1 00:00:14,119 --> 00:00:17,339 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast. 2 00:00:18,379 --> 00:00:24,100 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. 3 00:00:24,660 --> 00:00:27,019 Thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:37,740 --> 00:00:40,500 Thank you for coming and be blessed and 5 00:00:41,979 --> 00:00:49,380 we're going to experience some a little bit of a course correction in the beginning of what we're going to do in Leviticus and 6 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,640 see where we go with it and then we'll be on to talking about the 7 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,840 the feasts in 8 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:03,000 23. So Lord we ask that in your name 9 00:01:03,819 --> 00:01:05,840 we would be blessed and 10 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:08,400 Your word would be heard 11 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:14,819 Your wisdom would be experienced in our lives and we would be able to walk out 12 00:01:14,819 --> 00:01:22,060 the things that you have taught us. So Lord, we give you tonight and we thank you for who you are 13 00:01:22,060 --> 00:01:25,280 what you have done for each one in this room and 14 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:33,439 Lord, we thank you for blessing us just being here together in fellowship with you in Jesus name. Amen. 15 00:01:34,379 --> 00:01:34,659 Amen. 16 00:01:35,599 --> 00:01:36,439 All right. 17 00:01:37,739 --> 00:01:41,239 So the feasts of the Lord 1 through 44 18 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:47,480 most of you know, I kind of get to the point in time 19 00:01:50,719 --> 00:01:57,359 the time where I have 12 or 13 slides. It takes me about an hour, but I've got 16 tonight. 20 00:01:58,079 --> 00:01:59,019 So we're going to 21 00:01:59,019 --> 00:02:03,980 go through it a little bit faster maybe as time goes on. So 22 00:02:03,980 --> 00:02:09,539 let's ask ourselves and when we think of all the feasts by name 23 00:02:09,539 --> 00:02:12,319 there are seven major 24 00:02:12,319 --> 00:02:17,319 what we call Holy Days feasts or rituals that the 25 00:02:17,899 --> 00:02:19,740 Israelites were told to 26 00:02:19,740 --> 00:02:21,580 prepare and 27 00:02:21,580 --> 00:02:28,300 participate in and be able to acknowledge the Lord God of whom they serve. 28 00:02:29,259 --> 00:02:32,659 So before we get into that, I want your thoughts as 29 00:02:33,699 --> 00:02:38,800 far as some of what we call the holidays, and I'm speaking in a Christian perspective. 30 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:47,139 With regards to community and fellowship, now think about the church experience that we are all having. 31 00:02:48,020 --> 00:02:51,520 So we're talking about our community here in the fellowship that we have. 32 00:02:52,099 --> 00:02:57,840 Coming together with believers fosters what when we come together? What does it foster? 33 00:03:01,379 --> 00:03:03,280 Okay, fellowship, that's good. 34 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:09,500 Unity, oh my gosh, you must have been reading notes and shared faith. 35 00:03:10,780 --> 00:03:12,819 You know, it's interesting that 36 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:18,919 because of, and I think I shared this somewhere along the line very recently, 37 00:03:19,340 --> 00:03:23,639 there was an inside story about the churches in Iran and 38 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:25,759 the 39 00:03:25,759 --> 00:03:27,400 Cholomani is 40 00:03:27,959 --> 00:03:32,219 extremely concerned as is all the priests that 41 00:03:32,219 --> 00:03:36,840 50,000 mosques have closed out of 42 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,360 75,000. 43 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:47,120 Now you talk about the graphic idea of the church. There is movement and what is interesting, 44 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,759 when God says about revival, He always refers 45 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:58,180 pejoratively to younger generations, and as you look back at the revival that was was brought forth in 46 00:03:58,840 --> 00:03:59,500 the 47 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:01,860 the days of Pentecost, 48 00:04:03,060 --> 00:04:06,680 those things in the charismatic movement, they always 49 00:04:07,359 --> 00:04:14,159 first started in the small ideas of children, of young children, of teenagers. 50 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:18,660 Now what happened in Asbury? College, same thing, young people. 51 00:04:18,660 --> 00:04:25,540 So consequently, there's an idea that we have that we are going to have shared faith and 52 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,019 we have unity, so that's one element of what we're doing. 53 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:35,980 So observing the rituals and traditions during the holidays that we all have, and 54 00:04:35,980 --> 00:04:39,779 Gail and I were just talking about what we're doing for Easter, what she was doing for Easter. 55 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:45,319 We have these ritual holidays that we express in some Christian format. 56 00:04:45,319 --> 00:04:51,439 I want you to think about what they mean to you, gathering with family, gathering with friends. 57 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:54,279 What perhaps, oh, okay, 58 00:04:55,740 --> 00:04:56,920 we're at the end now. 59 00:04:58,540 --> 00:05:02,660 Well, we should not be there, and may the Lord bless you and no. 60 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:07,759 All right. 61 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,800 Okay, so when we observe these rituals and traditions during the holidays, 62 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,899 it helps us to do what? 63 00:05:17,319 --> 00:05:20,100 At the end of the game, what does it help us to do? 64 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:24,600 Celebrate? Okay. 65 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:26,399 What else? 66 00:05:28,060 --> 00:05:29,259 Connect with each other. 67 00:05:30,019 --> 00:05:33,980 Because you know, it's the idea of, okay, Gail asked, are you going over to your kids? 68 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:39,779 You know, and we're connecting with our grown children. We're connecting with one another. We have feasts, 69 00:05:39,779 --> 00:05:45,040 we have times together, and you have a whole house full of people, right? Or you're going somewhere this year. 70 00:05:45,980 --> 00:05:48,720 All right. Okay, so we have that. So we're connecting. 71 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:56,139 We're expressing unity. We have a shared faith, and in the teaching and evangelism arena, 72 00:05:57,059 --> 00:06:04,339 holidays serve as a platform to do what? What do we do when we're all full of pie and we're, you know, 73 00:06:04,519 --> 00:06:05,759 we're sitting back. 74 00:06:07,419 --> 00:06:10,980 Ah, you two, oh my gosh, you're showing your age, girl. 75 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,660 How can you take a nap with all the kids around? 76 00:06:17,420 --> 00:06:18,980 Will you sneak off in the garage somewhere? 77 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,360 Think about it. What do we do? 78 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:24,899 We share, right? 79 00:06:25,660 --> 00:06:26,819 We share our stories. 80 00:06:27,660 --> 00:06:28,899 We share our lives. 81 00:06:30,439 --> 00:06:32,360 We reinforce our Christian identity 82 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,560 by those things that we do together. 83 00:06:37,379 --> 00:06:39,980 Isn't it wonderful and you're blessed, and you know, 84 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:44,600 I know you have kids out of town too, that when you get together and you hear about their stories, 85 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,360 it just blesses you on the inside. 86 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:52,000 You know, and that's really part of what we're talking about here. 87 00:06:52,699 --> 00:06:58,040 And then the teaching and evangelism idea is that holidays serve a platform to what? 88 00:06:58,579 --> 00:07:00,079 Again, share our faith, 89 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:03,379 values, and stories with other individuals. 90 00:07:04,220 --> 00:07:07,740 You know, and we may not have a Christian group, we may have a mixed group. 91 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:12,120 So we share what we can, sometimes there is successes, sometimes there's not, 92 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:16,759 but we're sharing things that are monumental in our life and our values. 93 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:21,199 And the hope and the renewal that we're talking about then, 94 00:07:21,579 --> 00:07:27,100 many holidays emphasize themes of hope and renewal, inspiring believers to do what? 95 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:30,480 To live out their faith with purpose. 96 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:38,100 And so many, probably like you, you, I know of so many people, they're Christian, 97 00:07:38,339 --> 00:07:39,319 but they have no purpose. 98 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:41,300 Well, I'm going to go to heaven. 99 00:07:41,620 --> 00:07:43,500 Well, that's just not what only God wants. 100 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,420 He wants for us to have purpose in our life. 101 00:07:47,199 --> 00:07:52,959 And thinking about the feasts that God ordained, which we will be going through. 102 00:07:53,660 --> 00:07:59,879 God wanted, as we originally went back in Exodus, we talked about wanting relationship. 103 00:08:00,980 --> 00:08:05,899 And in that relationship, he wanted to build a nation and in building a nation, 104 00:08:05,939 --> 00:08:08,759 he wanted these very things that we're talking about here. 105 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:15,040 So the celebrations now are more than just dates on a calendar. 106 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,759 They are spiritual anchors that remind Christians of God's love and promises 107 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:25,500 to rekindle them with other people and things that you may have forgot about that 108 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:30,180 you're talking about, things that you rehearse with one another, again, 109 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,820 kind of stimulates you and sometimes challenges you to say, okay, you know, 110 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:39,279 that that that son or the daughter of mine or my grandkids, I mean, 111 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,580 they're really experiencing maybe even a closer relationship than perhaps I have. 112 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:50,340 Okay, so my question then, which holiday holds the most meaning for you 113 00:08:50,340 --> 00:08:54,759 and why what holiday is that Easter? 114 00:08:55,279 --> 00:08:55,379 Okay. 115 00:08:55,639 --> 00:09:01,500 Why is that because the Lord resurrected from the dead anyone else? 116 00:09:03,620 --> 00:09:04,759 You're looking over there. 117 00:09:04,799 --> 00:09:06,220 Do you have a net consensus now? 118 00:09:07,860 --> 00:09:08,940 Christmas Christmas. 119 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:09,960 Yeah, I was a Christmas. 120 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:10,639 Yeah, okay. 121 00:09:10,639 --> 00:09:12,480 Why not a challenge, but a question. 122 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,539 Why is it that you like Christmas family? 123 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:18,240 Okay, so family is important up there. 