The Sermon Empowered Pentecost by David McGee
May 19, 2013
Empowered Pentecost (35:49)
Referenced Scriptures: Acts 2:1-11; Leviticus 23:15-16; Leviticus 23:21
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Acts 2:1-11
1) Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2) Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3) Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and it sat on each one of them.
4) They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
5) Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
6) When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
7) They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren‘t all these who speak Galileans?
8) How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
9) Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
10) Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
11) Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"
Leviticus 23:15-16
15) You shall count to you from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven Sabbaths shall there be complete:
16) even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal-offering to Yahweh.
Leviticus 23:21
21) You shall make proclamation on the same day; there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no servile work: it is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
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Beginning in verse one and through verse eleven. Today is Pentecost Sunday, and so I thought I read this particular Scripture accepted to version one four when the feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place, without warning there was a sound like a strong wind gale force. No one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. Then, like a wildfire of the Holy Spirit spread through the ranks and they started speaking in a number of different languages as a spirit prompted there were many Jews staying in Jerusalem just and devout pilgrims all over the world, when they heard the sound they came on the run when they heard one after another, their own mother times being spoken. They were thunderstruck. They couldn't for the life of them figure out what was going on and kept saying aren't these all Galileans, how come we're hearing them talk in our various mother tongues are VPNs needs Elamites visitors from Mesopotamia, Judea C Pontius Asia Visio Pamphylia, Egypt and parts of Libya beyond the siring belonging to sign reading immigrants from Rome, both Jews and proselytes even creations and errors were there speaking our language describing God 's mighty works now as we look at this feast of Pentecost, I thought I'd give a little background today about what the what Pentecost is aware, began how began. Pentecost is a Christian holy day that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit, fifty days after Easter, so it's been fifty days seven weeks one days since Easter. And so this is the day of Pentecost, and some consider the day on this day to be the birthday of the church that the church was that the church began on penny costs down. Of course, we know that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God sacrificed on the day of atonement. So what were doing is looking at the Jewish festivals, the Jewish fees and how that these particular ones of faith into the Christian church and what they went symbolized in the Jewish tradition and how that they are part of even the church churches tradition and Pentecost, then, is considered by many of the day the Holy Spirit came and we read here in acts chapter two verse four that the church began really to grow and come together so originally, Pentecost, as we said was a Jewish holiday and the Jewish festival had several names and Venice and one of those names is the feast of weeks in Leviticus chapter twenty three, verses fifteen to sixteen from the day after the Sabbath day you brought the shields of wave offering count, count off seven full weeks, off fifty days up to the day after the seventy the seventh Sabbath and then present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord. So, this one happened is that we have on Passover K Passover is connected to the day that Egypt was the children of Israel were in Egypt day and when they were in Egypt and Moses came before Pharaoh, you have been watching Moses on the galvanic video cameras back in the news today. So yeah, Moses coming out and anointed by God to all Pharaoh and tell Pharaoh let my people go, and the last play with the Angel of death that came upon Egypt, and the land, the Angel of death was the pass over the homes that had the lamb, the Jewish family stuck the Lamb slain the lamp with the dog blood of the lamb on the door posts of their home and the Angel of death would pass over all of the home that had the blood of the lamb on the door so from that occasion onward even to today it is Passover, the feast of Passover win and still celebrated by the end in the Jewish tradition and Jewish faith. It's still celebrated today and in the Christian faith. Jesus Christ was crucified at Passover Jesus Christ died upon the cross, the Lamb of God sacrifice for the sins of the people in which God would pass over the sins in our life. Remove the sin from our life and we would have life in Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world so that sin would be passed over in our life. So the feast of Pentecost. Then comes fifty days later and women talk a little bit about that. It is also known as the feast of weeks, because or seven weeks between Easter, Passover and Pentecost is also called the feast of weeks. It is also the feast of