(310) “Prepare for Pentecost!”

0:00 God was prophesying already then about what he was going to do on that day of Pentecost, that specific day. All the other ones were a rehearsal for what he was going to do on that day when he was going to pour out of his spirit on all flesh. God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out of his spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring. Will we contend for that promised outpouring? We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. We're so delighted that you are with us.

0:41 We're getting ready for our convention 2026. And we didn't even know when we planned it for Memorial Day weekend that it was going to be Shavuot. It was going to be Pentecost. And opening night is the opening of Shavuot. And the very last day is Pentecost Sunday and they don't always come together. So we've really been moved by God to prepare for Pentecost because you and I, we have an appointment with God. Thanks so much for joining us today. We're so happy, happy, happy that we can do this together with you and with God and let His Spirit pour out on you because we're preparing for Pentecost. But before we get started, we want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so, that you go to our website, globaloutpouring .net, and click on that subscribe button and subscribe to our email lists, any of them that you want, and you can hear from us and we can let you know other things. that are happening besides this podcast. We've got lots of things that are happening. If you're enjoying this podcast, there's so much more material that's available on our website and on our YouTube channel. We've got lots and lots of content there that's waiting to help equip you for God's hand on you for the outpouring that's already begun.

2:10 And just like we learned from Pastor Tony in episode 306, he was teaching us about the capacity code. And if you haven't heard that, I really encourage you to go and listen to that because we took it to heart. And God has changed a whole lot of things in our lives and in the ministry. He's just opened some amazing doors and opened some amazing provision. And we're just excited. at what God is doing because God is meeting us. And that's what this episode is all about, is meeting with God. You have an appointment with God. So where does this appointment idea come from? There's a scripture right in Genesis chapter 1 that gives us a clue. You know, you look for the very first place where a word appears. There's a thing called the law of first mention. And when you get into that, you can see there's a special attachment to the meaning when you see where it is used first. So Genesis 1, 14 to 19.

3:18 Philip, would you like to read that from the ESV? And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. And let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. And it was so. And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth. to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning the fourth day. So this isn't going to be a study in Genesis, but the first place where this word that we're looking for shows up is in verse 14. It says, let them be for signs and for seasons. And that word seasons, obviously it means seasons because we set Our months, and we set our years by the moon and the sun work together in expressing our months.

4:28 The Hebrew calendar is based mostly on the lunar calendar because they begin their month at the new moon, but they have a way of adding an extra month so that it stays lined up with the sun calendar, which the year begins with spring. So with spring, you can see the seasons. The seasons begin with spring and summer and fall and winter. And so this word for seasons is moed, or in this case, moedim. That's the plural of moed in Hebrew. And moed means... It does mean seasons, but it also means an appointed place or an appointed time. It's a meeting place or just a meeting. So wherever it talks about the tent of meeting, it's the tent of Moed. And so all of these things that God tells the Israelites to do, especially the appointed feasts that they're all supposed to come to Jerusalem for, those are Moedim. They're appointments. It's like you set an appointment with your dentist, right?

5:41 So at 2 .30 on Tuesday, you need to be there. And if you're late, you might completely miss your appointment, right? Yeah. And these days, they'll send you a text or give you a call and say, here's a reminder. You've got a reminder. You have an appointment. So are you going to cancel or are you going to come? And, you know, it gives you an opportunity to respond. You know, push this button or click that or whatever. And so you can set yourself up to say yes. I'm going to be there. Well, we have this convention coming up, and it's an appointment. It's an appointment with God. And we've used that expression, our founder, Sister Gwen, in probably, I want to say, the second or third convention that we ever had back in the 70s. She had this little song, You Have an Appointment with God. He's here to meet you, my friend. And we have had appointment after appointment after appointment with God in these conventions. But this year, it's going to be on Pentecost. Oh, that's just amazingly awesome. We're so blown away because, you know, it's all about the outpouring, right? In our hearts now, it's all about the outpouring. So this idea of a set... season, a set feast, an appointed time, an appointed place, a meeting.

