(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you this time we are reflecting our ties and offerings brother Lindsay is passing on the play and while the repositories be passed around please turn your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 23 Leviticus chapter 23 Leviticus chapter 23 brother Devin will be reading out loud while you can read long silently this Leviticus chapter 23 once again that was Leviticus chapter 23 and the Lord spake unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them concerning the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations even these are my feasts six days shall work be done but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest and holy convocation you shall do no work therein it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings these are the Feasts of the Lord even holy convocations which ye shall proclaim in their seasons in the 14th day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover and on the 15th day of the same month is the Feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord seven days you must eat unleavened bread in the first day you shall have in holy convocation you shall do no servile work therein but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days and the seventh day is in holy convocation you shall do no servile work therein and the Lord spake unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when you become into the land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof then you shall bring and he bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it and you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf and he land without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord and the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine the fourth part of an hen and you shall eat neither bread nor parched corn nor green ears until the self same day that you have brought an offering unto unto your God it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings and you shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering seven Sabbaths shall be complete even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days and you shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord you shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals they shall be of fine flour they shall be bacon with leaven they are the first fruits unto the Lord and you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year and one young bullock and two rams they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord with their meat offering and their drink offerings even an offering made by fire of sweet savour unto the Lord then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest shall waive them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the Lord with the two lambs they shall be holy to the Lord for the priests and you shall proclaim on the self same day that it may be in holy convocation unto you you shall do no servile work therein it shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations and when you reap the harvest of your land thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest neither shalt thou gather any gleanings of thy harvest thou shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger I am the Lord your God and the Lord spake unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month shall you have a Sabbath a memorial of blowing of trumpets and holy convocation you shall do no servile work therein but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord and the Lord spake unto Moses saying also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement it shall be in holy convocation unto you and you shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord and you shall do no work in that same day for it is a day of atonement to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God for whatsoever so it be that shall not be afflicted in that day he shall be cut off from among his people and whatsoever so it be that do with any work in that day the same soul will I destroy from among his people you shall do no manner of work it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings it shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest and you shall afflict your souls in the ninth day of the month at even from even unto even shall you celebrate your Sabbath and the Lord spake unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel saying the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord on the first day shall be in holy convocation you shall do no servile work therein seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord on the eighth day shall be in holy convocation unto you and you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord it is a solemn assembly and you shall do no servile work therein these are the feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord a burnt offering and a meat offering a sacrifice and drink offerings everything upon his day beside the Sabbath of the Lord and beside your gifts and beside all your vows and beside all your freewill offerings which he give unto the Lord also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month when you have gathered in the fruit of the land you shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days on the first day shall be a Sabbath and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath and you shall take you on the first day the bows of goodly trees branches of palm trees and the bows of thick trees and willows of the brook and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days and you shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year it shall be a statute forever in your generations you shall celebrate it in the seventh month you shall dwell in booths seven days all that our Israelites born shall dwell in booths that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt I am the Lord your God and Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feast of the Lord let's pray brother Lindsay can you pray for us please all right I know I went a little over time this morning I'm not planning on going over time this evening and the subject matter for this evening sermon is actually very simple it's a very simple concept and I'm hoping just to stir you up I don't know how long the preaching gonna be it's about not gonna be very long though because the topic is real is real simple but I want to drive home this concept and hopefully just just stir you up in your spirit to serve the Lord more and the subject matter for today what I'm grabbing out of the big is 23 and we're gonna cover is just briefly is this the concept of the first fruits the first fruits now the first fruits isn't a word that we normally use very often today but it's not a very hard word to understand you put first and you put fruits together first fruits it literally means what those words mean it's used in harvest time when the crops are all growing up and it's time to reap it's time to go out into the fields