Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000103
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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
01:07 (MUSIC) >>WHEN THE DISCIPLES 01:12 BEGAN TO SPEAK IN OTHER LANGUAGES THEY HAD NEVER 01:14 FORMALLY KNOWN OR STUDIED, THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD'S 01:17 SPIRIT, WAS THAT A MIRACLE? THAT'S THE POWER OF GOD. 01:24 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:27 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:30 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 01:33 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:36 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:45 >>TURN WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES TO ACTS CHAPTER 2. 01:48 THE MESSAGE TODAY, 'THE PURPOSE OF PENTECOST.' 01:52 PENTECOST WAS A HOLIDAY THAT CAME 50 DAYS AFTER THE PASSOVER. 01:57 IT HAD AN OLD TESTAMENT MEANING AND A NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT 02:02 - AND IT'S RELEVANT TO US TODAY IN THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH. 02:07 NOW, I WANT TO READ THIS STORY - WE STARTED WITH IT IN OUR 02:09 SCRIPTURE READING, BUT I'D LIKE YOU TO JOIN ME IN READING ACTS 02:13 CHAPTER 2 AND WE'RE GOING TO PROBABLY READ 02:15 VERSES 1 THROUGH 11. "WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST HAD 02:18 FULLY COME, THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN ONE PLACE." 02:22 - THESE ARE THE DISCIPLES AND THE APOSTLES. 02:26 THERE WERE 120 IN ALL. THEY HAD JUST RECENTLY REPLACED 02:31 JUDAS, WHO HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE. 02:33 THEY CAST LOTS BETWEEN TWO MEN AND THEY CHOSE MATTHIAS TO TAKE 02:37 HIS PLACE. AS SOON AS THAT HAPPENED - AND THEY'RE PRAYING 02:41 - THEY'VE RESUMED THAT NUMBER OF 12 - THEY'VE BEEN IN THIS UPPER 02:46 ROOM FOR 10 DAYS - THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT ON THEM. 02:50 "SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN, AS OF A RUSHING 02:53 MIGHTY WIND, AND IT FILLED THE WHOLE HOUSE WHERE THEY 02:56 WERE SITTING. AND THERE APPEARED UNTO THEM 02:59 DIVIDED TONGUES, AS OF FIRE, AND ONE SAT UPON EACH OF THEM. 03:04 AND THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THEY BEGAN TO 03:07 SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE. 03:11 NOW, THERE WERE DWELLING IN JERUSALEM JEWS, DEVOUT MEN, FROM 03:16 EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN. AND WHEN THE SOUND OCCURRED, THE 03:20 MULTITUDE CAME TOGETHER, AND WERE CONFUSED, BECAUSE EVERY ONE 03:24 OF THEM HEARD THEM SPEAK IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. 03:27 THEN THEY WERE AMAZED AND THEY MARVELED AND SAID TO ONE 03:30 ANOTHER, 'LOOK, ARE NOT THESE WHO SPEAK GALILEANS? HOW IS IT 03:35 THAT WE EACH MAN HEAR IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE WHEREIN WE WERE BORN? 03:39 PARTHIANS AND MEDES AND ELAMITES, AND THOSE DWELLING IN 03:42 MESOPOTAMIA, AND JUDEA AND CAPPADOCIA, AND PONTUS AND 03:45 ASIA, AND PHRYGIA AND PAMPHYLIA, EGYPT AND PARTS OF 03:48 LIBYA AND CYRENE, AND VISITORS FROM ROME, JEWS AND 03:51 PROSELYTES,'" - THERE WERE JEWS BY BIRTH - PROSELYTES ARE 03:54 CONVERTS TO JUDAISM - "'CRETIANS AND ARABS WE'" - AND IT MENTIONS 03:58 16 DIFFERENT LANGUAGE GROUPS THERE IF YOU COUNT THEM 04:01 - "'WE HEAR THEM SPEAKING IN OUR OWN TONGUES 04:04 THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD.' SO THEY WERE AMAZED AND 04:09 PERPLEXED, SAYING TO ONE ANOTHER, 'WHAT COULD THIS MEAN?' 04:13 OTHERS" - THERE'S ALWAYS SOME IN A CROWD - "MOCKING SAID, 