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The 3rd and Final Reformation of the Church | Understanding the Purpose for God’s Blessing over You

Those who participate in pioneering the Third and Final Church Reformation will receive all of Heaven’s resources to accomplish God’s purpose.

At the same time, all of hell’s forces will seek to stop the Third Reformation reformers, for if they succeed, it ends satan’s freedom and reign on earth.

He will be bound and cast into the bottomless pit for a period of time and then in the lake of fire for eternity.

There is no greater reward for the saints than being an overcomer who is in the perfect will of God fulfilling His timely purpose.

Bishop Hamon was here a while back and prophesied to us that we were a Third and Final Reformation Church.

Pastor Ned read Bishop’s Book “Prophetic Scriptures Yet to be Fulfilled” and through that God has give us more clarity to our purpose, vision and assignment over the region.

What is the 3rd and Final Reformation of the Church?

God is provoking a shift in the Church through this reformation.

The shift requires our mind to shift from

What do we mean by Kingdom attitude, mentality, and thinking?

What is the difference between Kingdom thinking and the prevailing thinking of the Church world today?

Most denominational seminaries and Bible colleges teach their students how to be a successful minister and how to build a growing local church.

Pastors in training are taught to win people to Jesus Christ and then establish them in their local church.

This was good teaching, but we who have pastored have often found that our motivation became more personal.

We wanted to get people saved and make them and other Christians faithful members of our local church.

But our measure of success was to build a larger and larger church congregation.

Most pastoral thinking was along the lines of what can the community and city do for my church, rather than what can my church do for the community.

We saw the city more as a resource of people to convert and fill our local churches.

Kingdom mentality is asking, What can I and my local church do for my community and city?

How can we be instrumental in bringing the Kingdom of God to our area?

| The Prophets of God were with them, supporting them.

| They Built and Prospered through the prophesying of the Prophets.

to prosper (thrive) v. — to make steady favorable progress or succeed.

- To cause someone to be promoted and prosper.

THE FOUR SEEDS OF HARVEST

God has prophesied through Bishop Hamon through his book Prophetic Scriptures Yet to be Fulfilled that God will give all those who partner with this 3rd reformation access to unlimited resources from Heaven.

Like the people of Israel who prospered through the prophesying of the prophets in the Old Testament we will prosper as we partner with God’s prophetic agenda for this hour.

God has also prophesied to us as a Church that we are a Third Reformation Church.

Which means especially for us, we have a responsibility and honor to partner with this reformation.

But how do we partner?

How do we access those unlimited resources?

Of course through propagating the message, establishing it and believing it.

But there is one area we cannot ignore, and that is God’s Economic Principles.

The first principle is FAITH in GOD’S ECONOMY AND REWARD SYSTEM

God’s ECONOMY | God’s REWARD SYSTEM

One of the first things we must understand and believe is that God likes to reward our diligence.

Giving is a form of seeking God, we are not seeking riches, but as we will look later we are seeking to live a lifestyle of obedience, compassion and faith by practicing the principles of giving.

Jesus said:

Let’s take a look at the four seeds of harvest that God has given us.

ALMS | Giving to the Poor (Needy) | COMPASSION

In this house, we believe in giving to the poor.

The poor is not only the homeless, it is those in need at any given moment where financially they are unable to meet those needs.

God REPAYS (GIVE BACK) Those Who Give to the Poor

Proverbs

There are two ways to interpret REPAY:

To give back with interest or double.

To give back.

In this verse, the Hebrew word means to simply repay you for what you have loaned to the Lord.

In other words, there is no reward or increase, just simply a payment back for the loan.

This does not mean there is no reward for giving to the poor, of course in God’s economic principles and actions provoke access to His overall economy.

What does giving to the poor give you access to?

clearly says that “your Father who sees in secret will reward you” for giving to the needy.

God SUSTAINS Those Who Give to the Poor

Proverbs

“will not want” mahasor means your needs (essentials means of livelihood; Louw-Nida) will be met.

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πενιχρός, ά, όν: pertaining to the lack of the essential means of livelihood

God FAVORS Those Who Give to the Poor

Proverbs

Blessed in the Hebrew here is the word favor, not monetary blessing, but: to be blessed (favor) v. — to have divine favor invoked or enacted upon.

to be blessed (favor) v. — to have divine favor invoked or enacted upon.

God WARNS not to close our ear to the cry of the Poor

It’s the only offering given in private.

God COMMANDS to GIVE to the Needy (poor)

Deuteronomy 15:

is a popular scripture people use as an excuse not to give to the poor.

They say: “we will always have the poor with us!”

But they only quote the first half of the verse and don’t read the whole scripture

There is a common misconception about giving, many apply this scripture to all types of giving.

We are commanded to OPEN WIDE OUR HAND TO THE NEEDY.

FIRST FRUITS | OBEDIENCE

What are the First-fruits?

Two Hebrew words are rendered “first fruits.”

The first is bikkûrîm, which specifically refers to first-ripe grain and fruit, which was harvested and offered to the Lord according to sacerdotal prescriptions.

This term always appears in the masculine plural and it may refer generally to the first produce of the soil (Exod 23:16, 19; 34:26; Num 28:16; Neh 10:35; 13:31) or specifically to wheat (Exod 34:22) or the products of grain (dough, Ezek 44:30, or loaves of bread, Lev 23:17; 23:20), to fruits in general (Num 18:13; Ezek 44:30), to figs (Nah 3:12), or to grapes (Num 13:20); sometimes it simply indicates “early ripe” (Lev 2:14; 2 Kgs 4:42).

The second is reʾšı̂t, which is usually translated “first” or “beginning” of a series.

In a special sense, it can mean “choicest”; the substantive based on this idea is translated “first fruits,” with specific reference to processed produce rather than produce in the raw state.

This term specifically refers to dough (Num 15:20, 21; Ezek 44:30; Neh 10:38 [37]) or grain (Lev 23:10; Deut 18:4; 2 Chr 31:5), to new wine (Deut 18:4; 2 Chr 31:5), to oil (Deut 18:4; 2 Chr 31:5), to honey (2 Chr 31:5), to “all the produce of the land” (2 Chr 31:5), to “the fruit of every tree” (Neh 10:38), and even to wool (Deut 18:4).

In addition to its literal meaning, the word is figuratively applied to Israel, the first fruits of Yahweh’s harvest (Jer 2:3).

Several times (Exod 23:19; 34:26; Ezek 44:30), the two terms are used together, meaning something like “the first of the first fruits.”

Two Hebrew words are rendered “first fruits.”

The first is bikkûrîm, which specifically refers to first-ripe grain and fruit, which was harvested and offered to the Lord

The People of Israel had an Agricultural Economy

The second is reʾšı̂t, which is usually translated “first” or “beginning” of a series.

In a special sense, it can mean “choicest”; the substantive based on this idea is translated “first fruits,” with specific reference to processed produce rather than produce in the raw state.

The people of Israel gave to God First Fruits from their raw materials and processed material.

This is equal to our things we produce (our labor) and income (ROI’s) we receive from our sowing and reaping.

First-fruits Cause God’s Blessing to REST

tells us that when Israel entered the Promised Land and received their first harvest there, they were to put the first portion of that harvest in a basket and take it to God’s sanctuary.

At the sanctuary, they were to give the firstfruits offering to the priest and publicly declare the goodness and faithfulness of God! God promised if they would honor Him by giving Him some of the first of all the crops they produced, He would set them high above all the nations for praise, fame and honor; and they would be a people holy to the Lord.