Deuteronomy 16:1-17
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Tonight we are going to look at a few different feasts, and the feasts were an important time for the Jewish people each and every year.
Before we get into the text what are some
The first feast we see in the text is the passover..
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The passover was a time where the people of God would celebrate the exodus from Egypt. During the passover they would they sacrifice the passover animal. And eat unleavened bread.
They are to be eaten together.. The instruction is clear..
What stands out most to me is the remembrance part.
Remembrance is a key to being grounded in the faith.
Remembrance is what we do when we take of the Lord’s supper.
Part of our worship of God is remembering him, and his work.
Some helpful verses that help us with this…
12 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
Our remembrance helps us with our obedience
For us… Passover (Leviticus 23:5) – Pointed to the Messiah as our Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7) whose blood would be shed for our sins. Jesus was crucified during the time that the Passover was observed (Mark 14:12). Christ is a “lamb without blemish or defect” (1 Peter 1:19) because His life was completely free from sin (Hebrews 4:15). As the first Passover marked the Hebrews’ release from Egyptian slavery, so the death of Christ marks our release from the slavery of sin (Romans 8:2).
The Feast of Weeks..
The Feast of weeks derives its name from the method used to calculate is date. Typically in may/june
this… The Feast of Weeks was a harvest celebration, and the freewill offering made at that time was to be commensurate with the blessing the Lord had given the people (v.10; cf. vv.16–17).
In the NT the Feast of Weeks becomes significant as the time of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel 2:28–32
28 “And it shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions.
29 Even on the male and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 32 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
Weeks or Pentecost (Leviticus 23:16) – Occurred fifty days after the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and pointed to the great harvest of souls and the gift of the Holy Spirit for both Jew and Gentile, who would be brought into the kingdom of God during the Church Age (see Acts 2). The Church was actually established on this day when God poured out His Holy Spirit and 3,000 Jews responded to Peter’s great sermon and his first proclamation of the gospel.
The Feast of Booths.
The feast of booths is a full, eight day festival, with sacred assemblies on the first and last days. The festival takes place after all the harvest has been gathered.
Most joyous festival. Taught the torah every 7th year.
We talked about this a few Sundays ago but many stayed in tents or booths..
Only males were commanded to go three times a year…
Each family should have representatives, and give however they can.
) Tabernacles or Booths (Leviticus 23:34) – Many scholars believe that this feast day points to the Lord’s promise that He will once again “tabernacle” with His people when He returns to reign over all the world (Micah 4:1-7).
Found something really good in studying for this message. A biblical theology of worship. Whatever our disposition toward these memorial events, Deuteronomy 16:1–17 presents Christians with an extraordinarily rich resource for developing a biblical theology of worship. Among the lessons we might apply to contemporary worship, the following deserve consideration.
(1) True worship involves an engagement with God and is focused on him. According to Jesus himself, true worship focuses not on the place but on the person of Christ, who is Yahweh incarnate (John 4:21–24).
(2) True worship occurs at the invitation of the Lord and must be conducted on his terms.
(3) True worship is communal. In worship the redeemed gather to celebrate the kindness that God has lavished on us collectively, without merit and without prejudice. Furthermore, true worship tears down the barriers of gender, class, and race. As Paul writes in Galatians 3:28, in the presence of God “there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
(4) True worship is driven by a deep sense of gratitude to God, first for his redemption, and second for his lavish daily provision. In true worship our focus is not on what we are doing for him but on what he has done for us. For this reason true worship should be a joyful event, not a burden to be legalistically borne.
(5) Finally, true worship involves the lavish offering of one’s resources and even oneself (Rom. 12:1) in sacrifice to and for the service of Christ.