harvest. It is the feast of the day of firstfruits or Pentecost. Now it was a festival of joy. Pentecost was a festival of celebration of Thanksgiving. I completion of the harvest season and I realize this back in the seven weeks from Passover to Pentecost was the time of harvest. It was a time and in Israel, in which they would bring in their grain, so it was the second major of the feast that all of the able-bodied Jewish males were required to attend. So the feast of Pentecost every Jew that was able body had to return to Jerusalem to celebrate his feasts. That's what we read and accepted to where these people had come from all over the world, and there was this outpouring of the spirits feast of Pentecost that these people. This hundred twenty upper row who were all Galileans began to speak and declare the glory of God in the language of these people who were there visiting there from out of town. It happened on this feast day and so is the celebration was a Sabbath and means that it was a very holy day. It was a sacred day that there was they were to cease from all of the ordinary labors and they were to sit and worship and to think about God. In Leviticus chapter twenty three verse twenty one, it says on that same day, meaning Pentecost week celebration harvest, you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work that is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. Wherever you live, so this was fourteen hundred BC that this holiday was instituted, and it is still a holiday celebrating the Jewish faith. The day celebrated in the Christian faith as Pentecost. So whoever the message last week where we had Ruth and Naomi and then they were ill. She said where you go. Now I will go where you want. I will live your people will be my people, while Naomi and Ruth come back to Bethlehem and what do they do nail roof goes into the field of Boaz, to clean while this was part of the harvest time. Leviticus twenty three twenty one, says twenty two says when you raise a harvest of your land, do not read the very edges of your field or gather the gleaming of what falls on the ground of your harvest leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God. So all of these if you look at it. The segments of time you look at the traditions of of Judaism and you look at the feasts of Judaism, we find and how that Jesus Christ fulfills all of these things and how that even Ruth and Naomi were able to survive from this one declaration that Boaz in the book of Ruth was winning his fields. Those harvesters and they were to leave the edges and so that the poor could come and pick up their food so they would have enough to eat, and so all this, the celebration of harvest was an expectation of provision so I know that he only am a raise a garden there is a garden and I've ever eaten vegetables from the garden have MAI is never planted a garden you ever not going to turn out in a you never know how it's going to turn out in your especially acting in our member in the springtime is planting crops, farm, yet you never know what the crop is that it be like it because if you didn't get the right rain at the right time. Nothing is wrong. So you are always dependent on the growing season and so we have the please like Passover and then we have the feast of what is was in the habit here and when you have a system of first fruits I get to the minute. But if you have this phase in which you are to go and celebrate the harvest of your going to go and celebrate the harvest that you are projecting. And that you are developed of God, and celebrate what God is going to give you before you even start harvesting. It's like you, as you know, whenever we talk about our lives, we are to have faith in Jesus Christ. We are to believe that God is going to do something in our lives. While these fees were ways that they would celebrate expectations of what God will do, and they refreeze the celebration of what God has already done so, the whatever they would have the celebration of harvest. It was an expectation of provision to the point that they were going to leave some of their brains in the field for the poor so they were not going you haven't any doubts about your harvest you to make sure that you get every grain that you can know I I have to go through some fields now I'll may always look at fieldnotes, you in a little while their planning cornfields and stuff, you can always look to be straight-line like straight lines of self and you come by my yard at my yard strike. That's not quite straight, but there's a few zigzagged with straight lines and I got a straight line segment and what the hell I don't like is whenever they have splotches. The dating top like why they don't know how to cut the field while in these days, they would have leave. They were deliberately leave parts of the field. I'm harvested so that the poor because the warehouse were beggars. The poor were beggars. They had no way to have provision for the life and soul. They were both of these fields and pick up what the harvesters had left so as the sour there will be a prayer for them. The God would be the God of the harvest, and that that God would provide enough for them, and that whenever and whatever they took it would be enough, so they would always leave some and form would pray for food, that God would provide for them. That people who were the harvesters would leave some so everybody here always on the line we have is faith in God. The guys can take care of us. It's interesting to note that Pentecost in this festival of weeks was a harvest celebration. Pentecost is the celebration of the