Sunday Message (2nd service) - Pastor Brad Neuschwander (June 28, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. All right, I have

a little bit of time left this morning. Could

you turn in your Bibles? I'd like you to turn

to Matthew chapter six. How many were here for

our fire on the altar service last Saturday night?

Okay, just a few of us, okay. I need to try to,

we may not get to Matthew six, but we'll just

see where we go. Yeah, why not? That's fine.

No, just come back in about 15 minutes. Beautiful.

Okay. So, Van, it's great to see you. Welcome.

There you go. I'm all natural here. Hallelujah.

All right. So, one of the principles that I felt

the Holy Spirit tried to move, he's moving in

my heart, and I believe that he's wanting to

move the church and your heart. to an understanding.

We've heard it today in the prophetic word. We've

been hearing it in the last few weeks that God

is speaking about us moving forward in his truths

to partner with what he's wanting to do, right?

He actually wants you to have a partnership with

him. Yes, he wants to draw you to himself as

he's the God of salvation, but he also wants

to move you from that place of just having an

encounter of salvation to actually move you into

partnership that you would walk in the spirit

and that you would actually live him. You would

be his mouthpiece. You would be his hands, his

feet, that he could actually live in you like

the Holy Spirit was in Jesus Christ. That's the

goal. And one of the things that we've been talking

about is we've been talking about this revelation

of Passover. And we started about a month ago

and we started dealing with this revelation of

Passover that the apostle Paul through the Holy

Spirit brings to the Corinthian church because

Passover is a direct correlation to the cross

of Jesus Christ. So when you see Passover and

you see the children of Israel coming out of

the land of slavery, as soon as God brings that

last sign, it was a invitation to what only he

could do. He could be the only one who preserved

life. And it comes by the blood of a lamb on

the doorposts of a house or a heart. Jesus is

exactly that. He was crucified at the time of

Passover. He was the Lamb of God that takes away

the sin of the world. Therefore, when we see

Passover in the Old Testament, we understand

that Passover has been celebrated for 1 ,500,

1 ,600 years plus, more than that. In fact, it's

probably more closer to 3 ,600 years in the reality

of what was established as they came out of Egypt.

But New Testament wise, it says Passover is Jesus

Christ, the cross. And in order to understand

the cross, you can't just leave the cross. The

cross includes resurrection. Why is that so important?

Because if Jesus... was just to die without a

resurrection, it meant that God would have to

keep providing a sacrifice every year like he

did in the Old Testament. Every year in the Old

Testament, Passover was again and again and again.

Why? It was almost like God was showing his grace.

Knowing that he could not redeem man with animal

blood. But he would show his long suffering of

his nature and his patience with us. That every

year he would push out again. Reset. Reset. reset,

reset, reset until I finally bring my timing

with what I want to do. I'm going to show you

my nature and my character. And that is, I am

the God who has patience and long suffering beyond

what you have ever known. I am the endless, God

has endless patience if he wants it. I don't.

Just ask my two daughters that I've raised. They'll

say, dad has limits. I've never been accused

of being a man of endless patience. But God has

always revealed himself as a God of patience

and long suffering. And when Jesus came, he became

that lamb that was now not connected. to an animal.

He was now representing the lamb of God who had

the blood of God. And because he was a perfect

sacrifice, God's spirit raised him from the dead

and he lives. And because of that, God now wants

us, and this is the key that I'm trying to move

us in. God wants us to understand that salvation

is absolutely critical. It is the first door

that we are to go through to get into the kingdom

of God. No man can come to the Father except

through Jesus Christ. But that's not where he

wants you just to stay. Yes, he wants you to

have salvation, but there is a progression, a

progression to this second feast that he would

show the children of Israel. This second feast

was called the Feast of Pentecost. And in the

Feast of Pentecost, there are multiple things

that God begins to do to reveal, even though

the Jews celebrated Pentecost naturally, and

even though the church was celebrating Pentecost

naturally, when God fulfilled the day of Pentecost

in Acts chapter 2 at the birth of the church,

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there's about 15 to 20 things. that Pentecost

