Feasts of Israel

Introduction

Outline

Big Idea:

Passover

Feast of Booths or Tabernacles

Feast of Dedication

Feast of Unleavened Bread

Feast of Firstfruits

Feast of Weeks or Pentecost

Feast of Trumpets or New Year

Feast of Day of Atonement

Feast of Lots

Review

Chapter One - Introduced the incarnate God

Chapter One - Introduced Messiah’s herald and the witnesses that rose from his ministry

Chapter Two - Jesus FIRST sign. Jesus at a wedding turning water into wine.

Chapter Two - The first of two recorded events where Jesus cleanses the temple…the second being Passover week after he enters Jerusalem triumphantly.

Chapter Two - We see people believing because of the signs he was doing, because of his teaching.

Chapter Three - Nicodemus. Jesus teaches on the need to be BORN AGAIN.

Chapter Three - Jesus teaches that he came to save the world, that he loves the world.

Chapter Three - We see further where John the Baptist passes off his disciples to Jesus. 3:30 is a key verse.

Chapter Four - We see Jesus interaction with the woman at the well. Jesus reaches out to the Samaritans. Because of his witness and testimony, many of the Samaritans began to believe.

Chapter Four - Jesus heals the official’s Son. THIS WAS HIS SECOND SIGN when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

Sermon Body

As we enter chapter five, we encounter another feast, unidentified.

In the course of John, we see him repeatedly tying events to the feasts of Israel. It behooves us this morning to take a side step and study together the feasts of Israel and their significance.

I will begin with the feasts specifically mention in John but then also include the others, just so we have the full picture of what these feasts were about.

Big Idea:

Passover

Probably the most familiar

Feast of Unleavened Bread

Feast of Firstfruits

Feast of Booths or Tabernacles

Feast of Dedication

Feast of Weeks or Pentecost

Feast of Trumpets or New Year

Feast of Day of Atonement

Feast of Lots

Conclusion

Application