AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
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(MUSIC) >>WHEN THE DISCIPLES
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BEGAN TO SPEAK IN OTHER
LANGUAGES THEY HAD NEVER
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FORMALLY KNOWN OR STUDIED,
THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD'S
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SPIRIT, WAS THAT A MIRACLE?
THAT'S THE POWER OF GOD.
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>>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING
FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO
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>>TURN WITH ME IN YOUR
BIBLES TO ACTS CHAPTER 2.
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THE MESSAGE TODAY,
'THE PURPOSE OF PENTECOST.'
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PENTECOST WAS A HOLIDAY THAT
CAME 50 DAYS AFTER THE PASSOVER.
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IT HAD AN OLD TESTAMENT MEANING
AND A NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT
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- AND IT'S RELEVANT TO US TODAY
IN THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH.
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NOW, I WANT TO READ THIS STORY
- WE STARTED WITH IT IN OUR
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SCRIPTURE READING, BUT I'D LIKE
YOU TO JOIN ME IN READING ACTS
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CHAPTER 2 AND WE'RE
GOING TO PROBABLY READ
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VERSES 1 THROUGH 11.
"WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST HAD
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FULLY COME, THEY WERE ALL
WITH ONE ACCORD IN ONE PLACE."
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- THESE ARE THE
DISCIPLES AND THE APOSTLES.
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THERE WERE 120 IN ALL.
THEY HAD JUST RECENTLY REPLACED
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JUDAS, WHO HAD
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
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THEY CAST LOTS BETWEEN TWO MEN
AND THEY CHOSE MATTHIAS TO TAKE
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HIS PLACE. AS SOON AS THAT
HAPPENED - AND THEY'RE PRAYING
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- THEY'VE RESUMED THAT NUMBER OF
12 - THEY'VE BEEN IN THIS UPPER
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ROOM FOR 10 DAYS - THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS POURED OUT ON THEM.
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"SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND
FROM HEAVEN, AS OF A RUSHING
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MIGHTY WIND, AND IT FILLED
THE WHOLE HOUSE WHERE THEY
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WERE SITTING. AND
THERE APPEARED UNTO THEM
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DIVIDED TONGUES, AS OF FIRE,
AND ONE SAT UPON EACH OF THEM.
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AND THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT AND THEY BEGAN TO
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SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES AS
THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE.
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NOW, THERE WERE DWELLING IN
JERUSALEM JEWS, DEVOUT MEN, FROM
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EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.
AND WHEN THE SOUND OCCURRED, THE
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MULTITUDE CAME TOGETHER, AND
WERE CONFUSED, BECAUSE EVERY ONE
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OF THEM HEARD THEM
SPEAK IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE.
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THEN THEY WERE AMAZED AND
THEY MARVELED AND SAID TO ONE
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ANOTHER, 'LOOK, ARE NOT THESE
WHO SPEAK GALILEANS? HOW IS IT
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THAT WE EACH MAN HEAR IN OUR OWN
LANGUAGE WHEREIN WE WERE BORN?
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PARTHIANS AND MEDES AND
ELAMITES, AND THOSE DWELLING IN
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MESOPOTAMIA, AND JUDEA
AND CAPPADOCIA, AND PONTUS AND
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ASIA, AND PHRYGIA AND
PAMPHYLIA, EGYPT AND PARTS OF
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LIBYA AND CYRENE, AND
VISITORS FROM ROME, JEWS AND
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PROSELYTES,'" - THERE WERE
JEWS BY BIRTH - PROSELYTES ARE
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CONVERTS TO JUDAISM - "'CRETIANS
AND ARABS WE'" - AND IT MENTIONS
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16 DIFFERENT LANGUAGE
GROUPS THERE IF YOU COUNT THEM
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- "'WE HEAR THEM
SPEAKING IN OUR OWN TONGUES
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THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF
GOD.' SO THEY WERE AMAZED AND
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PERPLEXED, SAYING TO ONE
ANOTHER, 'WHAT COULD THIS MEAN?'
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OTHERS" - THERE'S ALWAYS SOME
IN A CROWD - "MOCKING SAID, 'OH,
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THEY'RE FULL OF NEW
WINE.'" THE BIBLE COMPARES THE
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OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT TO RAIN
AND IN THE HEBREW ECONOMY THE
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RAIN CAME IN TWO GREAT WAVES
AND THE EARLY RAIN WAS A GOOD
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DOWNPOUR THAT WOULD
BASICALLY SPROUT THE SEED
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- AND IT WOULD HAPPEN IN
NOVEMBER - THESE ARE THEIR
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WINTER CROPS LIKE THE GRAIN.
IT WOULD GROW THROUGH THE WINTER
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SEASON AND THEN YOU'D HAVE THE
LATTER RAIN - THAT WOULD PLUMP
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THE EAR DURING THE SPRINGTIME
AND PREPARE IT FOR THE HARVEST.
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AND SO THE LORD, AFTER SOWING
THE SEED - YOU KNOW JESUS BEGAN
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HIS MINISTRY IN THE FALL DURING
THE TIME OF THE FORMER RAIN -
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PREACHED THREE AND A HALF YEARS
- HE FINISHED HIS MINISTRY I
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THE SPRING, DURING THE
TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN.
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HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES,
'DO NOT GO ANYWHERE YET.
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ABIDE IN JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU
RECEIVE THE PROMISED COMFORTER.'
