And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
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00:00and we'll begin are you ready to record
00:05okay okay let's just have a word of
00:11prayer as we come to the word of God
00:14Lord we thank you that we can meet in the
00:16name of Jesus Yeshua HaMashiach thank you
00:19that you are the Messiah the Savior I
00:22pray that you'll help me as I speak and
00:23guide me by your spirit and help those
00:26who are here to hear and to learn
00:27something about you and about the
00:30connections with Jewish festivals and
00:33Jewish items as we look at this subject
00:36tonight Jesus name Amen so anybody know
00:42what festival it is which is starting
00:44tonight in the Jewish community yeah not
00:52Sabbath no Shavuot yes Shavuot that's
00:57right Shavuot is the connection with
00:59Pentecost and it's starting tonight so if
01:02you look around in gold is green you'll
01:04see Orthodox Jewish people getting ready
01:07for the Shavuot festival so Shavuot means
01:13is the plural of the word Shavua Shavua
01:16which means sevens or weeks and we read
01:19about the feast of Shavuot in the book of
01:23Leviticus chapter 23 why should this be of
01:27interest to us well if you look at the
01:30Bible you find out that it speaks about
01:32Jesus as the Messiah you'll find there
01:34many things in the Hebrew scriptures which
01:36point to Yeshua as the Messiah you've got
01:38direct prophecies like Isaiah 53 Psalm 22
01:43about the crucifixion you've got types of
01:46the Messiah like Joseph who is the one
01:49who's the favorite son who then gets
01:51rejected and thrown into prison and goes
01:54to the lowest plates and then is exalted
01:55and becomes the means by which he feeds
01:58his brothers in the time of the famine in
02:02Egypt and it's a picture if you like of
02:04Jesus being exalted and lifting up and
02:06there are many others like that you also
02:08have connections with the Jewish festivals
02:09and I'm going to give you some
02:12connections tonight with the Jewish
02:13festival of Shavuot and how it does
02:16connect to the Christian concept of
02:18Pentecost or the gift of the Holy Spirit
02:21so the passages in the scripture which
02:25describes it is in the book of Leviticus 23
02:27in fact Leviticus 23 describes all of
02:29the biblical feasts of the Lord and
02:34concerning this particular one we read
02:37in verse 15 you should count for
02:41yourselves from the day after the
02:42Sabbath from the day that you brought
02:44the sheaf of the wave offering seven
02:46Sabbaths shall be completed count 50
02:49days to the day after the seventh
02:52Sabbath then you should offer a grain
02:54offering to the Lord you should bring
02:56from your dwellings two wave loaves and
02:58two tenths of an ephah there should be a
03:01fine flour they should be baked with
03:03leaven they are first fruits to the
03:05Lord and you should offer with the bread
03:07seven lambs of the first year without
03:10blemish one young bull and two rams
03:12they should be as a burnt offering to
03:14the Lord with their grain offering and
03:16their drink offerings an offering made
03:18by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord
03:20then you shall sacrifice one kid of the
03:22goats as a sin offering and two male
03:24lambs of the first year as a sacrifice
03:27of a peace offering the priest shall wave
03:29them with the bread of the first fruits
03:31as a wave offering before the Lord with
03:33the two lambs they should be holy to the
03:35Lord for the priest and you should
03:37proclaim on the same day that it is a
03:39holy convocation to you you should do no
03:42customary work on it it should be a
03:43statute forever in all your dwellings
03:45throughout your generations when you
03:47reap the harvest of your land you
03:49should not wholly reap the corners of
03:50your field when you reap nor shall you
03:52gather any gleaning from your harvest
03:54you should leave them to the poor and
03:57for the stranger I am the Lord your God
03:59so that's what Leviticus tells us about
04:02Shavuot if you follow that through you
04:04can see that there are some agricultural
04:06connections as there are in all of the
04:10Jewish festivals in some ways it requires
04:14an offering of made of fine flour baked
04:17with leaven and it also requires the
04:20offering of animals the young bull the
04:22two rams as burnt offerings before the
04:24Lord and in the last verses you have
04:27some interesting instructions about not
04:30reaping all of your the harvest of your
04:32land but leaving some for the poor to
04:35reap and to gather any gleaning from your
04:37harvest leaving them to the poor and the
04:39stranger if you follow through some of
04:41the connections you will know that there
04:43is a connection in that with the book of
04:45Ruth which is going to be read at the
04:47time of the of Shavuot and one of the
04:51things which is lacking actually is any
04:53connection to any event when you look at
04:56Passover it connects to the Exodus when
04:58you look at the feast of Sukkot it
05:01connects to the Israelites wandering
05:02through the wilderness but there doesn't
05:04seem to be anything in this passage
05:05here which links it to any event in
05:07Bible history now as I'm going to show
05:10you as far as the Orthodox Jewish people
05:12are concerned they have linked it to a
05:14very crucial and vital event which took
05:16place and they say it took place 50 days
05:19after the exit list from Egypt which was
05:23the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and
05:26we'll look at that connection in a moment so
05:28the connection which most Jewish people
05:31and Orthodox Jews teach today is that the
05:33Shavuot is a time to remember God giving
05:37the Torah at Mount Sinai and we'll see in a
05:40moment why that is significant in the light
05:42of the New Testament as well we also see
05:45that there was something about counting for
05:47yourself from the day after the Sabbath seven
05:51Sabbaths shall be completed and counting 50
05:53days from the seventh Sabbath which sounds a
05:56bit confusing a bit mysterious especially
05:58you don't know when to start so if you're
06:01going to count 50 days you've got to know
06:02when to start in order to get to the right
06:04destination does that make sense and it
06:06says that you have to make it after the
06:08seventh Sabbath after the Sabbath and there's
06:13a connection with what they call the
06:16previous verses the previous verses speak
06:19about the day after the Sabbath referring
06:22back to the feast of first fruits which is
06:25known as Yom HaBikarim okay so Yom HaBikarim
06:29is a festival which takes place during the
06:31Passover week and it takes place after the
06:34Sabbath now if the Passover is a week
06:37there's always going to be one Sabbath in
06:39that week so on the day after the Sabbath
06:42there'll be the festival which they call
06:43Yom HaBikarim which is the feast of the
06:46first fruits and you're going to see in a
06:48moment why that is significant as well
06:50in Leviticus in the previous few verses
06:53in Leviticus it says in verse 9 the Lord
06:55spoke to Moses saying speak to the children
06:57of Israel say to them when you come into the
06:59land which I give to you and reap its
07:01harvest then you'll bring a sheaf of the
07:03first fruits of your harvest to the priest
07:05he shall wave them wave the sheaf before the