124 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:19,159 Okay, that's good. 125 00:09:20,340 --> 00:09:21,340 You got the same. 126 00:09:21,519 --> 00:09:22,580 Okay, you got the same. 127 00:09:23,579 --> 00:09:26,340 I think the first answer is pretty close. 128 00:09:26,539 --> 00:09:31,320 Easter because that was where, you know, the whole point of Christianity, 129 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:35,120 like the whole fact that he was resurrected, like, you know, when he was 130 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,679 born, he wasn't resurrected yet. 131 00:09:38,399 --> 00:09:41,320 So Easter is kind of the kind of telltale. 132 00:09:41,779 --> 00:09:42,679 So Easter is important. 133 00:09:43,059 --> 00:09:43,440 Anything else? 134 00:09:44,940 --> 00:09:45,659 All right, Gail. 135 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:47,340 No, quiet. 136 00:09:47,899 --> 00:09:48,480 Same thing Easter. 137 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:49,700 Okay, Easter. 138 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:51,120 Yes, same here. 139 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:52,419 So we have resurrection. 140 00:09:52,779 --> 00:09:54,000 We have Christmas. 141 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:57,679 We have things like that that we're dealing with with regard to our 142 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,039 favorite holidays now. 143 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,480 Okay, before we go on just so we don't get mixed up. 144 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,259 There are a lot of feasts that we'll be covering in the first month 145 00:10:12,259 --> 00:10:13,139 of the year. 146 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,659 There is Passover on leavened bread feast. 147 00:10:17,179 --> 00:10:20,419 And again, the first fruits feast. 148 00:10:21,019 --> 00:10:25,799 So there is those things that are important in the month of and 149 00:10:25,799 --> 00:10:29,580 you can think of a car named Nissan in the first month of the 150 00:10:29,580 --> 00:10:30,340 calendar year. 151 00:10:31,019 --> 00:10:33,799 And just to set you forth in the third month, fourth, fifth, 152 00:10:33,899 --> 00:10:35,500 and sixth, there's not much going on. 153 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,360 But in the seventh month, we are the Feast of Trumpets, the 154 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,340 Day of Atonement, and the Day of Tabernacles. 155 00:10:42,179 --> 00:10:46,519 So let's take a look at what we'll be talking about. 156 00:10:46,659 --> 00:10:52,740 So verses 1 and 2 of the chapter is just a an exhortation 157 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,440 that there are sacred things that are to be obeyed and to 158 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,340 given be given us by the Lord. 159 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:03,620 And then verse 3, it talks about the Sabbath and this is not 160 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:04,039 a feast. 161 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:05,740 It's just tucked right in here. 162 00:11:06,220 --> 00:11:07,480 It's a weekly command. 163 00:11:07,899 --> 00:11:12,059 It's a weekly time of rest and relationship that we have 164 00:11:12,059 --> 00:11:12,779 with our Lord. 165 00:11:12,779 --> 00:11:16,480 The highlight that is of that day is a significant 166 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,820 perpetual covenant that God made with his people. 167 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:25,019 So getting through that now we go into the feasts, the 168 00:11:25,019 --> 00:11:29,039 Passover, verse 4 and 5 again is celebrated the first month 169 00:11:29,039 --> 00:11:32,500 of the year and it commemorates deliverance of Israel 170 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:35,000 from Egypt and we'll be breaking these things down. 171 00:11:35,620 --> 00:11:39,460 Verse 6 and 7 is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a feast 172 00:11:39,460 --> 00:11:42,919 of unleavened bread lasting seven days with special 173 00:11:42,919 --> 00:11:43,500 offerings. 174 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,820 And then verses 9 through 14, the Feast of First Fruits 175 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,820 celebrates the first harvest of the year and includes 176 00:11:51,820 --> 00:11:54,039 the offering of a sheaf of grain. 177 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,700 And verses 15 through 22 is the Feast of Weeks or 178 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:00,500 commonly called Pentecost. 179 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,919 It occurs 50 days after the feast of the first fruits 180 00:12:05,460 --> 00:12:07,799 and rest after the harvest. 181 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,240 And then verse 23 through 25 is the Feast of Trumpets 182 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:13,759 which is Rosh Hashanah. 183 00:12:14,139 --> 00:12:17,000 Again, that marks the beginning of the seventh month 184 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,980 a day of blowing trumpets and rest. 185 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:26,519 And then verse 26 through 32, the Day of Atonement 186 00:12:26,519 --> 00:12:28,820 which is Yom Kippur as we know it. 187 00:12:29,019 --> 00:12:32,840 It's the holiest day of the year for Israel, a time 188 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,159 of fasting, repentance and atonement for sin. 189 00:12:36,860 --> 00:12:41,940 So finally, the Feast of Tabernacles is what we also 190 00:12:41,940 --> 00:12:44,940 call the Feast of Booths and we'll be talking about 191 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:45,200 that. 192 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,740 It commemorates Israel's journey in the wilderness 193 00:12:48,259 --> 00:12:49,340 and God's provision. 194 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:52,000 So that's the outline that we'll go through. 195 00:12:52,259 --> 00:12:53,659 So let's take a look at why. 196 00:12:54,519 --> 00:12:59,379 So we gave our reasons why these holidays are specific 197 00:12:59,379 --> 00:13:00,100 to us. 198 00:13:00,519 --> 00:13:04,039 The reason that God wanted to establish these and 199 00:13:04,039 --> 00:13:07,139 make an imprint on their minds is that he wanted them 200 00:13:07,139 --> 00:13:08,559 to remember his blessings. 201 00:13:09,299 --> 00:13:13,360 We talked about that sharing his provision and deepen 202 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,659 their faith and live in alignment with his principles. 203 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:17,840 That was the goal. 204 00:13:18,279 --> 00:13:20,440 It just wasn't random things that were picked out 205 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:21,419 because of the seasons. 206 00:13:21,620 --> 00:13:25,559 They were specific to remember what he has done 207 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:26,100 for them. 208 00:13:26,179 --> 00:13:29,960 Just as we discuss these things, his imprint in these 209 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,080 wanted to be established in their minds and hearts. 210 00:13:34,199 --> 00:13:38,120 Let's take a look at the background now of what festivals 211 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:39,480 were originally. 212 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:44,320 In the pagan nations of Greece and Rome, festivals were established 213 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:49,799 by man to find favor with deities and to prevent disasters 214 00:13:50,339 --> 00:13:53,940 which were accomplished, which were accompanied by gluttonous 215 00:13:53,940 --> 00:13:56,559 eating, drunken bras and promiscuous acts. 216 00:13:57,340 --> 00:14:00,580 So if you remember, there was a God that we said for 217 00:14:00,580 --> 00:14:01,080 everything. 218 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:02,460 There was a God of harvest. 219 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:03,799 There was a God for rain. 220 00:14:03,799 --> 00:14:05,279 There was a God for protection. 221 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,919 They had many, many, many, many Gods and they had rituals 222 00:14:09,919 --> 00:14:10,960 for each one. 223 00:14:11,179 --> 00:14:12,360 I mean, they were very busy. 224 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:16,279 So again, that's what pagan nations did and the pagan 225 00:14:16,279 --> 00:14:20,159 prophets really spoke against these festivals because of 226 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:20,799 the outcome. 227 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,539 When you ended up with a bunch of people drinking wine 228 00:14:24,539 --> 00:14:27,259 and having a fun time, what begins to happen? 229 00:14:27,419 --> 00:14:29,919 It begins to get very disorganized and all of a sudden 230 00:14:29,919 --> 00:14:30,519 there's trouble. 231 00:14:30,519 --> 00:14:34,759 They did not want that but they still had it. 232 00:14:35,039 --> 00:14:40,000 However, on the other side, the Israelites were celebrating 233 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,919 these things and again, the way they celebrated them was 234 00:14:43,919 --> 00:14:47,879 the sanctity of the festival and again, there was no 235 00:14:47,879 --> 00:14:54,960 hint of in the Bible of orgies, wildness, promiscuous 236 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:59,460 abandonment connected with these pagan festivals because 237 00:14:59,460 --> 00:15:03,039 God pulled them aside and told them about two words 238 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:05,340 that we remember separation and purity. 239 00:15:05,779 --> 00:15:08,559 Remember those words have been given over and over 240 00:15:08,559 --> 00:15:13,080 again in his commandments to separate yourself from the 241 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,059 rest of the world and to be pure before me. 242 00:15:16,659 --> 00:15:19,580 We give a lot of us gave a lot of studies on those 243 00:15:19,580 --> 00:15:20,019 things. 244 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,279 So the biblical concept then on the other side was 245 00:15:23,279 --> 00:15:26,360 the exact opposite there were the festivals were 246 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:30,799 commanded by God but presented the Israelites with again 247 00:15:30,799 --> 00:15:33,139 the remembrance of his provision. 248 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:35,759 Now, I ask you the same question. 249 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,740 I mean if we if we think about the holidays, we 250 00:15:38,740 --> 00:15:40,879 think of the remembrance of Christmas. 251 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,740 We think of the remembrance of Easter of Palm Sunday. 252 00:15:44,740 --> 00:15:48,500 We just celebrated so those things that God wants us 253 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:51,860 to remember and again, these celebrations when the 254 00:15:51,860 --> 00:15:55,019 people gathered in the temple were testified by 255 00:15:55,019 --> 00:15:55,580 Isaiah. 256 00:15:55,820 --> 00:16:00,399 It says in 3029 the Lord's people will sing as they 257 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:03,120 do when they celebrate a religious festival at 258 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:07,279 night and the Lord is Israel's mighty rock and 259 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:11,179 his people will be so happy as they are when they 260 00:16:11,179 --> 00:16:15,019 follow the sound of the flutes to the mountain 261 00:16:15,019 --> 00:16:19,279 where he is worshiped and again the rejoicing of 262 00:16:19,279 --> 00:16:23,220 the whole community again, all of us may be in 263 00:16:23,220 --> 00:16:25,559 our separate families, but the rejoicing of that 264 00:16:25,559 --> 00:16:29,639 community spirit and it included slaves and it 265 00:16:29,639 --> 00:16:32,600 did not condemn other people and outsiders. 