actually does that we are supposed to be aware

of and actually walk in. And for most of us,

the biggest divide in our Christianity is that

we're divided thinking that only the cross is

the highest. The cross and the resurrection seems

to be the only thing that the church can rally

around. When the reality is we should be rallying

around Pentecost. Now listen, here's where the

church most likely is at. If you've ever heard

anybody talk that has not understood what the

Feast of Pentecost is and the significance of

why we should walk in it, they want to choose

two feasts out of the three. They want to choose

Passover because that represents salvation. And

then they want to skip Pentecost and go to trumpets

and tabernacles. Why? Get saved and move right

to the rapture. Get saved and move right to the

coming of the Lord. But that wasn't how God led

them. He didn't go from the first feast in the

first months. all the way to the end feast of

the end month. He led them into a experience

of understanding this feast of Pentecost because

it would be the feast where most of the work

would get done. What do you mean by that? Well,

spiritually, God does the work in all the feasts

himself. It's not us. He alone provided, as we

saw in Passover about three, four weeks ago,

we looked at it at communion. We can't provide

a sacrifice for us. Only God could provide his

son. But then in the midst of it, what did he

do? He said, now I want you to join with me and

I want you to. I want you to participate in the

feast of unleavened bread with Passover, which

means what? You have to search your house. You

have to search your heart. You got to get rid

of the leaven and you got to bring that. And

I want you to keep that. And if you won't keep

that, it doesn't matter if you have the blood

on the doorpost of your house, or it doesn't

matter if you have the lamb. If you won't keep

the feast of leaven, I've got to remove you.

The priest of unleavened bread, I have to remove

you from the principle. Why? Because the whole

principle was he's partnering with you. He does

what only he could do to get you there. And then

he's saying in that part, in that responsibility,

I now invite you as a holy calling to come have

partake of my nature. And that nature is pure

and clean and true. And that symbolism that they

had to do in Israel was to say, our part was

to. get out of anything that would cause pride

or that would represent sin. Now we move to what

we know as, if that's Passover, that's the cross.

Cross and the resurrection of Jesus. We can what?

We have to Call on the name of the Lord. That's

what the scriptures are so important. Whoever

calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

What else has to happen? We actually have to

believe and receive him into ourselves. If we

confess with our mouth and believe in our heart

that God has raised him from the dead, I shall

be saved. And then what else do I have a responsibility?

I have to confess and believe. That never changes.

Everything else in the word of God that you're

going to learn starts from that position. You

have to what? Believe and then confess it. It

didn't just happen at salvation. You don't just

have a one shot of believing and confessing.

It means that. of getting it into your heart,

getting the truth in your heart, and hearing

your profession of his word is what actually

establishes you walking in faith as he develops

you. It's a progression. Can I get an amen? And

he moves you from that progression of salvation

to what? Another experience. Doesn't mean your

salvation is gone at Pentecost. It means that

he wants to build on the cornerstone of your

foundation of welcoming Jesus into your life.

And he does it by what? He begins to bring you

into a revelation of Pentecost. Pastor Trent,

about five, six weeks ago, I know sometimes stringing

this together, you don't remember, I kind of

bring all these things back as I'm trying to

prepare. as he gave us an understanding of the

beginning of Pentecost, we need to understand

that Jesus, Jesus' whole point of ministry from

the time he was baptized in the Holy Spirit in

water and the Spirit of God came on him. Let

me say it again. He was baptized in water for

the fullness and John saw the Spirit of God come

on him and never lift off of him. From that point

for three and a half years, Jesus... lived to

point to the Father and the Holy Spirit. Every

message that he had was about what his Father

was doing and the Holy Spirit that was revealing

it. Now, for me, and I'm going to say something

that might be a little controversial for you,

but the body of Christ is so divided on the Holy

Spirit. I think, honestly, that one of the greatest

doctrine of demons, now just hang on to your

seat, one of the greatest doctrine of demons

is this, that in the last hundred years, 120

probably to be exact, the last 120 years, this

doctrine that came into the church That the Holy

Spirit has ceased in the first century church.