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AND HE GAVE THEM SOME SPECIAL
INSTRUCTIONS WHEN HE ASCENDED
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TO HEAVEN. SO,
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
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THAT ASCENDING AND DESCENDING.
NOW, LET'S GO TO ACTS CHAPTER 1,
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VERSE 3. "TO
WHOM HE ALSO PRESENTED
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HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER HIS
SUFFERING BY MANY INFALLIBLE
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PROOFS, BEING SEEN BY THEM
DURING FORTY DAYS" - HOW LONG?
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- "AND SPEAKING OF THESE
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE KINGDOM
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OF GOD." SO, AFTER
JESUS DIED, HE DID NOT
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GO DIRECTLY TO HEAVEN,
BUT OVER A PERIOD OF HOW LONG?
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40 DAYS FROM HIS CRUCIFIXION AND
HIS RESURRECTION, HE REMAINED
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- HE CONTINUED TO APPEAR TO
THE DISCIPLES AND EVERY TIME HE
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APPEARED HE TAUGHT THEM.
ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT THE
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MINISTRY OF CHRIST BEGINS
WITH 40 DAYS OF NOT EATING AND
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FASTING, AND THE MINISTRY
OF CHRIST ENDS - HIS EARTHLY
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MINISTRY - WITH ANOTHER
40 DAYS WHERE HE DOES EAT AND
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HE TEACHES. NOW, AT
THE END OF THAT 40 DAYS
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THE HOLY SPIRIT DIDN'T COME
- YET. IT CAME AT PENTECOST.
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PENTECOST WAS A TIME WHEN THEY
CELEBRATED THE LATTER RAIN AND
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THE HARVEST. YOU'VE GOT PASSOVER
AND THEN AFTER PASSOVER - WELL,
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LET ME READ IT TO YOU IN
THE BIBLE. LEVITICUS 23:15.
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"AND YOU SHALL COUNT FOR
YOURSELVES FROM THE DAY AFTER
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THE SABBATH" - SPEAKING OF THE
PASSOVER - "FROM THAT DAY THAT
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YOU BROUGHT THE SHEAF OF
THE WAVE OFFERING: EVEN SEVEN
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SABBATHS" - HOW
MANY DAYS IN A WEEK?
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SO SEVEN
SABBATHS IS HOW MANY DAYS?
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SEVEN TIMES SEVEN? 49
- BUT THEY ADD ONE MORE.
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THE DAY AFTER THE BBATH IS
THAT ONE ADDITIONAL DAY FOR A
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TOTAL OF 50 DAYS. THE
WORD PENTA - LIKE A BUILDING
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IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WHERE ALL
THE MILITARY DOES IT'S STUFF IS
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CALLED THE WHAT? WHY? WHY
IS IT CALLED THE PENTAGON?
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FIVE SIDES LIKE A PENTAGRAM
- FIVE-SIDED STAR IS PENTA -
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PENTAGON HAS GOT FIVE
SIDES. AND SO PENTECOST WAS THIS
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SPECIAL HOLIDAY THAT CAME 50
DAYS AFTER PASSOVER - A TIME TO
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CELEBRATE THE HARVEST.
WELL, GOD WAS ABOUT TO GIVE THE
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CHURCH ITS FIRST HARVEST AFTER
JESUS HAD BEEN SOWING THE GOSPEL
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SEED FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IMMEDIATELY
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AFTER HE ASCENDS -
CHRIST ASCENDS TO HEAVEN.
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HE SAYS, 'WAIT IN JERUSALEM'
- YOU READ IN CHAPTER 1 OF ACTS
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HE SAYS, 'WAIT IN JERUSALEM,
DON'T GO PREACHING YET.
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YOU CAN'T BE DOING THE WORK OF
GOD WITHOUT THE POWER OF GOD.'
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HE SAID, 'BE PRAYING AND
WAITING FOR THE POWER OF GOD.
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YOU'LL KNOW. YOU
NEED THE COMFORTER
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- I'VE GOT TO GO' -
GOD THE SON - 'THAT I MIGHT
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SEND GOD THE SPIRIT
AND HE WILL EMPOWER YOU.'
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WHY DOES GOD GIVE
US THE HOLY SPIRIT?
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WHAT'S THE PRINCIPAL REASON
HE GIVES US THE HOLY SPIRIT?
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JESUS SAID, 'I WILL
GIVE YOU POWER THAT YOU MIGHT
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BE MY WITNESSES.'
ACTS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 8.
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THE REASON HE SENT THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS SO THEY COULD WITNESS
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- FOR WHAT PURPOSE? TO
BRING OTHERS THAT THERE MIGHT
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BE A HARVEST OF SOULS.
WHAT WOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT
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TIME IN HISTORY FOR GOD TO
PREPARE THE WORLD FOR A HARVEST?
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WOULDN'T THAT BE JUST BEFORE
HE SHOWS UP WITH A SICKLE?
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DOESN'T REVELATION SAY WHEN
JESUS COMES HE'S GOT A SICKLE?
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WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A SICKLE?
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER, BEFORE
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THEY HAD JOHN DEERE, WHAT THEY
DID WITH SICKLES? THEY HARVEST.
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SOME OF YOU GREW UP IN THE OLD
COUNTRY - GERMANY OR RUSSIA -
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WITH THESE BIG
SCYTHES. WHAT'S THE SYMBOL ON
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THE RUSSIAN FLAG? THE
COMMUNIST FLAG - IT WAS THE
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HAMMER AND THE SICKLE BECAUSE
THAT'S HOW THEY USED TO HARVEST.
