1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,560 Man, bless the name of the Lord. Someone said thank you, Jesus, 2 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,960 Amen. Thank the Lord, man, such a 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,480 powerful, powerful presence of the Lord in song today, even as 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,920 we've lifted our voices and acknowledged him through the 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,560 lyrics of song, Amen. I'm thankful for that. 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,360 I'm glad I come somewhere and feel his presence. 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,920 I it's, it's great to know that he's there, but it's a whole 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,240 nother level when you can feel that he is there. 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,360 Amen. And so that's comforting. 10 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,560 Amen to our lives. Amen. 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,600 We're so happy to be in this month of November and December's 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,400 around the corner and all of the holidays and such and the places 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,240 that you're going to go eat and the company parties and all the 14 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:43,920 other things that's going to be taking place. 15 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:46,280 And just we're forecasting a little bit in the future. 16 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,240 Next month, of course, we have, they'll be the Ignite Christmas 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,520 party. They'll be on December the 6th 18 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,760 starting at 6:30 and then on the 12th of December is the Ladies 19 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,040 Christmas Party starting at 6:30. 20 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,080 Then the very next night on the 13th is the adult Christmas 21 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:03,360 party. Amen. 22 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,800 Starting at 6:30. Everybody say let's party. 23 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,480 All right, Hey, man. And then tonight at six O clock, 24 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:17,000 we're having a party. OK, Yeah, we kind of walked you 25 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,560 into that one, didn't we? Someone was about right. 26 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,280 Grabbed their napkin and their plate and just Amen. 27 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:23,440 We are though. Amen. 28 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:25,160 So thank you. If you'll stand with me this 29 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,000 morning, we'll turn to Leviticus. 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,160 Leviticus chapter 23. Amen. 31 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,840 Leviticus chapter 23 and we're going to look at the word of the 32 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,840 Lord and read a few verses of scripture Amen today, glad to 33 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,640 have each one of you with us in God's house and see your smiling 34 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,120 faces Amen Erica and the different ones we have family 35 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,680 from Tennessee that are here and we're just grateful for each and 36 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,960 every individual Amen. We want to as already been made 37 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,240 mentioned, we want to continue in prayer Amen. 38 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,400 For those that are looking at or has already experienced job 39 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,680 losses, this that's bad. Any time of year that that just 40 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,560 takes again, another level at this time of year. 41 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,480 And I think that goes without saying, but I said it anyway, 42 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,039 Amen. So we're going to continue to 43 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:11,680 pray Amen for them and strengthen them through prayers. 44 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,880 Amen. Hey, man, Leviticus chapter 23. 45 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,240 I'm going to begin reading with verse #9 and 10. 46 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,120 And then I'll skip down and just read another verse again. 47 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,840 Our, our projector is, is kind of on the blitz. 48 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,640 So if it goes away, it's OK. Guess what? 49 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:32,040 We used to have church without them and people brought their 50 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:36,800 Bibles to church. I'm just saying, I'm just 51 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,280 letting you know we used to do this with Adam, Amen. 52 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,880 So you know, there were times we didn't even have air 53 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,640 conditioning, right? The elders remember dirt floors. 54 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:53,000 So we're not intimidated by it's, you know, hiccups, Amen. 55 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,360 Verse #9 The Bible says, And the Lord spake the Moses saying, 56 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,800 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When 57 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,840 you come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap 58 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:11,760 the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first 59 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,400 fruits of your harvest unto the priests. 60 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,520 Skipping down to. Verse #14 And ye shall eat 61 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,960 neither bread nor parched corn nor green ears until, or if I 62 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,440 say until the self same day that you have brought an offering 63 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:31,200 into the Lord your God, it shall be a statute forever throughout 64 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,600 your generations in all your dwellings. 65 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,240 Amen. This morning, I don't know what 66 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:39,320 I'm doing. I don't know if I'm preaching 67 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,280 teaching. I'm going to be talking to you 68 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,680 though, I know that. But I want to talk to us today 69 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,800 about preserving the giving pattern. 70 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,400 Preserving the giving pattern. We'll look at this a little bit 71 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,800 more because we understand through Scripture, we have 72 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,680 taught it and preached it. We've understood the blessing 73 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,120 and giving. The Bible portrays that at 74 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,080 various places throughout the work, the blessing and giving. 75 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:06,480 It also tells us about the command or the mandate in 76 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,720 giving. Today I'm going to look a little 77 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,080 bit further at that. Giving has a meaning. 78 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,560 Giving is tied to a message. All right. 79 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,079 And so I want to talk about that a little bit today, preserving 80 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:20,920 the giving pattern. Can we go to the Lord and 81 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,880 prayer? Father God, we're so grateful 82 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,720 today. God, it's in you, Lord God, 83 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,440 Lord, through you, Lord Jesus, whereby we have our very being. 84 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,360 I pray, O Lord, today that you're able to touch every 85 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,240 heart, every soul, Lord and mind God, as we present ourselves to 86 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,440 the Lord today, God, with time and with worship, Lord Jesus and 87 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,040 of resources, God, we return it to you. 88 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,640 We glorify your name and know God, that you're able to do all 89 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,440 things and do them well. And the lovely name of Jesus 90 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,120 Christ that I pray Amen and Amen of the church say Amen and then 91 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,400 you may be seated this morning in Jesus name. 92 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:04,160 Whether we realize it truly or not, symbols and and types, if 93 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,240 we could call them that symbols and types are are important to 94 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,240 us. They're important to us. 95 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,080 These things, symbols that may have no words even associated 96 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,920 them, but just an Ensign or a symbol of some type. 97 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,120 Many times they they serve as tools to communicate something. 98 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,880 Many of us are aware of this, that going even to a public 99 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,600 bathroom without any letters on it. 100 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,800 A lot of times there's some symbol there that that is 101 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,000 communicating something unto us. We have it all the time. 102 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,560 I know we maybe grow immune to them, but as we walk in this 103 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,920 everyday life, we have it along highways, we have it in 104 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,240 buildings. There's communication constantly 105 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,640 taking place just by emblem or by a symbol there. 106 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:51,680 There's identity sometimes that that is conveyed by a symbol 107 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,440 even in through symbols there, there is teaching. 108 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,000 We I mean, if if anybody should know that it should be the 109 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,880 generation now, right? They don't even text using 110 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,360 words. It's just all emojis, you know, 111 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,920 they're conveying how they felt and what they eat and everything 112 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:09,080 just, you know, through a heap of symbols, you know, And I'm 113 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,640 like some archaeologists looking at some of that from my kids, 114 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,560 trying to decipher all the hieroglyphics, you know, of 115 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,320 what? What are they saying to me? 116 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,280 But there's communication, there's, there's teaching that's 117 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,200 taking place. And a lot of times those symbols 118 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,000 that that we see or that we're familiar with, they're they're 119 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,560 connected to some type of larger idea. 120 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:31,200 They're connected to some type of greater truth. 121 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,600 They're representing something even more than the makeup of 122 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,040 what they are. And so when we see these 123 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,920 different symbols and things, there's, there's feelings that 124 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,720 are invoked right in our lives when we see them. 125 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,400 Or even more importantly, and I'll talk about it here in just 126 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:51,040 a bit, when we may see certain symbols in our estimation and 127 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,240 maybe truly true, disrespected or misconstrued. 