(217) “Renew Your Covenant”

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This idea of Shavuot is not only just the idea of harvest,

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and it is harvest, absolutely, and we're in the season of harvest.

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We're in a season where the outpouring is begun.

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It's begun.

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But it's also a season of...

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It's a holiday of renewing the covenant.

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God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to global outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring.

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We equip that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We have just completed our global outpouring convention 2024, and it was glorious.

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We will put a link in the show notes to all of the videos, but we just felt to share

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this message that the Lord gave to me for the opening night to share as our episode this week.

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We are in a special season of renewing our relationship with the Lord.

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So the title of this message is Renew Your Covenant.

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We trust that you'll be blessed by it.

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Thank you so much for joining us today.

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This is a glorious day in the presence of the Lord,

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and for your loved ones, that you're going to go deeper into God as a result of it.

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And we want to bless you.

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And let's establish a relationship in the Lord, because this is really all about His kingdom

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and growing up into His glory and growing up into His maturity.

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So the title of this message is Renew Your Covenant.

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Holy Spirit, we ask you to lead and guide.

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Help me to only go down your bunny trails and not mine.

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So that your people will be ministered to, that your word will be brought forth in a

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way that will change all of our lives.

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That every single one of us will receive an impact from your Holy Spirit, from your fire,

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from your throne room, from the Spirit of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Thank you, Father.

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You know, most of the church, in fact, a huge portion of the church knows absolutely

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nothing about Pentecost.

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Huge portion of the church knows zero.

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They don't even read Acts chapter two.

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I mean, there's a whole lot of churches don't even read Acts chapter two.

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The liturgical churches, believe it or not, they actually celebrate Pentecost, but they

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call it the birthday of the church.

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They think that's what it's all about.

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And they are clueless that it is an event that happened almost 2,000 years ago that

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has a root that goes way down deep and probably deeper than any of us know.

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Now, I think most of the people in this room and probably the people that are watching

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are a bit better educated than that.

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And we know that Pentecost that was celebrated a few weeks ago on the liturgical calendar,

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the church calendar, they determine when...

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Don't even like to use the term.

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Let's call it Resurrection Day.

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Okay, we won't use that other term.

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They determine when to celebrate Resurrection Day based on the equinox and how many...

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Like the first new moon after the...

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I don't remember just how that works, but it's a totally different calendar.

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And then we have what you would call the current rabbinical calendar that has been

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determined mathematically, which may or may not be exactly accurate from God's point of view either.

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And then there's an Essen calendar.

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The Essenes counted things differently and the Sadducees counted things differently

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and the Karaites count things differently and we know this is the season.

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And you know what? Our Father knows exactly what everybody thinks and he's actually willing

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to meet us wherever we are.

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So we're not going to fuss over, well, it's today or it was...

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You know, on the Essen calendar, I think this is really interesting.

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You know who the Essenes were, the ones that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls

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that kind of disappeared into history?

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They probably became believers in Yeshua. Probably.

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All these different calendars, our Father knows what they all are.

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And he's willing to meet us wherever we are.

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So the Essen calendar, I started to say that the Essen calendar places

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Shavuot on the 15th and 16th, the evening of the 15th.

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So we are going through the 14th, okay?

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So we are going through the 14th, okay?

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So we're in this little bookends time for our convention.

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I just think that's marvelous.

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That, oh, this is so exciting, you know?

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There are so many different aspects of Shavuot and Claren covered some of it already.

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And I bless him because there's so much to cover.

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There's no stealing of anybody's thunder because there's so much thunder, okay?

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So there's so much thunder.

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And I'm going to say this because this is what some folks believe

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that during the time of the temple, okay, the time of the temple,

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it was always celebrated just as like a harvest festival.

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So at Passover, they killed the Passover and whether it was

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the second day of the Passover or whether it was the day following the Shabbat,

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that's the, you know, the weekly Shabbat,

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could be either one, could be both, could be one or the other.

