Ron Feaker - Pentecost

Ron Feaker, focusing on the upcoming Feast of Pentecost, asks us whether we have ever questioned our baptism. Baptism symbolizes the burial of our sinful self in a watery grave. When we are baptized, we commit ourselves to a life of repentance and bearing spiritual fruit. It was through God’s Holy Spirit that the world was created. Pentecost initiates the great harvest of spiritual beings, created in God’s image, transformed with God’s Holy Spirit. The first Pentecost was attended with a miracle of hearing and speaking, enabling all members of a diverse crowd to hear Peter’s message in their own respective tongues, prompting a baptism of 3000 people, whose lives would never be again the same. The instructions for calculating and keeping Pentecost were outlined in Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 16. The apostle Paul faithfully kept Pentecost. God’s called-out ones continue to keep the Feast of Pentecost, becoming empowered (via God’s Holy Spirit) to keep God’s Law in the letter and the spirit having Godly contentment, while the world around rejects God’s Law. We are commanded to present ourselves to God as a living sacrifice, having our minds transformed into His image and character.

Acts 2:1-13, 38; 20:16 * Axe and two 38’s * Baptism * Baptizo * Blessing of being a part of God’s church * Born again * Born of water and of the spirit * Burial of sinful self * Burning bush * Cloven tongues of fire * Contentment * Generations * Deuteronomy 5; 16:9 * End of the world * Excessive alcohol * Exodus 20 * Feast of Weeks * Fighting the good fight * First fruits * I Peter 2:5 * I Timothy 6:6-12 * Fruits of the Spirit * Galatians 5:22 * Genesis 1:2 * Godly contentment * Greek * Holy convocation * Mark 13:37 * Joel 2:28-32 * John 3:3; 16:13 * Leviticus 23:15-21 * Lively stones * Luke 3:8 * Matthew 24:36 * Meat offering * Old Testament * Parents create rules, children test them * Pentecost * Philippians 4:16 * Pillar of fire * Repentance * Repetition * Rescuing children from failure * Romans 8:16; 12:1-2 * Rushing mighty wind * Seven Sabbaths * Sanctity of Marriage * II Timothy 3:2-5 * Speaking in tongues * Spiritual dimension * Walk with Christ