1) 1 Corinthians 16 discusses the collection for the saints in Jerusalem that Paul had instructed the churches in Galatia to take up, instructing the Corinthians to set aside funds each week so there would be enough when he arrived. 2) 1 Corinthians 9 uses examples from the Old Testament and law of Moses to argue that those who minister spiritual things have a right to material support from those being ministered to, just as soldiers, farmers, shepherds, and priests received support. 3) The document discusses the various types of offerings in the Old Testament like burnt, sin, trespass, and peace offerings and explains that the purpose of these offerings was atonement, fellowship with God, worship, and obligation

1. New vs Old
1 Corinthians 16:1-4 various Old Testament 1 Corinthians 9:8-14

2. 1 Corinthians 16:1–4
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I
directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also. 2 On
the first day of every week each one of you is to put
aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no
collections be made when I come. 3 When I arrive,
whomever you may approve, I will send them with
letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem; 4 and if it is fitting
for me to go also, they will go with me.

3. Giving to the church at Jerusalem
1. Once a week put something aside
2. The regularity of putting aside would prevent special
offering
3. Accountability by choosing someone with a letter
4. Paul may also go

4. Remember Paul's Christian liberties?
1 Corinthians 9:7–14…Who at any time serves as a
soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and
does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and
does not use the milk of the flock? 8 I am not speaking
these things according to human judgment, am I? Or
does not the Law also say these things? 9 For it is
written in the Law of Moses, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE
OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING.” God is not concerned about
oxen, is He? 10 Or is He speaking altogether

5. for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the
plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to
thresh in hope of sharing the crops. 11 If we sowed
spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material
things from you? 12 If others share the right over you, do
we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but
we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to
the gospel of Christ. 13 Do you not know that those who
perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and
those who attend regularly to the altar have their share
from the altar? 14 So also the Lord directed those who
proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

6. Examples
Soldier was paid for his service
Vinedresser received part of the product
The shepherd receive sustenance
The Law of Moses

7. Oxen aren’t muzzled
Plowmen and threshers receive
The priest and Levites receive tithe

8. Jesus-So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the
gospel to get their living from the gospel.
Paul- If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much
if we reap material things from you?

9. The Old Testament Example
Life on the farm
Life in the service of the Temple
1 Corinthians 10:11…Now these things happened to
them as an example, and they were written for our
instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have
come.

10. Purpose of Old Testament offerings
1. Atonement
2. Fellowship
3. Worship
4. Obligation

11. Different Types of Offerings
1. Burnt Exo. 29:18
2. Sin Lev. 4:3
3. Trespass Lev. 5:6
4. Drink Lev. 23:13
5. Heave Ex. 29:27
6. Meal Lev. 2:1
7. Peace Lev. 7:11
8. Wave Lev. 7:30
9. Votive Deut. 12:6
10. First Fruits Exo. 23:16
11. Temple Tax
12. Tithe

12. Different Types of Offerings
1. Burnt Exo. 29:18
2. Sin Lev. 4:3
3. Trespass Lev. 5:6
4. Drink Lev. 23:13
5. Heave Ex. 29:27
6. Meal Lev. 2:1
7. Peace Lev. 7:11
8. Wave Lev. 7:30
9. Votive Deut. 12:6
10. First Fruits Exo. 23:16
11. Temple Tax
12. Tithe

13. Word Wealth
Tithe
Maʿaser- tithe, tenth part. a tenth part. tithe, payment
of a tenth part.

14. Tithe history
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and
wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. He
blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most
High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be
God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into
your hand.” He gave him a tenth of all.
Genesis 14:18–20

15. Reason
Not commanded
Blessed the man of God (fellowship)

16. Tithe history
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me
and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will
give me food to eat and garments to wear, and I return
to my father’s house in safety, then the LORD will be my
God. This stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be
God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely
give a tenth to You.”
Genesis 28:20–22

17. Reason
Not commanded
Bargain with God (obligation)
Worship?

18. General Guidelines
1. Every tenth part of seed or fruit is the Lord’s
2. Every tenth animal belongs to the Lord
3. It was given to the Levites as their portion for their
service to the Lord.
4. Levites tithed to the priests.
5. All offerings, including tithes, were bought to the
Temple

19. Deuteronomy 14:22–29
22 “You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you
sow, which comes out of the field every year. 23 “You
shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God, at the
place where He chooses to establish His name, the
tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the
firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may
learn to fear the LORD your God always. 24 “If the
distance is so great for you that you are not able to
bring the tithe, since the place where the LORD

20. your God chooses to set His name is too far away from
you when the LORD your God blesses you, 25 then you
shall exchange it for money, and bind the money in
your hand and go to the place which the LORD your God
chooses. 26 “You may spend the money for whatever
your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or
strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there
you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and
rejoice, you and your household. 27 “Also you shall not
neglect the Levite who is in your town, for he has no
portion or inheritance among you. 28 “At the end of
every third year you shall bring out all the tithe

21. of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your
town. 29 “The Levite, because he has no portion or
inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and
the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat
and be satisfied, in order that the LORD your God may
bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

22. Third year tithe
When you have finished paying all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you
shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan
and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and
be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 26:12

23. But what about
8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But
you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and
offerings. 9 “You are cursed with a curse, for you are
robbing Me, the whole nation of you! 10 “Bring the
whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be
food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the
LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of
heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it
overflows. 11 “Then I will rebuke the devourer for you,

24. so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor
will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the LORD
of hosts. 12 “All the nations will call you blessed, for you
shall be a delightful land,” says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 3:8-12

25. Curse?
For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a
curse; for it is written, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT
ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO
PERFORM THEM.”
Galatians 3:10
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having
become a curse for us—for it is written, “CURSED IS
EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE”—
Galatians 3:13

26. Christ is our high priest
For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there
takes place a change of law also.
Hebrews 7:12
Christ also made us a royal priesthood

27. New Testament Giving Principles
I & II Corinthians

28. Support the ministry
So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the
gospel to get their living from the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:14

29. Premiere principle
and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave
themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
2 Corinthians 8:5
Give yourself to God

30. Regularly
On the first day of every week each one of you is to put
aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no
collections be made when I come.
1 Corinthians 16:2

31. Their ability
For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond
their ability, they gave of their own accord,
2 Corinthians 8:3
Ability to perform
Willingness

32. You and yours
But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was
the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the
completion of it by your ability. For if the readiness is
present, it is acceptable according to what a person
has, not according to what he does not have.
2 Corinthians 8:11–12
Readiness to give
According to what you have

33. Equality and need
For this is not for the ease of others and for your
affliction, but by way of equality— at this present time
your abundance being a supply for their need, so that
their abundance also may become a supply for your
need, that there may be equality;
2 Corinthians 8:13–14
Don’t give till it hurts
Equality in outcome

34. God makes up the difference
as it is written, “HE WHO gathered MUCH DID NOT HAVE TOO
MUCH, AND HE WHO gathered LITTLE HAD NO LACK.”
2 Corinthians 8:15

35. There is reward
Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap
sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap
bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:6

36. No mandatory giving
Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart,
not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a
cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7

37. Our pattern
I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving
through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your
love also. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He
became poor, so that you through His poverty might
become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:8–9