Identity // Pentecost Pacific Coast Church Pastors JF & Ashley Wilkerson
Identity // Pentecost
Acts 2:1a NIV
1a When the day of Pentecost came…
Matthew 5:17 NIV
17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Passover
1 Corinthians 5:7b NIV
7b For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed…
Passover fulfilled is SALVATION.
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
Tabernacles
Tabernacle means temporary home.
2 Corinthians 5:1 NLT
1 For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 NIV
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Pentecost
Acts 2:1-3 NIV
1 When the day of Pentecost came they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
Hebrews 10:11-12;14-18 NIV
11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 16 “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” 17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” 18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
Acts 1:8 NIV
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Questions
1. What was Passover and how did Jesus fulfill it?
2. What was the Feast of Tabernacles and how is that an image of us today?
3. What is Pentecost and why does it matter to us as Believers?