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[Silence] Oh. The United Action for the Elderly uh,

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is requesting uh, volunteers who will donate uh, one to two and a half hours a day, once a week, to help cook or deliver hot meals to Austin's elderly homebound

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Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So if you have a few hours to spare, call 474-6416. They're also anxious to get volunteers who will take the time to

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make a daily telephone call to elderly people, persons who are 55 years of age and over, to check on their well-being. Volunteers also become

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phone friends to help with loneliness. And if you know any elderly persons who would feel more secure by getting a phone call from someone who cares about them, please call 474-6416 for an application. So,

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these two opportunities come to us from the United Action for Elderly, and we hope that you might find it possible to respond. You will notice the announcement concerning the fifth Sunday. On next Sunday

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there will be a special program. All of the missionary auxiliaries that would include the youth groups as well as the Baptist Young Women Missions 1 and 2 and the Baptist Brotherhood. On the Sunday night program will appear

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brothers Gautam Abraham and Petrus Lebanes, who are from Ethiopia, Ethiopian refugees who are being sponsored by our church. So we ask that you will be here for that program at six o'clock in the evening,

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sponsored by the Baptist Young Women. And then that week, beginning on

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that day in fact and concluding on the following Sunday will be a convention-wide observance of the Lottie Moon Week of Prayer, which is a time for foreign mission emphasis by denomination not only in prayer, but in giving.

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We ask that you would support the special services that would be held on Tuesday and Wednesday as well as Thursday.

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We want that as in years past we have the services each night from 7 until 8 o'clock. On Tuesday night the Chancellor Choir would provide the music. On Wednesday night the Brotherhood would be in charge as well as the Baptist Young Women scheduled with the Brotherhood on that night. And on Thursday night

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the Ebenezer Choir, from seven until eight o'clock. Now, I understand that there may be some things that will have caused the director to be away on Tuesday night, but we still want the choir to be here on Tuesday night in connection with that hour of service. This service is for everyone

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to take time. You may not be able to go and serve on some distant field, whether it be in the third world country or wherever it may be, but we are participants in this program.

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We are helping others to go there and to work there, and we can come together and pray. It's not enough just to give something and stay at home, but we ought to send our prayers with our money. We ought to be involved.

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Let's remember that and come and, and share in these services for this, particular period. We're collecting also food for families in need.

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This is sponsored each year through our missionary society. Bring canned goods, staple foods of all kinds to the church today. And I trust that you have brought them.

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Last year our church was among the leading churches in the association in this effort. We hope to do the same this year. There are many people who, because of bad weather, no work, winter illnesses, leave,

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families in distress. There are many who are in distress because of this, and you can help by providing food for them through this particular effort sponsored by the Austin Baptist Association of which our church is a part. Mrs. Robbie C. Ringer is in the floral business. This is a newly owned black floral

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establishment in our community and you are asked to remember that as you make your selections and purchases and the phone number is nine two six zero seven three eight The Alpha Kappa Zeta chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority

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is announcing the fact that you who would like to learn a new hobby and how to make Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations, Christmas gifts, you may come to the Zeta Cultural Center, 1171 San Bernard Street on Monday evenings from 7 until 9 p.m. There is no fee. All supplies and materials to be furnished by the participants. There'll be fun and fellowship. And this announcement comes from Georgia Nell Thomas, who is the chairperson.

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Now, you may enrich your skills in the language arts and math at the Zeta Cultural Center on Monday and Thursday evenings from 430 to 630 p.m. Reading and Language Arts, grades one through six.

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Mathematics, grades K through eight. And special assistance is given to high school students with homework assignments. So remember that,

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young people, on Monday and Thursday evenings, 430 to 630 p.m. [PAUSE] [silence]

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[Silence] [Music] [Music] We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed.

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We're blessed. We have shelter, the Holy Spirit of God's grace. We are blessed. We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed.

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We're blessed. We don't deserve it, but yet we are blessed. We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed. We're blessed.

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We have shelter, clothing, health, and we are blessed. We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed. We're blessed. We don't deserve it, but yet we're blessed.