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THEY'D TAKE A LITTLE GRAIN AND
GO - THEY'D CHOP IT AND THEY'D
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STACK IT IN BUNDLES AND THEY'D
CHOP IT - IT WAS A VERY SHARP,
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CUED KNIFE. JESUS IS
COMING WITH A SICKLE TO HARVEST.
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SO, DO WE NEED AN OUTPOURING OF
THE SPIRIT TO PREPARE THE CROP
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JUST BEFORE HE COMES?
SO WE REALLY NEED THE SAME
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EXPERIENCE OF PENTECOST.
GOD WANTS TO TAKE OF THE SPIRIT
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OF JESUS AND PUT IT
ON HIS PEOPLE AGAIN.
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NOW, YOU KNOW ONE REASON
I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW IS
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BECAUSE I'M LOOKING
AT THE WORLD AROUND US.
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EVERYTHING FROM VOLCANOES TO
EARTHQUAKES, TO THE MORAL DECAY
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IN OUR SOCIETY AND OUR CHURCH
- AND I'M THINKING TO MYSELF,
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'LORD, YOU'RE GOING TO COME
PRETTY SOON BUT SOMETHING VERY
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IMPORTANT IS MISSING.
YOUR PEOPLE NEED THE BAPTISM OF
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THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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IT'S NOT LIKE GOD HAS A CLOCK
UP IN THE SKY HE'S WATCHING AND
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WHEN IT HITS THAT RIGHT MOMENT
THE HOLY SPIRIT FALLS, HE'S
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WAITING ON US.
HE WANTS TO SEND IT.
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AND EACH OF US CAN EXPERIENCE
A REVIVAL - THE CHURCH IS A
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COLLECTION OF PEOPLE - IF
YOU WANT TO SEE REVIVAL IN THE
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CHURCH, YOU NEED
REVIVAL. I NEED REVIVAL.
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WE ALL NEED IT OURSELVES.
WE NEED TO SEEK FOR IT.
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WELL, LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF
THE THINGS THEY DID THAT HELPED
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PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE
OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT.
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FIRST OF ALL, THEY GOT
TOGETHER - ACTS CHAPTER 1 -
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THEY WERE IN ONE ACCORD.
THAT MEANS THEY WERE UNITED.
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SO WHAT ARE THEY DOING DURING
THOSE 10 DAYS BETWEEN CHRIST'S
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ASCENSION AND PENTECOST, WHEN
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT?
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THEY'RE PUTTING
ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES.
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THEY'RE OF ONE ACCORD. YOU
ALSO FIND IN ACTS CHAPTER 2
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- THEY ARE IN ONE
ACCORD AND ONE PLACE AND THE
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HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT.
SO, STEP #1 BE COMING TOGETHER.
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WHEN THERE'S A
MEETING, COME. JOHN 17:21.
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THIS IS THE PRAYER OF CHRIST
"THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE'; AS
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THOU, FATHER, ART IN ME, AND
I IN THEE, THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE
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ONE IN US: THAT THE WORLD
MIGHT BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME.
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THAT THE GLORY THAT YOU GAVE ME
I HAVE GIVEN THEM THAT THEY MAY
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BE ONE, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE" THE
BIBLE TELLS US THERE'S ONE GOD.
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PEOPLE GET CONFUSED BY THAT.
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JESUS IS SAYING 'DON'T LET THAT
CONFUSE YOU, IT'S THE SAME KIND
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OF ONENESS THAT I'M
ASKING THE CHURCH TO HAVE.
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WE'RE DIFFERENT
PEOPLE BUT WE'RE ONE.'
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GOD THE FATHER, SON AND
HOLY SPIRIT ARE THREE UNIQUE
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INDIVIDUALS BUT THEY ARE
ONE GOD. HE WANTS US TO HAVE
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THAT KIND OF ONENESS, LIKE
A HUSBAND AND A WIFE, LIKE GOD
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THE FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT -
JESUS IS INVITING US TO BE ONE.
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THE ONLY WAY THAT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN IS WE HAVE A SPECIAL GLUE
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THAT YOU CAN'T GET AT
HOME DEPOT - IT'S CALLED LOVE.
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THAT'S WHAT'S GOING
TO WELD US TOGETHER.
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SO THEY WERE IN ONE
PLACE - ONE ACCORD -
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AND THEN CAME THE
SOUND OF THE WIND. ACTS 2:2.
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"AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND
FROM HEAVEN AS IT WAS A RUSHING
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MIGHTY WIND" - ANYONE EVER BEEN
IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO A TORNADO?
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I MEAN A REAL TORNADO - I'M
NOT TALKING ABOUT ONE OF THESE
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LITTLE DEVIL DUSTERS
THAT GOES ACROSS THE SAND.
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PEOPLE I KNOW TELL ME
IT'S LIKE A TRAIN IS GOING BY.
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IT'S A TREMENDOUSLY LOUD SOUND
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE PEOPLE
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IN JERUSALEM - IT DOESN'T SAY
THEY GOT HIT BY A TORNADO - YOU
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NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY
THEY SAW A LEAF FLUTTER.
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WHAT DOES IT SAY HAPPENED?
THEY HEARD FROM HEAVEN A SOUND.
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IT DOESN'T SAY THERE WAS A
RIPPLE IN THE BREEZE ANYWHERE.
