1 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:10,800 Want to first off. Extend my welcome to anybody. 2 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,100 That's visiting this morning. Thank you for being here with 3 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:18,500 us. My name is Steve Atkinson. 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:27,300 I'm an elder candidate here and I thank you for the opportunity 5 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,600 to be able to stand before you this morning. 6 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:38,600 Kyle's mention of the major change in our country. 7 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:47,900 This week is a super wind story but when I began this journey of 8 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,700 being an elder candidate, One of the things that I wanted to do 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,600 was to be open and honest and share with you what I was going 10 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:03,000 through, what changes God was making in my life what God was 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,700 doing. And and I want to share 12 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:13,200 something from with you, that should me is one of the biggest 13 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,800 wind stories in my life that's ever been that happened last 14 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,800 Sunday, Father's Day. I have shared with you all that. 15 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:26,600 I have two sons. Who are prodigals? 16 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:32,200 Who have one son in jail? I have one son. 17 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:38,400 That is still making bad decisions but praise the Lord. 18 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:45,300 Last Sunday for the first time in probably close to 15 years. 19 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,600 I heard from all three of my children. 20 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,700 And it was it was an amazing day and thank God for for his grace, 21 00:01:57,100 --> 00:02:01,800 thank God for his answered prayers so I have I have 22 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:06,800 communication with them. Now, let's Megan's heart. 23 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:09,699 She's my bonus daughter. I get to see her and talk with 24 00:02:09,699 --> 00:02:13,500 her all the time, but but the boys live in Georgia and I don't 25 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:15,900 get to see them and talk to them. 26 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:19,100 So at least God has now opened up. 27 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,500 Up communication with them. And I am just so incredibly 28 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:28,000 thankful and I wanted to share that with you my family this 29 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,400 morning. So we're into summer. 30 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,800 How many have been to Florida already? 31 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:44,000 Can I ask you, why? It's, it's 200 degrees here in 32 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:51,100 the Magnolia and you go to Florida and lay out on the sand. 33 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:56,800 That is 200 degrees and you get in the water with things that 34 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:04,500 eat you that bites you that sting you, waves, that drag you 35 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:08,300 out into the ocean. I just I go for my grandkids. 36 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:19,500 I do My perfect vacation would be in the middle of the Arctic 37 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:28,100 Circle in a, in a log, cabin with a fireplace with a cup of 38 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:33,600 coffee endless, cup of coffee, and a stack of books and read 39 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:36,000 that would be my perfect vacation. 40 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,700 But that is one thing that God made totally different between 41 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:46,900 Sondra and I Is that just does that's not going to work and I 42 00:03:46,908 --> 00:03:51,900 do not ever see me being able to fulfill my perfect vacation. 43 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:59,600 So anyway, thank y'all for letting me share that with you 44 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,400 bless each. One of you that have to work out 45 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,500 in the heat every day. Y'all take care of yourselves to 46 00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:08,800 make sure you drink a lot of water, do all those things that 47 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,400 you're supposed to. So enough of all All that. 48 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:19,300 We're going to continue this morning in our series that we've 49 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:26,000 entitled aligning ourselves with God's heart and you would turn 50 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:32,800 with me to Psalms 131. Psalms 131. 51 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,800 And if you are able, I'd ask that you stand with me as we 52 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:50,500 read God's word. A song of ascents of David. 53 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:54,400 Oh Lord. My heart is not lifted up. 54 00:04:55,500 --> 00:05:01,300 My eyes are not raised too high. I do not occupy myself with 55 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:03,900 things too great and too marvelous for me. 56 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,400 But I have calmed and quieted my soul like a weaned child with 57 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,100 his mother. Like a weaned child is my soul 58 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:15,800 Within Me. Oh Israel. 59 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:20,900 Hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. 60 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:25,400 Let me pray for us real quick. Father, I thank you for this 61 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,600 time. We have to gather this morning. 62 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:34,700 I thank you for your presence here with us this morning. 63 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:41,700 I pray father that your word today would be real. 64 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:47,200 And that we would be able to internalize this teaching. 