'OH, 04:16 THEY'RE FULL OF NEW WINE.'" THE BIBLE COMPARES THE 04:20 OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT TO RAIN AND IN THE HEBREW ECONOMY THE 04:26 RAIN CAME IN TWO GREAT WAVES AND THE EARLY RAIN WAS A GOOD 04:32 DOWNPOUR THAT WOULD BASICALLY SPROUT THE SEED 04:36 - AND IT WOULD HAPPEN IN NOVEMBER - THESE ARE THEIR 04:38 WINTER CROPS LIKE THE GRAIN. IT WOULD GROW THROUGH THE WINTER 04:41 SEASON AND THEN YOU'D HAVE THE LATTER RAIN - THAT WOULD PLUMP 04:45 THE EAR DURING THE SPRINGTIME AND PREPARE IT FOR THE HARVEST. 04:51 AND SO THE LORD, AFTER SOWING THE SEED - YOU KNOW JESUS BEGAN 04:56 HIS MINISTRY IN THE FALL DURING THE TIME OF THE FORMER RAIN - 05:00 PREACHED THREE AND A HALF YEARS - HE FINISHED HIS MINISTRY I 05:03 THE SPRING, DURING THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN. 05:06 HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 'DO NOT GO ANYWHERE YET. 05:11 ABIDE IN JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU RECEIVE THE PROMISED COMFORTER.' 05:15 AND HE GAVE THEM SOME SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS WHEN HE ASCENDED 05:18 TO HEAVEN. SO, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT 05:20 THAT ASCENDING AND DESCENDING. NOW, LET'S GO TO ACTS CHAPTER 1, 05:24 VERSE 3. "TO WHOM HE ALSO PRESENTED 05:28 HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER HIS SUFFERING BY MANY INFALLIBLE 05:33 PROOFS, BEING SEEN BY THEM DURING FORTY DAYS" - HOW LONG? 05:39 - "AND SPEAKING OF THESE THINGS PERTAINING TO THE KINGDOM 05:42 OF GOD." SO, AFTER JESUS DIED, HE DID NOT 05:45 GO DIRECTLY TO HEAVEN, BUT OVER A PERIOD OF HOW LONG? 05:49 40 DAYS FROM HIS CRUCIFIXION AND HIS RESURRECTION, HE REMAINED 05:54 - HE CONTINUED TO APPEAR TO THE DISCIPLES AND EVERY TIME HE 05:57 APPEARED HE TAUGHT THEM. ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT THE 06:01 MINISTRY OF CHRIST BEGINS WITH 40 DAYS OF NOT EATING AND 06:06 FASTING, AND THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST ENDS - HIS EARTHLY 06:10 MINISTRY - WITH ANOTHER 40 DAYS WHERE HE DOES EAT AND 06:13 HE TEACHES. NOW, AT THE END OF THAT 40 DAYS 06:18 THE HOLY SPIRIT DIDN'T COME - YET. IT CAME AT PENTECOST. 06:25 PENTECOST WAS A TIME WHEN THEY CELEBRATED THE LATTER RAIN AND 06:30 THE HARVEST. YOU'VE GOT PASSOVER AND THEN AFTER PASSOVER - WELL, 06:36 LET ME READ IT TO YOU IN THE BIBLE. LEVITICUS 23:15. 06:39 "AND YOU SHALL COUNT FOR YOURSELVES FROM THE DAY AFTER 06:42 THE SABBATH" - SPEAKING OF THE PASSOVER - "FROM THAT DAY THAT 06:46 YOU BROUGHT THE SHEAF OF THE WAVE OFFERING: EVEN SEVEN 06:48 SABBATHS" - HOW MANY DAYS IN A WEEK? 06:52 SO SEVEN SABBATHS IS HOW MANY DAYS? 06:56 SEVEN TIMES SEVEN? 49 - BUT THEY ADD ONE MORE. 07:00 THE DAY AFTER THE BBATH IS THAT ONE ADDITIONAL DAY FOR A 07:03 TOTAL OF 50 DAYS. THE WORD PENTA - LIKE A BUILDING 07:08 IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WHERE ALL THE MILITARY DOES IT'S STUFF IS 07:10 CALLED THE WHAT? WHY? WHY IS IT CALLED THE PENTAGON? 07:14 FIVE SIDES LIKE A PENTAGRAM - FIVE-SIDED STAR IS PENTA - 07:18 PENTAGON HAS GOT FIVE SIDES. AND SO PENTECOST WAS THIS 07:23 SPECIAL HOLIDAY THAT CAME 50 DAYS AFTER PASSOVER - A TIME TO 07:28 CELEBRATE THE HARVEST. WELL, GOD WAS ABOUT TO GIVE THE 07:31 CHURCH ITS FIRST HARVEST AFTER JESUS HAD BEEN SOWING THE GOSPEL 07:37 SEED FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IMMEDIATELY 07:42 AFTER HE ASCENDS - CHRIST ASCENDS TO HEAVEN. 