Celebrate The Feast Of Weeks

I. EXORDIUM:

Do you celebrate JESUS every week?

Yes with no absence. We live in Him.

John 15:4 (Amplified Bible)

Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD wants us to be with Him in church every Sunday so that we can celebrate Him, and He can celebrate with His disciples by receiving and blessing our tithes and offering.

IV. TEXT:

Deuteronomy 16:10 (Amplified Bible)

Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the Lord your God, as the Lord your God blesses you.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for we celebrate You every Feast of Weeks, and we honor You with the capital and sufficienty from righteous labors and with the firstfruits of all our income.

Proverbs 3:9 (Amplified Bible)

Honor the Lord with your capital and sufficiency [from righteous labors] and with the firstfruits of all your income;

VI. TITLE:

Celebrate the feast of weeks

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Name derived from: 2 Greek words: "deuteros" meaning second and "nomos" meaning law.

B. Author: Moses (commonly accepted)

C. Date written: 1407 - 1406 B.C.

D. Purpose: The former generation of Israel had died in the wilderness; hence it was important that the law should be repeated and expounded to the new generation before they entered the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

E. To whom written: The children of Israel, the generation which would enter and conquer the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

F. Main Theme: A rehearsal of the laws proclaimed at Sinai, with a call to obedience, interspersed with a review of the experiences of the old generation.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

G. Key word: Remember

H. Key verses:

Deuteronomy 6:1-4 (Amplified Bible)

6:1 NOW THIS is the instruction, the laws, and the precepts which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it,

6:2 That you may [reverently] fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be watchful to do them, that it may be well with you and that you may increase exceedingly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

6:4 Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord].

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Deuteronomy 16:10 (Amplified Bible)

Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the Lord your God, as the Lord your God blesses you.

Deuteronomy 16:10 (King James Version)

And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

A. Keep the Feast of Weeks - Sunday as first day

"Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God"

Leviticus 23:7 (Amplified Bible)

On the first day you shall have a holy “calling together;” you shall do no servile or laborious work on that day.

Numbers 28:18 (Amplified Bible)

On the first day there shall be a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no servile work that day.

The LORD JESUS CHRIST is our Creator and SOVEREIGN GOD, of course, He knows what's best for us, and what's best for this body to keep it healthy and clean. That is why the LORD JESUS CHRIST created the Feast of Weeks. Someone asked me, do I keep the feast? like the yearly feast to celebrate their idols and patrons. I said, yes, I keep it every week. Then he swayed his head from left to right in unbelief, because these unbelievers or idolaters keep their idol's feasts yearly, but as a born again CHRISTian believer, we keep our feasts every week. How? We celebrate JESUS in our midsts every week in our local churches.

Hebrews 10:25 (Amplified Bible)

Not forsaking or neglecting to assemble together [as believers], as is the habit of some people, but admonishing (warning, urging, and encouraging) one another, and all the more faithfully as you see the day approaching.