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THE ROAR WAS A SPIRITUAL
WIND THAT CAME FROM HEAVEN.
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JESUS TALKS ABOUT THAT
WIND - JOHN 3, VERSE 8.
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LORD, LET THAT WIND BLOW AGAIN.
JESUS SAID, "THE WIND BLOWS
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WHERE IT WISHES, AND YOU HEAR
THE SOUND OF IT, BUT YOU CAN'T
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TELL WHERE IT COMES
FROM AND WHERE IT GOES.
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SO IS EVERYONE WHO
IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT."
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IT'S TALKING ABOUT THIS
SPIRITUAL BIRTH THAT TOOK PLACE
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AND THERE WAS A
SPECIAL BIRTH AT PENTECOST.
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JOHN 20, VERSE 22. WHAT
DID JESUS DO THE FIRST TIME
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THE DISCIPLES RECEIVED
THE HOLY SPIRIT AFTER HE ROSE?
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IT WASN'T IN PENTECOST -
RIGHT WHEN HE ROSE IT SAYS, 'HE
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BREATHED ON THEM AND SAID,
'RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.''
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WHAT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE
THE UPPER ROOM EXPERIENCE,
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TO THE CHURCH? IT HAD DIED.
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WHEN CHRIST DIED
THEIR FAITH DIED.
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YOU REMEMBER HE TALKED TO
THE TWO ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS.
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THEY SAID, 'LORD' - THEY THOUGHT
HE WAS GOING TO BE THE ONE.
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'WE HOPED HE WAS
GOING TO BE THE ONE.'
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THEY LOST HOPE.
THEY WERE DISCOURAGED.
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THEY'D BEEN SCATTERED
AND THEIR FAITH HAD BEEN
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COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
THE CHURCH BASICALLY NEEDED
00:13:46.99\00:13:50.43
A RESURRECTION. AND
WHEN JESUS ROSE IT ROSE.
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AND SORT OF LIKE ARTIFICIAL
RESPIRATION, HE BREATHED INTO
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THEM AND THEY CAME
ALIVE. THAT WIND FROM HEAVEN.
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AND THEN IT SAYS - AFTER
THIS WIND - THERE WAS A SIGN
00:14:05.61\00:14:09.58
- SOMETHING VISIBLE
HAPPENED - CLOVEN TONGUES.
00:14:09.61\00:14:13.28
NOW, I'VE SEEN THAT PAINTED
BEFORE AND WE'VE GOT A PAINTING
00:14:13.31\00:14:16.22
TOO WHERE SOMETIMES IT ALMOST
LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE GOT LITTLE
00:14:16.25\00:14:20.32
TONGUES THAT A SERPENT HAS.
00:14:20.36\00:14:21.72
AND I'VE THOUGHT, 'OH, THERE'S
SOMETHING INCONGRUOUS ABOUT THAT
00:14:21.76\00:14:24.83
- HAVING SNAKE TONGUES COMING
OUT OF THEIR HEADS OF FIRE.'
00:14:24.86\00:14:27.73
BUT THE WORD CLOVEN
DOESN'T MEAN NECESSARILY SPLIT,
00:14:27.76\00:14:30.57
IT MEANS DIVIDED. IT
COULD BE DIVIDED FOUR WAYS.
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IT WAS DIVIDED
UNTO THEM EACH ONE.
00:14:34.80\00:14:38.84
OF THE 120 IN THE ROOM -
MEN AND WOMEN - RECEIVED THESE
00:14:38.87\00:14:44.01
CLOVEN TONGUES.
WHY TONGUES OF FIRE?
00:14:44.05\00:14:46.21
WELL, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE
HOLY SPIRIT COMES LIKE WIND,
00:14:46.25\00:14:49.35
SOMETIMES LIKE RAIN, LIKE
WATER, AND SOMETIMES LIKE FIRE.
00:14:49.38\00:14:53.29
JESUS SAID, ACTS 1, VERSE 8,
"YOU'LL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE
00:14:53.32\00:14:58.59
HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU;
AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO
00:14:58.63\00:15:01.56
ME...IN ALL JUDEA AND
SAMARIA, AND THE UTTERMOST PARTS
00:15:01.60\00:15:04.70
OF THE EARTH." WHY
DIDN'T JESUS SAY 'YOU GUYS,
00:15:04.73\00:15:07.04
ONCE I ASCEND TO HEAVEN
GET TO IT AND GO OUT AND START
00:15:07.07\00:15:08.97
PREACHING.'? WHY DID
HE SAY YOU'VE GOT TO WAIT?
00:15:09.00\00:15:11.74
BECAUSE THEY NEEDED THIS POWER
OF GOD AND THEY HAD TO WAIT ON
00:15:11.77\00:15:14.24
THE POWER OF GOD.
SOMETIMES GOD WANTS US TO WAIT
00:15:14.28\00:15:16.51
SO WE WON'T TAKE THE CREDIT.
WE THINK WE'RE MAKING IT HAPPEN.
00:15:16.54\00:15:20.15
HE WANTS US TO KNOW
HE'S MAKING IT HAPPEN.
00:15:20.18\00:15:22.22
NOW, GOING BACK TO
THIS SUBJECT OF THE TONGUES.
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TURN BACK WITH ME
TO ACTS CHAPTER 2.
00:15:27.36\00:15:30.39
I'VE GOT TO TAKE A FEW
MOMENTS AND TALK ABOUT THIS
00:15:30.43\00:15:32.46
BECAUSE THERE'S
A LOT OF CONFUSION.
