Life in Christ Jesus Podcast

The Feast of the Lord - Pentecost VII

When we think on Pentecost, what was its ultimate purpose?   The Spirit would come.  This was the purpose of God in Pentecost.   He would pour out His Spirit and we would partake of it.  
 
Now what was the purpose of the Spirit?  When the Spirit would come, he would show us Christ.  "He shall take of mine and show it to us."  He shall speak of Christ.  Christ would be revealed in us.  That is the purpose of the Spirit of God.  Glory to God.  Christ revealed, dwelling in His people.  

The Feasts of the Lord - Pentecost - The Living Word II

We live by the Lord Jesus Christ.  He is our Life.  He is the Living Word.  At Mt. Sinai, a Covenant came that the children of Israel were to live by unto God.  This was all according to the flesh.  However, it was speaking of a GREATER WORD to come.  This GREATER WORD was a Person, who is our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
We are in Covenant with God in the Lord Jesus Christ.  He is the Word we live by.  Consider this closely.  Christ Jesus is a quickening, life giving Word that has the power to bring us out of death and into life.  The Old Covenant Word could not do that.  It pointed to the quickening power of Christ, but could not bring it forth. 
Christ has brought it forth.  If we can hear it, the Covenant we live in is as He is.  It pertains to His Work at Calvary, death, burial and resurrection.  It pertains to His Glorification.  This is the what or WHO we live unto God by.  Christ Jesus is our Covenant Word.  Glory to God.  

The Feasts of the Lord - Pentecost V - The Living Word

At Mount Sinai, the Israelites received the word, the law.  Through this Law, word of Covenant they were going to live unto God.  This Word would be their medicine and deliverance.  This Word would be on their mind and upon their heart all the days of the lives.  In fact, this Word would  dictate their life.  
 
In Mount Zion, the High Place of the Lord, another WORD was given.  This Word was Christ.  He is the New Covenant Word.  He is our medicine and deliverance.  He is how we live unto God.   He is not just upon our mind (thoughts), but is the transformation of our mind, and heart.  He dwells within our soul.  
 
We live unto God in the Person of Jesus Christ.  We do not just live in mere Words, but the Word of God Himself!  All things that He says is applied to us.  Glory to God.  If He says we are righteous, then we are righteous.  If He says we are at peace with God.  Then we are at peace with God.  Let us with all our hearts and minds obtain this Word, and let Him fill our hearts in the Glory that He is.  Hallelujah!
 
John 1:1  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." 

The Feasts of the Lord - Pentecost IV - The Covenant

The word Pentecost means fifty.  Fifty days after Passover the children of Israel were again gathered unto the Lord at Mt. Sinai.  Here they received the law.  Here they received the Covenant.  At Mount Sinai, Paul wrote in Galatians the Covenant gendered to bondage.  In Mount Zion, the Covenant was unto the freedom of the Spirit. 
 
We who are in Christ are free from sin and death, and its penalties  In this Covenant of Life we stand in Christ is the Word we have received and we live in, In the New Covenant.  Glory to God.

The Feasts of the Lord - Pentecost III, I will come unto you

Joel 2:23  Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.  24  And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of Jehovah your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never be put to shame. 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Jehovah your God, and there is none else; and my people shall never be put to shame. 
 
Read this closely. What were they to know in the former and latter rain, "I AM in your midst." As an Israelite, when this was written, they were thinking of days gone by when God dwelt in the Temple in their midst. Here they in type and shadow were not ashamed, were not in the captivity of the world. They were a great people to show forth the praise of their great God.
 
Where this finds its fulfillment is in the Lord Jesus Christ. "At that day you shall know, I AM in my Father, you are in me, and I AM in you." Here we are not ashamed. Here his greatness and victory is seen and declared. Here the I AM is made known in a people. Glory to God. He has come to us as the rain and the latter rain. He has filled His temple with Himself. "You are the Temple of the Living God. I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they shall be my people."

Pentecost II

God said in the Book of Acts, through the Apostle Peter, "In the last days I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh."  What were the last days that were spoken of here?  Was it dealing with the last days of planet earth?  of the last days of humanity? or is there another idea in the heart of God?  
 
Are the last days, referring to the last days of the Old Covenant?  Was the pouring out of the Spirit unto us, the operation that gives us the ability to transition out of one Covenant into another?  I believe the answer would be yes.  The Spirit takes of Christ and shows or reveals to our hearts.  Christ himself is the transition from the Old to the New. 
 
He takes away and He brings forth.  He makes all things New.  To me and you that is done by the Spirit of God through Christ being in you, and the Spirit of God showing Him to you!  Glory to God in the Highest!  Peace on earth toward men.  Christ has come and dwells in His many membered Body that is the Church.  Again I say, Glory to God!

The Feasts of the Lord VII - Pentecost

In the Book of Acts Chapter 2 is written the record of the coming of the Holy Spirit.  Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 
 
I would like us to pay particular attention to verse 1.  "When the day of Pentecost had fully come."  There had been many days of Pentecost in the history  of the Israelites and Jewish people, but it had never fully come until the Spirit was poured out  from on high.  Pentecost could never come in completion until Passover had come in its completion.  All of this is  in connection to the Lord Jesus Christ.  Jesus came, died, was buried, arose from the dead, and ascended back unto the Father. 
 
"He shed forth this," Peter declared in the Book of Acts.  The Holy Spirit came at the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ to fill the believers with the reality of Christ.  "He that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit."  On the day of Pentecost the Church of Jesus Christ was born and joined to Him, to know Him in HIs fullness.  Glory to God!

The Feasts of the Lord VI - Passover, A 3 Day Feast

In this lesson Passover is broken down.  Looking close at Leviticus 23:1-9 you can see that there are 3 Feasts contained in Passover.  These speak of His death, His burial and His resurrection.  These Feasts are Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits. Jesus Himself went into death, He was buried, and He was raised from the dead.  This was done by Him and Him alone.  We are partakers of His work.  Without Him there is no fulfillment of the Feast.
 
This is very important.  Christ and His Work stands alone.  What I am saying His work stands with or without us.   We are brought into His Work.  When we believe into Christ we come into Him and His Work.  God places us in Christ.  This is the foundation of Christianity.  “By One Spirit we are all Baptized into One Body.”  Paul writes that we are baptized into His death in Romans 6 by the Spirit of God.   I believe this is the start of our journey.  We believe in Him, and in receiving Him the Old Man is dead, and our journey is coming into the New Man who is Christ.
 
I Pray this is edifying to your heart.  May God richly reveal the Living Christ in you. 
 
Leviticus 23:1 “The LORD spoke again to Moses, saying, 2 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'The LORD'S appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these: 3 'For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings. 4 'These are the appointed times of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them. 5 'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD'S Passover. 6 'Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 'On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. 8 'But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.'" 9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 'He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.”