and it takes a while to go and reap and get everything get all the fruits of your labor bring it all in and and and deal with it all the first fruits are the very first batch you go out and you bring that first batch in which is usually a very joyous time hey you made it through it's a lot of work it's a lot of labor making sure everything is gonna go and be taking care of pests doing everything you got to do I'm not a farmer I don't know all the ins and outs of it but it's not that hard to understand that there is a lot of joy that comes when you finally are able to reap the fruits of your labor because I know that it's not easy work it's very hard work and it has only been harder even in the past we've got a lot of technology to help us these days it's still hard work so the concept here is the first fruits and who does the first fruits go to well the Bible says here in verse number nine the Bible is the Lord spake unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when you become into the land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest and he shall waive the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall waive it and ye shall offer that day when you waive the sheaf and he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord and the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine the fourth part of an Hinn verse look at verse 14 because this is key I mean up to this point before you in a verse 14 he's saying you're gonna bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest and there's actually in Exodus 23 talking about the verse fruits it's actually in two different places Exodus 23 19 and Exodus 34 26 the same exact verse basically verbatim says this the first of the first fruits of thy land shalt thou bring into the house of the Lord thy God the first of the first fruits of thy land so it's not just well anything out of the he says no the first of the first fruits goes to God and this is an important concept that we need to internalize as believers God deserves the first of your efforts he deserves the first of what you do he deserves the first of your attention he deserves the first he deserves the best God ought to be number one in your life God ought to be your waking thought God ought to be the one that you go to first God ought to be the one that you honor with your first fruits with the blessings he's given you to make sure he gets recognition for what he's done for you now I preach this sermon this evening and this is stirred up by this and it's actually kind of I decided to preach this just real recently like this morning okay and I'm not preaching this because and I rarely do it I am preaching is just as much for me as for everybody else that's in this room and I'm preaching it because it's important and I'm preaching because it's easy to start slacking off on some areas of our life when it comes to giving God our best giving God the first and not letting the things of God slip down the line and putting everything else before him especially when you take the time to think about all the blessings that God has given you in your life you think about what God has done for you and usually in the immediate sense if we receive something from God God answers a prayer we're very thankful right away right right away but then as time goes by we have a tendency to forget we have many people in this room that I can look at and I know for a fact hey God has worked in your life and God has blessed you and God has maybe even saved your life and that is important and we need to remember that and not let that slide and keep God number one in our life and treat God where he ought to be the Lord the creator of heaven and earth being number one in our life before everything else is God and he it requires and is deserving of the first of the firstfruits now it's it's it's shown here not even symbolically but but in in their their in the law that they had to do this but notice like even in the passage that we mentioned here that he says well when when you get into the land that I give you then you bring me the first chief and it's gonna be way for a wave offering and you know the point is made hey you're given this you better show your respect unto God and I think that we as believers that we as Christians ought to make sure that we have our priorities set where God gets our best he gets our first and I'll raise my hand and confess my faults that I've been guilty of waking up man I'm late I got to go to work and all my focus is on everything else but that's not the way it ought to be if you're like that day in day out you should plan to get up earlier and make sure that you can recognize at the very least however you choose to do that make sure that you you recognize the Lord first I would say in prayer to God in reading from his word start your day off and say God before I do anything else I'm gonna seek you first I'm gonna be thinking about you I'm gonna set my thoughts right for the day and give you my best give you the first because God is worthy of that you see pastor birds and that sounds fanatical okay you know what there's a man a Bible that said for me to live is Christ and to die is gain and you know it sounds real good doesn't it and people could say yeah man that's great but then what happens when you go home it preaches well everyone get excited about that but what does it really mean to hear it and say man unless you go home and do something about it if you actually put it into practice that Christ is does deserve the first fruits that to me to live really is Christ and to die is gain and I'm not saying that you wouldn't mean it in your heart right and that you're not there spiritually because when you hear things of God and you hear things in the spirit the inner man's going yes amen that's great but we have the battle with the flesh that's always trying to distract us we need to get our bearings straight I said this is a simple concept right agreed this is very simple but sometimes we just need that refocus of going you have your birth we do all the challenges and everything else I know I know we've been trying to push things you know what I want to do I want to make sure we start off our day right instead of God getting a left over so how about he gets the first how many times have people watch TV played games did other leisure activities wasted time and then oh I didn't read my Bible today well I mean it's really late I'm tired it's midnight I got to go to bed I've got I got an early day tomorrow you don't think much of it at the time but me saying that right now how does that sound for God that's given you all that he's given you every breath that you take freed you from from a destination in hell I mean that's why the Bible talks about that we should be a living sacrifice because it's a reasonable service we should offer up ourselves living sacrifices like hey I'm yeah I'll sacrifice whatever you want God what do you need what do you want me to do I'm here you want me to quit my job you want me to move you I'm gonna go sure done why