00:15:32.49\00:15:37.10
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN ON
MAYBE SOME RELIGIOUS CHANNEL, OR
00:15:37.13\00:15:41.47
MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN TO A CHURCH,
OR MAYBE YOU WERE PART OF A
00:15:41.50\00:15:43.17
CHURCH - I WAS, BEFORE I WAS A
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN
00:15:43.20\00:15:46.07
I WAS A PART OF A CHURCH WHERE
IT WAS VERY COMMON FOR PEOPLE,
00:15:46.11\00:15:49.28
IN THE MIDDLE OR THE SERVICE, OR
AT SOME POINT DURING THE SERVICE
00:15:49.31\00:15:51.85
TO JUST START UTTERING OUT THESE
INCOHERENT SOUNDS AND IT COULD
00:15:51.88\00:15:58.82
SOUND TO THE AVERAGE
PERSON LIKE THIS BABBLING.
00:15:58.85\00:16:02.46
AND YOU SAY, 'WHAT IS THIS?'
AND THEY'D SAY, 'WELL, THIS IS
00:16:02.49\00:16:05.96
THE HOLY SPIRIT.' 'REALLY?
00:16:05.99\00:16:07.36
WHERE DO YOU FIND EVIDENCE
FOR THAT?' "IT'S ACTS CHAPTER 2.
00:16:07.40\00:16:10.13
GOD POURED OUT THE HOLY SPIRIT
AND THEY ALL BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH
00:16:10.17\00:16:12.73
THESE OTHER LANGUAGES -
SPEAK IN UNKNOWN TONGUES.'
00:16:12.77\00:16:16.14
WELL, THAT'S NOT
WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT.
00:16:16.17\00:16:18.84
WHEN JESUS SAID, IN MARK CHAPTER
16, "THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW
00:16:18.87\00:16:23.78
THEM THAT BELIEVE - THEY
WILL SPEAK IN OTHER TONGUES.'
00:16:23.81\00:16:27.68
THAT WORD TONGUES
THERE MEANS LANGUAGES.
00:16:27.72\00:16:29.58
NOW, JEWS WERE VISITING FROM
ALL OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. WHY?
00:16:29.62\00:16:36.59
BECAUSE THEY'D BEEN COMMANDED IN
THE LAW OF MOSES THAT '50 DAYS
00:16:36.62\00:16:39.03
AFTER PASSOVER YOU WERE TO
COME TO THE PLACE THAT I CHOOSE
00:16:39.06\00:16:41.60
- JERUSALEM - AND THERE YOU'RE
TO MAKE YOUR OFFERING AND THERE
00:16:41.63\00:16:44.37
YOU'RE TO CELEBRATE AND REJOICE'
- AND IT WAS A GREAT FESTIVAL
00:16:44.40\00:16:46.50
AND EVERY JEW SCATTERED
ALL AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
00:16:46.53\00:16:49.37
SOME CAME FROM AS
FAR AWAY AS SPAIN.
00:16:49.40\00:16:51.24
THEY CAME FROM
AFRICA. THEY CAME FROM ASIA.
00:16:51.27\00:16:53.68
THEY WERE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE
AND THEY ALL WOULD COME TO
00:16:53.71\00:16:57.51
JERUSALEM AND IT WAS FILLED
WITH THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF
00:16:57.55\00:17:03.28
- WHAT KIND OF
JEWS? NOT ANY KIND OF JEW
00:17:03.32\00:17:06.32
- GOD'S TIMING IS PERFECT.
IT SAYS, 'THERE WERE DWELLING IN
00:17:06.35\00:17:08.92
JERUSALEM, BECAUSE OF THE
PENTECOST FEAST, DEVOUT JEWS.'
00:17:08.96\00:17:13.03
WHAT KIND OF JEWS? THESE
FOLKS BELIEVED THE WORD OF
00:17:13.06\00:17:16.36
GOD ENOUGH TO MAKE A
TRIP THAT TAKES THEM MONTHS.
00:17:16.40\00:17:19.40
THEY MAY NOT DO IT EVERY YEAR,
BUT EVERY JEW AT SOME POINT IN
00:17:19.43\00:17:21.87
HIS LIFE WOULD COME TO JERUSALEM
FOR PENTECOST. AND SO, HERE ARE
00:17:21.90\00:17:25.61
THESE JEWS FROM ALL THESE
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD.
00:17:25.64\00:17:27.51
THEY COME TOGETHER AND ALL
OF A SUDDEN THEY HEAR THIS ROAR.
00:17:27.54\00:17:31.88
THEY COME TO THE CENTER OF TOWN
AND NOW, RUSHING OUT ON TO THIS
00:17:31.91\00:17:34.95
BALCONY - BECAUSE THEY'VE COME
FROM THE UPPER ROOM - ARE THE
00:17:34.98\00:17:37.65
APOSTLES AND THEIR FACES ARE
GLOWING AND THEY'VE GOT TONGUES
00:17:37.69\00:17:40.99
OF FIRE AND THEY GO,
'WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?'
00:17:41.02\00:17:42.99
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
THEY BEGIN TO PREACH IN THESE
00:17:43.02\00:17:45.86
DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
REMEMBER, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE
00:17:45.89\00:17:49.16
WHAT IT SAYS HERE.
