Title: Rules to keep happily (June 2014)
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Date: 2014.7.6
Word: Deuteronomy 16:9-12
Title: Rules to keep happily
The Harvest Festival (the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Firstfruits, the Feast of Pentecost), a festival to observe after harvesting field crops produced in early summer. Seven weeks after the Passover, the seventh Sabbath begins the next day and is called Pentecost.
It is called the Feast of Firstfruits because the first ripe grains of barley or wheat are harvested.
This is a season of thanksgiving, as all harvests are fully finished and kept.
1. How to keep the Harvest Festival?
Make a voluntary offering according to the blessing (verse 10).
It is to give according to the grace that has been received, as the blessing is given. There is no need to recognize people, and there is no need to worry. Those who receive much give thanks a lot, those who receive little give little, and those who realize the abundance of grace give thanks abundantly. You should give with all your might, not with a greeting. You have to do it with all your heart and with all your heart.
In fact, there is nothing left to spend other than the rich in the past. It's about saving, borrowing, and buying. Miraculously, you can receive greater grace when you make an effort.
It means to participate with a willing heart, a joyful heart, and a natural mind.
Give a gift. As if giving a gift to a precious person, we will come out before God and offer it up.
Of what I sowed and reaped, I give it to God, who sent and protected the early and latter rains.
(1) with your neighbor
11 You and your children and your slaves and your slaves and the Levites who are in your city, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are among you...
(2) in a place of your choice
Before the LORD God, the temple of God (verse 11)
According to the Mosaic Law, Israel must meet three times a year regardless of the circumstances... The community of the gathering is with God.
You must appear before God in the place God has chosen.
⑶ Have fun
Celebrate the Harvest Festival with joy everyone
* Some of them may have experienced sorrow or affliction, but like the prophet Habakkuk, we must learn to rejoice in God.
* You must learn to share the joy that God gives you not only to yourself, but also to your neighbors.
* Only God is the true joy of man.
2. Why does Israel celebrate the Harvest Festival?
(1) Remembering that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, keep it with thanksgiving.
Verse 12, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and observe these ordinances and do them.
(2) Give thanks and keep it because you made it sow and reap.
Auditing is always normal when both are audited.
First, be grateful for what you have given.
We should count the blessings we have received and give thanks.
You should not complain that you have given less than you have given.
Trust and give thanks for the second.
Keeping the Feast of Harvest means being a thankful saint.
Dear saints, if you believe that God's grace is grateful, I hope that you will thank God as God has blessed you and as you have received blessings.