The Modern Church…Where Truth is a Stranger
by Ronald W Robey
 
If Christians are supposed to pay tithes, it is awfully strange that not one of the Lord’s Apostles taught that “Christians are supposed to pay tithes” in any of the epistles written to the first century Church…not one.
 
The hard truth is, because Pastors in the pulpits have handled the word of Truth deceitfully, and many in the congregation have never actually picked up their Bibles and done a topical study under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, they have been bewitched into a sort of religious hallucination.
 
Because they read their Bibles through the deception preached to them by their Pastors, they see a monetary tithe requirement in the Bible that is not there. Because they read their Bibles through the spell cast on them from the pulpits, they are unable to see in their Bibles what is clearly written for them to see.
 
The Bible tells us that God’s tithe command was restricted to the citizens of the land of Canaan. God never commanded any other people in the Bible to tithe.
 
One has to ask, what spirit are these Pastors listening to, that has convinced them that they can preach contrary to what is written in God’s word. What spirit said, “Yea, hath God said…?” and convinced them that what God said in His word is not the truth? What spirit has blinded the eyes and minds of the congregation so that they can’t see they have been deceived? What spirit causes people to be apathetic to the lies they are being taught in their religious institutions?
 
Whatever spirit it is…it is most certainly not of God. God’s Church is supposed to be built on truth. Yet, because they have no knowledge of what God’s word says concerning tithes, people have allowed the spirit of error to rule their minds and hearts.
 
The Spirit of Truth has become a stranger to many in the modern church, and they don’t even realize it. The Apostle Paul prophesied this would happen when he said,
 
2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
 
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
 
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.