07:44 HE SAYS, 'WAIT IN JERUSALEM' - YOU READ IN CHAPTER 1 OF ACTS 07:47 HE SAYS, 'WAIT IN JERUSALEM, DON'T GO PREACHING YET. 07:50 YOU CAN'T BE DOING THE WORK OF GOD WITHOUT THE POWER OF GOD.' 07:53 HE SAID, 'BE PRAYING AND WAITING FOR THE POWER OF GOD. 07:56 YOU'LL KNOW. YOU NEED THE COMFORTER 07:58 - I'VE GOT TO GO' - GOD THE SON - 'THAT I MIGHT 08:01 SEND GOD THE SPIRIT AND HE WILL EMPOWER YOU.' 08:05 WHY DOES GOD GIVE US THE HOLY SPIRIT? 08:08 WHAT'S THE PRINCIPAL REASON HE GIVES US THE HOLY SPIRIT? 08:11 JESUS SAID, 'I WILL GIVE YOU POWER THAT YOU MIGHT 08:15 BE MY WITNESSES.' ACTS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 8. 08:17 THE REASON HE SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS SO THEY COULD WITNESS 08:20 - FOR WHAT PURPOSE? TO BRING OTHERS THAT THERE MIGHT 08:23 BE A HARVEST OF SOULS. WHAT WOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT 08:27 TIME IN HISTORY FOR GOD TO PREPARE THE WORLD FOR A HARVEST? 08:31 WOULDN'T THAT BE JUST BEFORE HE SHOWS UP WITH A SICKLE? 08:34 DOESN'T REVELATION SAY WHEN JESUS COMES HE'S GOT A SICKLE? 08:37 WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A SICKLE? DOES ANYONE REMEMBER, BEFORE 08:40 THEY HAD JOHN DEERE, WHAT THEY DID WITH SICKLES? THEY HARVEST. 08:45 SOME OF YOU GREW UP IN THE OLD COUNTRY - GERMANY OR RUSSIA - 08:48 WITH THESE BIG SCYTHES. WHAT'S THE SYMBOL ON 08:50 THE RUSSIAN FLAG? THE COMMUNIST FLAG - IT WAS THE 08:53 HAMMER AND THE SICKLE BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THEY USED TO HARVEST. 08:56 THEY'D TAKE A LITTLE GRAIN AND GO - THEY'D CHOP IT AND THEY'D 08:58 STACK IT IN BUNDLES AND THEY'D CHOP IT - IT WAS A VERY SHARP, 09:01 CUED KNIFE. JESUS IS COMING WITH A SICKLE TO HARVEST. 09:06 SO, DO WE NEED AN OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT TO PREPARE THE CROP 09:11 JUST BEFORE HE COMES? SO WE REALLY NEED THE SAME 09:15 EXPERIENCE OF PENTECOST. GOD WANTS TO TAKE OF THE SPIRIT 09:17 OF JESUS AND PUT IT ON HIS PEOPLE AGAIN. 09:19 NOW, YOU KNOW ONE REASON I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW IS 09:22 BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT THE WORLD AROUND US. 09:25 EVERYTHING FROM VOLCANOES TO EARTHQUAKES, TO THE MORAL DECAY 09:31 IN OUR SOCIETY AND OUR CHURCH - AND I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, 09:36 'LORD, YOU'RE GOING TO COME PRETTY SOON BUT SOMETHING VERY 09:38 IMPORTANT IS MISSING. YOUR PEOPLE NEED THE BAPTISM OF 09:42 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 09:43 IT'S NOT LIKE GOD HAS A CLOCK UP IN THE SKY HE'S WATCHING AND 09:46 WHEN IT HITS THAT RIGHT MOMENT THE HOLY SPIRIT FALLS, HE'S 09:49 WAITING ON US. HE WANTS TO SEND IT. 09:54 AND EACH OF US CAN EXPERIENCE A REVIVAL - THE CHURCH IS A 09:57 COLLECTION OF PEOPLE - IF YOU WANT TO SEE REVIVAL IN THE 09:59 CHURCH, YOU NEED REVIVAL. I NEED REVIVAL. 10:03 WE ALL NEED IT OURSELVES. WE NEED TO SEEK FOR IT. 10:06 WELL, LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS THEY DID THAT HELPED 10:09 PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT. 10:12 FIRST OF ALL, THEY GOT TOGETHER - ACTS CHAPTER 1 - 10:16 THEY WERE IN ONE ACCORD. THAT MEANS THEY WERE UNITED. 10:21 SO WHAT ARE THEY DOING DURING THOSE 10 DAYS BETWEEN CHRIST'S 10:24 ASCENSION AND PENTECOST, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT? 10:29 THEY'RE PUTTING ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES. 10:32 THEY'RE OF ONE ACCORD. YOU ALSO FIND IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 10:36 - THEY ARE IN ONE ACCORD AND ONE PLACE AND THE 10:40 HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT. SO, STEP #1 BE COMING TOGETHER. 10:48 WHEN THERE'S A MEETING, COME. JOHN 17:21. 