266 00:16:33,059 --> 00:16:35,919 They included them the Levi the proselyte the 267 00:16:35,919 --> 00:16:38,720 orphan and the widow in Deuteronomy 16. 268 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,019 So that's the background of festivals now that 269 00:16:42,019 --> 00:16:45,480 it's fast forward now if it's not a secular 270 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,600 festival, then what is it? 271 00:16:48,039 --> 00:16:51,720 It's where God always commands them to first 272 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,559 purify themselves through the restriction of their 273 00:16:56,559 --> 00:17:00,539 desires for pleasure and in every time of their 274 00:17:00,539 --> 00:17:01,299 celebration. 275 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:12,500 What secular non-religious secular meaning there 276 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:13,640 is a secular job. 277 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,440 I have I do things I work for people. 278 00:17:16,779 --> 00:17:20,200 There is an anointed job that I have so secular 279 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,799 is something not having to do with with Christendom. 280 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:30,740 Okay, so then the greater of the then greater at 281 00:17:30,740 --> 00:17:33,480 the temp they then gather at the temple to 282 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,940 participate in the hymns the prayers the sacrifices 283 00:17:36,940 --> 00:17:39,740 that we've been talking about so that the place 284 00:17:39,740 --> 00:17:43,579 the site the service would influence their sight 285 00:17:43,579 --> 00:17:46,700 and hearing with a spirit of reverence to the 286 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:48,279 God whom they serve. 287 00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:50,920 What do we do when we come in here? 288 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,019 We sing it remember that we remember things that 289 00:17:55,019 --> 00:17:56,740 God has told us in the past. 290 00:17:56,900 --> 00:17:58,000 We get our mind set. 291 00:17:58,460 --> 00:18:00,640 There is the reverence when we pray. 292 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:03,819 We pray together. 293 00:18:04,599 --> 00:18:06,660 There is an anointing in that prayer. 294 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:08,000 Excuse me. 295 00:18:08,019 --> 00:18:09,460 I'm going to take a cough drop here. 296 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,000 Not good. 297 00:18:14,539 --> 00:18:15,680 Thank you. 298 00:18:16,660 --> 00:18:23,359 And pardon what flavor hauls sugarless and it has 299 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:25,380 lemon and tart in it. 300 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:27,099 So it keeps me awake. 301 00:18:29,380 --> 00:18:31,779 Well, if I give you my last one. 302 00:18:35,740 --> 00:18:40,119 So again, what he is doing is patterning these people 303 00:18:40,779 --> 00:18:44,000 to be able to understand what he desires and the 304 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,400 end of the day those two words separation and 305 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:46,920 holiness. 306 00:18:47,839 --> 00:18:48,039 All right. 307 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,460 Sounds familiar to what we have been talking about. 308 00:18:51,180 --> 00:18:54,579 He commanded the sacrifice of a sin offering before 309 00:18:54,579 --> 00:18:57,640 they ever did this to atone for what they were 310 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,660 in sin and he warned the people to stop sinning. 311 00:19:02,740 --> 00:19:06,240 Again, the festivals did what it repaired the 312 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,859 divide between the perfection of God and the man's 313 00:19:09,859 --> 00:19:13,119 fallen nature because of sin of Adam and Eve. 314 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:17,299 So there we have in essence, what a festival is 315 00:19:17,299 --> 00:19:21,759 not and what it was designed to do again, just 316 00:19:21,759 --> 00:19:22,839 at the common bottom. 317 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:27,799 If you take a look at the life of Adam and Eve, 318 00:19:28,620 --> 00:19:30,319 we had communion in the garden. 319 00:19:30,319 --> 00:19:33,640 We have judgment because they did not listen to 320 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:34,200 the commands. 321 00:19:34,799 --> 00:19:36,759 God separated them from garden. 322 00:19:37,099 --> 00:19:39,799 There was rebellion and then there was redemption 323 00:19:39,799 --> 00:19:43,140 the whole cycle of man coming back to God. 324 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,619 Okay, the Sabbath. 325 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,660 Let's just quickly talk about that. 326 00:19:49,380 --> 00:19:52,759 The Sabbath then was a weekly observance like we 327 00:19:53,299 --> 00:19:54,079 observe weekly. 328 00:19:54,619 --> 00:19:56,259 It occurs every seventh day. 329 00:19:56,539 --> 00:20:00,299 It make it a regular and perpetual holy day. 330 00:20:01,319 --> 00:20:04,339 And and my wife and I go through this when she 331 00:20:04,339 --> 00:20:06,339 can't make it sometimes you know, I can't make 332 00:20:06,339 --> 00:20:08,960 it to church because of us and so she feels so 333 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:09,759 bad about it. 334 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,859 Well, you know, not that we should feel bad, but 335 00:20:11,859 --> 00:20:14,579 it's the idea it has become part of our life 336 00:20:15,259 --> 00:20:18,940 that what we do individually, we now come together 337 00:20:18,940 --> 00:20:21,980 in unity and we enjoy the fellowship of the 338 00:20:21,980 --> 00:20:24,440 brothers and the sisters and what worship there 339 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,119 is, what message is preached, what word comes 340 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:27,839 into our heart. 341 00:20:27,980 --> 00:20:31,079 So that's an occurrence that we desire and want. 342 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,420 So there is rest and reflection. 343 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,819 Being a a secular pastor, there wasn't much 344 00:20:41,819 --> 00:20:45,440 rest and reflection and you know, when you preach 345 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,900 on Sunday and then go to work on Monday and 346 00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:50,519 then work all week and then all those things 347 00:20:50,519 --> 00:20:51,960 that are put on you. 348 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,839 It was tough to find rest, but we are to rest 349 00:20:55,839 --> 00:20:59,519 and we are to reflect again primary characteristics 350 00:20:59,519 --> 00:21:02,859 of the Sabbath is to rest and the work ceases 351 00:21:02,859 --> 00:21:06,119 to honor God's own act of resting on the seventh 352 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,799 day after that creation and that's we found 353 00:21:08,799 --> 00:21:10,700 in Exodus 28 through 11. 354 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,819 All right, the sacred assembly is the again, 355 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,559 the Sabbath is designed as a day of gathering 356 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:21,180 worshiping providing spiritual nourishment 357 00:21:21,180 --> 00:21:22,339 and a sense of community. 358 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,019 All the things that we have been talking about 359 00:21:25,019 --> 00:21:28,359 God instituted then he drew the people out. 360 00:21:28,460 --> 00:21:30,940 He wants to Institute in the church today. 361 00:21:33,059 --> 00:21:36,180 Holiness something that is obviously part 362 00:21:36,180 --> 00:21:36,880 of the package. 363 00:21:37,220 --> 00:21:39,519 The Sabbath is set apart as holy. 364 00:21:40,779 --> 00:21:43,920 Reminding believers to focus on the relationship 365 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,819 with God and his provision and the way that 366 00:21:46,819 --> 00:21:50,619 we do that because we can get so distracted 367 00:21:50,619 --> 00:21:54,859 at home or in our shop in our men's cave 368 00:21:54,859 --> 00:21:58,019 and I'll speak on behalf of the men or other 369 00:21:58,019 --> 00:22:00,640 things that it takes some time to bring us 370 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,400 back to draw us together to remember his 371 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,019 goodness so we have that and then the again 372 00:22:07,019 --> 00:22:09,440 the covenantal significance of this is again 373 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,480 observing the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant 374 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,519 between God and his people symbolizing their 375 00:22:15,519 --> 00:22:19,160 dependence on him and so often we don't 376 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,200 walk in that we walk in independence. 377 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:23,819 I was talking to one sister today. 378 00:22:24,779 --> 00:22:28,119 She's back in the back there visiting and 379 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,160 we were talking about the churches today. 380 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,359 There's so much secularism in the church. 381 00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:34,019 You almost don't know the difference between 382 00:22:34,019 --> 00:22:36,640 the church and the secular society in some 383 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:37,160 instances. 384 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,559 So consequently the church of the redeemed 385 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:43,119 should be different than what we're experiencing 386 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:47,619 in the world and Hebrews 4 9 and 10 it says 387 00:22:47,619 --> 00:22:50,700 so then there remains a Sabbath rest for the 388 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:53,779 people of God for whoever has entered God's 389 00:22:53,779 --> 00:22:57,500 rest has also rested from his own works. 390 00:22:57,500 --> 00:23:02,700 All right now the Passover here we go. 391 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:06,539 All right those words pulled up a little bit 392 00:23:06,539 --> 00:23:10,539 but it says this it was celebrated in the 393 00:23:10,539 --> 00:23:13,279 spring around March or April during the month 394 00:23:13,279 --> 00:23:17,019 of Nissan on the 14th day the Israelites 395 00:23:17,019 --> 00:23:19,660 celebrated the Passover pointing to God's 396 00:23:19,660 --> 00:23:23,299 deliverance and sparing of their life from 397 00:23:23,299 --> 00:23:25,619 the death and slavery in Egypt. 398 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,859 So again those traditions that they 399 00:23:28,859 --> 00:23:30,579 celebrate it was the Seder meal. 400 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:32,920 Some of you may have participated in that 401 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,119 or have experienced that it was eating of 402 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,380 unleavened bread matzah it had roasted lamb 403 00:23:39,380 --> 00:23:42,940 bitter herbs and retelling the story of 404 00:23:42,940 --> 00:23:43,599 the Exodus. 