And now because we have the word of God by itself,

that is the perfect. And there's no more need

to flow in the gifts of the spirit. There's no

more need for the prophetic. There's no more

need for the church to have that because we already

have all that we need. To me, that is a straight

up misrepresentation of the scripture. Straight

up. Now I know there's other people that present

that a little more kind than what I'm doing like

I said. But the reality is I need to call it

as it was because I'm telling you I grew up under

that. I grew up under it and I had no framework.

And when I realized that there was no place in

the scriptures beside that interpretation by

theologians. Do you understand? that first century

fathers, second century fathers, third century

fathers, fourth century fathers, all believed

in the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Fact is,

when you get even to John Wesley and in the 1700s,

he was talking about the empowerment of the Holy

Spirit and he was a Methodist. Do you know when

this doctrine came in? It was a response to the

outpouring of the Azusa Street Revival in 1903,

4, 6, right in there. I don't have it on my notes.

The reality was it was we don't like having this

happen so we believe that the Holy Spirit isn't

for us today. It was only for the pioneering

of the first century apostles and the church

to get off the ground. That mindset. Has now

divided the body of Christ. And the Bible says.

When there is what? Division in the house. It

can't stand. So what has happened? The church.

Has only been able to stand. Around one rallying

truth. Of the resurrection of Jesus. The death

and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When it should

be. Rallying around the death and resurrection

of Jesus Christ. And the outpouring of the spirit.

In which we all flow in. To grow up as sons and

daughters. And so that's where we're headed.

You're saying well I don't. No, if I like that,

well, you don't have an option to skip Pentecost.

I mean, I get it. Everybody wants to go to the...

But the point is, it almost seems in Scripture

that God is still in the parking lot honking

the horn and saying, listen, I went to heaven

and I... I told you I was coming to pour out

the promise of the Father. Quit waiting for another

season when this is the season I need you to

embrace. Now, Jesus, son of David, I bind that

clock in the name of Christ. All right. Let's

skip ahead. I told you, Matthew, you might get

a little bit of a repeat next week because I

didn't get first service here at all. But let

me just give you this. Jenny, if you would come.

I need you to understand something that Jesus

says to the disciples. As he's dealing in John

chapter four with the woman at the well. The

woman at the well is an incredible passage, right?

It's where we get, it's where we have an understanding.

The father is looking for those who will worship

him in spirit and in truth. But do we often look

at the scriptures behind that, after that? Maybe

just turn to John chapter four. And let me just

give you this this morning and then we will,

because I want to deal with the water coming

out of us from the Holy Spirit. But I want you

to see this passage that Jesus is going to deal

with the disciples. After Jesus brings this whole

revelation to this woman, and I've got about

six minutes here. Right here he said, Jesus said,

if you knew the gift of God and who it is that

is saying to you, give me a drink, you would

have asked of him and he would have given you

living water. Now, last Saturday, on fire on

the altar, we had a special quarterly, just elongated

presence of God in ministry. I began to teach

on the scriptures on God is a giver. He is the

gift giver. And so this is what makes part of

this thing that has happened in the body of Christ

so heinous. Because if a gift is from him and

of him, is connected to him, it's holy, it's

righteous, it's true, it's powerful, it's living.