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That was the feast of first fruits of the barley harvest.

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So on that day, the priest would go out into the barley fields

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and they would look for the barley harvest.

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They would go into the barley fields and they would look for

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the heads of the barley that were dipping down low.

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The first ripe ones, the first ripe grains.

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When a head of grain is ripe, it has become so heavy that its little head dips down low.

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And beloved, I want to just make a little side comment here that as we grow in God, you know,

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we shoot up, we put our roots down and we shoot up and we're up there.

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Yay, God, look at me, I'm saved.

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And sooner or later we learn that there's something about bowing.

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There's something about going low.

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There's something about humility.

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There's something about submit yourselves therefore to God before you resist the devil

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or he'll never flee.

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You understand?

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If you don't learn to bow, you can resist the devil all day long and he's going to keep pestering you.

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But when you learn to submit yourself to our Father, submit yourself to, when I submit myself

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and I stomp on my flesh and I say I'm going to serve God, I'm going to do it his way,

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I'm not going to try and do it my way, that becomes first fruits.

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That becomes ripened grain.

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And it takes some folks to make that decision even when everybody else is up there,

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here I am, here I am, here I am, pick me, pick me.

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No, the priest is out there looking for the ones that are bowed down.

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So the priest goes around and he finds those ones that are bowed down and he takes one.

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And he takes one.

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And he takes one over here and no, they're all standing up over there.

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And he finds another one way over there and he goes through the field until he finds

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enough of those that are bowed over.

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And he gathers them up to make a sheaf to wave before the Lord.

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Now I'm still talking about in Passover, okay?

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And that is called the Omer.

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That's the sheaf.

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That's the way to make a sheaf.

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That's the wave offering.

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And until the wave offering is made, you can't eat of the new harvest.

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You have to wait for that to be done, okay?

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Jesus was resurrected on the feast of first fruits, okay?

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He was the original one to show us how to bow down.

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Not my will, but thine be done.

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And then they were told to count seven weeks.

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Seven times seven.

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Now in Hebrew, the word for week is Shavua, okay?

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Once you get past Shabbat, when the sun goes down on Shabbat, you wish everyone Shavua Tov.

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Have a good week.

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Have a good week. So the plural of Shavua is Shavuot.

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Means weeks.

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So that's why it's called Shavuot because we're counting down seven weeks, okay?

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Seven times seven is 49.

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And then on the 50th day is Shavuot or Pentecost.

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They call it Pentecost from Greek because Penta means 50.

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So it's the 50th day, okay?

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Quick little education about that.

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Now, there's another interesting word that is also pronounced Shavuot.

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And that is the plural of the word oath.

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If you think back, maybe you remember this story back in the book of Genesis, where Abraham

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is living in the region of the Philistines.

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They were a little further inland at that time.

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And the king of the Philistines, Abimelek, in Genesis 21 comes to Abraham

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and it says in verse 22 of Genesis 21,

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it came to pass at that time that Abimelek and Fekal, the chief captain of his host,

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spoke unto Abraham saying, God is with you in all that you do.

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Now therefore swear unto me, swear unto me here by God,

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that you will not deal falsely with me nor with my son nor my son's son,

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but according to the kindness that I've done unto you,

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you shall do unto me and to the land wherein you've soldered.

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Now that word swear is the word Shavuot.

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It comes from the word Shavuot.

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It's not exactly that.

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I'm not ready to conjugate verbs.

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I'm a Hebrew scholar wannabe, okay?

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I'm not a Hebrew scholar.

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I'm about a first or second grader, okay?

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I haven't even learned what it means to conjugate verbs yet.

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You remember in second grade you didn't know a thing about conjugating verbs, okay?

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And maybe you still don't.

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I'm clueless about conjugating verbs in Hebrew.

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I think probably we could learn something from Clearen.

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What?

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Tishva, okay, thank you.

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Tishva.

