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Msg# 1239 Our Pentecost

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The feast of weeks, 50 days after Passover and called Pentecost, should
certainly be of utmost interest to the believer. One Sabbath day after the
feast of unleavened bread ended with a holy convocation and day of rest, a
counting of seven Sabbaths measured out 49 days with the next day, a Sunday,
being the feast of weeks. This Jewish Holy Day perpetually fell on a Sunday,
the first day of the week, the day of the week that the Lord Jesus the
Christ arose from the tomb, a day to be revered by Christians and called
'the Lord's Day' wherein believers have a 'holy convocation' and have for
1,982 years now, Sunday. In Pentecost the Jew remembered his redemption from
bondage. It was the feast of weeks, had its placement in the first week of
the grain harvest, i.e. feast of first fruits. Where the feast of unleavened
bread placed an emphasis on being pilgrims and sojourners in this world, not
being here long enough for bread to rise, this feast, Pentecost, was a true
feast of plenty, a feast of festivity, a feast of harvest and a feast where
leaven was required to make their bread full and their celebration
completely satisfying. The Bible teachers who have made the presence of
leaven represent only sin and evil come up disturbingly short on this vivid
Pentecost illustration. Every believer knows that at this feast of weeks
called Pentecost, this feast of celebration and plenty in the Jewish
Calendar, the Lord Jesus Christ sent the 'other comforter', the Holy Spirit
of God, to indwell, instill and empower the believer and make his life a
feast of plenty, a feast of festivity, a feast of remembrance, a feast of
harvest where leaven makes the bread full and our celebration completely
satisfying.

An Essay from week # 39, Sunday, September 23, 2012

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