And his nature is to give that gift. Who are

we to say, you go ahead and keep your gift. I'm

not comfortable with the gifts you give. Excuse

me? No, I'll take salvation that will redeem

me because I don't want to go to hell. But I

don't want a gift. That I've got to lean into

and learn. Have you ever got a gift at Christmas

time or birthday that wasn't just something that

was already put together? Did you ever get a

gift that was actually your parents thought,

you know what? We're going to give them something

not only to put together, but it's going to expand

their mind and their understanding. We're going

to give you a learning gift. Anybody ever get

one of those? Okay. Why do you think they did

that? Do you think it was because I want you

to reject the gift? I spent this money. You thought

you were going to get something that was already

put together. It was going to be easy and you

could kind of numb out with the gift. And they

thought, no, you do enough numbing out on your

own. I'm going to give you something that is

going to now engage you. And if you're going

to grow into proficiency, you're going to have

to partner with this gift and learn to begin

some mastery of it. Now, it breaks down a little

bit because we're not the master of the Holy

Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our master. But the

Bible says that the gifts and callings of God

are irrevocable and that those who by reason

of use have sharpened their gifting. One of the

reasons people don't want to embrace the Holy

Spirit is they actually don't want to pursue

God rather than what they've already received

because pursuing means that they've got to keep

giving away their life of their own making. Are

you there? You see, Kevin, let me just... I'm

sorry, I picked on you. I'm just going to keep

going. That's the difference between tithes and

offerings. The tithes and offerings, tithe represents

something that belongs to God. I give it back

to him. I respond. Offering means that's the

portion that he said was mine. And now when I

get moved, I'm now giving beyond what was just

his. I'm now moving in a place of growth. That's

the difference. Think of this as the same as

the gift of the Holy Spirit. You get a portion

of the Holy Spirit. That's why John 20, 20, 20

was so important when Jesus went to the disciples

and breathed on them and said, receive the Holy

Spirit. They didn't start speaking in tongues.

They didn't start prophesying. They didn't start

moving in the miraculous. What did they do? They

received on the basis of believing him the Holy

Spirit that sealed them unto salvation. What

did Jesus tell them to do? Now go and wait for

the promise of the Father that I told you I would

send. And even when Jesus was with them for 40

days after the resurrection, he was teaching

them about the kingdom and he reemphasized to

them again, as he said in the book of Luke, now

I am going to the father to send the promise,

wait in Jerusalem until you're clothed with power

from on high. So we recognize that the Holy Spirit,

which is The Pentecost expression, if you will,

is not the Holy Spirit that it's the same spirit.

It seals you at the cross and revelation of the

resurrection of Christ to take him in as faith.

But there is something else that he wants you

to receive after salvation that's meant to build

on that to actually fill you, empower you to

do what? Begin to partner with him. Now notice

that Jesus, the woman hasn't even come back with

all her friends. And I've got to hurry. I've

got to move this horse into gallop here. The

reality is she went back after having a revelation

of he's talking about water. Why is he talking

to me? We transition to spiritual things. We

start talking about where do I worship? How do

I worship? Jesus is explaining the gift of life

that he is. She goes off to tell her friends.

He's standing around. Disciples are coming back.

He sees him talking to her. She leaves. Lord,

what is going on? And he makes this point. And

most of us totally miss it that it's actually

a Pentecost revelation. He says this. He says,

oh, where did it go? Chapter four. Okay, there

it is. He goes. she went and said, come and see

a man that told me all I ever did. Can this be

the Christ? And they went out to the town. Meanwhile,

the disciples were urging Jesus, eat. And Jesus

said, but I have food to eat that you know not

about. And so the disciples said to one another,

somebody brought him a Jimmy John's? What's going

on? And no. And Jesus said, he said, my food.

Is to do the will of him who sent me. And. Somebody

say and. Okay. You got to get this. Thank you

dear. Give me some and music. My food. Is to

do the will. Of the one who sent me. When you

pray. Pray. Your kingdom come. Your. Be done.

And to accomplish his work. Now notice what he

says. He moves into the do nots. Do not say.

Now he's talking to the disciples. Do not say.

Are you ready? Four more months. Then comes the

harvest. Why would he say that? Why would he

say, we're going to dive into this. Who knows

what we're going to dive into next week. I always

say we're going to do something and God changes

it on me. Why did he say four more months? Ready?

Passover. 50 days usually is two to three months.

Right in there, depending on where it falls.

From one month to the third month. From the third

month, which usually Passover is, till Trumpets

is what? Four months. Let me say it again. Passover

to Pentecost. Three feasts in the first month.