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I don't know if you've stopped to think about life, but here's what I found to be true. We always take the time to complain and feel sad, but we never take the time to say how we're blessed. We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed. ♪ As delta, goldie, kale and shrimp ♪

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♪ We are blessed ♪ ♪ We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed ♪ ♪ We're blessed ♪ ♪ We don't deserve it but yet ♪

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♪ We are blessed ♪ We have everything we need to enjoy our lives and seldom have to do without. And yet, we find it easy, so easy to cry. But we're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, oh, we're blessed!

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We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed! We have shelter, clothing, help, and a stretcher in our hands. We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed. We don't deserve it, but yes, we are blessed.

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♪ Oh, we blessed, we blessed, we blessed ♪ ♪ We blessed ♪ ♪ We have killed God, we're all in hell ♪ ♪ But we are blessed ♪

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♪ We blessed, we blessed, we blessed ♪ ♪ We blessed ♪ We don't deserve it. We don't deserve it.

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We don't deserve it. We don't deserve it. But yes, we are there. Amen.

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Amen. Amen. Listen to this word recorded by the Prophet Jeremiah, the second chapter in the first four verses. "Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying, 'Go and

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cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, "Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord,

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and the firstfruits of his increase. All that devour him shall offend. Evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord. Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob,

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and all the families of the house of Israel. Thus endeth the reading of our scripture. As we stand now, let us greet one another as we prepare for our congregational singing.

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We're going to sing, first of all, in keeping with the spirit of this season, "America the Beautiful," the first two stanzas of "America the Beautiful," and then the first two stanzas of "Bringing

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and the cheese, but before we do that, let us stand and greet one another. (crowd murmuring) (audience chattering)

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[ Background noise ] Thanksgiving is a national observance as we think of it in this country as well as a religious observance. So let us sing hymn 472 now, the first two stanzas.

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[Music] [Music] ♪ For these we go from victory ♪ ♪ To victory in faith and care ♪

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♪ Our land and our free ♪ ♪ For those who build the air ♪ ♪ America, America ♪ ♪ The King I am before ♪

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♪ And as my soul is held in awe ♪ ♪ My name will be his law ♪ - And now that Harvest Hymn, bringing in the Sheaves, hymn number 392.

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[Music] [Music] [music] [music]

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Flying by the harbour, I'm a little Indian. We shall not be parted, Breaking in the sea.

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Breaking in the sea. Breaking in the sea. We shall not be parted, Breaking in the sea.

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Breaking in the sea. Breaking in the sea. We shall conquer the sea, reigning in the sea. The word of the Lord came to me saying,

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"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness in a land not sown. Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest.

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who ate of it became guilty, evil came upon them. Firstfruits of harvest. Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. The first fruits of harvest this idea is

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basic in the celebration of Thanksgiving. It's a time of reaping, a time of gratitude,

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a time of gladness. Thanksgiving is a harvest festival, a time of in gathering. When the fruits of harvest have been gathered, prior to that time the fields have been plowed, planting has been done.

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Then the time of harvest, when we reap the increase. Give thanks to the one who has crowned these efforts with success.

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For though there have been those who have prepared the field, who have plowed and planted, that all of these efforts are dependent upon the blessing of Lord of the harvest. To be sure, what we reap is determined by what we sow.

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"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Harvest is a glorious manifestation of the wonderful works of the Creator, He provides for His creatures seed time and harvest. Sometimes we may be prone to forget that,

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that harvest time is a marvelous revelation

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of the union of the human and the divine. There's a familiar story of a man who was showing another man his field

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and he was talking about what he had done as he took him over the many acres showing him how he had been instrumental in working that huge ranch,

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plowing and planting and harvesting. And so the man said to him, "Well, it's wonderful what the Lord has done here." And so he responded, "Yes, but you should have seen how this place looked when the Lord had it all by himself."