65 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:56,300 Father, I pray that you take. The words that that I have 66 00:05:56,300 --> 00:06:01,500 written and use them for your glory. 67 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:09,800 Father, I pray that they come out is words of your wisdom and 68 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:16,400 not of anything that I've done. I pray now, father is, as we get 69 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,500 into this that you you give me calmness. 70 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:27,700 Give me breath to be able to speak boldly for you. 71 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:32,000 Father, we ask that all these things in Jesus name, amen. 72 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:37,700 The title of our lesson. This morning, our scripture, 73 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:40,100 this morning is calm trust in the Lord. 74 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,300 I think if you look over those three verses that we just read 75 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:54,700 is pretty obvious that these verses are filled with feelings 76 00:06:54,700 --> 00:07:01,300 of Tranquility of symbolism of peacefulness and serenity. 77 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:09,100 But there's a statement that comes before verse 1 that I want 78 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:13,900 us to take a look at when I sat down and started, pray it over 79 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:21,600 how I was going to preach this. I kept coming back to this. 80 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:27,000 Introduction. This this sentence before verse 81 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:37,600 1, a song of ascents of David, you know, every word every 82 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,500 statement, Every jot, every Tittle. 83 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:48,500 And our Bible has a purpose and that purpose is the word of God. 84 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,700 We miss a lot. When we, when we skip over 85 00:07:56,300 --> 00:08:01,600 things, when we're reading a lot of times we get in a hurry and 86 00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:06,200 and I specially, I'll admit this, I do this when I'm reading 87 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,600 reading, something that was written by Paul, Paul tends to 88 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,000 be extremely wordy in. His introductions is 89 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,400 introductions, can be 10 or 12 verses long and I kind of tend 90 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:26,300 to go and get down to the meat and then when I get to the end 91 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:34,000 of that book, he starts talking about until Bob, hello and tell 92 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,400 so-and-so that I said this and so and so that I said they had 93 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:45,200 in and so I just kind of skip through all that you start your 94 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:52,000 Bible reading plan in January. You've got these great plans. 95 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,700 I'm going to read this read the Bible through this year. 96 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,400 You start off in January and read these awesome stories about 97 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,500 what God has done. You read these stories about his 98 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:10,100 power and him creating the world and him read about the 99 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:17,300 Israelites in Egypt. You read about how he has how he 100 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:24,200 brings them out of Egypt. and then you get to Leviticus and 101 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,700 it's like, oh boy. So then you've got to kind of 102 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:34,000 power through. Also, what about when you get to 103 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 those times when you're reading in your Bible of those 104 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,900 genealogies? Page after page of words that 105 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:45,900 you can understand, you can't pronounce, you have no idea what 106 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:51,300 they mean, but they're there. You know, why they're there. 107 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,600 Because God put them there, God, put them there for a reason. 108 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:05,900 So, when I started to try to put this together this morning, And 109 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:10,100 I looked at those three verses and I kept coming back to the 110 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:13,000 idea that those are pretty plain. 111 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,600 Those are pretty well, understandable, just as they 112 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,400 are. But what about this sentence up 113 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,800 here? I kept coming back to this. 114 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:30,500 A song of a sense of David, So we're going to camp out there 115 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:36,500 for a little bit and and this is coming from my heart. 116 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:41,500 I'm kind of a feast of Israel nerd. 117 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:46,200 I love to study the feasts of Israel. 118 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:53,500 I love to study the customs of the Israelites of the Jews 119 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,300 because I think it has a huge impact on what we read in our 120 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:01,600 Bibles. I think we misunderstand a lot 121 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:08,500 of things because we don't understand or we don't we don't 122 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:12,000 take the time to study what they mean. 123 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,200 So we're going to go over a few of these. 