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There's the word.

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So, but it comes from the word Shavuot which is related to the word seven, which is covenant.

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And how do you pronounce seven?

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Shaiva, okay.

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Shaiva comes from Shavuot.

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Shavuot comes from Shaiva.

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Not sure.

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Shavuot comes from Shaiva.

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It's all together, okay?

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We'll just put it all in one pot.

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It means seven, okay?

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So swear seven to me, okay?

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Seven to me.

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Seven to me that you will deal well with me, with my sons and so on.

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And then in verse 27, Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech and both of them made a covenant.

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And Abraham, verse 28, Abraham set seven eulams of the flock by themselves and Abimelech said unto Abraham,

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What do you mean by these seven eulams which you set by themselves?

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And he said, For these seven eulams you shall take of my hand that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this well.

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This is my well.

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And therefore he called the place Be'er Sheva, okay?

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Be'er means a well and Sheva means seven, okay?

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But it also means that they swore a covenant together.

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They made an oath.

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They swore an oath to each other.

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So seven also means to swear a covenant, okay?

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We're going somewhere with this.

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Remember that Shavuot is seven times seven, okay?

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There's something about the number seven.

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Have you noticed in scripture that there's something about the number seven?

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Have you noticed in scripture that there's seven spirits of God in front of the throat of God?

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Have you noticed that there's a picture right there of the seven branched candlestick?

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Okay, there's something about seven that's weighty.

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There's something about seven because there's a completion, you know?

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You come to the end of the week and you don't go on to the, you know, in Hebrew,

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you don't have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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You have first day, second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day, Shabbat.

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And then you start over with first day again, okay?

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First day, second day.

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So it's all about the idea of seven having something of completion,

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something of perfection, something of, it's complete.

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And you're going to start a cycle all over again.

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Then you're going to start a cycle all over again.

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Then you're going to start a cycle all over again until you come seven complete sevens.

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And then you celebrate this harvest.

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So on the feast of first fruits during Passover, they brought the first sheaf of the barley.

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And then they began the harvesting of the barley, but you got to wait until it's ripe enough.

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And then you cut it down and you bind the sheafs together and you stand them in the field

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so that they continue to ripen.

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So that everything gets dried completely so that it will keep.

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You know, you don't want it to be moist or it'll get mildewy.

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Lich.

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Doesn't taste good.

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Isn't good for you.

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So it has to sit in the sun.

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The harvest has to bake a little.

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And then they get through the barley harvest and at the end of those seven weeks,

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guess what?

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and they wave them before the low.

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So that's a little picture of the harvest aspect of this.

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As Clarence was saying earlier, that you're going to go through the wheat harvest.

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You get through the wheat harvest and there's going to be, I don't know the order,

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but there's going to be olives and there's going to be pomegranates and there's going to be grapes

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and there's going to be dates and all of these other things that grow in Israel.

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And those are going to be presented in Sukkot, the feast of tabernacles.

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But there's something very, very, very special about Shavuot

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that has to do with the oath.

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With an oath.

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With oaths.

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It's plural.

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Shavuot means it's the plural for weeks and it's the plural for oaths.

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that they were pretty much focusing on the harvest aspect.

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You're going to bring your sheaves.

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You're going to celebrate the harvest.

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Yay!

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Thank you, God, for the wonderful harvest.

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We'll give you the first fruits.

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We'll give you the best.

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Because the first, the first ripe is going to represent the best.

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Because it has ripened first.

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Obviously, if you could choose which seed you want to take to plant next time,

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you would want to take what ripens first.

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You want to have the first harvest.

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You want your field to come right before everybody else's field.

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It'll bring more money in the shops.

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But we bring our first fruits to God.

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We bring our first fruits to Him and give Him what He wants.

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We give Him what is due Him because He gave it to us.

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There wouldn't be any harvest if it weren't for Him.

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Remember, Jacob and his sons all went down into Egypt because the harvests were failing.

