Pastor Patrick Sheean Family Worship Center

The Feast of Tabernacles points us to the coming Messianic Kingdom in which we will rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years.  It also reveals a great end time harvest prior to His return.  It is a time to celebrate harvest and the good things the Lord has provided for us.

Jesus has fulfilled the Day of Atonement for us so that we now have access to His presence before His throne through the blood of Jesus placed on the Mercy Seat on the Ark in heaven.

The final three trumpets in Revelation.  The trumpets represent the final call to repentance.  As they increase in intensity and scope the world is given an opportunity to return to the Lord before He pours out His wrath.

The Feasts of the Lord were memorial feasts for Israel and revealed the soon coming minstry of Messiah.  In the Fall Feasts of Trumpets there is a call to repent in preparation of the Day of Atonement.  We note that in Revelation the seven trumpets reveal the final call to fallen mankind to repent before the Day of the Lord.

Redemption is the undoing of the fall of mankind through a series of covenants leading us to the New Covenant with Jesus the Son of God.  He is our hope and our redemption.

Make you calling and election sure are the exhortations in the two Kingdom parables  we are looking at.  We not only accept the invitation to labor in the Lord's vineyard and attend His Son's wedding we are activily engaged in the harvest and in appearing before Him clothed in His righteousness.

We are not qualified to judge one another we are called to radical acceptance and love.  We are not called to separate the righteous and the unrighteous, Jesus said He would send angels to do that at the end of the age.

You are the Lord's Special Treasure

The Kingdom of heaven is presented by Jesus in parabolic form.  Our lives as believers are lived out as citizens of Christ's kingdom until the end of this age, hence the Kingdom of God and eschatology.

Our view of the end of this age is informing our view of the Kingdom of God.  If we are going to obey the Great Commission of Jesus Christ we need to understand what Jesus meant when He said, "Make disciples of all Nations" (ethnic groups)

The blessings of the anointing flow to us, in us, and through us to bless others.  Anointed preaching brings conviction which leads to repentance which releases the blessings of the Lord in our lives.

We have been anointed to proclaim the Gospel, good news to the poor, and to warn them that God's justice and judgment are coming upon all mankind.

Isaiah 61:1-3 give us a beautiful prophecy of the coming Messiah.  Jesus quoted this passage in part and applied it to Himself at the beginning of His ministry thereby declaring that He is the awaited Messiah.  The power of the anointing was released through Jesus as He proclaimed His Gospel.  We are called to the same anointing so that we might continue all that He began to do and teach.  Not as...

The anointing comes to us through our relationship with Jesus the Anointed One.  The anointing brings specific blessings that we receive and then can pass on to others through the declaration of the Good News, The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Pentecost is a harvest Festival that began around 1,500 years before Christ.  Like Passover it is a prophetic revelation of the life and ministry of Jesus.  Jesus is our Passover Lamb and He also is the One that ascended to heaven and when He did He sent the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Sunday.  Friends we need the mighty baptism in the Holy Spririt to carry out the Great Commission.  

The Fifth Commandment given to Moses was to honor father and Mother...  The Lord our God has always honored women in scripture.  Women have been instrumental in the formation of the Chosen People, Israel, as well as many important points in Old Testament history.  Certainly without a woman the Savior could not have come as He did.  God bless our mom's.

Psalm 133 gives us a beautiful prophetic picture of the blessings of unity conveyed to us through our Great High Priest Jesus Christ.

Israel's first king serves as our example of the power and pitfalls of the anointing.  As kings and priests unto our God we are to be anointed as Jesus was to walk in the power and purity of the Holy Spirit.  The pathway to a good finish in life is the way of humility.

As a part of our understanding of the anointing  we must acknowledge that Jesus warned us about false Christs, false prophets, and false teachers.  The closer we get to the return of Jesus the greater the enemy's deception will be.

Pastor Pat Shares some thoughts on the anointing and encourages us to see ourselves not as individual Christians only but as connected with all of the saints to something greater and eternal.

The importance of faith in God, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is in you, He will give life to your mortal body.  Our lives in Christ Jesus are animated by the Holy Spirit and no longer by our selfish nature. 

Continuing with the Anointing of the Holy Spirit we look at Jesus and the apostles, the early Church, and then make application for our lives today. 

While considering the lives of Joshua and Elisha we learn how to live our lives in such a way as to draw the Anointing of the Holy Spirit to us.

In the midst of Paul's end time teachings he exhorts us toward healthy traditions, sound preaching, and sound doctrine.

Some thoughts on Revelation Chapter 5.  Beloved we have great hope in our God who has all power and has wonderful plans for us in eternity future.