7:03 It's a fixed time. It's a certain time. And you don't want to miss your appointment. You just don't want to miss it, right? And it's also for an assembly. So you're going to assemble together, to convene together. That's why we call it a convention, because we convene. Everybody else is calling their thing a conference. And we thought of that for a while. You know, lots of people call it a conference, but we call it a convention because we convene together. We're getting together. We're assembling together because God is going to do something. He's going to do something in us and through us. And so it's just an appointment.

7:46 It's an appointed time. So where do we see this word next in Genesis? Yeah, Genesis 17, 21. And my covenant. I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year. Okay, so God has already given an appointment. He knows when that baby is going to be born and it hasn't even been conceived yet. And when it comes, it comes. When it comes, it comes. When it's time for the baby to come, the baby comes. So that's an appointment. And I think it's very significant that God uses that word in that scenario. He's trying to explain that this is an appointment. You have an appointment, Sarah. You have an appointment to have a baby.

8:34 All these years you've been waiting, and you've been wondering, and, you know, Abraham's going to be 100 by the time that baby's born, and you're 90. Come on. But there's an appointment. There's an appointed time. It's not a miracle if you have a baby at the age of 28. You know, that's no miracle. It happens. It's normal. That's a normal thing. But for a woman who has been decades and decades without ovulating, this is a miracle. Yeah. Okay. This is a miracle. So God does miracles at appointed times, right? Yeah. So then there's the appointed feast. So what are the appointed feasts, Philip? Well, you have the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Well, actually in Deuteronomy 16, verses 16 to 17, three times a year, all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place where he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty -handed. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. Okay, so there are three times, the Feast of Passover or Unleavened Bread. and Feast of Weeks. Now, the word for week is Shavuot. And so Shavuot is the plural of Shavuot. So seven weeks is Shavuot. Okay, it's just the plural of weeks. And then the Feast

10:06 of Booths, of course, is the Feast of Tabernacles. So what is the Feast of Weeks? What does the scripture say about the Feast of Weeks? Deuteronomy 16, verses 8 to 12. For six days you shall eat unleavened bread. And on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it. You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you at the place that the Lord your God will choose to make his name dwell there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes. Now, that's very interesting.

11:10 We'll pick that up again when we get to Acts. And then what does Exodus 34 .22 say about the Feast of Weeks? It says, You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest. There you go. The firstfruits of the wheat harvest. So at Passover, you have the firstfruits of the barley harvest. So the priest goes out on the first day after the Sabbath, after Passover. So if Passover happened on Thursday, probably was Thursday. rather than Friday, because Jesus was in the tomb for three days. So Thursday, Friday, Saturday, there's your Shabbat. And then the first day after the Shabbat is when the priest goes out and he... he puts his sickle to find the one here and one there and another one over there and another one over there and another one over there, that he's going to find these ripe heads that are bowing down. That's how you know that they're ripe, because they're bowing.

12:11 There's something about maturity that has to do with bowing, right? You're submitting to the Lord. That's a sign of maturity. Then they wave that before the Lord. That's the wave offering. So they begin counting the wheat. weeks from that day. Okay. And then as the harvest ripens, then they go out and they gather in the harvest of the barley, all of the barley. And so you have the first fruits and you have the general harvest. So Jesus was raised on the feast of first fruits. And it's very key that we understand that this is like a sign of things to come. Paul talks about he's the first fruits of the resurrection.

12:55 So Jesus was raised first, so we can expect that we're also going to be raised. Amen? Amen. So then when you get to the end of the barley harvest, that's when the first fruits, the first few heads of the wheat harvest are showing their bowing heads. And so the priest goes out and he gathers the first fruits of the wheat harvest for Shavuot. And then they grind that wheat and they make it into two loaves and they wave the loaves before the Lord. I think maybe that's in the next thing here. Let's go ahead and read Leviticus 23, 15 to 21. You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. You shall count 50 days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord. You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be weighed, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be a fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven as firstfruits to the Lord. And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blanch, and one bull from the herd, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord. with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Everybody loves fresh -baked bread, right? Yeah, it just smells so good. Takes me back to Germany. Mmm, oh yeah. And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two

