First Fruit

FIRST FRUIT. (Part 2).

 TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 26:1-4.

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance and possess it and live in it.

2 You shall take some of the first of all the produce of the soil which you harvest from the land your God gives you and put it in a basket, and go to the place [the sanctuary] which the Lord your God has chosen as the abiding place for His name [and His Presence].

3 And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days and say to him, I give thanks this day to the Lord your God that I have come to this land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give to us.

4 And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the Lord your God.

When you obey God in first fruit it is not like giving God your offering though it is a form of offering. You give offering but you pay tithes and first fruit because they are not your own. Do you understand the difference? They are like tax. You are only required to pay tax if you belong to a system of government were you enjoy certain benefits from that system which you belong and as a way of showing your allegiance to the system you are expected to pay your dues.  When you obey in tax you are paying what you owe the government, it is not a donation.

When a man obeys God and pays his first fruit, he demonstrates his allegiance to the kingdom of God and immediately activates certain blessings of the kingdom to his own benefit. The word of God in Isaiah 1: 19 tells us that if we are willing and obedient we will eat the good of the land. There are blessings that cannot be activated in your life until you willingly walk in obedience with God. It takes understanding for a man to obey God in tithes and first fruits. A carnal man with greedy ambition will always find it unreasonable to pay obey God in issues like this. To him it is more reasonable to save as much as he can to be able to accomplish his dreams therefore the issue of first fruit does not come into the picture. But in so doing he succeeds in lucking up supernatural flow of God’s blessing in his life. He does the normal thing, gets normal results and lives the normal life. Obedience to God in the release of first fruit is by a divine light. Those who lack this light also lack the glory that goes with it. The choice is yours so choose right.