(310) “Prepare for Pentecost!”

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God was prophesying already then about what he

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was going to do on that day of Pentecost, that

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specific day. All the other ones were a rehearsal

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for what he was going to do on that day when

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he was going to pour out of his spirit on all

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flesh. God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out

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of his spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global

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Outpouring. Will we contend for that promised

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outpouring? We equip for that outpouring so that

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we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip

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Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast

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today. We're so delighted that you are with us.

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We're getting ready for our convention 2026.

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And we didn't even know when we planned it for

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Memorial Day weekend that it was going to be

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Shavuot. It was going to be Pentecost. And opening

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night is the opening of Shavuot. And the very

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last day is Pentecost Sunday and they don't always

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come together. So we've really been moved by

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God to prepare for Pentecost because you and

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I, we have an appointment with God. Thanks so

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much for joining us today. We're so happy, happy,

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happy that we can do this together with you and

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with God and let His Spirit pour out on you because

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we're preparing for Pentecost. But before we

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get started, we want to encourage you, if you

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haven't already done so, that you go to our website,

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that's available on our website and on our YouTube

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channel. We've got lots and lots of content there

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that's waiting to help equip you for God's hand

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on you for the outpouring that's already begun.

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And just like we learned from Pastor Tony in

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episode 306, he was teaching us about the capacity

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code. And if you haven't heard that, I really

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encourage you to go and listen to that because

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we took it to heart. And God has changed a whole

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lot of things in our lives and in the ministry.

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He's just opened some amazing doors and opened

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some amazing provision. And we're just excited.

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at what God is doing because God is meeting us.

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And that's what this episode is all about, is

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meeting with God. You have an appointment with

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God. So where does this appointment idea come

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from? There's a scripture right in Genesis chapter

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1 that gives us a clue. You know, you look for

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the very first place where a word appears. There's

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a thing called the law of first mention. And

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when you get into that, you can see there's a

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special attachment to the meaning when you see

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where it is used first. So Genesis 1, 14 to 19.

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Philip, would you like to read that from the

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ESV? And God said, Let there be lights in the

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expanse of the heavens to separate the day from

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the night. And let them be for signs and for

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seasons and for days and years. And let them

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be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give

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light upon the earth. And it was so. And God

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made the two great lights, the greater light

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to rule the day and the lesser light to rule

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the night and the stars. And God set them in

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the expanse of the heavens to give light on the

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earth. to rule over the day and over the night,

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and to separate the light from the darkness.

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And God saw that it was good. And there was evening

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and there was morning the fourth day. So this

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isn't going to be a study in Genesis, but the

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first place where this word that we're looking

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for shows up is in verse 14. It says, let them

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be for signs and for seasons. And that word seasons,

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obviously it means seasons because we set Our

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months, and we set our years by the moon and

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the sun work together in expressing our months.

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The Hebrew calendar is based mostly on the lunar

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calendar because they begin their month at the

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new moon, but they have a way of adding an extra

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month so that it stays lined up with the sun

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calendar, which the year begins with spring.

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So with spring, you can see the seasons. The

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seasons begin with spring and summer and fall

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and winter. And so this word for seasons is moed,

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or in this case, moedim. That's the plural of

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moed in Hebrew. And moed means... It does mean

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seasons, but it also means an appointed place

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or an appointed time. It's a meeting place or

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just a meeting. So wherever it talks about the

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tent of meeting, it's the tent of Moed. And so

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all of these things that God tells the Israelites

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to do, especially the appointed feasts that they're

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all supposed to come to Jerusalem for, those

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are Moedim. They're appointments. It's like you

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set an appointment with your dentist, right?

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So at 2 .30 on Tuesday, you need to be there.

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And if you're late, you might completely miss

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your appointment, right? Yeah. And these days,

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they'll send you a text or give you a call and

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say, here's a reminder. You've got a reminder.

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You have an appointment. So are you going to

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cancel or are you going to come? And, you know,

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it gives you an opportunity to respond. You know,

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push this button or click that or whatever. And

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so you can set yourself up to say yes. I'm going

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to be there. Well, we have this convention coming

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up, and it's an appointment. It's an appointment

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with God. And we've used that expression, our

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founder, Sister Gwen, in probably, I want to

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say, the second or third convention that we ever

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had back in the 70s. She had this little song,

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You Have an Appointment with God. He's here to

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meet you, my friend. And we have had appointment

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after appointment after appointment with God

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in these conventions. But this year, it's going

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to be on Pentecost. Oh, that's just amazingly

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awesome. We're so blown away because, you know,

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it's all about the outpouring, right? In our

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hearts now, it's all about the outpouring. So

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this idea of a set... season, a set feast, an

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appointed time, an appointed place, a meeting.

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It's a fixed time. It's a certain time. And you

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don't want to miss your appointment. You just

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don't want to miss it, right? And it's also for

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an assembly. So you're going to assemble together,

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to convene together. That's why we call it a

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convention, because we convene. Everybody else

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is calling their thing a conference. And we thought

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of that for a while. You know, lots of people

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call it a conference, but we call it a convention

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because we convene together. We're getting together.

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We're assembling together because God is going

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to do something. He's going to do something in

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us and through us. And so it's just an appointment.

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It's an appointed time. So where do we see this

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word next in Genesis? Yeah, Genesis 17, 21. And

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my covenant. I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah

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doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the

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next year. Okay, so God has already given an

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appointment. He knows when that baby is going

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to be born and it hasn't even been conceived

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yet. And when it comes, it comes. When it comes,

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it comes. When it's time for the baby to come,

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the baby comes. So that's an appointment. And

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I think it's very significant that God uses that

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word in that scenario. He's trying to explain

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that this is an appointment. You have an appointment,

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Sarah. You have an appointment to have a baby.

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All these years you've been waiting, and you've

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been wondering, and, you know, Abraham's going

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to be 100 by the time that baby's born, and you're

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90. Come on. But there's an appointment. There's

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an appointed time. It's not a miracle if you

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have a baby at the age of 28. You know, that's

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no miracle. It happens. It's normal. That's a

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normal thing. But for a woman who has been decades

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and decades without ovulating, this is a miracle.

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Yeah. Okay. This is a miracle. So God does miracles

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at appointed times, right? Yeah. So then there's

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the appointed feast. So what are the appointed

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feasts, Philip? Well, you have the Feast of Unleavened

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Bread. Well, actually in Deuteronomy 16, verses

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16 to 17, three times a year, all your males

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shall appear before the Lord your God at the

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place where he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened

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Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast

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of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord

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empty -handed. Every man shall give as he is

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able, according to the blessing of the Lord your

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God that he has given you. Okay, so there are

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three times, the Feast of Passover or Unleavened

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Bread. and Feast of Weeks. Now, the word for

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week is Shavuot. And so Shavuot is the plural

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of Shavuot. So seven weeks is Shavuot. Okay,

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it's just the plural of weeks. And then the Feast

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of Booths, of course, is the Feast of Tabernacles.