14:26 male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations. It means forever and ever and ever. And ever. Yeah. So we see that Jesus was resurrected on the Feast of Firstfruits at the barley harvest. Then he spent 40 days. with his disciples. And then he gives them their final instructions before he goes to heaven. So what's that in Luke 24, verses 45 to 53? Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures and said to them, thus is it written, that the Christ shall suffer and on the third day rise from the dead. Amen. And that repentance for the forgiveness of sin should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

15:37 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high. And he led them out as far as Bethany and lifted up his hands. He blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And we're continually in the temple blessing God. See, they were scared to go into the temple back then, but now they are fired up. They're fired up. And just as a note, remember it says that his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives. Bethany is on the Mount of Olives. So that's a part of the Mount that, you know, that gives credibility to this because in, well, let's read what it says in Acts. Let's read the story from the book of Acts. And while staying with them, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, You heard from me.

16:35 For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. So when they had come together, they asked him, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? He said to them, It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. And when he had said these things, as they were looking up, he was lifted up and a cloud took him out of their sight. You know, I like to add in the book of Zechariah, it says in that days, his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives. Exactly. So he will come back. as he said he would. Yes. And I didn't include the next verse in our notes here, but I'll just read it from my Bible because I have it right here, that the next thing that was said was, while they looked toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel. Which also said, you men of Galilee, why are you standing gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.

17:55 So this same Jesus is coming back on the Mount of Olives. Hallelujah. So Jesus is telling them, stay in Jerusalem. until you receive the power from God, I'm going to send the promise of the Father. So stick around. The thing is this, Passover, they were supposed to be there. And we know that they went off to Galilee after Passover, after Jesus was resurrected. They went fishing and met Jesus there fishing, and he cooked breakfast for them. But then he led them back to Jerusalem. In order for him to go up from the Mount of Olives, that's just outside Jerusalem, with a view of Jerusalem. And he'd been hanging out with them for 40 days, probably coming and going. Coming and going, yeah. You know, because he could.

18:47 But he told them to stay there. Well, you're not going to go anywhere if you're supposed to be in Jerusalem in 10 days. So it made sense that they should just stay in Jerusalem. until they were endued with power from on high. And it goes on to say that they went to the upper room and they were praying together and doing business, replacing Judas with one of the other disciples and so on. But then in Acts chapter 2, we have the big day, right? The big bang. The big bang. So let's roll back to... what Pentecost was to them before the coming of the Holy Spirit, because God had these appointed times. And remember, back in the Torah, you have the Exodus, and that was, you know, the first Passover was that night of the Passover when they had to put up the blood before the destroyer came and took away the firstborn.

19:54 So, you know, you're celebrating that every year. And they were released from bondage. Exactly. So that's what the Passover lamb will do for you and release you from bondage. Absolutely. And you have this other part where they were in such a hurry to get away that they didn't have time to let their bread rise. So as a part of... this celebration, they're going to eat unleavened bread to remind them of what happened in the first time while they were exiting Egypt, right? But the idea is that leaven is a picture of sin. So it was right that Jesus' sacrifice would come in this time when everyone is supposed to put away all of their leaven. They're all supposed to go through their houses and get rid of all the leaven, all of the yeast that causes things to swell. We keep saying this over and over that part of our maturing in God has to do with learning to bow and learning to let go and learning to surrender. So all of these things that we do to surrender is pushing the leaven out of our lives. And so Jesus shows up. Remember, he said, I am the bread of life. Right. He was born in Bethlehem, which means house of bread.

21:17 He said, I'm the bread of life. He said, you know, take it. This is my body, which is given for you. Right. It was unleavened bread. So if leaven is a sign of sin, if leaven is a sign of pride and swelling. Jesus. bread given for us, Jesus' body given for us is sinless, right? So that's why we use unleavened bread. Now, it's okay if you're having Holy Communion to use regular bread. I'm not trying to say that you need to only use matzah, okay? But we find out matzah lasts longer. Yeah, matzah does last a long time.

