Title: Keep the Harvest Festival (2008. 7. 6)
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Date: July 6, 2008
Word: Exodus 23:14-17
Title: Keep the Harvest Festival
Contents :
Today is Machu Thanksgiving Day. Think about what kind of day is Thanksgiving Day and how to keep it.
The true meaning of keeping the Harvest Festival
You must have the impression of harvest.
It is the impression of the first childbirth. Being the first is meaningful and inevitably moving. It is the fruit of hard work. These are the fruits that you will reap at the end of a thousand years of hard work. There is joy in reaping. How impressive is the joy that comes after hard work and hard work in any task? It is God's grace. No matter what anyone says, the history of Canaan is the grace of God.
We must remember that this is a command from God.
In verses 14 and 17, during the three feasts, the man was commanded to come before God three times. There are three festivals that are important to the people of Israel. First, the Passover is the day when Israel was liberated from Egypt. And the Feast of Harvest is a season to keep the crops in the fields and present the first fruits to God. The Feast of Ingathering is a festival observed after the end of the year of farming and all harvests are stored in warehouses.
Keeping the Harvest Festival is our future guarantee.
God protects those who keep the Feast of Harvest, and gives thanks to those who give thanks, and gives a harvest to those who sow.
How should I keep the Harvest Festival?
We must keep it with God first.
In the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits must be presented to God first. Giving the firstfruits to God means that whatever we do in the world, we put God first. Firstfruits means firstfruits, and any firstfruits is precious. God commanded that all firstfruits, whether human or beast, be presented to God. Because it belongs to God. That's why we pay tithing.
We must keep it with God first.
It is to give the best and most precious thing to God. Firstfruits doesn't just mean the first ripe fruits, it means the best and best of all my harvests. Therefore, to offer the first fruits to God does not mean to give anything, but to give the best of the best. Even when Israel bundles the first ripe fruits in bundles and presents the first sheaf to God, they must cut the most ripe grain in their field and offer it.
It is to remember that everything I have received and enjoyed so far comes from God, and thank God first. The Feast of Harvest is not just a simple harvest and thanksgiving, but it is God's work of salvation that shows Israel's plan of salvation through God's Messiah.