relationship that God has with us. The term lease was to describe the time. From the beginning of the harvest to the end of the harvest. The barley harvest and finally the wheat harvest in which they would progressively) at different times during this from Passover, they were bringing the green shade. Grain stocks and they would bring it as a wave offering to God. Your word we get the idea of waving our hands are raising our hands. It was actually from this feast here in which they would bring the offering. You can't wave the sheaf of grain, grain, no stocks you can't waive it before a right without him, but lifting so they would have the celebration, which they would waive the offering. It was called the feast of weeks, because God specifically called that the sons of Jacob Neve were to count seven weeks from the first fruits, and the Morrow meeting Monday seven weeks, plus one day the feast of over all, there was the feast of firstfruits in which they would bring in the rain wasn't quite right. There was a feast of waving before God that this this harvest. It was still in the field was going to be enough and then at the feast of Pentecost there was the bringing in of two loaves of bread, which would mean that they had recently had taken in their harvest in that ground the week ended made bread and brought bread and as a wave offering to God, so there was a declaration of faith regardless will provide there was a declaration of faith God has provided in the goblin meet all of their needs. It was called the feast of weeks, the feast of first fruits. The women harvested to bring it and it was these weeks seven weeks, plus one day of Pentecost and all the harvest would be brought in that timeframe, and then you would bring the bread into the Temple and use it as a wave offering to God, so as we see this phase taking place. This phase was to occur as we said fifty days, which means Pentecost, which is fifty and it was to be this firstfruits of how this was to be the place of of celebration of what God had done when Jesus Christ at Passover, died on the cross. He rose on the dead. What does it say about Jesus. He was the first fruit of them that slept. He was the first to be resurrected from the dead. He rose to the dad on the feast of first fruits they were to go and take some of the grain that had been griping as they were taken to the Temple in way that before God as a symbol on all of the harvest, there would yet come when Jesus Christ rose from the dead. He was the firstfruits of them that slept. Which happened on that feast day he died on Passover. He rose on firstfruits, who first drew the feast of first fruits and he is the first fruit of all limits, likely costing lives. We shall live also. It fixed in that whole timeframe. If the fourteen hundred years before Christ died and rose, and the dead. This feast was implemented, so, so we have this feast of weeks, which is symbolic festival, which points to the coming of the Holy Spirit, the birth of the correct of the birth of Christ, Pentecost face the weeks. This end of the seven weeks and one day the celebration of what God has provided was the day of Pentecost, in which the Holy Spirit came and Jesus informed them informed. The disciples that they were to go. He spent forty days with them after the resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples for forty days talk to them, and when he ascended to heaven on the fortieth day, told and the gall to Jerusalem and wait and wait until you will be empowered from one high, which is the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, which is this feast of celebration. So the spirit came on the feast of Pentecost, and he told his disciples that they would not be left abandoned, but he would not leave him, comfort list, but he would come to them, and he would send another like unto himself, and when. When we look at this word, another Jesus is leaving, and he is going to send another meaning the Holy Spirit that we do not lose anything or do anything by Jesus leaving Wendy when the Holy Spirit comes in our life, because the Holy Spirit is the spirit of Christ, and that he gives what if Jesus were standing here, what counsel would he give us while the Holy Spirit is here to give us that same counsel. The Holy Spirit is here to help us understand the Scriptures, and help us make application of the Scriptures to our lives. It's about how the God is working in us and that that the birth of the church came at Pentecost with the power of the spirit be another comforter which Jesus promised would come. So the disciples were commanded to carry in Jerusalem until the spirit came, and the coming of the Holy Spirit would occur on the next Jewish holiday, which was Pentecost, the feast of weeks, the feast of harvest and so it was a time in which the harvest was there and there was a celebration of what God would do so for Christians this ever. This event of Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit, one of things that, and as we look at this. It's important for us to realize how much God loves us his promise that he would never leave us nor forsake us. I was the sermon I was thinking of writing with today was about how that there's only one God is only one God and that if you can or I was thinking of the idea of it. Here we are. I think if there was something that we would classify ourselves as in this modern age is that we would have the God of the silver spoon once you're born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Compared to the rest of the world because the rest of the world has been innovating would think that we are absolute