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The drought had come.

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It's God that gives us a good harvest.

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So think in terms of harvest when we're talking about this time that we're living in.

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But it's also a connection to what happened in the wilderness

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when the children of Israel had escaped from Egypt.

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And they met at Mount Sinai.

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And in Exodus chapter 19, it talks about in verse 1, it says,

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in the third month, okay, the first month is the month called Aviv.

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Means spring.

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And I think there's another meaning for it too.

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There's more than one name for it.

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Anyway, it's also called the first month.

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Just like the first day, second day, first month, second month, third month.

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In the third month, the third month is when this Shavuot takes place.

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So looking in chapter 19, it says, in the third month, it doesn't say what day,

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when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt,

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the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai,

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for they were departed from Rephidim, where they came to the desert of Sinai

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and had pitched in the wilderness and Israel camped before the mount.

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Moses went up unto God and God, the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying,

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thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, tell the children of Israel,

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you've seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagle's wings

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and brought you unto myself.

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Myself. Hello.

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Have we gathered here today, tonight, to come unto him?

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Are we not gathering together unto him?

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Mount Sinai, think Mount Sinai.

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Hallelujah.

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Now, now, therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant,

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then you shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people,

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for all the earth is mine, and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

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These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.

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And we go on from there.

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And he tells the people to get themselves ready for the third day.

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And, you know, wash and leave your wives alone.

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And then it says in verse 16, it came to pass on the third day in the morning.

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In the morning.

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Now, remember, day begins with night.

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When the sun goes down, that's the beginning of the day.

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So Shavuot has begun.

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What happened in Acts chapter two?

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It was in the morning, right?

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And it was in the morning in Exodus 19,

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the third day in the morning, there were thunders and lightnings

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and a thick cloud on the mountain, a voice of the trumpet exceeding loud,

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so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

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And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God.

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Here we are.

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And they stood at the nether part of the mount and Mount Sinai.

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I love this.

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I'm going to read a straight King James.

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And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke.

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Don't you just love that?

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That's just so descriptive.

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It was all together on a smoke because Jehovah descended upon it in fire.

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And the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace,

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and the whole mount quaked greatly.

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And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder,

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Moses spake and God answered him by a voice.

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And the Lord Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai on the top of the mount,

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and the Lord called Moses up into the top of the mount.

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Moses went up and he goes on and tells them, you know,

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go back down and tell everybody, tell nobody to touch the mountain,

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or they'll get fried.

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Those are my words.

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And then he says, verse 24, you shall come up, you and Aaron with you.

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And so Moses went down and chapter 20.

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I read this for years and didn't get it, but I hope you've already gotten it.

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But I'll point it out in case you didn't.

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God spoke all these words.

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God spoke.

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The people are gathered around the mountain and God is speaking to them.

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Everybody, not just Moses.

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Everybody hears what God Himself is saying.

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We have convened here for the purpose of hearing from God.

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We haven't just come because we're good friends.

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We haven't just come because it's fun.

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We haven't just come because it's good fellowship.

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We have come to meet with God.

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So he goes through the Ten Commandments, and I'm not going to take time to read them,

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but I'm just telling you, he said it himself and they all heard the voice of God.

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And they thought they were going to die.

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They were just sure they were going to die and they said, Moses, you talk to him.

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We'll do whatever he says.

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Just don't make us listen to him anymore.

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They couldn't handle it.

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Let us not be that.

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Let us not be that.

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Let us not be that. Let us be those that are willing to humble ourselves and listen

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to what the Lord has to say.

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And then he goes on giving some more instructions.

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you shall keep a feast unto me in the year.

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You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread.

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Eat unleavened bread seven days as I commanded you in the time appointed of the month of Eve.

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For in it you came out from Egypt and none shall appear before me empty.

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And the feast of harvest.

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Okay, so that he introduces Shavuot as a feast of harvest.

