We all need people to help lead us to God. From the time of Abraham, God established ways for us to demonstrate our dependence on Him and our need for forgiveness. Giving a tithe (one tenth) of everything one has and offering sacrifice for sins was and is to be the pattern of God's people.
Today there is no Mosaic law that requires either tithing or animal sacrifice! Why? Because Jesus gave Himself and He was the perfect sacrifice for sins. Therefore, Jesus has completed the requirements of the law. Praise be to God for that.
The requirement is now gone, but the principles still remain. The law didn't exist until Moses, but Abraham preceded Moses by hundreds of years. The writer of Hebrews is putting all of His "faith" in Jesus who fulfilled the law and encouraging that "faith" to produce actions; not through law, but rather by faith.
Live by faith today.
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