128 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:58,400 I say that when I say this. And Brother Mason, I don't know 129 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,000 if you have my art up there this morning, if you and show the 130 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,760 first artwork, if it'll work with us. 131 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,040 But the artwork, this artwork, is it not working? 132 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:09,600 Just let me know. It's not working. 133 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,680 It's up, OK. The artwork is it's a artwork of 134 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,360 a cross crucifix. Did you get a flash of it? 135 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,480 We'll play peek a Boo with it. All right. 136 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:26,360 It's just it's just a cross. But Ronald McDonald, the famed 137 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:31,200 there You go is hanging on the cross in the crucifix type 138 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,160 fashion that that you would typically see Jesus hanging on 139 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,880 the cross. This artwork begin to be 140 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:43,320 displayed in museums in 2018, and I know you can't really tell 141 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,760 the size of that, but it is quite large. 142 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,760 It's quite large work. It was being put on museums and 143 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,000 it went through one of the museums in Israel. 144 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,000 It was being displayed there and it was in an exposition about 145 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:03,480 religion and faith and how in culture and consumerism is like 146 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,680 all these things together. And so the exposition was really 147 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:11,920 about how giant corporations are are you have cynical use of of 148 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,120 religious symbols. And it was supposed to show how 149 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,000 Ronald McDonald and I quote, has become a symbol of popular 150 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,960 culture reaching the level of religious worship And Christians 151 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:25,760 in the area. You can only imagine this being 152 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:30,320 in the museum in Israel, right? And Jews in the area, you can 153 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,480 only imagine being in that type of context that that they begin 154 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:40,400 to petition the museum and begin to petition the municipality to 155 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,320 remove what is known as the Mick Jesus. 156 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,440 As a matter of fact, Wadi Abu Nazar, the advisor to church 157 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,680 leaders in the Holy Land, said that such visual imagery is 158 00:08:54,680 --> 00:09:00,280 blasphemous in the Middle East. He said that this display is, 159 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,480 and I quote, an affront to our symbols. 160 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,640 We demand their removal. There was something else on 161 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:13,480 display in crucifix form. They're not just at the museum, 162 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,160 but from my understanding this was also sold in stores and I 163 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,240 don't know how long it lasts, but it was something else on the 164 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,280 crucifix. It was 10 Jesus Christ. 165 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:32,600 They also had Barbie as Mary. These were being sold and 166 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,680 propagated around and, and again, artwork and looking at 167 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:40,120 all these things and I, I can sense from looking at some of 168 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,280 your faces, maybe a little bit that you're just as much as 169 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:48,640 appalled as perhaps maybe some Jew over in Israel overseeing 170 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,320 such things. That's on the cross, right? 171 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,360 Because when we think of the cross, we think of Christ and we 172 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,600 think of the ultimate sacrifice and we think about a display of 173 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,080 the greatest degree of love and mercy. 174 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,400 And there's admiration. And so even if you're trying to 175 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,040 make a point through our putting, putting Ronald McDonald 176 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,840 on the cross and there's like a little cringe, you know, that 177 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,160 happens. There's a little devalue when 178 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,760 you see the Ken doll, you know, hanging on the cross. 179 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,000 It there's just something that happens, right? 180 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,760 And the reason why this happens is because that cross has been a 181 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:28,680 symbol, that cross has been a type and, and in these episodes, 182 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:32,560 it's almost seemingly compromised or, or being abused 183 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:35,920 to a certain degree because it differs from what we have known 184 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,440 to, to equate with what it represented and what it meant. 185 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,120 There's some in our great America day of the United 186 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,240 States. And they have, they have all 187 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,360 legal rights to do this. But there are people in the 188 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,160 United States today that may burn the American flag and that 189 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,640 has happened here upon the good old USA soil. 190 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,880 And in doing so, they're flexing the right of their First 191 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,240 Amendment of, of free speech. And they can do that. 192 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,160 But just as much as there are some that do that, there are 193 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,520 probably a majority more of Americans that would frown on 194 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:14,600 such an act taking place. I know that those who do burn 195 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,560 them, they have a legal right. But let me just as a side say 196 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:19,320 this. Just because something is 197 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,120 legally permissible doesn't mean it's morally right. 198 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,280 So they might do this, but there's others here in America 199 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,200 that they just see that flag and it's simplistic beauty of stars 200 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,720 and stripes. And they see it as a sacred 201 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,680 symbol representing all the sacrifices of soldiers and the 202 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:44,200 values of freedom that you and I opposed in the unity of a nation 203 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,400 in that flag. And so to them, Brother Fred, 204 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,520 burning that flag is disrespectful. 205 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,720 It's morally wrong. It's a rejection of the very 206 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,760 ideals that our country and our nation was built upon. 207 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:01,040 Yeah, it's just a flag. It's become equated to 208 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:02,840 something. I, I don't know about you, but 209 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,920 every once in a while, whenever we go to stores and I, I'm just 210 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,720 let my wife run in and I find a parking spot and I'm sitting 211 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:13,240 there and I see someone pulled in into a, a handicap spot and, 212 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,320 and they get out and, and there doesn't seem to be anything. 213 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,400 And there's no indication on the license plate. 214 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,240 There's no plaque card in the window. 215 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:23,240 Something just starts, you know, turning in me a little bit. 216 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:27,440 I, I start, I start feeling like an injustice is done here just a 217 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,200 little bit. You know, they come to this 218 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,680 handicap spot. There's none of the things that 219 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:34,520 they should have that proves that they should have that, that 220 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,520 that ability or that privilege extended to them. 221 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,800 And you say, well, brother McGee, why would you be so upset 222 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,240 at that? For that matter? 223 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,440 There's no words that even say handicapped spot, but there's a 224 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:52,960 symbol, a universally accepted type and symbol that everybody 225 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,240 knows what that means. Everybody knows who that is 226 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,360 reserved for. Someone say symbols matter. 227 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,200 Symbols matter. Moses got in trouble in the 228 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,240 Scripture because he of blatant disobedience to God. 229 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,040 God said, I want you to speak to the rock, and instead of 230 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,520 speaking to the rock, Moses smote the rock not once, but 231 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,600 twice. And in doing so, we understand 232 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,960 through the whole collective compendium of Scripture that he 233 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:26,040 was breaking a type. He was devaluing a symbol. 234 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,560 He was devaluing, if you will, a type. 235 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:33,240 Yes, He did it in public in the eyes of all Israel, But rather 236 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,040 than speak to the rock, he smote the rock twice, according to 237 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,520 Numbers 20. And it's when we get to the New 238 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,840 Testament Scripture and there's a reflection back on all of that 239 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,640 First Corinthians 10 and four, that the Bible informs us that 240 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,960 that they drank of that spiritual rock because water 241 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,640 still came forth. They drank of that spiritual 242 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,120 walk rock that followed them. And that rock was Christ. 243 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:04,000 That rock was an emblem, a symbol, a type of Christ. 244 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,440 And so in Exodus 17, the first time that God told Moses to go 245 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,080 to the rock, he said smite the rock and he did. 246 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,280 And water came out. And that was beautiful because 247 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,000 that was fulfilling the type of that rock be in Christ who was 248 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,920 only smoked once for our sins, smoked once, if you will, 249 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:27,760 crucified once for humanity, for the salvation of mankind once 250 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,120 and for all. The writer of Hebrews says it 251 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,080 didn't have to be done over and over, but once and for all. 252 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,240 Amen. But now, now that he goes the 253 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,520 second time and is supposed to speak, rather than speaking, he 254 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,400 smites it twice. And this is wrong because Moses, 255 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,720 you are undermining what it is foreshadowing. 