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Okay, get this harvest picture because that's where we're going.

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That's where we're going is the harvest.

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And then he goes on and mentions the feast of Sukkot, the feast of tabernacles.

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And so then he talks about it in Leviticus.

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He mentions again the three feasts.

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And I'm just going to point out verse 16, Leviticus 23, 16.

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Even unto the day after the seventh Sabbath, you shall number 50 days and you shall offer a new

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meat offering unto the Lord. So this is this is the new harvest of the wheat

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that they're going to offer. Only this time they're told to bake it into bread.

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They're not going to wave a sheaf this time. They're going to bake some bread.

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Are we ready for some bread? Will you be broken like bread to feed the hungry?

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Like bread to feed the hungry? Are you ready? Are you ready for what God is going to do next?

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And verse 18, you shall offer with the bread seven lambs. Hmm seven. Wonder why seven.

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There's a book that was written about in the second century before Jesus came called the book

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of Jubilees. I haven't read it, but I've read up on it a little bit. And in it, it talks about

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the various Jubilees and it's pretty extensive from what I gather. I didn't have time to get

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one in my hand and really get into it, but it talks about the celebration of Shavuot

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and how Shavuot was celebrated over and over and over again as a reenactment of Mount Sinai.

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And if you think about, there was something that the children of Israel said to Moses,

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whatever he says we will do. Whatever he says we will do. And in chapter 24, it says in verse three,

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all the words which Yehovah has said we will do. And Moses wrote all the words of Yehovah and rose

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up early in the morning. This is before God wrote them on the tablets. Before he wrote them on the

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tablets, Moses wrote them down. And he rose up early in the morning, built an altar under the hill,

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12 pillars according to the 12 tribes of Israel, and he sent young men of the children of Israel

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which offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.

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And Moses took half of the blood and he put it in basins and half of the blood he sprinkled on the

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altar and he took the book of the covenant. So there was a book of the covenant before the

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covenant was written in stone. Okay? We miss it sometimes because Charlton Heston didn't do it in

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the movie. They left out some things, you know? Hollywood takes its liberties. Yes, Cecil B. DeMille

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took liberties. And Moses took half of the blood, put it in basins and half of the blood he sprinkled

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on the altar and he took the book of the covenant and read it in the audience of the people and they

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said all that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. And he read it and he put it in the

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audience of the people and he said we will do and be obedient. And Moses took the blood and sprinkled

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it on the people and said behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you

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concerning these words. And that's when Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, the 70 elders of Israel

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went up into the mount a little ways I think and they saw the God of Israel and there was under his

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as it were the body of heaven in his clearness and upon the nobles of the children of Israel he

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laid not his hand also they saw God and did eat and drink and they didn't die. Everybody thought

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they would die because he's awesome and it's fearful to get deep into his presence. But are

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we willing to go there? Are we willing to die to self in order to go there? So this idea of Shavuot

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is not only just the idea of harvest and it is harvest absolutely and we're in the season of

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harvest. We're in a season where the outpouring is begun. It's begun but it's also a season of

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it's a holiday of renewing the covenant. Now when the children of Israel came into the promised land

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in the book of Joshua they got into the promised land set up their camp at Gilgal

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and made themselves extremely vulnerable because they circumcised all the men.

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Now you would think that that's about the stupidest thing that you could do

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as soon as you're getting into a position where you're about to go to war and you make everybody

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weak. All the warriors were weakened but I have a theory about that. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

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were all circumcised in that land. The children of Israel in Egypt were all circumcised, the men

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or the boys, the baby boy babies were all circumcised until they left Egypt and for those 40

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years they were not circumcised. Why? I think it's because God wanted to make a flesh covenant with

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them in the land because the covenant of circumcision had to do with I'm promising you and your

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descendants this land. So it was a blood covenant for them to enter into the promised land and

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shed their own blood in agreement with God's covenant for the land. It's a renewing of the

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covenant. Now they did that at the feast, the feast of Passover. They celebrated the Passover.

