Sermons tagged #Firstfruit

The faithful in Christ are privileged and blessed as they use their wealth to honor God.

In this sermon , Pastor Linehan provides an exposition of the instructions given in Leviticus regarding the grain offering.

What is the best thing you could ever do to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Believe in Him and receive eternal life. This is the reason Jesus died and rose again. Everything He did was for us. Being human is more than being human with physical life. We are spiritual, and just as there is physical life, there is spiritual life. Death exists only because there is life. Anyone can be tortured. Anyone can suffer. Anyone can die, and everyone does die. Only God can raise from the dead. Only God can die and raise Himself back to life. Only God can give life. Fully paying for sins, creating and giving life, and overcoming death are three things only God can do. No one else can do these things. **Subscribe at patrickbriney.com and receive a free book and announcements about Dr. Briney's new books and resources. **Visit Life Changing Scriptures to download free resources at https://lifechangingscriptures.org. ----------CONTENT---------- 00:00 God Is The Reason For Life 02:50 The Experience Of Living 05:05 Death And Life 09:34 Only God Give Life 10:46 Sin Prevents Life 11:27 Three Things Only God Can Do

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:20–23 Sermon: "Jesus, The Firstfruit of Endless Life" (Easter Sunday 2023) Speaker: Pastor Sam Lee Date: April 9, 2023 Maranatha Bible Church (San Ramon, CA) Please visit our website at www.mbcbayarea.com

Has God cast away His people? Certainly not! We are blessed when anyone is called to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We will rejoice when the Jews come to know Christ whether it is now or in the end!

The first fruit of the Spirit is love What is love? God's love Our love

One of the things that I love about the Bible is how practical it is. Time after time I read sections and it immediately seems to speak to our day and age. Today's study is one of those in fact. Everyone in the world wants to blame someone else for their troubles. We blame satan, God, our environment, our parents, our job, the world or something else. Yet at the end of the day, God says that it is our own flesh that is the problem, our having not been made new, so we fight against them all of our lives. This is important to understand because if we fight against a false source for this, we won't have victory. We must understand where the true source is and fight with God's weapons. Join us as we look into the source of temptation.

This lesson is part of a series thru the book of Acts. This is part 1 of 2 covering events of Pentecost recorded in Acts 2.

A Christian's service for the Lord is to reflect His priorities. There is to be honor, hope, harmony, and humility in our service for the King!

Jesus is the first-fruit. 1) He had to die, to rise from the dead, 2) He had to rise from the dead, to conquer death. And, 3) He had to conquer death, to cure original sin.

Christian hope is the anticipation of the promises of the Gospel with assurance!

The Nicene Creed states that "on the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures." This teaching reviews some of the major Biblical witnesses in both Testaments to the resurrection of the dead. The major focus culminates in Jesus' own resurrection from the dead and its resulting benefits to the people of God. They will be rescued from death when they are also raised from the dead at Christ's return.

THE AFTERLIFE PART 2Bc May 27, 2020 / 4 Sivan 5780 1 Corinthians15:20-23,49. Why does God want to resurrect our body if we will have a new body? Paul stated that Christ is the first-fruit of them that sleep. What does he mean by this? It means a great deal and is important to all Christians. In the Old Testament, before the Jewish people could harvest all of their crops from the fields, they were to bring a symbolic sample of the harvest to the priests in the Temple as an offering to the Lord. This offering was called the first-fruit offering and was to demonstrate the attitude of the person making the offering that all that he had belonged to the Lord and the Lord was a priority in his life. He was first in his heart. This offering demonstrated his gratefulness to God. It was the first installment of the entire harvest that was to follow. It is interesting to note that the first Sunday after the Passover was the same Sunday that Christ arose from the grave. Christ was the first to rise from the grave and never die again. His resurrection from the dead guarantees our resurrection, because He conquered death. His resurrection requires our resurrection, because His resurrection was part of the larger resurrection of God's redeemed. The body is at rest, but the soul is at home with the Lord in Heaven. This is what happens to a Christian when he or she dies. People will be born during the 1,000-year reign of Christ. Some will die and it is very possible that they will be resurrected immediately. In other words, they will pass from a physical state to a glorified state right away. Are you living for Him? Do you know Christ as your Savior?