10:52 THIS IS THE PRAYER OF CHRIST "THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE'; AS 10:56 THOU, FATHER, ART IN ME, AND I IN THEE, THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE 10:59 ONE IN US: THAT THE WORLD MIGHT BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME. 11:04 THAT THE GLORY THAT YOU GAVE ME I HAVE GIVEN THEM THAT THEY MAY 11:07 BE ONE, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE" THE BIBLE TELLS US THERE'S ONE GOD. 11:13 PEOPLE GET CONFUSED BY THAT. 11:15 JESUS IS SAYING 'DON'T LET THAT CONFUSE YOU, IT'S THE SAME KIND 11:17 OF ONENESS THAT I'M ASKING THE CHURCH TO HAVE. 11:20 WE'RE DIFFERENT PEOPLE BUT WE'RE ONE.' 11:22 GOD THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT ARE THREE UNIQUE 11:25 INDIVIDUALS BUT THEY ARE ONE GOD. HE WANTS US TO HAVE 11:29 THAT KIND OF ONENESS, LIKE A HUSBAND AND A WIFE, LIKE GOD 11:32 THE FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT - JESUS IS INVITING US TO BE ONE. 11:36 THE ONLY WAY THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS WE HAVE A SPECIAL GLUE 11:39 THAT YOU CAN'T GET AT HOME DEPOT - IT'S CALLED LOVE. 11:43 THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO WELD US TOGETHER. 11:47 SO THEY WERE IN ONE PLACE - ONE ACCORD - 11:52 AND THEN CAME THE SOUND OF THE WIND. ACTS 2:2. 11:55 "AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN AS IT WAS A RUSHING 12:01 MIGHTY WIND" - ANYONE EVER BEEN IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO A TORNADO? 12:07 I MEAN A REAL TORNADO - I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT ONE OF THESE 12:09 LITTLE DEVIL DUSTERS THAT GOES ACROSS THE SAND. 12:13 PEOPLE I KNOW TELL ME IT'S LIKE A TRAIN IS GOING BY. 12:17 IT'S A TREMENDOUSLY LOUD SOUND AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE PEOPLE 12:22 IN JERUSALEM - IT DOESN'T SAY THEY GOT HIT BY A TORNADO - YOU 12:25 NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY THEY SAW A LEAF FLUTTER. 12:28 WHAT DOES IT SAY HAPPENED? THEY HEARD FROM HEAVEN A SOUND. 12:33 IT DOESN'T SAY THERE WAS A RIPPLE IN THE BREEZE ANYWHERE. 12:37 THE ROAR WAS A SPIRITUAL WIND THAT CAME FROM HEAVEN. 12:42 JESUS TALKS ABOUT THAT WIND - JOHN 3, VERSE 8. 12:46 LORD, LET THAT WIND BLOW AGAIN. JESUS SAID, "THE WIND BLOWS 12:51 WHERE IT WISHES, AND YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF IT, BUT YOU CAN'T 12:53 TELL WHERE IT COMES FROM AND WHERE IT GOES. 12:55 SO IS EVERYONE WHO IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT." 12:59 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THIS SPIRITUAL BIRTH THAT TOOK PLACE 13:02 AND THERE WAS A SPECIAL BIRTH AT PENTECOST. 13:05 JOHN 20, VERSE 22. WHAT DID JESUS DO THE FIRST TIME 13:10 THE DISCIPLES RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT AFTER HE ROSE? 13:13 IT WASN'T IN PENTECOST - RIGHT WHEN HE ROSE IT SAYS, 'HE 13:17 BREATHED ON THEM AND SAID, 'RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.'' 13:24 WHAT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE THE UPPER ROOM EXPERIENCE, 13:26 TO THE CHURCH? IT HAD DIED. 13:30 WHEN CHRIST DIED THEIR FAITH DIED. 13:34 YOU REMEMBER HE TALKED TO THE TWO ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS. 13:36 THEY SAID, 'LORD' - THEY THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE THE ONE. 13:39 'WE HOPED HE WAS GOING TO BE THE ONE.' 13:41 THEY LOST HOPE. THEY WERE DISCOURAGED. 13:44 THEY'D BEEN SCATTERED AND THEIR FAITH HAD BEEN 13:46 COMPLETELY DESTROYED. THE CHURCH BASICALLY NEEDED 13:50 A RESURRECTION. AND WHEN JESUS ROSE IT ROSE. 13:55 AND SORT OF LIKE ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION, HE BREATHED INTO 13:59 THEM AND THEY CAME ALIVE. THAT WIND FROM HEAVEN. 