07:08Lord to be accepted on your behalf on the
07:11day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave
07:13it so there you've got the sheaf being
07:16waved at the bottom there
07:18ripe barley and you have to take the
07:22barley sheaf which is not yet fully
07:26ripened and take it and wave it before
07:32the Lord and according to Jewish tradition
07:34you're not supposed to eat any fruit of
07:35the barley until you've done this so this
07:38happens early it happens around about
07:40April time in our calendar so in the
07:44Jewish month of Nisan just as the crops
07:46have been come out they take a piece of
07:50barley and they wave it before the Lord
07:52as the first fruits offering to the Lord
07:54and it's called Yom HaBikarim it means
07:58the feast of the first fruits and as I
08:00said it happens on the day after the
08:03first after the only Sabbath in the
08:05Passover week so that is what we call
08:07the first day of the week or Yom Yishon
08:09in Hebrew and it's something which is to
08:14be kept on that day and Yom Yishon in our
08:18calendar is Sunday so we'll see why that's
08:21significant in a moment just keep these
08:24things in your mind as we look through
08:26according to Jewish teaching on the next
08:30slide it says so to work out how to reach
08:32Shavuot Jewish people start to count the
08:35Omer counting the Omer or Sefirat HaOmer
08:39sometimes abbreviated as Sefirah is a
08:42ritual in Judaism it consists of a verbal
08:45counting of each of the 49 days between
08:47the holidays of Passover and Shavuot period
08:50of 49 days is known as the Omer period or
08:53simply as the Omer or Sefirah on the
08:56following days so 50 days after Yom HaBikarim
08:58the festival of Shavuot should be celebrated
09:01so you can start counting the days on
09:03the first day of the week during the
09:06Passover time you go 50 days and you come
09:10to Shavuot and then you have the feast
09:12of Shavuot some things you can't do
09:14during this time I used to work as a
09:17school teacher at the Hasmonean school
09:19for boys which is an Orthodox Jewish
09:20school I was teaching French there and I
09:22tried to organize a trip to France and I
09:25told them which the day was they said no
09:26you can't do it then because that's when
09:27we're counting the omen what's that
09:30about said well you just have to wait
09:32till after we come to Shavuot which we
09:35did and we went to France and had a good
09:37day out with the Orthodox Jewish boys
09:39but it just taught me that there are
09:40certain things you can't do during this
09:44time and it's a time which is kept every
09:51year by the Orthodox Jewish people now one
09:55of the things which we're going to look
09:56at tonight is is there a New Testament
09:58connection to all this and I think you'll
10:01see that there is a very clear
10:03connection Jesus was crucified on the
10:0714th day of Nisan the first day of the
10:10Passover he rose from the dead on the
10:13third day the day after the Sabbath and
10:16is Yom Mishon the Sunday or the first day
10:19of the week so he rose again on Yom
10:22Apicorim and Matthew 28 verse 1 says
10:27now after the Sabbath on the first day
10:29of the week as the first day of the week
10:30began to dawn Mary Magdalene and the
10:33other Mary came to see the tomb and
10:35behold there was a great earthquake for
10:36the angel of the Lord descended from
10:38heaven and came and rolled back the
10:39stone from the door and sat on it the
10:43angel said to the women do not be afraid
10:44for I know that you seek Jesus who is
10:46crucified he is not here he is risen and
10:49he as he said come see the place where
10:51the Lord lay and go quickly and tell his
10:54disciples that he is risen from the dead
10:56so this crucial event for the believer in
11:01Yeshua happened on this significant day
11:04in the Jewish calendar and in 1
11:08Corinthians chapter 15 Paul describes
11:10Jesus as the first fruits of the
11:13resurrection remember that it's the
11:15feast of first fruits so in 1
11:19Corinthians 15 verse 20 it says now
11:20Christ Messiah is risen from the dead
11:22and has become the first fruits of
11:24those who fall asleep for since by man
11:27came death by man also came the
11:29resurrection of the dead as an animal
11:31dies even so in Messiah shall all be
11:33made alive each in his own order Christ
11:35the first fruits afterwards those who
11:38are Christ's at his coming so the
11:41Messiah is described here as the first
11:44fruits from the dead now the
11:46significance of the first fruits of the
11:48harvest is that you believe there's
11:49going to become other fruits are going
11:51to come after it so you're waving this
11:54first fruit offering in the anticipation
11:56and faith that God is going to send a
11:58harvest later on when you have more
12:01fruit coming in and in fact the feast of
12:04Shavuot is also described as the first
12:07fruits harvest so it's the first barley
12:09harvest so this concept of the first fruits
12:12is an idea that something's going to come
12:14after it and Paul describes Jesus as the
12:17first fruits of the resurrection because
12:19he's saying they're going to come he's
12:20going to come after this who'll be the
12:22if you like the second fruits of the
12:24resurrection and on the day of Pentecost
12:27you had the fulfillment of that as you
12:29saw 3,000 people being saved who were the
12:31first fruits of the gospel preaching and
12:34right through the age you've seen people
12:36coming to faith like you and me who you
12:38could say are the following fruits of the
12:40resurrection so it's the same principle
12:43you're something happens which is very
12:44significant waving a piece of barley you
12:48hope there's going to be a harvest we're
12:49going to follow Jesus rises from the
12:51dead there's going to be a harvest which
12:52will follow and you and I are that
12:55harvest now coming back to the gospel
12:58story we see that in the gospel accounts
13:01in the book of Acts Jesus appeared to
13:02his disciples for 40 days following his
13:05resurrection then he ascended to heaven
13:07instructing his disciples to wait for
13:09another 10 days for the Holy Spirit to
13:11come and the Holy Spirit came 50 days
13:15after the resurrection and in the book of
13:18Acts it says when the Pentecost had fully
13:20come the Holy Spirit came with all the
13:24signs and wonders which we read about in
13:26the book of Acts chapter 2 so you can see
13:30there is a connection between the gift of
13:32the Holy Spirit and the events which are
13:36described in the book of Leviticus concerning
13:38Shavuot and the Feast of Firstfruits and in
13:42fact when you look in the whole concept of
13:45the Jewish festivals you find that in some
13:48way they all speak in some way about Jesus
13:50and about God's plan of salvation you have
13:54the three main pilgrim festivals they're the
13:56festivals which require the Jewish people to
13:59go up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord in
14:02the temple and they happened on three
14:04different occasions in the year and on each
14:08of these there was something which
14:09happened relating to Jesus so and also
14:13they're all remembering some events from
14:15the past so Passover remembers the
14:18Passover night and the Exodus from Egypt
14:21and also Yom HaBikarim the firstfruits
14:25Shavuot is the early barley harvest the
14:28firstfruits of the harvest and remembering