405 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,519 So what's that mean unleavened bread again 406 00:23:46,519 --> 00:23:49,519 reminds them of the hasty departure from 407 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:51,779 Egypt there was no time for the bread 408 00:23:51,779 --> 00:23:53,839 to rise and so they had to bake it quickly 409 00:23:53,839 --> 00:23:54,819 and get out of there. 410 00:23:54,819 --> 00:23:57,440 So that's why they remembered that and 411 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,359 again the sacrifice lamb reminds them of 412 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,839 being saved from the death angel that 413 00:24:02,839 --> 00:24:06,200 God sent to Egypt and the bitter herbs 414 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,839 represent the bitterness of slavery that 415 00:24:08,839 --> 00:24:10,880 the Israelites endured in Egypt. 416 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,759 So there was significance for everything there 417 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:16,680 significance everything that we do in 418 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,700 church today the Lord asked us to 419 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:21,539 praise him what do we do we sing we 420 00:24:21,539 --> 00:24:24,480 worship the Lord wants to feed us 421 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,500 through the Holy Spirit there is an 422 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:28,940 anointed message there is fellowship 423 00:24:28,940 --> 00:24:30,880 there's gathering so all these things 424 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,119 are still fast forward from when he 425 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:35,099 originated them. 426 00:24:35,799 --> 00:24:37,700 So the question that I have for you 427 00:24:38,279 --> 00:24:41,880 what might be the significance of the 428 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,160 Passover as it relates to us as 429 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:45,660 Christians. 430 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:48,859 What is that if you look at the Passover 431 00:24:49,980 --> 00:24:51,019 what might that be? 432 00:24:55,380 --> 00:24:56,700 Okay, but what? 433 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,119 Okay, get it. 434 00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:03,579 So what else what's that remind us of? 435 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:08,359 Gail. 436 00:25:11,380 --> 00:25:13,079 Okay, Jesus was crucified. 437 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:18,059 Yes. 438 00:25:18,380 --> 00:25:18,960 Yeah. 439 00:25:19,980 --> 00:25:22,680 So the equation is his plan has never 440 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:23,160 changed. 441 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,519 There's a new and better covenant 442 00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:26,119 that we're experiencing but his plan 443 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:26,859 never changed. 444 00:25:28,799 --> 00:25:30,980 Just as the blood of the Lamb saved 445 00:25:30,980 --> 00:25:33,319 this Israelites the blood of Jesus 446 00:25:33,319 --> 00:25:36,279 saves us from our sins past present 447 00:25:36,279 --> 00:25:38,779 and future and eternal judgment and 448 00:25:38,779 --> 00:25:40,400 damnation we do not have. 449 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,680 So that's that's what we are 450 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,660 experiencing the Passover remind us 451 00:25:44,660 --> 00:25:46,259 of our redemption through Christ. 452 00:25:47,140 --> 00:25:49,140 We were slaves to sin but through 453 00:25:49,140 --> 00:25:51,460 his sacrifice we have been set free. 454 00:25:51,460 --> 00:25:53,980 So there is the connection between 455 00:25:53,980 --> 00:25:56,240 the Passover then and what we 456 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:57,299 experience now. 457 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:01,460 Okay, so the Feast of Unleavened 458 00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:04,339 Bread and we'll go through this 459 00:26:04,339 --> 00:26:06,259 it sometimes it gets confusing 460 00:26:06,259 --> 00:26:08,259 but we'll plow our way through it. 461 00:26:08,579 --> 00:26:09,880 The Feast of Unleavened Bread 462 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,859 started immediately after the Passover 463 00:26:12,859 --> 00:26:14,339 when I showed you that chart, 464 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,019 it was heavy in the first month 465 00:26:16,019 --> 00:26:19,319 and in the third through six month 466 00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:20,859 there was light and then there 467 00:26:20,859 --> 00:26:23,420 was a heavy festivals in the fall. 468 00:26:24,259 --> 00:26:26,460 So it started immediately after 469 00:26:26,460 --> 00:26:29,480 the Passover it was 15 to 21 days 470 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,519 long and they celebrated the 471 00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:33,240 physical departure and journey 472 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:34,740 of freedom from Egypt. 473 00:26:36,380 --> 00:26:38,900 So before the feast began all 474 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:41,039 leaven or yeast was removed 475 00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:41,920 from their homes. 476 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:44,839 Why is that Israel was again 477 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,259 commanded to eat bread without 478 00:26:47,259 --> 00:26:49,579 leaven or yeast which represented 479 00:26:49,579 --> 00:26:51,480 the removal of sin and corruption 480 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:52,920 from the Israelites. 481 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,299 So there was a removal of those 482 00:26:55,299 --> 00:26:56,980 things that were leaven which 483 00:26:56,980 --> 00:26:58,339 was the sin and the corruption. 484 00:26:59,339 --> 00:27:01,119 So the question what might the 485 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,700 significance of the Feast of 486 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:04,660 Unleavened Bread then mean to us 487 00:27:04,660 --> 00:27:05,059 today? 488 00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:09,319 What might that mean if there 489 00:27:09,319 --> 00:27:10,920 was a removal of sin? 490 00:27:16,299 --> 00:27:18,259 All right, I won't hold you up 491 00:27:18,259 --> 00:27:18,500 here. 492 00:27:19,579 --> 00:27:21,559 How about Jesus was buried during 493 00:27:21,559 --> 00:27:23,779 the during the Feast of the 494 00:27:23,779 --> 00:27:24,519 unleavened bread. 495 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,099 So he was separated from his 496 00:27:29,099 --> 00:27:31,259 burial symbolizes the laying 497 00:27:31,259 --> 00:27:33,180 down of his sinless body which 498 00:27:33,180 --> 00:27:34,960 would then later rise to bring 499 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,640 new life to all of us. 500 00:27:37,259 --> 00:27:39,460 The sin or the leaven in the 501 00:27:39,460 --> 00:27:42,420 bread is buried and the 502 00:27:42,420 --> 00:27:44,759 purification meaning the unleavened 503 00:27:44,759 --> 00:27:46,940 bread is ours to experience. 504 00:27:47,140 --> 00:27:48,859 So there is a connection those 505 00:27:48,859 --> 00:27:50,220 are subtle it is there. 506 00:27:51,019 --> 00:27:52,660 So purity and separation again 507 00:27:52,660 --> 00:27:55,380 from sin represents Jesus as an 508 00:27:55,380 --> 00:27:56,839 emblem of this feast. 509 00:27:57,380 --> 00:27:58,779 So there is that connection. 510 00:28:00,539 --> 00:28:03,000 Jesus described themselves in 511 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,299 John 3 35 is what the bread of 512 00:28:05,299 --> 00:28:05,640 life. 513 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,299 So as we think of these things 514 00:28:09,299 --> 00:28:11,839 we think okay and again the 515 00:28:12,660 --> 00:28:13,900 statement has been made many 516 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:14,299 times. 517 00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:16,119 What is Leviticus have it's 518 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:16,480 boring. 519 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,519 It's it's it's awful of laws. 520 00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:20,220 It's this and that well it's 521 00:28:20,220 --> 00:28:22,859 just a template of what we are 522 00:28:22,859 --> 00:28:25,119 living in today is resurrection 523 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,859 power the final atonement for 524 00:28:27,859 --> 00:28:28,200 sin. 525 00:28:28,519 --> 00:28:30,940 Okay the first the Feast of 526 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:33,720 first fruits that celebrates at 527 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,160 the beginning of the harvest 528 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:35,579 season. 529 00:28:35,740 --> 00:28:37,279 So we now jump from the spring 530 00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:38,920 into the harvest it's 531 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,640 celebrated during the same time 532 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,319 as the Passover and Feast of 533 00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:44,119 unleavened bread and it 534 00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:45,619 occurs on the day after the 535 00:28:45,619 --> 00:28:47,660 Sabbath again during the week 536 00:28:47,660 --> 00:28:48,940 of the Feast of unleavened 537 00:28:48,940 --> 00:28:51,640 bread right in the middle again 538 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:52,960 I don't know how they get all 539 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,359 this work done but there was a 540 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:55,259 lot of feasts that they 541 00:28:55,259 --> 00:28:57,319 participated in the worshippers 542 00:28:57,319 --> 00:28:59,519 would bring the first chief or 543 00:28:59,519 --> 00:29:03,259 Omar of barley to the priest 544 00:29:03,259 --> 00:29:05,500 as an offering to the Lord and 545 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:07,859 a lamb without blemish grain 546 00:29:07,859 --> 00:29:09,319 that was mixed with oil and 547 00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:09,680 wine. 548 00:29:10,299 --> 00:29:11,420 And if you remember as we went 549 00:29:11,420 --> 00:29:12,460 through those things there were 550 00:29:12,460 --> 00:29:13,640 significance for each. 551 00:29:13,940 --> 00:29:15,579 I'm not going to repeat all of 552 00:29:15,579 --> 00:29:15,839 them. 553 00:29:16,340 --> 00:29:18,099 So the priest waves the sheaf 554 00:29:18,099 --> 00:29:19,779 before the altar symbolizes 555 00:29:19,779 --> 00:29:21,900 again the dedication of the 556 00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:23,980 entire harvest to God and 557 00:29:23,980 --> 00:29:27,880 acknowledges him as his as the 558 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,039 provider for the people. 559 00:29:30,340 --> 00:29:33,119 So what significance of the 560 00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:34,579 Feast of the first fruits to 561 00:29:34,579 --> 00:29:36,359 us meaning Christians. 562 00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:38,579 What is this the first fruits? 563 00:29:40,740 --> 00:29:41,339 His resurrection. 564 00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:45,180 Yeah, so we have that from the 565 00:29:45,180 --> 00:29:47,319 dad again like a grain of wheat 566 00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:49,559 dying and later sprouting. 