14:05 AND THEN IT SAYS - AFTER THIS WIND - THERE WAS A SIGN 14:09 - SOMETHING VISIBLE HAPPENED - CLOVEN TONGUES. 14:13 NOW, I'VE SEEN THAT PAINTED BEFORE AND WE'VE GOT A PAINTING 14:16 TOO WHERE SOMETIMES IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE GOT LITTLE 14:20 TONGUES THAT A SERPENT HAS. 14:21 AND I'VE THOUGHT, 'OH, THERE'S SOMETHING INCONGRUOUS ABOUT THAT 14:24 - HAVING SNAKE TONGUES COMING OUT OF THEIR HEADS OF FIRE.' 14:27 BUT THE WORD CLOVEN DOESN'T MEAN NECESSARILY SPLIT, 14:30 IT MEANS DIVIDED. IT COULD BE DIVIDED FOUR WAYS. 14:34 IT WAS DIVIDED UNTO THEM EACH ONE. 14:38 OF THE 120 IN THE ROOM - MEN AND WOMEN - RECEIVED THESE 14:44 CLOVEN TONGUES. WHY TONGUES OF FIRE? 14:46 WELL, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES LIKE WIND, 14:49 SOMETIMES LIKE RAIN, LIKE WATER, AND SOMETIMES LIKE FIRE. 14:53 JESUS SAID, ACTS 1, VERSE 8, "YOU'LL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE 14:58 HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO 15:01 ME...IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND THE UTTERMOST PARTS 15:04 OF THE EARTH." WHY DIDN'T JESUS SAY 'YOU GUYS, 15:07 ONCE I ASCEND TO HEAVEN GET TO IT AND GO OUT AND START 15:09 PREACHING.'? WHY DID HE SAY YOU'VE GOT TO WAIT? 15:11 BECAUSE THEY NEEDED THIS POWER OF GOD AND THEY HAD TO WAIT ON 15:14 THE POWER OF GOD. SOMETIMES GOD WANTS US TO WAIT 15:16 SO WE WON'T TAKE THE CREDIT. WE THINK WE'RE MAKING IT HAPPEN. 15:20 HE WANTS US TO KNOW HE'S MAKING IT HAPPEN. 15:22 NOW, GOING BACK TO THIS SUBJECT OF THE TONGUES. 15:27 TURN BACK WITH ME TO ACTS CHAPTER 2. 15:30 I'VE GOT TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS AND TALK ABOUT THIS 15:32 BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION. 15:37 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN ON MAYBE SOME RELIGIOUS CHANNEL, OR 15:41 MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN TO A CHURCH, OR MAYBE YOU WERE PART OF A 15:43 CHURCH - I WAS, BEFORE I WAS A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN 15:46 I WAS A PART OF A CHURCH WHERE IT WAS VERY COMMON FOR PEOPLE, 15:49 IN THE MIDDLE OR THE SERVICE, OR AT SOME POINT DURING THE SERVICE 15:51 TO JUST START UTTERING OUT THESE INCOHERENT SOUNDS AND IT COULD 15:58 SOUND TO THE AVERAGE PERSON LIKE THIS BABBLING. 16:02 AND YOU SAY, 'WHAT IS THIS?' AND THEY'D SAY, 'WELL, THIS IS 16:05 THE HOLY SPIRIT.' 'REALLY? 16:07 WHERE DO YOU FIND EVIDENCE FOR THAT?' "IT'S ACTS CHAPTER 2. 16:10 GOD POURED OUT THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THEY ALL BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH 16:12 THESE OTHER LANGUAGES - SPEAK IN UNKNOWN TONGUES.' 16:16 WELL, THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. 16:18 WHEN JESUS SAID, IN MARK CHAPTER 16, "THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW 16:23 THEM THAT BELIEVE - THEY WILL SPEAK IN OTHER TONGUES.' 16:27 THAT WORD TONGUES THERE MEANS LANGUAGES. 16:29 NOW, JEWS WERE VISITING FROM ALL OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. WHY? 16:36 BECAUSE THEY'D BEEN COMMANDED IN THE LAW OF MOSES THAT '50 DAYS 16:39 AFTER PASSOVER YOU WERE TO COME TO THE PLACE THAT I CHOOSE 16:41 - JERUSALEM - AND THERE YOU'RE TO MAKE YOUR OFFERING AND THERE 16:44 YOU'RE TO CELEBRATE AND REJOICE' - AND IT WAS A GREAT FESTIVAL 16:46 AND EVERY JEW SCATTERED ALL AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 16:49 SOME CAME FROM AS FAR AWAY AS SPAIN. 