Sunday Message (1st service) - Pastor Brad Neuschwander (June 28, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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Bible somewhere. I'm always amazed at God's graciousness

and his kindness with us. If I could just say

this personally, I never want to get used to,

although I have grown to expect it, I never get

used to, and I love that fact, and I hope you

do too, of living in an expectation that God

is going to visit us. It's so wonderful. I live

with that. I know God's going to do it, but when

he does it, it still blows my mind every time.

You can try to collect all the God things that

you think you've experienced. of his word and

of his spirit. And each time it's fresh and new.

Even though his presence is, if I could say it,

familiarly because he's on the inside and we

love him and know him as safe people. But each

time he comes into the room and begins to do

what only he can do, minister to us, release

words over us, strengthen us, anoint us. Equip

us. By word and spirit it is. It's amazing. This

weekend. I spent several days again just not

trying to. Maybe this is a clue that should come

on me. when I have to work so hard and trying

to figure out, God, what are you saying? It would

just be nice if he had just shown me just a little

bit of Sunday morning, but it's in me. And I

haven't been able to get past how important it

is for our church and for those that are watching

online. how important it is for us to understand

that he's trying to get a revelation of his work

among his people in us. And he's doing so from

the teaching side of the scripture, from Passover

to really getting you to understand what Pentecost

is. And I know each time I sit down to, Say,

Lord, speak to me. There's more and more that

keep coming in that revelation. And so I'm in

the time that we have left here. My goal here

this morning that I felt from the Lord earlier

this weekend was to continue to build upon the

platform or the progression of how God moved

the nation of Israel from Passover to Pentecost.

And why Pentecost is so incredibly important

now. Why it's so important now. It's the only

feast. Even though all of them have been fulfilled

naturally in Christ. And even though Israel participated

in the observance for, man. of participating

in the observance of the feast. Pentecost is

where God really moves and shifts things from

natural -based understanding to spiritual -based

understanding. And if you don't, if you can't

kind of just clip your carabiner into that rope

of truth, you're really going to stay limited

in your understanding and your participation

of walking with God in the Spirit through the

Scriptures and staying connected to what the

Holy Spirit's wanting to do. Because everything

changed. Some things remained the same, but everything

changed in addition at Pentecost. We moved from

a natural born, natural race, natural... identity

of Israel in all feasts, in all worship, in all

regulation, in all understanding of the Levitical

Aaronic priesthood. And everything changed at

Pentecost. It opened up a new priesthood. It

opened up no longer being born of a blood type

and in a certain nation from a certain natural

family. Everything shifted in Pentecost. Everything.

And the problem is that for many of us that were

born and raised in some of our evangelical settings,

the highest common denominator of our understanding

is a Pentecost type, or excuse me, a Passover

type revelation. Passover, and we... been working

on this for the last three weeks. Passover is

directly related to the cross. It was a place

of Jesus being the lamb that was slain. Passover

was the taking of the lamb. Passover was the

beginning, the open door, the blood on the threshold.

It is still the open door that you have to go

through first. Jesus said, I am the way, the

truth and the life. No man comes to the Father

but by me. Passover is the cross. And you can't

have the cross without the resurrection. If it

was just a cross, it would still be in something

that would have to be done every year because

that was the pattern of natural Passover. A lamb

every year, year after year after year, putting

off, putting off, extending. It was almost like

God in his... In his infinite mercy. Showing

us. How long suffering he was. In the old covenant.

By one more year. I'll extend it. One more year.

I'll extend it. One more year. And they did that

for about. 1600 years. Until. The lamb. That

would die. But not just die. Raise from the dead.

That's what. made all sacrifice of natural stop.

And then 50 days later, there would be an inauguration

of what God was trying to bring now his holy

nation. Not a nation just of a certain blood

type, but that the nations of the world would

come. into what they had been excluded out of.

There was a few proselytes that came in all over

the area, but predominantly they did not do,

Israel did not do what they were supposed to

do. They were to be a light into the world at

that time. They were to draw all nations unto

them. Instead, what happened? The nations took

Israel in instead of Israel taking the nations

in. And God did what at Pentecost? He moved them

in so many significant ways. There's so many

things that happened. I mean, literally, if I

was to go through a chart, we could go through

almost 20 specific things that God did at Pentecost.