because he's worthy and look what the Bible says here because it's one thing to agree and like yes that sounds good that's great but it's also I mean this is taught in Scripture very clearly and and look at what the verse says there in verse 14 Leviticus 23 that was as in ye shall eat neither bread nor parched corn nor green ears until the self same day that ye have brought an offering unto your God he says don't even think about eating this before you bring me the first of the first fruits you don't partake in any of it until I get some first you think God needs to eat the corn of course not what he wants is your heart he wants your heart right with him he wants your focus right he wants you thinking about the things of God and saying you know what there is an order in my life in the order starts with God at the top not God at the end not well I'm gonna give him the gleanings whatever the leftover is like they leave for the widows in the in the you know the poor people yeah well we'll just pick up whatever is left over and then bring that to God don't leave God with the gleanings he deserves the first and you know something like this I believe we ought to be instituting things even in our families where there's a proper order and a proper respect and I'll give you an example because these days things are backwards and there's so many little things that you might just be able to sit there and say well that's not really a big deal who cares and there's little things that we do and changes that you make to make things just easier but it doesn't make things better and here's where I'm going with that oftentimes when you go out to a restaurant when we go out to a restaurant to get some food they'll want to bring all the kids the kids food first and the reason why is because most parents can't control their children and have them sit still and not cause a tantrum and not cause a ruckus and not be you know all over the place and just get them their food right so they could say could be busy and settle down everything else that is a self-defeating purpose though when you start catering to little terrorists they don't get better they're gonna get worse when you start that pattern of going oh well all I have to do is throw a big fit and then I get my food what do you think they're gonna keep doing so the way that we solve that problem is that they do not get the first fruits of the labor in my house I get served first and my kids get their plate and we all wait until Leslie's done serving to sit down and then nobody takes a bite of food and we all pray to the Lord and give thanks to God for blessing us with the food that he's given us that day and once that's done I don't care how long it takes I don't care if the food gets cold then you're allowed to eat and it may sound ridiculous to some it may sound old-fashioned it may sound like not a big deal but you know what things matter this order matters it's going to prove a point in the lives of my children that they will remember for the rest of their lives that that's the way things are done why because God is important and God is going to be recognized first first I tell my children that it can read before you start your studies you read your Bible because the Bible reading portion of your academics is more important than all the rest of your subjects you read your chapters first read first get that done if anything else goes sideways in your day at least you can say well I already I already spent time with the Lord I already prayed I already did that you know he deserves it figure out the least important things in your life put that at the end so then if you're too tired and too busy you got too much going on well I didn't play the stupid game today great I didn't watch some stupid TV show great fine who cares you didn't need it anyways but when you start slacking off on your relationship with the Lord you're gonna have problems not only is it gonna impact you just because your mind isn't gonna be quite a spiritual isn't gonna be quite thinking firstly on the things of God but God demands that respect in that position in your life and sometimes if things get too out of control he might have to do something to force you to get humbled and go back to seeking God again God's got a pattern of doing that with his people now he's long suffering and merciful but again the other gets a point let's not have to get to that point and let's honor the Lord for his goodness because his mercy endureth forever and he's deserving of our praise and our attention and our love and our focus turn if you would to Proverbs chapter number three and I forgot to read the rest of that verse there when it says that you're not gonna eat bread or corn or green air until the self same day brought offering under God this wasn't just when they first enter into that promised land that he was he was making this proclamation it says it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings it's a perpetual thing Proverbs 3 we see the same concept of honoring the Lord with our firstfruits now here you know just as in similar to Exodus 23 or in Leviticus 23 there it's physical right like it's it's it's it's good it's things that we receive and these physical blessings we receive and we're honoring God with those firstfruits you gotta be willing to part with and say well you're go God you deserve that look at Proverbs 3 verse 5 the Bible says trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding or enos in context sometimes you might think that Proverbs are kind of all over the place but I'll tell you what they're really not there is many different concepts that get brought up but there's really a lot that they have to do with one another and this is no different okay leaning not unto your own understanding is very important when it goes to honoring the Lord their first let's just keep on reading we'll get the whole passage and then and then I'll start expounding verse number six and all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths you want God leading you in your life are you looking for God's direction you want God to help you out and help you with decisions to tell you where to go well how about you start acknowledging him in all of your ways I mean it's what the scripture says that's the way you get it that's how you're gonna give him direct your paths are acknowledging him be not wise in thine own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil it shall be health to thy navel and marrow to thy bones honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase this is talking about your increase your earnings your wages what however whatever form they may come in our modern form usually it comes in the form of money right but however God has blessed you and increased you the Bible says honor the Lord with thy substance and again it's not because God cares about he doesn't need money he doesn't need that stuff but he wants that place in your life where he sees I'm giving to you God and I'm not going into tithing with this sermon but it's just one example