256 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 You're undermining the type, the role of Christ. 257 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,440 He was only smitten once, and after he smitten once. 258 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,680 Now you don't have to go smite him again. 259 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:02,720 You just have to talk to him. You're breaking the symbol, 260 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,520 breaking the type. And it mattered to God that 261 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,920 Moses disobeyed. It mattered to him that he 262 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:15,360 demoralized the type. I feel right. 263 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,480 So if Genesis, we read the book of Genesis and we have all of 264 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,600 the creative matters and we have all the great patriarchs of 265 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,000 Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph, and we have also though 266 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,480 a mark there in Genesis that Genesis is well known for, of 267 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:31,440 the fall. And then we would get the book 268 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,040 of Exodus. Exodus really centers around the 269 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,560 deliverance of the children of Israel, Amen. 270 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,960 From Egypt. It is, if you will, the theme of 271 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,240 redemption. Then if Genesis was the fall and 272 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,320 Exodus was redemption, then Leviticus would have to be 273 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:51,440 worship because God was teaching through this book. 274 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,320 How many? When's the last time you read 275 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:58,840 Leviticus through? A lot of people's Bible reading 276 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:04,920 plans go topsy turvy once they hit Leviticus, right? 277 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,880 All the different offerings, all the different sacrifices, how 278 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,440 old they're supposed to be when they're supposed to be offered, 279 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,160 You know how much blood EFA this and that and the other. 280 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,760 But all of Leviticus is talking about Christ. 281 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,280 All Leviticus is talking about Christ. 282 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,200 They are types and shadows of Christ. 283 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,560 He, he comes in Leviticus and God is talking to his people 284 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,320 about all these various offerings and prescribed 285 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,000 sacrifices and he's informing them about the different feast 286 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,680 and all of it. It's a way so that the people 287 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:41,120 could draw nigh to God, right, and be in all of God and be 288 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,800 reverent and respectful of God. As a matter of fact, in our text 289 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,160 this morning, the first verse and second verse of chapter 23, 290 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,760 the Bible says that God was speaking to the people. 291 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,480 He talks about several feasts in chapter 23. 292 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,160 He says these are the feast of the Lord. 293 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,480 They are holy convocations. He even goes to the degree to 294 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,080 say these are my feasts and they're not just his feast 295 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,839 because they are dedicated to God or or to honor God. 296 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:11,000 They are his feast because in a sense they are illustrating his 297 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:17,440 role of what he would be in the flesh as Christ Jesus, right? 298 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,440 The Bible even tells us in the New Testament that all these Old 299 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,359 Testament things are written for are in samples. 300 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,599 Jesus even said in New Testament Scripture, he said all of the 301 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,720 laws and the prophets, they are speaking about me. 302 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,640 That's what Jesus said. The writer of Hebrew said that 303 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:39,440 for the law having a shadow of good things to come, they're not 304 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:40,840 the substance, it's just a shadow. 305 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,760 They're talking about something that is coming. 306 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,080 And so as we read the book of Leviticus, the whole thing 307 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,320 concerning the offerings, like the whole burnt offering that 308 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:52,880 was to be offered, the complete animal was offered up as a burnt 309 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,880 sacrifice unto God. It's foreshadowed the row of the 310 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,480 man Christ Jesus. Again, that would be the 311 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,920 ultimate total giving of himself. 312 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,040 Sacrifice, Amen. The Lamb of God once and for all 313 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,600 offered for humanity the peace offering that we read about 314 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,280 Leviticus, its purpose was to maintain and to secure 315 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,600 reconciliation and fellowship with God. 316 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:22,480 That foreshadowed again Christ Jesus, who Timothy said there's 317 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,960 one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus who 318 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:32,880 would bring peace again, peace that was broken in the garden 319 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,320 back between God and men because God was upset because of sin and 320 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,040 the anger of God, so to speak, had to be satisfied. 321 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,600 And the only way it could be satisfied is God made himself a 322 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,240 body came down and dwelt. That body went to the cross and 323 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:51,400 died to satisfy. He brought peace. 324 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:58,880 He's the Prince of Peace the Day of Atonement staring Leviticus 325 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,760 high priest would go into the holies of holies and the Bible 326 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,440 says not without blood. We go with blood in the tone for 327 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:11,960 the people again foreshadowing your Lord and Savior who after 328 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:17,440 his resurrection, he's going to take a heavenly trip because the 329 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,160 blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses us. 330 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:28,560 The Bible says from all sin Passover lamb, but not born 331 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:33,400 anybody Passover lamb in Leviticus, right We read it of 332 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,240 also in Exodus. Here it is. 333 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,960 It's the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus, the one that John said 334 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,800 here's the Lamb of God crying out those who said here is the 335 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,360 Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world. 336 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,800 That Passover was the very the very little crack, if you will, 337 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,120 in the wall leading them out of Egypt that night when the death 338 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,200 of the first born took place coinciding with Passover. 339 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,680 They would go out Israel with a high hand. 340 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,680 All that lamb, the death of that lamb, the consumption of that 341 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:11,680 lamb, the blood of that lamb on the household, all a type of 342 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,640 Christ. And then? 343 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:20,160 He came a little later in the verses that I read to you to 344 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,600 discuss with Israel the Feast of First Fruits. 345 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:32,040 Because according to the law of first Fruits, God told them that 346 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,560 when the harvest of the first fruits come and the first fruits 347 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:40,600 that that were ripe were particularly the barley harvest 348 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,880 first, then the wheat harvest, and then you had the fruit of 349 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,000 the vine and the oil of the olives. 350 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,400 You, you had all of these, but the first fruits of that barley 351 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,120 harvest. He said whenever they are 352 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:54,720 starting to ripen, He says, listen to me, children of 353 00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:03,160 Israel, I will not allow you to enjoy any portion of the harvest 354 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:12,160 until you have brought to me the first fruits of that harvest. 355 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,240 He said you're not to you're not to consume any grain for your 356 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:23,280 purposes until I'm recognized by what you bring to me. 357 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:29,600 And you're acknowledging that this has really come from God. 358 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,800 So I'm going to return the first fruit of it back to God, he 359 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,520 says. When you have done that, when 360 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,080 you have acknowledged me and recognized that has come from 361 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,160 me, he says, and return that first portion to me, then I'll 362 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:49,400 allow you to eat parched corn and, and this and that the 363 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,040 other, this law was given. Here's something I want you to 364 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,600 realize. We're at Leviticus this right 365 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,480 now, this whole episode of Leviticus. 366 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,240 When Leviticus starts, they're at Mount Sinai. 367 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,040 When Leviticus ends, they're at Mount Sinai. 368 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,720 They come out of Egypt. They went through the Red Sea. 369 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,560 They've made their journey to Mount Sinai. 370 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,240 And the Bible says they were at Mount Sinai for about a year as 371 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,480 the word of the Lord and the law of God is being shared with his 372 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,080 people. And this is among the laws that 373 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,360 he is sharing with them. So what are you saying? 374 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:20,440 I'm saying this. He's talking to them about a 375 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,480 harvest from a land they don't even have yet. 376 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,800 They're not land owners right now. 377 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:35,120 No, no, no. There they have been nomads. 