Pentecost, Sha-vuot (Harvest Offering) (Lev.23:15-22) Eph 1:11-14

One of the principles that a first fruit offering taught was that a future harvest was promised - the first fruit were just a taste of what lay in store at the end of the full ingathering of the harvest. Therefore, when a first fruit offering was brought before the Lord, it represented a prayer to Him to watch over the future harvest that was there foreshadowed by the minute proportion that was being presented.
Faith in Pentecost

The Promise of Pentecost – 13

All of God’s economy is set upon his word and our ability to believe his word- God Never Does before he Speaks

(12) "after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit " Everything always happens "After you Believe"

Why are people filled & healed in Pentecostal churches ? Because we develop an attitude of expectancy When we lose our attitude of expectancy God removes His presence-

What do You Expect from God?

What is the Promise of Pentecost – Act 1:8 "You shall receive Power" POWER TO WITNESS – POWER TO WORSHIP - POWER TO WIN-

The Purchase The Purchase of Pentecost– 14

God’s blessings are free to men but they are not free to God. Someone has to pay! The power of Pentecostal is purchased by the blood of the lamb.

Heb 9:14 "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" HIS NAME IS HOLY Spirit

When you deal with God you have to throw all the rules out to embrace Gods order. Faith takes preeminence over security.

We waste so much time making promises to God- Because in our backwards thinking we have to give God some assurance whereas God is the assurance giver- Not you

The Pledge of Pentecost (Earnest) 14

We call it Earnest money in the bible it was called a pledge- The lien holder held on to the pledge until the contract was fulfilled .

REMEMBER ALL THE RULES OF ECONOMICS CHANGE IN GODS ECONOMY In the Kingdom, We the debtors hod the lien until the promise is fulfilled

God’s Inheritance for us is reserved in Heaven therefore the Holy Spirit must be a foretaste of heaven

The praise- 14

Look at Verse 11- Gods Council – God’s predetermination – Gods Wisdom – Gods Power - DO THE MATH IT MUST BE GOD’S PRAISE – Gods Glory

What do we boast in- Pentecostal pride is still pride- Psa 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

The Glory is to God- HIS GLORY

 

 

 

This festival marked the beginning of the reaping of the barley harvest and the sheaf was offered in anticipation of that final harvest of barley.
At Pentecost each family carried a basket of first fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem. Baskets would be filled with Israel's seven fruits that were mentioned in Deuteronomy 8:8: "A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig and pomegranates a land of olive oil and [date] honey." The fruits, known as bik-ku-rim, were the first produce of the season. As soon as farmers noticed signs of ripening, they would tie reed strings around the first fruits as a marker and declared them "bik-ku-rim." These fruits were set aside as an offering to God in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

Pentecost marks the first spring harvests and is the anniversary celebration of the giving of the Torah to Moses.

The day following the sabbath during Passover is called the Feast of First Fruits First Fruits the first Sunday after the fifteenth of Aviv. It is the feast of the early first fruits and is also known as Sfirat Haomer, which literally means "the Counting of the Sheaf". It speaks of the earliest harvest that takes place in Israel, the barley harvest