billionaires with what we what we all what we possess in the amount of money and things that comes into our lives, but we have this silver spoon mentality that that was supposed to have things you were supposed to have things it's it's our it's our right and the right that we have is the God that we have sometimes it's a God of finances. I was thinking out as we look at it. If we would take this candle and say this candle is my God. Now, in ancient times that God is everything that lost everything and if you left this God you left without them, he left it at home, you left your bandage regard your brother is no longer with you and what they did was they had to do things that make this got happened and how do they know that they make is not happy everything in their life go well what what happens in our life when everything doesn't go well. The disk God abandonments installing ancient times. They were even spent with sacrifice make sacrifices to this God that they created in order to make is that this godlike and so they would even sacrifice their children to this God in Egypt the Nile River was a God, and in the Nile was with overflow its banks in the springtime and water all of the yell the lower lands of the Nile and would end. That would be like their prayer would be that the denial of God would provide for them. It was one of major lives. The Egyptians wherewith Moses placed he was placed in a basket on the Nile River. The great one of the greatest gods of the Egyptians, God of Israel was placed there and became the Savior of all the Jewish people, the God of the Nile is not a God, it's a river and sometimes we mistakenly make God 's of certain things that are not really God 's their blessings from Oregon and they ended their Pentecost was how that that we believe that Christ came and spoke and he died on the cross on Pentecost and the Ralston, the day Easter and the firstfruits of them that slept. And that began the weeks of celebration or the weeks of harvest. The expectation of the harvest that will come. And so we have this phase, and in seven weeks later, we have Pentecost, the feast of harvest in which God has blessed us with the harvest. So we believed then that God speaks to us and how the power of Pentecost in the power of the Spirit works in our life. We believe in the necessity of an asking price to become our Savior, the necessity of asking God to work to live in Austin to live within our hearts, and the feast all the feasts celebrated as Jewish holy days is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Now, we believe that Christ is the one who works within our life now these are these are sacred holidays and these are sacred text we believe that God three. This Scripture into people begin dictate. He breathed into them and gave them the endless breath of God spoke inspired men of God to write and it is that same Holy Spirit that speaks to us, and breathed into us the breath of life that when things don't go right, we don't have to make better bigger sacrifices to God to make him happy. The God of the Scriptures is the God who speaks to our hearts and tells us of the divine provision that God has made for us and I am a video that I want to show it's about this individual that has a very distinct problem, and but doesn't see that as a problem he sees it as a way that God has made provision for him and happen and what I'm looking for in this text and then the Scripture and in this message is that the Holy Spirit speaks to our life he speaks Holt was even whenever we think that there is no hope, and these festivals of celebration even droughts, even in a dry season, they still came the celebration of God 's provision and they even in the dry season, they had to leave parts of their crops behind for the poorest of the poor witty and information that God would take care of them. At Pentecost as a celebration of the wave offering to God. But when the shoulders. This film which is written in German, but that's all right, speaking in English at him wasn't ready in an and is and he is in the more and have had him in an and him and him and him. I is in a will and will and in and in he he is and is and will say is nice and all that is in an e-zine is a you and you will is that you are in a you he is a will him to in that said here's because we think of Pentecost, we think of power spirit and gone at work and we can't have this kind of oblique picture about God but whenever I saw this individual and how that God is working through him. See, that's the power of that spirit of Pentecost, working in us. We think we have so many limitations, but there just limitations that we create God has a way of working in our life far beyond what we never match and it is and how may times we fall. But sometimes we get up and just like you said, God works in the way sometimes were expecting God to do a miracle in us, and sometimes where the miracle for someone else. Just the way we are and that I think that's where the power of the Spirit works. We understand the nuts and bolts as it were, the festivals and the occasions in the power and becoming and all that but unless that power of God works in us to create also clean heart, O God, renew a right spirit within me. If that's the power of God alive inside of us in that spirit makes the difference to us in us through us and it is God, through the power of Pentecost empowering our lives to go out to be the difference in someone else's life and then shows that father, we thank you that you are with us and that we are uniquely your creation and God created us with a purpose and with a passion in life there are