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Then we ask: Will this be beneficial to my own spiritual life? Sometimes there are things that are not sins but which are weights or impediments. The writer to the Hebrews says, Lay them aside (12:1). Not only the sins that beset us but the weights, the things that hold us back.
- Christian Liberty by Donald MacLeod

<span style="background-color:#FFFF00">Might the failure to give a tithe (or greater) be just such a "weight?"</span>
<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/nope.gif" alt="" /> Not if the tithe is not binding upon a new covenant believer. Since a Christian is not under ANY obligation whatsoever to give "10% or greater", there is no "weight" to be borne which can burden his/her conscience before the Lord.

Further, your use of Heb 12:1, 2 is irrelevant to the discussion. The writer is speaking about matters of conscience and sin under which the believer labours and which tend to bring spiritual depression and anxiety. Realizing that we have been included by God's grace to be among all the elect who have gone before us and especially since we have a Saviour Who has borne all our griefs and sins, having nailed them to the cross, we are to cast them aside and boldly press on with the full assurance that we have been adopted into the family of the Living God. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:", Rom 5:1.

In His grace,

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