14:30the giving of the law about Sinai and the
14:33giving of the law of Mount Sinai was
14:35really the birth of Israel as a nation
14:37under God okay they existed as the tribes
14:40of Israel they were in slavery they came
14:42out and when they came to Mount Sinai God
14:44gave them the Torah I gave them the Ten
14:46Commandments and in a sense made them his
14:48special people through whom he's going to
14:50reveal himself and reveal his his purposes
14:53in the years that would follow and you come
14:58to Sukkot which is the piece of tabernacles
15:00which happens in September October on our
15:03calendar which is the final harvest and at
15:07that time the Jewish people remember God's
15:10provision in the wilderness as they're
15:11coming out of Egypt and also give thanks
15:14for their entrance into the promised land
15:16following the time of wandering in the
15:19wilderness and it speaks of God's
15:21faithfulness to his people preserving him as
15:24a people and bring them into out of bondage
15:27out of slavery into the promised land as
15:29the people of God so you see parallels
15:34with this in the New Testament New
15:35Testament Passover equals the death and
15:38resurrection of Jesus the Messiah when
15:40did Jesus die on the cross on the first
15:42day of Passover the 14th day of Misan
15:44day when the Passover lambs are being
15:46slain and the Passover lambs remind us of
15:50the Passover lamb in the book of Exodus
15:52when the Israelites were told to take a
15:54lamb put his blood upon the door and as
15:56they put the blood upon the door they
15:57would be saved from the angel of death
15:59when he passed through the land of
16:00Israel and the angel of death would pass
16:02over them so they pass from death to
16:04life what happens if you believe in
16:06Yeshua the Messiah you put the blood of
16:08the lamb upon your doorposts of your
16:09house of your life if you like and then
16:12through that blood of the lamb you pass
16:14over from death to life it's another
16:17picture of our redemption you come to
16:22shavuot you have the gift of the Holy Spirit
16:24gift of the Holy Spirit on the day of
16:27Pentecost gave birth to the true church
16:29of Jesus the Messiah the chosen ones said
16:33this morning not the building not the
16:34organization but the people who are
16:36called out by the Lord to be the ones who
16:39would live in a new life in the Holy
16:41Spirit so you have new life in Yeshua
16:43through the Holy Spirit and the first
16:46fruits harvest of souls saved interestingly on
16:50the day of Pentecost we read that 3,000
16:52people were saved through the preaching of
16:54the gospel and finally you come to
16:57Sukkot which is the final harvest
16:59looking for the return of the Messiah
17:00and his reign in the millennial kingdom
17:03and there are parallels between the time in
17:06the wilderness and the building of
17:08booths which are temporary structures and
17:10the time when Jesus is going to come back
17:11and rule over the earth for a thousand
17:13years in the event which we call the
17:15millennial kingdom not every Christian
17:17believes in that but I do and we teach
17:20that here in this church that there will
17:22be a millennial kingdom in which you're
17:23sure Jesus is going to reign for a
17:26thousand years after his second coming
17:28so these three pilgrim festivals will
17:30have a relevance to obviously to Jewish
17:34people who they're reminding them of
17:35their history but also they do have a
17:37connection to those who believe in
17:39Jesus the Messiah now that Jesus
17:43connection I have to say is disputed by
17:45the rabbis and I'm going to give you a
17:46few examples of their teaching on it
17:49and then come to conclusions from our
17:51point of view okay so Jewish teaching
17:54on Shavuot this is taken from the
17:56Chabad which is an Orthodox Jewish kind
17:58of missionary movement reaching out to
18:00non-Jews and reaching out to Jews
18:02non-practicing Jews to make them into
18:05practicing Jews so that's part of their
18:07reason for being there and they have a
18:09website which explains all of these
18:11things and they hope that people are
18:13going to tune into it and come back to
18:15God through Judaism and this is what it
18:23says the giving of the Torah was a
18:24far-reaching spiritual event one that
18:26touched the essence of the Jewish soul
18:28for all times our sages have compared it
18:30to a wedding between God and the Jewish
18:32people Shavuot means oaths for on this
18:35day God swore eternal devotion to us and
18:38we in turn pledged everlasting loyalty to
18:40him three millennia ago three thousand
18:44years ago after leaving Egypt on the
18:45night of Passover the Jews traveled
18:47into the Sinai desert there the entire
18:50Jewish nation three million men women
18:52and children directly experienced
18:54divine revelation Deuteronomy 4 12 says
18:58God spoke to you from the midst of the
18:59fire you heard the sound of words but
19:01you were not seeing a form only a sound
19:03he told you of his covenant and
19:05instructed you to keep the ten
19:07commandments and he ascribed them on two
19:09stone tablets and it goes on to say
19:13the giving of the Torah was an event of
19:15awesome proportions that indelibly
19:16stamped the Jewish nation with a unique
19:18character faith and destiny and in the
19:21three thousand three hundred years since
19:22this event Jewish ideals Torah ideals
19:25monotheism justice responsibility have
19:28become a moral basis for Western
19:30civilization in ancient times two wheat
19:33loaves would be offered in the temple it
19:36was also this time that God will begin to
19:38bring bring bickering their first and
19:40choices fruits to thank God for Israel's
19:43bounty so you have this idea of a
19:48setting a part of the Jewish people
19:50God committing himself to the Jewish
19:52people and the Jewish people committing
19:54themselves to God through receiving the
19:56Torah and it gone to Exodus 24 you find
19:59that Moses reads the Torah to the Jewish
20:01people reads the commandments and he reads
20:05to them and offers a sacrifice and they say
20:07all that the Lord has told us to do all
20:10the Lord has said we will do and be
20:11obedient so they do make a commitment and
20:14a commitment to be obedient to the Lord
20:16whether it's been kept by anybody is
20:20another question but that's the commitment
20:22is there and the idea is that God's going
20:24to be committed to you as you commit
20:25yourself to God and he's going to be
20:27mediating his law through the law which
20:30he's given which is the Torah so
20:32so actually from the Orthodox Jewish point
20:34of view this is probably the most
20:35important event in the whole of history
20:37since their religion really revolves around
20:40keeping the commands of the Torah as
20:44revealed in the book of Exodus Leviticus and
20:47Deuteronomy numbers now as I said the idea
20:53that the Torah was given on Shavuot is
20:55not actually specified in the Bible in the
20:58book of Exodus it does say in chapter 19
21:01verse 1 in the third month after the
21:04children of Israel had gone out of the
21:05land of Egypt on the same day they came
21:07to the wilderness of Sinai they departed
21:10from Rephidim they came to the wilderness
21:11of Sinai and camped in the wilderness so
21:14Israel camped there before the mountain
21:16they came to pass on the third day in the
