The horrendous sin of irreverence
The
Lord has assigned to His Ministers the responsibility to; "Cry aloud,
spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek Me daily, and
delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not
forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;
They take delight in approaching God” Isaiah 58:1-2).
The sad
thing is that the majority of us professing Christians are guilty of committing
the horrendous act of irreverence whether wittingly or unwittingly and the Lord’s
annual Feast of Pentecost is a clear illustration and demonstration of this
horrendous act of irreverence.
In principle,
irreverence is the expression of the lack of due regards and respect to the
authority and character of the Supreme Being and the Feast of Pentecost is one festival
that exposes the lack of awe, respect and reverence that we all who profess to
be believers in Jesus Christ have for the Most High.
For example,
how can one who is very passionate and diligent in observing the seventh day
weekly Sabbath shows absolutely no regards for the observance of the festival
of Pentecost? And how can one who is very passionate and diligent in observing
the Feast of Pentecost shows absolutely no regards for the seventh day weekly
Sabbath? Something must be definitely wrong and we all need to truly examine our
individual stance in this situation.
For
we have been duly instructed saying; “One person esteems one day above another;
another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He
who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the
day, to the Lord he does not observe it” (Romans 14:5-6).
So
let us begin our self-examination by first and foremost asking our self the
question what is a Feast and the rationale for observing it?
A
feast or festival is a day or period of time set aside to celebrate,
commemorate and perpetuate a specific event that took place on this specific
day or period of time. And so, with regards to the Lord’s festivals this is
what the Lord said; “‘the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be
holy convocations, these are My feasts.” And, “‘these are the feasts of the
LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times”
(Leviticus 23: 2, 4).
What
can be derived from these two passages of scriptures is that, the Lord has
ordained specific days as His feast days which He has set aside as days for
holy convocation and they are to be proclaimed (declare officially and
publicly) at their appointed time.
Now
the crux and the reality of the matter is that, every ordained festival of the
Lord gives honor and glory to Him for what He did for humanity on that particular
day. Let us take for example the seventh day weekly Sabbath and the Feast of
Pentecost,
The
seventh day weekly Sabbath commemorates and expresses gratitude to God for His creation
as we have been duly instructed saying “For in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh
day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:11).
The Feast
of Pentecost on the other hand commemorates and gives honor and glory to God
for giving us His Holy Spirit. For we have been duly instructed saying; “When
the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one
place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there
appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And
they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance” (Acts 2”1-4).
The
Feast of Pentecost did not originate with the New Testament; it is one of the
ordained Feasts of the Lord known as the Feast of Weeks, Please note carefully
that the disciples were all with one accord in one place observing the Feast
when they became filed with the Holy Spirit,
And
so, I beg to ask the question again, why are some believers so convicted and passionate
in observing the seventh day weekly Sabbath and turning a blind eye to the observance
of Pentecost? And in the same token why do some believers express such passion
and conviction in the observance of Pentecost and turning a blind eye to the observance
of the seventh day weekly Sabbath?
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To be continued
With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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