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So what is the Feast of Weeks? What does the

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scripture say about the Feast of Weeks? Deuteronomy

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16, verses 8 to 12. For six days you shall eat

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unleavened bread. And on the seventh day there

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shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God.

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You shall do no work on it. You shall count seven

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weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the

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time the sickle is first put to the standing

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grain. Then you shall keep the feast of weeks

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to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill

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offering from your hand, which you shall give

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as the Lord your God blesses you. And you shall

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rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your

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sons and your daughter, your male servant and

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your female servant, the Levite who is within

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your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and

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the widow who are among you at the place that

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the Lord your God will choose to make his name

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dwell there. You shall remember that you were

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a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to

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observe these statutes. Now, that's very interesting.

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We'll pick that up again when we get to Acts.

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And then what does Exodus 34 .22 say about the

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Feast of Weeks? It says, You shall observe the

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Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest.

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There you go. The firstfruits of the wheat harvest.

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So at Passover, you have the firstfruits of the

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barley harvest. So the priest goes out on the

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first day after the Sabbath, after Passover.

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So if Passover happened on Thursday, probably

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was Thursday. rather than Friday, because Jesus

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was in the tomb for three days. So Thursday,

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Friday, Saturday, there's your Shabbat. And then

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the first day after the Shabbat is when the priest

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goes out and he... he puts his sickle to find

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the one here and one there and another one over

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there and another one over there and another

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one over there, that he's going to find these

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ripe heads that are bowing down. That's how you

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know that they're ripe, because they're bowing.

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There's something about maturity that has to

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do with bowing, right? You're submitting to the

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Lord. That's a sign of maturity. Then they wave

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that before the Lord. That's the wave offering.

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So they begin counting the wheat. weeks from

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that day. Okay. And then as the harvest ripens,

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then they go out and they gather in the harvest

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of the barley, all of the barley. And so you

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have the first fruits and you have the general

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harvest. So Jesus was raised on the feast of

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first fruits. And it's very key that we understand

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that this is like a sign of things to come. Paul

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talks about he's the first fruits of the resurrection.

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So Jesus was raised first, so we can expect that

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we're also going to be raised. Amen? Amen. So

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then when you get to the end of the barley harvest,

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that's when the first fruits, the first few heads

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of the wheat harvest are showing their bowing

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heads. And so the priest goes out and he gathers

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the first fruits of the wheat harvest for Shavuot.

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And then they grind that wheat and they make

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it into two loaves and they wave the loaves before

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the Lord. I think maybe that's in the next thing

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here. Let's go ahead and read Leviticus 23, 15

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to 21. You shall count seven full weeks from

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the day after the Sabbath, from the day that

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you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. You

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shall count 50 days to the day after the seventh

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Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering

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of new grain to the Lord. You shall bring from

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your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be

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weighed, made of two tenths of an ephah. They

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shall be a fine flour, and they shall be baked

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with leaven as firstfruits to the Lord. And you

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shall present with the bread seven lambs a year

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old without blanch, and one bull from the herd,

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and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering

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to the Lord. with their grain offering and their

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drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing

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aroma to the Lord. Everybody loves fresh -baked

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bread, right? Yeah, it just smells so good. Takes

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me back to Germany. Mmm, oh yeah. And you shall

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offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two

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male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace

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offerings. And the priest shall wave them with

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the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering

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before the Lord with the two lambs. They shall

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be holy to the Lord for the priest. And you shall

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make a proclamation on the same day. You shall

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hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any

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ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all

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your dwelling places throughout your generations.

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It means forever and ever and ever. And ever.

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Yeah. So we see that Jesus was resurrected on

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the Feast of Firstfruits at the barley harvest.

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Then he spent 40 days. with his disciples. And

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then he gives them their final instructions before

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he goes to heaven. So what's that in Luke 24,

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verses 45 to 53? Then he opened their minds to

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understand the scriptures and said to them, thus

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is it written, that the Christ shall suffer and

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on the third day rise from the dead. Amen. And

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that repentance for the forgiveness of sin should

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be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning

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from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

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And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father

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upon you. But stay in the city until you are

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clothed with power from on high. And he led them

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out as far as Bethany and lifted up his hands.

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He blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted

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from them and was carried up into heaven. And

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they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem

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with great joy. And we're continually in the

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temple blessing God. See, they were scared to

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go into the temple back then, but now they are

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fired up. They're fired up. And just as a note,

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remember it says that his feet shall stand on

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the Mount of Olives. Bethany is on the Mount

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of Olives. So that's a part of the Mount that,

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you know, that gives credibility to this because

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in, well, let's read what it says in Acts. Let's

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read the story from the book of Acts. And while

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staying with them, he ordered them not to depart

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from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of

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the Father, which he said, You heard from me.

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For John baptized with water, but you will be

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baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from

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now. So when they had come together, they asked

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him, Lord, will you at this time restore the

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kingdom to Israel? He said to them, It is not

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for you to know times or seasons that the Father

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has fixed by his own authority. But you will

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receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon

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you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem

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and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of

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the earth. And when he had said these things,

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as they were looking up, he was lifted up and

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a cloud took him out of their sight. You know,

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I like to add in the book of Zechariah, it says

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in that days, his feet shall stand on the Mount

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of Olives. Exactly. So he will come back. as

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he said he would. Yes. And I didn't include the

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next verse in our notes here, but I'll just read

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it from my Bible because I have it right here,

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that the next thing that was said was, while

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they looked toward heaven as he went up, behold,

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two men stood by them in white apparel. Which

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also said, you men of Galilee, why are you standing

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gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which

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is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come

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in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.

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So this same Jesus is coming back on the Mount

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of Olives. Hallelujah. So Jesus is telling them,

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stay in Jerusalem. until you receive the power

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from God, I'm going to send the promise of the

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Father. So stick around. The thing is this, Passover,

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they were supposed to be there. And we know that

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they went off to Galilee after Passover, after

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Jesus was resurrected. They went fishing and

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met Jesus there fishing, and he cooked breakfast

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for them. But then he led them back to Jerusalem.

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In order for him to go up from the Mount of Olives,

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that's just outside Jerusalem, with a view of

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Jerusalem. And he'd been hanging out with them

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for 40 days, probably coming and going. Coming

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and going, yeah. You know, because he could.

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But he told them to stay there. Well, you're

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not going to go anywhere if you're supposed to

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be in Jerusalem in 10 days. So it made sense

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that they should just stay in Jerusalem. until

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they were endued with power from on high. And

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it goes on to say that they went to the upper

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room and they were praying together and doing

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business, replacing Judas with one of the other

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disciples and so on. But then in Acts chapter

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2, we have the big day, right? The big bang.