16:51 THEY CAME FROM AFRICA. THEY CAME FROM ASIA. 16:53 THEY WERE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALL WOULD COME TO 16:57 JERUSALEM AND IT WAS FILLED WITH THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF 17:03 - WHAT KIND OF JEWS? NOT ANY KIND OF JEW 17:06 - GOD'S TIMING IS PERFECT. IT SAYS, 'THERE WERE DWELLING IN 17:08 JERUSALEM, BECAUSE OF THE PENTECOST FEAST, DEVOUT JEWS.' 17:13 WHAT KIND OF JEWS? THESE FOLKS BELIEVED THE WORD OF 17:16 GOD ENOUGH TO MAKE A TRIP THAT TAKES THEM MONTHS. 17:19 THEY MAY NOT DO IT EVERY YEAR, BUT EVERY JEW AT SOME POINT IN 17:21 HIS LIFE WOULD COME TO JERUSALEM FOR PENTECOST. AND SO, HERE ARE 17:25 THESE JEWS FROM ALL THESE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. 17:27 THEY COME TOGETHER AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY HEAR THIS ROAR. 17:31 THEY COME TO THE CENTER OF TOWN AND NOW, RUSHING OUT ON TO THIS 17:34 BALCONY - BECAUSE THEY'VE COME FROM THE UPPER ROOM - ARE THE 17:37 APOSTLES AND THEIR FACES ARE GLOWING AND THEY'VE GOT TONGUES 17:41 OF FIRE AND THEY GO, 'WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?' 17:43 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY BEGIN TO PREACH IN THESE 17:45 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. REMEMBER, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE 17:49 WHAT IT SAYS HERE. IT MENTIONS 16 DIFFERENT 17:52 LANGUAGE GROUPS SCATTERED AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 17:54 IT SAYS, WHAT IS THIS THAT'S HAPPENING? "LOOK, ARE NOT 17:58 THESE WHO SPEAK GALILEANS?' VERSE 7. THEY WERE AMAZED. 18:02 AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 11 "WE HEAR THEM SPEAKING IN OUR TONGUES 18:08 AMAZING BABBLING." NO. DID THEY KNOW WHAT 18:12 THEY WERE SAYING? "...WE HEAR THEM SPEAKING THE 18:15 WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD." WHY DID JESUS DO THIS? 18:19 WHY DID HE SAY THAT YOU WILL SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES? 18:22 FOR THE SPREADING OF THE GOSPEL. THIS IS PERFECT. THIS IS GENIUS. 18:27 HE PICKS THIS HOLIDAY OF A JEWISH HARVEST, HE POURS OUT THE 18:32 HOLY SPIRIT WHEN, NOT ANY OLD JEWS BUT DEVOTED JEWS WHO ARE 18:36 LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH TO COME, THEY COME TO JERUSALEM AND 18:40 THEY'RE SO ANGRY THEY SEE THE ROMAN FLAG THERE HANGING ABOVE 18:43 THE COURTS AND THEY SAID, 'OH, LORD, SEND YOUR MESSIAH. 18:46 SEND YOUR MESSIAH.' AND IN THE CONTEXT OF THAT 18:48 THINKING GOD POURS OUT THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST AND THEY 18:52 COME POURING OUT OF THIS UPPER ROOM SPEAKING TO THEM ABOUT 18:56 THE MESSIAH IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUES. 18:59 THEY HEAR THE TRUTH, THOUSANDS ARE CONVERTED, THEY THEN TAKE 19:03 THE KNOWLEDGE BACK TO THEIR COUNTRIES. 19:06 WHAT A WONDERFUL UPS SYSTEM FOR THE GOSPEL IN THE FIRST CENTURY. 19:11 LET THEM DO - IT CREATED, BASICALLY, A GOSPEL PANDEMIC 19:15 IN ONE CENTURY BECAUSE OF PENTECOST. BECAUSE GOD CHOSE 19:19 THAT CONVOCATION WHERE THEY HAD COME FROM ALL THESE DIFFERENT 19:22 COUNTRIES TO POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT. 19:25 GO BACK TO ACTS CHAPTER 2 - AND I REALLY LIKE THIS IN VERSE 14. 19:29 "PETER, STANDING UP WITH THE ELEVEN, RAISED HIS VOICE AND 19:32 SAYS, 'MEN OF JUDEA AND ALL YOU WHO DWELL IN JERUSALEM, 19:34 LET IT BE KNOWN TO YOU, AND HEED MY WORDS.'" 19:37 HE'S SAYING, 'CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE? 19:40 YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT THIS NOISE IS. 19:42 YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT THE FIRE MEANS. 