124 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:19,000 I want to try not to take too long but but I do have to start 125 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Receive this. the statement, a song of ascents of David a 126 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,600 sense, Is Jerusalem set up on a hill. 127 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:37,100 So three times a year, the Israelites were required to go 128 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:40,300 to Jerusalem and so they were required. 129 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:42,500 To walk up this hill to Jerusalem. 130 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,300 These songs of a sense were written for the Israelites to 131 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:53,300 sing those songs as they walked up the hill as they enter 132 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:58,800 Jerusalem. There's 15 of them and they're 133 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,600 all between Psalms 120 in Psalms 134. 134 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,200 The authorship of these. Four of these are attributed to 135 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,500 David. One of them is attributed to 136 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:13,100 Solomon and did the the rest of them are anonymous. 137 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:22,700 There are a total of seven feasts that God gave to the 138 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:30,100 Israelites at at Mount Sinai. And for those of you who are 139 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:36,800 born and bred Magnolia ins these feasts, do not include the 140 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:43,600 Blossom Festival. Okay, exact does not nor does it 141 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,600 include. I found this out yesterday nor 142 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,300 does it include the purple. Hull peas, purple, Hull, peas, 143 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:54,600 Festival, get in trouble saying that but there are, as I said, 144 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,400 there's seven Feasts. There are four feasts that were 145 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,000 in the spring and there were three in the fall. 146 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:09,500 The force Feast from the spring, all point to the coming of 147 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:14,000 Jesus. The three feasts in the fall. 148 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,800 All point to his second coming. Okay. 149 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:26,000 So we've got the three feasts that we are going to look at 150 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,800 today. That are the reason that the 151 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,700 Israelites were going to Jerusalem are the Feast of 152 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:37,900 unleavened bread. Which is actually a part of the 153 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:43,700 week-long feast. We know is Passover, the Feast 154 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:47,000 of Weeks. The Feast of Weeks. 155 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:54,700 We know that as Pentecost And then the Feast of booths or 156 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:57,600 Tabernacles, which is a fall feast. 157 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,700 Now, before we get into this, I want to, I want to just quickly 158 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:08,200 explain types and shadows and and topology. 159 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,800 I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but typology is a 160 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:18,200 Christian form of biblical interpretation that proceeds on 161 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:23,700 the assumption that God placed, anticipations of Christ, in the 162 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:30,400 laws of events, and people of the Old Testament, Basically. 163 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:35,500 All that means, is that what God put in the Old Testament points 164 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:41,000 to Jesus? Okay, an easy example of this 165 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,500 that we can all understand. Everybody's heard of Jonah, 166 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:48,300 Jonah, spent three days in the belly of the whale. 167 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,100 What else do we know that happened in three days? 168 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:55,900 Jesus rose from the grave and three days. 169 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:03,600 So Jonah was a type of Christ that the shadow was fulfilled. 170 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:08,700 In Jesus is resurrection from the grave and three days. 171 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:17,400 There's a lot of these types and shadows that happened in the Old 172 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:24,700 Testament, New Testament. But, and some of these are just 173 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:29,500 absolutely amazing. And as I said earlier, I think 174 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:34,700 we miss a great deal if we don't understand these these Feast, 175 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:38,500 because if you if, when you're reading your Bible, if you'll 176 00:15:38,500 --> 00:15:43,000 look, you'll see that that feasts are mentioned constantly 177 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:50,000 or something around the feast or the Jews are required to To do 178 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:55,000 this sacrifice, or they're required to do this. 179 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:59,500 All of this comes from the Old Testament in every bit of that 180 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:04,000 points to Jesus. And what I'm going to try to do 181 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,700 this morning is show you how we can take this. 182 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,100 That we're going to look at and how these three verses that 183 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:15,200 we've looked at points directly to Jesus. 