IT MENTIONS 16 DIFFERENT
00:17:49.20\00:17:52.23
LANGUAGE GROUPS SCATTERED
AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
00:17:52.27\00:17:54.64
IT SAYS, WHAT IS THIS
THAT'S HAPPENING? "LOOK, ARE NOT
00:17:54.67\00:17:58.91
THESE WHO SPEAK GALILEANS?'
VERSE 7. THEY WERE AMAZED.
00:17:58.94\00:18:02.78
AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 11 "WE HEAR
THEM SPEAKING IN OUR TONGUES
00:18:02.81\00:18:08.75
AMAZING BABBLING."
NO. DID THEY KNOW WHAT
00:18:08.78\00:18:12.05
THEY WERE SAYING?
"...WE HEAR THEM SPEAKING THE
00:18:12.09\00:18:15.42
WONDERFUL WORKS OF
GOD." WHY DID JESUS DO THIS?
00:18:15.46\00:18:19.36
WHY DID HE SAY THAT YOU
WILL SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES?
00:18:19.39\00:18:21.96
FOR THE SPREADING OF THE GOSPEL.
THIS IS PERFECT. THIS IS GENIUS.
00:18:22.00\00:18:27.37
HE PICKS THIS HOLIDAY OF A
JEWISH HARVEST, HE POURS OUT THE
00:18:27.40\00:18:32.31
HOLY SPIRIT WHEN, NOT ANY OLD
JEWS BUT DEVOTED JEWS WHO ARE
00:18:32.34\00:18:36.38
LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH TO
COME, THEY COME TO JERUSALEM AND
00:18:36.41\00:18:40.22
THEY'RE SO ANGRY THEY SEE THE
ROMAN FLAG THERE HANGING ABOVE
00:18:40.25\00:18:43.72
THE COURTS AND THEY SAID,
'OH, LORD, SEND YOUR MESSIAH.
00:18:43.75\00:18:46.15
SEND YOUR MESSIAH.'
AND IN THE CONTEXT OF THAT
00:18:46.19\00:18:48.39
THINKING GOD POURS OUT THE HOLY
SPIRIT AT PENTECOST AND THEY
00:18:48.42\00:18:52.39
COME POURING OUT OF THIS UPPER
ROOM SPEAKING TO THEM ABOUT
00:18:52.43\00:18:56.87
THE MESSIAH IN
THEIR NATIVE TONGUES.
00:18:56.90\00:18:59.30
THEY HEAR THE TRUTH, THOUSANDS
ARE CONVERTED, THEY THEN TAKE
00:18:59.33\00:19:03.94
THE KNOWLEDGE BACK
TO THEIR COUNTRIES.
00:19:03.97\00:19:06.31
WHAT A WONDERFUL UPS SYSTEM FOR
THE GOSPEL IN THE FIRST CENTURY.
00:19:06.34\00:19:11.21
LET THEM DO - IT CREATED,
BASICALLY, A GOSPEL PANDEMIC
00:19:11.25\00:19:15.22
IN ONE CENTURY BECAUSE OF
PENTECOST. BECAUSE GOD CHOSE
00:19:15.25\00:19:19.02
THAT CONVOCATION WHERE THEY HAD
COME FROM ALL THESE DIFFERENT
00:19:19.05\00:19:22.16
COUNTRIES TO
POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT.
00:19:22.19\00:19:25.26
GO BACK TO ACTS CHAPTER 2 - AND
I REALLY LIKE THIS IN VERSE 14.
00:19:25.29\00:19:29.26
"PETER, STANDING UP WITH
THE ELEVEN, RAISED HIS VOICE AND
00:19:29.30\00:19:31.97
SAYS, 'MEN OF JUDEA AND
ALL YOU WHO DWELL IN JERUSALEM,
00:19:32.00\00:19:34.67
LET IT BE KNOWN TO
YOU, AND HEED MY WORDS.'"
00:19:34.70\00:19:37.67
HE'S SAYING, 'CAN I
HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE?
00:19:37.71\00:19:40.61
YOU'RE WONDERING
WHAT THIS NOISE IS.
00:19:40.64\00:19:42.24
YOU'RE WONDERING
WHAT THE FIRE MEANS.
00:19:42.28\00:19:43.88
I'VE GOT AN
ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE.
00:19:43.91\00:19:45.18
CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION?'
"THESE ARE NOT DRUNK, AS YOU
00:19:45.21\00:19:48.35
SUPPOSE, THIS IS ONLY
THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY."
00:19:48.38\00:19:51.15
- THEY HADN'T EVEN HAD BREAKFAST
- "BUT THIS IS THE FULFILLMENT
00:19:51.19\00:19:53.49
OF A PROPHECY:" AND HE BEGINS
TO USE SCRIPTURE AND HE TALKS
00:19:53.52\00:19:58.13
ABOUT HOW GOD IS GOING TO POUR
OUT HIS SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH AND
00:19:58.16\00:20:01.16
YOU'RE SEEING THE
FULFILLMENT OF THAT.
00:20:01.20\00:20:03.47
AND THEN HE SAYS IN VERSE
22: "MEN OF ISRAEL, HEAR THESE
00:20:03.50\00:20:07.54
WORDS:" - I'M
MAKING AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
00:20:07.57\00:20:10.27
- "JESUS OF NAZARETH, A
MAN ATTESTED BY GOD TO YOU BY
00:20:10.31\00:20:14.74
MIRACLES, WONDERS, AND SIGNS
WHICH GOD DID THROUGH HIM IN
00:20:14.78\00:20:17.95
YOUR MIDST, AS YOU YOURSELVES
KNOW." THE ONE WHO WAS JUST
00:20:17.98\00:20:21.52
CRUCIFIED 50 DAYS AGO.