these symbols and signs and festivals and things God that have been established fourteen hundred years before you were born and yet each of them point your life and your gifts in your provisions in God, your provision is still happening today and each of us, so we thank you Lord for your divine provision that could be giving the coming of your Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, the Lord, we thank you for the empowerment of your spirit in our life today. Give us the strength, renew us, O God, bring your word alive inside of us that God, we can be changed from the inside out. Thank you, God, for your divine provisions in Jesus name we price and everyone said amen. The questionBeginning in verse one and through verse eleven. Today is Pentecost Sunday, and so I thought I read this particular Scripture accepted to version one four when the feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place, without warning there was a sound like a strong wind gale force. No one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. Then, like a wildfire of the Holy Spirit spread through the ranks and they started speaking in a number of different languages as a spirit prompted there were many Jews staying in Jerusalem just and devout pilgrims all over the world, when they heard the sound they came on the run when they heard one after another, their own mother times being spoken. They were thunderstruck. They couldn't for the life of them figure out what was going on and kept saying aren't these all Galileans, how come we're hearing them talk in our various mother tongues are VPNs needs Elamites visitors from Mesopotamia, Judea C Pontius Asia Visio Pamphylia, Egypt and parts of Libya beyond the siring belonging to sign reading immigrants from Rome, both Jews and proselytes even creations and errors were there speaking our language describing God 's mighty works now as we look at this feast of Pentecost, I thought I'd give a little background today about what the what Pentecost is aware, began how began. Pentecost is a Christian holy day that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit, fifty days after Easter, so it's been fifty days seven weeks one days since Easter. And so this is the day of Pentecost, and some consider the day on this day to be the birthday of the church that the church was that the church began on penny costs down. Of course, we know that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God sacrificed on the day of atonement. So what were doing is looking at the Jewish festivals, the Jewish fees and how that these particular ones of faith into the Christian church and what they went symbolized in the Jewish tradition and how that they are part of even the church churches tradition and Pentecost, then, is considered by many of the day the Holy Spirit came and we read here in acts chapter two verse four that the church began really to grow and come together so originally, Pentecost, as we said was a Jewish holiday and the Jewish festival had several names and Venice and one of those names is the feast of weeks in Leviticus chapter twenty three, verses fifteen to sixteen from the day after the Sabbath day you brought the shields of wave offering count, count off seven full weeks, off fifty days up to the day after the seventy the seventh Sabbath and then present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord. So, this one happened is that we have on Passover K Passover is connected to the day that Egypt was the children of Israel were in Egypt day and when they were in Egypt and Moses came before Pharaoh, you have been watching Moses on the galvanic video cameras back in the news today. So yeah, Moses coming out and anointed by God to all Pharaoh and tell Pharaoh let my people go, and the last play with the Angel of death that came upon Egypt, and the land, the Angel of death was the pass over the homes that had the lamb, the Jewish family stuck the Lamb slain the lamp with the dog blood of the lamb on the door posts of their home and the Angel of death would pass over all of the home that had the blood of the lamb on the door so from that occasion onward even to today it is Passover, the feast of Passover win and still celebrated by the end in the Jewish tradition and Jewish faith. It's still celebrated today and in the Christian faith. Jesus Christ was crucified at Passover Jesus Christ died upon the cross, the Lamb of God sacrifice for the sins of the people in which God would pass over the sins in our life. Remove the sin from our life and we would have life in Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world so that sin would be passed over in our life. So the feast of Pentecost. Then comes fifty days later and women talk a little bit about that. It is also known as the feast of weeks, because or seven weeks between Easter, Passover and Pentecost is also called the feast of weeks. It is also the feast of harvest. It is the feast of the day of firstfruits or Pentecost. Now it was a festival of joy. Pentecost was a festival of celebration of Thanksgiving. I completion of the harvest season and I realize this back in the seven weeks from Passover to Pentecost was the time of harvest. It was a time and in Israel, in which they would bring in their grain, so it was the second major of the feast that all of the able-bodied Jewish males were required to attend. So the feast of Pentecost every Jew that was able body had to return to Jerusalem to celebrate his feasts. That's what we read and accepted to where these people had come from all over the world, and there was this outpouring of the spirits