184 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:21,600 Let's take a few minutes and we're going to chase a couple of 185 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,900 rabbit Trails. I want to look at first off the 186 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:32,800 Feast of unleavened bread. Which is part of what we know as 187 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:38,600 Passover. This Feast we know that it 188 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:43,400 commemorates the passing over of the Death Angel and the freeing 189 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,600 of the Israelites from bondage, you remember on the appointed 190 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,700 evening, the Israelites sacrificed a lamb, they place 191 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:57,300 the blood above the doorposts and on the side post of their 192 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,200 their doors so that the death angel would pass over them, 193 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:07,700 Sperry death in their family. You know the story Pharaoh, 194 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:11,099 finally changes its mind, and let's the Israelites of go after 195 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:16,700 this. And then in Exodus 12, the Lord 196 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:22,000 gives the instructions for the Passover Festival, while the 197 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:28,200 Israelites are still in Egypt. The festival is referred to or 198 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,900 as part of it as the Feast of unleavened bread because 199 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:37,900 Israelites were told to make bread without leaven so that the 200 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:41,800 bread because the bread would not have time to rise quickly 201 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:47,600 enough before they left. No, we talked about that. 202 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,300 Let me, let's talk about the Fulfillment of Passover. 203 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,000 The land that was to be sacrificed was brought into the 204 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,700 house and inspected for a week to ensure that it was 205 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:04,100 unblemished. Remember Jesus, the ultimate 206 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:08,900 Passover Lamb came into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday a week 207 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:14,900 before his crucifixion teaching and Performing miracles to 208 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:17,600 prove. He was the Passover Lamb and 209 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,300 Eddie would be sacrificed for the Redemption of God's people. 210 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Exodus 12 46 says, it shall be eaten referring to the Passover 211 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,900 Lamb in one house. You shall not take any of the 212 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:38,000 flesh outside the house. You shall not break any of its 213 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:43,000 bones. We know that during all of 214 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,600 Jesus's passion the beatings the crucifixion. 215 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:54,900 No bone was broken. The unleavened bread Levin is 216 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:59,300 used many times in the Bible, symbolically is sin. 217 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:07,600 If Levin is put into a lump of dough, it will permeate the 218 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:15,700 entire loaf. Just as Sin will spread in a 219 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:21,300 person in a church or a nation of each really overwhelming and 220 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:25,700 bringing its participants into its bondage and eventually 221 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:29,900 death. During the celebration of this 222 00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:35,100 Festival of the years after the Exodus of of Egypt, the 223 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:39,600 Israelites were required to remove every single remnant of 224 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,000 Levin from their houses and remembrance of The Exodus But 225 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:50,600 this task is impossible because Levin is a powder and it becomes 226 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,400 airborne and becomes impossible to remove from the house. 227 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,800 This process symbolizes the the process of us attempting to 228 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:05,500 remove all Sin from our lives. It's an impossible task without 229 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:07,700 the intervention of Jesus Christ. 230 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,700 Now, even though I was surprised to see this, but even though 231 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:18,200 there are Scholars, that have differing opinions, I believe 232 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,700 that Jesus used unleavened bread at the institution of The Last 233 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:27,800 Supper. In Matthew, 26, Matthew 14. 234 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,300 Luke 22. And First Corinthians is 235 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:33,700 recorded that Jesus says, this is my body. 236 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:40,900 It was Passover a time where Levin was not to be used. 237 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:47,300 So why would he use bread with leaven and more importantly? 238 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:53,900 If Levin was used in the bread that he used, he said this is my 239 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:58,400 body. Why would he say that? 240 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,400 This is my body if there was Levin there, that was 241 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,800 representative of sin because we know that there was no sin in 242 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,700 him. Let's look at the feast Feast of 243 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:12,900 Weeks and Pentecost. We know that Pentecost was 50 244 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:19,500 days after Passover. Jesus Is God, God's spirit 245 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:25,400 descended on Mount Sinai in Exodus 19 offering Israel to be 246 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:29,500 his treasured possession. Now if you'll carefully listen 247 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:33,900 to me and keep my Covenant, you will be my own possession out of 248 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:37,500 all the temples, although the holy Earth is mine. 249 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,300 So the Israelites are camped at Mount Sinai. 