Telling Future Generations

The Feast of Pentecost is not just an Old Testament Feast. It is a New Testament fulfilled Feast that defines the purpose and the mission of the church of Christ today!

In Acts chapter 2, the prophetic fulfillment of the Feast of Pentecost was about two main things: the promise and the harvest.

The promise is the giving of the Holy Spirit for the three-fold purpose of spiritual conversion, spiritual sanctification, and also spiritual empowerment to be Christ's witness.

The harvest is the missional aspect of the church which defines this period of time between Christ's first and second coming. What time is it right now both biblically and prophetically until the LORD JESUS comes again? That's simple, it's HARVEST TIME!

The Feast of Pentecost in pointing us to both the promise and the harvest reminds us that because all of God's people who have believed in Christ have received the promise of the Holy Spirit, that means all of God's people are to take part in bringing in the harvest in reaching others for Christ, until Christ comes again!

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The Seven Feasts of the LORD found in Leviticus 23 are not just Israelite, Old Testament Feasts; they are the LORD's Feasts which mark out God's calendar plan of redemption from beginning to end.

The first three feasts of the LORD occur in the first month of the year at Nisan, which is our April. The Feast of Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the Feast of Firstfruits were not only celebrated all within the month of Nisan, but they were prophetically fulfilled in Christ at Christ's first coming.

But how can that be so? The Scriptures, God's Word, tells us so!

*The Feast of Passover--"Christ is our Passover Lamb sacrificed for us" (1 Cor. 5:7).

*The Feast of Unleavened Bread--Christ is our true bread from heaven (John 6:32-58). Christ is our Unleavened Bread, who is without sin/without leaven, and is the only one who can take away and remove all our sins because of His perfect righteousness (1 Cor. 5:6-8 and 2 Cor. 5:21).

*The Feast of Firstfruits--Christ was raised, "on the third day according to the Scriptures," (1 Cor. 15:3-4) on the Feast of Firstfruits. Christ is the Firstfruits of all those who will be raised from the dead (1 Cor. 15:20-23). Because Christ was raised, we too shall be raised to eternal life with God forever!

So what does all this mean? It gives us a certain and sure hope that just as Christ came the first time, just as He said, so Christ will come the second time, just as He said.

Praise the LORD for His plan of redemption and let us take heart resting in that God's calendar of events is right on time!

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'The Heart of the Gospel,' is answered in this simple, yet overarching question: "How can sinful man be made right in relationship with Holy God?"

The negative answer: It is not by our works by what we do or do not do because there is no righteousness within us to be accepted before Holy God.

The positive answer:  All of our righteousness is found outside of us, by God's grace alone and by faith alone in the perfect righteousness of Christ alone. 

The Scripture in 2 Corinthians 5:21 says it best. 

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him."

The Heart of the Gospel is not only that Christ become sin for us to take away our sin. But also, that Christ, who was without sin and fulfilled all righteousness for us on our behalf, imparted His perfect righteousness to us, to all who believe on Him.

The moment one trusts by faith alone in Christ's atonement for our sin and His perfect righteousness, the Gospel Good News is that all of our sin is transferred to Christ and all of Christ's righteousness is transferred and placed on us!

That is Good News!

The Heart of the Gospel is that, 'sinful man can be made right in relationship with Holy God,' not because of us, but all because of Christ!

Praise God for the Heart of the Gospel is Christ!

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Many people down through the church age have asked the question, "Who Was Jesus?"

As C.S. Lewis so distinctly stated, 'Christ is either a liar, a lunatic, or He is Lord."  Lewis goes on to say, "... let us not come up with any patronising nonsense about His (Jesus) being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

The Gospel points out to us the truth that Jesus Christ is LORD, but how do we know? Simply put, the Bible tells us so!

Christ is 'The One Who Was Different,' because Christ is the incarnate Son of God come in the flesh. He is the 'God-Man,' God and Man in one.

Christ's birth was different.

Christ's life was different.

Christ's power was different.

Christ's message was different.