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The big bang. So let's roll back to... what Pentecost

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was to them before the coming of the Holy Spirit,

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because God had these appointed times. And remember,

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back in the Torah, you have the Exodus, and that

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was, you know, the first Passover was that night

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of the Passover when they had to put up the blood

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before the destroyer came and took away the firstborn.

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So, you know, you're celebrating that every year.

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And they were released from bondage. Exactly.

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So that's what the Passover lamb will do for

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you and release you from bondage. Absolutely.

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And you have this other part where they were

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in such a hurry to get away that they didn't

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have time to let their bread rise. So as a part

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of... this celebration, they're going to eat

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unleavened bread to remind them of what happened

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in the first time while they were exiting Egypt,

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right? But the idea is that leaven is a picture

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of sin. So it was right that Jesus' sacrifice

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would come in this time when everyone is supposed

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to put away all of their leaven. They're all

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supposed to go through their houses and get rid

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of all the leaven, all of the yeast that causes

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things to swell. We keep saying this over and

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over that part of our maturing in God has to

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do with learning to bow and learning to let go

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and learning to surrender. So all of these things

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that we do to surrender is pushing the leaven

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out of our lives. And so Jesus shows up. Remember,

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he said, I am the bread of life. Right. He was

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born in Bethlehem, which means house of bread.

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He said, I'm the bread of life. He said, you

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know, take it. This is my body, which is given

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for you. Right. It was unleavened bread. So if

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leaven is a sign of sin, if leaven is a sign

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of pride and swelling. Jesus. bread given for

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us, Jesus' body given for us is sinless, right?

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So that's why we use unleavened bread. Now, it's

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okay if you're having Holy Communion to use regular

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bread. I'm not trying to say that you need to

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only use matzah, okay? But we find out matzah

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lasts longer. Yeah, matzah does last a long time.

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But the point is that Jesus was so detailed about

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everything. Every little sign was something that

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he prepared, that he gave to us as a picture.

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You can see it. Just keep looking for the pictures.

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Just keep following the breadcrumbs. He's there.

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He's there in all of it. So it's really exciting

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to see this. So then as they went out of Egypt

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and they go out into the wilderness, It says

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in Exodus 19 .1 that the Israelites reached the

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wilderness of Sinai in the third month. Okay,

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so the first month is Passover. It's Aviv, which

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means spring. So I don't remember what the second

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month is called. But anyway, moving on, the third

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month is Sivan. So you have just about the same

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amount of time as these seven weeks that you're

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counting from the day of the first fruits. Okay,

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so God is mixing all of the pictures together

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because it's partly about harvest and it's partly

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about the giving of the law. So here they are

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at Sinai. If you'll remember, in Exodus 19, it

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says, okay, Exodus 19, 1, in the third month,

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when the children of Israel were gone out of

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the land of Egypt, the same day they came to

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the wilderness of Sinai, and God says to them,

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if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant,

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then you will be a peculiar treasure unto me,

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a special treasure above all people, for all

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the earth is mine. And you shall be unto me a

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kingdom of priests. Okay. A holy nation. These

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are the words which you shall speak unto the

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children of Israel. So Moses called to the elders

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and he tells them all of these things. So then

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he tells them, get ready for the third day. Okay.

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On the third day. sanctify yourselves to be ready

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for the third day. So prepare for Pentecost.

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Prepare for this special visitation of God. Now,

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already they had seen in the wilderness, they

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had seen before they even crossed the Red Sea

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that God could show up as a fire tornado, a pillar

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of fire. In the daytime, he was a pillar of cloud.

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So that's how he manifested himself to the children

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of Israel. Yeah, and you know when there's forest

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fires and there's extreme heat. I mean, you can

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see this on YouTube and sometimes usually Weather

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Channel will post something, a firenado. And

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it's just a circular motion and it's just like

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a column of fire just going up. And I think that's

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a good picture of what was cloud by day but fire

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by night. Yeah. This fiery pillar, that's just,

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we'll get to see it on the replays. I think that's

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a little taste of it, though, in a forest fire,

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this extreme heat creating a vortex. It's true,

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it's true. And you also see that in, I'm not

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sure if it's the first or second chapter of Ezekiel,

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where it talks about a fire catching itself.

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Well, obviously it's got to be going in a circle

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in order for it to be catching itself. So it's

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the same. fire tornado, as far as I can see.

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So it goes on to talk about Moses went up the

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mountain and the Lord descended on it in a fire

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and smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace

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and the whole mountain quaked. It quaked. Okay.

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And then there was a voice of a trumpet, a shofar.

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That sounded long and waxed louder and louder.

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And Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

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And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on top

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of the mount. And the Lord called to Moses out

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to the top of the mount. And Moses went up, and

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he said to them, you know, go tell the people

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that don't let them touch the mountain. So he

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said, go get down with Aaron and you. Don't let

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the priests and the people break through. And

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then God spoke. So he spoke these words and he

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gave them the Ten Commandments. I'm not going

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to take time to read them. You should if you

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haven't ever read them. Really, the first thing

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he says is, I am Yehovah, your God. And I brought

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you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house

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of bondage. Have no other gods before me. He

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speaks that to the children of Israel. directly.

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They could hear his voice. And when he was done

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speaking to them, verse 18 says, all the people

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saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the

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noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking.

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And when the people saw it, they removed and

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stood far off. And they said unto Moses, I like

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to do it this way. You talk to him now. We don't

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want to hear this anymore. We're scared. You

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know, we're afraid we're going to die if we hear

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God speak to us directly, which is really sad

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because God really wanted them to be an entire

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nation of priests. A whole kingdom of priests.

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And then the Lord, he gave them all these other

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rules and it goes on and on. But at one point,

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and I love the way that Cecil B. DeMille did

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it in his Ten Commandments movie. If you haven't

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ever seen Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments,

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it's a magnificent, magnificent portrayal. You

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know, it's quite a long story, but I love the

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part where he's up in Mount Sinai and the fire

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tornado is up there. Just swinging around and

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swinging around and swinging around. And it says,

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I don't remember exactly where it says, but it

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says that God wrote in the stone with his fiery

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finger. And the way that they portrayed it in

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this movie is that the fire tornado slings off

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a flame and the flame writes in the stone. And

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the voice speaks the words, thou shalt have no

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other gods before me. And then the next one comes

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and he writes in the stone. And then at the end

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of it, you know, at the end of all 10 of them,

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the finger comes around and carves it out. And

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here he's got the two tablets of the law. Yeah.