250 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:47,300 Moses goes up on Mount Sinai and meets God. 251 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,100 So, his presence is there of Mount Sinai? 252 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,100 God gives Moses the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20. 253 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:02,100 And he comes down and he finds his rear lights worshipping the 254 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:06,500 calf, so he breaks them and then he gets them again in chapter 255 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:12,300 34. There's a spiritual significance 256 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:19,200 to this Festival of weeks. There are two loaves that are of 257 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,900 leavened bread that are used as a wave offering as the 258 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:27,900 foreshadowing of the time, when the Messiah would make both Jew 259 00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:33,200 and Gentile to be as one. As I mentioned before, Levin and 260 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,800 scripture is often used symbolically of sin. 261 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:40,400 And the leaven bread used in the Feast of Weeks is thought to be 262 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,300 a representative of the fact that there was still sin within 263 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:52,500 the church and will be until Christ returns again. so in the 264 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:58,900 original Feast of Weeks or Pentecost God was God's presence 265 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:04,700 was there on Mount Sinai, but in the New Testament, 50 days after 266 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:10,100 the resurrection of Our Lord, The first fruits of the church 267 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:13,600 were gathered by Christ as some 3,000 people heard Peter 268 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:19,400 preached, the gospel after the Holy Spirit had empowered and 269 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,400 into wealth the disciples as promised with a promised 270 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,200 indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the first fruits of God's spirit 271 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:31,000 spiritual Harvest under the New Testament began. 272 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,200 So in the Old Testament, we have God's holy spirit. 273 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:43,000 Coming down on Mount Sinai and the Fulfillment of that being 274 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:49,300 the the giving of the Holy Spirit, the comforter 50 days 275 00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:55,200 after Jesus's. Resurrection, the Temple of our 276 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,500 excuse me, the Feast of the Tabernacles, that's a week-long 277 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:03,500 feast that begins with a collection of palm and Willow 278 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:07,000 branches to be used as a symbol of rejoicing before the law. 279 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:11,600 The purpose of the Feast of booths was to remember the 280 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:17,300 giving of the law and to renew the covenant made between Israel 281 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:23,500 in the Lord during the days of the feast all Native. 282 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:29,400 Israelites work to do well in actual booths and they made 283 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:34,400 those Boos from those palm branches that they gathered. 284 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,800 And that reminded them of their deliverance from the land of 285 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,400 Egypt and look to look forward to the coming of the Messiah. 286 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,500 Jesus Christ, who would deliver his people from the bondage of 287 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:52,600 sin. This Feast, like all the feasts 288 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,900 of Israel, consistently reminded the Jews and should remind 289 00:24:56,900 --> 00:25:00,500 Christians as well, that God has promised to deliver his people 290 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:03,900 from the bondage of sin and deliver them from their enemies. 291 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:11,100 Now, the Fulfillment of the Feast of booths. 292 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,500 First off, we have Palm Sunday. As I mentioned, one of the 293 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:19,600 things they did to build their booths was to gather palm 294 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,000 branches. So what did they do? 295 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,300 When Jesus was coming into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, they 296 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:32,900 laid those palm branches down as he came in on the back of a 297 00:25:32,908 --> 00:25:36,700 donkey. Here's Anna. 298 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:40,100 This is to me was an amazing thing that I had never heard 299 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:43,100 before. As part of the Feast of 300 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,500 Tabernacles, they had a ceremony that they called the 301 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:53,800 illumination of the temple. There were four seventy five 302 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,200 foot tall. Clint candelabras that stood in 303 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,000 what is known as the court of women. 304 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,900 Each candelabra had four branches. 305 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,300 And at the top of each branch was a 10 gallon Bowl, they had 306 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:14,600 young men that had bowls, that would climb these candelabras, 307 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:19,700 and fill those bowls with oil. And after those were filled, 308 00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:22,600 they would like those oils, those bowls. 