567 00:29:50,220 --> 00:29:51,740 What about the grain that they 568 00:29:51,740 --> 00:29:53,920 have found in Egyptian tombs 569 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,220 that when planted and watered 570 00:29:56,220 --> 00:29:57,819 it springs forth with life. 571 00:29:57,980 --> 00:29:59,079 It doesn't matter how long 572 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:00,819 that death has been but 573 00:30:00,819 --> 00:30:02,180 again there is life in the 574 00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:03,420 sea there is life and 575 00:30:03,420 --> 00:30:05,099 resurrection and what he's 576 00:30:05,099 --> 00:30:05,359 done. 577 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,460 So again there is the equation 578 00:30:07,460 --> 00:30:10,319 between the festivals that and 579 00:30:10,319 --> 00:30:11,700 you notice most of what I'm 580 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:13,319 doing is saying past tense. 581 00:30:14,019 --> 00:30:16,039 There are individual Jewish 582 00:30:16,039 --> 00:30:17,500 people that celebrate these 583 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:19,920 things and we don't minimize 584 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,839 that but what we have done we 585 00:30:21,839 --> 00:30:23,220 have gone from the old 586 00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:25,440 covenant to the new covenant all 587 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:26,599 that we're doing is saying 588 00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:28,799 okay all this is so new but 589 00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:30,940 yet it's not new as you see. 590 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:32,819 It's something that he formed 591 00:30:32,819 --> 00:30:34,019 from the foundation of the 592 00:30:34,019 --> 00:30:34,339 world. 593 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,400 The themes of renewal new 594 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,240 beginnings and again dedicating 595 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:41,839 our best to God. 596 00:30:42,540 --> 00:30:44,000 Just as the feast of first 597 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,759 fruits pointed to a future 598 00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:46,799 full harvest. 599 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,000 Jesus resurrection is viewed 600 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,539 as a promise to the future 601 00:30:50,539 --> 00:30:52,440 resurrection for all who 602 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,680 believe aren't you happy that 603 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:55,420 we have hope. 604 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,299 Oh my gosh we were just 605 00:30:57,299 --> 00:30:58,960 talking this morning we had 606 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,160 prayer over at Meadowwood 607 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:01,500 and there was I forget how 608 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:02,819 many people were there I 609 00:31:02,819 --> 00:31:06,640 shared on the crucifixion from 610 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,000 Luke 23 and I just wanted to 611 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:10,980 paint the picture that we 612 00:31:10,980 --> 00:31:12,140 were all Christian and we're 613 00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:13,200 sitting around and was reading 614 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,940 this and gave a devotion on 615 00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:16,460 it was just so wonderful to 616 00:31:16,460 --> 00:31:18,059 think that these brothers and 617 00:31:18,059 --> 00:31:19,359 sisters sitting here coming 618 00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:20,920 from different walks of life 619 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,819 into a retirement situation 620 00:31:22,819 --> 00:31:24,779 that we all know that when we 621 00:31:24,779 --> 00:31:26,460 pass from this life to death 622 00:31:26,460 --> 00:31:27,859 that we will see each other 623 00:31:27,859 --> 00:31:28,819 and we will be in heaven. 624 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,339 That's a very comforting thing 625 00:31:30,339 --> 00:31:32,740 to think about and realize 626 00:31:32,740 --> 00:31:33,680 especially when you're on 627 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:34,579 the other end of life. 628 00:31:36,059 --> 00:31:38,420 Okay, the feast of weeks, 629 00:31:38,519 --> 00:31:40,660 which is Pentecost now you 630 00:31:40,660 --> 00:31:42,400 all ought to know this answer 631 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:43,519 when we go through it. 632 00:31:44,180 --> 00:31:47,200 Okay, the feast of weeks then 633 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,519 is known as the Feast of 634 00:31:48,519 --> 00:31:49,339 Pentecost. 635 00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:52,200 It is one of the major biblical 636 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,200 festivals. 637 00:31:54,099 --> 00:31:56,359 It was again celebrated 50 638 00:31:56,359 --> 00:31:58,900 days after the first fruits 639 00:31:59,460 --> 00:32:00,599 and again, you know, I would 640 00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:01,759 think that people would get 641 00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:02,859 these things pretty well 642 00:32:02,859 --> 00:32:04,599 mixed up but remember they 643 00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:06,839 had priests to tell them what 644 00:32:06,839 --> 00:32:08,319 was coming when they had to 645 00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:09,619 live all their own lives but 646 00:32:09,619 --> 00:32:10,680 they had all these different 647 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,460 festivals and feasts and again 648 00:32:13,460 --> 00:32:15,160 it marks the conclusion of the 649 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,779 grain harvest season in Israel. 650 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,960 So the Israelites would then 651 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,640 bring two loaves of leaven 652 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,259 bread to make made from the 653 00:32:26,259 --> 00:32:28,980 first wheat harvest and present 654 00:32:28,980 --> 00:32:30,960 them to the priest as a wave 655 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:31,599 offering. 656 00:32:32,019 --> 00:32:33,839 So we've gone from unleavened 657 00:32:33,839 --> 00:32:34,620 to leavened. 658 00:32:35,740 --> 00:32:37,380 Additional sacrifices were 659 00:32:37,380 --> 00:32:39,500 offered again including seven 660 00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,299 lambs, one bowl, two rams, 661 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:43,339 one goat along with grain and 662 00:32:43,339 --> 00:32:45,460 again drink offerings. 663 00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:49,160 So question, what might be the 664 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:50,920 significance of the Feast of 665 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,039 weeks or Pentecost to us as 666 00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:53,500 Christians? 667 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,359 Yeah, where in Acts 2. 668 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,140 Yeah, very good. 669 00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:04,079 Okay, so he sent the Holy 670 00:33:04,079 --> 00:33:04,500 Spirit. 671 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,359 He was thinking about these 672 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:09,099 things way back when. 673 00:33:09,980 --> 00:33:11,539 In the annals of time. 674 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,900 You know, you wonder how God 675 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:16,200 could put all these things 676 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,160 together to make it all work 677 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:18,460 out. 678 00:33:18,779 --> 00:33:20,059 I would get confused in the 679 00:33:20,059 --> 00:33:20,740 first millennium. 680 00:33:21,859 --> 00:33:23,079 You know thinking about all 681 00:33:23,079 --> 00:33:25,420 that he's done and yet when 682 00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:28,359 you look at so many things in 683 00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:29,779 the Bible, they're redundant 684 00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:32,539 because what his nature 685 00:33:32,539 --> 00:33:34,180 requires and wants is what 686 00:33:34,180 --> 00:33:36,579 the relationship of people and 687 00:33:36,579 --> 00:33:37,819 there's only one way to have 688 00:33:37,819 --> 00:33:40,059 that because he's sinless he 689 00:33:40,059 --> 00:33:42,180 what he needs to give you an 690 00:33:42,180 --> 00:33:43,720 opportunity to get rid of the 691 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,720 sin so you can fellowship with 692 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,980 him so you can commune with him 693 00:33:47,980 --> 00:33:49,759 and be in his presence because 694 00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:51,359 without that we won't get 695 00:33:51,359 --> 00:33:51,740 there. 696 00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:53,900 You know, we can't bring sin 697 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:55,519 into the camp because again, 698 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:56,400 you know, it says in the Old 699 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,980 Testament that he despised sin. 700 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,160 We can't bring all that all 701 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,500 that part of life into God's 702 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:03,519 presence without doing 703 00:34:03,519 --> 00:34:05,400 something responding to it and 704 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,359 that is the repentance. 705 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,300 Okay, again, 40 days after 706 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:11,820 Jesus resurrection, the Holy 707 00:34:11,820 --> 00:34:14,159 Spirit was given to Pentecost. 708 00:34:15,559 --> 00:34:19,239 So again, the not the 40 to 50 709 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:19,699 days. 710 00:34:20,579 --> 00:34:22,260 So Pentecost represents the 711 00:34:22,260 --> 00:34:23,699 power of the Holy Spirit and 712 00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:25,059 believers to build up our 713 00:34:25,059 --> 00:34:27,579 inner man equip us to spread 714 00:34:27,579 --> 00:34:29,000 the gospel and live for 715 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:29,340 Christ. 716 00:34:30,179 --> 00:34:32,699 So again, there is the endowment 717 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:35,219 of power, dunamos, meaning 718 00:34:35,219 --> 00:34:36,820 what the power of the Holy 719 00:34:36,820 --> 00:34:37,199 Spirit. 720 00:34:37,579 --> 00:34:38,820 It's not in us. 721 00:34:39,219 --> 00:34:40,699 It's the Holy Spirit through 722 00:34:40,699 --> 00:34:41,139 us. 723 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:42,860 So we have that. 724 00:34:44,139 --> 00:34:45,420 All right, the Feast of 725 00:34:45,420 --> 00:34:47,860 Trumpets then is also called 726 00:34:47,860 --> 00:34:50,659 Yom Teshar, meaning in Hebrew. 727 00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:52,920 It is a biblical festival that 728 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,480 marks the beginning of the 729 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:55,599 Jewish New Year. 730 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,480 It is celebrated in the first 731 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,260 day of the seventh month of 732 00:34:59,260 --> 00:35:01,239 Teshara, usually in September 733 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:02,280 or October. 