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Right. So this is what. To this day, this is

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a major part of the celebration of Shavuot, that

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they are remembering the giving of the law, because

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that was the next thing that happened after they

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came out of Egypt, after they had Passover. So

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now they're going to celebrate the giving of

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the law on this day, keeping that in mind to

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this day, to today. Jewish people, Orthodox Jewish

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people who are going to celebrate this feast,

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they will stay up all night long and they will

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read together, read the scriptures together.

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They're going to read the book of Ruth, which

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is all about harvest, and they're going to read

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and pray together all night long. So now let's

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go to the book of Acts because we have this foundation

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laid of what Shavuot or Pentecost was up until

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that time. And if I didn't say it, Pentecost

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comes from the Greek where pente means 50, meaning

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50 days. So it's the 50th day that they're celebrating,

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right? Yeah. So now let's look at the book of

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Acts chapter 2. Philip, would you read that?

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When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they

00:29:52.609 --> 00:29:56.150
were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly

00:29:56.150 --> 00:29:58.690
there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing

00:29:58.690 --> 00:30:01.849
mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where

00:30:01.849 --> 00:30:04.130
they were sitting. The whole house, I love it.

00:30:04.289 --> 00:30:07.349
We'll explain that later. Yeah, yeah. Then there

00:30:07.349 --> 00:30:10.930
appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and

00:30:10.930 --> 00:30:13.690
sat upon each of them. And they were all filled

00:30:13.690 --> 00:30:15.809
with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with

00:30:15.809 --> 00:30:18.390
other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

00:30:18.930 --> 00:30:21.710
And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout

00:30:21.710 --> 00:30:24.839
men from every nation under heaven. And when

00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:27.420
this sound occurred, the multitude came together

00:30:27.420 --> 00:30:30.339
and were confused, because everyone heard them

00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:33.339
speak in his own language. Then they were all

00:30:33.339 --> 00:30:36.259
amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Look,

00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:39.599
are not all of these who speak Galileans? And

00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:42.319
how is it we hear each in our own language in

00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.380
which we were born? Parthenians and Medes and

00:30:45.380 --> 00:30:48.799
Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea,

00:30:48.819 --> 00:30:52.789
Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia. Phrygia and Pamphylia,

00:30:52.910 --> 00:30:56.109
Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene,

00:30:56.309 --> 00:30:59.450
visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

00:30:59.549 --> 00:31:03.009
Cretans and Arabs. We hear them speaking in our

00:31:03.009 --> 00:31:06.170
own tongues the wonderful works of God. So they

00:31:06.170 --> 00:31:08.789
were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one

00:31:08.789 --> 00:31:12.170
another, Whatever could this mean? Others mocking

00:31:12.170 --> 00:31:14.950
said, These are full of new wine. But Peter,

00:31:15.089 --> 00:31:17.529
standing up with the eleven, raised his voice

00:31:17.529 --> 00:31:20.579
and said to them, Men of Judea and all who dwell

00:31:20.579 --> 00:31:23.740
in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed

00:31:23.740 --> 00:31:26.940
my words. For these are not drunk, as you suppose,

00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.559
since this is only the third hour of the day,

00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:32.500
but this is that which was spoken by the prophet

00:31:32.500 --> 00:31:35.740
Joel. And it shall come to pass in the last days,

00:31:35.819 --> 00:31:39.000
says God, that I will pour out of my spirit on

00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:41.619
all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall

00:31:41.619 --> 00:31:44.680
prophesy. Your young men shall see visions. Your

00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:48.480
old men shall dream dreams. And on my menservants

00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:51.480
and on my maidservants I will pour out my Spirit

00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.440
in those days, and they shall prophesy. I will

00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:58.240
show wonders in heaven above and signs in the

00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:01.799
earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

00:32:01.900 --> 00:32:05.019
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the

00:32:05.019 --> 00:32:08.339
moon into blood before the coming of the great

00:32:08.339 --> 00:32:11.319
and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come

00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:14.220
to pass that whoever calls on the name of the

00:32:14.220 --> 00:32:20.849
Lord Amen. Amen. So what happened on the Temple

00:32:20.849 --> 00:32:26.150
Mount? Okay. So today in Jerusalem, if you're

00:32:26.150 --> 00:32:29.609
there for Shavuot, the people are going to be

00:32:29.609 --> 00:32:33.450
in their synagogues all night long praying and

00:32:33.450 --> 00:32:38.769
reading the Word. And before dawn comes, they're

00:32:38.769 --> 00:32:41.890
going to go to the Western Wall, which is the

00:32:41.890 --> 00:32:45.369
closest thing that they have to the Temple. So

00:32:45.369 --> 00:32:47.789
the Western Wall is really, it's not a wall of

00:32:47.789 --> 00:32:51.029
the temple. It's a retaining wall that was built

00:32:51.029 --> 00:32:55.049
by Herod when he beautified the temple that was

00:32:55.049 --> 00:32:58.509
built by Zerubbabel when they came back from

00:32:58.509 --> 00:33:04.210
Babylon. So he massively increased the size of

00:33:04.210 --> 00:33:05.990
the Temple Mount so that they could have more

00:33:05.990 --> 00:33:09.210
pilgrims come and it wouldn't be so crowded and

00:33:09.210 --> 00:33:12.910
there'd just be more room for people. Today,

00:33:13.210 --> 00:33:15.990
they go to that Western Wall, which is the closest

00:33:15.990 --> 00:33:19.250
they typically get, although these days they

00:33:19.250 --> 00:33:21.089
are going up on the Temple Mount. Maybe we'll

00:33:21.089 --> 00:33:24.589
talk about that. Anyway, so the thing that they

00:33:24.589 --> 00:33:29.509
would have done in that day, if they did things

00:33:29.509 --> 00:33:32.730
then as they do now, they would have been in

00:33:32.730 --> 00:33:35.470
the upper room praying together all night long.

00:33:35.650 --> 00:33:39.769
And then before dawn, they would have gone to

00:33:39.769 --> 00:33:44.319
the house. of the Lord, which is the temple.

00:33:44.819 --> 00:33:47.319
So they might have been sitting on the steps,

00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:50.019
the southern steps as you go up the ascent up,

00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.980
or they could have been in Solomon's porch, which

00:33:52.980 --> 00:33:55.140
is just inside. We don't know exactly where they

00:33:55.140 --> 00:34:00.720
were, but everybody's thinking about what it

00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:03.900
was like on Mount Sinai with this pillar of fire

00:34:03.900 --> 00:34:08.659
up there, right? A tornado, right? What's a tornado

00:34:08.659 --> 00:34:12.800
sound like, Philip? There's many, it sounds like

00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:16.639
a freight train or many freight trains are like

00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:19.619
a jet engine. So say it's like a jet engine going

00:34:19.619 --> 00:34:22.960
over your head. Right. You know, and I've been

00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:26.539
fortunate not to experience that. You know, I

00:34:26.539 --> 00:34:28.559
wanted to see a tornado from a distance, not

00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:31.619
up close. You did have an experience when you

00:34:31.619 --> 00:34:34.940
were a kid. Yeah. What was that? Was that kind

00:34:34.940 --> 00:34:37.559
of a rushing mighty wind? Yeah, and it was raining

00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:40.000
so hard, and the car was rocking back and forth.

