Title: Harvest Festival
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Sermon Text I Exodus 23:14-17 You shall keep a feast to me the third time every year.
You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, and you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, as I commanded you, for in that month you came out of Egypt, and you shall not show me empty handed.
Keep the Feast of Harvest, for you reap the firstfruits of what you sow in the field.
All your males shall appear to the Lord GOD three times a year.
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Today is a Sunday that is celebrated as the Harvest Festival.
The Feast of Harvest is a celebration of thanksgiving that the Old Testament Israelites received the Ten Commandments and the Law on Mount Sinai 50 days after their exodus from Egypt.
It is a festival to offer the firstfruits of barley and wheat as gifts.
Also, in the early church in the New Testament era, it is the day the Holy Spirit came down. .
1. The Three Seasons
There are so many festivals in Israel that it is said that a year begins with a feast and ends with a feast.
Among the many festivals, the Passover, the Feast of Harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering are the representative three major festivals.
During this feast, any male Israeli must appear before God.
God was trying to remember Himself and maintain relationships with the people through the feasts.
The Passover is also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread, so that the Israelites in the flesh were not destroyed in Egypt through the blood of the sheep.
It is a festival to commemorate salvation.
This is because we, the spiritual people of Israel, are freed from sin, death, the devil, and the devil through the work of Jesus’ atonement.
It is a foreshadowing of salvation from the world of sin.
The Feast of Harvest was the fifty days after the Israelites left Egypt that they received the Ten Commandments and the Law at Mount Sinai.
It is also called the Feast of Pentecost.
In the Feast of Ingathering, God led the Israelites out of Egypt in a pillar of cloud and fire for 40 years in the wilderness.
It is a festival to commemorate the grace of God who provided food, clothing, and shelter during the harvest season.
In the New Testament era, too, the grace and truth of the substitutionary grace of Jesus, the Lamb, the grace of inspiration and guidance, and the
Grace should always be appreciated and celebrated.
2. To keep the Harvest Festival right away
1) We must keep the grace we received from the Old and New Testaments with thanksgiving.
The people of Israel received the Ten Commandments on a journey in the dark wilderness, where they did not know how to live as God's people.
I have found a way to live, so in today's dark and sinful world, God gave us the Old and New Testaments, the right way to live as God's people.
We will thank, commemorate and protect the grace.
2) We must keep the grace of receiving the Holy Spirit because we are thankful.
In the New Testament times, we received the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.
Only when we are guided by the Holy Spirit can we discern God's will, and only with the power of the Holy Spirit can we achieve complete salvation.
We are to thank, celebrate, and keep the grace of the Holy Spirit.
3) We thank God for protecting and protecting our spirit, body, food, clothing, and everything we do during the first half of the year.
should be celebrated and preserved.