Celebration

Introduction

One faithful Pastor was driving by another Pastor Home and as he always does, stopped by to drop some knowledge on the youthful spirited Pastor. He tells him, “ The sky is always blue, the sun always shine. This we know as truth and cannot change. When flying in an airplane, the aircraft began to experience some turbulence, storm clouds filled the skies and blocked the sun. It is in the clouds of life where things begin to lose focus. In a world that's filled with clouds we tend to lose our focus. Clouds could be financial, health issues, constant influx of bad news, family struggles, unemployment,that keeps us from a clear-view of God in a world filled with storm clouds. But the plane kept on climbing until it was above the clouds. Once above the clouds, the son was still shining, and the sky was still blue. You and I need to keep climbing in a troubled world.....It does not not matter where you are in life, Keep climbing. God is faithful.

Lamentations 3:21–24 NASB95

21 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. 22 The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I have hope in Him.”

We can trust God because the bible uses the adjective Faithful

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition) Faithful

faith•ful \ˈfāth-fəl\ adjective

14th century

1 obsolete: full of faith

2: steadfast in affection or allegiance: LOYAL

3: firm in adherence to promises or in observance of duty:

The bible uses this adjective, we as believers must respond to Him in the verbal form ........the word faith......If we respond to Him by faith....it means to believe and trust.....

If you and I believe in the Adjective that describes Jesus as faithful, as we navigate through the clouds of life that makes us faithful as believers.....If your faithful, you and I can celebrate Jesus at the feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot.

Feasts of the Bible: Jewish Roots of Believers in Yeshua (Jesus) Feast of Booths or Tabernacles

General Information

Feast of Tabernacles: Commemorates the Forty-Year Wilderness Journey

Sukkot (Soo-KOTE or SOO-kote), also known as “Feast of Tabernacles,” is a week-long celebration of the fall harvest and a time to build booths (temporary shelters of branches) to remember how the Hebrew people lived under God’s care during their forty years in the wilderness (Neh. 8:14–17). The celebration is a reminder of God’s faithfulness and protection. Sukkot is one of the three pilgrimage feasts when all Jewish males were required to go to Jerusalem to “appear before the Lord” (Deut. 16:16).

Jewish people continue to celebrate Sukkot by building and dwelling in temporary booths for eight days. The four special plants used to cover the booths are citron, myrtle, palm, and willow

(Lev. 23:39–40).

Yeshua (Jesus)

Two ceremonies were part of the last day of Sukkot: (1) Giant golden lampstands were lit in the temple courtyard, and people carrying torches marched around the temple, then set these lights around the walls of the temple, indicating that Messiah would be a light to the Gentiles (Isa. 49:6). (2) A priest carried water from the pool of Siloam to the temple, symbolizing that when Messiah comes the whole earth will know God “as the waters cover the sea” (Isa. 11:9). When Jesus attended the Feast of Tabernacles, on the last day of the feast, he said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him” (John 7:37–38). The next morning while the torches were still burning, he said, “I am the light of the world" (John 8:12).

Sukkot represents the final harvest when all nations will share in the joy and blessings of God’s kingdom. During that time, all believers will celebrate this feast (Zech. 14:16–19).

Point 1- Celebrate the REQUEST OF FAITH v37

THIRST

As the water is carried from the Pool of Soloam to the Temple, as this awesome celebration is taking place with lit torches around the temple walls; As the priest begins to pour out this water to symbolize God’s blessing of rain for the winter harvest, Jesus opens His blessed mouth at the celebration and quotes the word of God......

Isaiah 55:1 NASB95

1 “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost.

This is the clarion call to the sinner who is suffering from thirst.....or to the saint who is suffering from a backslidden state.....

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition) Thirst

a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat associated with a desire for liquids also: the bodily condition (as of dehydration) that induces this sensation

b: a desire or need to drink

2: an ardent desire: CRAVING, LONGING 〈a thirst for success〉

1001 Illustrations that Connect Illustration 626: Surviving the Sahara

ILLUSTRATION 626

SURVIVING THE SAHARA

Topics: Desires; Discontent; Longing; Satisfaction; Thirst

References: Psalm 42:1; John 4:6–29

Lag Lag and a companion were crossing the desert when their truck broke down. As their bodies dehydrated, they became willing to drink anything to quench their terrible thirst. The sun forced them into the shade under the truck, where they dug a shallow trench. Day after day they lay there. They had food but did not eat, fearing it would magnify their thirst.

Dehydration, not starvation, kills wanderers in the desert, and thirst is the most terrible of all human sufferings. Lag Lag progressed from eudipsia, “ordinary thirst,” through bouts of hyperdipsia, meaning “temporary intense thirst,” to polydipsia, “sustained excessive thirst,” which is the kind of thirst that drives one to drink anything, including urine and blood.

Radiator water is what Lag Lag and his assistant started drinking during the polydipsia phase. To survive, they were willing to drink poison.

Many people do something similar in the spiritual realm. They depend on things like money, sex, and power to quench spiritual thirst. But such thirst quenchers are in reality spiritual poison, a dangerous substitute for the “living water” Jesus promised.

—William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled (Vintage, 1997)

Psalm 42:1 NASB95

1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.

