In Malachi chapter 3, we learn of the consequences when the nation of Israel did not adhere to God’s commandments concerning tithes. As this episode reminds us, God’s relationship with His favored nation under the law was conditional—obey and be blessed, disobey and be chastened and cursed. But in this age of grace, God’s dealings with mankind have changed. Nowhere in the writings of the Apostle Paul is the church instructed to tithe under grace. We give out of gratitude for our freedom in Christ.