19:43 I'VE GOT AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE. 19:45 CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION?' "THESE ARE NOT DRUNK, AS YOU 19:48 SUPPOSE, THIS IS ONLY THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY." 19:51 - THEY HADN'T EVEN HAD BREAKFAST - "BUT THIS IS THE FULFILLMENT 19:53 OF A PROPHECY:" AND HE BEGINS TO USE SCRIPTURE AND HE TALKS 19:58 ABOUT HOW GOD IS GOING TO POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH AND 20:01 YOU'RE SEEING THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT. 20:03 AND THEN HE SAYS IN VERSE 22: "MEN OF ISRAEL, HEAR THESE 20:07 WORDS:" - I'M MAKING AN ANNOUNCEMENT. 20:10 - "JESUS OF NAZARETH, A MAN ATTESTED BY GOD TO YOU BY 20:14 MIRACLES, WONDERS, AND SIGNS WHICH GOD DID THROUGH HIM IN 20:17 YOUR MIDST, AS YOU YOURSELVES KNOW." THE ONE WHO WAS JUST 20:21 CRUCIFIED 50 DAYS AGO. THE ONE THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS 20:25 A FALSE PROPHET. HE WAS THE MESSIAH. 20:30 NOW YOU AND I, TODAY, THERE'S NOTHING I CAN SAY - THERE'S NO 20:32 WAY THAT I CAN COMMUNICATE TO YOU HOW THOSE WORDS ABSOLUTELY 20:37 KNOCKED THEM OFF THEIR PEDESTAL WITH A BASEBALL BAT. 20:42 JUST - IT TOTALLY SHOOK THEM TO THE CORE - THAT HE SHOULD STAND 20:46 BEFORE THE JEWS, WHO FOR 2000 YEARS WERE SAYING, 'WHEN THE 20:48 MESSIAH COMES...WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES...WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES.' 20:51 AND NOW PETER STANDS BEFORE THEM AND SAYS, 'HE CAME AND YOU 20:56 CRUCIFIED HIM.' CAN YOU UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT 21:00 OF WHAT A BOLD ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WAS TO THEM? 21:04 NOW, WHAT DOES PETER DO WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GIVEN? 21:09 HE'S GIVEN THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREACHING. 21:13 MATTHEW 4:17, JESUS IS BAPTIZED AND WHAT'S THE FIRST THING HE 21:16 DOES WHEN HE'S BAPTIZED? "JESUS BEGAN TO PREACH AND TO 21:22 SAY, 'REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND." 21:25 MATTHEW 9:35. "THEN JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE 21:27 CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE 21:30 GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM." WHY HAS THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 21:34 EXPLODED AROUND THE WORLD? BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING 21:37 RIGHT HERE. WE GATHER TOGETHER AND LISTEN TO 21:39 THE PREACHING OF THE WORD. THE HOLY SPIRIT BEING POURED OUT 21:43 AT PENTECOST SET THE STAGE FOR WHAT? 21:48 FOR PETER TO PREACH A SERMON, UNLIKE ANY SERMON THEY'D EVER 21:51 HEARD BEFORE, THAT THEN RESULTED IN PEOPLE'S HEARTS BEING 21:55 CHANGED, ACCEPTING CHRIST, RECEIVING ETERNAL LIFE, AND 21:59 BECOMING PART OF THE CHURCH. AND IT HAPPENED THROUGH THE 22:02 VEHICLE OF PREACHING. AND THEN AS A RESULT OF THIS, 22:07 PETER PREACHES, THEY WERE CONVICTED. 22:09 THEY SAID, 'MEN AND BRETHREN WHAT SHALL WE DO?' 22:11 HE INVITED A DECISION AND HE SAID, 'YOU NEED TO REPENT AND 22:17 BE BAPTIZED FOR THE REMISSION OF SIN AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU THE 22:20 HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE PROMISE IS MADE UNTO EVERY ONE OF YOU AND 22:25 YOUR CHILDREN, AS MANY AS THE LORD GOD SHALL CALL.' 22:28 THOSE THAT GLADLY RECEIVED HIS WORD - THERE WAS A HARVEST FROM 22:31 THAT - WERE BAPTIZED AND THAT DAY ABOUT 3000 WERE ADDED 22:36 - JUST THAT DAY. 22:37 YOU KEEP READING AND THERE WERE THOUSANDS BEING BAPTIZED BECAUSE 22:41 IT'S A HARVEST THAT'S HAPPENING. WE NEED THAT RAIN NOW, DON'T WE? 22:48 IN OUR CHURCH WE NEED THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT. 22:51 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE AMAZING FACTS I DID A COUPLE OF YEARS 22:54 AGO WAS REGARDING THESE - THE LONGEST-LIVING INSECTS 22:59 ARE THE CICADAS. