The Spirit of God admonishes us to honour the Lord with our substance and with the first-fruits of all our increase, but many of God’s children have never given Him their first-fruit offering. This is not because they don’t want to, for the most part it’s because they don’t know enough to give it.
The revelation of the first-fruit actually came before the Law of Moses. It is a principle in God’s Kingdom. In Genesis 4 we read about two brothers who came before the Lord with their sacrifice. The Bible says Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain (Hebrews 11:4) because he gave his first-fruit. Let’s see what the New Testament says about first-fruit. “For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches” (Romans 11:16). ‘Holy’ means sanctified, separated or consecrated! In other words, if you give God your first-fruit, He’ll sanctify the entire lump. When you receive a raise in your salary or a blessing of any kind, and you separate the first-fruit unto God, the Bible says everything you receive afterwards is sanctified as well. That means He will watch over your remaining resources.
If God gets your first-fruit, it means nobody can touch your money; nobody can touch your property because God will watch over it by Himself. He will defend the lump! If you want God to defend your possessions and everything that He has blessed you with, give Him the first-fruit because it belongs to Him, but if you don’t give Him the first-fruit, then you’re keeping your resources in bags with holes.
This is what many Christians have never realized, that the way to keep the devourer away from their finances and substance is by giving the first-fruit.
