John MacArthur explains What is Biblical tithing?

Give to gospel work and world mission where the need is real and great.
There are many many millions of Christians outside of the rich west church who have virtually nothing by comparison.
Let God give you a clear vision of where the real need is .
This gives us real joy and focus in giving

Since when is 23 & 1/3% a tenth of someone's increase? It's not!!! This man doesn't read the old testament, he's giving the pharisee interpretation.

John I have a question for you all that money that you gather you put it in that big beautiful expensive building am I correct , Jesus said that when he comes back everything's going to be burn and melted you don't believe that do you if you did you wouldn't put money in that high dollar building that you have what a waste when there are so many people out there starving I think people like you that do that with the money is building mansions R deceiving the people

Thanks for truthfully teaching this 🙏❤️

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! The verses he gave out of the New Testament, was for a collection for the POOR, not pastors, or evangelists. Read all of it, and you will see who it was for. Saints, Please Listen... There was NO MONEY TITHE EVER TAUGHT or PRACTICED BY JESUS, the Disciples or Apostles in the New Testament, nor was there a money tithe in the Old Testament !!! WHY? Because after Jesus death and resurrection we were no longer under the works of the law, but under Grace! There was no more Tabernacle, and no more food tithe. The verses he gave were pushed on us saying we are to support a denominational religious business known as church, that is completely wrong! Once again, there was no going to church every week, no tithe every week, no building, no pastor, and definitely no verses telling us to support any denominational church business.

No Where in the New Testament under the New Covenant did Jesus, the Disciples or Apostles ever build a building and call it a church. Paul wrote in Colossians 1:18 that Christ is the head of the body of believers, calling them, "The Church". The "Church" is NEVER referred to as a building in the Bible, but the body of believers are called the Church. Never did Jesus, the Disciples or Apostles ever elect a pastor for a church building, nor did they ever pass an offering plate to collect money for themselves or a pastor his building and his staff. So where did the Money Tithe System come from? The Roman Catholics... They are the ones that hijacked the Old Testament Food Tithe Offering from the Bible, and changed it into a Money Tithe Heresy to fund the building and the priest.

Also, the Roman Catholics were the first to build a building in 255AD, and they were the first to make up the Money Tithe System in 355AD, and made the people in 356AD pay their local priest 10% of their income, while calling it a mandatory tax. When Martin Luther left the German Catholics, he introduced this money tithe system to the New Reformation, which later found its way to America through the denominations leaving Europe. Today there are over 75,000 different denominations across the earth, with 15,000 of them here in the USA, with all of them using this False Doctrine known as the Money Tithe, which is now being pushed using Malachi 3:8 which today's False Teachers teach out of context, to extract money from the gullible children of God.

If you will read at the Beginning of Malachi, you will see that he was Addressing the Israelites, which only 1/3 of the Israelites were to give the Food Tithe to the priests... This is spelled out in several places in the Old Testament telling who was to give the Food Tithe and who was exempt. The ones that were to give this 10% tithe was an earth tithe like livestock, fruits and vegetables. This was a FOOD TITHE from the Earth to feed the people at the Tabernacle who were killing the animals to pay for the sins of the Israelites. The ones who had live stock, fields of vegetables, fruit trees, olive oil producers, wine makers, and so on were the ones called upon to feed the Levite Priests. This is all spelled out all through the Old Testament. In other words people, it was a FOOD TITHE from the wealthy to feed the people who were doing animal sacrifices to pay for the sins of the people. 2/3 of the people of Israel were exempt of this Food Tithe, meaning, they did not have to give anything to feed the priests!

Even in Malachi 3:9-11 says (YOUR NATION), and mentions the (FOOD) bringing it to the (STOREHOUSE) at the Tabernacle, why? To feed the Priests doing the animal sacrifice work. By the way, this was not a church! No one was allowed in there, the people had to remain outside the Tabernacle. The only time they went in, was to bring the Animal to be Sacrificed and the Food Offering to feed the Priests! OH, and BTW, the TITHE was not money, it was FOOD! Let's Read It.

Malachi 3:9-11 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the LORD Almighty.

But what do the denominational pastors, tel-evangelists and false teachers of today keep on preaching? The Roman Catholic lie... Its no wonder people look at us Christians as if we are all crazy. Its no wonder people don't want to become a Christian, because of these false teaching wolves that Jesus, the Disciples and Apostles all warned us about again, and again, and again, saying they would make merchandise out of you, meaning make money off of you. And that's what they are doing today. These false teaching wolves are snacking down on our brothers and sisters like there's no tomorrow.