734 00:35:03,219 --> 00:35:04,440 So it's the blowing of 735 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,480 trumpets that remember what 736 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,320 John Kennedy does every so 737 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:09,980 often, right? 738 00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:11,780 He gets the horn out, which is 739 00:35:11,780 --> 00:35:13,079 the shofar and he blows it. 740 00:35:13,260 --> 00:35:14,760 That's what this is all about. 741 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,500 Again, the central ritual is 742 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,019 the sounding of the shofar and 743 00:35:20,019 --> 00:35:21,900 the blasting to serve as a 744 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:24,019 spiritual wake up and a call 745 00:35:24,019 --> 00:35:25,860 to repentance and a reminder 746 00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:27,260 of God's sovereignty. 747 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,719 So again, how often do we need 748 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,739 to be reminded of our 749 00:35:32,739 --> 00:35:34,340 relationship when the Holy 750 00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:36,300 Spirit speaks to us, could be 751 00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:37,760 daily, could be weekly, it 752 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:38,440 could be hourly. 753 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,900 God in these providential areas 754 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:44,159 are proclaiming, look, keep 755 00:35:44,159 --> 00:35:46,360 the relationship pure, keep 756 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,980 the relationship close to me. 757 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:49,599 You're going away. 758 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,400 Then there's a festival that 759 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,320 comes reminding them of what 760 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,360 God's goodness is. 761 00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:56,219 People would gather for 762 00:35:56,219 --> 00:35:57,760 worship and prayer emphasizing 763 00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:58,900 God's kingship. 764 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,019 The day was holy and there was 765 00:36:02,019 --> 00:36:03,280 no work to be performed. 766 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,099 So what might be the 767 00:36:05,099 --> 00:36:06,480 significance of the Feast of 768 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,239 Trumpets to us as Christians? 769 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:10,059 This isn't hard. 770 00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:10,960 Make the equation. 771 00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:18,420 And there was silence. 772 00:36:19,599 --> 00:36:19,800 Yes. 773 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:22,179 All right. 774 00:36:23,099 --> 00:36:24,380 Jesus, we had the resurrection. 775 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:25,300 He'll return. 776 00:36:26,460 --> 00:36:28,099 We are assured that he will 777 00:36:28,099 --> 00:36:28,659 return. 778 00:36:29,519 --> 00:36:31,760 Aren't we glad that we're not 779 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,539 left alone that we are going 780 00:36:34,539 --> 00:36:35,639 to see him returning? 781 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,559 Ken, are you okay? 782 00:36:37,739 --> 00:36:38,539 Oh, okay. 783 00:36:38,619 --> 00:36:39,179 Your back hurts. 784 00:36:40,380 --> 00:36:41,000 Oh, okay. 785 00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:41,719 All right. 786 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:42,199 Okay. 787 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,320 I didn't mean to embarrass you. 788 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:46,619 Just wondered if maybe we 789 00:36:46,619 --> 00:36:47,659 needed to pray for you. 790 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:48,980 All right. 791 00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:49,440 Okay. 792 00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:50,980 You need it. 793 00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:52,199 All right. 794 00:36:52,539 --> 00:36:53,500 So he'll return. 795 00:36:53,860 --> 00:36:55,280 The feast overshadows the 796 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:56,860 return of Christ when the 797 00:36:56,860 --> 00:36:58,019 trumpet will sound. 798 00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,280 Hallelujah for that. 799 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,519 In First Thessalonians 4 16 for 800 00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:04,360 the Lord himself will descend 801 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,900 from heaven with a shout with 802 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:09,039 the voice of an archangel and 803 00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:10,579 with the trumpet of God. 804 00:37:11,179 --> 00:37:12,980 So again, there's this 805 00:37:13,860 --> 00:37:16,280 assimilation of what he did and 806 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:17,920 what he is going to do. 807 00:37:18,099 --> 00:37:18,579 All right. 808 00:37:18,659 --> 00:37:21,260 The Day of Atonement then or 809 00:37:21,260 --> 00:37:22,900 young Kapoor as a lot of us 810 00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:25,159 know it is the harvest is the 811 00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:26,820 holiest day of the Jewish 812 00:37:26,820 --> 00:37:28,780 calendar which is observed on 813 00:37:28,780 --> 00:37:31,199 the 10th day of to share following 814 00:37:31,199 --> 00:37:32,500 the Feast of Tabernacles. 815 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,039 So if you're not confused now, 816 00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:34,579 that's okay. 817 00:37:35,219 --> 00:37:36,880 I mean when I kind of looked at 818 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,519 this thing and got it I said 819 00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:40,280 she this is you know, and I 820 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:41,559 wonder how they kept all that 821 00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:42,599 but I remembered that the 822 00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:44,699 priests were what the scribes 823 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:46,159 they were the people that were 824 00:37:46,159 --> 00:37:46,679 doctors. 825 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:47,579 They were the people that 826 00:37:47,579 --> 00:37:50,699 prayed for answers to God from 827 00:37:50,699 --> 00:37:51,719 from God. 828 00:37:52,219 --> 00:37:53,179 They were the intimate. 829 00:37:53,420 --> 00:37:54,420 They were the ones that were 830 00:37:54,420 --> 00:37:55,440 connected with this. 831 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:56,340 All right. 832 00:37:56,820 --> 00:37:58,320 So the primary focus of the 833 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,019 Atonement of sins and the renewal 834 00:38:00,019 --> 00:38:01,780 of one's relationship with God 835 00:38:02,519 --> 00:38:03,820 the high priest entered the 836 00:38:03,820 --> 00:38:05,599 Holy of Holies to make Atonement 837 00:38:05,599 --> 00:38:06,320 for the people. 838 00:38:06,820 --> 00:38:07,340 Okay. 839 00:38:07,420 --> 00:38:11,159 Now here is again a situation 840 00:38:11,159 --> 00:38:13,119 that's coming up a bull was 841 00:38:13,119 --> 00:38:15,780 sacrificed as a sin offering for 842 00:38:15,780 --> 00:38:16,860 the high priest and his 843 00:38:16,860 --> 00:38:19,039 household two goats were used 844 00:38:19,039 --> 00:38:20,380 for the community and if you 845 00:38:20,380 --> 00:38:21,699 remember I was the one that 846 00:38:21,699 --> 00:38:23,219 preached on this one goat 847 00:38:23,219 --> 00:38:24,599 did what he was the sin 848 00:38:24,599 --> 00:38:26,139 offering it was given up. 849 00:38:26,260 --> 00:38:27,579 It was sacrificed and the other 850 00:38:27,579 --> 00:38:29,099 was the scapegoat that what 851 00:38:29,099 --> 00:38:30,940 did what it had the sins of 852 00:38:30,940 --> 00:38:32,780 the community placed on it and 853 00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:35,099 it was taken out and left in 854 00:38:35,099 --> 00:38:37,440 the wilderness for to carry the 855 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,199 sins and the transgressions 856 00:38:39,199 --> 00:38:39,719 away. 857 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,639 So now this is a big question 858 00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:43,539 and I'm not going to give you 859 00:38:43,539 --> 00:38:44,059 this answer. 860 00:38:45,579 --> 00:38:47,980 As it relates to sin, what 861 00:38:47,980 --> 00:38:49,219 is wrong with this picture? 862 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,460 Oh, he's always here. 863 00:38:55,459 --> 00:38:58,840 So what go ahead. 864 00:38:59,079 --> 00:38:59,840 Roger. 865 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:01,420 What? 866 00:39:03,260 --> 00:39:04,940 Okay, that's a good word. 867 00:39:05,059 --> 00:39:05,880 It wasn't permanent. 868 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:07,239 Right. 869 00:39:10,619 --> 00:39:12,519 Any other additions to that 870 00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:13,559 thoughts that Gail? 871 00:39:13,699 --> 00:39:14,960 It really wasn't complete. 872 00:39:16,659 --> 00:39:18,079 It was not complete. 873 00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:20,420 The only sacrifice that was 874 00:39:20,420 --> 00:39:21,739 given that was complete was 875 00:39:21,739 --> 00:39:23,300 what Jesus for our sin. 876 00:39:23,460 --> 00:39:25,320 So you see that there is a 877 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,000 redundant need to bring once 878 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,420 again these things before God 879 00:39:30,420 --> 00:39:32,460 do it again and again and 880 00:39:32,460 --> 00:39:33,820 again and like I said to be 881 00:39:33,820 --> 00:39:34,920 honest with you, I'm glad I 882 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:35,920 live on this side of the new 883 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:36,219 covenant. 884 00:39:37,219 --> 00:39:38,139 You know, I'm not so sure I 885 00:39:38,139 --> 00:39:39,199 could do all that on the other 886 00:39:39,199 --> 00:39:39,559 side. 887 00:39:41,099 --> 00:39:42,880 So Hebrews 10 for it is 888 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,500 impossible for the blood of 889 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:46,099 bulls and goats to take away 890 00:39:46,099 --> 00:39:46,559 sins. 891 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,320 It can atone it can cover but 892 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:52,340 it doesn't do away. 893 00:39:52,940 --> 00:39:55,099 This shows that these sacrifices 894 00:39:55,099 --> 00:39:57,659 symbolically covered sin but 895 00:39:57,659 --> 00:40:00,219 could not fully remove it. 896 00:40:00,699 --> 00:40:02,059 Atonement addressed the 897 00:40:02,059 --> 00:40:04,559 separation from God caused by 898 00:40:04,559 --> 00:40:06,739 sin but not its removal. 