And yet, for most of us, we just don't have that

understanding. Now, why is this so important?

Because God... And I believe at times with what

the Holy Spirit is doing with us as a church

and what he's doing in churches all over, he

is trying to move the church forward in progression.

Not progression as in some form of liberal theology,

but progression in what his plan and purpose

is so that this generation would actually partner

with him in the harvest. Not just the harvest

of only the cross, but the harvest that included

the cross, resurrection, and the ministry that

Jesus said, in my name you will do the same works

on greater. It is the combination of both. And

if we don't stand on the platform of that, we're

divided. I'm going to say something here that

I know people aren't going to like. But I believe,

I am convinced with all of my heart that one

of the greatest deceptions and doctrines of demons

that has entered the church is the idea that

the Holy Spirit has now ceased from operating

in the gifts and in the flow of the Spirit in

building the church. They're single -handedly,

the devil dropped that in. And you know, that's

a relatively, thank you, Jenny. I appreciate

you playing. I noticed she stopped right when

I said, doctrine of demons. You're on your own,

bud. I'm out. You know, it never used to be that

way. Did you know that? that all through church

history, from the early church fathers for the

first three and four centuries, even to the 1700s,

1800s, 1900s, everyone recognized that the Holy

Spirit was supposed to be something that they

should have operated in, but that they had an

understanding of operating in all the gifts as

it was that he was a minister of wind and fire

and he was to partner with the working and the

building of the church. There was no mindset

that said somehow in some century this stopped.

Because you can read the early church fathers

and they knew that it didn't stop. It was only

in a response, and please hear this, it was only

in a response to the 1906 or the 1903, whatever,

I'm getting my dates messed up, pouring out of

Azusa Street on the West Coast that in response

to that outpouring that came, people began to

create a mindset that they did not want more

of the Holy Spirit and began to really punch

down and say, this is a cessationist thing. That

which is happening is not of the scripture because

all we have now is the word. The word is perfect.

That's the perfect that has come. None of these

other things are operational. That is the biggest

balderdash lie. Now, I know it. I mean, I'm saying

to you, it's a lie. I believe it's a lie because

you cannot. Now, I know that there's ministers

on TV, ministers on the radio, all sorts of things

that will say, well, these are just two different

points. No, they are polar opposite of each other.

And listen, a house divided against itself will

fall. And so is it any wonder that the church

hasn't been able to progress forward in actually

flowing with the Spirit of God and the Word of

God together as the body of Christ? Isn't it

any wonder that's the only thing we can rally

around is the cross and that's it? That the second

giving of a one just like Jesus is relegated

now? That he can't do what he did in and through

Jesus? Who does that make sense to? So, well

that was kind of a big introduction. So what

does that mean? It means that God has been, and

this is why I want to go back to patterns. God

has been putting in his word. patterns of partnership

right from the beginning of every feast to show

us that God does what God does, but in the midst

of what God does and he can do alone, he what?

Invites you into the process of partnership.

And if that's the nature of the Father and that

is the nature of the Son and that is the nature

of the Holy Spirit, then God who changes not

will not change partway through the feasts. If

he partnered with you in Passover as we looked

at several weeks ago to say, now I'm going to

do what only the blood can do and I'm going to

provide for myself and you're going to take a

lamb and that taking now represents spiritually.

You take him on your heart and you apply the

blood of my son on your heart, the lamb of God

for the forgiveness of your sin, what you were

born in and personal sin. If you confess your

sin, I'll be faithful and just to forgive you

and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. Yes,

that is part of taking the lamb. It's receiving

it. He is the resurrected Lord. I welcome him

into my life as my king, my king, and my savior.

But I don't stay there. I stay there in the fact

that he's my king and my savior and that never

changed. But now I don't stay as just a little

child. I now take the hand of my king who wants

mature sons and daughters. Listen, you know the

highest place, and it's all through the scriptures

of Pauline theology, the highest place of operating

in the kingdom of God was not to be just out

there as a minister, an official of the government.