What people don't understand is, Jesus, the Disciples and Apostles were going around telling everyone that God was changing the way He pays for sins, and they didn't have to observe the law anymore. "SEE ALL OF GALATIANS" Because Paul spells it all out for us, saying in Galatians 2:21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”. You see Saints, if the Righteousness we seek, could be obtained through works of the law, or giving tithes and offerings or going to church, or anything else, then we could have saved ourselves and Jesus wouldn't have had to go to the cross, but you see, there was no other way, because NOTHING can take the place of our Lord and Savior Jesus. When Jesus died for our sins, the veil was torn into at the Tabernacle, because Jesus paid the price; He paid for it all. People, take care of the ones who God said to look after, James 1:27, the widows and the orphans, and the poor. However don't give anything to false teaching wolves. Always remember, if you are a Christian, then you are the Church! Colossians 1:18. God Bless!

Tax collectors are still scum.

100% out of contacts I was watching him and listen to him very closely and he was very very careful. God don’t want your filthy man made money. He won’t your mind in your heart if a man, preaches truth and gospel, he deserves to earn his living with the gospel universal laws of reaping and sowing 🍷🍞

What about 2 Corinthians 9:7 . The problem is when pastors have two homes and expenses, cars all at the expense of the flock . Paul preached the gospel free of charge so as not to be a burden to no one. I never heard a pastor preach about that

As simple as it is,
Old Testament: giving was a command
New Testament: Giving is a principle( as John McArthur points out)

But prosperity gospel centers on this principle and that's their center of their gospel and preaching

But for a Biblical Church, giving is one among the principles in NT but only Christ is the center of the preaching

The church we attend demands 10% tithe but refuse to obey the commandment to keep the Sabath holy

Grateful for teachers like Johnny Mac.

God made
John MacArthur a millionaire.

"Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."
2 Corinthians 9:7

We are commanded to give as we purpose in our hearts, as opposed to giving according to a proscribed amount.

We are prohibited to give, "of necessity." Any giving commanded by God would be giving, "of necessity."

Tithing, as taught in our churches today, is an anti-Biblical abomination.

Jesus paid the temple tax after telling his disciples that they were not required to. He did it so as not to offend. The children of the kingdom do not pay taxes to God, in any form.

And it’s made him very very rich!!! He could con a conman

He is in error! Read the Torah…Leviticus Deuteronomy Then read Malachi in the Tenach….

Bob and weave. Nice side step. You were not asked about taxes. Giving is wonderful and Biblical but tithing stopped when Jesus on the cross said " it is finished". Tithing was never about money it was about food. First " fruits" not money. To feed the Levites. We are no longer under the law. Give, yes ! Requiring tithes is robbing God's children. MY Honest opinion based according to scripture and tons of Bible scholars.

This man makes what is not confusing confused, he has an agenda. His worth and homes tell the story, very sad.

Thank you for the Biblical clarification because many pastors mandate 10% gross tithe or they say you are NOT a Christian or you are living in sin and quote Malachi which is twisting Scripture and forcing followers to pay like a Christian mafia shakedown 🤔

10% tithing means 90% BS. The self prophecy that occurs from Christian believe means God made evil to be part of things so no one does but 10% about it. God is good 100% of the time 100% of the time God gets 10% In effort it's pathetic!!!!!

In Malachiah 3 those being chastised are the Priests not the people.

There is nowhere that says anything about tithing having anything to do with money. All tithing was agricultural and not monetary.

MacArthur doesn’t believe in free will. Ironic.

Making someone else wealthy!

They started building big churches in late 1800’s so they created the 10% paycheck tithes to get money from people to support the church. Don’t feel pressured to pay tithes before paying your bills. We did that as young christians in the 90’s and lost a new car we got. We had to go back to driving a junky old car while my non tithes paying brother in law took over our new car note. That should of been a red flag then but we kept paying the church this tithe fee even though we were barely making it living paycheck to paycheck.

Johnny looks a little nervous here.. Maybe because he’s filthy rich.

No, God won't be mad at you if you don't give 10%.
Give generously to the point that you enjoy giving it.
If we had to tithe(set forth in the law), why do we pretty much ignore every other law?

Great job John MacArthur.
One of the best modern preachers by far. Except for his Calvinism.