309 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:30,200 So, you had 16 of these, huge bowls on top of this 75. 310 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:34,500 A foot candelabra there were that was lighting up the temple. 311 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,400 Jesus was referring to this ceremony. 312 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,900 When he declared in John 8, verse 12, I am the light of the 313 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:49,900 world whosoever follows. Me will not walk in darkness, 314 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:59,200 but will have the light of life. And lastly, the water ceremony. 315 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,400 During this ceremony, the priest would gather water from the pool 316 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,800 of Siloam and carry it to the temple where they would pour it 317 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:14,100 out with water mixed with wine. This was acted out. 318 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:19,700 This was an acted out prayer to God to bless the altar. 319 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,700 There are two examples of types and shadows here in this water 320 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:32,400 ceremony in John 7, beginning in verse 37 it says on the last day 321 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,600 of the feast the great day. Jesus stood up and cried out. 322 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,400 If anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink, whoever 323 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:46,100 believes in me, as the scripture has said out of his heart will 324 00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:51,100 flow, rivers of Living Water. So, the priests were taking 325 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:56,100 water from the pool of Siloam thinking it was a holy water, 326 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:03,200 thinking it would save them. But Jesus was there and say, I 327 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:09,100 am the Living Water. John 19:34 also says, but one of 328 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:14,100 the soldiers who pierced his side with a spear and at once 329 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:21,200 there came out blood and water. The priest used wine and water. 330 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:30,300 But in actuality on the cross came out blooded water. 331 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:38,100 Charles Spurgeon says that of Psalm 131, that it is one of the 332 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:42,100 shortest of the Psalms. But it takes the longest to 333 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:46,500 learn. We've taken this long and we 334 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:53,400 haven't even gotten to verse 1. So I told Sandra this this 335 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:58,100 morning, you're kind of laughing but I'm serious and I'll kind of 336 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,300 try to tie all this together within the next hour or two 337 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:09,200 because it might take that long. But seriously again of of Psalm 338 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:17,300 131 John Piper says, It is about a kind of commitment sentiment, 339 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:21,700 excuse me, contentment or Stillness, or quietness of soul 340 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:26,200 that is rooted, not in circumstances, but in God, a God 341 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,900 who never changes in his utter commitment to us in Christ. 342 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:35,300 Now, let's quickly will go over these three verses that we read 343 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:38,800 verse 10 Lord. My heart is not lifted up. 344 00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:43,100 My eyes are not raised too high, I do not occupy myself with 345 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:48,400 things too great, and too marvelous for me, it's General. 346 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,400 There are two kinds of Pride, the pride of having and the 347 00:29:53,400 --> 00:30:00,500 pride of wanting The pride of having is the pride of those who 348 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:06,000 think they have superiority. And it expresses itself that 349 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,700 boasting. The pride of wanting is the 350 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:14,800 pride of those who don't have superiority but wish they did 351 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,400 and continually crave others, attention and approval. 352 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:24,500 You might call it the pride of the strong and the pride of the 353 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:30,100 Tenon Pride can be very subtle cloaking itself with some 354 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:34,700 remarkably week looking form so that you will feel sorry for it 355 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:39,800 and see how much it's suffering and how unrecognized this virtue 356 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,400 is. But be careful. 357 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,700 You don't just see pride of the arrogant. 358 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,200 Cuz it's very often that that product exists in those who have 359 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,500 nothing to be prideful about. Craving only the attention and 360 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:57,400 approval of others to the point of stretching, the truth to make 361 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,200 themselves appear in their minds to be on the same level. 362 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:05,200 Many people term, this people-pleasing. 363 00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:10,100 Prideful souls are the strong and noisy. 364 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:15,200 Distressed. Pride manifested in people 365 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,800 Pleasers can be manifested in anxiety. 366 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:25,000 And harshness in Despair and in frustration. 367 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,900 Haughtiness. My eyes are not haughty. 