If you are tithing believing that tithing is going to bring you a blessing, you lave left faith completely. Galatians 3:12 "The law is not of faith but the man that does them shall live in them." How much of the law do you have to do to have to live in it. You have to do it all and all was over 600 laws. And what was the conclusion of the first covenant about anybody attaining that? Romans 3:10-12 "...There is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understands. There is none that seeks after God. They are all gone out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that does good, no, not one."
   This law was a curse Christ redeemed us from: Galatians 3:13 "Christ has redeemed us from the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree." Galatians 3:14 "That the blessing of Abraham..." Did Abraham get the blessedness of his promise before or after his tithe? It was before! Was a tithe something that Melchisedec asked for? Is it something God told Abraham to give Melchisedec? Was there any instruction to Abraham to do this? No! It was one thing and one thing only and that was what Abraham purposed in his heart to do. Did what Abraham did become a law under the Levitical law? Yes. Abraham was also circumcised after he got this revelation of righteousness by faith. No! Was he circumcised before? Yes! Romans 4:9-14.

It is not I who classified the tithe as being valid because it was given before the law. I never brought that up. The rest of the church world, the religious world, has qualified the tithe as being valid because it was given before the law. The category into which they put it disqualifies it more than any other command in the Bible and the category that it fits in is this; tithing, circumcision and the Sabbath. By reason of its category, what is tithing under the New Covenant? It is the very same thing that circumcision is. It is the very same thing as observing the Sabbath. This is not the comparison I came up with, but it is the comparison used by those who are trying to retain the tithe in the church!
   I don't know when we are going to come to grips with the fact that ten percent is on the lower end of the scale and the tithe is not a blessing to the church. I will tell you who loves the tithe more than anybody, other than us ministers and that is the rich people. They love the tithe! because it is the tithe off of your increase. A multimillionaire will go through all of his statements for the year, he will deduct everything that was an expense; he will deduct the depreciation for his home, his car and everything else and figure out what was an increase. In fact, he will many times take a loss that year and if he takes a loss, even though he has several million dollars in the bank, in his eyes he is excluded from giving one penny to the church.
   Paul gave some good instructions about giving and never gave one indication that there is a specified percentage that anyone in Christ is supposed to give of their income. It becomes mind boggling to you once you begin to look at these basic facts. Virtually every church, denomination and non-denomination preaches tithing. Ten percent of your income to the local church. They also want to make sure that tithe doesn't go to any other ministry. That's the local church. That's the storehouse. 

What About the Curse of the Law?
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. What is a curse? A curse is something that we have made real nebulous in our minds It's something that just floats down on you. Now in the Old Covenant, a curse was something you were under from God. You were under a curse (a vow) from God. You know witches put curses on people, but in Biblical terms the only curse was one coming from God. Curses never came from the devil. Curses came from God, from disobeying his law, the law that was in effect back then that the people in an agreement said that they would accept and follow its tenets..
   The Bible says that He has freed us from the curse of the law. Does it say He has freed us from the curse of the law if we obey the law? No! You see you are freed from the curse of the law even if you disobey it. You are not under a curse from God. Does that mean that disobedience does not carry its consequences ? Of course not! Disobedience can carry its consequences. There is a way of living that works and a way that doesn't. In both low and higher consciousness living we reap what we sow.
   A lot of people get by it, as not everyone suffers from their disobedience. Is there a possibility of it? Yes there is, but it is not a hard and fast law, that if you do bad that something bad is going to happen to you. Why? A lot of bad people get by with a lot of bad things and a lot of good people go all their life doing right and never get anything back for it. Anybody ever experience this stuff? We've been told these are hard and fast laws. If you do this you are going to live under God's blessing. If you do that you are going to be cursed! We stand over here doing everything right and life is hell on Earth and we look over there and see somebody who is doing everything under the Sun that's wrong and life seems ok for them. They own porno shops in town. They own bars. They are promoting drugs. I mean everything's just hunky-dory in their lives. And it has created frustration in the church. It has created unbelief.
   I have people that are colleagues of mine and who preach grace and they actually make statements in public that you won't be under a curse if you don't give, you just won't be blessed of God if you don't! Now folks, blessings and curses come from one of two places. You either get it through Emmanuel or through the law. There is no promise or blessing gained from God by keeping any of his laws. If God gives you one of his promises or blessings because you kept his law, all of the promises of God have become Yes and Amen: 2Corinthians 1:20 "For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us."
   What were they.(speaking of the promises).under the law? If and maybe. Now if they have already become yes and amen, who gives us the right as ministers to put you under this if and maybe stuff where you are going to somehow attain to some level of life to where God himself is going to come rushing on the scene. If God comes rushing on the scene in your life for any other reason than the blood of Emmanuel the Christ, then God himself doesn't believe in the cross. God is no respecter of persons. He is a respecter of the cross of Emmanuel the Christ. Hallelujah!