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God demands to be
first the Bible says seek ye first the
kingdom of God and his righteousness and
all these things say that with me and
all these things what does that mean
that means the Cornucopia of God the
3,000 promises that are in this book
that promise you what God wants to do
for you when you put for God first all
of these things shall be added unto
you why do we worship on Sunday because
Sunday is the day Jesus rose from the
dead it’s the first day of the week for
us it’s the first fruits of the week
your success on Sunday controls what
happens on the rest of the week why
because this second principle learned
this first fruits sanctify the following
fruits first fruits sanctify what comes
after it so Sunday is the day that
sanctifies Monday through Saturday if
you don’t give the Lord the Sabbath day
then the next six days are not going to
amount to much because they are not
Sanctified by the
Lord
H putting God first in your life
establishes his lordship if he’s not
first he’s not Lord and if he’s not Lord
there’s no blessing there is no favor
there is no
Prosperity think about that CS Lewis
said when first things are put first
second things automatically fall in line
what it means to be first first is
preceding all others in time in order of
importance listen closely first does not
mean number one nothing can be first
unless there’s something else to be the
first one of if you go to a speech
contest and you win first place because
nobody else showed
up you were not first you were just the
only
one follow that first fruits is the
offering of the first grain harvested in
Israel if you did not bring your first
fruit fruits to the Lord’s House there
would be no additional fruit for the
Harvest for the priest to wave it as a
as an offering before the Lord that
brought the Harvest to you God is the
Lord of all or he’s not God at all God
created Adam and Eve and he placed them
in the beauty of the Garden of Eden Adam
went to sleep and he woke up married
it’s enough to make an insomniac out of
you they didn’t have to work 60 hours a
week they didn’t have to battle traffic
going to work and from work and then
wrestle with the IRS trying to keep what
they could or listen to some socialist
candidate running for the presidency of
the United States talking about how they
want to tax you 70% for what you have
saved after that I won’t keep on with
that because I I will get anointed all
by myself and never get off of
it there’s only one command leave the
fruit on the tree of the knowledge of
Good and Evil alone they had one rule
and they broke
it God then gave us Ten Commandments and
we broke them and now we have over a
million laws on the book and we’re
breaking them because until we put God
first there is no rule book on the
planet that’s going to
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work
so the question if God knew what they
were going to do why did God put the
tree there to start with the answer is
to see if Adam and Eve would put him
first when Satan came to tempt them the
Temptation is to put their will above
God’s will when your desires your plans
your ideas become more important than
God’s plan you have adopted the attitude
of Lucifer who later became Satan you
are challenging God’s authority over
your life you can have the attitude of
Lucifer and I’m just going to say Satan
from now on because he’s the same guy
you can have the attitude of Satan and
confess to be a
Christian and you can prove this in the
Bible the fact is when Jesus and the 12
were rejected by the Samaritan James and
John asked Jesus for permission to call
fire from heaven and burn them alive
that’s in your Bible
and Jesus said you don’t know what
Spirit you
have Satan has come to what Rob kill and
destroy Christ came to seek to save that
which was lost Christ came to seek and
to save the disciples had whose attitude
they had the attitude of the Devil
Himself that exist in this
Century there are people who are looking
for the right people before they joined
that church or you’re not in our group
or you’re not of our denomination we’re
not looking for who we can cast out
we’re looking for who we can bring in
we’re not looking for someone to put
down we’re looking for someone to pick
up in the law of first fruits everything
is either sacrificed or redeemed in the
Bible Exodus
13:2 the Bible says consecrate to me all
the firstborn everyone who opens the
womb among the children of Israel both
of men and Beast it is mine end of quote
that’s God’s opinion according to the
Old Testament law the first born was to
be either sacrificed or to redeemed
there’s no third option every time one
of your livestock delivered its
firstborn you were to sacrifice it or to
redeem it fast forward to the New
Testament John the Baptist sees Jesus
Nazareth walking down to the Jordan
River John the Baptist says Behold the
Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of
the world John
1:29 Jesus was God’s only begotten son
he was the first born he had to be
sacrificed or redeemed God allowed his
son a male lamb without spot or blemish
to be sacrificed for the sins of the
world for your sins for your sins for
your sins and for my sins if you do not
accept that sacrifice on the cross then
you must die for your own sins the wages
of sin is death God has made the gift of
the death of his son you reject that
death and you have to pay the bill
yourself which is
easier the next concept whatever is done
with first portion determines what
happens with all the rest follow this
Isaac was the firstborn of Abraham as
the first born he had to be redeemed or
sacrificed that principle continues when
Abraham and Isaac came to the top of
Mount Mariah Isaac was tied now he was
in his 20s so he did this willingly
because his father was over a hundred
Isaac was tied and placed on the altar
God sent a realm
that realm the Bible says was tied by
the horns in a Thicket which was
divinely arranged to redeem Isaac the
point is when the first fruit was given