21:19morning that there were thunderings and
21:20lightnings and a cloud thick cloud on the
21:22mountain and the sound of the trumpet was
21:24very loud and all the people in the camp
21:26trembled and Moses brought the people out
21:29of the camp to meet God and they stood at
21:31the foot of the mountain now you could
21:35say where does it say in there about 50
21:37days it doesn't actually it's not specified
21:40there are 50 days after the Exodus but we
21:42know the Exodus happened on the 14th day
21:44of Nisan there are 28 days in a Jewish
21:47month then Lula month so you got 14 days
21:49left you got another month ER which comes
21:52in between so that's another 28 and if you
21:54had another somewhere between six and eight
21:57days in the next month Shivan you get to
21:5950 days so it is actually quite logical to
22:02say that the Torah was given 50 days after
22:04the Exodus which is what the rabbis say and
22:08they say that because there's not anything
22:11specific in the book of Leviticus which
22:14speaks about a definite event to link Shavuot
22:19Shavuot with event in the history of Israel
22:21then you should take this as being the
22:24giving of the Torah and we're going to see
22:28that that's actually quite significant and
22:29it's quite significant also in our
22:31understanding of what happened on the day of
22:33Pentecost we'll come back to that in a
22:36moment okay more rabbinic teaching the very
22:41name Shavuot means weeks in recognition of
22:44the week of anticipation leading up to the
22:46Sinai experience since Shavuot occurs 50
22:49days after the first day of Passover it's
22:50sometimes known as Pentecost a Greek word
22:53meaning the holiday of 50 days and he says
22:56in brackets Shavuot however has no connection
22:58to the Christian Pentecost holiday which I'm
23:03going to dispute the holiday of Shavuot is
23:06a two-day holiday beginning at sundown on
23:08the 5th of Shivan that's tonight lasting
23:10until nightfall on the 7th of Shivan in
23:14Israel it's a one-day holiday ending at
23:15nightfall on the 6th of Shivan it is a
23:19widespread custom to stay up the entire
23:21night studying Torah and since Torah is a
23:24way to self-perfection the Shavuot night
23:26learning is called Tikkun Le'el Shavuot
23:28which means an act of self-perfection on
23:31the night of Shavuot that means that
23:34Orthodox Jewish people who keep take this
23:36seriously and stay up all night studying
23:38the Torah and they say that as a result of
23:41this is an act of self-perfection okay we'll
23:47think about that one in a moment as well
23:48going on it says that synagogue services on
23:52Shavuot morning we read the biblical book
23:54of Ruth Ruth was a non-Jewish woman whose
23:56love for God and the Torah led her to
23:58convert to Judaism the Torah intimates that
24:01the souls of eventual converts were also
24:03present at Sinai as it says I'm making the
24:06covenant both with those here today before
24:08the Lord our God and also with those not
24:10here today Ruth has a further connection to
24:13Shavuot in that she became the ancestor of
24:15King David who was born on Shavuot and died
24:18on Shavuot and became the ancestor of the
24:21Messiah the need to correct one or two
24:25things in this account it says the entire
24:28Jewish nation three million men women and
24:30children directly experienced divine
24:33revelation I was just talking to Shirley
24:36earlier about a book which I reviewed
24:39called 26 reasons why Jews don't believe
24:41in Jesus by Asher Norman and he says that
24:44on the day of on the day when they received
24:47the Torah the whole Jewish people was
24:49elevated to the level of prophecy and they
24:52all received this word from the Lord and
24:55they all received this divine contact and
24:57divine word from God actually if you read
24:59the account in Exodus that's not what
25:01happened actually God said don't come near
25:04it and don't touch the mountain lest you
25:06die the people were afraid when they heard
25:09the sound and they said to Moses when it
25:14says now all the people witnessed the
25:16thunderings the lightning flashes the
25:18sound of the trumpet and the mountain
25:20smoking and when the people saw it they
25:22trembled and stood afar off and they said
25:23to Moses you speak with us and we will
25:26hear but let not God speak with us lest we
25:28die and Moses said to the people do not
25:31fear for God has not come to test you that
25:33his fear may be before you so that you
25:35may not sin so the people stood afar off
25:37and Moses drew drew near the thick
25:40darkness where God was so if you look at
25:43the account actually the people were kept
25:45separate not going up the mountain and
25:48Moses went up alone up the mountain and
25:50received the commandments particularly with
25:53the tablets of stone written by the finger
25:55of God and brought them down to the
25:57people and in that you can see that
26:00Moses actually was functioning as the
26:02mediator tells you also something about
26:04God if God is so holy and so powerful
26:06can we just stand before God in our own
26:10natural state or do we need someone to
26:11come between us and to mediate God's
26:14presence to us and the account actually
26:16in Exodus shows that the people of
26:18Israel needed a mediator between them
26:21and this holy God this holy God who was
26:23thundering and bringing all this sort of
26:26fireworks on Mount Sinai before they could
26:29receive the Torah and so that's what
26:32happened so it's not quite clear not
26:35quite clear to say from the the text as
26:37some Jewish commentators say that the
26:39entire Jewish nation was raised up to
26:40the level of prophecy to receive the word
26:42of God Moses received it and passed it on
26:45to them okay another and of course when
26:49we come to God we can't come to God in
26:52our own strength and in our own goodness
26:53we have to come through a mediator and
26:55that mediator of course is Yeshua Jesus
26:58the Messiah who's paid the price of our
26:59sins and able to reconcile us to that
27:02holy God there's a very interesting
27:05passage in the Talmud if you don't know
27:06what the Talmud is it's the connection of
27:08writings which were written by the rabbis
27:11mainly after the time of Jesus they're
27:14based on what's called the oral Torah
27:15because Orthodox Jews believe that when
27:18Moses received the written Torah which we
27:21have written in our Bibles he also
27:23received what they called the oral Torah
27:24which was not written down it was passed
27:27on by word of mouth and was written down
27:31very much later after Jesus so in the
27:33third and fifth centuries after Jesus so
27:36you have writings which are much later but
27:39they say that these were given the same
27:40kind of authority and divine stamp if you
27:45like as the written Torah because it was
27:47written given by Moses given by God to
27:49Moses Moses passed it on to Joshua he
27:52passed it on to the prophets and so on
27:54through generation after generation until
27:56it was eventually written down in the
27:58third and fifth centuries in the
28:00Gemara and in the Babylonian Talmud and
28:04Jewish writings now in this Exodus from
28:07the Shemot Rabbah which is the Hebrew for
28:10the great Exodus Talmudic writing it says
28:12on the occasion of giving the Torah the
28:14children of Israel not only heard the Lord's
