruit? H e is simply saying thi , when a man plants a vineyard he has a right to eat the grape . When a man feed a flock, he ha a right to have the milk. "Say I the e things as a man?. ow careful, follow me, ''Or saith not the law the sa111e also?'' I wish you would underline the e word in your Bible. "Saith not the law the ame also?" Mo t Christians have an aver ion to anything that is under the law. Anything that is in the Old Testa– ment, so called. They just can't believe tl,al anv thing lo tl1c cht1rc t1 c uld 1,c ., ''tl1c sar11c also' '. ll Ltl wh~tcvcr the stil1jcct is in tt1is cha1Jtcr. anll the stdJjcct is sltJ) tJor ti11g 111 issio11 aric · ancl I u h J ., 1 1asl<JJ's, t t1c aw says t c sa n1c a so . Hl-4cJr it is w ritt e11 in the law of Moses. thou s l1 alt no l mtl l71c the mouth of tl1c o · that trcadcth out the corn.,, '"That t \ a queer teaching isn't it? Why llicl ( 1ocl le t th a t ox cat the grajn as he went arou nd to thrc<; h it out? Why wa<; it that God wou ld not le t them pLtt a muz1Je o n the ox? " Doe<; Gou take car e of oxen ?" It look <; like it. But why have oxen eaten o well all tho e year ? I ' ll tell you why. "Or sa ith it al thogether for our sakes?,, It }vas for tl1 e sake of the pas tors atzcl ,nissionaries. So those oxen were able to eat r eal well a they thre hed out the grain why? Because God wanted the ,pa tor to be fed the same way. A they produced, they were to eat of the best of the crop. Don't you see? " For our sakes, no doubt this is written, that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. " And I would say this, Paul laid it on to this church at Corinth, which failed to support him. "If we have sown unto you spiri tual things, is it a great thing if we should reap your carnal things?" Or are you going to continue to muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn? That is what Paul is saying. ' 'If others be partakers of this ,power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not u ed this power, but-' ' underline the next three words, 'suffer all things. ' Paul said that he was willing to suffer all things, and did suffer because you have failed to pro– vide support as you should. "Lest we hould hinder the gospel of Christ. D o ye not know that they which minis ter about holy things live of the things of the temple?" Now who had always ministered about holy things in the temple? They knew at Corinth , but mo t of us do not seem to know that it was the Levites. R ead verse 14, "Even so, hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the go pel. So the last point is "even so." I am amazed that we do not know wh at those two little word mean. They are just a clear as a bell in this chapter. Do you not know that the Levite which minister about the holy thing lived of the tithes that were brought in? "Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the go pel should live of the gospel," of The OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST