The NXR Podcast - July 26, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - The First Fruits & A Different Kind Of “Sojourner”


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

142.6164

Word count

677

Sentence count

29

Harmful content

Hate speech

9

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The Israelites were not permitted to take of the spoils of their victory at Jericho. They were allowed to take and plunder all the other treasures of every other city and battle that they encountered, but not of the first one.

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00:00:39.740 The Israelites were not permitted to take of the spoil. 0.77
00:00:44.220 To the victor goes the spoils, you may have heard. 0.71
00:00:47.700 Not in this instance.
00:00:49.520 They were not permitted to take of the spoil of Jericho.
00:00:54.940 But as you'll see, as we continue this series through the book of Joshua,
00:00:58.260 they were permitted to take and take and plunder and plunder all these other treasures of every
00:01:04.920 other major city and battle that they encounter. It is only Jericho right up front at the beginning 0.80
00:01:12.800 that Israel is commanded to entrust those things to the Lord, to devote much of it to destruction 0.53
00:01:18.380 and the devoted things within Jericho, those things of gold and silver, to take those things 0.78
00:01:26.240 and devote them to the Lord,
00:01:27.720 to bring them into the treasury of the Lord.
00:01:30.180 They are not allowed to personally increase
00:01:33.880 in their wealth because of their victory of Jericho.
00:01:38.040 Part of what we're meant to take from that
00:01:40.320 is the principle of giving first fruits to the Lord.
00:01:45.380 Here they are at the beginning of their conquest
00:01:48.740 into the land of promise.
00:01:51.600 Long been wandering in the wilderness as sojourners,
00:01:55.600 now crossed the Jordan River
00:01:58.320 entering the land of promise
00:02:00.280 also I might add still as sojourners
00:02:02.860 but not sojourners waiting for God
00:02:05.640 to beam them out
00:02:06.660 but sojourners, strangers and aliens
00:02:09.100 waiting to conquer the land.
00:02:12.820 They've just now entered
00:02:14.420 into the promised land,
00:02:16.100 their inheritance
00:02:16.700 and the first victory that God grants to them
00:02:19.940 He says, give it back to me.
00:02:22.600 not because God won't let them have anything in fact as we see throughout the book of Joshua as
00:02:31.740 a whole God allows him to receive virtually everything except for the first and this is
00:02:39.520 the same principle that we have even for New Testament Christians today that the first fruits
00:02:44.080 of our labor belongs to the Lord because it demonstrates a recognition an acknowledgement
00:02:50.120 and a gratitude to the Lord
00:02:52.520 that He is the one ultimately
00:02:54.460 who makes our work fruitful.
00:02:58.600 Man waters and plants,
00:03:00.320 but God makes it grow.
00:03:02.420 This is true when it comes to ministry,
00:03:04.800 that which is spiritual,
00:03:05.900 but also that which is physical
00:03:07.460 and practical.
00:03:10.180 In every regard,
00:03:12.000 man will work diligently
00:03:13.620 as unto the Lord,
00:03:14.900 but it is the Lord Himself
00:03:16.240 who gives the harvest.
00:03:19.340 And so, in acknowledging that God is the one who grants success,
00:03:24.120 that God is the one who makes our work fruitful,
00:03:27.120 we give not the last leftovers, but rather the first fruits to Him.
00:03:32.960 And so the people of Israel were commanded to do in this new land,
00:03:36.940 this new inheritance of Canaan, with the first city they conquer, namely Jericho.
00:03:42.340 And to do otherwise, after having been brought into a good land,
00:03:47.880 flowing with milk and honey, after miraculously crossing over the Jordan River, supernaturally
00:03:54.300 the waters heaped up, after miraculously conquering one of the most formidable enemies
00:04:00.200 in this land without having to lift even a single finger, and for the Lord to merely ask that you
00:04:08.760 take everything but just this one time give the first fruits to him in acknowledgement of his 0.60
00:04:15.180 mercy and provision and kindness, and to refuse that is an outrageous thing in Israel. 0.50
00:04:23.780 It is an outrageous thing. God is not cruel. God is not unfair. And the punishment prescribed
00:04:33.580 for Achan is a just and appropriate punishment for an outrageous sin that he committed against 0.99
00:04:42.620 the Lord and against his people. 0.94