Dave Havir - Are You Thankful For The Day Of Pentecost?

Dave Havir, asking us whether we are thankful for the day of Pentecost, identifies several specific blessings given on Pentecost, including the Ten Commandments, God’s Holy Spirit, the New Covenant, the Spiritual Temple, and the power of God in us. We need to value and love the Ten Commandments, realizing that Law exposes sin, educating us as to what sin really is. The law is holy and spiritual. On the day of Pentecost, God performed a miracle, enabling people to hear the word of God in their own native tongue outside the temple system. We need to be thankful that God gave His Holy Spirit, enabling us to become First Fruits, that He gave us the New Covenant, based on better promises and the motivating power to keep God’s law, that He has installed us as lively stones in His Spiritual Temple, enabling God to live in us as a holy priesthood, and for the power of God’s Holy Spirit working in us.

Acts 2:1-2, 38; 7:48; 10:34-48 * Better covenant * Distress * Exodus 20:1-17; 34:22 * Feast of Pentecost * I Corinthians 3:16; 15:20-23 * First Fruits * I Peter 2:5 * Gentiles * Gift of God’s Holy Spirit * God’s Holy Spirit * God’s Power * Hebrews 3:1; 8:6-10; 10:16 * Holy priesthood * Jay Leno * Jay-walkers * Jesus Christ as High Priest * Learn together and serve together * Manifestations of God’s Holy Spirit * New Covenant * Pentecost * Persecution * Proverbs 31 * Romans 7:7-19 * II Corinthians 4:7-9; 6:16, * II Timothy 1:6-7 * Sound mindedness * Speaking in tongues * Spirit of power * Spiritual Temple * Ten Commandments * Treasure in earthen jars