00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:43.300
Yeah. We had no idea that there was a tornado

00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:46.260
went right over the top of us. Wow. And when

00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:48.900
it was done, you know, every store along there

00:34:48.900 --> 00:34:50.659
had the windows knocked out, and I look at the

00:34:50.659 --> 00:34:53.780
water tower, it was all twisted, and, you know,

00:34:53.780 --> 00:34:56.480
cars flipped upside down, these big trees ripped,

00:34:56.579 --> 00:34:59.039
and apartment buildings, I mean, these inner

00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:01.760
-city apartment buildings built in the 1920s

00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:04.920
probably, you know, like whole sides were just...

00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:07.099
Taken off, you can look into it like looking

00:35:07.099 --> 00:35:10.079
into a dollhouse. Yeah. You know, it was just...

00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:11.960
But that was a rushing mighty wind, wasn't it?

00:35:11.960 --> 00:35:14.460
That was a rushing mighty wind, yeah. Think tornado.

00:35:14.739 --> 00:35:18.920
Think firenado, okay? So here's the sound of

00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:23.519
a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the house

00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:27.139
where they were sitting. Now, to a Jew, you talk

00:35:27.139 --> 00:35:29.239
about the house, and they're talking about the

00:35:29.239 --> 00:35:32.400
temple. Temple, yeah. So this whole temple area

00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:35.219
was filled with this fire because everybody's

00:35:35.219 --> 00:35:38.320
thinking fire. Everybody's remembering the giving

00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:43.079
of the law, the fire, and the voice of God and

00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:46.639
the fire tornado up there. Yeah, and for all

00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:49.639
the people to see. Right. Which makes more sense

00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:52.500
than a group of people running out of an upper

00:35:52.500 --> 00:35:56.039
room with fire on their head. Yeah, but when

00:35:56.039 --> 00:36:00.039
everybody sees it come down. Right. I mean, if

00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:02.719
you're in the upper room, it comes down. You

00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:05.000
run out and you got fire in your head. But when

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:07.320
you see it come down from the sky, the fire come

00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:10.139
down like it's a portal opening up. Right. The

00:36:10.139 --> 00:36:13.539
fire coming down and 3 ,000 people get converted.

00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.880
Exactly. I mean, that's huge. And that's a picture

00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:19.400
of what it was really like. I think so. I think

00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.139
so. It makes so much sense. And if you think

00:36:22.139 --> 00:36:25.940
about. The fiery finger of God coming off of

00:36:25.940 --> 00:36:29.539
that fire needle, right? And writing in the stone.

00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:33.940
Yeah. What did Jesus say when he gave them the

00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:37.280
Holy Communion just, you know, 50 -something

00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:42.360
days before? He said, this cup is the new covenant

00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:47.880
in my blood. The new covenant, as promised in

00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:54.389
Jeremiah 31, talks about... He said, I will write

00:36:54.389 --> 00:36:57.570
my word in your hearts and in your minds. So

00:36:57.570 --> 00:37:03.349
here comes this flame on their heads. Do you

00:37:03.349 --> 00:37:04.909
think it's going to be writing in their minds?

00:37:04.949 --> 00:37:09.329
You can imagine so. And in their hearts. To see

00:37:09.329 --> 00:37:11.969
it and experience that, something like that.

00:37:12.650 --> 00:37:16.070
I mean, that'll change you forever. Absolutely.

00:37:16.150 --> 00:37:19.230
You're totally wrecked. Absolutely. Absolutely.

00:37:19.429 --> 00:37:22.929
And the cool thing is there's a connection here

00:37:22.929 --> 00:37:27.650
to the Tower of Babel where languages were mixed

00:37:27.650 --> 00:37:33.170
up. So now you have on the Temple Mount, at the

00:37:33.170 --> 00:37:37.010
Temple of God, in his presence, his fiery presence.

00:37:38.190 --> 00:37:41.530
All of a sudden, these people that had been following

00:37:41.530 --> 00:37:45.789
Jesus are receiving this promise of the Father

00:37:45.789 --> 00:37:48.570
that I will write my word in your hearts and

00:37:48.570 --> 00:37:51.630
in your minds. And as it's coming into them,

00:37:51.809 --> 00:37:54.730
their mouths begin speaking another language.

00:37:54.909 --> 00:37:57.070
And all of these people that have been dispersed,

00:37:57.369 --> 00:38:01.349
okay, they call it the diaspora of the Jews,

00:38:01.449 --> 00:38:03.750
where they've been dispersed all over the world.

00:38:04.750 --> 00:38:07.389
As many times as I've read this, until you read

00:38:07.389 --> 00:38:11.010
it just now, Philip, I hadn't really noticed

00:38:11.010 --> 00:38:14.630
that it says, from every nation under heaven.

00:38:14.889 --> 00:38:17.489
Yeah, every nation. Yeah, that kind of lit up

00:38:17.489 --> 00:38:19.989
to me as I was reading that, but every nation

00:38:19.989 --> 00:38:22.409
under heaven. Every nation under heaven. Every

00:38:22.409 --> 00:38:27.119
continent. What God had done. In this dispersion

00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:30.579
of the Jews, taken away to Assyria, taken away

00:38:30.579 --> 00:38:34.059
to Babylon, and they just kept going into all

00:38:34.059 --> 00:38:38.340
the nations. So all the world. Yes. And they

00:38:38.340 --> 00:38:42.139
had this commandment that they're to come back

00:38:42.139 --> 00:38:47.260
to Jerusalem for this feast. And I think God

00:38:47.260 --> 00:38:50.420
was stirring some of that. I've got to get back

00:38:50.420 --> 00:38:53.119
there for this feast. Remember? Remember about

00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:57.269
Paul. He said, I must needs keep this feast in

00:38:57.269 --> 00:39:00.050
Jerusalem. And I don't remember which feast it

00:39:00.050 --> 00:39:02.429
was that he felt he needed to get back for. It

00:39:02.429 --> 00:39:05.130
was probably tabernacles, I think. But there's

00:39:05.130 --> 00:39:08.909
something in a person where the Spirit of God

00:39:08.909 --> 00:39:11.429
works within you and you just know you've got

00:39:11.429 --> 00:39:15.469
to be there. You've got to be there. I remember

00:39:15.469 --> 00:39:20.070
as I was getting ready to graduate from language

00:39:20.070 --> 00:39:24.579
school. And I was 19 years old. And I wasn't

00:39:24.579 --> 00:39:26.800
sure what I was going to do after that. I thought

00:39:26.800 --> 00:39:28.780
I was going to come to Angletal at first. And

00:39:28.780 --> 00:39:31.000
then I was told, no, I don't know that we're

00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:34.860
going to have any room for you. All I knew was

00:39:34.860 --> 00:39:37.980
that I had to be at the Second World Convention.

