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time -- God's Book, the Bible
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>> You know, holidays are
welcomed by most with joy. There
are many holidays that
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give a day off of school or a
day off of work, yet holidays
are more than just getting those
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days off. But most often,
they're set aside to remember
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something of importance -- days
like Labor Day. Now, while Labor
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Day has unofficially marked the
end of summer for many and often
demarks the last weekend to get
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away to the cottage or go
camping or maybe it's a day that
has a festival schedule -- then,
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for many, it's a day to bring
out the barbecue -- it was
originally a day set aside as a
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time to campaign for or
celebrate workers' rights. And
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then there's Remembrance Day.
Remembrance Day is a day
celebrated throughout the
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Commonwealth. It has been
celebrated since the end of the
First World War, and
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it is to remember to the members
of the armed forces who have
died in the line of duty.
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For many places, the remembrance
includes the red poppies that
have become synonymous with
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Remembrance Day. And then
there's Canada Day, which
celebrates the anniversary
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of the Constitution Act, which
united the three colonies of
Canada into one dominion.
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And while each of these are
importance secular holidays,
could it be that each of them
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contain a lesson for us as
Christians, that we, too, need
time to take to remember, to
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remember and reflect upon God's
goodness in our life? I'd like
to go back in time, go
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back in time to the patriarch
Moses. Moses was the son of
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Amram and Jochebed. He was a
direct descendant of Levi by
both of his parents.
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Now, Moses was born in a
troublous time in Egypt. Now,
you'll remember that the
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children of Israel had taken
refuge in the land of Goshen, in
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Egypt. Now, this happened under
Joseph's leadership as second in
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command in Egypt. He had been
divinely ordained at an
appointed time to be in that
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leadership to help save his
people. Now, the children of
Israel prospered in their Goshen
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home, and they multiplied
greatly as a people, so much so
that Exodus 1:7 says this...
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Now, in this abundance, a
new king, a new pharaoh, came to
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power over Egypt. He represented
a new dynasty, likely, and a new
rulership there for the country
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of Egypt. He did not have an
appreciation for the Hebrew
people that the previous pharaoh
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had had, and he did not
appreciate their history in
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Egypt. In fact, Exodus 1:9
reveals the pharaoh's distaste
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for the Hebrews...
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And so Israel came under
terrible circumstances. They
were enslaved by the
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Egyptians, and they were called
upon to do the most challenging
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of tasks. I'm sure you know this
story well. But in the midst of
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this slavery and troubled time
is when Moses came on the scene.
You see, it had grown so
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tumultuous for the Hebrews in
Egypt that a decree was given by
pharaoh to kill all male newborn
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children. Exodus
1:15-16 states...
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Now, in verse 22, the pharaoh
upped the ante, so to speak, and
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said this... It was at this
appointed time that Moses was
born because God had an
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appointed way in which He would
save His people. Moses, in fact,
was cast in the river, just as
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pharaoh had said. However, his
casting in the river was in a
basket made of bulrushes.
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Moses was saved from the river
by the daughter of pharaoh, and
this Hebrew boy was brought up
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in the courts and palaces of
Egypt. It is here, my friends,
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that I must say we may not
always understand God's ways,
but God always has a plan.
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He always has a way. And He's
working to save us through His
appointed times and
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to prepare us through His
appointed times, that we would
be part of His master plan of
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saving the world. So, Moses
trained in the courts of Egypt.
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Never did he forget his people,
and you know the rest of his
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story. After almost 400 years of
slavery, the people of God were
wondering if God would ever
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deliver them, and God brought
their deliverer on the scene in
a most unexpected way.
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Yet God still needed to form
Moses' character in His likeness
so God could use Moses.
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And so, although Moses thought
that he would use his military
prowess and experience and his
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princely skills to deliver the
people, God had to take him to
the wilderness, that he might
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learn the humble ways of a
shepherd and, in so doing,
understand more clearly the
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character of God. And in
dramatic and miraculous fashion,
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God delivered His people out of
Egypt, from the land of slavery,
and He led them to a better
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place. Now, as God led them out
of Egypt, God needed to refine
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His people. He needed to teach
and, in fact, reteach them His
ways. While in Egypt, the
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plagues that fell upon the
Egyptians taught God's people
about the sovereignty of God,
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that He is all-powerful, or
omnipotent. Before leaving
Egypt, God wanted to teach them
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a key in remembering Him. What
was that key? Do you remember
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what it was that the children of
Israel were asked to do before
their exodus out of Egypt?