378 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,080 They're they're pitching tents and they're taking up stakes. 379 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,640 No land has been allocated to them yet. 380 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:45,280 Yet nonetheless, God is anticipating that they will be 381 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,400 and has promised to them that they will be land owners. 382 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,560 And so he begins at this point to instruct them on what they 383 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,320 should do and how should they handle the grain of their future 384 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,320 promised land. Let me just stop here for a 385 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,680 moment and say today, in a very literal fashion, you can never 386 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:10,200 plan too early to give. God prioritized it. 387 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 He talked to them about it before they had the grain to do 388 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:20,200 it with, before they had the fields, before they had the seed 389 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,680 to sow to produce it, before they had the land, before they 390 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,880 had done any work for it. God instructed This is how you I 391 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:34,760 want you to handle the first fruits before they would get 392 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,560 that first roots they'd send people out into into that field 393 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,400 and Kevin whenever they seen certain parts of that grain 394 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,160 starting to bud. Then I've talked about this 395 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:50,560 year's a long time ago, where they tied, that's where you got 396 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,440 your little cords from your horses, all right, where they 397 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,440 tied that red ribbon around the first fruits marking that it was 398 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,840 the first to bud. And so they would do that. 399 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,720 And so when it was harvest time, they would go out and it would 400 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,800 be those bundles or those sheets, those bundles that they 401 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,440 put together that they would cut first, right? 402 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,960 And they wouldn't delay in doing this, the Scripture, Exodus 22 403 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,720 and verse 29. I got a point today. 404 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,560 Just just hang with me. I've been around here for a 405 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,760 little while, so welcome home. Amen. 406 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,560 He says this is what the scripture says. 407 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,160 Thou shalt not delay, or if I say delay, to offer the first of 408 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,880 thy right fruits and of thy liquors, which it is, it's 409 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,080 sparked speaking about the products of the fruit of the 410 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,320 vine and the oil. Whenever it speaks of that, he 411 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,600 says the first born of thy son shalt thou give to me all the 412 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:43,200 all the first fruits and the first born all the 1st right of 413 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:44,920 the increase that was brought into their life. 414 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:47,720 They were to give and they were not to delay. 415 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,920 Someone say don't delay, don't do it. 416 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,000 If you delay, you fall. You fall to the mindset of Cain 417 00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:00,600 even in scripture who Abel brought a firstling of his 418 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,560 flock. But the Bible says in process of 419 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,640 time that Cain brought the fruit of the ground. 420 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,760 He delayed, he delayed, he said bring that, bring that first 421 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,840 fruit unto the Lord. This is in part first and we'll 422 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,040 get into this, but first fruits isn't 100% identical with 423 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:24,640 tithing, but first fruits are the first of the time they're 424 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,120 included within it. That's that's and I've talked to 425 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:29,440 people, we've had men's group and everything. 426 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,240 Someone never understood. That's one of the reasons why we 427 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:41,880 pay off our gross and not our net, because before the 428 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,600 government's touched it, before Social Security's touched it, 429 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:50,560 before my health insurance touched it, all of that was 430 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,480 increased to me. All of that was mine to begin 431 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:54,520 with. Where the government could have 432 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:59,880 got any. It's the first fruits, he says. 433 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:06,040 Don't delay, Don't delay in giving the first fruits. 434 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,640 Look what it says. Proverbs 3:00 and 9:00 this goes 435 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,000 on. This goes on through Scripture. 436 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,480 He says honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first 437 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,120 fruits of all. Everybody say all. 438 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,040 That's one of the biggest words in the English language. 439 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:28,280 With all thine increase, so shall thy barns be filled with 440 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,760 plenty, And thy presses shall burst out with new wine. 441 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:38,800 All thine increase if it's increased to you. 442 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:47,240 The first fruits belong to God. Is that right, Fred? 443 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,320 I remember years ago, whenever you first started your business, 444 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,480 you talked to Bishop pastor at that time talking about how, how 445 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,720 we do this tithing stuff, even for businesses, right? 446 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,640 Because this seems like a, a, a, a, a peculiar thing. 447 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,080 And, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but we tithe off the 448 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,760 profit. What is increased to you, right? 449 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:10,880 What is increased to you? You know, we and I, maybe I'm 450 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,120 fanatical, but if we have yard sales at our house, we're paying 451 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,320 ties. I get gift cards. 452 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,480 Although it's not money, it has a monetary value. 453 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:19,960 It's increased to me. I can eat on that. 454 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,760 I'm paying ties off of it. It's just increase. 455 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:31,120 Amen. Well, he says don't delay. 456 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,440 Why? He says because the if you delay 457 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,720 in that, he said I can't lift my hand for the blessing of all the 458 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,400 rest. He says do it of all by 459 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,280 increase. Look, there are various ways we 460 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,120 honor God. We honor God with our time. 461 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:48,560 We honor him with our lifestyle. We though also honor God with 462 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,280 our substance, particularly the first fruits of all our increase 463 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,600 and know well that in all of this God is first on the giving 464 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,560 list. God is first on the giving list, 465 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,840 not last. We give him first of all our 466 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,480 increase. And do you recognize for the 467 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,440 maze? Can you put back up verse #10? 468 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:14,120 Verse #10 is the result of verse #9 he says, So shall thy barns 469 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:17,160 be filled. Your barns will be filled 470 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,560 because you've honored God with your substance. 471 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,480 Your barns will be filled because you gave the first 472 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,560 fruits of your increase. You'll be filled with plenty. 473 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,800 Your presses will overflow. You'll burst out a new one. 474 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,520 That'll happen because of first fruits. 475 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,120 That's the blessing we talk about. 476 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:43,920 That's the blessing we talk about Deuteronomy 26 and 10. 477 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,960 And now, behold, I have brought the first fruits of the lamb. 478 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:55,240 Note this next phrase which thou, O Lord, has given me. 479 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:03,000 Do you get that? I'm bringing to God what He has 480 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:10,200 given. When we slip into this mode of 481 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,600 thinking, we're owners rather than managers. 482 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,680 There's not one thing I have that Paul McGee has got by his 483 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,400 own strength or by his own power. 484 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,560 My pillow I lay my head on at night. 485 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,920 It's been given to me by God. That house at 732 Ficklin 486 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,520 Street, I know we're paying money still for it, but it's 487 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,200 been given to me by God. That car my daughter has and the 488 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,360 two that we have, and that motorcycle I have, it's been 489 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,200 given to me by God. That food that's placed upon my 490 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,560 table that I placed between my teeth, it's been given to me by 491 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,840 God. That health that I have, it's 492 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,160 not because of all my exercise. That probably helps. 