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Insearch
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Username: Insearch
Post Number: 25
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 02, 2009 - 5:11 pm: |     |
On my tithe thread, you mentioned having to pay late fees on your tithe. Will you explain that? We'd sure like to know... |
Insearch
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Username: Insearch
Post Number: 26
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 02, 2009 - 5:13 pm: | |
Hmmm... I'm not sure if I put this where I wanted it. Still not used to everything here... |
Flyinglady
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Username: Flyinglady
Post Number: 7308
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 02, 2009 - 6:04 pm: | |
When I was paying tithe I did not have enough money to pay my bills. I would have to pay late fees on my bills. Sorry I did not explain it very well.
Diana L |
Insearch
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Username: Insearch
Post Number: 29
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 02, 2009 - 6:33 pm: | |
Oh, okay.  We thought the church made you pay late fees on late tithe! |
Flyinglady
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Username: Flyinglady
Post Number: 7309
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 02, 2009 - 7:27 pm: | |
I will have to get Jeremy to look this up, but I remember reading somewhere in EGW that if you cannot pay your tithe that an extra amount is give the next time or something like that. So, if this is not a senior moment, there could be a late fee on late tithe.
Jeremy. yohooooo........
Diana L |
Helovesme2
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Username: Helovesme2
Post Number: 2121
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 03, 2009 - 8:32 am: | |
In the old covenant system, IIRC, if you chose to 'redeem' any of the critters/plants that were to be tithe, you were to add twenty percent to their redemption price. From this some I've known have extrapolated that late tithe should have a twenty percent interest paid with it (I wonder how that interest would be figured? daily? monthly? yearly? - oh the tangled webs!) |
Jeremy
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Username: Jeremy
Post Number: 2930
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 03, 2009 - 12:02 pm: | |
Diana,
EGW teaches that you must pay your "back tithe" for all the times you did not pay tithe! Here are a couple of quotes:
quote:"Many have long neglected to deal honestly with their Maker. Failing to lay aside the tithe weekly, they have let it accumulate, until it amounts to a large sum, and now they are very reluctant to make the matter right. This back tithe they keep, using it as their own. But it is God's property, which they have refused to put into His treasury.--R. & H., Dec. 23, 1890." (Counsels on Stewardship, page 96, paragraph 2.)
"Friday morning I spoke on the subject of tithing. This subject has not been presented to the churches as it should have been, and the neglect, together with financial depression, has caused a marked falling off in the tithes the past year. At this conference the subject has been carefully canvassed in meeting after meeting. . . .
"One brother, a noble-looking man, a delegate from Tasmania, came to me and said, "I am glad I heard you speak today upon tithing. I did not know it was so important a matter. I dare not neglect it longer." He is now figuring up the amount of his tithe for the last twenty years, and says he shall pay it all as fast as he is able, for he cannot have robbery of God registered in the books of heaven meet him in the judgment.
"One sister belonging to the Melbourne church, has brought in eleven pounds [$54] back tithe which she had not understood that it devolved on her to pay. As they have received the light, many have made confession in regard to their indebtedness to God, and expressed their determination to meet this debt. . . . I proposed that they place in the treasury their note promising to pay the full amount of an honest tithe as soon as they could obtain the money to do so. Many heads bowed assent, and I am confident that next year we shall not, as now, have an empty treasury.--MS 4, 1893." (Counsels on Stewardship, page 96 paragraph 4-page 97 paragraph 1.)
More quotes can be found here: http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll/egw-comp/section00000.htm/book01022.htm/chapter01045.htm
Jeremy
(Message edited by Jeremy on August 03, 2009) |
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