368 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,900 As a CSV says, are raised too high, as the ESV says. 369 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:46,000 Why did you do it that way? If you had just done it my way, 370 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:47,600 we wouldn't be having this problem. 371 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,500 Hot. It is doesn't need any advice 372 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,900 from anyone. They don't want. 373 00:31:54,900 --> 00:32:01,900 All, haughty is proud, arrogant, conceited and self-important. 374 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:07,500 Remember remember how David had been anointed by Samuel? 375 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,700 He's been anointed as the next King when he was still a 376 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:17,200 Shepherd boy. Usually we see New Kings Ascend 377 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,600 to the throne, through the death of the raining key. 378 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:28,000 We see a lot of times that the throne is taken by force but 379 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:33,700 David waited David waited because he view that God had a 380 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:41,000 time for him to take the throne. I do not occupy myself with 381 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:46,000 things too great, and too marvelous for me, David refused 382 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,400 to be preoccupied with the things we do. 383 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:58,600 Not understand Spurgeon said of this, let us consider a while. 384 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:06,300 Is it not good for us to be puzzled and so forced to 385 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:12,300 exercise faith. David is committed to kill pride 386 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:17,200 in his life, from his heart, to his appearance. 387 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:23,600 To his actions pride is a great evil and David is determined to 388 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:31,900 renounce it at every level of his being verse to hear David 389 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:35,500 says, but I have calmed and quieted my soul like a weaned 390 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:40,400 child with his mother. Like a weaned child, is my soul 391 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,300 Within Me. So why does David use this 392 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:49,200 example? It would seem that a child would 393 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,900 be more calm and quiet before being renamed. 394 00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:56,400 Then after though, I'm not an expert in this, by any means, 395 00:33:57,900 --> 00:34:02,900 during the weaning process, the child is frustrated that he can 396 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:07,700 immediately get what he wants. He kicks, he screams he fusses, 397 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:12,900 but eventually he calms down and becomes used to the fact that 398 00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:18,199 his world has now changed. Just as the child has become 399 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:22,900 content. So as David, But how the world 400 00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:29,600 has set as set aside but how in the world has he set aside the 401 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:34,100 cares of the world and reached a point where he is calm in the 402 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:38,300 Lord? For most of us doing this is one 403 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:40,800 of the most difficult Journeys in our Christian Life. 404 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,600 We may not see adults, actually Kicking and Screaming as the 405 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,100 child to us. We do see these emotions 406 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:56,600 manifest themselves as worried as despair as anger and 407 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:01,100 confusion. But how did David reach this 408 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:04,200 point of calm and quiet rest in the Lord? 409 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:12,000 Here's a quote by Pastor from Alabama, is name is John English 410 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Lee. And he says, the short answer is 411 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:21,400 that you can't. You can't resolve yourself into 412 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,200 humility. You can't beat on your chest 413 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,100 enough times. You can't cry enough tears. 414 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:30,200 Say enough chance, read enough, books. 415 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:34,100 Listened to enough sermons to self, will yourself into a 416 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:37,400 quieted soul? Can the leopard change his 417 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,200 spots? God asked us in his word. 418 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,500 No more can the leopard change itself? 419 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:50,400 Then we can change our hearts. You can only and will only 420 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,900 produce lasting change in your heart. 421 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,100 By the work of God himself. God Is The Answer God, working 422 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,600 through his holy spirit, to replace that hottie Heart of 423 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:07,400 Stone and put in its place. A quiet at heart. 424 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:16,200 And the last verse o Israel hope in the Lord from this time forth 425 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,300 and forevermore. This is David's wish for Israel. 426 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:25,400 How can we rid ourselves of our soul of the noise clutter and 427 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,300 Chaos in this life? How can we calm and quiet? 428 00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:35,600 Our souls hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore 429 00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:42,800 Now I'm going to try to put all this together and see if I can 430 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,500 help you understand what I've been trying to say this morning. 