00:39:38.179 --> 00:39:41.219
I had to be there. I'd been at the first, but

00:39:41.219 --> 00:39:44.320
I had to be there. I didn't know what was going

00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:47.239
to happen after that, but I had to be there.

00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:51.880
I had an appointment with God. And this is what

00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:55.159
happened to these Jewish people, these Jewish

00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:57.199
men in particular. Probably there were women

00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.480
too, but it was the men that were commanded to

00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:04.159
be there. And so God didn't command the women

00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:05.760
to be there because sometimes they were going

00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:07.619
to be having babies and that wouldn't be easy

00:40:07.619 --> 00:40:10.000
for them to travel. So they weren't commanded

00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.130
to be there, but often they came. when Elkanah

00:40:14.130 --> 00:40:18.230
and Hannah and Peninnah came for one of the feasts.

00:40:18.250 --> 00:40:21.789
So they came as families most of the time when

00:40:21.789 --> 00:40:24.750
they could. So anyway, here's these people that

00:40:24.750 --> 00:40:27.789
have been dispersed into all... the nations.

00:40:28.269 --> 00:40:32.210
God is so particular about the details. He's

00:40:32.210 --> 00:40:35.369
going to fulfill every detail. So he made sure

00:40:35.369 --> 00:40:37.269
that there was somebody in China. He made sure

00:40:37.269 --> 00:40:39.530
there was somebody in India. He made sure that

00:40:39.530 --> 00:40:41.510
there was somebody coming from Africa, from this

00:40:41.510 --> 00:40:43.110
place, from that place, from this place, from

00:40:43.110 --> 00:40:46.250
that place, from all the nations, it says, all

00:40:46.250 --> 00:40:50.489
the nations. And that's the reason why when Peter

00:40:50.489 --> 00:40:53.909
stood up and said, this is that that was spoken

00:40:53.909 --> 00:40:57.079
of by the prophet Joel. Because all of these

00:40:57.079 --> 00:40:59.659
believers in Jesus, these followers of Jesus,

00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:02.440
are now speaking in the languages of all these

00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.159
people. And they're going, what's that? What's

00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:10.139
it? Yeah. What is going on here? But they're

00:41:10.139 --> 00:41:14.300
understanding the wonderful works of God that

00:41:14.300 --> 00:41:16.780
these people are speaking about. Peter stands

00:41:16.780 --> 00:41:19.219
up and he says, this is that that was spoken

00:41:19.219 --> 00:41:21.980
of by the prophet Joel. And if you remember.

00:41:22.750 --> 00:41:26.250
What he says, it included, your sons and your

00:41:26.250 --> 00:41:28.050
daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall

00:41:28.050 --> 00:41:29.710
see visions, your old men shall dream dreams,

00:41:29.849 --> 00:41:32.030
and on my men servants and my maid servants,

00:41:32.170 --> 00:41:36.210
I will pour out my spirit in those days. Now,

00:41:36.250 --> 00:41:39.369
remember what it said here back in Deuteronomy

00:41:39.369 --> 00:41:42.789
16. I'd never seen this before. It says in verse

00:41:42.789 --> 00:41:45.730
11, you shall rejoice before the Lord your God,

00:41:45.809 --> 00:41:49.199
you and your son and your daughter. Your male

00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.300
servant and your female servant. God was prophesying

00:41:52.300 --> 00:41:55.000
already then about what he was going to do on

00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.119
that day of Pentecost. That specific day. All

00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:02.840
the other ones were a rehearsal for what he was

00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:05.559
going to do on that day when he was going to

00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:09.500
pour out of his spirit on all flesh. But it wasn't

00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:14.940
all flesh. It was here one, there one, here one,

00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:17.559
there one. It's a feast of first fruits. Remember?

00:42:18.230 --> 00:42:20.489
So this is the first fruits of the wheat harvest.

00:42:20.670 --> 00:42:23.650
And God drew the one from here and the one from

00:42:23.650 --> 00:42:25.809
there and the one from there and the one from

00:42:25.809 --> 00:42:28.309
over there and the one from over there and the

00:42:28.309 --> 00:42:30.570
one from over there. And he brought them all

00:42:30.570 --> 00:42:32.849
together to be on the Temple Mount to observe

00:42:32.849 --> 00:42:37.389
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in fire. Yeah.

00:42:37.769 --> 00:42:42.489
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And that's what I'm expecting.

00:42:42.869 --> 00:42:46.789
At convention. At convention. Yes. But also remember.

00:42:47.680 --> 00:42:51.460
that it's about harvest, okay? It's at the end

00:42:51.460 --> 00:42:54.519
of the barley harvest and the beginning of the

00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:57.780
wheat harvest. So it's harvest and harvest. You're

00:42:57.780 --> 00:43:00.739
showing up in between harvests. Now, we've been

00:43:00.739 --> 00:43:05.500
seeing harvest already in the nations. You know,

00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:09.219
the gospel is nearly everywhere already. It hasn't

00:43:09.219 --> 00:43:11.079
reached all the unreached people groups, but

00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:13.159
there's people working hard to make it happen.

00:43:13.579 --> 00:43:19.300
Yes. And so we are in the days of harvest. And

00:43:19.300 --> 00:43:22.559
I believe something is going to happen at this

00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:26.780
convention that is going to strike a match to

00:43:26.780 --> 00:43:30.940
a lot of dead wood. There's a whole lot of really

00:43:30.940 --> 00:43:33.619
dry churches. And they'll burn real good when

00:43:33.619 --> 00:43:38.000
they get fire. And he's going to pour out the

00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:42.800
oil. Oil is flammable. And he's going to pour

00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.860
out the oil in an amazing way. I believe it's

00:43:45.860 --> 00:43:48.119
going to happen worldwide. I don't know that

00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:50.480
it's going to be instantaneous worldwide, but

00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.920
I know where I'm supposed to be on that day of

00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:57.300
Pentecost and on that Feast of Shavuot because

00:43:57.300 --> 00:44:01.519
we start the convention as we start the opening

00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:03.940
night. When the sun goes down is the beginning

00:44:03.940 --> 00:44:06.699
of Pentecost. And so when the day of Pentecost

00:44:06.699 --> 00:44:10.139
was fully come refers to when the sun came up.

00:44:10.750 --> 00:44:13.630
OK, remember, all of this is happening. And Peter

00:44:13.630 --> 00:44:15.469
says, these men are not drunk, as you suppose,

00:44:15.630 --> 00:44:17.210
seeing it's only nine o 'clock in the morning.