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They crossed into the land and they set up a monument at Gilgal and then they did the

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circumcision and then they celebrated Passover in their weakness. Remember they had had to shed blood,

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the blood of the lamb for the Passover in Egypt and I think there's some kind of a connection to

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the shedding of their own blood. I don't have a real clear grip on it but I feel like there's some

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kind of a connection and once they celebrated the Passover then they were able to eat of the

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corn of the land, the stuff that they found and the manna stopped. So then they after they all got

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well, got their strength back, then came Jericho. They had this wonderful success in Jericho and

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then they had all the stuff that happened with the battles at Ai. The first one went badly and

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then they had to deal with Achan's sin and deal with him and then they went on. After Ai,

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they went to Shechem and at Shechem, Shechem was the first place where Abraham had built an altar

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and called on the name of Yehovah right there in that spot where the Canaanites had lived at one

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time and then years later Jacob and his sons came and there was a slaughter of the men at Shechem

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because they had one of them had raped their sister and if you don't know those stories go

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read your Bible. I'm not going to take time for that one but Moses had told him that he was going

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but Moses had told Joshua when you get there go to Shechem because that's where it all started

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and you go there and you put some of your tribes over here on the Mount of Blessing, Mount Gerizim

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and you put some of your tribes over here on the Mount of Cursing and you and you recite

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the blessings and the cursings and you go build an altar on the Mount of Cursing.

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You don't need an altar on the on the Mount of Blessing. You need an altar on the Mount of

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Cursing. You need an altar. You need a place where you can go and get your sins forgiven.

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This is the place where you get your sins forgiven and that was the place where they

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plastered a wall and wrote the rules. They wrote the Ten Commandments for all to see

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and you know archaeologists have found that altar on Mount Ebal. It's there on the Mount of Cursing

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but they reenacted and there's nothing that gives me the the timing on this but I just have a feeling

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that maybe it took them about seven weeks to deal with Jericho and Ai and I'm just thinking maybe

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somehow that the timing of what they did at Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal aligned with this Shavuot,

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this rehearsing of the promises, this rehearsing of the oath. I will follow God

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I will, I will, I will, I will. It's my oath. I am connecting myself to the covenant

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and the covenant includes the promised land and the promised land is where the harvest is.

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You're going to plant the harvest. You're going to plant your fields in the promised land

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and that's where the harvest comes out of the promise. It's out of the promise. It's out of what

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God swore he would do. God swore it. God swore it. God swore to the children of Israel. He swore to

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Abraham. He swore to Isaac. He swore to Jacob. This is my word. I'm giving you this land. Our job is

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to say yes I will do what you say to do. Our side of the covenant is okay here's the rules. I'm going

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to live by them. So that's what they did and I really believe it happened in the third month. I

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don't have any I don't have anything to prove it but I think it did and then you have the story of

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Asa one of the kings of of Israel and he rose up to do what was right and bring reforms and deal

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with the stuff and in chapter 15 of second chronicles verse 10 so they gathered themselves

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together Jerusalem in the third month in the 15th year of the reign of Asa and they offered unto the

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Lord at the same time the spoil which they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep. What is it about

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seven? What is it about seven in the third month? Okay very interesting. It's very interesting

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it's very interesting and they entered into a covenant they came back to do it again to swear

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their allegiance to the Lord. They entered into a covenant to seek the God of their fathers with all

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their heart and with all their soul and that whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel

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would be put to death whether small or great whether man or woman and they swear into the

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Lord and the word swear there in Hebrew comes from the root Shavah which is related to seven.

