Christ Over All

Any position, strength, or skill we gain is a gift from his hand, so we should trust that if help will come in the hour of trial, it will come from his gracious hand, and for his own glory. We may also appeal to God’s glory.

These are just a few examples of righteous deception in the bible, but in every one of these cases, we see the person or people lying, being deceptive, strategic, shrewd, and wise as serpents, we also see them being as innocent as doves.

Our culture has drifted so far from God, and subsequently immeasurably far from sanity and coherent thought, that the inability to stop drinking, aka the inability to stop willfully taking money out of your bank account, willfully driving to a store, willfully walking into the store, willfully grabbing a bottle off the shelf, willfully paying the proper amount – tax and everything – willfully popping the top, willfully putting the opening to your mouth, willfully tilting your head back, and willfully swallowing the alcohol is now seen as a symptom of a disease rather than a moral failing.

The concept of “first fruits” appears in Leviticus 23:10, which states, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted.”