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FIRST FRUITS AND TITHES ▶️SOCIAL MEDIA ⭐facebook :   / luckyozoemena   ⭐instagram :   / luckyozoemena   ⭐twitter:   / luckyozoemena   ................................................................. 3:40 - Topic: FIRST FRUITS AND TITHES 7:13 - Point 1: COMMAND AND PRECEPT CONCERNING FIRST FRUITS 21:09 - Point 2: COMMITMENT TO ACCEPTABLE PRACTICE OF TITHING 26:02 -Point 3: CONDITION FOR BLESSINGS PROVIDED IN GOD’S TREATY In this text, the Lord introduces the law of sacrificial giving of first fruits and tithes to the children of Israel. These laws are to seal up their covenant relationship and to pledge their total dependence and devotion to Him. In observing the feast of first fruits, the children of Israel were instructed to take some of the first fruits in their hand and put it in a basket and go to the place which the Lord had chosen. The individual offering the sacrifice would go to a priest and make his confession of God’s faithfulness in bringing them into the Promised Land. The priest receives the basket, places it on the altar and makes another pronouncement, recalling the humble and low beginning of Israel before going into Egypt, their ordeal as well as eventual deliverance. He would also recall the Lord’s faithfulness in the wilderness and appreciate Him with the first fruits (Exodus 22:29; 34:19). The first fruits consisted of the fruits of the first three years, which would not be eaten, and in the fourth year, it would be set aside as holy unto the Lord. In the fifth year, they were permitted to harvest the fruits for themselves. The Lord instituted the ordinance of first fruits to enable the new generation of Israelites to acknowledge God’s faithfulness in keeping to His promise. It was to remind them of God’s mighty deeds to their fathers and to appreciate Him. Also, it was to make them realise that no amount of sacrificial giving could equal the deliverances and blessings of God in their lives. Before now, the Lord had commanded them to offer three types of tithes. But our text centres on the third year’s tithes, which was a special tithe provided to take care of the Levites, the widows and the poor, which could not grow their own crops