feast of Pentecost that these people. This hundred twenty upper row who were all Galileans began to speak and declare the glory of God in the language of these people who were there visiting there from out of town. It happened on this feast day and so is the celebration was a Sabbath and means that it was a very holy day. It was a sacred day that there was they were to cease from all of the ordinary labors and they were to sit and worship and to think about God. In Leviticus chapter twenty three verse twenty one, it says on that same day, meaning Pentecost week celebration harvest, you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work that is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. Wherever you live, so this was fourteen hundred BC that this holiday was instituted, and it is still a holiday celebrating the Jewish faith. The day celebrated in the Christian faith as Pentecost. So whoever the message last week where we had Ruth and Naomi and then they were ill. She said where you go. Now I will go where you want. I will live your people will be my people, while Naomi and Ruth come back to Bethlehem and what do they do nail roof goes into the field of Boaz, to clean while this was part of the harvest time. Leviticus twenty three twenty one, says twenty two says when you raise a harvest of your land, do not read the very edges of your field or gather the gleaming of what falls on the ground of your harvest leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God. So all of these if you look at it. The segments of time you look at the traditions of of Judaism and you look at the feasts of Judaism, we find and how that Jesus Christ fulfills all of these things and how that even Ruth and Naomi were able to survive from this one declaration that Boaz in the book of Ruth was winning his fields. Those harvesters and they were to leave the edges and so that the poor could come and pick up their food so they would have enough to eat, and so all this, the celebration of harvest was an expectation of provision so I know that he only am a raise a garden there is a garden and I've ever eaten vegetables from the garden have MAI is never planted a garden you ever not going to turn out in a you never know how it's going to turn out in your especially acting in our member in the springtime is planting crops, farm, yet you never know what the crop is that it be like it because if you didn't get the right rain at the right time. Nothing is wrong. So you are always dependent on the growing season and so we have the please like Passover and then we have the feast of what is was in the habit here and when you have a system of first fruits I get to the minute. But if you have this phase in which you are to go and celebrate the harvest of your going to go and celebrate the harvest that you are projecting. And that you are developed of God, and celebrate what God is going to give you before you even start harvesting. It's like you, as you know, whenever we talk about our lives, we are to have faith in Jesus Christ. We are to believe that God is going to do something in our lives. While these fees were ways that they would celebrate expectations of what God will do, and they refreeze the celebration of what God has already done so, the whatever they would have the celebration of harvest. It was an expectation of provision to the point that they were going to leave some of their brains in the field for the poor so they were not going you haven't any doubts about your harvest you to make sure that you get every grain that you can know I I have to go through some fields now I'll may always look at fieldnotes, you in a little while their planning cornfields and stuff, you can always look to be straight-line like straight lines of self and you come by my yard at my yard strike. That's not quite straight, but there's a few zigzagged with straight lines and I got a straight line segment and what the hell I don't like is whenever they have splotches. The dating top like why they don't know how to cut the field while in these days, they would have leave. They were deliberately leave parts of the field. I'm harvested so that the poor because the warehouse were beggars. The poor were beggars. They had no way to have provision for the life and soul. They were both of these fields and pick up what the harvesters had left so as the sour there will be a prayer for them. The God would be the God of the harvest, and that that God would provide enough for them, and that whenever and whatever they took it would be enough, so they would always leave some and form would pray for food, that God would provide for them. That people who were the harvesters would leave some so everybody here always on the line we have is faith in God. The guys can take care of us. It's interesting to note that Pentecost in this festival of weeks was a harvest celebration. Pentecost is the celebration of the relationship that God has with us. The term lease was to describe the time. From the beginning of the harvest to the end of the harvest. The barley harvest and finally the wheat harvest in which they would progressively) at different times during this from Passover, they were bringing the green shade. Grain stocks and they would bring it as a wave offering to God. Your word we get the idea of waving our hands are raising our hands. It was actually from this feast here in which they would bring the offering. You can't wave the sheaf of grain, grain, no stocks you can't waive it before a right without him, but lifting so they would have the celebration, which they would waive the offering. It was called