493 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,080 And I'm a steward that has been given to me, my God, I'm not a, 494 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,880 I'm not a owner of any of this stuff that I have. 495 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,880 It is God's. And so when I bring my first 496 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,960 fruits, I'm just returning to God. 497 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:11,760 What is God's? I don't determine what I do with 498 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,160 that. The owner determines what's done 499 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:19,040 with that. And there's a blessing in it 500 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,120 which thou, O Lord, has given me, and thou shalt set it before 501 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,480 the Lord thy God. I love this and worship before 502 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,920 the Lord thy God. How many times the brother makes 503 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,200 it? We said we're going to give 504 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,640 right now. And this is another part of our 505 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:40,240 worship service. They're bringing what God had 506 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,320 given to them. And it's connected with right 507 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,080 here worship. I'm bringing it. 508 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,120 I'm giving it worship. Look at the second Chronicles 509 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,920 31, five. I still got some preaching to 510 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,640 do. God help me or teaching or 511 00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:01,040 whatever it is I'm doing. First Chronicles 31 and five. 512 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,280 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of 513 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:10,080 Israel brought in abundance the first fruits of corn, wine and 514 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,440 oil and honey, and of all the increase of the field and the 515 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,600 tithe of all things, they brought in abundantly. 516 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,240 This is where we get at. You know, you got to ask 517 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,720 yourself the question as you read that, is the writer 518 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,160 distinguishing first fruits from tithing, or is he identifying 519 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,080 tithe as first fruits? And that's the reason why I say 520 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,360 as I read other versions, that what I'm reading here is that 521 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,680 really first fruits were in part a major or a portion of the 522 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,040 overall temp that was brought to God. 523 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,120 They were the first part, if you will, of the time. 524 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,280 The NET Bible says it like this. When the Attic was issued, the 525 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,280 Israelites really contributed the initial portion of their 526 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,440 grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their 527 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,880 fields. They brought a 10th of 528 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,960 everything, which added up to a huge amount. 529 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,880 The NIRV says it like this. The order went out right away. 530 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,600 The people of Israel begin to give freely. 531 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,800 They gave the first share of the harvest of their grain, fresh 532 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,160 wine, olive oil and honey. They also gave the first share 533 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,280 of everything else, their fields, produce. 534 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,160 They brought a large amount. It was a 10th of everything, so 535 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,120 it seems, although the reasoning is the first fruits was a part 536 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,920 or the first of the complete tithe. 537 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:31,120 And God said in Leviticus when you do that I'll give you access 538 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:38,720 to everything else, all the other grain that's in the field, 539 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,360 even some that's maybe yet still to ripe. 540 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:43,520 I'll give it all the rest to you. 541 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,760 Someone say, man, let's back this up just a little bit more. 542 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,160 Everybody doing OK, I've got some Bible to read Deuteronomy 543 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,960 chapter 26 and get these glasses out. 544 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,200 I might need them. Bishop. 545 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,520 I think it's going to come. The old and old man eyes are 546 00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,880 even going to overtake the new Bible. 547 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:05,960 Read with me if you will, just a little bit. 548 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:14,960 Israelites here are recalling their pre three promised land 549 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,240 days. All right, verse 26 and verse 5 550 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,680 Bible says and the Lord shall speak and say before and thou 551 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,320 shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God. 552 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,320 Assyrian. This is what they were to say. 553 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,360 Assyrian ready to perish was my father when he went down into 554 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:34,880 Egypt. They're reflecting backwards. 555 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:40,320 OK and sojourn there with a few Remember they went into Egypt 556 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,360 with just 70 souls I believe it was scripture says. 557 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:48,320 But they came and became their a nation in which they did great 558 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,160 mighty and population. The Egyptians evil entreated us 559 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,320 and afflicted us and laid upon us hard bondage, right. 560 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,200 The brick and the straw having to make brick with straw. 561 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,440 And they're they're they're pounding that out with their 562 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,760 feet, clay and straw. I mean, man, just imagine how 563 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,480 dry your feet would even just get. 564 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,760 Can you imagine you're in clay, you're pounding that out day by 565 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,320 day, the sunshine and you probably got some cracks and 566 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,080 stuff overtime doing that, you know, and this they're going 567 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,560 through all this hard task maskers with whips and such. 568 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,600 Verse 7 And when we cried into the Lord God our Father, the 569 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,280 Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our 570 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,719 labor, and our oppression. Verse 8 And the Lord brought us 571 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:32,159 forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, 572 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:34,960 with great terribleness, and with signs and with wonders. 573 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:41,520 And he brought us into this place and that, given us this 574 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,040 land, even a land that flow up with milk and honey. 575 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:50,679 And now, behold, look at this. And now, behold, I have brought 576 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:57,280 the first fruits of the land which thou, O Lord, hast given 577 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,760 me, and thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship 578 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,120 before the Lord thy God. And thou shalt rejoice in every 579 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,240 good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee. 580 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,040 And into thy house thou and thy the Levite, and the stranger 581 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,080 that is among you. Do you understand the reflection 582 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,680 right here? This is the the prescription of 583 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,080 Scripture that whenever they brought that first fruit, it was 584 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,760 required to them that they would remember. 585 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,120 When they brought that first fruit, it was required to them 586 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:34,520 that they would remember. Our fathers were went down to 587 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,000 the Egypt. They were few. 588 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,240 They were just a meager group. They suffered affliction, they 589 00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:44,160 suffered heartache, they suffered sorrow. 590 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,800 They suffered all these things. But when God brought them out, 591 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,880 they came out as a mighty nation. 592 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,040 And when God brought them out, he brought them out with a high 593 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,160 hand. And when God brought them out, 594 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,600 he brought us to this land, a land that flows with milk and 595 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,840 honey, that's lush and plus. And now we have the privilege of 596 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,560 farming this land and getting a harvest. 597 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,840 Therefore I'm bringing my first fruit. 598 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,160 Where are they saying we didn't get to where we are by 599 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:20,520 ourselves? What are they realizing? 600 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,640 We didn't always have a land. We didn't always have grain. 601 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:30,080 We weren't always a free people. Come on. 602 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:33,000 Funny, every time you bring that offering, you are in essence 603 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,800 saying the same thing. Every time you bring it and you 604 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,200 acknowledge God and bringing it, you're saying the same thing. 605 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:40,840 God. I've not always been in this 606 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,840 position like I am right now. I've been at different levels, 607 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,160 but not in this position like I am right now. 608 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:47,880 I acknowledge it's because of you. 609 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,800 I acknowledge that it's come from you. 610 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:56,320 I thank you, Jesus. Am I doing all right? 611 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:04,000 No, man, you understand, I read some of the history of Joe, see 612 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,840 if it's concerning this giving of the first fruit, and he tells 613 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:13,280 from observation of how eager the people were to prepare and 614 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,160 to offer their first fruits. It's quite compelling. 615 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,840 They knew, and we know, according to Genesis, the 616 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,400 evening in the morning was the first day. 617 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,960 It's the way that the Jews reckoned their day from evening 618 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,400 to morning, not morning to evening. 619 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,120 And so from the evening to the morning. 620 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,360 So they would know that a new day was starting in the evening. 621 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,120 And there would be three men with sickles in their hand out 622 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,600 in the field where those bundles of sheets were that were denoted 623 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,880 as first fruits. And they would be waiting there, 624 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:44,040 Amen. Just waiting there for the sun 625 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:49,160 to set for the day of First Fruits to start. 626 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,760 Do you understand that reef? It'd be like you're not having a 627 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,040 key to this church and wanting to clean the carpet and waiting 628 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,160 outside early when you knew I was going to arrive to open the 629 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,280 doors. You're like, I just can't wait 630 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:06,240 to sweep that carpet. That's how it was, brother Fred. 631 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:07,600 It's not. So it turned. 