899 00:40:08,019 --> 00:40:10,719 So consequently we have 900 00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:12,360 atonement versus the removal 901 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,480 of sin atonement again rituals 902 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:17,679 foreshadowed the ultimate 903 00:40:17,679 --> 00:40:19,239 atonement through Jesus Christ 904 00:40:19,740 --> 00:40:21,280 the high priest sprinkled blood 905 00:40:22,940 --> 00:40:25,500 of the sacrificial lamb on the 906 00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:27,619 mercy seat to cleanse the 907 00:40:27,619 --> 00:40:30,219 sanctuary and atone means to 908 00:40:30,219 --> 00:40:33,900 cover the sin of the people not 909 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:35,239 do away with it. 910 00:40:35,860 --> 00:40:37,639 God only covered their sins 911 00:40:38,340 --> 00:40:39,800 which then had to be repeated 912 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,960 again and again unlike our 913 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,639 relationship with God where he 914 00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:46,519 forgave and remove sin once 915 00:40:46,519 --> 00:40:48,599 and from for all from our 916 00:40:48,599 --> 00:40:49,059 lives. 917 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:51,139 That's wonderful to think about. 918 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:52,159 So there is an atonement 919 00:40:52,159 --> 00:40:55,059 activity that goes on even in 920 00:40:55,059 --> 00:40:57,599 this day that is complete. 921 00:40:58,119 --> 00:40:59,460 God forgave us and took away 922 00:40:59,460 --> 00:41:01,599 our sins by what his death 923 00:41:01,599 --> 00:41:03,780 which was complete and permanent 924 00:41:03,780 --> 00:41:06,619 removal of that sin as the high 925 00:41:06,619 --> 00:41:08,300 priest confessed the sins of 926 00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:10,179 the nation over the scapegoat 927 00:41:10,179 --> 00:41:13,019 identifying Israel's failings 928 00:41:13,019 --> 00:41:14,579 and seeking forgiveness. 929 00:41:15,059 --> 00:41:17,340 So must we seek forgiveness of 930 00:41:17,340 --> 00:41:20,460 our sins and and ask him to 931 00:41:20,460 --> 00:41:21,159 forgive them. 932 00:41:21,159 --> 00:41:22,960 So what might be the 933 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,760 significance of the atonement 934 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,079 for us as Christians. 935 00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:36,119 Well he's going to judge. 936 00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:38,420 Yeah, I mean that that's part 937 00:41:38,420 --> 00:41:40,300 of it but then ultimately he's 938 00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:41,679 going to do what there is a 939 00:41:41,679 --> 00:41:43,159 great right thrown judgment 940 00:41:43,159 --> 00:41:44,340 that he's going to judge all 941 00:41:44,340 --> 00:41:44,760 people. 942 00:41:45,139 --> 00:41:48,099 First Peter 4 5 but there but 943 00:41:48,099 --> 00:41:49,539 they will have to give an 944 00:41:49,539 --> 00:41:52,000 account to him who is ready to 945 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,860 judge the living and the dead. 946 00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:57,699 So again the equation that we 947 00:41:57,699 --> 00:42:01,619 have is that similarity in 948 00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:05,639 feasts now a caution toward us 949 00:42:05,639 --> 00:42:07,500 that maybe our newer believers 950 00:42:08,340 --> 00:42:09,760 there's nothing to be afraid 951 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,519 of the judgment of God because 952 00:42:12,519 --> 00:42:14,079 what the judgment of God is 953 00:42:14,079 --> 00:42:15,500 is just declaring his 954 00:42:15,500 --> 00:42:17,219 righteousness within the life 955 00:42:17,219 --> 00:42:18,980 of those that accepted. 956 00:42:18,980 --> 00:42:20,659 Yes for didn't accept and of 957 00:42:20,659 --> 00:42:22,099 course consequently there's then 958 00:42:22,099 --> 00:42:22,619 the judgment. 959 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,119 So if we are saved hallelujah 960 00:42:26,119 --> 00:42:27,380 that we're on the right side 961 00:42:27,380 --> 00:42:29,639 of that decision for Christians 962 00:42:29,639 --> 00:42:31,599 God judgment is a moment to 963 00:42:31,599 --> 00:42:33,920 embrace his justice and mercy 964 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,199 that we all seek to begin with 965 00:42:38,179 --> 00:42:39,519 and then rather than fear and 966 00:42:39,519 --> 00:42:41,679 punishment it is a confirmation 967 00:42:41,679 --> 00:42:43,900 of the believers hope and faith 968 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:47,139 injustice in Jesus finished work. 969 00:42:47,139 --> 00:42:48,340 Amen for that. 970 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,119 First Corinthians 5 10 says this 971 00:42:52,119 --> 00:42:54,579 for we must all appear that you 972 00:42:54,579 --> 00:42:55,699 and me before the judgment 973 00:42:55,699 --> 00:42:57,760 seat of Christ so that each of 974 00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,880 us may receive what is do us 975 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:01,219 for the things that we've done 976 00:43:01,219 --> 00:43:02,719 while in our body whether good 977 00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:03,239 or bad. 978 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:05,860 So, you know, that's where it's 979 00:43:05,860 --> 00:43:06,119 at. 980 00:43:06,179 --> 00:43:08,139 That's the declaration of his 981 00:43:08,139 --> 00:43:10,239 kingdom you we will be judged 982 00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:11,820 but we will be judged 983 00:43:11,820 --> 00:43:15,199 accordingly revelation 2012 984 00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:17,860 and I saw the dead great and 985 00:43:17,860 --> 00:43:19,599 small standing before the throne 986 00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:21,199 and the books were opened 987 00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:23,039 another book was opened which 988 00:43:23,039 --> 00:43:25,199 was the Book of Life the dead 989 00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:26,679 were judged according to what 990 00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:29,659 they had done as recorded in 991 00:43:29,659 --> 00:43:32,599 these books and Matthew 25 21 992 00:43:32,599 --> 00:43:34,679 well done and this is us 993 00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:36,320 that's for us like good and 994 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,079 faithful service enter into the 995 00:43:38,079 --> 00:43:40,000 joy of your reward this verse 996 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,840 again describes the final 997 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,500 judgment and the accountability 998 00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:45,159 for every individual. 999 00:43:45,159 --> 00:43:49,579 All right in Matthew 25 Jesus 1000 00:43:49,579 --> 00:43:51,079 speaks of separating the 1001 00:43:51,079 --> 00:43:52,480 righteous sheep from the 1002 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,880 unrighteous goats and again 1003 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,360 these verses show that all 1004 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,000 people are accountable to God 1005 00:43:58,759 --> 00:44:03,159 and it's interesting and we 1006 00:44:03,159 --> 00:44:05,300 have again where we live 1007 00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:06,780 retirement community older 1008 00:44:06,780 --> 00:44:10,300 people when you come to them 1009 00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:15,800 and you if opportunity presents 1010 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,360 itself and you talk with them 1011 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,039 and I you know I'm hesitant to 1012 00:44:21,039 --> 00:44:22,679 say how I talk with some people 1013 00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:23,880 but I'll not tell you this 1014 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,440 before it got us with you when 1015 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,179 hospice is there and they are 1016 00:44:28,179 --> 00:44:30,840 dying my question to them is you 1017 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:31,920 know at some point in time 1018 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:32,900 you're going to meet your maker 1019 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,300 are you prepared for that and 1020 00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:37,739 that's a tough question to get 1021 00:44:37,739 --> 00:44:39,980 out of your mouth sometimes but 1022 00:44:39,980 --> 00:44:41,420 it's the truth and at that 1023 00:44:41,420 --> 00:44:42,920 point in time I have nothing to 1024 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,079 lose because here is a person 1025 00:44:45,079 --> 00:44:47,400 that is dying that when you 1026 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:48,960 know that they don't know the 1027 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,519 Lord you want to have give them 1028 00:44:50,519 --> 00:44:52,639 every opportunity to do so. 1029 00:44:53,460 --> 00:44:54,940 So I would even encourage you 1030 00:44:54,940 --> 00:44:56,260 and you in the fray of your 1031 00:44:56,260 --> 00:44:58,179 life if you're not surrounded 1032 00:44:58,179 --> 00:45:00,559 by by the environment that we 1033 00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:03,059 perhaps have more commonly is 1034 00:45:03,059 --> 00:45:04,280 that when you see older 1035 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,820 people I was out shopping the 1036 00:45:06,820 --> 00:45:07,860 other day and there was this 1037 00:45:07,860 --> 00:45:10,219 old lady doing something old 1038 00:45:10,219 --> 00:45:12,300 I'm old okay and and 1039 00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:14,659 consequently I asked her about 1040 00:45:14,659 --> 00:45:16,340 certain thing I forget what the 1041 00:45:16,340 --> 00:45:18,400 question was and we ended up 1042 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:19,820 because I thought well Lord 1043 00:45:19,820 --> 00:45:21,039 maybe you know you're talking 1044 00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:22,960 to me so I open conversation we 1045 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,719 were walking and it ended up 1046 00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,119 that she knew the Lord and she 1047 00:45:26,119 --> 00:45:27,179 was so blessed that somebody 1048 00:45:27,179 --> 00:45:28,719 asked her and I thought it's 1049 00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:30,519 okay well you know that it's 1050 00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:31,380 not that it didn't go 1051 00:45:31,380 --> 00:45:32,539 anywhere it's just an 1052 00:45:32,539 --> 00:45:34,159 affirmation to this dear woman 1053 00:45:34,159 --> 00:45:35,880 that she knows the Lord Jesus 1054 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,860 Savior so don't discount those 1055 00:45:39,860 --> 00:45:42,900 things as possibilities think 1056 00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:44,699 of them as opportunities you 1057 00:45:44,699 --> 00:45:46,440 just never ever know. 1058 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:48,679 All right the Feast of 1059 00:45:48,679 --> 00:45:51,440 Tabernacles again known as the 1060 00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:52,360 Feast of Booths. 1061 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,239 It was a joyful and significant 1062 00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:56,360 biblical feast. 