00:44:17.769 --> 00:44:20.230
OK, they'd been there for a while. We don't know

00:44:20.230 --> 00:44:24.690
how long this fire thing went on, but we know

00:44:24.690 --> 00:44:27.440
it was a sign. And we know that people were wondering.

00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:31.980
And we know that they were representing, they

00:44:31.980 --> 00:44:35.579
were there as first fruits of the harvest that's

00:44:35.579 --> 00:44:39.099
about to come upon us. Because God is going to

00:44:39.099 --> 00:44:42.119
pour out his spirit on all flesh. And that's

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what he's been talking to us about that gave

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:47.300
us the name Global Outpouring, because he wants

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to pour out his spirit on all flesh. And your

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sons and your daughters will prophesy. Even the

00:44:53.769 --> 00:44:57.170
people that are under you, your employees and

00:44:57.170 --> 00:45:01.429
everybody. It's coming for everybody. All flesh

00:45:01.429 --> 00:45:06.070
means all flesh. And so the cool thing that I

00:45:06.070 --> 00:45:10.559
see is that for the disciples. The apostles,

00:45:10.820 --> 00:45:14.019
that whole group of people that was following

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Jesus and the how many thousand that came to

00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:20.340
faith in that one day. Was it 3 ,000 or 5 ,000?

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3 ,000. What? I said 3 ,000. 3 ,000. Okay. Some

00:45:24.219 --> 00:45:26.679
of those numbers don't always stick. Anyway,

00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:30.480
all of a sudden, you have a whole new church.

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And there's a place further on in Acts that says

00:45:34.219 --> 00:45:37.329
many of the priests were believers. Yeah. And

00:45:37.329 --> 00:45:40.030
the common people had heard Jesus gladly. So

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you've got this entire movement that's going

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on. And yet it wasn't the fullness of what is

00:45:46.949 --> 00:45:50.550
about to come now. We're about to see something

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amazing. And the thing about it being on all

00:45:54.530 --> 00:46:01.510
flesh, I've been studying Romans 7 and 8 over

00:46:01.510 --> 00:46:05.940
and over again. I've just been kind of... ruminating

00:46:05.940 --> 00:46:09.460
on it, just like chewing it all over again, listening

00:46:09.460 --> 00:46:13.039
to it in different translations and reading it.

00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:16.099
Yeah, just don't get stuck in Romans 7. Well,

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I want to make the transition from Romans 7 to

00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.139
Romans 8, because Romans 7 is all about living

00:46:22.139 --> 00:46:26.960
in the flesh. And Romans 8 is all about the victory

00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:30.659
of Jesus in our lives to set us free from the

00:46:30.659 --> 00:46:33.340
law of sin and death. Living in the Spirit. And

00:46:33.340 --> 00:46:38.030
living in the Spirit. So the the picture of the

00:46:38.030 --> 00:46:43.610
Spirit coming on all flesh. Galatians 5 lists

00:46:43.610 --> 00:46:46.230
all of the works of the flesh, probably not all

00:46:46.230 --> 00:46:49.429
of them, but plenty of them. And after that,

00:46:49.489 --> 00:46:52.869
it lists, it's the works of the flesh and the

00:46:52.869 --> 00:46:57.360
fruit of the Spirit. So as we receive the Holy

00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:01.079
Spirit, as we receive him, as we open up our

00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:04.199
capacity, as Pastor Tony was teaching us, as

00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:07.719
we prepare ourselves for Pentecost, preparing

00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:12.559
ourselves for an appointment with God, an appointment.

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You've got to be prepared for your appointment.

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Think about having an appointment to have your

00:47:19.260 --> 00:47:23.780
bar exam. or some kind of a test that determines

00:47:23.780 --> 00:47:27.360
whether you get to go on and get licensed to

00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.119
do the thing that you've been studying for for

00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:33.260
decades or years at least. You have an appointment

00:47:33.260 --> 00:47:37.380
to sit for that exam. You have an appointment.

00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:39.079
You have to be there. You have to be prepared.

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And that's what this message from Pastor Tony,

00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:46.639
I believe, has been helping us to prepare. And

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really, it's all about surrender. It's all about

00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:54.219
putting down the flesh and letting the Holy Spirit

00:47:54.219 --> 00:47:58.320
rise up so that his light and his life and his

00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:02.719
love are the things that we're exuding as fruit,

00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:07.260
okay? The works of the flesh are the stuff, you

00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:09.099
know, where it's all about self, self, self,

00:48:09.300 --> 00:48:12.840
self, self, self, and, you know, self and sin.

00:48:13.809 --> 00:48:16.710
And sin is the world, the flesh, and the devil,

00:48:16.789 --> 00:48:20.289
okay? That's what all of that is about. But God

00:48:20.289 --> 00:48:23.050
says, I'm going to pour my spirit on all flesh.

00:48:23.329 --> 00:48:28.159
So all flesh has this opportunity. to receive

00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:32.760
the promise of the Father, to receive the promise

00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:35.980
where that fire can come on them, come on us,

00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:39.280
and write His Word in our hearts and our minds

00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:43.179
and transform us so that we are working with

00:48:43.179 --> 00:48:46.059
the Holy Spirit, that we're flowing with the

00:48:46.059 --> 00:48:50.219
Holy Spirit, that we're co -laboring, and that

00:48:50.219 --> 00:48:54.329
He's the Lord. And we're the ones that are obeying,

00:48:54.349 --> 00:48:57.329
okay? He's the potter, we're the clay. Yeah.

00:48:57.469 --> 00:49:00.150
The clay's job is to yield under pressure. Yep.

00:49:00.230 --> 00:49:04.369
And to get into cooperation with him, to get

00:49:04.369 --> 00:49:07.989
into just, Lord, what is it you want me to do?

00:49:08.969 --> 00:49:11.949
Okay, I'll do that. How do you yield? You're

00:49:11.949 --> 00:49:14.309
on the wheel, it's getting squeezed. Oh, yes.

00:49:14.489 --> 00:49:17.659
It's when it squeezes. Yep. That's what starts

00:49:17.659 --> 00:49:20.000
the forming of it. Yes. You got to squeeze it.

00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:22.820
Yes. And so the things that we're going through,

00:49:23.059 --> 00:49:26.360
they're not really from the devil. I hate to

00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:29.340
break it to you. God is at work in our lives

00:49:29.340 --> 00:49:32.460
and he's pushing us into a corner. He's pushing

00:49:32.460 --> 00:49:37.480
to cause us to be formed into a vessel that he

00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:40.659
can use because he wants to use you. He wants

00:49:40.659 --> 00:49:44.619
to use me. And he's been putting his pressure

00:49:44.619 --> 00:49:49.500
on. And I've been, I'll say it this way. He's

00:49:49.500 --> 00:49:53.059
been giving me the grace to obey. He's been giving

00:49:53.059 --> 00:49:55.739
me the grace to let go. He's been giving me the

00:49:55.739 --> 00:49:58.900
grace to just sink down and let him do it. It's

00:49:58.900 --> 00:50:01.639
not my job. It's not my job to make it happen.