632 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,080 First Fruits is like, OK, well, let's get it together and get 633 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,720 our sick on our basket and get. No, no, no. 634 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,840 They were already waiting. I'm just waiting for the sun to 635 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,400 go down because as soon as it turns the day of first fruits, 636 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,560 I'm going to be in that field with my sickle. 637 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:26,480 I'm not going to delay. I'm not going to wait. 638 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:27,960 I'm not going to wait for the second. 639 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,160 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They would ask some questions. 640 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,160 This is according to history. They would be sitting there and 641 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,040 they would begin to ask. They could see with their own 642 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,560 eyes, but it didn't matter. They would ask, Has the sun went 643 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,280 down yet? Has the sun went down yet? 644 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,760 They would ask with this sickle. With this sickle. 645 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,000 They would ask into this basket. Into this basket they would ask, 646 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,840 Shall I read? What is that? 647 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,880 It's the anticipation. It's a desire. 648 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,720 It's a what? Oh, yeah. 649 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,560 You want to talk about a cheerful giver? 650 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:09,400 Yeah. Is it time yet? 651 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:14,120 Is it time yet for the offering into that plate with this 652 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,040 wallet? Shall I reap? 653 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:24,440 Ready. OK. 654 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:33,720 But just as all those other things in Leviticus point to 655 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:40,680 Christ, Dave, atonement, full burn, offering grain offering, 656 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:48,080 sin offering trespass offering, Passover, the feast of first 657 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:57,480 Fruits, is a symbol, a type of emblem that models Christ as he 658 00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:02,560 was offered up and more importantly, shared, Reaped, if 659 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,840 you will. By his resurrection. 660 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,840 All right. Come on, now. 661 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,720 Come on. Because the mirroring is this. 662 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:19,360 If it wasn't for the first chief, his resurrection, there 663 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,840 is no possibility of the rest of the harvest. 664 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:36,600 The first seat has to be offered in order for there to be release 665 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,520 of the rest of the harvest. Oh, somebody's picking up what 666 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:45,680 I'm putting down right now. As a matter of fact, in New 667 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,480 Testament scripture, Christ arose from the dead on the very 668 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:54,640 day of first fruits. Peculiar how it all took place 669 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:59,640 because the month of the Bib, also sometimes called Nissan, 670 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:03,000 the 14th of that month is whenever the Passover lamb is 671 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,120 sacrifice. That's when Christ was 672 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,680 sacrifice. Then the first day of Unleavened 673 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,080 bread would take directly after the day of Passover. 674 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,280 In the instance of Christ, whenever he was crucified was 675 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,680 the the 15th and that's unleavened bread when there's no 676 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,640 yeast in the bread, so the bread can't rise. 677 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,400 And that's the day that nothing happened. 678 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:25,800 He's in the grave. There's no rising, there's no 679 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,600 Levin, there's nothing's taking place but the description. 680 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,600 The Old Testament was this first fruits always took place on the 681 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,000 Morrow after the Sabbath that came after Passover. 682 00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:42,560 It so happens that in Jesus day Sabbath was right after 683 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,120 Passover. Remember they said we got we got 684 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,200 to go see if these bodies are still alive on the cross. 685 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,480 If not, we need to break their legs. 686 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,400 Why? Sabbath is coming and no one's 687 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,200 allowed to be on the cross during the Sabbath. 688 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,000 Even the women who they're going to prepare the spices and stuff 689 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,760 for Jesus. They did, but they couldn't go 690 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,160 the very next day because it was the Sabbath. 691 00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:08,560 This is it's so great. And so they couldn't do that. 692 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,040 So they go the next morning with all their stuff and that is the 693 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,000 day, the first day. Then after the Sabbath, they go 694 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,640 to a empty tube. Why? 695 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:25,080 Because it's first fruits, there had to be a sheaf. 696 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,800 Christ, if you will. What's the type? 697 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,000 It's got to be a sheaf that's offered back up into the Lord. 698 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,800 Someone say Amen. The Bible even states it 699 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,200 plainly. We have a New Testament 700 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:39,960 scripture. The Bible talks about how even 701 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,160 Christ, our Passover lamb, was sacrificed for us. 702 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,360 That's in the New Testament. This also is in the New 703 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,600 Testament. First Corinthians 15 and 20. 704 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:50,480 It says plainly, but now is Christ risen from the dead and 705 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:56,480 become the first fruits. You hear that You don't have to 706 00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,000 turn the letter sideways or diagonals Become the first 707 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,480 fruits of them that slept everybody. 708 00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:07,960 OK so here's what I noticed and this has been stewed in my 709 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:13,240 spirit since February and all the times I've preached about 710 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:16,640 giving, talk about the blessing of giving and the mandate of 711 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,200 giving. I've never connected the message 712 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:27,560 of giving because the first fruits is a symbol and the type 713 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,160 of the resurrection. And we would almost throw 714 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:35,480 daggers for people burning the flag because it had meaning and 715 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,160 look sad upon to make Jesus and again, Jesus Christ on the cross 716 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,880 because the cross had meaning. First fruits have meaning too, 717 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,240 and it's connected to his resurrection. 718 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,200 But my way to participate that not just in getting the Holy 719 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,000 Ghost, but through the the the increase in the first of my 720 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,160 increase is my giving and acknowledging that that came 721 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:59,800 from him, That if I don't give, I'm messing with a type and I'm 722 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,080 messing with a model that illustrates Christ's 723 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:10,520 resurrection as the first fruit. Someone say, man, I don't think 724 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:14,800 there is anybody here to make mockery of the cross or degrade 725 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,320 it because it symbolized something that I don't think you 726 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:18,600 do. That ultimate sacrifice. 727 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:26,320 Sometimes in my delay, sometimes in my reluctance, I am devaluing 728 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:37,400 the resurrection. Right, OK, Malachi said. 729 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,880 Bring all your ties into the storehouse, that there may be 730 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,000 meat in my house. Understanding that there is a 731 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:49,400 type tells me that that just exceeds just a meat offering or 732 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,040 a grain offering or a first born or a first fruit. 733 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,800 Because he went on to say, he said to not bring the tithe in 734 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,760 the offering is to rob God. What? 735 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,440 Rob God, Yeah. Because when you bring your 736 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,880 first fruit, right, you're bringing that to God and you're 737 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:08,800 acknowledging him by that. Well, the sake of Christ was 738 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,960 this. He would be the first fruit of 739 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,800 all those that were resurrected. And as the first fruit in the 740 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,040 sheaf, guess what? He went back to belong to God. 741 00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:23,400 He told them, listen, I don't want to lose everybody in all of 742 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,520 this, but Christ came from God and he went back to God. 743 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,960 I realize it was just flesh, but it's still belonging to the 744 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,800 Lord. It came from God. 745 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,320 He came. He came from God, and it was to 746 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,440 return from God. He came from God, but it was for 747 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:43,160 the benefit of mankind. And so as he returned, it's 748 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:47,320 thankfulness that they got something that they didn't have 749 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:51,800 on their own. They got something they didn't 750 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,840 have on their own. And so he comes back through 751 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,640 resurrection as the first fruit in the sheaf back to God with 752 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:02,640 the acknowledgement, thank you, someone say Amen. 753 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:06,560 And yet it's from that point forward, we will see in the 754 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,040 future, yes, that God will send his Son Christ Jesus. 