THE ONE THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS
00:20:21.55\00:20:25.39
A FALSE PROPHET.
HE WAS THE MESSIAH.
00:20:25.42\00:20:30.36
NOW YOU AND I, TODAY, THERE'S
NOTHING I CAN SAY - THERE'S NO
00:20:30.39\00:20:32.83
WAY THAT I CAN COMMUNICATE TO
YOU HOW THOSE WORDS ABSOLUTELY
00:20:32.86\00:20:37.67
KNOCKED THEM OFF THEIR
PEDESTAL WITH A BASEBALL BAT.
00:20:37.70\00:20:42.34
JUST - IT TOTALLY SHOOK THEM TO
THE CORE - THAT HE SHOULD STAND
00:20:42.37\00:20:46.24
BEFORE THE JEWS, WHO FOR 2000
YEARS WERE SAYING, 'WHEN THE
00:20:46.27\00:20:48.94
MESSIAH COMES...WHEN THE MESSIAH
COMES...WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES.'
00:20:48.98\00:20:51.51
AND NOW PETER STANDS BEFORE
THEM AND SAYS, 'HE CAME AND YOU
00:20:51.55\00:20:56.28
CRUCIFIED HIM.' CAN
YOU UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT
00:20:56.32\00:21:00.16
OF WHAT A BOLD
ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WAS TO THEM?
00:21:00.19\00:21:04.66
NOW, WHAT DOES PETER DO
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GIVEN?
00:21:04.69\00:21:09.40
HE'S GIVEN THE HOLY SPIRIT
FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREACHING.
00:21:09.43\00:21:13.30
MATTHEW 4:17, JESUS IS BAPTIZED
AND WHAT'S THE FIRST THING HE
00:21:13.34\00:21:16.94
DOES WHEN HE'S BAPTIZED?
"JESUS BEGAN TO PREACH AND TO
00:21:16.97\00:21:22.58
SAY, 'REPENT, FOR THE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND."
00:21:22.61\00:21:25.21
MATTHEW 9:35. "THEN
JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE
00:21:25.25\00:21:27.92
CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN
THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE
00:21:27.95\00:21:30.89
GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM."
WHY HAS THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
00:21:30.92\00:21:34.52
EXPLODED AROUND THE WORLD?
BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING
00:21:34.56\00:21:37.63
RIGHT HERE. WE GATHER
TOGETHER AND LISTEN TO
00:21:37.66\00:21:39.49
THE PREACHING OF THE WORD.
THE HOLY SPIRIT BEING POURED OUT
00:21:39.53\00:21:43.40
AT PENTECOST SET
THE STAGE FOR WHAT?
00:21:43.43\00:21:48.37
FOR PETER TO PREACH A SERMON,
UNLIKE ANY SERMON THEY'D EVER
00:21:48.40\00:21:51.61
HEARD BEFORE, THAT THEN RESULTED
IN PEOPLE'S HEARTS BEING
00:21:51.64\00:21:55.54
CHANGED, ACCEPTING CHRIST,
RECEIVING ETERNAL LIFE, AND
00:21:55.58\00:21:59.81
BECOMING PART OF THE CHURCH.
AND IT HAPPENED THROUGH THE
00:21:59.85\00:22:02.42
VEHICLE OF PREACHING.
AND THEN AS A RESULT OF THIS,
00:22:02.45\00:22:07.02
PETER PREACHES,
THEY WERE CONVICTED.
00:22:07.06\00:22:09.66
THEY SAID, 'MEN AND
BRETHREN WHAT SHALL WE DO?'
00:22:09.69\00:22:11.79
HE INVITED A DECISION AND HE
SAID, 'YOU NEED TO REPENT AND
00:22:11.83\00:22:16.97
BE BAPTIZED FOR THE REMISSION
OF SIN AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU THE
00:22:17.00\00:22:20.70
HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE PROMISE IS
MADE UNTO EVERY ONE OF YOU AND
00:22:20.74\00:22:25.21
YOUR CHILDREN, AS MANY
AS THE LORD GOD SHALL CALL.'
00:22:25.24\00:22:28.31
THOSE THAT GLADLY RECEIVED HIS
WORD - THERE WAS A HARVEST FROM
00:22:28.34\00:22:31.35
THAT - WERE BAPTIZED AND
THAT DAY ABOUT 3000 WERE ADDED
00:22:31.38\00:22:36.45
- JUST THAT DAY.
00:22:36.48\00:22:37.69
YOU KEEP READING AND THERE WERE
THOUSANDS BEING BAPTIZED BECAUSE
00:22:37.72\00:22:41.82
IT'S A HARVEST THAT'S HAPPENING.
WE NEED THAT RAIN NOW, DON'T WE?
00:22:41.86\00:22:48.76
IN OUR CHURCH WE NEED
THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT.
00:22:48.80\00:22:51.77
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE AMAZING
FACTS I DID A COUPLE OF YEARS
00:22:51.80\00:22:54.64
AGO WAS REGARDING THESE -
THE LONGEST-LIVING INSECTS
00:22:54.67\00:22:59.61
ARE THE CICADAS. HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED
00:22:59.64\00:23:03.14
SOMETIME OR SOMEWHERE IN YOUR
LIFE AN ERUPTION OF CICADAS?