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It takes both the human and the divine for a wonderful harvest season. And yet sometimes when we exert our efforts and these efforts are crowned with success, We are often

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prone to forget that Thanksgiving is identified with harvest. Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation

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and you do not find it among gross people. The Hebrew people established certain harvest festivals in order that

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the nation might remember and give thanks to God for his goodness and his bounty. There is the feast observed at the beginning of the harvest season

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and a feast to celebrate the end of the harvest season. The feast of unleavened bread marks the beginning of the barley harvest, which was the first crop to be gathered. And then there is the feast of weeks, which consists of seven weeks,

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counted from the moment when the sickle begins to cut the grain. The celebration of the first fruits of harvest is marked by the feast of weeks. It's observed by the first fruits of harvest being offered to the Lord. The first sheaf was gathered and presented as a thank offering to the Almighty. And it was the

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belief among the peoples of biblical times that it was wrong to present oneself before the Lord with empty hands. Hebrew people in particular believed that one should offer unto him the first fruits, first fruits of harvest. And there's something special about going

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forth and selecting the first fruits, the first cutting, first in-gathering to be offered in Thanksgiving, something unique, something very precious, something very special about the first fruits. It bears a message concerning priority. The first is encircled in our memory when we do something the first time. Most of us here

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can remember when we did something the first time. It it just has a special way of impressing us and being encircled in our memory. The parents remember when the child takes the first step, utters the first word.

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And the child remembers the first day of school. It's something that you remember, even though the years come and go, you can remember that. I can remember when my mother took me to school on the first day of school and on that journey

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we met a train and I was just five years of age and I can remember how fearful I was of that train and how I cried. I didn't want to get near that train. It was huffing and puffing and blowing all that steam and no matter how she talked and

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and how she tried to get me to be quiet. The closer I got to the train, the more I cried. You remember the first. You remember the first date that you had.

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You remember the first kiss. You remember those days, because there's something special about the first. Well, the Harvest Festival was an observance which was instituted when Israel entered Canaan.

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They had been in the wilderness sojourn for some 40 years. They had the experience of going from famine to feast, so to speak, from poverty to plenty. And it's very important when we consider how people respond, when we want certain things and we get what we want, what do we do?

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Sometimes we forget how we got it. When we get into the experience that has to do with reaching our goals, when the longings of our hearts have been satisfied, God reminded the people, saying, "Now when you get into that new land where you will have cities which you did not build, wells which you did not

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dig, vineyards which you did not plant, and when you have eaten to the full and you're satisfied, beware. Beware, lest you forget the Lord, lest you forget the source from which these things have come, lest you forget the strength by which you stand, lest you forget the one who is the nourisher, the provider, and the healer.

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Sometimes prosperity has a way of causing us to generate ingratitude. For some people it causes a kind of lapse of memory, a kind of amnesia, for it leads some to forget their friends, to forget the means of their success. And so it is fitting that we should have Thanksgiving observance, not just once a year but it's

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It's fitting that we should have the observance daily in order that we might cultivate the spirit of gratitude. For ingratitude is worse than the coldest wind of winter. Shakespeare says, "Blow, blow thou winter wind.

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"Thou art so unkind. thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude." And he also says that, "I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,

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or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood." So that it's necessary that we should ever guard ourselves against the sin of ingratitude. For every harvest is the fruit of someone's labor.

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And Israel here is God's harvest, the harvest of his first fruits. The fruit of his labors, for his mighty works performed for Israel's redemption.

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His work is exhibited in the training period in the wilderness. Israel is God's harvest. Israel is the first fruits of his harvest. So you see Israel has a unique place in salvation history,

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the first fruits, the beginning of the Lord's harvest among the nations. Jeremiah describes this experience of the first fruits as the devotion of youth.

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Oh, it's somewhat like newlyweds, the first fruits. I remember when we were in seminary, there was a young man who was rather late in

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beginning courtship activities, and he met a young lady there, and they fell in love. And we all teased him because he was older than most of us.

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And this was such a new experience for him when he began to fall in love, and it was such a serious matter for him at that particular period of his life.

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And he had waited so long. And when he got married there while we were in seminary, and we asked him a short time after that, "How was it?" He said, "Well, if I had known that marriage life is like it is, I'd have been married a long time ago."

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Something special about it, and something special about a burning romance. And as the years come and go, sometimes we remember those first days. A man has a way of remembering when the wife was that cute little lady that you met, and it was a certain size many, many years ago.

