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THE EIGHT RUDIMENTS OF CELEBRATION
THE EIGHT FEASTS OR FESTIVALS OF ISRAEL
The Passover
Leviticus 23:4-5
(festiv2.doc)
*4010: THE BACKWARD LOOK*
 
        A shepherd who had been given a position of great honor by one of Scotland's kings would often go alone to a certain room in the palace.
The king became suspicious and thought he was plotting a conspiracy.
So he asked to look inside this secret room.
To his surprise, all that was there was a chair, a shepherd's crook, and an old plaid scarf.
"What does this mean?"
asked the king.
The nobleman answered, "I was a humble shepherd when your Majesty promoted me.
I come to this room to look at the crook and the scarf.
They remind me of what I used to be--and that I am nothing but what the grace of the king has made me."
Sometimes, we need to look back and remember from whence we have come, and then thank the King for what He has made of us -- through His grace.
It is so easy to forget what God has done for us.
No wonder Jehovah God admonished the Israelites before they crossed over into the promised the land, in:
 
Deuteronomy 6:10-12, "Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build, and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be satisfied, *then* watch yourself, lest you forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery."
*The act of remembering the deliverance and ministry of God in our lives is certainly a very important practice to cultivate.*
If you have missed the last couple of messages, I am preaching a nine message series on the rudiments, skills, or principles of celebration.
*  God has been showing me that humanity needs celebration.*
*  He has been showing me that celebration is a very important part of the Christian life!*
*  He has been showing me that celebration is of special significance and importance to African-American Christians.*
 
\\         Life is a struggle for everybody, no matter what your color or nationality, but for African-American people life is even more of a struggle because of the residual effects of slavery.
We must face more than the average race in terms of subtle discrimination, economic reprisals, educational stereotyping, etc.
After we have been beat up and beat down all week; after we have struggled and striven to achieve life through material and earthly means, we need to take a break from the rat race and return to the human race by entering God's presence for a time of celebration.
The traditional Black church services have certain elements that facilitate celebration.
*Celebration is an important aspect of worship.*
The importance of celebration is illustrated in the Old Testament in Leviticus the 23rd chapter.
Two weeks ago, we began to deal with the eight feasts or festivals which God commanded Israel to celebrate.
These festivals were holy convocations, conventions, or celebrations which God invoked upon His people.
There is a major rudiment or skill which is taught in each festival, which will yield a principle that we can learn and apply to our own modern worship celebrations.
Last week we finished the feast or festival of the Sabbath.
The major rudiment, skill, or principle of celebration that we covered was resting from our worldly labors.
/(Let's move on to the next rudiment to be learned.
Would you notice Leviticus 23:4-5 with me please.
The next major rudiment of celebration is:)/
 
II.
REMEMBERING.
*The Feast of the Passover, we can see from other Scriptures, was for the children of Israel to remember how Jehovah God had delivered them from the bondage of Egypt.*
This is one of the great celebrations of Israel and it is tied significantly to their history.
God's deliverance, wrought in delivering His people from Egypt, began with God's demand of Pharaoh to
 
"Let My people go that they may *celebrate a feast* to Me in the wilderness" (Exodus 5:1).
*Notice again the importance of these feasts or festivals.*
They were not thought up nor invented by Israel, but were invoked upon God's people by Jehovah God Himself.
In the passage of Scripture that I quoted, again Jehovah God commands Pharaoh to let His people go for the specific purpose of celebrating a feast or festival unto Him.  *God wants His people to celebrate what He has done!!!*  We celebrate the Lord's doing, which is marvelous in our eyes, by giving, singing, dancing, shouting praise, etc., with reverence, awe, excitement, joy, and thankfulness.
After God delivered His children from the cruel bondage of Pharaoh and Egypt, the Passover was established as a memorial celebration.
*They were to remember how God had delivered them from bondage.*
Some celebrations were gatherings of men only, but all of the congregation was to celebrate this festival.
*None was exempt!*
The Passover was lost and found repeatedly because of war, sin, and captivity.
*Yet this function of remembering was so important to the Jewish people, that they also rehearsed their history at other great celebrations.*
The peril of *not* having times of remembering is pointed out in
 
Judges 2:7,10, "And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel.
And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; *and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel*."
We, like the children of Israel often forget what God has done for us in the deliverance of salvation, because of spiritual warfare, sin, and the bondage of sin.
There is arising another generation in The House of the Lord who do not know the Lord, nor the work He has done for The House of the Lord on the other side of Diagonal Road.
But, there are two times of redemption that we need remember:
 
1.
First we need to remember our redemption from sin.
I never shall forget that day.
Yes, my Lord!
When Jesus washed my sins away.
Yes, my Lord!
There's one thing that I did wrong.
Yes, my Lord!
I stayed in my sins a little too long.
Yes, my Lord!
 
        *I believe that this is the problem of many Christians today.
They don't remember nor celebrate God’s deliverance from the bondage of sin!!!*
 
   We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from alcohol.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance drugs.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from depression.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from a broken marriage.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from lack of meaning in our lives.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from a lack of direction in our lives.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from utter loneliness in our lives.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from materialism.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from being men-pleasers.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from darkness.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance the fear of death.
We need to remember and celebrate His deliverance from hell.
2.
Secondly, we need to remember how God has delivered this church and us through it many times.
*Some of you treat The House of the Lord so shabbily, because you do not understand that as I go and The House of the Lord goes**¾so you will go.*
Be that as it may, we need to remember how He has graciously and miraculously provided five sites for us.
We began in my parents home on 533 Douglas Street.
He did not call us because we were many, but because we were few in number.
He miraculously provided our next building at 1525 Thornton Street.
(/Elder Johnson and I put our hands on the walls and prayed/.)
He worked a greater miracle to get us into and out of 783-787 Brown Street.
(/A second mortgage, greater than the first, by the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.
Split the two buildings and sold them to two different buyers in about a month.
We had an escalating mortgage, but I prophesied on going into the church that we would never pay one dime of the escalating portion.
We didn’t/!)
He opened up some huge doors at the J. C. Penney's building.
And He worked another miracle to bring us to our present location 1650 Diagonal Road.
(/David Burnham, past pastor of the Chapel, was instrumental behind the scenes/.)
If you understand the analogies, let me tell you that from Brown Street to the J. C. Penney's building was our Red Sea experience.
We left the onions, leeks, garlic, and flesh pots of Brown Street for the wilderness of J. C. Penney's.
Moving from J. C. Penney's to this present building was our crossing of the Jordan River.
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