00:23:03.18\00:23:08.12
IT'S A VERY AMAZING THING.
IT'S MORE PREVALENT BACK EAST
00:23:08.15\00:23:11.05
- BUT YOU'LL BE DRIVING THROUGH
THE COUNTRY AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
00:23:11.09\00:23:13.02
YOU CAN ROLL UP YOUR WINDOWS
- THERE IS THIS EAR-SPLITTING
00:23:13.05\00:23:16.83
NOISE THAT IS DEAFENING.
THE BUGS GO UNDERGROUND
00:23:16.86\00:23:21.03
- THEY KIND OF NURSE ON THE SAP
OF TREE ROOTS FOR 17 YEARS IN
00:23:21.06\00:23:26.20
KIND OF A DORMANT
STATE. FOR 17 YEARS.
00:23:26.23\00:23:31.07
AND THEN ALL AT ONCE, JUST BY
SOME DIVINE CLOCK THAT THEY'VE
00:23:31.11\00:23:35.81
GOT, THEY ALL FEEL THIS URGE -
EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT TOUCHING
00:23:35.84\00:23:38.81
EACH OTHER OR TALKING TO EACH
OTHER - THEY'RE ALL UNDERGROUND.
00:23:38.85\00:23:41.85
THEY JUST GET
THIS URGE TO GO UP.
00:23:41.88\00:23:45.59
THEY WANT TO GO UP AND THEY
START TO CLIMB OUT OF THE GROUND
00:23:45.62\00:23:50.13
AND THEN THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, THEN
THEY'VE GOT TO GO UP MORE AND
00:23:50.16\00:23:52.03
THEN THEY START CLIMBING UP
TREES AND SOMEWHERE ON THEIR WAY
00:23:52.06\00:23:55.66
UP THEY SAY, 'THIS IS AS FAR
AS I'M GOING TO GO AND THEY LOCK
00:23:55.70\00:23:59.37
THEIR FEET AND THEY GO
THROUGH A METAMORPHOSIS.
00:23:59.40\00:24:02.67
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY
EMERGE FROM THESE BUG SHELLS AND
00:24:02.70\00:24:05.67
THEY'VE GOT WINGS. AND NOW
THEY'RE OVERWHELMED WITH LOVE.
00:24:05.71\00:24:11.68
AND THEY WANT TO FIND ANOTHER
CICADA TO LOVE AND SO THEY START
00:24:11.71\00:24:17.49
SINGING THESE LOVE SONGS AND IT
IS THE LOUDEST BUG IN THE WORLD.
00:24:17.52\00:24:23.29
IT IS EAR-SPLITTING. AND
THEY'RE JUST JUBILANT AND
00:24:23.32\00:24:27.56
THEY'RE MAKING ALL
THIS NOISE AND YOU KNOW, ITS
00:24:27.60\00:24:29.30
- THEY DON'T BITE, THEY
DON'T STING, THEY JUST SING.
00:24:29.33\00:24:36.00
THEY DON'T HURT ANYBODY.
AND THEY'RE VERY SACRIFICIAL
00:24:36.04\00:24:38.81
- YOU KNOW THEY BECOME
REALLY A FEAST FOR ALL THE OTHER
00:24:38.84\00:24:41.08
CREATURES FOR A WHILE. A LOT OF
THEM DIE. BUT ALL THEY WANT TO
00:24:41.11\00:24:43.78
DO IS THEY WANT TO GET UP - THEY
WANT TO SPROUT THEIR WINGS AND
00:24:43.81\00:24:46.05
THEY WANT TO MATE AND THEN
THEY DIE UNTIL ANOTHER 17 YEARS.
00:24:46.08\00:24:50.52
BUT IT'S JUST - IT'S LIKE A WAVE
THAT COMES OVER ALL OF A SUDDEN.
00:24:50.55\00:24:55.12
IF YOU'RE DRIVING THROUGH
COUNTRY ONE DAY AND THEN A
00:24:55.16\00:24:57.43
COUPLE OF DAYS LATER THE CICADAS
HATCH, AND THEN IT'S ALL GONE
00:24:57.46\00:25:01.76
WITHIN A WEEK OR TWO.
IT'S QUIET AGAIN FOR 17 YEARS.
00:25:01.80\00:25:06.63
WELL, WE NEED AN EXPLOSION LIKE
THAT IN THE CHURCH, DON'T WE?
00:25:06.67\00:25:10.37
I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE
EAR-SPLITTING NOISE, I'M TALKING
00:25:10.41\00:25:12.31
ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT
WILL MOVE US TO RISE HIGHER.
00:25:12.34\00:25:16.28
THAT'S GOING TO COME THROUGH OUR
SEEKING AFTER GOD AND PRAYING
00:25:16.31\00:25:19.18
FOR HIS SPIRIT, FRIENDS.
AND I SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
00:25:19.21\00:25:23.72
THE WORLD AND I THINK, 'LORD,
I KNOW I CAN'T MAKE YOU SEND THE
00:25:23.75\00:25:26.82
SPIRIT, BUT I WANT TO DO
EVERYTHING IN MY HEART THAT
00:25:26.86\00:25:29.52
I CAN TO BE
PREPARED WHEN IT HAPPENS.
00:25:29.56\00:25:32.36
DON'T YOU WANT TO HAVE
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