28:16voice but actually saw the sound waves as
28:18they emerged from the Lord's mouth they
28:21visualized them as a fiery substance each
28:24command that left the Lord's mouth
28:25traveled around the entire camp and then
28:28came back to every Jew individually goes on
28:30record Rabbi Yohanan saying God's voice as
28:33it was uttered split up into 70 voices in
28:3670 languages so that all the nation should
28:39understand the number 70 in scripture is
28:42usually associated with the nations so
28:46you see what they're saying there that
28:47when the Torah was given there was
28:48something visual which they saw which
28:51included sound waves which are
28:54visualized as a fiery substance and God's
28:58voice then split into 70 languages of the
29:02different nations can you see why that
29:05might be interesting in the light of the
29:07day of Pentecost what happened on the day
29:09of Pentecost Acts chapter 2 when the day
29:11of Pentecost had fully come they were all
29:13with one accord in one place and suddenly
29:15there came a sound from heaven as of a
29:17rushing mighty wind and it filled the
29:19house when they were sitting then there
29:20appeared to them divided tongues as of
29:23fire and one sat upon each of them and
29:25they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
29:27and began to speak with other tongues as
29:29the Spirit gave them utterance and we
29:31find there are visitors who come from
29:33different places Parthians Medes Elamites
29:35those dwelling in Bessopotamia Judea
29:38Cappadocia Pontus and Asia Phrygia and
29:40Phamphylia Egypt and the parts of Libya
29:43rejoining Cyrene visitors from Rome both
29:45Jews and proselytes Cretans and Arabs we
29:48hear them speaking in our own tongues the
29:49wonderful works of God they were all
29:52amazed and perplexed saying to one another
29:54whatever could this mean so you have
29:58tongues of fire a sound from heaven a
30:01mighty rushing wind and people speaking
30:03in other languages they haven't learned
30:05and those who do know these languages
30:07recognizing them as their own languages
30:09is that a bit strange is it strange that
30:13the rabbis actually say the same thing
30:15happened on the day when the Torah was
30:17given find it extraordinary now I'm not
30:20sure when the rabbis actually when the
30:23story in the Talmud actually originated
30:25if it originated after Tempticost but
30:27maybe they're just saying well that
30:29happened when the Christians got the
30:30Holy Spirit so we better say something
30:32like that happened when we got the Torah
30:34but if not it does mean that they
30:36recognize that something significant
30:37happened at the day of Pentecost but if
30:40it is a story which was passed down from
30:42generation to generation it's very
30:43interesting because it has this idea of
30:46God speaking and the words becoming
30:49many languages the languages of the
30:52nations which is exactly what happened
30:54on the day of Pentecost so you have a
30:59connection and if the rabbis say there's
31:01no connection between the Jewish festival
31:03of Shavuot and Pentecost this is a
31:05pretty big one I would say okay it raises
31:08the next question if the giving of the
31:14Torah has nothing to do with the
31:15Christian festival of Pentecost what
31:18does it have to do with and there are
31:20these points where it crosses crosses
31:23because it's 50 days since Yom HaBikarim
31:25the first fruits 50 days since the
31:27resurrection of Jesus it was also the
31:30first fruits Jesus appears 40 days after
31:33his resurrection then tells the disciples
31:34he'll descend to heaven and they must
31:36wait another 10 days for the Holy
31:37Spirit to come at Pentecost and he does
31:40exactly and we have similar things we
31:44brought the rabbis say about giving the
31:45Torah sound from heaven a fiery
31:48substance tongues languages of the
31:50nations being manifested which leads to
31:53the question what does this mean that
31:55was the question which they asked Peter
31:56when they saw this thing happening and
31:59go back to Acts chapter 2 Peter answers
32:01he says this phenomena which you've
32:04seen which are supernatural phenomena
32:06supernatural phenomena which are
32:08actually never repeated you can discuss
32:10whether the gift of tongues is still in
32:12operation but this particular event when
32:15you saw tongues of fire coming the
32:17phenomena and people speaking in
32:18languages which they suddenly were able
32:21to speak which they couldn't speak
32:22beforehand and other people who spoke
32:24those languages recognizing them has to
32:27be a unique miracle which took place on
32:29the day of Pentecost and Peter answers
32:32the question what does it mean by
32:33saying this is a manifestation of the
32:35Holy Spirit coming as promised in the
32:37book of Joel also secondly it bears
32:41witness to the death and resurrection of
32:43Jesus and the coming of the New
32:45Testament to the new covenant by which
32:47the broken relationship caused by sin the
32:50failure to keep the Torah could be
32:52mended and the coming of the new
32:54covenant revelation will replace the
32:56Torah dispensation and fulfill the
32:59prophecy of Jeremiah chapter 31 which
33:03brings us to the next question about
33:05the night of self-perfection through
33:08Torah study which is what the rabbis
33:11say that you should do you should do
33:13actually I don't know whether it's
33:14tonight or tomorrow night I think it's
33:15probably tomorrow night but maybe it is
33:18tonight anyway you're supposed to spend
33:20the whole night studying the Torah 24
33:22hours I don't know 24 hours the whole
33:26night studying the Torah and it's
33:28described as being an act of self
33:30perfection on the night of Shavuot
33:34now if you go back to the Torah you find
33:37that the Torah brought the law which
33:39humans should keep but don't and Moses
33:44brings the Torah to the people of
33:46Israel he reads it to them Exodus 24 and
33:50he tells them to respond to it and they
33:52say all that the Lord has said we will do
33:53we will do and be obedient promise to
33:57keep it do you think they meant it yeah I
34:00think they did because generally when
34:03you're confronted with God in some way
34:05and you have this kind of thing you may be
34:07moved to say yes this is true we're going
34:10to keep it did they keep it no in fact
34:14within a pretty short time they were
34:17dancing around the golden calf and
34:19interesting when the golden calf
34:21incident was resolved and Moses came
34:23down 3,000 people were slain on that day
34:27interesting 3,000 people were slain after
34:29the giving of the Torah 3,000 people were
34:32saved after the giving of the Holy Spirit
34:35so as we said the idea is that you
34:40will study the Torah and the studying
34:42the Torah is the way to self-perfection
34:44the Shavuot night learning is called
34:49Tikkun Leel Shavuot which means an act
34:52of self-perfection on the night of
34:54Shavuot so Jewish teaching is that you
34:58can reach perfection self-perfection by
35:00studying the Torah and therefore become
35:04a perfect human being do you think that
35:08happens has it happened to you no not to
35:14me and the problem is that no matter how
35:19diligent or sincere you may be you can't
35:23actually obtain perfection through
35:26studying the Torah or indeed through
35:28studying the Bible on its own and in
35:32fact doing this you're putting people in