Christ's death was different.

Christ's purpose for coming was different.

The four Gospels together of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John serve as a silhouette, a portrait of Christ, which together proclaims that, "The One Who Was Different," is in fact, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who was, and is, and is coming again, the very Son of God!

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This Easter season we remember all that our Lord Jesus has done for us on our behalf.

Yet, have you ever wondered in the Easter story WHO IS GUILTY for putting Jesus to death? 

Was it Judas who betrayed Jesus that night in the garden?  Or was it the Chief Priests and High Priest who conconcted the whole plot and sought to deliver Jesus to death?

Or perhaps, it was the King Herod from Gaililee or the crowd of people who kept crying out for Jesus' death by crucifixion? But maybe the true guilt lies with Pilot, the Roman governor, who issued Jesus' official death sentence and had the Roman soldiers carry out the crucifixion act by nailing Jesus to the cross.

WHO IS GUILTY?

The truth is that ALL OF THEM ARE GUILTY (see Acts 4:25-27)!

But there is an even deeper truth that each of us must see, for WE ARE ALL THE GUILTY ONES, and at the same time, THE LOVED ONES, for whom Christ died to redeem.

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In the book of Leviticus, there are seven Feasts of the LORD which are laid out as part of the Jewish calendar year.

But what do these seven Feasts have to do with us today?

The whole Old Testament, including these biblical Feasts, point to Christ, portray our relationship as believers in Christ, and ultimately, have a prophetic fulfillment in Christ.

These seven Feasts function as God's plan of Redemption, which will all be fulfilled according to God's appointed time.

The first feast that starts God's redemptive clock is the feast of Passover, which from the beginning unto all eternity points to Christ, our Passover Lamb. 

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In Nehemiah chapter 8, God's people come together to understand God's Word and to apply God's Word, which results in great joy in the LORD.

One of their applications of God's Word discovered by the people in Nehemiah's day is the celebration of the Feasts of Tabernacles. But how does the celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles help God's people back then and for us today to apply God's Word to our lives? 

In four specific ways: 1) By remembering what God has done, 2) by remembering where we are going, 3) by remembering God's promises, and 4) by remembering that God is right here with us, present with His people.

Do you want present joy and eternal joy in the LORD and not the 'Fake Joy' of the world that passes away? There is no other secret or short-cut then in diving into God's Word 'day by day' to understand and to apply God's Word, which results in very great joy in the Lord for God's people.

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Revivals are deeply needed among God's people today, yet revivals do not happen in a  vaccum. Rather, revivals include God's work in and through His people, by and with His Word.

In Nehemiah chapter 8, the greatest recorded revival in Scripture took place over 2,500 years ago during the time of Nehemiah. The revival occurred as all of God's people together grew in their understanding in knowing the Book, knowing their place, and knowing their God.

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Dr. Katrina Forseth continues to trek through Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, pointing to the undergirding, master theme of the Bible, which is the Doctrine of the Lamb.

Simply put, "There is a LAMB in this Book!"

Through unfolding Biblical revelation, the student of the Bible understands how God's eternal plan from the foundation of the world to eternity forever with God centers on the person and work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb of God.

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After Nehemiah and the people completed building the Jerusalem wall in a mere 52 days, what's next?

Nehemiah chapter 6 and 7 is a gleaning of many biblical principals that points God's people, whether in Nehemiah's time or even today, to complete each God-given task as part of our overall God-given mission.

Nehemiah chapter 6 points us to Nehemiah's, 'What's Next,' including the SILENCE of CELBRATION, so GOD GETS ALL THE GLORY, and the EXPECTATION of MORE OPPOSITION, especially internal attacks which often come from within.

Nehemiah chapter 7, through the life of Nehemiah and the people, then reminds us of our immediate, 'What's Next,' is simply to GET ON WITH THE NEXT TASK and GET OTHERS INVOLVED, because ultimately all that we are doing is not for us, but for the LORD and for our  children, our FUTURE GENERATIONS!

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