the feast of weeks, because God specifically called that the sons of Jacob Neve were to count seven weeks from the first fruits, and the Morrow meeting Monday seven weeks, plus one day the feast of over all, there was the feast of firstfruits in which they would bring in the rain wasn't quite right. There was a feast of waving before God that this this harvest. It was still in the field was going to be enough and then at the feast of Pentecost there was the bringing in of two loaves of bread, which would mean that they had recently had taken in their harvest in that ground the week ended made bread and brought bread and as a wave offering to God, so there was a declaration of faith regardless will provide there was a declaration of faith God has provided in the goblin meet all of their needs. It was called the feast of weeks, the feast of first fruits. The women harvested to bring it and it was these weeks seven weeks, plus one day of Pentecost and all the harvest would be brought in that timeframe, and then you would bring the bread into the Temple and use it as a wave offering to God, so as we see this phase taking place. This phase was to occur as we said fifty days, which means Pentecost, which is fifty and it was to be this firstfruits of how this was to be the place of of celebration of what God had done when Jesus Christ at Passover, died on the cross. He rose on the dead. What does it say about Jesus. He was the first fruit of them that slept. He was the first to be resurrected from the dead. He rose to the dad on the feast of first fruits they were to go and take some of the grain that had been griping as they were taken to the Temple in way that before God as a symbol on all of the harvest, there would yet come when Jesus Christ rose from the dead. He was the firstfruits of them that slept. Which happened on that feast day he died on Passover. He rose on firstfruits, who first drew the feast of first fruits and he is the first fruit of all limits, likely costing lives. We shall live also. It fixed in that whole timeframe. If the fourteen hundred years before Christ died and rose, and the dead. This feast was implemented, so, so we have this feast of weeks, which is symbolic festival, which points to the coming of the Holy Spirit, the birth of the correct of the birth of Christ, Pentecost face the weeks. This end of the seven weeks and one day the celebration of what God has provided was the day of Pentecost, in which the Holy Spirit came and Jesus informed them informed. The disciples that they were to go. He spent forty days with them after the resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples for forty days talk to them, and when he ascended to heaven on the fortieth day, told and the gall to Jerusalem and wait and wait until you will be empowered from one high, which is the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, which is this feast of celebration. So the spirit came on the feast of Pentecost, and he told his disciples that they would not be left abandoned, but he would not leave him, comfort list, but he would come to them, and he would send another like unto himself, and when. When we look at this word, another Jesus is leaving, and he is going to send another meaning the Holy Spirit that we do not lose anything or do anything by Jesus leaving Wendy when the Holy Spirit comes in our life, because the Holy Spirit is the spirit of Christ, and that he gives what if Jesus were standing here, what counsel would he give us while the Holy Spirit is here to give us that same counsel. The Holy Spirit is here to help us understand the Scriptures, and help us make application of the Scriptures to our lives. It's about how the God is working in us and that that the birth of the church came at Pentecost with the power of the spirit be another comforter which Jesus promised would come. So the disciples were commanded to carry in Jerusalem until the spirit came, and the coming of the Holy Spirit would occur on the next Jewish holiday, which was Pentecost, the feast of weeks, the feast of harvest and so it was a time in which the harvest was there and there was a celebration of what God would do so for Christians this ever. This event of Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit, one of things that, and as we look at this. It's important for us to realize how much God loves us his promise that he would never leave us nor forsake us. I was the sermon I was thinking of writing with today was about how that there's only one God is only one God and that if you can or I was thinking of the idea of it. Here we are. I think if there was something that we would classify ourselves as in this modern age is that we would have the God of the silver spoon once you're born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Compared to the rest of the world because the rest of the world has been innovating would think that we are absolute billionaires with what we what we all what we possess in the amount of money and things that comes into our lives, but we have this silver spoon mentality that that was supposed to have things you were supposed to have things it's it's our it's our right and the right that we have is the God that we have sometimes it's a God of finances. I was thinking out as we look at it. If we would take this candle and say this candle is my God. Now, in ancient times that God is everything that lost everything and if you left this God you left without them, he left it at home, you left your bandage regard your brother is no longer with you and what they did was they had to do things that make this got