21:58 But the point is that Jesus was so detailed about everything. Every little sign was something that he prepared, that he gave to us as a picture. You can see it. Just keep looking for the pictures. Just keep following the breadcrumbs. He's there. He's there in all of it. So it's really exciting to see this. So then as they went out of Egypt and they go out into the wilderness, It says in Exodus 19 .1 that the Israelites reached the wilderness of Sinai in the third month. Okay, so the first month is Passover. It's Aviv, which means spring. So I don't remember what the second month is called. But anyway, moving on, the third month is Sivan. So you have just about the same amount of time as these seven weeks that you're counting from the day of the first fruits. Okay, so God is mixing all of the pictures together because it's partly about harvest and it's partly about the giving of the law. So here they are at Sinai. If you'll remember, in Exodus 19, it says, okay, Exodus 19, 1, in the third month, when the children of Israel were gone out of the land of Egypt, the same day they came to the wilderness of Sinai, and God says to them,

23:31 if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you will be a peculiar treasure unto me, a special treasure above all people, for all the earth is mine. And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests. Okay. A holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel. So Moses called to the elders and he tells them all of these things. So then he tells them, get ready for the third day. Okay. On the third day. sanctify yourselves to be ready for the third day. So prepare for Pentecost. Prepare for this special visitation of God. Now, already they had seen in the wilderness, they had seen before they even crossed the Red Sea that God could show up as a fire tornado, a pillar of fire. In the daytime, he was a pillar of cloud.

24:25 So that's how he manifested himself to the children of Israel. Yeah, and you know when there's forest fires and there's extreme heat. I mean, you can see this on YouTube and sometimes usually Weather Channel will post something, a firenado. And it's just a circular motion and it's just like a column of fire just going up. And I think that's a good picture of what was cloud by day but fire by night. Yeah. This fiery pillar, that's just, we'll get to see it on the replays. I think that's a little taste of it, though, in a forest fire, this extreme heat creating a vortex. It's true, it's true. And you also see that in, I'm not sure if it's the first or second chapter of Ezekiel, where it talks about a fire catching itself.

25:16 Well, obviously it's got to be going in a circle in order for it to be catching itself. So it's the same. fire tornado, as far as I can see. So it goes on to talk about Moses went up the mountain and the Lord descended on it in a fire and smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace and the whole mountain quaked. It quaked. Okay. And then there was a voice of a trumpet, a shofar. That sounded long and waxed louder and louder. And Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on top of the mount. And the Lord called to Moses out to the top of the mount. And Moses went up, and he said to them, you know, go tell the people that don't let them touch the mountain. So he said, go get down with Aaron and you. Don't let the priests and the people break through. And then God spoke. So he spoke these words and he gave them the Ten Commandments. I'm not going to take time to read them. You should if you haven't ever read them. Really, the first thing he says is, I am Yehovah, your God. And I brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Have no other gods before me. He speaks that to the children of Israel. directly.

26:39 They could hear his voice. And when he was done speaking to them, verse 18 says, all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they removed and stood far off. And they said unto Moses, I like to do it this way. You talk to him now. We don't want to hear this anymore. We're scared. You know, we're afraid we're going to die if we hear God speak to us directly, which is really sad because God really wanted them to be an entire nation of priests. A whole kingdom of priests. And then the Lord, he gave them all these other rules and it goes on and on. But at one point, and I love the way that Cecil B. DeMille did it in his Ten Commandments movie. If you haven't ever seen Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments, it's a magnificent, magnificent portrayal. You know, it's quite a long story, but I love the part where he's up in Mount Sinai and the fire tornado is up there. Just swinging around and swinging around and swinging around. And it says, I don't remember exactly where it says, but it says that God wrote in the stone with his fiery finger. And the way that they portrayed it in this movie is that the fire tornado slings off a flame and the flame writes in the stone. And

28:10 the voice speaks the words, thou shalt have no other gods before me. And then the next one comes and he writes in the stone. And then at the end of it, you know, at the end of all 10 of them, the finger comes around and carves it out. And here he's got the two tablets of the law. Yeah. Right. So this is what. To this day, this is a major part of the celebration of Shavuot, that they are remembering the giving of the law, because that was the next thing that happened after they came out of Egypt, after they had Passover. So now they're going to celebrate the giving of the law on this day, keeping that in mind to this day, to today. Jewish people, Orthodox Jewish people who are going to celebrate this feast, they will stay up all night long and they will read together, read the scriptures together.