it brings a mighty Harvest whatever is
done following that determines what
happens with all the rest back to you go
to church on Sunday the next six days
receive God’s blessing you honor the
Lord on the Sabbath day when you give
the Lord the tithe the last 90% is
blessed Isaac was first fruit listen
closely I’m going to cover thousands of
years of history in 60 seconds Isaac was
the first born he had two sons Esau and
Jacob Jacob had 12 sons those 12 sons
produced the tribes of Israel they
produced the Old Testament prophets they
produced the Kings out of King David 33
Generations later came Jesus Christ and
the 12 disciples and the world continued
to grow because of the first fruits
listen closely Joseph sent for his
family J Jacob and his
brothers which were 70 in number they
stayed in Egypt for 430 years and became
a nation of almost 2 million people the
point is even in severe persecution in
Egypt they prospered and grew why
because back at the beginning the first
fruit Isaac on Mount Mariah had been SA
sacrifice to God and God blessed the
Jewish people with a blessing that no
one can take away from them it is theirs
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forever consider The Exodus God told
Moses in Exodus 42223 go to go to
pharaoh and say thus sayth the Lord
Israel is my son my firstborn so I say
to you let my son go that he may serve
me but if you refus to let him go I will
kill your son your firstborn end of
quote the nation of Israel came from
Isaac the son of Promise the firstborn
who was redeemed listen redeemed
property always prospers and it is
always supernaturally protected Pharaoh
rejected moses’ request to let Israel
go God sent 10 plagues to Egypt the 10th
plague was the death death of the
firstborn in Egypt and the firstborn
child and all of the cattle in the whole
nation died that night Exodus 12:30 says
quote there was loud wailing in the land
of Egypt for there was not a house
without someone dead end of quote think
about
that millions of people woke up with a
dead person in the house because they
would not allow allow the Jewish people
to go experience the spiritual
relationship God had promised them to
have I’m saying to the nations of the
Middle East that are gathering right now
against Israel Iran Russia turkey Syria
watch your step there’s a God in heaven
that’s watching Israel he that keepeth
Israel neither Slumbers nor sleeps and
His Eye Is On
You
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as the world around us seems to take a
very dark turn you might ask yourself is
it possible to prosper in every area of
life even in such perilous times the
answer is yes are you trusting him to
lead the way and show you what steps to
take next in him you have the ability to
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storm consider the law of first fruits
and the resurrection of Jesus and how
this affects you the first fruits found
its prophetic fulfillment in the
resurrection 1 Corinthians chapter 15
verse 20 says but now Christ is risen
from the grave listen and has become the
first fruits of those who have fallen
asleep meaning those who have died
follow the facts Jesus rose from the
dead on the third day
in the month of Nissan that’s April the
16th which was the day of first fruits
his resurrection guarantees your
resurrection and mine because he lives
you shall also live 1 Corinthians 1551
behold I show you a mystery we shall not
all sleep in death but we shall be
changed in a moment in the twinkling of
a ey there’s coming a day for every
person who died in a state of
righteousness is before God that because
Jesus the first fruit Rose into heaven
and is now in heaven they themselves in
the twinkling of an eye are going to
rise to meet the Lord in the air and so
shall they ever be with the Lord that’s
in the
Bible I hear people all the well I don’t
believe that I don’t care what you
believe it’s in the Bible God said it
and that settles it going to
happen consider the law of first fruits
and the fall of
Jericho 430 years of slavery in Egypt
was followed by 40 years in the Heat and
the grit of the desert with Joshua as
their leader God released a plan that
would begin the
conquest of the holy land for the Jewish
people think of Jericho as first fruits
it was the first city that stood between
Israel and the promised land they are a
nation of
slaves who have never marshaled an army
they are learning principles of combat
as Joshua is teaching them but they’re
far from a mighty Army right now so God
is saying I’m going to fight this fight
for you because this first city belongs
to me God made it clear he was giving
them
Jericho there was only one thing
forbidden and that was the gold and the
silver in Jericho and that’s according
to Joshua 6:18 and 19 19 and You by all
means abstain from the cursed things
lest you become cursed when you take the
cursed thing and make the camp of Israel
a curse of trouble for it but all the
gold and the silver and the vessels
belong to me sayth the Lord because
Israel fully understood the law of first
fruits every one of them got the message
except one
guy aen there’s always one guy in a
crowd that thinks he’s smarter than
anybody
else that night they went to bed in
Israel after Jericho collapsed and
theyan is laying in his tent saying all
of that money is just a few hundred
yards right over there I can slip from
tent to tent in the darkness and get
gold and silver I’ll be rich for life he
went over there and got it he came back
buried it in his tent rolled back on his
got and said I’m
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rich the next day Israel went out to
fight AI a little old insignificant
Army it would be like the Astros playing
a pop warner
team they should have cleaned their
clock but they did not Joshua inquired
of the Lord what’s
wrong God says get up quit praying
there’s sin in in your Camp there was a
tent by tent search for every tribe
achen had time to repent because there
were thousands of tents to