1063 00:45:56,619 --> 00:45:59,599 It was now a celebration again 1064 00:45:59,599 --> 00:46:01,079 it commemorates God's 1065 00:46:01,079 --> 00:46:03,639 provision and his presence 1066 00:46:03,639 --> 00:46:05,039 during the Israelites journey 1067 00:46:05,039 --> 00:46:06,739 through the wilderness after 1068 00:46:06,739 --> 00:46:08,840 the after the Exodus from Egypt 1069 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,199 it begins on the 15th day up to 1070 00:46:12,199 --> 00:46:14,400 Sherry typically September or 1071 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,260 October and lasts for seven 1072 00:46:16,260 --> 00:46:18,079 days it's followed by an 1073 00:46:18,079 --> 00:46:20,380 additional sacred assembly on 1074 00:46:20,380 --> 00:46:21,440 the eighth day. 1075 00:46:23,420 --> 00:46:25,380 So the families construct 1076 00:46:25,380 --> 00:46:27,820 temporary shelters or booths 1077 00:46:27,820 --> 00:46:30,039 they were called made of 1078 00:46:30,039 --> 00:46:31,739 branches and leaves decorated 1079 00:46:31,739 --> 00:46:33,639 perhaps with fruits and symbols 1080 00:46:33,639 --> 00:46:34,320 of harvest. 1081 00:46:35,039 --> 00:46:37,139 And again everyone sleeps in 1082 00:46:37,139 --> 00:46:38,619 the booth symbolizing their 1083 00:46:38,619 --> 00:46:40,940 dependence on God a graphic 1084 00:46:40,940 --> 00:46:42,800 interpretation of what he's 1085 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:43,539 done for them. 1086 00:46:44,099 --> 00:46:45,539 The first and the eighth day 1087 00:46:46,139 --> 00:46:47,699 are observed as sacred 1088 00:46:47,699 --> 00:46:49,539 assemblies focusing on worship 1089 00:46:49,539 --> 00:46:52,019 offering sacrifices again the 1090 00:46:52,019 --> 00:46:53,980 waving of palm branches in 1091 00:46:53,980 --> 00:46:55,679 symbolic worship and prayer. 1092 00:46:56,639 --> 00:46:58,340 So now last one of the last 1093 00:46:58,340 --> 00:46:58,739 questions. 1094 00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,360 What may be the significance of 1095 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,239 the Feast of Tabernacles for 1096 00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:03,119 us as Christians? 1097 00:47:12,939 --> 00:47:15,619 I think the fulfillment of 1098 00:47:15,619 --> 00:47:17,420 Christ dwelling in his church in 1099 00:47:17,420 --> 00:47:17,940 his body. 1100 00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,079 The dwelling of Christ within 1101 00:47:25,079 --> 00:47:26,179 his church. 1102 00:47:26,619 --> 00:47:27,920 Let's take a look at that. 1103 00:47:29,980 --> 00:47:32,179 Will dwell among us as King 1104 00:47:32,179 --> 00:47:34,019 reigning with righteousness 1105 00:47:34,019 --> 00:47:34,920 and truth. 1106 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:36,159 All right. 1107 00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:37,260 What does all this mean? 1108 00:47:37,380 --> 00:47:38,239 Let's bring it together. 1109 00:47:38,420 --> 00:47:39,840 Let's try to let's try to think 1110 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,340 about this in a holistic 1111 00:47:41,340 --> 00:47:41,900 attempt. 1112 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,460 God is forming us into his 1113 00:47:44,460 --> 00:47:46,179 bride which we are. 1114 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:47,519 It talks about that in the 1115 00:47:47,519 --> 00:47:49,699 scripture which is the church. 1116 00:47:49,940 --> 00:47:51,619 Okay, that's you and I 1117 00:47:51,619 --> 00:47:54,619 together to a glorious victorious 1118 00:47:54,619 --> 00:47:57,360 and mighty assembly of people. 1119 00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,800 That's what he is endeavoring 1120 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,780 to do just like he wanted to 1121 00:48:02,780 --> 00:48:05,539 do with the 12 tribes of Israel. 1122 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:07,519 Nothing new under the sun. 1123 00:48:08,539 --> 00:48:10,400 I think we're further along than 1124 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:11,860 they were at least I would 1125 00:48:11,860 --> 00:48:12,380 hope so. 1126 00:48:13,820 --> 00:48:16,539 And again each feast serves as 1127 00:48:16,539 --> 00:48:19,019 a reminder of God's faithfulness 1128 00:48:19,019 --> 00:48:20,980 and covenant relationship. 1129 00:48:21,159 --> 00:48:24,320 They had and now we have with 1130 00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:24,679 him. 1131 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:26,900 So when we look at these things 1132 00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:28,400 it's just not okay this and 1133 00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:29,480 that and the confusion of 1134 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:29,940 whatever. 1135 00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:31,460 It's the fact that there are 1136 00:48:31,460 --> 00:48:33,880 seven feasts in Leviticus 23 1137 00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,199 and for everyone they participated 1138 00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:41,159 in acknowledged and did so we 1139 00:48:41,159 --> 00:48:42,960 have the same and as we go 1140 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,219 down here the end result of 1141 00:48:45,219 --> 00:48:46,639 that is saying that we are 1142 00:48:46,639 --> 00:48:48,079 living on the right side of 1143 00:48:48,079 --> 00:48:52,039 this and consequently that's 1144 00:48:52,039 --> 00:48:52,780 what we have. 1145 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,219 Okay any questions now is it 1146 00:48:57,219 --> 00:48:58,659 was hard to put this thing 1147 00:48:58,659 --> 00:49:01,440 into a dynamic but what you 1148 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,119 want Gail you wanted that okay 1149 00:49:04,119 --> 00:49:04,980 there you go. 1150 00:49:05,219 --> 00:49:05,440 All right. 1151 00:49:05,559 --> 00:49:06,400 You got it. 1152 00:49:07,519 --> 00:49:11,079 So we have we have an ability 1153 00:49:12,039 --> 00:49:14,260 to look back and to experience 1154 00:49:14,260 --> 00:49:15,880 what they experience through 1155 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,579 the eyes of Scripture and again 1156 00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:20,800 happy to say that we're here. 1157 00:49:21,940 --> 00:49:24,900 So in the covenant that we 1158 00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:28,659 have which is important. 1159 00:49:30,780 --> 00:49:33,340 What particular experience 1160 00:49:33,340 --> 00:49:35,679 looking at those seven really 1161 00:49:35,679 --> 00:49:37,880 sticks out at you as an 1162 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,619 individual in celebrating what 1163 00:49:40,619 --> 00:49:42,900 God originally did years and 1164 00:49:42,900 --> 00:49:44,340 years and thousands of years 1165 00:49:44,340 --> 00:49:44,659 ago. 1166 00:49:44,980 --> 00:49:46,599 What's the most interesting to 1167 00:49:46,599 --> 00:49:47,099 you. 1168 00:49:47,639 --> 00:49:48,940 What's the most thing that the 1169 00:49:48,940 --> 00:49:50,460 biggest thing that stands out to 1170 00:49:50,460 --> 00:49:51,880 you now that we've gone 1171 00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,039 through all of them. 1172 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,460 But the crucifixion. 1173 00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:01,579 And anyone for that any any 1174 00:50:01,579 --> 00:50:02,500 takers on that one. 1175 00:50:03,460 --> 00:50:04,219 Okay. 1176 00:50:05,460 --> 00:50:06,219 Pardon. 1177 00:50:06,539 --> 00:50:08,099 All right. 1178 00:50:09,619 --> 00:50:10,340 That's what we are. 1179 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:11,099 Yeah. 1180 00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:12,519 Okay. 1181 00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:13,440 Good. 1182 00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,059 And what else? 1183 00:50:18,659 --> 00:50:19,199 All right. 1184 00:50:19,380 --> 00:50:19,840 Pentecost. 1185 00:50:20,099 --> 00:50:21,219 Yeah, that's that's the that 1186 00:50:21,219 --> 00:50:23,039 that's really brings us to 1187 00:50:23,039 --> 00:50:23,820 them now. 1188 00:50:24,780 --> 00:50:26,699 Yeah, absolutely. 1189 00:50:27,579 --> 00:50:28,340 Okay. 1190 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:30,280 Anybody else? 1191 00:50:32,940 --> 00:50:33,059 Pardon. 1192 00:50:34,619 --> 00:50:37,099 All right because because that's 1193 00:50:37,099 --> 00:50:38,860 when God dwells us. 1194 00:50:39,019 --> 00:50:39,239 Yes. 1195 00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:41,480 And he is now you're looking to 1196 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:42,159 the end right. 1197 00:50:42,559 --> 00:50:43,519 That's the end game. 1198 00:50:43,860 --> 00:50:44,519 Isn't it? 1199 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:46,519 Amen. 1200 00:50:47,820 --> 00:50:48,719 All right. 1201 00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,159 Okay, that wasn't too bad. 1202 00:50:51,420 --> 00:50:54,500 We kind of had to skip 1203 00:50:54,500 --> 00:50:56,380 through the tulips because it's 1204 00:50:56,380 --> 00:50:58,579 no sense in giving Jamie half 1205 00:50:58,579 --> 00:51:01,119 that the tabernacle series. 1206 00:51:02,179 --> 00:51:03,719 So, you know, we kind of divided 1207 00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:05,079 that where things start and 1208 00:51:05,079 --> 00:51:05,380 stop. 1209 00:51:05,780 --> 00:51:07,639 So again, Lord, we thank you 1210 00:51:07,639 --> 00:51:08,579 for your goodness. 1211 00:51:10,699 --> 00:51:12,360 Lord, sometimes it's difficult 1212 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,599 to see your hand in these 1213 00:51:14,599 --> 00:51:14,960 things. 1214 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,420 But as we unfold your truths 1215 00:51:19,079 --> 00:51:21,019 that were evident thousands 1216 00:51:21,019 --> 00:51:22,000 of years ago. 1217 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,320 We see your hand identically 1218 00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:26,960 in the very things that we 1219 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:28,219 experienced today. 1220 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:30,719 Another culture another time 1221 00:51:31,220 --> 00:51:32,380 another group of people. 1222 00:51:32,940 --> 00:51:34,300 But since you are the same 1223 00:51:34,820 --> 00:51:36,559 and you want relationship Lord, 1224 00:51:37,159 --> 00:51:38,719 we thank you for building a 1225 00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,159 relationship with each one of 1226 00:51:40,159 --> 00:51:41,000 us in this room. 1227 00:51:41,659 --> 00:51:42,880 Thank you so much for your 1228 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:43,300 goodness. 1229 00:51:44,199 --> 00:51:45,539 Lord, we bless you tonight 1230 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:47,960 and we tabernacle with you 1231 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:49,460 and live with you for ever 1232 00:51:49,460 --> 00:51:51,340 and ever we do not die. 1233 00:51:51,559 --> 00:51:53,420 We go from this life into 1234 00:51:53,420 --> 00:51:55,059 the life of eternity and live 1235 00:51:55,059 --> 00:51:55,519 with you. 1236 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:57,320 Thank you for that in Jesus' 1237 00:51:57,539 --> 00:51:57,719 name. 1238 00:51:57,860 --> 00:51:59,840 Everybody said Amen. 1239 00:52:00,539 --> 00:52:01,219 God bless you. 1240 00:52:02,019 --> 00:52:02,259 All right. 1241 00:52:07,860 --> 00:52:09,619 Thanks for joining us at 1242 00:52:09,619 --> 00:52:11,199 Lansdale Life Church as we 1243 00:52:11,199 --> 00:52:12,900 praise God and discuss His 1244 00:52:12,900 --> 00:52:13,280 Word. 1245 00:52:13,980 --> 00:52:15,460 Don't forget to join us for 1246 00:52:15,460 --> 00:52:17,019 worship live Sunday mornings 1247 00:52:17,019 --> 00:52:18,079 at 10 a.m. 1248 00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:19,440 Eastern on YouTube. 1249 00:52:20,460 --> 00:52:22,139 Be blessed and have a great 1250 00:52:22,139 --> 00:52:22,519 day.