1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard www.GraceDoctrine.org Sunday, June 8, 2014

2. Prov 3:5, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.”

3. The Feast of Pentecost

4. First spoken of in Ex 23:16 as “The Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labor,” because it concluded the harvest of the later wheat grain.

5. Called “The Feast of Weeks, the first fruits of the wheat harvest,” Ex 34:22; Deut 16:10, 16; 2 Chron 8:13, because it was celebrated 7 weeks or 50 days after First Fruits, Lev 23:15-16.

6. Called “The Day of the First Fruits,” Num 28:26 because the first loaves made from the new grain were offered on the altar, Lev 23:17.

7. The Hebrew name: SHAVUOT, from SHEVUA, שָׁבוּעַ “a period of seven, or week.”

8. Feasts First Fruits One of the 3 main Feasts.

9. Feasts First Fruits

10. Fulfilled by Christ Rapture Second Advent Millennium

11. The Beginning of the Church and Church Age: Jesus prophesized regarding the sending of the Holy Spirit in John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7-15; Acts 1:5, 8.

12. In John 16:7-15 we see three purposes for sending the Holy Spirit.

13. The Holy Spirit came upon the disciples 50 days after the Resurrection and 10 days after the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ on the Feast of Shavuot, Acts 2:1-4.

14. Peter then preached to thousands of Jews in Jerusalem for Pentecost, Acts 2:14-47.

15. 1) John 16:9, “Concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me.” Cf. Acts 2:14-24.

16. 2) John 16:10, “And concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me.” Cf. Acts 2:25-32.

17. 3) John 16:11, “And concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.” Cf. Acts 2:33-36

18. This “first fruits” celebration also has to do with the fulfillment of God’s promise to resurrect all the saints. 1 Cor 15:20-23

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26. This feast commemorates God’s works in the establishment of the Nation of Israel and His great plan of Salvation for all of mankind culminated with the promise of resurrection to eternal glory for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.

27. Grace Offering Gal 6:6-8, “The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”

28. Grace Fellowship Church Sunday June 8, 2014 Lesson # 14-059 Proverbs Chapter 14 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2014 Grace Fellowship Church Sunday June 8, 2014 Lesson # 14-059 Proverbs Chapter 14 The Feast of Pentecost, Its Establishment and Fulfillment The Message of Resurrection Ex 23:16; 34:22; John 16:8-11; Acts 2:1-32 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2014