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And she has a way of remembering when we were also a certain size many, many years ago. But in the course of time, sometimes a great number of things happen to change. And we sometimes think about those days in the past, and we try to search for them again. We sort of long for Camelot, for that special spot.

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We search for the lost card. We seek our lost Eden. But what has happened to the first fruits? And really what happens many times

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that in the course of time, we destroy the things we seek. We are frustrated by our own efforts. We defeat our own purposes because we eat the first fruits.

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The first fruits that are to be presented to the Lord as an expression of gratitude. And what Jeremiah is saying here is that Judah is corrupted through the misuse of the first fruits.

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The nation does not prosper because the nation does not honor God. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills the prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay.

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And we, on our pilgrimage of faith, often come to that experience in life when we somehow would like to recapture that way we felt when we first came to know the Lord

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in the pardon of our sins. Where is the blessedness I knew when first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul's refreshing view of Jesus and his word? Return, oh heavenly dove, return, sweet messenger of rest.

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I hate the sins that made thee mourn and drove thee from my breast. first fruits. Israel somehow is regarded as the first fruits of God's harvest. Israel is holy, Israel is set apart, Israel is somehow consecrated to God as

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the first fruits, an expression of gratitude for the Lord's harvest. Why you You see, as Israel is brought out of Egypt, God kills the firstborn of the Egyptians to show his ability, his power to triumph over the obstacles which his people face in Egypt. And then they, as they begin a new life with him, a new pilgrimage with him, traveling through the wilderness, they are to be his first fruits. And they are to offer unto him the firstfruits which they gather as they enter this new land.

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They are to honor him. They are to show their gratitude to him by presenting to him the firstfruits of the harvest. The firstfruits. Some time ago, I read a story I think that's very familiar.

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There were ten apples. The ten apples were given representing the bounty of God is given. And the person who received the ten apples was told you to present to the Lord the first apple, one given to him as Lord of the harvest. And so the person not only received the ten apples and ate all ten of the apples and instead

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of giving that one representing the first fruit to God, ate that one also and gave God the core. Well that's a very simple illustration of exactly what happened in the life of Israel. somehow devours the first fruits, that which it should be set aside in honor of

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God, that which should somehow be consecrated to him, that which should be given to God, and God alone that somehow that is devoured through selfishness. Sometimes we say to ourselves, you know, I just don't have time to serve the Lord. You see, I have my job. I have this to do and I have that to do.

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And I was talking to one brother the other day and he said, "Rev. you just don't understand." When I was talking about Christian commitment, he said, "You just don't understand." He said, "It's not like working on your job. You're supposed to. You have certain things you've got to do there. And it's different in the church." I said, "Oh yes, I understand, brother."

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I said, "You just don't understand." I said, I listened to a man the other day who said, "Well, you know, Reverend," he said, "I've been a principal."

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And he said, "You know, when I was a principal," he said, "I could just take off when I felt like it. I'd tell the man I'm not going to be there. I had a day that I could take off.

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I had sick leave, and I could just say I'm going to take off." He said, "I could do that." He said, "But now that I'm working for the one who is higher, And I've given my life to Him, and I'm out there serving Him.

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So it's different because I know He knows. I know He knows all about me. I know He understands my thoughts. He knows my purposes.

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And I just can't do that with Him, because I recognize who He is. He's above all. And so it's a difference when we somehow recognize that.

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It's a difference when somehow we recognize that God is Lord of the harvest, he's Lord of our lives, and he says present unto me the first fruits that we should give our highest allegiance to God. You know there's nothing wrong with many of these other things, but we get

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all mixed up when we give the allegiance that should be given to God to these secondary things. It's not a putting things that belong in first place, we take the things that are in second place and put them in first place and put the things that should be in first place further down the line. Sort of getting our priorities mixed up and when Israel got her priorities mixed up she forgot about the fact that the Lord is the first fruits of the harvest and she began to take

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to herself that love, that allegiance, that loyalty which belongs to God. And so Jeremiah is saying, "Honor the Lord." In other words, remember the words of the Rewise, "Honor the Lord with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all thine increase." give God the best, give him the best of your service, give him first place in

