Part 4
What is the Correct Biblical Injunction on the Tithe for the New Testament Church? — Part 4
The New Covenant brought a new paradigm
A recap
We have discussed tithes as an Old Testament injunction and noted that making it a New Testament command negates the essence of the New Covenant in Christ¹. Now, let us discuss the New Covenant and what it means for the believer in Christ.
A shift from old to new
Whenever there is a paradigm shift, many people remain stuck in the past and find adjusting to the new way of doing things difficult. They try to mix the old and new ways of thinking and doing things within a new framework, which is disastrous!
With the introduction of the New Covenant by Jesus, the entire framework of the Old Covenant was revoked. In Matthew 9:14–17, Jesus used the metaphors of patching old clothes with new cloth and pouring new wine into old wineskins to illustrate the incompatibility of new scriptural concepts with an old doctrinal framework.
Jesus’ discourse on fasting highlighted the emergence of a new way of doing things under the New Covenant, making it clear that attempting to impose Old Covenant practices, such as tithing, on New Covenant believers was…