of something that you do with your increase where you're going hey God blessed me with all that I have here God blessed me again and helped me to increase so what do I do before I pay the mortgage before I pay the electric bill before I pay the water bill before I pay anything else you know what I do with my money 10% here you go Lord because if I'm gonna be late on a bill it's not gonna be late on money that belongs to God because the tithe belongs to the Lord it's what the Bible says and I'm not saying this because I want your money look I don't need your money it's what the Bible says he gets the first hey that's what I do why wouldn't I why wouldn't I teach the same exact thing I know talk about money gets people uncomfortable but hopefully you know better about this church that it's not what we're all about but you know what if the Bible says something about it and talks about it then I'm gonna preach about it I'm not gonna be ashamed about it either I'm not gonna dance around it either it says what it says hey honor the Lord with your substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase and you remember earlier we said trust the Lord with all thine heart lean not on their own understanding the problem is the problem people don't have as much of a problem with honoring the Lord their increase when things are going really well right because you kind of could feel like that's extra anyways and like great I'm doing okay I can afford this the problem comes in when people think they can't afford to give God the first fruits of their increase I can't afford it don't lean onto your own understanding because when you read the next verse here in verse 10 because verse 9 doesn't end with a period when it says with the first fruits of all thine increase it has a colon and it's gonna provide a lot more information about why you need to do that so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine hey God would bless you trust him honor him with the first fruits he got you that where you are to begin with turning forward to Matthew chapter 6 look if you want God's blessing in your life do what he says put him first and I don't care what situation you're in I don't care if you're a homeless say well I gotta work seven days a week no you don't no you don't you still have birth where is God fit in your life you could sacrifice at least one day a week for the Lord one service a week for the Lord how about that you might be down and out and look men need to provide for their own family amen yes you do but you know what God comes first God comes first he comes before a roof over your head he comes before food and your children God comes first God comes first always and if you even have a job God's blessed you with that job why don't you give the Lord thanks and seek him for at least a couple hours out of your busy week because you know what's gonna happen unfortunately people get we're habitual so the more you keep thinking well I don't have time for this and I can't afford that and I can't tithe and I can't do this and I'm in this situation and you're not seeking God what makes you think you're gonna one day well that one day I'll go back to church one day I'll get ya that one day is gonna come after God takes away everything he gave you and then you're right back to square one you'll be forced to go back and seek the Lord but if you have faith and you have thanksgiving for everything that God has done for you you will go to the Lord first first make it a priority I personally think that people need to be when it comes to careers and work choices and stuff like that I've done this personally I will not work for a place that's gonna require me to miss church not the job for me I don't care what the pay is obviously you may have some weird circumstances where like you have to be out of town for a day or something you know like that's not what I'm talking about I'm talking about like nope every Sunday can't make church they got me scheduled every Sunday not gonna you know like well you know what maybe you should start looking for another job or or sorry God what instead of doing that sorry God what can I do the boss scheduled me what what can I do God what what do you think God would say to that what can you do what can you what do you think I can do talk about no fear of God I'm not just making this up we saw that God says you are not gonna eat anything until you bring me that first fruit and you make that sacrifice then you're allowed to eat this is the same God that says honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first root of all that increase and he's like okay if you do this I'm gonna bless you the same God out of the mouth of Jesus in Matthew 6 verse 31 says therefore take no thought saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink wherewithal shall we be clothed for after all these things through the Gentiles seek for your Heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these things but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof God knows what you need honor God with the firstfruits he'll take care of you see where's your faith last place we're gonna turn Malachi chapter 1 Malachi chapter 1 and you know I get it I get the doubts I get the problems I get the stress I understand the stress of having to work and feeling like you're drowning and feeling like there's you know you're overwhelmed with with all your circumstances and conditions I understand that I do I do I've been there and sometimes I feel like I'm still there and you know whatever there's always things there's always something going on always always seems to be something going on take a step back and think about this logically now I'm talking to people who have decided to stake their soul on the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior to save them eternally and nothing else in this room I'm talking to my faith I'm trusting in something I haven't seen I'm trusting in the Word of God I'm trusting in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in my for my eternity for my whole being in eternal life is placed on Jesus Christ if we could think about that I mean the most precious thing you have your own life your whole life is placed in Christ can we not trust the same Christ with giving a little of the firstfruits to God and trust the promise and I mean what's more important the money you pull in or your soul and when you think about it that way wow I mean I was willing to stake my soul on Christ but I can't be willing to believe him when he says seek ye first a kingdom of God and his righteousness and the food and the clothing will be added unto you it kind of doesn't make any sense anymore when you think about it that way does it put things in perspective we don't want to become like the people in Malachi children of Israel Malachi they had a lot of problems and God's rebuking them in Malachi chapter one they think they're fine they think there's nothing wrong the problem is they got used to giving God all of their leftovers all of their just the the it