One feast, 50 days in the middle. From the 50th

day of Passover to the start of Trumpets and

Tabernacles and Day of Atonement, it's four months.

What was Jesus addressing? He was addressing

the mindset that is so common in church right

now. Okay, we're with the Lord. When's the kingdom,

the fullness going to happen? He picks it back

up. He addressed it in John 4. He picks it back

up in Acts chapter 1. When he says to the disciples,

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they said, is now the time? You've raised from

the dead. This is before he raised from the dead.

When he's raised from the dead, they say in Acts

chapter one, verses four and five and following,

he says, is this the time that you will fulfill

the kingdom? And what did Jesus have to do? Do

not strive for times and seasons that the father

has in his own hand, but you, what did he have

to do? He had to bring them back to the teaching

that he told them in John chapter four, saying,

Get your perspective off of your end days and

get your perspective on this is the feast and

the understanding that brings you into partnership

with what? My food is to do the will of my father

and the work of my father. This is what Pentecost

is about. And if you constantly keep looking

for tabernacles and waiting for the... I heard

somebody say, when the trumpet blows, I goes.

But the point is, that's what the church has

feasted on for a long time. And what has happened,

the harvest has stayed in the fields. That doesn't

mean that we don't believe in the second coming

and the catching away. But the problem is our

whole teaching, a whole. A whole 70 years of

a generation, almost 80 now, has brought into

a teaching that is salvation immediately to tabernacles.

And they've missed the understanding of what

Pentecost is. Pentecost is where you get tools

from the Holy Spirit to come into the harvest.

that the giftings and the graces that are powered

by the Holy Spirit, that are released by the

Holy Spirit come into your hands and your heart

to do what? To gather the harvest. That's what

Pentecost was about. It was about bringing the

nations, stopping the one bloodline, natural

only, to including the natural only and all of

the other bloodlines Of the earth. Into one master

and one savior. It's Jew. And Gentile. And that's

why this is so important. And I believe. That's

why the enemy. Has tried to. Make Pentecost.

Seem foolish. And out of control. Or mindset

so that. We just move on to the next feast. When

Jesus said. Don't say. There's four more months

to the harvest. Why? The four more months that

they were saying was that was the last of the

harvest. It's wrapped up. Don't say it. Don't

say it. Meaning why? Because every time you focus

your attention on the end, you bypass the people

that Jesus opened up and he loves that you're

to gather into his barn. Would you bow your head

and close your eyes? Your eyes with me. Father,

in Jesus' name. Lord, I ask you to forgive us

this morning. Lord, we've all been guilty. Lord,

once we've come to know you to be thinking about

how to get out of here. Righteously. I said it

this week to my wife. Wouldn't it be nice just

to step onto an elevator to say, here you go,

kids. Here's my, here it is. I'm ready to go.

Just up. But that bypasses everything of the

season that we're in now. And God, I'm asking

you to forgive us for being so consumed with

self that we have not won to partner with you.

We've not wanted to lean in to the things of

the Spirit. Grow in the Spirit. allow the Holy

Spirit to make our flesh a little uncomfortable

so we would know what it means to live by the

Spirit, pray by the Spirit, worship by the Spirit.

As Jesus said in John 4, those that the Father

is looking for and now is those who will worship

him in spirit and truth. God, help us have a

fresh understanding in this generation that you

are still wanting to anoint. all of Pentecost

truth. You are still wanting to release by the

power of your spirit all that the Holy Spirit

can do, empower, and equip, and call each person

into their giftings and graces that they would

grow, not in word only, but in word and spirit.

I bless them now. And I ask that this holy fire,

that which is fire and wind that we sang about

today and we prayed for would begin to stir a

hunger and a pursuit on the inside of them and

they would be moved to lean in and to give more

of themselves away and get more of God in place

of it. Less control from me and more, more leading.

From you, Lord, I welcome it. And I pray this

over our house in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you

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