35:34bondage to works theology which can never
35:37bring salvation and you're condemning
35:40people to actually be condemned because
35:41no matter how hard you try you're never
35:43going to meet perfection and you're
35:45always going to fall short of the glory
35:46of God because that's the human
35:48condition all of sinned and come short of
35:51the glory of God as Paul wrote in the
35:53book of Romans and in Galatians chapter 2
35:57Paul wrote verse 16 a man is not justified by
36:00works of the law but by faith in Yeshua
36:02Hamashiach Jesus the Messiah even we have
36:06believed in Christ Jesus that we might be
36:07justified by faith in Messiah and not by
36:10the works of the law for by the works of
36:12the law no flesh shall be justified so by
36:16trying to keep the law and by trying to
36:17keep all the commandments you will not be
36:19justified before God whether you're an
36:21orthodox Jew or whether you're a Christian
36:23trying to save yourself by doing good works
36:25and by being a perfect human being you're
36:28always going to fail because the new
36:31covenant message is a message of God's
36:34grace and how we're justified with God by
36:36repentance and faith in the Messiah now
36:40the Torah itself was a great gift from God it
36:43showed us what was right and wrong what's
36:44good and evil and the Ten Commandments in
36:48particular should be a basis for society and
36:51for people keeping those commandments so
36:53that they will keep in God's way and keep
36:55a good order in the society and we can see
36:58that the breaking of the Ten Commandments
36:59in our time is one of the reasons why
37:02there's so much disorder so much crime so
37:04much strife and so much misery in our
37:07society but the problem is that we do keep
37:10we do break these commandments that's why
37:12you need a new covenant and in the book of
37:16Jeremiah chapter 31 God promised exactly
37:18that was going to come Jeremiah 31 verse 31
37:21says behold the days are coming says the
37:25Lord when I will make a new covenant with
37:27the house of Israel with the house of
37:28Judah not according to the covenant I made
37:31with their fathers in the day that I took
37:32them by the hand to lead them out of
37:33Egypt my covenant which they broke though I
37:36was a husband to them says the Lord but
37:39this is the covenant I will make with the
37:40house of Israel after those days says the
37:42Lord I put my law in their minds and write
37:44it on their hearts and I will be their God
37:46and they should be my people no more shall
37:49every man teach his neighbor and every man
37:51his brother saying know the Lord for they
37:52shall all know me from the least of them to
37:54the greatest of them says the Lord for I
37:56will forgive their iniquity and their sin I
37:58will remember no more so in Jeremiah 31
38:02written some how many years before Jesus
38:06came about 700 years before Jesus came
38:08there's a promise here of something called
38:10the new covenant and when Jesus came and
38:12he broke the bread and gave the wine he
38:14said this is the new covenant in my blood
38:16which is shed for many so Jesus identified
38:20himself with the new covenant and in this
38:23passage in Jeremiah God finds fault with
38:25the covenant he made with Moses not that
38:28he finds fault with the covenant itself
38:29because it was good and it was given by
38:31him he finds fault with the human being's
38:33ability to keep that commandment there's
38:35that covenant and in fact most of the
38:38Hebrew scriptures what we call the Old
38:41Testament is an account of how Israel
38:43continually failed to keep with the
38:45covenant they went down then they went
38:48up then they went down then they went up
38:49and it's a story of repeated failure but
38:54also of repentance and restoration as
38:56well so this is part of the human
38:59condition if you like and it also applies
39:02to believers in Yeshua the Messiah but he
39:05says it's going to be replaced this
39:07covenant with Moses is going to be
39:08replaced with something different and
39:10what is different is going to be a
39:12covenant in which God is going to put
39:13my laws in their minds write it on their
39:15hearts okay so with the giving of the
39:19Old Testament the the Torah the Ten
39:21Commandments in particular they were
39:22written on tablets of stone now God's
39:25saying going to write this law upon the
39:27hearts of human beings how would God
39:30write his law upon the hearts of human
39:31beings well according to the New
39:34Testament if you believe in Jesus you
39:36are born again of the Holy Spirit and
39:38the Holy Spirit comes into your life and
39:40writes God's law upon your heart you
39:42have a conscience and a recognition of
39:45what God's law is you may not even
39:47always keep it but there is a recognition
39:49through being born again of the new
39:51birth and the presence of the Holy
39:54Spirit in the life of the believer
39:55which we don't want to grieve because
39:57it's separates us from God and which
40:00points us to the laws given by the Lord
40:02goes on to say I will be their God and
40:06they should be my people and more shall
40:08every man teach his neighbor every man
40:10his brother saying know the Lord they
40:11shall know me from the least of them to
40:13the greatest of them so he's saying
40:17here that in this new covenant there's
40:18going to be a promise given to people
40:19that you can know the Lord you can have
40:21a personal relationship with God not
40:23that you know everything about God
40:25obviously not that you fully understand
40:27him but there is a connection between
40:29you and God which has been opened up
40:31through the new covenant and he goes on
40:34to say I will forgive their iniquity and
40:36their sin I remember no more what is it
40:38which separates us from God it's our
40:40sin God is holy we're not therefore
40:42there's a separation between us and God
40:44so we're going to come to know the Lord
40:46something has to be done about our sin
40:47and when Jesus died on the cross he was
40:50the final sacrifice for the sin of the
40:52world so if we repent and believe the
40:54gospel then we can come into the
40:55presence of God have a relationship with
40:57God which can't be broken because God
41:00has come now to live within us by the
41:02Holy Spirit
41:02now anybody here had that experience
41:07coming to know the Lord having God's
41:09law written in your heart having your
41:11sins forgiven how do you come to that
41:14by studying the Torah or by receiving
41:18salvation through Jesus the Messiah and
41:21receiving the Holy Spirit well it's
41:24obvious which is the answer isn't it
41:26and the New Testament he says he already
41:29pointed out the law on its own cannot
41:31save you and in Romans chapter 7 you
41:34have a great passage in which Paul
41:35describes the struggle within his own
41:37life between the flesh and the spirit
41:38says the good things I want to do I don't
41:40do and the bad things I don't want to do I
41:42do and he says there's this battle going
41:45on all the time between the law between
41:47the flesh and the spirit he says the law is
41:49good but I don't keep it so there is a
41:52battle going on inside his life and if
41:55you can identify with that sometimes
41:58you ever find that there is a battle
42:00going on between the flesh and the
42:01spirit and that you don't always follow
