2022 Wk 23: Lesson 1 Pentecost Sunday

Updates

Open each Sunday 10am

The Chosen season two Continues

MidWeek

The Gospel of Luke

Hot Dog Sunday by donation.

Dessert Auction July 10th

Men’s Breakfast

Father’s Day celebrated on FriendDay June 19

Generosity Moment

What Does Biblical Generosity Look Like?

Generosity is commonly associated with financial giving—

Such as a monthly tithe envelope or an automatic deduction from a bank account.

When we look at the generosity of the Bible, though, we see it goes deeper than just the amount of money we’re willing to donate.

Last week we said that one characteristics of true, Bible-centered Biblical Generosity is that...

Biblical generosity is tangible.

Instead of speaking about money in Matthew 25, Jesus mentions food, water, clothes, and love.

Biblical generosity is cheerful.

In 2 Corinthians 9:7 gives us freedom in our generosity. God doesn’t want gifts motivated by a sense of duty or obligation. He wants us to give out of joy and compassion.

If anyone knows generosity, it is God—who gave His Son to us freely, even when He knew we would abuse the gift.

Our generosity should be founded in love, not duty.

2 Corinthians 9:7 NLT

You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.”

LESSON

Today is a scary day for some. A day that some would want to skip in church history—nevertheless Pentecost Sunday is well documented and it leads us to many joys, benefits, and discoveries.

Let’s first start with the meaning of Pentecost...

Hold on to your hat.

Pentecost means: Fifty, BOO!

We are going to take a month and discover a little more about

Pentecost

Feast of Weeks

Firstfruit offerings

Joel’s prophetic words

Words fulfilled in Acts 2

and the promise of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

Before Easter we did a series “BY MY SPIRIT” based out of Zech. 4.6

So you might says this series is--The Sequel: By My Spirit

Let’s read the passage in Zechariah

Zechariah 4:6 NLT

Then he said to me, “This is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Key Points

Pentecost has its roots in the Old Testament Offerings given to the Lord

Leviticus 23:15–23 NLT

“From the day after the Sabbath—the day you bring the bundle of grain to be lifted up as a special offering—count off seven full weeks. Keep counting until the day after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days later. Then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. From wherever you live, bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up before the Lord as a special offering. Make these loaves from four quarts of choice flour, and bake them with yeast. They will be an offering to the Lord from the first of your crops. Along with the bread, present seven one-year-old male lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams as burnt offerings to the Lord. These burnt offerings, together with the grain offerings and liquid offerings, will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Then you must offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a peace offering. “The priest will lift up the two lambs as a special offering to the Lord, together with the loaves representing the first of your crops. These offerings, which are holy to the Lord, belong to the priests. That same day will be proclaimed an official day for holy assembly, a day on which you do no ordinary work. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live. “When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the Lord your God.” The Lord said to Moses,

Among the many kinds of offerings we encounter in the Torah... one fascinating offering is the tenufah: the wave-offering.  The root of tenufah [tenû·p̄ā(h)… ten new faw]comes from a word that means to flutter or undulate. A priest must wave the offering before God at the altar, rather than burning it.  This waving appears to indicate that the entity being waved belongs to God.  The wave-offering is then given to the priests to consume. (A D’var Torah for Beha’alotekha by Rabbi Jill Hammer, https://ajr.edu/2018/05/behahalotekha/)

Prophetic voice of Joel

Joel 2:28–32 NLT

“Then, after doing all those things, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions. In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on servants—men and women alike. And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth— blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and terrible day of the Lord arrives. But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape, just as the Lord has said. These will be among the survivors whom the Lord has called.

New Testament

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Pentecost > Pp

Pentecost. Word derived from the Greek word pentēkostē (fiftieth) which stood for the festival celebrated on the 50th day after Passover. In the OT this festival, called Shavuoth (Weeks) in Judaism, is referred to as the Feast of Weeks (Ex 34:22; Dt 16:10) because it occurs 7 weeks after Passover. Other names include “the Feast of Harvest” (Ex 23:16) because of its relationship with harvest season and “the Day of First Fruits” (Nm 28:26) because two loaves of newly ground grain were presented before the Lord. This latter name, however, should be distinguished from the offering of first fruits at the beginning of the harvest season as mentioned in Leviticus 23:9–14.

Acts 2:1 NLT

On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place.

Acts 1:5 NLT

John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 1:8 NLT

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

READ FROM BIBLE:

Acts 1:1–8 NLT

In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit. During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God. Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before. John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” So when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him, “Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?” He replied, “The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

My Story

10 y/o

16 y/o at camp

16 y/o at FGBMFI

Make it personal YOUR STORY

So, how about you?

Closing