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your heart. That's why we honor him on the first day of the week because that's sort of the promise and pledge of what should be done the rest of the week. We honor him, yes, because he alone is worthy to be praised above all God is our Father, our Creator. God is our nourisher and provider. Honor him first

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for he is Lord of lords and King of kings. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things will be added unto you. The Macedonians first of all gave themselves to the Lord and having given themselves to the Lord, they gave their substance also, they honored him with the

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firstfruits. And Christ is the firstborn of many brethren. God didn't give us second best when he gave us Jesus Christ. He gave us the firstfruits, the firstborn of many brethren. And he came, he lived, he suffered, he died, and in the raising of Jesus Christ from the grave, he received the distinction of being the

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first fruits of them that slept. So God wants the harvest of the first fruits. The first love, he wants that. The first love. The first loyalty in our lives. And those in the old order who somehow represent the firstfruits, John had a vision of them out there on the Isle of Patmos. He had a vision of those who

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somehow represent the firstfruits of the old order. He saw the twelve tribes of Israel and if those 12 tribes became the 144,000 these are the firstfruits of the old order. But for those who are faithful, those who love, and for those who accept Jesus Christ they become the firstfruits of a new order. It's a new order that John

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saw that constitutes that host that no man can number. This is that band of of believers who have had their robes washed and made white in the precious blood of the Lamb and have become the first fruits of the kingdom of God in the new day. So offering to God the fruits of the harvest, first fruits, is just a way of saying, "Thank

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you Lord. Thank you. It's a way of coming to him not saying Lord I want this I want that but Lord I just want to thank you. I just want to thank you for being God. Thank you for being the power in my life. I just want to say thank you for making a way for me when I didn't have a way that I could see but you became that

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way I just want to say thank you for being so good that's the meaning of Thanksgiving is being able to be grateful to God in offering ourselves to him not because we are so much but because he's so good we can just say to to him, "Lord, I want you to take me as your thank offering." "I'm not very much, but I

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want you to take me." Be like the little boy who came to church and he didn't have anything that he could put in that offering plate that came by and so when the offering plate came by he asked the usher to let it down and the usher put it down on the floor and he got in it and put himself in it. "So to put ourselves in," he said,

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"Lord, I'm grateful for what you have done. Things haven't been always like I'd like for them to be, but Lord, I'm grateful, I'm thankful." And I offer myself to your service,

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the first fruits of all the increase. I'm so grateful. We invite you now to come, to present yourself.

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(gentle piano music) [MUSIC PLAYING] [Music] (soft piano music)

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[Music] I am so grateful to you that I have pride in my life. [Music] ♪ Without him ♪

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♪ It would be very dark ♪ ♪ And dreary ♪ ♪ And sad ♪ ♪ To see me ♪

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♪ He cheers me ♪ ♪ When I am lonely ♪ ♪ He will my comfort be ♪ ♪ Why I'm grateful ♪

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♪ Truly grateful ♪ I am so grateful that Christ is in my life. When my friends and my hosts turn against me And it seems I am the end of the road

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There is a steel, a torch, Sling within me. There is someone, Someone greater,

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Who's caring for you? And I am so grateful ♪ That I have tried ♪ ♪ With all my ♪

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♪ My life to be ♪ ♪ With all my ♪ ♪ To be beautiful ♪ ♪ And dreams ♪

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♪ And sadness ♪ ♪ Reaches me ♪ ♪ When I am lonely ♪ ♪ The world I could not be ♪

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That's why I'm grateful to you, pretty girl. I am so grateful that you have saved me. I lie with my way. ♪ Get the stock ♪

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♪ And I'll come in my ♪ ♪ I'll come in my ♪ ♪ It's all wrapped with grain ♪ ♪ Christ will be ♪

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♪ In His holy ♪ ♪ Life and good peace ♪ ♪ Peace and grace ♪ ♪ I may hold you again ♪

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♪ And I am glad ♪ I am so grateful to you. That I'm always in my life. What good must life be without you?

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[Music] It would be very dark and dreary when a sunbeam cheers me. When I am lonely, He will have comfort me. It's my heart grateful, truly grateful.

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I am so grateful that Christ is in my life. of our church clerks sister Valverde Phillips. We have brother Gary [BLANK_AUDIO]