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Shavah they swore into the Lord with a loud voice and was shouting with trumpets with

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cornets or shofars and all Judah rejoiced at the Shavuah at the oath for they had sworn

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Shavuah with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire and he was found of them and

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the Lord gave them rest round about. Fast forward to Acts chapter 2. We won't go through every seven

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in the Old Testament. So we know that Jesus went up into heaven on the 40th day after the resurrection

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and the 50th day was the Pentecost right. So there were 10 days before Pentecost when Jesus went up

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he told the disciples stay in Jerusalem. Well you know you would just walk back to Galilee

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and have to turn around and come back you might as well stay. Don't go home just stay stay in

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Jerusalem wait on the Lord until you be endued with power from on high. Stay put stay put. Well

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they were fishermen there was no fishing going on there it's pretty dry in Jerusalem. Okay so

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they what what else could they do they they prayed and they hung out and they probably went to the

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temple a lot and they went to this upper room and they met together and they chose Matthias and so

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on to take Judas's place. So chapter 2 of Acts when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were

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all with one accord in one place. It does not say that they were in the upper room. I hate to break

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your heart shatter that paradigm. They were probably let me tell you this. Currently today

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in Jerusalem if you are there for the feast of Shavuot the people are in their synagogues all

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night long praying and reading scripture all night long and at the crack of dawn they are headed for

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the western wall which is the only part of the temple mount that they can get to at that time.

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And it's it's the retaining wall of the temple mount. So today that's what they do. I can't

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guarantee that that's what they did then but I'm suspicious that maybe that they that that's what

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they were doing then too is because how else would you be all in one place in one accord.

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You know it takes praying together to get you in one accord. So

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it takes praying together to get you in one accord. So they would have probably gone to

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the temple mount to watch and participate in what was going on in this feast of Shavuot

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remembering what happened on Mount Sinai and bringing the first fruits the breads and so on.

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So they were very very likely to be on the temple mount at the time. They were with one

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accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind

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and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them clove and

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tongues like as of fire and it sat upon each of them. Remember that there was fire on the top of

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the mountain. It was fire the fire of the presence of God and it came down on them while they were

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waiting on him and it filled all the house where they were sitting. So when when you're among

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Jewish people when you say the house they think the temple. Okay so it filled the whole house where

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they were sitting and there appeared unto them clove and tongues like double like as of the Old

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Testament to New Testament together. Okay and it it came upon this sat upon each of them and they

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were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them

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utterance. And here's all these Jews dwelling at Jerusalem from all these different places. They

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they heard the noise they came running and they could hear everyone speaking in their own language

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and they were all amazed and marveled saying aren't these guys Galileans? What?

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They're speaking our languages. They were they were hearing in their own tongue. Now it could be

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that they were speaking on all those different tongues but it could also be that they were saying

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Shandai and all those other kinds of words that we that we hear and and uh and they were hearing

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in their own language. Dr. Billy Brim has this going on all the time in her ministry where she

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will speak in tongues and it sounds just like tongues to us and brother Max hears it in Arabic

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and he writes it down and he reads it back and he he'll he'll hear phrases and he'll hear scripture

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references and phrases and scripture and he writes down all of these things and he reads it back

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and the phrase that he says fits with the the scripture. It is absolutely supernatural.

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That's what the Holy Spirit does. Supernatural stuff.

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So it could be that that's what happened on all these different places. Parthians and Medes,

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Elamites dwellers at Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt,

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parts of Libya, Batsirene, strangers of Rome, Cretan Arabians, all of these different people

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from all over the world were hearing the wonderful works of God and they were amazed.

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Some said they were new, drunk with new wine but Peter stood up and said these are not drunk as you

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suppose. It's only nine o'clock in the morning and then he goes on to talk about you men of Judea.