29:12 They're going to read the book of Ruth, which is all about harvest, and they're going to read and pray together all night long. So now let's go to the book of Acts because we have this foundation laid of what Shavuot or Pentecost was up until that time. And if I didn't say it, Pentecost comes from the Greek where pente means 50, meaning 50 days. So it's the 50th day that they're celebrating, right? Yeah. So now let's look at the book of Acts chapter 2. Philip, would you read that? When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. The whole house, I love it.

30:04 We'll explain that later. Yeah, yeah. Then there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Look, are not all of these who speak Galileans? And how is it we hear each in our own language in which we were born? Parthenians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs. We hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God. So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, Whatever could this mean? Others mocking said, These are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed my words. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since this is only the third hour of the day, but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. And it shall come to pass in the last days,

31:35 says God, that I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions. Your old men shall dream dreams. And on my menservants and on my maidservants I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord Amen. Amen. So what happened on the Temple Mount? Okay. So today in Jerusalem, if you're there for Shavuot, the people are going to be in their synagogues all night long praying and reading the Word. And before dawn comes, they're going to go to the Western Wall, which is the closest thing that they have to the Temple. So the Western Wall is really, it's not a wall of the temple. It's a retaining wall that was built by Herod when he beautified the temple that was built by Zerubbabel when they came back from Babylon. So he massively increased the size of the Temple Mount so that they could have more

33:05 pilgrims come and it wouldn't be so crowded and there'd just be more room for people. Today, they go to that Western Wall, which is the closest they typically get, although these days they are going up on the Temple Mount. Maybe we'll talk about that. Anyway, so the thing that they would have done in that day, if they did things then as they do now, they would have been in the upper room praying together all night long. And then before dawn, they would have gone to the house. of the Lord, which is the temple. So they might have been sitting on the steps, the southern steps as you go up the ascent up, or they could have been in Solomon's porch, which is just inside. We don't know exactly where they were, but everybody's thinking about what it was like on Mount Sinai with this pillar of fire up there, right? A tornado, right? What's a tornado sound like, Philip? There's many, it sounds like a freight train or many freight trains are like a jet engine. So say it's like a jet engine going over your head. Right. You know, and I've been fortunate not to experience that. You know, I wanted to see a tornado from a distance, not up close. You did have an experience when you were a kid. Yeah. What was that? Was that kind of a rushing mighty wind? Yeah, and it was raining

34:37 so hard, and the car was rocking back and forth. Yeah. We had no idea that there was a tornado went right over the top of us. Wow. And when it was done, you know, every store along there had the windows knocked out, and I look at the water tower, it was all twisted, and, you know, cars flipped upside down, these big trees ripped, and apartment buildings, I mean, these inner -city apartment buildings built in the 1920s probably, you know, like whole sides were just... Taken off, you can look into it like looking into a dollhouse. Yeah. You know, it was just... But that was a rushing mighty wind, wasn't it? That was a rushing mighty wind, yeah. Think tornado. Think firenado, okay? So here's the sound of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the house where they were sitting. Now, to a Jew, you talk about the house, and they're talking about the temple. Temple, yeah. So this whole temple area was filled with this fire because everybody's thinking fire. Everybody's remembering the giving of the law, the fire, and the voice of God and the fire tornado up there. Yeah, and for all the people to see. Right. Which makes more sense than a group of people running out of an upper room with fire on their head. Yeah, but when everybody sees it come down. Right. I mean, if you're in the upper room, it comes down. You run out and you got fire in your head. But when you see it come down from the sky, the fire come down like it's a portal opening up. Right. The

36:10 fire coming down and 3 ,000 people get converted. Exactly. I mean, that's huge. And that's a picture of what it was really like. I think so. I think so. It makes so much sense. And if you think about. The fiery finger of God coming off of that fire needle, right? And writing in the stone. Yeah. What did Jesus say when he gave them the Holy Communion just, you know, 50 -something days before? He said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. The new covenant, as promised in Jeremiah 31, talks about... He said, I will write my word in your hearts and in your minds. So here comes this flame on their heads. Do you think it's going to be writing in their minds?