We are living in a time where people are thirsty and are willing to drink the poison of this world to survive.....the poison of power, money, pornography, fornication, gambling; they rob from poor and disenfranchise and build mansions.......the poison of racism has been the vehicle of those who uses its poision to steal from all people whether the lightest shade of brown to the darkest to take their money and steal their power: If your not thirsty for Jesus.......your drinking the devil’s poision.....

Why don’t you take a drink from Jesus....you have tried everybody else....Bud Light.Coors Light.Miller Lite.Budweiser.Michelob Ultra.Corona Extra. Modelo Especial.Natural Light.....Why don’t you drink the High Life by faith.....This is a spiritual drink......you can only sip it by faith....Jesus is our Bartender at the Feasts of Booths......He will not slip you a mickey

WHAT IS A MIKEY?

a Mickey Finn (or simply a Mickey) is a drink laced with a psychoactive drug or incapacitating agent (especially chloral hydrate) given to someone without their knowledge, with intent to incapacitate them. Serving someone a "Mickey" is most commonly referred to as "slipping someone a mickey".

The only one slipping MICKEYS is the devil

John 10:10 NASB95

10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Jesus will not give you Cisco, Boons Farm, Thunderbird, Wild Irish Rose, or Mad Dog 20/20.....You do not have to drink from what one internet article called BUM Liquor, Don’t celebrate sin, Celebrate the invitation.....Come to Jesus ....

Isaiah 55:1 NASB95

1 “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost.

2 Corinthians 5:7 NASB95

7 for we walk by faith, not by sight—

Tell God right now your a sinner....

Romans 3:23 NASB95

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 6:37 NASB95

37 “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

Romans 10:9–10 NASB95

9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

Romans 6:17 NASB95

17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,

If you receive Jesus as Savior and Lord.......You can move on to the final point.....

Point 2 Celebrate the RESPONSE OF FAITH

OVERFLOW v38

John 7:38 NASB95

38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’ ”

Bruce Lee.....the greatest martial artist that ever lived in my opinion tells us this: "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.

Bruce Lee said to "empty your mind", and explained that a person should be "formless" like water. Lee said that because water has no shape, it becomes whatever it is poured into, whether it be a cup, a bottle, or a teapot. Lee went on to say, "water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend".

My understanding was that through the baseline principle of his philosophy, the Ying and the Yang, we need to be able to adapt to the battles of all conflict in life whether you are in defence or offence.

Though this is practical in the natural, in the spiritual we need the power of God to live in a world that has been ruined by the sinfulness of humanity.

Jeremiah 17:9–10 NASB95

9 “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? 10 “I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.

Jesus shows us all today at the celebration of Sukkot, that if we take Jesus at His word not just head knowledge but heart knowledge, the human heart will begin to reveal not something, but someone that is given by Jesus by faith....The Holy Spirit.....

A man who drank heavily was converted to Christ and lived victoriously for several weeks. One day as he passed the open door of a tavern, the pungent odor drifting out aroused his old appetite for liquor. Just then he saw this sign in the window of a nearby café: “All the buttermilk you can drink-25 cents!” Dashing inside, he ordered one glass, then another, and still another. After finishing the third he walked past the saloon and was no longer tempted. He was so full of buttermilk that he had no room for that which would be injurious to him. The lesson is clear: to be victorious over our evil desires, we must leave no opportunity for them to repossess us.

Dwight L. Moody once demonstrated the principle like this: “Tell me,” he said to his audience, “how can I get the air out of the tumbler I have in my hand?” One man said, “Suck it out with a pump.” But the evangelist replied, “That would create a vacuum and shatter it.” Finally after many suggestions, Moody picked up a pitcher and quietly filled the glass with water. “There,” he said, “all the air is now removed.” He then explained that victory for the child of God does not come by working hard to eliminate sinful habits, but rather by allowing the Holy Spirit to take full possession.

When your filled with the Holy Ghost, you full of Him and have no room for sin......when you were u=in verse 37, you were thirsty and empty.....and the world filled you up.....now you believe by faith in Jesus anf the Spirit fills you....not just fill you, but you begin to run over.....you begin to spill, you begin to take over our jobs, government, our homes, our churches, ........How do you fill up.......Bible Study this wednesday at 6:30pm with Reverend Hilton....How.....prayer.......how.............read your bible........how............meditation...........how........journaling...............how.............listening to the preached word of God, when you do that, God will talk back to you...........

He walks with me and talks with me and tells me i an His own..............

Preach FILL UP O WELL........FILL ME WITH YOUR POWER, FILL ME WITH JESUS FROM HEAD TO TOE...............JESUS CRIED OUT ON CALVERY , “ I THIRST SO YOU AND I CAN BE FULL THIS MORNING.....

Finish

We can celebrate the REQUEST and The RESPONSE this Morning....both on each side of the cross.....Faith to believe and Faith to LIVE.......as the waters from the pool of Saloam pour out into you today, We can celebrate God faithfulness whether you and I are liveing in the temporary booths down here or in the mansion in Glory......Thank you Jesus for we celebrate you ! You have kept us in the Wilderness and by faith We can keep on going in a world thats empty................Party over Here .....aint no party like a Holy Ghost Party, because the HOly Ghost don’t STop.....