The old is getting absolute! A poor widow casts all out her two remaining valuable coins worth for her living. It isn’t her tithes more merciful other than those who only spare the bulk of their money! Amen.

Yooooo i just googled this dude makes $160,000 a year from the church!! Thats like $13k a month!! Talk about prosperity gospel. WOW

Notice he mentions NO scriptures on actual tithe cause every tithe was for the tribe of levites because they were POOR tithe was NEVER “income” it was food and necessities for the poor members of the church.
But now tithes (always 💸💸💸) go to all the pastors pay check. 🤦‍♂️

Also tithe was only while God dwelled with his people.
These modern pastors are disgusting. JESUS was poor and homeless doing Gods work but look at these pastors now…

But let it be defined that the faithful giver gives to the poor and needy and also those who preach the true gospel of Christ. Therefore, it is not a donation for the religious institution to pay high salaries for its leaders or to build beautiful temples. But how are you going to know who preaches the true gospel if you don't read the bible, right?

Abraham tithed to Melchizedek in Genesis , the bible O.T. .. way before the law of M oses was given in Exodus, levticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. in Malachi, God is quoted as saying "test me" and see if I do not pour out a blessing, open the windows of heaven, ....

After my mother died on 2002 I got an inheritance so I had enough for a down payment for a house, and I made a hugh donation to a church I attendED for 12 Years that was having a Building Fund. A year or so later I had lost my job and I was about to lose my home. There was a major wind storm and my fence blew down, so it just needed to be reposed...for FREE! They had a Ministry called Matthew, Mark, Luke and Johnnie that helps people Repair their homes and cars. They told me that they couldn't help me, because the ministry was only to help people that are not saved, elderly, handicapped, or homeless.
So fr 21 years my tithes only go to individuals that are in dire need.
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NO Pastor could ever explain why Jesus told That Adulterous Women: GO AND SIN "NO" MORE.  They'd just say that we will all struggle with sin until the day we die. This made it pointless to truly even try, so I was about to commit suicide 5.5 years ago.
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~After finally reading the Bible, I was force to Examine everything I had ever believed from the church. I came across one verse, after another, after another that were all scaring the Hell right out of me. Lukewarm Churches will never preach anything from the book of 1st John.  1st John 3:9-10 says: 9. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them, they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10. This is how we KNOW who the children of God are and who the children of the Devil are!! 😬
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Luke 6:38 has absolutely nothing to do with giving$

Praise God for faithful God-fearing Christian leaders like John MacArthur. He has such a rich library of sermons and teachings to draw sound, Bible-based wisdom from.

Google says your net worth is $14 million dollars , so in reality it’s around 10-20 million estimate. Doesn’t the Bible say tithing has to to do with food. God never changes so when was money considered tithing.
Deuteronomy 14 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:

26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

That was one of the poorest explanations of what Biblical tithing is, I ever heard from a prominent preacher like John MacArthur.

Tithing is an old testament law. It is not required as a true follower of Jesus. Don't believe wolves in sheep's clothing; these are they that will deceive you into thinking that you're "giving a tenth to God." They are hiding their unrepentant hearts behind false doctrine that sounds true. They are only successful if you do not seek to know the real Jesus for yourself. Don't be fooled, beloved.

Jesus doesn't want your money, He wants your soul. Surrender to Him. Your eternal destiny depends on it. All else is vanity.

I always took the sewing and reaping to mean in the SPIRIT, not about MATERIAL GAIN.

Tax collectors have become servants of EXACTLY as wicked a bunch as before.

Roman's 13 is not about paying taxes or obedience to your pending government.
He did not explain the title very well at all. If you do understand the tithe and listened to this then you are now dumber for it. He hits certain highlights but misses so much. Don't trust these so called men of faith. Open your Bible and read it for yourself.

Except from what I've been told Jesus and His disciples never paid tithes. Tithing was from the bounty of the land only, not from the water so fishermen never paid Tithes

Tithing is a con for evil modern men(pastors).Free giving is what we are expected to do but not in an evil way but generously even when people take advantage of you.

The tax was from what came from the ground, if you sold it it was then money to which you would add 10%, labour wages where not subject to the levitacus tithe. The robbing was addressing the priests to my understanding.

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar wasn't about giving and furthermore it was OT.

Good teaching

But in the old testament nobody tithed on their income right? It was only ten percent of the produce of the land?