The highest place to be outside the king's throne

was what? Sons and daughters. Because sons and

daughters actually got the better ministries

that were given to them to oversee in the kingdom.

It was others. that were not sons and daughters

that got another tier down rather than what sons

and daughters got. Sons and daughters got the

tier that came from the king that they wanted

sons to be trained, sons and daughters to be

trained to what? To rule the kingdom because

that was the heart of the father. That's the

mindset that we've got to get into. That it's

not about... I don't have to be a son and a daughter.

I can just do ministry. If I just remain saved

and just stay childlike, that's all I need to

do. No, no, no. As a son or daughter, you were

designed to be tutored to a place where you could

now become a steward. That's the Holy Spirit's

theology all the way through. The law was a tutor

to bring you. to bring you into the fullness

of the Spirit so it would take you from a child

into a functioning, having full authority, ring,

sandals, robe. That was the whole parable. The

whole parable of the... I know there's many applications

of that, but the son that squandered his wealth

is a representation of the younger son representing

a Gentile mindset. Part of the problem was the

older son. The older son did not want to see

What the younger son squandered and felt that

the younger son should pay. And the older son

had no idea, even though he worked and labored

in it, he had no idea of what real partnership

meant. Because he got so consumed with what wasn't

being done right and the inheritance being squandered

that he felt bound to... To only that which he

could see. And the nature of the father didn't

get in him. Are you there? Meaning what? When

the brother came back. And God puts what? A ring

on his finger. Shoes on his feet. Robe. Slays

the fatted calf. The only thing the brother could

think about. And I love this in the old King

James. You didn't even give me a goat to make

merry with my friends. That's the only word you

could come up with? How does not getting a goat

to make merry with my friends, what did it do?

It revealed everything on the inside of the older

brother. Everything on the inside. Meaning, I

don't care. That the dead came back. I don't

care. All I care is that they lost their chance.

They squandered it. They left. They're out. They're

out. This thing I'm working is for me. And I

need to have it for me. The father in the parable,

Jesus, had to awaken them. Awaken him. Say, do

you understand that your brother who was dead

has now come back to life? Meaning the world,

the Gentiles that were cut off. You see, I believe

that parable is more about Pentecost than it

is in anything else. That when the world was

cut off at Babel, it became now one family, one,

that older son. And when God called and they

finally came out of the pigs and he sent the

spirit and he came to himself, what happened?

The younger brother, the Gentile brother came

to himself. It's what? It's an awakening. It's

a call. It's coming out of the places where he

was in. Gentile fields, Gentile land, Gentile

ownership, the gods of this world and the food

of this world. He called them back. brother's

biggest issue was the mantling, the signet authority

that represented what? Try not to, I got to make

sure I got the right finger here. Hallelujah.

Okay. The ring finger. Let's pull that ring up

there. The ring finger. Okay. Internet ring finger.

Some of my Mennonite brethren are really smiling

right now. It's like we've never seen anybody

do that in our church. Hallelujah. All right.

The reality is the ring finger coming on was

what? It was you now have my name, power, and

authority to go out into the marketplace and

make decisions as though you've been in my house.

And in every aspect, you've now come to maturity.

The season shifted, and the older brother didn't

like it. The season shifted, and the celebration

was about seeing the younger brother, the Gentiles,

come in. come in and be clothed with the same

thing as fellow heirs, as fellow sons and daughters,

and to walk in together into the house of celebration

together. You see, Jesus, we often don't think

of these interpretations because even in our

understanding of it, we haven't actually believed.

that the Pentecostal feast is actually the model

for the church, not Passover. We need Passover,

but we need Pentecost. God wouldn't have given

Pentecost if there wasn't a need for it. Passover

represents salvation. Pentecost represents a

baptism that represents the kingdom of God coming

on you and empowering you, which is subsequent

to your salvation, but is still necessary. It's

not optional. That's why he doesn't say just

choose two out of three feasts. See, the church

mostly lives like we're choosing two out of three.

We want salvation and we're waiting for tabernacles.

Even now, come quickly, Lord. That's the feast.