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The Feast of Unleavened Bread,
along with the Passover. God
taught them that they would
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understand that they needed to
be completely dependent upon Him
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for deliverance. Both the Feast
of Unleavened Bread and the
Passover commemorated that
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deliverance out of Egypt. And in
those feasts and through the
exodus and the parting of
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the Red Sea, it was demonstrated
to the people of God the saving
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power of God. Once they had come
out of Egypt and were in a new
and different land, in that land
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that God had promised them, He
needed to teach the children of
Israel of entire dependence upon
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him. And so God made the bitter
water sweet. God brought water
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from the dry rocks. He
had manna fall upon the earth.
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And in a multitude of other
instances, God also taught
Israel His sustaining power.
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As the children of Israel had
encountered the omnipotent,
all-powerful, sustaining, and
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saving power of God, He would
lead them to Sinai, where they
would then learn obedience to
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Him through a right relationship
with Him. After God had given
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the children of Israel the Ten
Commandments there at Sinai --
and He had given some other
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items -- God said something that
is of great interest to us as we
understand His appointed time.
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In Exodus 23:14-16,
God said these words...
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Did you hear that? God had
times appointed to remember.
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These appointed times were to
remember how He interacted with
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His people. The passage mentions
three specific times, three
specific appointed times, that
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the Hebrews were to remember. It
is interesting to note that each
of these remembrances, each
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of these feasts, were connected
with the course of seasons of
the harvest but also coincided
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with the great history of the
nation of Israel. The first of
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these was the Feast of
Unleavened Bread. Now, the Feast
of Unleavened Bread came in the
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early spring, which was at the
beginning of the barley harvest.
The feast began with the
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Passover and lasted seven days.
The Passover was a time where a
sacrifice was offered.
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All leaven was removed from the
home -- leaven being yeast --
and, for seven days, they would
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eat unleavened bread. This
unleavened bread looked back and
hearkened back to the
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quick nature of the Hebrews'
departure from Egypt. Now,
additionally, in this
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feast, the leaven symbolized sin
and error in a person's life.
And just like leaven or yeast,
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if it is left, it will bubble
and fester and rise. So the
symbolism of leaven would
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continue on into the
New Testament. The Passover
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ultimately symbolized and
represented the deliverance of
sinners from certain
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condemnation by the death of an
innocent lamb. It looked forward
to the innocent Lamb of God,
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Jesus Christ -- the Passover,
that time in Egypt when they put
blood on the doorposts and the
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lintel, that let the angel of
the Lord know that this family
was under the blood of an
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innocent lamb -- the unleavened
bread symbolizing the removal of
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sin from the life. Now, the
second time of remembrance was
called the feast of the harvest.
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Now, 50 days after the barley
sheaf was offered and waved in
the Feast of Unleavened Bread,
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the feast of the harvest began.
Now, in other places of the Old
Testament, this feast is
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also referred to as the Feast of
Weeks because it was seven weeks
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after the Feast of Unleavened
Bread. Now, later in the New
Testament, this feast became
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known as Pentecost, which is
literally translated "fiftieth."
Now, as an expression of thanks
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to God for his work in the grain
harvest, two loaves with yeast
were baked and presented as an
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offering. This feast was a time
of great joy, as it also came to
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commemorate the giving of the
law at Sinai. This feast
literally celebrated
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the firstfruits while looking
yet toward the fall, where there
would be a full harvest.
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Now, the third time of
remembrance, the appointed time
that God had for the children of
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Israel, was called the Feast
of Ingathering. Now, again,
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throughout the Old Testament,
this is also referred to as the
Feast of Tabernacles.
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This feast was interesting
because it presented both a time
of somber realities while
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celebrating the harvest. During
this feast, the people would
make booths or tents or
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tabernacles for themselves,
where they would dwell for eight
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days. Now, the Day of Atonement
would have been observed just a
few days prior to the
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Feast of Ingathering, or the
Feast of Tabernacles. The Day of
Atonement was a time
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of great solemnity, great
humility before the Lord. But
now came a season of
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thanksgiving for the final
harvest while recognizing the
safety that God provided during
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the wilderness time in which
they dwelt in tents. This feast
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recognized, everything that we
have, it is a gift from God and
that He provides for our daily
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needs. All of these appointed
times were to remember the God
of salvation, the God of
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sustenance, and the God who is
all-powerful. But the question
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we must ask today is, "How does
any of this apply to us?" Now,
am I saying that we should
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keep these feasts? Absolutely
not. In fact, when Jesus died on
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the Cross, the symbolism of
these feasts was fulfilled. 1
Corinthians 5:7 says this --
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1 Corinthians 5:7...
