15/06/2025
3rd SUNDAY IN THE MONTH OF JUNE
THOSE WHO SOW IN TEARS WILL REAP WITH SHOUTS OF JOY. THOSE WHO GO OUT WEEPING, CARRYING SEED TO SOW, WILL RETURN WITH SONGS OF JOY, CARRYING SHEAVES WITH THEM – PSALM 126:5-6.
SERMON
SPEAKER: PASTOR E. E. ODEN (JP)
INTERPRETED BY DEACON UBONG BASSEY NSUNE
TEXT: JUDGES 13:7
THEME: FIRST TERM HARVEST
REFFS; JUDGES 13:15&17, JUDGES 13:3-20, EXODUS 23:14-17, GENESIS 4:1-8, HEBREW 11:4, JOHN 3:27
WHAT IS HARVEST?
- Harvest is an opportunity create by God to the children of men to show gratitude to what God has done.
- Harvest is an opportunity given to God’s children to come to God their creator who is the maker of all things.
- Harvest is an opportunity for God’s children to exercise God’s faithfulness for giving sun, moon and rain.
- Harvest is a burning of offering to God for enabling our plants to grow.
FIRST TERM HARVEST emphasizes about the beginning and the end. Beginning of a thing tells us how the ending will be.
In Judges 13: 7, the bible says it is the Harvest of man’s labour.
JUDGES 13:3-20; Narrated how the angel of the Lord appeared to Manoh and his wife and said to them ‘indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son. So that the prophecy will be fulfilled, the woman bore a son and called his name SAMSON, and the child grew and the Lord blessed him.
WHAT THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD HARVEST ARE CALLED?
-First term harvest
-Second term harvest – Mid Cropping
-Third term harvest – In-gathering.
Conclusively; the beginning of a thing, determines the end and everything comes from God,
Therefore, offer unto God an excellent sacrifice just like Abel did.