37:04 You can imagine so. And in their hearts. To see it and experience that, something like that. I mean, that'll change you forever. Absolutely. You're totally wrecked. Absolutely. Absolutely. And the cool thing is there's a connection here to the Tower of Babel where languages were mixed up. So now you have on the Temple Mount, at the Temple of God, in his presence, his fiery presence. All of a sudden, these people that had been following Jesus are receiving this promise of the Father that I will write my word in your hearts and in your minds. And as it's coming into them, their mouths begin speaking another language.

37:54 And all of these people that have been dispersed, okay, they call it the diaspora of the Jews, where they've been dispersed all over the world. As many times as I've read this, until you read it just now, Philip, I hadn't really noticed that it says, from every nation under heaven. Yeah, every nation. Yeah, that kind of lit up to me as I was reading that, but every nation under heaven. Every nation under heaven. Every continent. What God had done. In this dispersion of the Jews, taken away to Assyria, taken away to Babylon, and they just kept going into all the nations. So all the world. Yes. And they had this commandment that they're to come back to Jerusalem for this feast. And I think God was stirring some of that. I've got to get back there for this feast. Remember? Remember about Paul. He said, I must needs keep this feast in Jerusalem. And I don't remember which feast it was that he felt he needed to get back for. It was probably tabernacles, I think. But there's something in a person where the Spirit of God works within you and you just know you've got to be there. You've got to be there. I remember as I was getting ready to graduate from language school. And I was 19 years old. And I wasn't sure what I was going to do after that. I thought

39:26 I was going to come to Angletal at first. And then I was told, no, I don't know that we're going to have any room for you. All I knew was that I had to be at the Second World Convention. I had to be there. I'd been at the first, but I had to be there. I didn't know what was going to happen after that, but I had to be there. I had an appointment with God. And this is what happened to these Jewish people, these Jewish men in particular. Probably there were women too, but it was the men that were commanded to be there. And so God didn't command the women to be there because sometimes they were going to be having babies and that wouldn't be easy for them to travel. So they weren't commanded to be there, but often they came. when Elkanah and Hannah and Peninnah came for one of the feasts.

40:18 So they came as families most of the time when they could. So anyway, here's these people that have been dispersed into all... the nations. God is so particular about the details. He's going to fulfill every detail. So he made sure that there was somebody in China. He made sure there was somebody in India. He made sure that there was somebody coming from Africa, from this place, from that place, from this place, from that place, from all the nations, it says, all the nations. And that's the reason why when Peter stood up and said, this is that that was spoken of by the prophet Joel. Because all of these believers in Jesus, these followers of Jesus, are now speaking in the languages of all these people. And they're going, what's that? What's it? Yeah. What is going on here? But they're understanding the wonderful works of God that these people are speaking about. Peter stands up and he says, this is that that was spoken of by the prophet Joel. And if you remember.

41:22 What he says, it included, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams, and on my men servants and my maid servants, I will pour out my spirit in those days. Now, remember what it said here back in Deuteronomy 16. I'd never seen this before. It says in verse 11, you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter. Your male servant and your female servant. God was prophesying already then about what he was going to do on that day of Pentecost. That specific day. All the other ones were a rehearsal for what he was going to do on that day when he was going to pour out of his spirit on all flesh. But it wasn't all flesh. It was here one, there one, here one, there one. It's a feast of first fruits. Remember?