When we get out of here, I'll fly away, oh glory,

I'll. When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound

and time shall be no more. Come on. That is the

doctrine that we've believed. Passover. Do I

believe we're going to be caught up? Absolutely.

But do I think there was a feast in between salvation

and there's a feast in between? It's the laying

on of the horn first of move into the fields.

Move into the harvest. Move across the threshold.

What we heard today. And begin to partner with

what the Spirit has poured out. Now listen. People

ask me. Who are you preaching to when you get

fired up like that? Is it us? Kinda. But it's

to what is listening in the atmosphere and to

what is happening that has tried to create a

blanket in this territory and region to keep

people stuck. I am preaching. To the atmosphere.

To declare. That there is a people. That are

moving in sync. With the spirit of God. In his

timing. In his season. And we're not going to

stay stagnant. Alright. Jenny. If I launch into

this. We will not go anywhere. It's all good,

but I don't have time to do it. So what I want

to do is I'm going to put this on pause and we've

got a service July 5th that is going to be a

combined service that I'm going to continue to

teach on this progression of Passover to Pentecost

and I'm going to take specific things out of

the nature and character of Jesus that we started

on fire on the altar. I preached a totally different

service Saturday night on fire of the altar about

the nature of our Father who's a giver of gifts

that I taught on Sunday morning. I enjoyed Sunday

morning, but Saturday night is the platform that

we've got to move as a church together in. Because

you heard the Spirit of the Lord. He's looking.

To have you partner with his gifts. And if they're

from him. They can't be bad. Right? If they're

of him. From him. Who in the world. Would have

the pride and the moxie to say. That which is

holy. That which is true. that which is powerful

and that which comes from your heart to mine,

I don't need. Kind of sounds like a dry oak or

a stone statue, doesn't it? We've got to get

to the place where we say, God, I want everything

that you that is connected to you, from you,

and that is pleasing to you. Folks, that's the

heart of a son or a daughter. I want everything

that's connected to you, that's from you. I want

all that you have given me. And I want, in receiving

that and partnership with it, I want to now use

it. in a pleasing form that brings you honor

and glory. That is the nature of what God is

trying to stir by his spirit and his word for

the church now to embrace and wear. That's the

Elisha generation. It's I'm in love with the

father and the father is so in love with me.

That everything that is in him, he wants to get

to me and give me fresh understanding so that

I can partner with him and do what he asked me

to do in this season until the next feast. Would

you stand with me this morning? Kayla's going

to come. I want to pray for you. Father, in Jesus'

name, Lord, this morning we have encountered

your magnificent, incredible presence of the

Lord. Lord, we believe that you're, not only

have you given us the amazing word of God from

cover to cover, Genesis to Revelation, but in

the midst of absolute truth, Lord, you also speak

by the spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit. to guide

and to give us understanding of seasons and times

to prepare your people to partner with you. And

Lord, I'm asking now this morning as we have,

Lord, prayed for a generation. Lord, I'm now

praying for both generations, the Abraham, the

Isaac, the Jacob, the younger ones even in this,

even in our classrooms this morning, the Jacob

generations. Lord that you would begin to unify

our heart there would be fresh revelation that

would be given we would see through the scriptures

through the lens of partnership we would not

just see that what you do at all and we have

nothing to do except just accept it we would

see that that is one part of it but then there

is a whole releasing of responsibility that you're

looking for us to come alongside of you lean

from you grow in you and steward as sons and

daughters. I'm praying for that now in the name

of Jesus. I'm praying that for every heart and

every mind, Lord, that they would be stirred,

that the hunger of seeing the younger son that

has been out in the pig fields. feeding themselves

with garbage and gunk and the leftovers that

have nothing that was ever, that the call of

God and the destiny of God and that which was

put inside of them immediately would be quickened,

that the hardened heart and the resistant mind

would be softened and they would begin. to make

their way to people who would run to them and

bring them to the house of God. Lord, to be refitted,

reclothed, commissioned, ordained, and come into

the celebration of how good our God is. I pray

that now, that the Lord of the harvest would

awaken, awaken your people, and a quickening

of the spirit would come now in Jesus' holy name.

And everybody said, amen. Galen. Lastly, if you

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