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Jesus instituted the Lord's
Supper as a memorial of His
sacrifice and remembrance of
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what He has and is doing on our
behalf. We should celebrate the
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Lord's Supper. We should
celebrate it with joy,
recognizing the saving power of
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God in our life. The Lord's
Supper is a time that reflects
back on God's work in
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our life, and the Lord's Supper,
in reality, renews our baptism
experience, which is outlined in
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Romans 6:1-11, that experience
that we have where, through
being immersed in the watery
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grave, the old man and the old
woman die there in the water,
and we come up out of the water,
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just as Christ was raised from
the dead, to walk in the newness
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of life. The Lord's Supper
serves as a time, an appointed
time, where we remember the
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power of God in saving us from
our sins. God has called us to
have appointed times to
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remember. And just as the Feast
of Unleavened Bread for God's
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people in the Old Testament
served as an appointed time of
remembrance of God's
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deliverance, so now we, who live
in this day, have an appointed
time at the Lord's Supper where
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we, too, can remember God's
deliverance. Now, the feast of
the harvest and the Feast of
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Weeks celebrated the
firstfruits. It's very
interesting to note that, in 1
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Corinthians
15:20, it says this...
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We must continually remember
that the power of God is seen in
the resurrected Christ.
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It is not the Cross that is
foremost in our hope of
salvation but rather the empty
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tomb. Now, don't misunderstand
me. To get to the empty tomb, we
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need the Cross, but in order to
see a resurrection at the last
day, where Christ will take us
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all home, there must be the
empty tomb where Christ was
raised from the dead.
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The reality is that, because
Jesus lives, that I may also
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live. And Jesus has commissioned
each of us, as the people of His
church, to go into all the world
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with that message. But I want
you to think about this now.
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How is it possible that we
can go to all of the world, 7
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billion people? How is it
possible to reach them all? The
reality is that Jesus gave
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the power to go and announce the
message of salvation and God's
deliverance to all 7 billion
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people on the Earth. How is it
possible? Jesus told us exactly
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how it would be possible. He
gave us the power to go, and
that power is through the power
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of the Holy Spirit. It is no
coincidence, my friends, that
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this promise that Jesus gave was
fulfilled at Pentecost.
Pentecost is the same as the
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Feast of Weeks, the feast of the
harvest, and the Pentecost
experience of receiving the
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Holy Spirit is still available
for His people today, for His
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church. It is by the power of
the Holy Spirit that we are to
tell of Christ, who is the
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firstfruits, and tell of His
promise, His promise of
deliverance to all people.
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The power of the Holy Spirit,
that is how we can go and tell.
It is no accident that it is by
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the power of the Holy Spirit
that we can go and tell. Romans
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8:11 says this... You see, the
Holy Spirit, working in
conjunction with God the Father,
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is the power by which Jesus was
raised from the dead. That same
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power that raised Jesus from the
dead is available to you to go
and tell the world. We must
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remember to daily ask for the
power of the Holy Spirit to be
in our lives. Just like there
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was an appointed time for the
feast of the harvest, so it is
in New Testament times.
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There is an appointed time in
which we can call upon God to
give us the power of the
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Holy Spirit. But then there was
the third feast that God called
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upon His people to remember.
That third appointed time -- the
Feast of Tabernacles.
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Now, the Feast of Tabernacles
not only pointed back to the
time of wilderness wandering,
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but it also looked forward to
the full harvest. Now, the Feast
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of Tabernacles has not yet been
fulfilled. It will be fulfilled,
and it will be fulfilled soon,
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when Jesus comes again in glory.
And that is described by Paul in
1 Corinthians 15:23-24...
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My dear friends, there is an
appointed time where we need to
remember the coming harvest.
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In challenging times, we are to
remember that Jesus is coming
again at the appointed time.
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He has an appointed time in
which He will come. He has
appointed times for us to
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remember. He has appointed times
for us to remember that He is in
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fact coming again. He has
appointed times for us to
remember our deliverance, when
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Jesus delivered us from sin. He
has appointed times when we are
to remember to call upon
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God, that we would receive the
power of the Holy Spirit in our
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lives. We have appointed times
in which we are to remember the
Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
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Each of these appointed times
are set aside that we might
remember the significance of the
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life and ministry of Jesus
Christ. And at each of these
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appointed times, they exist to
help us to realize that God is
all-powerful, that God is the
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sustainer of all life, and that
God is the Saviour of all of our
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lives. Each of these appointed
times helps us to remember that
we are always dependant upon
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Him. But as we remember Him, as
we remember those appointed
times of our deliverance through
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the power of the Holy Spirit and
remember the time of His soon
coming, as we remember each of
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those appointed times, it
prepares us for the ultimate
appointed time, when
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Jesus Christ will burst through
the clouds in glory and burst
through them with power and
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majesty and come to take His
people home. And as we remember
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and as we understand our
dependance upon Him, it will
draw us nearer to Him, that we
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would be obedient to Him, and we
would be prepared for the final
harvest. No fewer than 10 times
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in the Old Testament does God
remind Israel of the importance
of these times of remembrance.