00:50:02.809 --> 00:50:06.829
This is what he wants to do. This is what I believe

00:50:06.829 --> 00:50:10.949
he is in the process of doing. And as we come

00:50:10.949 --> 00:50:14.510
together for Pentecost, I really urge you, if

00:50:14.510 --> 00:50:17.369
you possibly can make it to the convention, come

00:50:17.369 --> 00:50:20.010
and have an appointment with God. Prepare your

00:50:20.010 --> 00:50:22.909
heart for it. Come and have an appointment. If

00:50:22.909 --> 00:50:25.369
you can't get there, if you absolutely cannot

00:50:25.369 --> 00:50:28.480
make it. You can watch it live on YouTube or

00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:30.960
you can watch it afterwards, like if you're on

00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:33.820
the other side of the world. But there's people

00:50:33.820 --> 00:50:35.639
coming from the other side of the world. Maybe

00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:38.860
you can come too. So ask the Lord to help you.

00:50:38.900 --> 00:50:41.039
Ask the Lord to show you, Father, what's your

00:50:41.039 --> 00:50:43.400
will? Because we've seen him do miracle after

00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.219
miracle after miracle to get people there. And

00:50:46.219 --> 00:50:49.119
one of our ladies from Japan, when she can't

00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:52.210
get there, she will check into a hotel. She'll

00:50:52.210 --> 00:50:54.989
put herself on Do Not Disturb. She'll get into

00:50:54.989 --> 00:50:59.010
our time zone and watch the convention with us.

00:50:59.150 --> 00:51:02.230
I hope she can make it this year. But if she

00:51:02.230 --> 00:51:05.090
can't, I'm pretty sure she'll set herself aside

00:51:05.090 --> 00:51:08.510
because she knows the value of having an appointment

00:51:08.510 --> 00:51:11.409
with God. Even if you can't get there, do what

00:51:11.409 --> 00:51:15.530
you can to set yourself aside and let the Holy

00:51:15.530 --> 00:51:19.110
Spirit do His work in you because we're at a

00:51:19.110 --> 00:51:22.860
point of the promise of the Father. this outpouring

00:51:22.860 --> 00:51:26.559
on all flesh. And it's an outpouring more like

00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:31.599
Niagara Falls. So it's not just a drip here and

00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:37.619
a shower there. It's like the roar of the rushing

00:51:37.619 --> 00:51:40.900
mighty wind, the roar of the outpouring, the

00:51:40.900 --> 00:51:47.019
roar of the fiery tornado that is ready to consume

00:51:47.019 --> 00:51:52.449
our offerings. And we bring ourselves as an offering.

00:51:52.650 --> 00:51:55.090
He's looking for us to be a living sacrifice

00:51:55.090 --> 00:52:00.969
to him, that he can inhabit, that his presence

00:52:00.969 --> 00:52:04.590
inhabits us and draws us into his character.

00:52:04.829 --> 00:52:08.889
That's what we were born for. That's what's written

00:52:08.889 --> 00:52:12.769
in our books that he wrote for us before we were

00:52:12.769 --> 00:52:16.369
born. He wrote all that we are capable of doing

00:52:16.369 --> 00:52:20.039
if we'll just cooperate with him. Oh, I want

00:52:20.039 --> 00:52:23.980
to do that. Will you join us? Hallelujah. Philip,

00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:25.860
would you pray for our listeners and viewers?

00:52:26.579 --> 00:52:28.599
Well, Father, we thank you, Lord. Even in this

00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.019
podcast, Lord, your word revealed. You revealed

00:52:32.019 --> 00:52:35.320
your word by fire, Lord. Lord, through Jesus

00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:38.460
Christ, the Holy Spirit, Lord, that fire in our

00:52:38.460 --> 00:52:41.420
hearts, so God. So we thank you, Father, that,

00:52:41.460 --> 00:52:44.119
Lord, even the fire you give us on the inside

00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:47.519
will be manifest on the outside. So, Father,

00:52:47.619 --> 00:52:50.460
we thank you, Father, because it's a life changer.

00:52:50.539 --> 00:52:53.460
I'm sure everyone on that Temple Mount saw that

00:52:53.460 --> 00:52:56.179
fire come down, that, Father, they were changed

00:52:56.179 --> 00:52:58.900
because they never forgot that. So, Father, we

00:52:58.900 --> 00:53:01.519
just pray, even, Lord, as this convention coming

00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:04.480
up. starting on Pentecost, Lord, that you will

00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:07.920
pour out your fire like we have never seen before,

00:53:08.179 --> 00:53:11.280
O God. As John the Baptist said, there's one

00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:13.400
coming that's going to baptize you with the Holy

00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:16.969
Spirit and fire. And Lord, we've seen the fire

00:53:16.969 --> 00:53:19.849
on the Temple Mount. And Lord, if the book of

00:53:19.849 --> 00:53:21.769
Acts is like the first fruits of what you're

00:53:21.769 --> 00:53:23.829
going to do in these last days of pouring out

00:53:23.829 --> 00:53:26.570
of your spirit, Lord, we're expecting tremendous

00:53:26.570 --> 00:53:29.949
things to happen, Father. So we thank you, Lord,

00:53:29.989 --> 00:53:32.130
that, Father, that, Lord, those listening to

00:53:32.130 --> 00:53:34.309
this said, Lord, that they can just hear the

00:53:34.309 --> 00:53:37.110
Holy Spirit on coming to this convention, Lord.

00:53:37.550 --> 00:53:40.469
Lord, even someone that we heard, they texted

00:53:40.469 --> 00:53:43.590
us and says, I'm having a graduation in my Bible

00:53:43.590 --> 00:53:46.110
school, but... It's not the diploma. I want to

00:53:46.110 --> 00:53:48.030
be there for the convention because it's at the

00:53:48.030 --> 00:53:50.769
same time. And that's because she has the fire

00:53:50.769 --> 00:53:54.230
burning in her bones and wants to have that impartation,

00:53:54.309 --> 00:53:56.610
which is going to happen at this convention.

00:53:56.949 --> 00:53:59.309
So we thank you, Father. We give you all the

00:53:59.309 --> 00:54:01.690
glory for what you're going to do in bringing

00:54:01.690 --> 00:54:04.949
people in, even in the last minute. In your name,

00:54:04.989 --> 00:54:16.119
Lord Jesus. Amen. Please subscribe, rate, and

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