{"id":4076,"date":"2018-08-26T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2018-08-26T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:44:27","slug":"give-first-receive-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=4076","title":{"rendered":"GIVE FIRST \/ RECEIVE BEST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sermon by Rev. Richard Jones<\/strong><\/h3>\n

rec0826-112550<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Give First \/ Receive Best”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Proverbs 3:9-10 (ESV) <\/b>
\n9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;<\/span>
\n10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Philippians 4:12-13 (ESV) <\/b>
\n12 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0I 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.
\n13 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0I can do all things through him who strengthens me.<\/p>\n

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Exodus 23:19a (ESV) <\/b>
\n19 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cThe best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God.”<\/p>\n

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Deuteronomy 14:22-23 (ESV) <\/b>
\n22 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cYou shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.
\n23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And 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<\/span> your God always. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Deuteronomy 26:1-11 (ESV) <\/b>
\n1 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cWhen you come into the land that the LORD<\/span> your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,
\n2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD<\/span> your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD<\/span> your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
\n3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, \u201d\u02dcI declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.\u201d\u2122
\n4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
\n5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cAnd you shall make response before the LORD<\/span> your God, \u201d\u02dcA 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.
\n6 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.
\n7 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then we cried to the LORD<\/span>, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
\n8 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.
\n9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\n10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD<\/span>, have given me.\u201d\u2122 And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.
\n11 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And 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. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Luke 6:38 (ESV) <\/b>
\n38 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0give, 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.\u201d<\/span>
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Malachi 3:10-12 (ESV) <\/b>
\n10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD<\/span> 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.
\n11 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0I 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<\/span> of hosts.
\n12 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD<\/span> of hosts.<\/p>\n

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1 Samuel 2:30 (ESV) <\/b>
\n30 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: \u201d\u02dcI promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,\u201d\u2122 but now the LORD<\/span> declares: \u201d\u02dcFar be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.<\/p>\n

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Theme<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Not prosperity Gospel, but Provision Gospel.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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