42:03the spirit that sometimes the flesh gets
42:05in and you do things which are in the
42:06flesh and which you sorry about
42:08afterwards this battles there all the
42:10time the battle between the law and the
42:12spirit but if you come to faith in
42:16Yeshua then he can give you a place of
42:20peace that if you break God's
42:22commandments there's always a way back
42:24you don't have to stay flat on the
42:26floor if we confess our sins he's
42:29faithful and just to forgive us our
42:30sins and the blood of Jesus cleanses us
42:31from all iniquity and in Romans chapter
42:348 Paul writes there's therefore no
42:36condemnation to those who are in Christ
42:37Jesus who do not walk according to the
42:39flesh but according to the spirit or the
42:42spirit of life in Jesus Christ Jesus has
42:44made me free from the law of sin and
42:45death what the law could not do in
42:48that it was weak through the flesh God
42:49did by sending his own son in the
42:51likeness of sinful flesh on account of
42:53sin he condemned sin in the flesh that
42:55the righteous requirement of the law
42:57might be fulfilled in us who do not
42:59walk according to the flesh but
43:01according to the spirit so because
43:04Jesus came and he lived a perfect life
43:07without sin God is able to put the sin
43:10of the world upon Jesus and we can
43:13receive forgiveness and new life
43:15through faith in him we can now live a
43:18life in which there is no condemnation if
43:20you do feel under condemnation and
43:23sometimes we all do it's very simple
43:26what you do is you ask God to forgive
43:28you for whatever sin you've done which
43:29has caused you to feel under
43:30condemnation and you plead the blood of
43:33Jesus who was shed for you and you
43:35receive forgiveness and you're no longer
43:37under condemnation and actually God
43:38separates you as far as the east is from
43:40the west from your sins you know
43:42sometimes people commit some big sin and
43:45they they're flat out they think oh I
43:46can't God won't know me anymore which is
43:49wrong thinking if we commit some big sin
43:52yes we can be sorry God's not happy
43:55about it but we can also put it right
43:57easily through faith in Jesus the
43:58Messiah and know that there is now no
44:00condemnation to those who are in Christ
44:02Jesus we're free not because we have
44:05done good things to cancel out our bad
44:08things but because Jesus has done one
44:10good thing to die on the cross as a
44:12sacrifice for our sin so that we can be
44:14redeemed and Paul goes on to say we are
44:17not in the flesh but in the spirit of
44:18indeed the spirit of God dwells in you
44:20now indeed if anyone does not have the
44:22spirit of Christ he is not his if Christ
44:24is in you the body is dead because of
44:26sin but the spirit of life because of
44:28righteousness if the spirit of him who
44:30raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you
44:32he who raised Christ from the dead will
44:34also give life to your mortal body
44:35through his spirit who dwells in you
44:38so that's the message which has come
44:42out now from the day of Pentecost
44:45began with Pentecost when God began to
44:48bring together a new people made of
44:50Jews and Gentiles who repent and believe
44:52in the Jewish Messiah Yeshua Hamashiach
44:54and the message has to go out to both
44:59Jew and Gentile came from the Jewish
45:02people the last days it's going to go
45:03back to many Jewish people coming to
45:05Yeshua the Messiah but in the meantime we
45:08have to carry it out to the people
45:09around about us whoever they are and to
45:12show them there is life in Jesus the
45:14Messiah and there's also no
45:15condemnation to those who are in the
45:17Messiah Yeshua finally I did mention the
45:21book of Ruth times going on so I'm not
45:23going to go a detailed study of the book
45:24of Ruth but it is said that in the in
45:28the in the Jewish understanding of what
45:32happens at Shavuot they read the book
45:33of Ruth if you've read the book of Ruth
45:36you know it's a kind of pastoral story
45:37about people living in the time of the
45:41judges in first of all in Bethlehem
45:44a man called Elimelech has a wife called
45:47Naomi and he goes with her his two sons
45:51to Moab in a time of famine in the land
45:57of Bethlehem so Moab just across the
46:00Jordan River in what's today the land of
46:02Jordan so he goes from Bethlehem across
46:05the river into Jordan and he lives there
46:08with his wife and he dies his sons marry
46:12two Moabite ladies one called Oprah one
46:16called Ruth and then the sons die and it's
46:20all disaster really and Naomi's had enough
46:24and she says I've heard that the famine's
46:27over in Bethlehem so I'm going to go back
46:28to Bethlehem and he she tells her two
46:32daughters daughters-in-law to stay in
46:36in Moab he says I'm too old to give you
46:40sons so you'll have to find yourself
46:42husbands sorry I'm too old to give you
46:45husbands so you're gonna have to find
46:47yourself husbands from your own people
46:49and Oprah says yeah I'll go back but
46:51Ruth says the famous words which you find
46:54in the passage here Ruth said entreat me
46:59not to leave you or turn back from you
47:01following after you forever you go
47:03wherever you go I will go wherever you
47:05lodge I will lodge your people should be
47:07my people and your God my people where
47:10you die I will die there I will be
47:12buried the Lord do so to me and more
47:14also if anything but death parts you and
47:17me so Ruth identifies not just with Naomi
47:21her mother-in-law but also with Naomi's
47:24people and with Naomi's God and says
47:26your God should be my God so she becomes
47:29a type if you like of the convert from
47:31the Gentiles to Judaism to the God of
47:33Israel and the rabbis actually explain
47:37this says she's a type of the Gentile
47:38convert to the God of Israel and the
47:41rabbis say Shavuot commemorates the
47:43acceptance of the Torah by the Jewish
47:45people and the book of Ruth describes
47:46the acceptance of the Torah by a single
47:48individual through an act of
47:50conversion as much as we were all
47:53converts at Mount Sinai her experience
47:54is a reminder to us that we all Jews
47:57only thanks to our own act of Torah
47:58acceptance Judaism is not a racial
48:01trait and is not automatic to everyone
48:02at the bottom it is based on conversion
48:05and Torah acceptance even for the
48:07children of Abraham so that's a
48:09rabbinic statement saying that if you
48:11want to be a real Jew you have to
48:13accept the Torah so if you're a liberal
48:15or a secular Jew then you're not really a
48:18Jew which many of the Orthodox actually
48:21say based on Torah acceptance and they
48:26see the Ruth as a type of making this
48:29act of conversion and as a type of the
48:31Gentile who comes to faith in the God of
48:34Israel of which there are many in the in
48:36the Old Testament and she becomes a
48:40convert and follows the God of Israel
48:43in the Christian explanation of the
48:48story when they get back to Bethlehem
48:51Ruth goes looking for something to do
48:59something to earn some money and she
49:01finds a field where she goes and reaps
49:04the gleanings from the field which is
49:09actually what we read about way back at
49:11the beginning of this talk talking about
49:12what happens at the time of Leviticus
49:14turns out the field belongs to a rich man
