#656 – Honoring God with Our Firstfruits (Proverbs 3:9)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
With all that God has given you—regardless of what or how much—see it as a gift from Him and belonging to Him to be used for His honor and glory.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Proverbs chapter 3 verse 9 |
| 0:08.0 | honor the Lord with your wealth |
| 0:11.0 | and with the first fruits of all your produce. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, what an important verse. |
| 0:18.0 | What an important word for me, for those who like me live in one of the wealthiest places in the world. |
| 0:31.2 | I know that not everybody who listens to this podcast is necessarily in the |
| 0:37.9 | United States of America and obviously those who live in the United States, we have varying levels of wealth, but just the fact that we have clean water and food today and health, medical care that we, if we get an infection, will likely not die. |
| 1:01.6 | If we get a simple infection we can go to a store and get medicine for that. |
| 1:08.0 | The fact that we have clothes, shelter, transportation, education, |
| 1:16.0 | some of the things that we almost take for granted |
| 1:19.3 | that many people in the world do not have? |
| 1:23.4 | See all of this as wealth that God by his grace, |
| 1:28.5 | by his generosity has given to many of us. |
| 1:32.6 | In Proverbs 3-9 says, |
| 1:34.3 | honor the Lord with it. |
| 1:36.4 | Honor the Lord with what you eat, what you wear. |
| 1:42.0 | Honor the Lord with the shelter you have over your head, with the care you have available to you. |
| 1:49.8 | And then with the resources God is entrusted to you, this education, transportation, whatever |
| 1:56.7 | it is, use it for the honor of God, use money, use gifts, use resources that God is entrusted to you to honor Him. |
| 2:09.7 | And really this does apply to all of us regardless of where we live especially when you think |
| 2:15.2 | about the picture in the last half of this verse with the first fruits of all your produce. |
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