GIVE FIRST / RECEIVE BEST

Sermon by Rev. Richard Jones

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“Give First / Receive Best”

 

Proverbs 3:9-10 (ESV)
9  Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
10  then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

 

Philippians 4:12-13 (ESV)
12  I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
13  I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

 

Exodus 23:19a (ESV)
19  “The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God.”

 

Deuteronomy 14:22-23 (ESV)
22  “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.
23  And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

 

Deuteronomy 26:1-11 (ESV)
1  “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,
2  you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
3  And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ”˜I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”™
4  Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
5  “And you shall make response before the LORD your God, ”˜A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
6  And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.
7  Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
8  And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.
9  And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10  And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.”™ And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.
11  And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

 

Luke 6:38 (ESV)
38  give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

 

Malachi 3:10-12 (ESV)
10  Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
11  I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.
12  Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.

 

1 Samuel 2:30 (ESV)
30  Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ”˜I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,”™ but now the LORD declares: ”˜Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

 

Theme

Not prosperity Gospel, but Provision Gospel.

 

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