42:18 So this is the first fruits of the wheat harvest. And God drew the one from here and the one from there and the one from there and the one from over there and the one from over there and the one from over there. And he brought them all together to be on the Temple Mount to observe the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in fire. Yeah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And that's what I'm expecting. At convention. At convention. Yes. But also remember. that it's about harvest, okay? It's at the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest. So it's harvest and harvest. You're showing up in between harvests. Now, we've been seeing harvest already in the nations. You know, the gospel is nearly everywhere already. It hasn't reached all the unreached people groups, but there's people working hard to make it happen.

43:13 Yes. And so we are in the days of harvest. And I believe something is going to happen at this convention that is going to strike a match to a lot of dead wood. There's a whole lot of really dry churches. And they'll burn real good when they get fire. And he's going to pour out the oil. Oil is flammable. And he's going to pour out the oil in an amazing way. I believe it's going to happen worldwide. I don't know that it's going to be instantaneous worldwide, but I know where I'm supposed to be on that day of Pentecost and on that Feast of Shavuot because we start the convention as we start the opening night. When the sun goes down is the beginning of Pentecost. And so when the day of Pentecost was fully come refers to when the sun came up.

44:10 OK, remember, all of this is happening. And Peter says, these men are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it's only nine o 'clock in the morning. OK, they'd been there for a while. We don't know how long this fire thing went on, but we know it was a sign. And we know that people were wondering. And we know that they were representing, they were there as first fruits of the harvest that's about to come upon us. Because God is going to pour out his spirit on all flesh. And that's what he's been talking to us about that gave us the name Global Outpouring, because he wants to pour out his spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Even the people that are under you, your employees and everybody. It's coming for everybody. All flesh means all flesh. And so the cool thing that I see is that for the disciples. The apostles, that whole group of people that was following Jesus and the how many thousand that came to faith in that one day. Was it 3 ,000 or 5 ,000?

45:20 3 ,000. What? I said 3 ,000. 3 ,000. Okay. Some of those numbers don't always stick. Anyway, all of a sudden, you have a whole new church. And there's a place further on in Acts that says many of the priests were believers. Yeah. And the common people had heard Jesus gladly. So you've got this entire movement that's going on. And yet it wasn't the fullness of what is about to come now. We're about to see something amazing. And the thing about it being on all flesh, I've been studying Romans 7 and 8 over and over again. I've just been kind of... ruminating on it, just like chewing it all over again, listening to it in different translations and reading it.

46:13 Yeah, just don't get stuck in Romans 7. Well, I want to make the transition from Romans 7 to Romans 8, because Romans 7 is all about living in the flesh. And Romans 8 is all about the victory of Jesus in our lives to set us free from the law of sin and death. Living in the Spirit. And living in the Spirit. So the the picture of the Spirit coming on all flesh. Galatians 5 lists all of the works of the flesh, probably not all of them, but plenty of them. And after that, it lists, it's the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit. So as we receive the Holy Spirit, as we receive him, as we open up our capacity, as Pastor Tony was teaching us, as we prepare ourselves for Pentecost, preparing ourselves for an appointment with God, an appointment.

47:12 You've got to be prepared for your appointment. Think about having an appointment to have your bar exam. or some kind of a test that determines whether you get to go on and get licensed to do the thing that you've been studying for for decades or years at least. You have an appointment to sit for that exam. You have an appointment. You have to be there. You have to be prepared. And that's what this message from Pastor Tony, I believe, has been helping us to prepare. And really, it's all about surrender. It's all about putting down the flesh and letting the Holy Spirit rise up so that his light and his life and his love are the things that we're exuding as fruit, okay? The works of the flesh are the stuff, you know, where it's all about self, self, self, self, self, self, and, you know, self and sin.

48:13 And sin is the world, the flesh, and the devil, okay? That's what all of that is about. But God says, I'm going to pour my spirit on all flesh. So all flesh has this opportunity. to receive the promise of the Father, to receive the promise where that fire can come on them, come on us, and write His Word in our hearts and our minds and transform us so that we are working with the Holy Spirit, that we're flowing with the Holy Spirit, that we're co -laboring, and that He's the Lord. And we're the ones that are obeying, okay? He's the potter, we're the clay. Yeah.

