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Title: Sukkot and Celebrations: The Church Harvest Festival


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Sukkot and CelebrationsThe Church Harvest
Festival
  • Jon Wright
  • 16th Oct 2005

2
Why Celebrate Sukkot?Lev 2341-42
  • 41 Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for
    seven days each year. This is to be a lasting
    ordinance for the generations to come celebrate
    it in the seventh month. 42 Live in booths for
    seven days All native-born Israelites are to
    live in booths
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3
History God had just delivered the Israelites
out of Egypt.
  • At this time the Israelites were in the desert
  • They were reliant and God for all their needs
  • This included having drinking water Exodus
    1522-25
  • Also food (manna from heaven) Exodus 16. The
    manna lasted one day only except the day before
    Sabbath when it lasted two.

4
God still provides today.
  • 1 Cor 619-20 - He provides our physical bodies
  • Matt 611 John 633-35 - He provides His Word
    which feeds us
  • 1 Cor 127-11 - He provides spiritual gifts for
    the body of the Church (Jew or Otherwise)
  • Psalm 9111-12 - He provides Angels to guard over
    us
  • Phil 419 - He provides the right thing _at_ the
    right time _at_ the right place My God will meet
    all your needs - Jehovah-Jireh cares.

5
Sukkot is a harvest festival.
  • The manna was a type of harvest
  • God provided all the food the Israelites needed
    in the desert - The Lord Is Our Provider
  • However it was enough only for today - there was
    no storing for tomorrow unless it was the Sabbath
  • The festival is about thanking God for His
    provision not for the provision itself!
  • We need to celebrate our harvest with the Lord -
    this can be our income, our gifting, our time,
    gifts

6
Give God The Glory
  • Give God the glory (x3)
  • And He will give you, and He will give you
  • And He will give you, the victory
  • Satan the blood of Jesus is against you (x3)
  • So let us give God, so let us give God,
  • So let us give God, all of his praise

7
The Israelites wandered for 40 years in the
wilderness
  • The trip from Egypt to the promised land should
    only have taken a few months
  • Spies were sent into the promised land,
  • 10 spies said they could not take it - the
    current inhabitants were too big/strong,
  • Only 2 spies said LETS GO! (Num 13)
  • The Israelites complained and said theyd be
    better off with the Egyptians (Num 14)

8
God is the God of 2nd chances
  • The Israelites lacked faith that God would
    deliver them the promised land, even tho they had
    seen miracles (parting of red sea, food/water
    etc)
  • God wanted to wipe them out for their contempt
    (Num 1410-12)
  • Moses interceded for them (Num 1413-19)
  • God forgave them let them live - but refused
    them entry into the promised land (Num 206-12)
    but allowed their descendents to occupy the land
    the two positive spies.

9
We can get stuck in our own version of 40yrs of
wilderness
  • God left the Israelites in the wilderness for
    40yrs so that a new generation would take the
    promised land
  • For some foreigners Taiwan is like their
    wilderness
  • We can not be saved without being transformed,
    our time of being changed can feel like we are
    stuck in a small booth when wed rather be in a
    house

10
Real change can take time
  • No good praying God change my circumstances
  • Need to pray Lord here I am use me (Hebrews
    105-9)
  • Many things will try to stop you from changing
  • And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah,
    our lives gradually becoming brighter and more
    beautiful as God enters our lives and we become
    like him. 2 Cor 318 (The Message)
  • God is more concerned about how strong we grow
    and not how fast we grow

11
The Life Cycle Of A Butterfly
12
Bird Food!
13
Summary Harvest Festival Remembering 40ys of
wilderness
  • A time to give thanks to God for all His
    provision,
  • A time to remember that God let the Israelites
    stay 40yrs die in the wilderness so the next
    believing generation could enter the promised
    land
  • God wants our availability not our ability
  • Our personal time of change may feel like we are
    in the wilderness
  • Change is needed otherwise we may end up bird
    food!

14
Summary Hold Onto Jer 2911
  • "For I know the plans I have for you," declares
    the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm
    you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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