became so much of a check the box and their heart was so far removed from actually having the Lord number one in their life that it became just well what can I get away with it basically and still and still do this thing and still offer the sacrifice and still have this and I mean do we really just like the Pharisees you know when instead of trusting the Lord and and honoring his word when says honor your father and mother they were saying well it's Corban just consider that a gift whatever however you might be benefited by me however you might be profited by me it's your own dad your own mom why because it's work to take care of someone they're turning it in a way there's thinking they're still following the commandment when they're really not and bastardizing the word of the Lord through their actions Malachi is same type of thing verse number six chapter one the Bible says a son on earth his father and a servant his master this is like from God's perspective right if then I be a father where is mine honor and and you know again this also speaks to the home you know a father ought to have honor in his home just as much as God has ought to have honor from his children here on earth and he's asking them well hey if I'm a father where's my honor because it's just known that that dad should have honor in the household and if I be a master where's my fear said the Lord of hosts unto you Oh priests that despise my name these are supposed to be holy people these are the priests and ye say wherein have we despised thy name but what are you talking about God what do you mean we haven't despised your name verse 7 he responds ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar and ye say wherein have we polluted thee and that you say the table the Lord is contemptible they hate doing their offerings and sacrifices unto God and if he offer the blind for sacrifice is it not evil and if you offer the lame and sick is it not evil offer it now unto thy governor will he be pleased with thee or accept thy persons at the Lord of hosts so knows what they're doing here because this is the great point if if a if a you know a really dignified person like a governor shows up they're not gonna go get the worst of the flock and and offer that oh here you go we you know they're gonna go get the best and treat them like royalty but when it comes to God's offerings and sacrifices are going well it's just gonna get burned up anyways or whatever this is just going let's just let's just take this one over here that'll work well you know ah he's got a broken leg anyways we're gonna have to do something with it might as well throw it on the altar the wicked attitude that's wicked as hell I hope no one's sitting out there going yeah that's not a bad idea it's a good way to get to kill two birds with one stone and now I pray you verse 9 beseech God that he will be gracious unto us this has been by your means will he regard your persons at the Lord of hosts who is there even among you that would shut the doors for naught neither do you kindle fire on mine altar for not I have no pleasure in you say at the Lord of hosts neither will I accept an offering at your hand for from the rising of the Sun even under the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name and a pure offering for my name shall be great among the heathen said the Lord of hosts God's name ought to be great among the whole world the name of the Lord the name of Jesus Christ ought to be magnified which is why he deserves our best and if you're giving him your worst what are other people gonna be thinking about your God he gets nothing from you why would anyone else even want to have anything to do with that God I mean obviously if he's not worthy of your time and worthy of your sacrifice and worthy of the best from you then how worthy is he as a god first well but you have profaned it and that you say the table the Lord has polluted and the fruit thereof even his meat is contemptible he said also behold what a weariness it is and you have snuffed at it set the Lord of hosts and he brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus he brought an offering should I accept this of your hand saith the Lord but cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrifices unto the Lord a corrupt thing for I am a great King saith the Lord of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen it's one thing if all you have would be you know an animal what I like like if that's all you have to offer like the widow that had two mites and she threw it in God's not angry with that but like he says here hey you you you have something good in your flock and you're just gonna give me the refuse he's like you better you better recognize you better respect because he says my name is dreadful among the heathen so you know who you're dealing with I'm the Lord of hosts and I'm not preaching this to you know sound scary or threaten or anything like that we all we ought to have a healthy fear of the Lord and I don't think that there's people here that are that are like the people of Malachi that are that bad and just like dumping on the service of the Lord but I do think we all could probably stand for managing our schedules appropriately to make sure God is first it's easy to let that slide it is all it takes sometimes is one upheaval and in your whole your whole schedule can be thrown out of balance and out of whack and then you got to get it back I understand that look I'm preaching this sermon for myself just as much as anyone else okay I understand and and hopefully hopefully I'm the worst offender it's not like I'm not reading the Bible or stuff like that but God deserves our best he deserves our best he deserves the first take what you will from from you know what we see here but first fruits it's an important subject in Scripture and and of all of anything that you could ever think of where you could decide what's first in your life no one nothing is more worthy than the Lord of hosts so choose for yourself how you decide to do that but we all would be benefited by putting God number one in our day in our schedule with what we have to offer and not on the back burner it's my words I've ordered prayer your Lord would love you thank you so much for your word we thank you for all that you've done for us dear Lord you truly are worthy of our praise of our of our dedication of our service dear Lord we love you and and again we thank you dear God I pray that you please help us to overcome our flesh to overcome our you know any problems that we have with trying to make sure we have enough time to to do everything and that we will definitely make the time to to serve you and to seek you and and Lord that that is an important thing for us and and you know it's great to be just reminded of how much you have done for us dear Lord and God we love you and we are here to serve we love you to Jesus name we pray amen all right we're saying one last song before dismissed brother Jesse please beat us all right for the song we're singing song number 288 I I I I you