inspect 11 tribes were search ain’s
tribe the tribe of Judah was last and
they came to his tent and Joshua came to
the tent and said Joshua 7:19 aen give
God the
glory give what you took aen had stolen
the glory of God because he took the
things that belong to God the
result what happened aen his wife his
sons his daughters every animal he had
all his livestock were stoned to death
by Israel they stacked their bodies in a
pile and burned them to an ash to purge
Israel of the sin of taking what
belonged to
God the Bible says I am the Lord I never
change have you stolen what belongs to
God think about it because of one man’s
Disobedience the entire nation of Israel
suffered a
consequence they had to deal with the
aen Factor before they could come back
and get the blessing of
God are you taking what belongs to to
God if one nation could be affected by
one man a church of 22,000 could be
affected by a very very
few oh I don’t know if I believe
that you know how cancer starts one cell
goes crazy and then it doubles and
doubles and doubles and grows and it has
you before you know it’s
there Little Things become worse if
they’re not corrected if there are
little sins in your life don’t pet them
until they became a spiritual become a
spiritual cancer get them out of your
life confess it is wrong and stop doing
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it the law of first fruits and tithing
tithing is first fruit
God established first fruits to remind
Israel of his lordship first fruits
include children animals crops fruit
trees the Bible says I want the first
portion of everything when God destroyed
Jericho it was the first city conquered
in the promised land on the road to the
promised land it was the first fruits
where God said bring all the gold and
silver from Jericho to my house God
didn’t say you conquer 10 cities and
give me the gold and the silver from the
last one and I will be I’ll be Satisfied
no I want the gold and the silver from
the first one listen now your income is
either consecrated or
cursed think about that the tithe in
scripture is either consecrated to the
Lord if you keep it for yourself it
becomes a curse to you if you steal it
from God because that’s God’s money
Malachi 389 will a man rob God yet you
have robbed me God says when you don’t
tithe God put you a picture on the mug
shot in
heaven known thieves in San
Antonio shoplifters
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all when a Redemptive work is in process
the number 10 will be involved there
were 10 plagues that used were used to
get Israel out of Egypt’s bondage Ten
Commandments were
given to Moses at Mount
Si the donkeys were sent to get Joseph
and bring him to Egypt were 10 in number
the 10th part of your increase points to
the Redemption of your increase the
question is is it possible to give 10%
of your income and not give the first
fruit and the answer is yes the tithe
according to the law first fruit should
be the first of your income that breaks
the curs let me give you a very simple
illustration let’s say that these are
$100 bills they’re not because this is a
lowbudget
program and we don’t carry that kind of
money
around our security is good but there’s
no need to test them there are 10 of
these and it’s your time at your house
to start paying your bills and so you
make your house
note you make your Mercedes
payment you pay for your trip to
Hawaii yeah you pay your lawyer for
various things you shouldn’t have done
and you get right on down to the end and
this last one you give to the LA
this is not the
tithe the
tithe is this
one this
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one oh you say but it’s the same
amount that’s not how God counts it God
says I want to be
first I don’t want to be after your
poodle or after your vacation I want to
be
first the
point when you get the tithe the 90% is
consecrated and it’s blessed and God
will bless you exceedingly abundantly
above all that you can ask or
imagine are you giving what God asked
the first fruits or are you playing like
aen stealing what is God’s and praying
for God’s blessing on your
life think about that you can go to
church and sing Amazing Grace and be a
thief do you want God’s favor do you
want his abundance do you want unlimited
Victory do you want Divine Health do you
want unlimited promotion do you want a
harvest of your Fields then give God
what he ask so shall you prosper in the
Old Testament Moses told the children of
Israel to bring the offering to the
priest to Anointed Hands when Jesus was
on the earth he told his disciples to
bring the boy sack lunch of Five Loaves
and two fish first fruits he blessed it
it multiplied they fed the thousands of
people who were there and gave the boy a
basket 12 baskets to go back home with
many times more than he came with today
as we celebrate first fruits I want us
to do what God asked Israel to do want
you to stand to your
feet stand to your
feet as required by the Lord concerning
Israel to bring your first fruits
offering forward and place it on the
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now
Grace How Sweet the
Sound
sa a
WR like
me I
want was
lost but
now I
found
was but
now I
see my my chains are
gone I’ve been set
free my God my
savior has ransomed
me and like a
blood his Mercy
Reigns unending
love
amazing grace de that my chains are
gone I will set
free my God my
savior has ransome
me and like a
blood his Mercy
Reigns unending
love amazing
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Divine Victory today now may the Lord
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face to shine upon you and be gracious
unto you giving you his peace may you
know that the depth of sin has been
forever paid by the shed blood of Jesus
Christ Our Savior because he has risen
from the grave you are more than a
conqueror may you know that the
Limitless blessings of the Lord include
joy that maketh rich and adth no sorrow
may you walk in the freedom from the
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amen