Title: Keep the Feasts with Thanksgiving
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Title/ Keep the Feast with Thanksgiving
Text/ Deuteronomy 16:13-17
(Exodus 34:26) “Take the firstfruits of your land and offer it to the house of the LORD your God.
(Exodus 12:14) “You shall commemorate this day as a feast to the Lord, and you shall observe it as an everlasting ordinance from generation to generation.”
God made the first thing of the harvest obtained through one year of farming to be distinguished as a holy thing.
(Jeremiah 2:3) “You, Israel, are holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of my produce, says the LORD, and all who swallow him will be punished and met with calamity.”
Today is “Thanksgiving Day” to keep the feast in gratitude to God for giving us a bountiful harvest through the air and sunlight through the late and early rains.
1, the analogy of thanksgiving (origin)
In 1620, 102 Puritans crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the “Mayflower” from England in search of religious freedom, and arrived in the New World of America. It became the first “Thanksgiving Service” by giving the grains and fruits obtained through hard work to God.
(Joel 2:21-27) “He will send rain for you, and he will give you the early rain in season; the early and the latter rain will be as before; the courts will be full of wheat, and the docks will overflow with new wine and oil. ” (Old Testament 1272p)
The purpose of the Puritans arriving there was not to mine gold mines or to engage in business, but only to obtain freedom of worship, and thanked them for protecting them until they obtained grain.
2, where and how to keep it Verses 14-15
(Deuteronomy 16:14-15) “When you keep a feast... in the place the LORD your God chooses... to keep the feast, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your goods and in all that you put your hands on. You will rejoice completely.”
(Products/ things from there)
Our church observes three feasts a year. On Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and all feasts, I invited orphans, widows, and strangers who were living in the city to have a feast in the place God had chosen to put me.
3, according to the blessings given, keep it as a day of thanksgiving (verses 16-17)
“Show it to the LORD in the place the LORD your God has chosen, but not to the LORD empty-handed, but let each one give according to his ability, according to the blessing of the LORD your God.”
It is to give thanks for keeping me, my family, my work, and my business safe during the plague, earthquake, famine, and tribulation, but do your best.
(2 Corinthians 9:6-7) “This is the saying, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
A person with a generous heart like the sea comforts others when they see difficulties and gives thanks for everything, and a narrow-minded person openly accuses them of resentment and complaints. Farming does not lie. A true farmer is someone who knows how to reap what he sows.