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Even so, my dear friends, today
God is reminding us to remember.
God is calling upon us to
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remember the power of Jesus
Christ in saving us. He's
calling us to remember the
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sustaining power of Christ, who
sent the gift of the Holy
Spirit, the Comforter.
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He's calling upon us to remember
the Second Coming. As Second
Peter chapter three
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says in asking that question,
"What manner of persons ought we
to be in all holiness and
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godliness?" The only way that we
might be holy, the only way that
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we might be godly, is to
recognize the power of
deliverance that Jesus has in
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our lives. That is the power of
the Holy Spirit to transform us
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and sanctify us. But then He
says that we ought to look for
and hasten the coming day of
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God. We are to remember Jesus,
that He's coming soon at the
appointed time, and our
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remembering will lead us to
anxiously anticipate that day
but also hasten that day through
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the advancement of the Gospel.
Today, my dear friends, are you
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discouraged? God says to
remember His appointed times.
Are you in despair over your
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health, over your marriage, over
the direction your children have
taken in their lives?
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God says to remember, remember
His appointed times, because,
friend, here it is.
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As we remember, He increases our
faith and prepares us for the
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appointed time. Let us pray. Our
dear heavenly Father, we are so
thankful that You are
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all-powerful, that You are the
sustainer of all things, and You
are the deliverer of people.
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We come to You today, asking
that You would deliver us, that
You would sustain us in our
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life, and You would demonstrate
Your power by transforming our
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lives. We submit ourselves to
You today and ask for that
transformation, that we might be
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ready for the appointed time. We
pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
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My dear friends, there on Sinai,
God gave instructions for His
people to remember, to remember
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specific feast days that they
might recognize that He's
all-powerful, He is the
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sustainer of all life, and He is
the deliverer. In the same way,
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He's calling upon us to
remember, to take those times to
remember, to take time at the
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Lord's Supper to remember that
God is the deliverer, that He
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has saved you. No matter where
you've come from, no matter what
your upbringing has been, God
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has delivered you as a brand
from the fire, saving you. And
then He's also called upon
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us to receive the power of the
Holy Spirit. You see, not only
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does the power of the Holy
Spirit give us the power to go
to all the world, but the power
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of the Holy Spirit, first and
foremost, works in our life that
we might be changed.
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This power of the Holy Spirit
transforms us and gives us the
ability to overcome.
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Are you struggling with sin? Are
you struggling with some type of
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addiction? Are you being
challenged by something in your
life and you just want to
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overcome? The promise of God is
that there is nothing too hard
for Him, and, through the power
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of the Holy Spirit, He will
deliver you. But, friend, he
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also calls upon us to remember
His Second Coming. You know, the
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Second Coming of Jesus will be
the day that ushers in a perfect
time, a harmonious time, where
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there'll be no more crying,
there'll be no death, there will
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be no more pain. Are you looking
forward to that day? You see,
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the feasts of the Old Testament
no longer need to be kept by
Christians today. Those feasts
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were all, as the Bible calls
them, shadows. So, today, for
the offer, I want to offer you a
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book. The title of that little
booklet is "Feast Days: Shadows
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of Our Faith." This book will
walk you through the power of
looking at those feast days and
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seeing how they call upon you to
remember, remember God's
appointed times. You see, God
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has appointed times throughout
history where He has done mighty
works to save His people, to
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prepare His people for the
promised land. And He is calling
upon you to have that same
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remembrance. As we look at those
feast days, we see them
fulfilled in the life of Christ,
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and we see that they will be
fulfilled soon. My dear friends,
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>> My dear friends, God has
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appointed times, appointed times
in which he calls upon us to
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remember that He's all-powerful,
that He is the sustainer, that
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He is the deliverer,
and He is coming soon.
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I hope you have found hope
through today's program in all
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of those realities.
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thank you so much for joining us
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us again next week. Until then,
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remember, it is written, "Man
shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds
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from the mouth of God." い
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