Creating an Apostolic Treasure Chest

Firstfruits

I. Designed to release blessings and finance the Apostolic

Proverbs 3:9-10 9 Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.

Ezekiel 44:30 30 The best of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest's; also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

I. Designed to release blessings and finance the ApostolicII. High Priest is a shadow of the Apostle

Hebrews 3:1 1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

I. Designed to release blessings and finance the ApostolicII. High Priest is a shadow of the ApostleIII. Different than tithe

Nehemiah 10:37 37 to bring the firstfruits of our dough, our offerings, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil, to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities.

2 Chronicles 31:5 5 As soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

I. Designed to release blessings and finance the ApostolicII. High Priest is a shadow of the ApostleIII. Different than titheIV. Part of the restoration process

Acts 3:21 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

I. Designed to release blessings and finance the ApostolicII. High Priest is a shadow of the ApostleIII. Different than titheIV. Part of the restoration processV. Consecrates what you love to God

Romans 11:16 16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Ezekiel 44:30 30 The best of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest's; also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

Abraham and Isaac – Genesis 22

Joshua and Jericho – Joshua 6

Widow and Elijah – I Kings 17

Cain and Able – Genesis 4

Abraham and Melchizedek – Hebrews 7

The Father and Jesus – Romans 11:16

I. Designed to release blessings and finance the ApostolicII. High Priest is a shadow of the ApostleIII. Different than titheIV. Part of the restoration processV. Consecrates what you love to GodVI. Aligns Apostolically

Numbers 18:12-14 12 All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they offer to the LORD, I have given them to you. 13 Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 14 Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.

Numbers 18:21 21 "Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting.

Numbers 18:26-28 26 "Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: 'When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the LORD, a tenth of the tithe.

27 And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress. 28 Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to the LORD from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Israel, and you shall give the LORD'S heave offering from it to Aaron the priest.

I. Designed to release blessings and finance the ApostolicII. High Priest is a shadow of the ApostleIII. Different than titheIV. Part of the restoration processV. Consecrates what you love to GodVI. Aligns ApostolicallyVII. Remembers God through an act of worship

Deuteronomy 26:1-3 1 "And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you,

and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. 3 And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'

Deuteronomy 26:10-11 10 and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.' Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God. 11

So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.

Deuteronomy 8:18 18 And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.