Paul pulls back the curtain a little on the Resurrection, giving us a glimpse at what happens to the soul after death.

The Lord Jesus' sacrifice as God's Lamb is able to save sinners because He is morally perfect and totally obedient to His Father. Not only so, but Christ was obedient in being slain! His perfect obedience continued right up to, and through, His dying for us. Our perfect Lamb, obedient and never straying, did not stray even in His death. Even in His punishment for us, He was obedient! Animal sacrifices, on the other hand, are not obedient in their deaths, but are helpless, weak, and unable to escape it. Not so the Lord Jesus! He had all the power in the world to escape death, and the authority from His Father as to whether to lay down His life. He was obedient in dying to save us in a way no animal sacrifice ever could be. But, Jesus was also obedient in His resurrection! He had the power to take up His life again, and He was obedient in doing so. God had promised Messiah's body would not see corruption. Because of Christ's obedience in the resurrection, God's promise was upheld. In Isaiah 53, God promised Messiah that, after His offering for sin, He would give Messiah long days, a great people, and the rule over His kingdom. It was necessary that Christ be obedient in the resurrection, so that God's promises to Him could be fulfilled. Christ's obedience in the resurrection was necessary so that His moral purity would be upheld. He had to rise again in order to keep His many promises to friend and foe alike. He promised His enemies that, when they destroyed His body, in three days He would rise again. Not only must He keep that promise to fulfill the sign, but His own people's faith was vindicated by Christ's obedience in the resurrection.

The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) The first fruit of the wheat 2 leaven loaves of bread Religion of man, Old and new Rituals and motions Man-made excitement Religion of God God acting and man reacting Baptism of the Spirit vs. Filling Baptism is ALWAYS associated with new life and salvation Dry bones, John 3, and many others Baptism only ever occurs once Filling is ALWAYS associated with a task Filling occurs more than once Law to all and grace to all Will you have grace or judgment

In this sermon pastor Summers answers the question "what saints will still be on the earth at the end of the first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation"? Much debate and infighting has come about from an improper understanding of the term "First Resurrection". Pastor Summers will explain this and other Bible terms as he gives a thorough explanation of the rapture and resurrection.

In the oblation (offering) of the firstfruits, we are given a clear, instructive picture of our Lord's resurrection, of our own resurrection, and of faith in and consecration to the risen Christ.

Exodus 34:10-28 And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. “You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal. ... And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

An angel gave an astonishing message to the women visiting an empty tomb. The women conveyed that message to His disciples. We continue to proclaim that message today. He Is Risen!

After the destruction of Jericho, God commands that Israel strip them of all their wealth before He warns them that Jericho is never again to be built. This is the Twenty Fourth Sermon in the series on Victory, Conquest & Inheritance; an exposition on the Book of Joshua.

In one of the most important chapters of all Scripture, Paul declares, defends, and describes the Resurrection of Believers from the Dead in 1 Corinthians 15. In verses 12-34, Paul defends the truth of the Resurrection from the dead against those who questioned or denied it in Corinth. First, he gives a Negative Defense of the Resurrection by showing the absurdity and danger of denying the Resurrection: the bodily resurrection of the saints is Inseparable from Christ's bodily resurrection; the denial of the resurrection leads to Illogical conclusions; and the denial of the resurrection leads to all sinners being Irredeemable. Second, he gives a Positive Defense of the Resurrection by addressing some of the promises associated with it: Christ as our Firstfruit; and Christ as our King over Final Things--He returns to put an end to all enemies and death and sin at the consummation of all things.