happened and how do they know that they make is not happy everything in their life go well what what happens in our life when everything doesn't go well. The disk God abandonments installing ancient times. They were even spent with sacrifice make sacrifices to this God that they created in order to make is that this godlike and so they would even sacrifice their children to this God in Egypt the Nile River was a God, and in the Nile was with overflow its banks in the springtime and water all of the yell the lower lands of the Nile and would end. That would be like their prayer would be that the denial of God would provide for them. It was one of major lives. The Egyptians wherewith Moses placed he was placed in a basket on the Nile River. The great one of the greatest gods of the Egyptians, God of Israel was placed there and became the Savior of all the Jewish people, the God of the Nile is not a God, it's a river and sometimes we mistakenly make God 's of certain things that are not really God 's their blessings from Oregon and they ended their Pentecost was how that that we believe that Christ came and spoke and he died on the cross on Pentecost and the Ralston, the day Easter and the firstfruits of them that slept. And that began the weeks of celebration or the weeks of harvest. The expectation of the harvest that will come. And so we have this phase, and in seven weeks later, we have Pentecost, the feast of harvest in which God has blessed us with the harvest. So we believed then that God speaks to us and how the power of Pentecost in the power of the Spirit works in our life. We believe in the necessity of an asking price to become our Savior, the necessity of asking God to work to live in Austin to live within our hearts, and the feast all the feasts celebrated as Jewish holy days is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Now, we believe that Christ is the one who works within our life now these are these are sacred holidays and these are sacred text we believe that God three. This Scripture into people begin dictate. He breathed into them and gave them the endless breath of God spoke inspired men of God to write and it is that same Holy Spirit that speaks to us, and breathed into us the breath of life that when things don't go right, we don't have to make better bigger sacrifices to God to make him happy. The God of the Scriptures is the God who speaks to our hearts and tells us of the divine provision that God has made for us and I am a video that I want to show it's about this individual that has a very distinct problem, and but doesn't see that as a problem he sees it as a way that God has made provision for him and happen and what I'm looking for in this text and then the Scripture and in this message is that the Holy Spirit speaks to our life he speaks Holt was even whenever we think that there is no hope, and these festivals of celebration even droughts, even in a dry season, they still came the celebration of God 's provision and they even in the dry season, they had to leave parts of their crops behind for the poorest of the poor witty and information that God would take care of them. At Pentecost as a celebration of the wave offering to God. But when the shoulders. This film which is written in German, but that's all right, speaking in English at him wasn't ready in an and is and he is in the more and have had him in an and him and him and him. I is in a will and will and in and in he he is and is and will say is nice and all that is in an e-zine is a you and you will is that you are in a you he is a will him to in that said here's because we think of Pentecost, we think of power spirit and gone at work and we can't have this kind of oblique picture about God but whenever I saw this individual and how that God is working through him. See, that's the power of that spirit of Pentecost, working in us. We think we have so many limitations, but there just limitations that we create God has a way of working in our life far beyond what we never match and it is and how may times we fall. But sometimes we get up and just like you said, God works in the way sometimes were expecting God to do a miracle in us, and sometimes where the miracle for someone else. Just the way we are and that I think that's where the power of the Spirit works. We understand the nuts and bolts as it were, the festivals and the occasions in the power and becoming and all that but unless that power of God works in us to create also clean heart, O God, renew a right spirit within me. If that's the power of God alive inside of us in that spirit makes the difference to us in us through us and it is God, through the power of Pentecost empowering our lives to go out to be the difference in someone else's life and then shows that father, we thank you that you are with us and that we are uniquely your creation and God created us with a purpose and with a passion in life there are these symbols and signs and festivals and things God that have been established fourteen hundred years before you were born and yet each of them point your life and your gifts in your provisions in God, your provision is still happening today and each of us, so we thank you Lord for your divine provision that could be giving the coming of your Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, the Lord, we thank you for the empowerment of your spirit in our life today. Give us the strength, renew us, O God, bring your word alive inside of us that God, we can be changed from the inside out. Thank you, God, for your divine provisions in Jesus name we price and everyone said amen. The question