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Kingdom of God - Pentecost - A New Day Dawns (Law2) 
This is Podcast 3 in a series of teachings that looks at the Kingdom of God from the angle of Pentecost. What happened on that day and how does it relate to the kingdom and life within it? This series seeks to answer some of those questions. In the second talk, we concluded that Pentecost (among other important things) was a massive announcement declaring that God was officially enacting a new covenant with people. The old covenant of the law was fulfilled and being renewed and transformed into a brand new covenant - a covenant even more wonderful than the one that was made with Moses. The Spirit who came at Pentecost was to be both the sign that this new covenant was being enacted and also the hope/power of its fulfillment. In this third podcast we do two things: First, we establish some biblical support for this conclusion; explaining that what happened at Pentecost was actually the fulfillment of a long hoped for promise that began hundreds of years prior. Secondly, we explain more fully the idea of "covenant" - don't understand what the terms old covenant and new covenant really mean? You should after listening to this teaching. Why does all this matter? So many reasons. But for now just one: because what happened at Pentecost was the beginning of a new contract between God and people - a contract which you have stepped into. It is a contract of love rooted in Jesus. It is a contract that has at its very core this reality: God has given you his Holy Spirit and by this Spirit he is enabling you to live as a holy people in his Kingdom. Prior to Pentecost such a claim could never have been made. The only way we can fully appreciate the wonder of what happened at Pentecost is by understanding what life with God was like prior to that day. This talk begins by taking us into some of that history and some of the longings that people had for a "new covenant". |