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More About Pentecost Sunday
“To experience Pentecost, one must be ‘put to death’ and ‘born again.’”
This is where any discussion of Pentecost must really begin. Most of us already know that “Pentecost” marks the end of the 50 days from the time of the planting of the “seed” (or, “crop”) to the celebration of the Harvest of Firstfruits.
Jesus Christ, whose death, burial, and resurrection is responsible for our Pentecost, through His resurrection, became “the firstfruits of them that slept,” and in doing so, enables us to “live again.” The Jewish holiday begins with the planting of a seed and ends with the death of that seed leading to new life (the crop) that then, leads to harvest.
If Man would partake of Jesus’ Pentecost, he, too, must die, be planted, and experience new life. Man’s impediment is that he, like all creation, is doomed to “reproduce after his kind.” The problem is that his “kind” is full of sin and displeasing to God.
Pentecost is given to us as the means to living a “new life” – which is the only way to be pleasing to God. Once our “transformation” is complete, we can begin to “reproduce” according to a new “kind” – that which is born of the Spirit.
With the infilling of the Holy Spirit, Man was given a responsibility, as well – to live Pentecost so that until the Lord’s return to earth, He would never be without a witness of true Pentecost.
by Bishop Edgar Posey