755 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,320 He will say that he will return to the Father, Amen. 756 00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,640 But if you don't have that gift of first fruits, that type of 757 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:24,640 the resurrection is broken. Listen, without a resurrection, 758 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:29,760 without the first fruits whom Christ was, there's nothing then 759 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:37,120 returning to God, so to speak. Everybody OK, ride with me here 760 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,800 for a moment. But it goes deeper than that. 761 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,600 We off time talks about Passover and we're Pentecost, right? 762 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,720 And we talk about the prefix on Pentecost, PENT pente, meaning 763 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:50,680 50. And we off time say that 764 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,560 Pentecost happens 50 days past Passover. 765 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,760 And that was exactly true for whenever Christ died, buried, 766 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:03,720 and was resurrected because you had Sabbath taken right after 767 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:07,000 Passover. But notice in the real world, 768 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:11,880 first fruits don't always happen on the third day because the 769 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,480 only it doesn't have a specified date. 770 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,840 The only of those that have a specified date is Passover, the 771 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,520 14th of a bib, the 14th. It's the only one with a 772 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,480 specific date. Everything else relates to that. 773 00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:32,200 First fruits happens the day after the Sabbath. 774 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:36,280 That's between Passover, the first Sabbath that happens after 775 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,680 Passover. So Passover might could hit the 776 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,560 day right after, two days after, three days after, four days 777 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:47,240 after is everybody following me? But the day after the Sabbath is 778 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,680 first fruits. So the real is this. 779 00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,760 It's in your Bibles. We've maybe overlooked it and 780 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,560 bumbled it up for years. But in your Bibles, in Leviticus 781 00:47:55,560 --> 00:48:00,000 23 verse 15, it continues with our story here that we've been 782 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,240 reading. And now it switches from talking 783 00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:04,840 about the Feast of first fruits to the feast of weeks, which is 784 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,320 the feast of Pentecost. And it says, And ye shall count 785 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:13,760 unto you from tomorrow after the Sabbath, which would be the day 786 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:17,360 of first fruits, from the day that he brought the sheaf. 787 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,920 It even details it of the wave offering. 788 00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:23,080 Seven Sabbath shall be completed. 789 00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:27,960 It's going to be 77, that's 49 until the Morrow. 790 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:32,280 Even the 7th Sabbath shall be numbered 50 days. 791 00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,440 And he shall offer new meat offering unto the Lord. 792 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,960 So it's true that Pentecost happened 50 days after Passover, 793 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,280 whenever Jesus died, buried, and resurrected. 794 00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,160 But the real thing that scripture is telling us is 50 795 00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:51,920 days after the Sabbath, after the Passover. 796 00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,680 You count, and that is where you have Pentecost. 797 00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,960 Please follow me very closely. The only way you have any type 798 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,000 of timetable for Pentecost is first fruit. 799 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,400 Pentecost doesn't have a particular date. 800 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:15,360 It's dated in reference to 1st fruits. 801 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,480 Let's take the type and elevate it here. 802 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:25,280 The outpouring of the Spirit is tied to the resurrection. 803 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:35,040 You have no point of reference. You start counting the first day 804 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:42,080 on 1st fruits, but first fruits then is backward connected to 805 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,400 being the Sabbath after the first Sabbath after Passover. 806 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:51,840 Have I say Amen. You want to talk about breaking 807 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:58,840 types when we felt to give, which is a type of first fruits, 808 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,400 a type, if you will, of the resurrection. 809 00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:07,120 When we fail to give, we're missing with a type of knowing 810 00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:12,800 when Pentecost is happening. The Jews called this, Brother 811 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,400 Mason verified this. They call it counting the Omer 812 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:20,080 because a sheaf in the Hebrew was that very word Omer, a man, 813 00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,960 and it means a portion. And they would count day number 814 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,280 one day #2 until Pentecost. It's the counting of the Omer. 815 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,560 All right. And so we have this tie then to 816 00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,200 Pentecost. 2 first fruits to the outpouring. 817 00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:38,240 You start messing with. We either believe types and 818 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:39,680 symbols are important or we don't. 819 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,120 Either going to defend the flag, then you'll defend first fruits. 820 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,560 So if we fail on our giving, we're starting to demoralize. 821 00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:56,600 Mistrew, Mistrew, even Pentecost. 822 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,520 That's dependent upon first fruits. 823 00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:02,920 Did not John even say it was in that last day of the feast. 824 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,000 The Bible says and he was saying if you are thirsty coming to me 825 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,840 and I'll give you a drink and that that that parentheses that 826 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,960 phrase in parentheses gives a little more information of John 827 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:17,280 739 and says this may keep by the Spirit which that believe on 828 00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:21,320 him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given. 829 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,040 Why? Because that Jesus was not yet 830 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:31,640 glorified. The glorification happens when 831 00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:37,320 the first sheep is presented in the heavens. 832 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:39,760 Everybody doing all right? I'm trying to tie some stuff 833 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,720 together for you. That's the reason why after the 834 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:46,440 resurrection in John chapter #20 and verse #17 he meets Mary, and 835 00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,960 Mary goes forth to touch him, and he says, don't touch me. 836 00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:54,360 Yet Jesus said to her, Touch me not, for I'm not yet ascended to 837 00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:55,080 my Father. What? 838 00:51:55,200 --> 00:52:00,160 The sheep hadn't been presented, but he says go to my brethren 839 00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,440 and saying to them, I send to my father and your father to my God 840 00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:04,720 and your God. What's he saying? 841 00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:06,960 He said I'm in glorification mode right now. 842 00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,400 I'm going up to be presented. But John said the Holy Ghost 843 00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,160 ain't given because firstfruits hasn't happened yet. 844 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:26,920 It was that important, and I'm not getting to this point. 845 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:28,760 You all think we have brains, right? 846 00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,600 We can think through this. I realize that if we don't give 847 00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,640 the resurrection, that still happened and the outpouring of 848 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,200 the spirit is still taking place, all right? 849 00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,400 Just the same as someone burns a flag. 850 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,400 You still have freedom and liberties and the ideals of 851 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,920 America. But it's the principle. 852 00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:49,720 Although you still have all those freedoms, you're not going 853 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:52,640 to burn the flag because there's a principle that means 854 00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:56,960 something. There's a message there. 855 00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,840 Likewise with our giving that we don't delay, but we there's a 856 00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,120 there's a message there. Same reason I'm not going to get 857 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,600 in that handicap spot. Although my car would easily 858 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,840 pull into one, it has the ability to do it and I can go 859 00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:16,600 inside sometimes totally unscathed. 860 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:21,040 I'm not going to do it because there's a principle there. 861 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,680 Moses can get in trouble for striking a rock twice, and it's 862 00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,840 just a rock. There's a message there. 863 00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,480 There's a principle there. Staying with me. 864 00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:36,400 I don't know if I'll get through this. 865 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,000 We'll get there. It troubled me because I seen 866 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,760 Brother Mason stand back there, and then I realized, well, the 867 00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,120 projector ain't working. That's the reason why he's 868 00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:48,680 standing back there years ago. I told you the support years 869 00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,320 ago, I was preaching a camp meeting in Georgia. 870 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,240 First time ever preaching the camp meeting in Georgia. 871 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:54,720 First night, man, I am sweat and I'm preaching. 872 00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:56,640 I'm going. Somebody got up on the platform, 873 00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,080 start playing the keyboard and I thought that was my cue that I 874 00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,960 need to shut up. I brought it to the end only to 875 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,400 find out they were kind of going to like ebb and flow with me 876 00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,600 like you would, you know, an African American church. 877 00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:13,200 I missed the cue and it stopped. I thought maybe I am right in my 878 00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:23,440 something I'm going to see. So Christ resurrected, He sent 879 00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:26,960 his Spirit. But we give first because it 880 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,640 means something. It's tied to something 881 00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,400 meaningful. If you delay first fruits, in 882 00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:37,800 the literal case, you've delayed Pentecost if the first sheaf 883 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:39,760 isn't. If it if the first sheaf of the 884 00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,760 harvest doesn't go, no one else can be harvested. 