431 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,700 Our discussion. This morning began with the type 432 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:54,000 shown in the three major feasts glorifying God for saving the 433 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,800 nation of Israel from Egyptian bondage. 434 00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:02,500 Then we see David as he writes of his Souls Tranquility. 435 00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:09,400 In Psalm 131, if we look at the Chronological Bible, and we know 436 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:15,400 that the Chronological Bible is close to being as accurate as we 437 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,700 know that it is. But it was interesting to me 438 00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:27,000 that when I looked at that and where I saw Psalm 131, excuse 439 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,600 me. Psalm 131, is placed right 440 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:39,500 before, Psalm 138 and 139, where David is writing Psalms to God 441 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:44,200 for thankfulness, he is praising God. 442 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:49,200 He is thanking God for Everything that is going on in 443 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:54,300 his life. Both of these are showing a 444 00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:59,500 peacefulness in his heart. But then according again, 445 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:04,600 according to the Chronological Bible, which we know is, I want 446 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,800 to stress. We just this is working in my 447 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:15,200 example, so, it's where I wanted, it is to go, but after 448 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:21,300 Jesus, after David wrote those two songs, he then writes Psalm 449 00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:27,100 143, Which is another cry to God for a time of Crisis and 450 00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:31,300 affliction because of God because of David's many animals 451 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:36,800 and we know that they've had many enemies in many wars in his 452 00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:42,700 in his reign. David's life was full of ups and 453 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:46,300 downs, peace and War. So we can know that the 454 00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:49,100 remainder of his life was not calm and quiet. 455 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,400 The god of the Old Testament is the same God of the New 456 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,200 Testament. Just plans laid out and 457 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,600 celebrated in the Old Testament, in the Feast of Passover 458 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:03,900 Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles culminated in the 459 00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:08,700 birth Life. Death burial and resurrection of 460 00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:13,700 Our Savior Jesus Christ. David only had temporary 461 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:18,000 Serenity of his soul. Just as our Serenity is only 462 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,500 fleeting without Christ. But we can have internal 463 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:29,300 calmness and quietness in our souls due to the Shadows of the 464 00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:35,000 Old Testament Feasts. And which are the sacrifice of 465 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:40,000 the unblemished Passover Lamb of God, the gift of the helper of 466 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,400 the comforter, the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and the words of 467 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:49,100 Jesus at the Feast of the Boost. I am the light of the world 468 00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:52,600 whosoever follows, me will not walk in darkness, but will have 469 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,900 the light of life. He also says, if anyone thirsts 470 00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:01,600 let him come to me and drink, whoever believes in me, as the 471 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,900 scripture has said out of his fault, heart will flow rivers of 472 00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:09,300 Living Water. Worship team. 473 00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:14,700 You guys can come on up. Are you looking for peace and 474 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:19,600 comfort at your soul? Jesus is put it into the 475 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:24,300 sacrificial system by offering himself up as the ultimate 476 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:29,700 unblemished final sacrifice. Putting it into the bead for the 477 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:35,000 Feast of the Passover. The father has provided a helper 478 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,800 in the form of the Holy Spirit. John 14:26 tells us, but the 479 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:44,200 helper the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in my name. 480 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:49,200 He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all 481 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:53,100 that I said to you putting an end to the Deep for the Feast of 482 00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:56,900 Pentecost. Jesus offers to be your light, 483 00:40:56,900 --> 00:41:01,100 to keep you from darkness and your living water to keep you 484 00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:04,100 from thirst. Putting an end to the need for 485 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:08,900 the Feast of booths. Once you accept Jesus offer of 486 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:14,500 Salvation today, the offer of a calm and quiet soul. 487 00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:21,000 If you've got any questions or would like to talk Kyle, Jasper 488 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,200 Allen, James myself, we're available to talk with you 489 00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:28,600 Anytime Anyplace. Thank you.