🕊️🌱 The Tithing Technique 🕊️🌱

Tithing, in and of itself, is NOT under any religious law. Long, long, long before our tribes or nations began implementing religious, socio-cultural LAWS, tithing was already being practiced in this our universe. Tithing is a great principle that helps a group of people plan, budget, and execute projects. Plain and simple. 

Tithe is NOT by force. But religious, socio-cultural laws (like the Law of Moses) may force people to pay tithes and attach penalties against defaulters. You, as an individual, have to decide whether or not to subject yourself to such laws. If you understand the teachings of Jesus, you will know that it is NOT in your best interest to enslave yourself to man-made religious, socio-cultural laws. 

At the same time, wisdom may admonish you to practice tithing - NOT under "the law" but under grace. Generally speaking, if you are truly intelligent, wise, and spiritually minded, you will always set money aside, for example, 3%, 10%, 20%, etc. 

This is money we may call "charity money" or "gift money". From this money, you may allocate a portion towards the work of a religious group; another portion towards assisting family members, friends, strangers, etc. And you do so cheerfully, according to what you can afford, NOT foolishly beyond your means. Some people give foolishly in the name of "Dangerous or Violent Giving" and then turn around later to beg others for financial assistance. Please, with all due respect, that's just being stupid. 

Melchizedek lived on earth, in Salem, before there was anything like the Jewish religious, socio-cultural laws, a.k.a. "the Law of Moses." He had a church and sent out missionaries around the world. His members gave tithes to his work. Abraham was one of them. 

We have a Biblical record, "Melchizedek Blesses Abram", Genesis 14:20, https://biblehub.com/genesis/14-20.htm, that makes mention of Abraham giving a tenth to Melchizedek. Please, understand this: What Abraham did was NOT a one-off thing. No, please. The record in the Bible does NOT say that was the first and only time Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek. 

It simply shows an example, or an incidence of Abraham giving a tenth to Melchizedek, the Sheik, Leader, or King of Salem, who also functioned as a Priest. And there is so, so much more to be said about this amazing Melchizedek Son of God! Think. Listen to the Spirit of Truth. Receive insight. Abraham was a student of Melchizedek, and he regularly gave tithes to his work. 

In short, the Salem colony, at its height, carried over one hundred thousand (over 100,000) regular tithe payers on the rolls of the Melchizedek brotherhood. You will see this revelation in the Urantia Book Paper 93, "Machiventa Melchizedek", 93:6.8, https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-93-machiventa-melchizedek  

An Example of the Tithing Technique on another Planet
Source: The Urantia Book Paper 55, Section 3, "The Golden Ages" 

55:3.2-6
Human government in the conduct of material affairs continues to function throughout this age of relative progress and perfection. The public activities of a world in the first stage of light and life which I recently visited were financed by the tithing technique. Every adult worker—and all able-bodied citizens worked at something—paid ten per cent of his income or increase to the public treasury, and it was disbursed as follows:

1. Three per cent was expended in the promotion of truth—science, education, and philosophy.
2. Three per cent was devoted to beauty—play, social leisure, and art.
3. Three per cent was dedicated to goodness—social service, altruism, and religion.
4. One per cent was assigned to the insurance reserves against the risk of incapacity for labor resultant from accident, disease, old age, or unpreventable disasters. 

Source Links:
Text: https://urantiabook.org/055-The-Spheres-of-Light-and-Life/#55_3
Audio: https://assetrepository.urantiabook.org/AssetRepository/Audio/eng01/055-The-Spheres-of-Light-and-Life/P055_03.mp3 

Blessed Be! 
- Karo E.K.D. Akamune 
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The Law: Sabbath | Tithe | First Fruits | Use of Jewelries | etc

Galatians 5:18, “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.”

Giving money is of God. But making it A LAW is of the devil. This is what we must understand... When you create or accept a religious law and insist that you must adhere to it very strictly, you work against THE SPIRIT OF THE FATHER. Strict adherence to religious laws makes it difficult for you to, "Walk in the Spirit". Such laws seek to put you in a box BUT no one can put the Spirit in a box. God DOES NOT do things a particular way all the time. This is the beauty of "spiritual liberty". Such laws enslave people and force them to look "outward" for direction instead of looking "inwards" - inwards to the indwelling SPIRIT FRAGMENT OF THE FATHER for divine leading.

To eternally secure your salvation and to experience great spiritual growth, you MUST NOT bring yourself under such laws: laws that say you must not use jewelries; you must Tithe; you must observe a Sabbath day; you must be circumcised; you must give your entire January salary to your Church (a corrupted version of First Fruits), etc, etc. Now for example, if you wish to give 10% of your income, fine. But allow for flexibility as to who, where and how you give it. LET THE SPIRIT LEAD. Also, NEVER MAKE IT A LAW!

Now how can you tell you are under the bondage of a law? Here are some tips:
- You place yourself very strictly and rigidly under a religious rule or regulation.
- You believe that something bad will happen to you if you do not follow it strictly.
- You live in FEAR that things will go wrong with you if you allow for flexibility.

The Law was a faulty and flawed document: Hebrews 7:18-19, “So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the Law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.”

The Law puts you in a slave-matrix of curses: Galatians 3:10-11, “All who rely on works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” And it is clear that no one is justified before God by the Law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.””
Please, note that a part of the real “motive of the Law” was for it to be impossible for you to do everything written therein. The Law tells you that you cannot do one and leave the others; that you must do all. (Galatians 5:3, “Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole Law.”) At the same time, it was crafted in such a way that made it literally impossible to even do all. It guaranteed your bondage and curses (all kinds of unnecessary problems: mental, emotional, psychological, spiritual, physical, etc).

Strictly following a Law makes you to fall from grace and brings curses (all kinds of unnecessary problems) into your life: Galatians 5:4, “You who are trying to be justified by the Law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.”

You are to walk in the Spirit; be led by the Father’s indwelling Spirit NOT by some cleverly crafted Law: Galatians 5:5-6, “But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.” Please note, “Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value” translates to mean DO NOT bring yourself under any religious law. All you need is faith and love. Simple.

Galatians 5:18, “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.”
Galatians 5:1, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.”
Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no Law.” 
No law: law of tithes, law of Sabbath, law of fashion, etc can stand against the fruit of the Spirit. Please, do you understand this?