885 00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:47,920 If there isn't first fruits, there isn't a reference point 886 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,360 for counting the days, the Pentecost. 887 00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,880 It's just kind of lingering there in oblivion, always 888 00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,320 waiting, always coming, but never arriving. 889 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,640 So our giving today, it illustrates then our our 890 00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:07,400 acknowledgement that the gift came from God, much like the 891 00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:11,720 resurrection acknowledges that Christ came and was God's. 892 00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:18,440 And if we fail to give, yeah, in Malachi he also said that to 893 00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,800 prove him now he'll open up the windows of heaven and pour you 894 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,240 out a blessing that you have not room to receive it. 895 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,800 He told him that they would do that, that he would rebuke the 896 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:26,920 devourer. Christ would. 897 00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:28,640 God would rebuke the devourer for them. 898 00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,120 That's the blessing. He had the mandate through 899 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,200 scripture from Old Testament, the New Testament, even the New 900 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,040 Testament when they were tithing of the coming and the Anderson. 901 00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,960 And he says these you ought to done talking about justice and 902 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:40,840 mercy, but not have left these undone. 903 00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,120 And those were herbs. They were just small little 904 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:44,560 herbs, but they tied to the herbs. 905 00:55:44,720 --> 00:55:46,200 He didn't say you shouldn't have done that all together. 906 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:48,480 He said these you should have done but also not left that 907 00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:49,720 undone. You were right and tied into 908 00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:51,240 that. We have all these. 909 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,000 I think what we got to get to is this. 910 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,960 We fail to give. We break the type. 911 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:05,240 Theoretically, it's Stein in Pentecost, and who would want to 912 00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:07,600 tamper with the type of the resurrection? 913 00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,080 Sister Sheila, you go come tonight with a cross in your 914 00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:17,680 hand and even have crucifix of Christ on it and do a chainsaw 915 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:19,400 massacre out here in front of the church. 916 00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,040 Probably not. We might even get some news 917 00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,440 attention over that. Why? 918 00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,320 Because there's a message there. It means something. 919 00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,440 Everybody feeling what I'm conveying here today. 920 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:44,200 We acknowledge him and I don't have any access to the rest of 921 00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:49,640 the harvest. No outpouring, no resurrection. 922 00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,200 There's no outpouring. There's no resurrection and so 923 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,560 symbols can carry meaning and the principle of first fruits is 924 00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,200 no exception. Of all those things he told in 925 00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:04,280 Leviticus pointed to him. I got to understand that I'm 926 00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,080 going to offer my first. If we in bow our heads, I'm 927 00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:11,840 going to offer my first. I'm going to offer my best, the 928 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:16,160 harvest before anything else. So I'm going to highlight the 929 00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,120 importance that I'm going to honor him first, go demonstrate 930 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:25,000 my trust in Him, and giving this first my gratitude, my worship. 931 00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,480 I'm going to recognize that I'd even wouldn't have this if it 932 00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:30,360 weren't for him. So I'm going to return what He's 933 00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:35,200 given to me back to him, and in doing so, preserve a powerful 934 00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:39,840 type of Christ as the first fruits, the sheaf of the 935 00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:45,680 resurrection, without whom there is no counting. 936 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:51,800 There is no reference point even for Pentecost means something. 937 00:57:53,440 --> 00:58:03,120 It means something just the same as Christ washing the disciples 938 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:07,000 feet, right? The taking, the communion, the 939 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:12,520 body and the blood. And he tells them as often as 940 00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:16,440 you do this, do this in remembrance of and as he's 941 00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:19,280 washed his feet, he says, as I've done to you, do also unto 942 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:24,800 what in the world There's a message there. 943 00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:30,520 It means something, you hear me? We can write it off, just throw 944 00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:32,280 there. But there's a message there. 945 00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:36,400 And if we will protect the values of other symbols in this 946 00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,640 life that we say have meaning and messages, then we need to 947 00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:45,440 protect and value the message and the meaning of first fruits 948 00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:51,120 that we would preserve the giving pattern. 949 00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:05,120 I invite you today to an altar that basically says this. 950 00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:14,080 As you come, Lord, I'm going to endeavor not to fail in 951 00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:18,400 acknowledging you for what I have. 952 00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:24,360 My increase, it may be material goods, monetary goods, health, 953 00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,720 wealth, job. I'm intelligent, Brother McGee. 954 00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:29,600 That's the reason why I'm at the level I am at my job. 955 00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,160 Well, let's back that up a little bit. 956 00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,600 Let's back up. Who created those synapses in 957 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:38,960 your brain and gave you the ability to understand for a 958 00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:40,720 moment? Well, I've been to college. 959 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,120 I mean, Brother Mason among any of us, he would surely could 960 00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,920 stand for the Lord. I've got AI got an educational 961 00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:52,520 doctorate the house that he has still came from God, money in 962 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,440 his pocket still came from God, the health that he's secured and 963 00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:58,040 still came and so he brings first fruits. 964 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,840 I'm going to acknowledge you. I'm going to acknowledge you. 965 01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:07,520 We we break the type we we break days for counting to Pentecost 966 01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:11,120 we and it just all starts getting muddled. 967 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,440 I'm going to give. I wish somebody would give right 968 01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:19,280 now, give of themselves. Give some first fruits to the 969 01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:25,800 Lord, give of themselves. Give of themselves, man. 970 01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:29,840 If you got some monetary means, if God's given you increase, you 971 01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:31,680 need to bring first fruits to the Lord. 972 01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,720 This is this is not a money campaign for the church. 973 01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:41,640 This is a principle of heaven. Church is doing fine. 974 01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,400 I have no complaints. Church is doing great whether 975 01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,360 people give or don't give. It's just the way that it's 976 01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,000 going. I'm just thanking God. 977 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:49,800 But what I'm saying tonight is this. 978 01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,760 Yes, giving will procure blessing that you can get no 979 01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:56,360 other way but by giving. And yes, there's a mandate for 980 01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:59,720 giving. But even now there is a message. 981 01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,880 There's meaning in what we are doing. 982 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:14,560 Let's call on him right now. Let's call on him right now. 983 01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,440 Lord, I'm going to bring that first Lord even of my tithe. 984 01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:22,240 I'm not going to delay. I'm not going to be delinquent. 985 01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:24,600 I'm not going to forget where it came from. 986 01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,680 I'm going to remember I was a slave in a strange land. 987 01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,480 I'm going to remember I had test masters on my back. 988 01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,920 I'm going to remember you brought me out of bondage. 989 01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,960 I'm going to remember you gave increase to our people and you 990 01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,280 gave us this land and you gave us this, and you gave us this 991 01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,720 and you gave us this. And I bring just a little 992 01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:47,640 testament today of what's yours. Acknowledging this came from 993 01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,520 God. That's what His resurrection 994 01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,440 did. He came from God. 995 01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:55,480 He had go to God, but he benefited humanity. 996 01:01:56,080 --> 01:02:02,760 He benefited us. That makes sense. 997 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,520 I don't know if you have an appropriate song for anything 998 01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,880 right now, but let's just be mindful of him. 999 01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:11,480 Just prove him now. As Malachi said, just prove him 1000 01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,840 now and see. Prove him now concerning the 1001 01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,400 blessing. Prove him now concerning the 1002 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,000 mandate. Prove him now concerning the 1003 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:25,640 meaning of the message. Atonement, Hoburn, offering 1004 01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,720 peace offerings and offering trespass, offering the complete 1005 01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:33,080 sacrificial system of the book of genitals of the Leviticus. 1006 01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:38,800 Prove him, prove him, prove him. Yeah.