49:17called Boaz who's a near relative and
49:20Boaz takes pity upon her and through a
49:23series of events ends up marrying her and
49:26having a son called Obed who has a son
49:28called Eshai Jesse who has a son called
49:31David so Boaz becomes like a kinsman
49:36redeemer who brings this Gentile woman
49:39who is a stranger and outcast right into
49:42the heart of the people of Israel and
49:44not only just under the heart of the
49:45people of Israel but even into Jewish
49:47history by becoming the great
49:49grandmother of Israel's greatest king
49:51King David himself is an ancestor of
49:54the Messiah so you have this messianic
49:57connection with Ruth and from the
49:59Christian point of view Boaz becomes the
50:01kinsman redeemer who raises up this
50:04Gentile woman from being a poor outcast to
50:06being a valued member of the community and
50:09ancestor of King David and therefore of
50:11the Messiah which speaks to us of our
50:13redemption as being outcasts outside of
50:16the kingdom of God coming into it through
50:19the redemption power of Yeshua Jesus the
50:22Messiah it speaks to us about when an
50:25individual turns to God in faith then God
50:28also provides salvation for that individual
50:31through Yeshua Jesus the Messiah Ruth made the
50:34step of commitment to identify with the God
50:36of Israel but the God of Israel then sent
50:39Boaz to redeem her and to bring her into
50:42the people of Israel so we make our step
50:44towards God through faith in him but God
50:48makes his step towards us through giving us
50:50redemption through Yeshua Jesus the Messiah
50:52and we need that mediator because we can't
50:55come to a holy God on ourself because we all
50:57fall short of the glory of God so we need
50:59someone who's without sin to take the
51:00punishment for our sins to lay down his life
51:02as a sacrifice for our sins and so Boaz makes a
51:07big sacrifice actually to take Ruth into his
51:10family and to have the child through him and so you
51:16have this concept of redemption and it's
51:19interesting that in the book of Ruth the word
51:21redeem and redeemer comes I don't remember how
51:24many times but many times the word goel which
51:27means redeemer ga'al to redeem is a word which is
51:30said over and over again in the book of Ruth so
51:33it's speaking about redemption redemption being
51:36brought back from the slave market of sin in the
51:38New Testament sense into a relationship with God
51:40through Yeshua Jesus the Messiah and beyond that it
51:44speaks about the redeemed community made up of Jews
51:46and Gentiles who accept salvation through Yeshua
51:49through Jesus the Messiah who fulfilled the prophecies and
51:52types of the Old Testament to become a redeemer and in doing that
51:56we're saved by faith not by works of the law and so Ruth is
52:02redeemed and brought out of her position as a lonely outcast into the
52:05community to play a vital part in the redemption of Israel and
52:10become an ancestress of David and therefore of the Messiah so through our
52:15great redeemer and the Messiah Yeshua we whether we're Jewish or Gentile can
52:20be brought into the family of God the family of the God of Israel who's also our
52:24creator and our redeemer and will be also our judge through the Messiah Yeshua so
52:31people are redeemed through Yeshua whether Jewish or Gentile and become the
52:34people of God with a glorious future in the Messiah so that brings us together
52:40coming to a conclusion you can see that this account in the the Bible has a lot
52:46of connections with what happened on the day of Pentecost on the day of
52:50Pentecost in the Old Testament time the law was given in the New Testament time the
52:56Holy Spirit was given to write the law upon the hearts of those who believe in
53:00Jesus the Messiah to give us new life in Jesus the Messiah Torah brought the people of
53:07Israel into being a people under God giving the Holy Spirit brings Jews and
53:13Gentiles together as the people under God in the new institution which is the not
53:18institution whatever you call it the body which is the ecclesia or the called out
53:23ones or the church of Jesus the Messiah and so Pentecost and the gift of the
53:30Holy Spirit are closely connected to the Jewish festival of Shavuot despite the
53:35claim of the rabbi that the two have nothing in common the Torah was given at
53:39Mount Sinai and it's good to study it but we need something more we need
53:43redemption through Yeshua and the gift of the Holy Spirit to bring us to God to
53:47write the law of God on our hearts through Yeshua and the new covenant as we've seen
53:53Jesus rose on the day of the feast of Bikurim and the feast of which was the
53:59first fruits of the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15 which began the countdown to
54:05the 50th day which was Shavuot when the Holy Spirit was given on the day of
54:10Shavuot or Pentecost the Holy Spirit was given the gospel was preached and 3,000
54:15people were saved on that day so through the Holy Spirit we have to allow God to
54:22sanctify us to make us pleasing in his sight as we live our lives according to
54:26the law of the Messiah to love the Lord our God of our neighbor as ourself and to
54:31walk in his ways and be fruitful to him and it's a beautiful picture if you like
54:36of God's purposes being weaved into history being weaved into the scriptures and
54:41being fulfilled in Jesus the Messiah and as you study the Bible you can see there
54:45are so many parallels so many things in the Hebrew scriptures which point us to
54:49Yeshua as the Messiah that really we need to pray that our Jewish people our
54:56neighbors around about us have their eyes open to this truth because without
55:00Yeshua actually they can study however much they like but they never reach to
55:04perfection they never reach to really knowing the Holy God only through
55:08Yeshua Jesus the Messiah who has fulfilled all these prophecies and is
55:12himself the Passover lamb who takes away the sin of the world so believe in
55:18Yeshua the Messiah trust in him and know that you can know that your sins are
55:22forgiven you have the law of God written in your hearts and you come to know God
55:27who loves you and cares for you and who made you and he wants to give you
55:30eternal life with him in glory praise the Lord hallelujah let's just have a word of
55:37prayer Lord we thank you that we have got salvation through Yeshua the Messiah we
55:41thank you that it's all written in your scriptures thank you to all doves tales
55:44together even in this account of the feast of Shavuot and how it connects to the
55:51Pentecost and the gift of the Holy Spirit Lord we thank you that we have been born
55:56again of your Holy Spirit we pray Lord that your law may be written in our hearts
55:59that we may keep your law walk in your commandments do your will and also we pray
56:04for our Jewish friends Lord that you'll open their eyes to the fact that they can
56:08never attain to perfection through study of the Torah but only through Yeshua
56:12Jesus the Messiah and we pray Lord for their salvation and for the salvation of
56:17the people all the people around about us that they may see that there is a new
56:21covenant which you've made through which we can know God personally have our
56:25sins forgiven and have eternal life in Yeshua Jesus the Messiah Amen
56:29Amen
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