48:57 The clay's job is to yield under pressure. Yep. And to get into cooperation with him, to get into just, Lord, what is it you want me to do? Okay, I'll do that. How do you yield? You're on the wheel, it's getting squeezed. Oh, yes. It's when it squeezes. Yep. That's what starts the forming of it. Yes. You got to squeeze it. Yes. And so the things that we're going through, they're not really from the devil. I hate to break it to you. God is at work in our lives and he's pushing us into a corner. He's pushing to cause us to be formed into a vessel that he can use because he wants to use you. He wants to use me. And he's been putting his pressure on. And I've been, I'll say it this way. He's been giving me the grace to obey. He's been giving me the grace to let go. He's been giving me the grace to just sink down and let him do it. It's not my job. It's not my job to make it happen.

50:02 This is what he wants to do. This is what I believe he is in the process of doing. And as we come together for Pentecost, I really urge you, if you possibly can make it to the convention, come and have an appointment with God. Prepare your heart for it. Come and have an appointment. If you can't get there, if you absolutely cannot make it. You can watch it live on YouTube or you can watch it afterwards, like if you're on the other side of the world. But there's people coming from the other side of the world. Maybe you can come too. So ask the Lord to help you. Ask the Lord to show you, Father, what's your will? Because we've seen him do miracle after miracle after miracle to get people there. And one of our ladies from Japan, when she can't get there, she will check into a hotel. She'll put herself on Do Not Disturb. She'll get into our time zone and watch the convention with us.

50:59 I hope she can make it this year. But if she can't, I'm pretty sure she'll set herself aside because she knows the value of having an appointment with God. Even if you can't get there, do what you can to set yourself aside and let the Holy Spirit do His work in you because we're at a point of the promise of the Father. this outpouring on all flesh. And it's an outpouring more like Niagara Falls. So it's not just a drip here and a shower there. It's like the roar of the rushing mighty wind, the roar of the outpouring, the roar of the fiery tornado that is ready to consume our offerings. And we bring ourselves as an offering.

51:52 He's looking for us to be a living sacrifice to him, that he can inhabit, that his presence inhabits us and draws us into his character. That's what we were born for. That's what's written in our books that he wrote for us before we were born. He wrote all that we are capable of doing if we'll just cooperate with him. Oh, I want to do that. Will you join us? Hallelujah. Philip, would you pray for our listeners and viewers? Well, Father, we thank you, Lord. Even in this podcast, Lord, your word revealed. You revealed your word by fire, Lord. Lord, through Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Lord, that fire in our hearts, so God. So we thank you, Father, that, Lord, even the fire you give us on the inside will be manifest on the outside. So, Father, we thank you, Father, because it's a life changer.

52:50 I'm sure everyone on that Temple Mount saw that fire come down, that, Father, they were changed because they never forgot that. So, Father, we just pray, even, Lord, as this convention coming up. starting on Pentecost, Lord, that you will pour out your fire like we have never seen before, O God. As John the Baptist said, there's one coming that's going to baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. And Lord, we've seen the fire on the Temple Mount. And Lord, if the book of Acts is like the first fruits of what you're going to do in these last days of pouring out of your spirit, Lord, we're expecting tremendous things to happen, Father. So we thank you, Lord, that, Father, that, Lord, those listening to this said, Lord, that they can just hear the Holy Spirit on coming to this convention, Lord.

53:37 Lord, even someone that we heard, they texted us and says, I'm having a graduation in my Bible school, but... It's not the diploma. I want to be there for the convention because it's at the same time. And that's because she has the fire burning in her bones and wants to have that impartation, which is going to happen at this convention. So we thank you, Father. We give you all the glory for what you're going to do in bringing people in, even in the last minute. In your name, Lord Jesus. Amen. Please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your review helps the podcasting platform suggest this podcast to other listeners who are also looking for a great move of the Holy Spirit. Check out our website at globaloutpouring .org to find out more information, read our blogs, connect with us, and donate.

54:35 You can also browse our web store for life -changing anointed books. Until next time, this is Sharon Buss. And I'm Philip Buss. God bless you with his overwhelming loving presence.