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED 23:03 SOMETIME OR SOMEWHERE IN YOUR LIFE AN ERUPTION OF CICADAS? 23:08 IT'S A VERY AMAZING THING. IT'S MORE PREVALENT BACK EAST 23:11 - BUT YOU'LL BE DRIVING THROUGH THE COUNTRY AND ALL OF A SUDDEN 23:13 YOU CAN ROLL UP YOUR WINDOWS - THERE IS THIS EAR-SPLITTING 23:16 NOISE THAT IS DEAFENING. THE BUGS GO UNDERGROUND 23:21 - THEY KIND OF NURSE ON THE SAP OF TREE ROOTS FOR 17 YEARS IN 23:26 KIND OF A DORMANT STATE. FOR 17 YEARS. 23:31 AND THEN ALL AT ONCE, JUST BY SOME DIVINE CLOCK THAT THEY'VE 23:35 GOT, THEY ALL FEEL THIS URGE - EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT TOUCHING 23:38 EACH OTHER OR TALKING TO EACH OTHER - THEY'RE ALL UNDERGROUND. 23:41 THEY JUST GET THIS URGE TO GO UP. 23:45 THEY WANT TO GO UP AND THEY START TO CLIMB OUT OF THE GROUND 23:50 AND THEN THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, THEN THEY'VE GOT TO GO UP MORE AND 23:52 THEN THEY START CLIMBING UP TREES AND SOMEWHERE ON THEIR WAY 23:55 UP THEY SAY, 'THIS IS AS FAR AS I'M GOING TO GO AND THEY LOCK 23:59 THEIR FEET AND THEY GO THROUGH A METAMORPHOSIS. 24:02 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY EMERGE FROM THESE BUG SHELLS AND 24:05 THEY'VE GOT WINGS. AND NOW THEY'RE OVERWHELMED WITH LOVE. 24:11 AND THEY WANT TO FIND ANOTHER CICADA TO LOVE AND SO THEY START 24:17 SINGING THESE LOVE SONGS AND IT IS THE LOUDEST BUG IN THE WORLD. 24:23 IT IS EAR-SPLITTING. AND THEY'RE JUST JUBILANT AND 24:27 THEY'RE MAKING ALL THIS NOISE AND YOU KNOW, ITS 24:29 - THEY DON'T BITE, THEY DON'T STING, THEY JUST SING. 24:36 THEY DON'T HURT ANYBODY. AND THEY'RE VERY SACRIFICIAL 24:38 - YOU KNOW THEY BECOME REALLY A FEAST FOR ALL THE OTHER 24:41 CREATURES FOR A WHILE. A LOT OF THEM DIE. BUT ALL THEY WANT TO 24:43 DO IS THEY WANT TO GET UP - THEY WANT TO SPROUT THEIR WINGS AND 24:46 THEY WANT TO MATE AND THEN THEY DIE UNTIL ANOTHER 17 YEARS. 24:50 BUT IT'S JUST - IT'S LIKE A WAVE THAT COMES OVER ALL OF A SUDDEN. 24:55 IF YOU'RE DRIVING THROUGH COUNTRY ONE DAY AND THEN A 24:57 COUPLE OF DAYS LATER THE CICADAS HATCH, AND THEN IT'S ALL GONE 25:01 WITHIN A WEEK OR TWO. IT'S QUIET AGAIN FOR 17 YEARS. 25:06 WELL, WE NEED AN EXPLOSION LIKE THAT IN THE CHURCH, DON'T WE? 25:10 I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE EAR-SPLITTING NOISE, I'M TALKING 25:12 ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WILL MOVE US TO RISE HIGHER. 25:16 THAT'S GOING TO COME THROUGH OUR SEEKING AFTER GOD AND PRAYING 25:19 FOR HIS SPIRIT, FRIENDS. AND I SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN 25:23 THE WORLD AND I THINK, 'LORD, I KNOW I CAN'T MAKE YOU SEND THE 25:26 SPIRIT, BUT I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING IN MY HEART THAT 25:29 I CAN TO BE PREPARED WHEN IT HAPPENS. 25:32 DON'T YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE FRIENDS? 25:35 TO BE PREPARED IN YOUR HEART FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT. 25:38 IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN DO? WE READ THIS TO YOU EARLIER. 25:41 THROUGH PRAYER, PUTTING AWAY OF SIN, PREPARING OURSELVES BEFORE 25:45 GOD, EMPTY OURSELVES OF SELFISHNESS AND THE THINGS 25:50 THAT ARE OBSTACLES. 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