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Listen, listen. This is that that was spoken of by the prophet Joel. It shall come to pass in the

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last day saith God I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh and in the Greek it says I will pour

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out of the spirit of me. To me that's just stronger. Somehow I will pour out of the spirit of me

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on all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions,

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your old men shall dream dreams on my servants and on my handmaidens I'll pour it on in those

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days of my spirit and they shall prophesy and it goes on to talk about the wonders and heaven above

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blood and fire and vapor smoke etc. This is that. Jesus was raised from the dead on the feast of

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first fruits. He was the first fruits of many brethren. Okay? We're part of the harvest

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that he's the first fruit of. This feast of Shavuot is a first fruits feast also. Peter said

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this is that that was spoken of by the prophet Joel. There were people from all over the known

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civilized world that were there and got it and took it home. This is that but it was a first fruit.

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It wasn't really on all flesh it was on individuals from all of those nations.

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All of those nations. So guess what? There's yet an outpouring on all flesh

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and we're at the brink of it. But this is a feast of taking the oath. I'm gonna follow you.

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I'm gonna follow you Lord to the nations wherever you lead.

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Whatever you say I will do. I want to be like Jesus and do what I see you doing and say what I

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hear you saying. I want to follow the example of the first fruits from the dead.

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I want to do it Lord. I want to make my oath to you. I want to recommit my life to you

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to do what you have for me to do. I want to be a first fruit in this Shavuot

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that will be a part of the harvest on all flesh. Why do you think God gave us this new name global

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outpouring? It's because of the outpouring that he's going to do on all flesh. So I just want to

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challenge you. Claren would you just come to the keyboard and Nancy if you want to come to the harp.

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I want to issue a challenge tonight as we conclude that it's time for us to say yes once again. It's

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time for us to say yes once again. It's time for us you know these things are cyclic.

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The feasts are cyclic just like the week is cyclic just like the day is cyclic. It comes around

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and it comes around and it comes around and maybe we've missed it a few times around.

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And it's time to come around to this place of rededication

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where we're saying yes to the fire. We're saying yes to the God who Jesus had just

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just instituted the new covenant on the night in which he was betrayed.

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And that new covenant refers to Jeremiah 31.

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Jeremiah 31 starting with verse 31 through 34.

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This is the covenant. Behold the days come says the Lord that I will make a new covenant with the

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house of Israel and with the house of Judah not like the covenant that I made with their fathers

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in the day that I took them out by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my

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covenant they broke although I was a husband to them says the Lord but this shall be the

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covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord I will

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put my laws in their inward parts and write it in their hearts.

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Cecil B. DeMille did a good job with with the the fiery finger of God coming down and writing in

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those tables of stone. But I don't think any of you have ever seen the fire that was

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on the table of stone. I don't think anyone has really portrayed it well to show how that

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that fire that came and sat on each one of them began to write on the fleshy tables of their hearts

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to write the word of God to change us. Come on walking with the Holy Spirit makes it so

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the law because it's the law the spirit of life in Christ Jesus that sets us free from the law

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of sin and death. I'll put my laws in their inward parts and write it in their hearts

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and will be their God and they shall be my people and they shall teach no more every man

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his neighbor and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me they shall

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all know me they shall all know me they shall all know me they shall all know me they shall all know

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me they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them says the Lord for I will

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forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more. This is the new covenant

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that started on the night of Pentecost on the night of Passover

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and completed

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on the day of Shavuot.

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Are you ready to say yes to the Lord? If you want to come and spend some time at the altar here you

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can pray kneel here you can pray in your chair just make make a new fresh covenant with the Lord.

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Make a new fresh covenant with the Lord. Make a fresh covenant with him. You that are watching

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online make a fresh covenant with the Lord wherever you are even if you're watching it later in the

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archives make a fresh covenant with the Lord say yes yes yes I will do what you tell me yes I will

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say yes yes yes I will go out into those harvest fields and I will bring in the harvest and I will

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harvest and I will harvest and I will harvest over the next months and then we will dwell together

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and secote that feast of tabernacles we will live with you as we bring you the harvest Lord.

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I want to be part of the harvesters make me part of your harvest field the harvesters Lord

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take me into your fields

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say yes to God tonight say yes to God

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and renew your covenant whatever covenant you have with him renew it fresh tonight

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