Welcome to 3ABN
Sabbath School Panel.
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I'm Shelly Quinn and let me
introduce the rest of the panel:
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We have Pastor CA Murray
with us, Mollie Steenson,
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Jill Morikone and
Pastor John Dinzey.
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I'm so glad to have each of you
here today and we are so glad
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that YOU are joining us!
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We want to encourage you to
get your Bible and a pad, a pen,
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and if you would like to
follow along with these lessons,
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they can be downloaded
from: ABSG.Adventist.org
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or go to your local
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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they'll be happy to give
you a hard copy of the booklet.
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We are in a wonderful study!
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This is going to be
such an exciting quarter.
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We are studying the Book
of Acts, and in particular,
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I just wanted to mention
that Acts is a history of the
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first 30 years - it's
the birth of the church
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right after the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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It takes us up to the end
of Paul's first imprisonment.
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Pastor Johnny, would you
like to have our opening prayer?
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Sure, let's go to
the Lord in prayer...
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Our Loving Heavenly
Father, We want to thank You
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for this opportunity to come
before Your throne of grace,
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and we ask You, Father, to
bless us during this study,
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that You will bless
us with the Holy Spirit
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that we may speak the
words that need to be heard
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by Your children.
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We pray for Your blessing
upon everyone that is joining us
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all over the world.
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May Your Holy Spirit
also guide them into all truth
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as well, and we thank
You for this opportunity
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to come before
Your throne of grace.
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In Jesus name...Amen
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Amen and Amen!
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Okay, let's read our
memory text and it is actually
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coming from the New
Revised Standard Version...
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This is Acts 2:32-33:
"This Jesus God raised up,
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and of that all of us are
witnesses. Being therefore
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exalted at the right hand of
God, and having received from
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the Father the promise of the
Holy Spirit, He has poured out
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this that you
both see and hear."
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There were three main festivals
that the Jews celebrated
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that were associated
with different harvests.
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On the first day after
Passover, they would wave
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the barley sheaf because
the barley came ripe first,
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and then on the fiftieth day
from waving the barley sheaf,
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the Jewish community
celebrated the Feast of Weeks
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which was also known as
the Feast of the Firstfruits.
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In the Greek, the word
"Pentecost" means "fiftieth."
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It's the Greek name of
the Jewish Feast of Weeks.
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This was a day of joy
and thanksgiving and it was
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when Israel brought
the firstfruits of the
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wheat harvest before the Lord.
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When Jesus was
resurrected, He spent 40 days
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with His apostles and
His disciples and then He
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ascended 40 days
after His resurrection...
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according to Acts 1:3, but
10 days after His ascension,
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and His exaltation in
heaven, the outpouring of the
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Holy Spirit totally
changed the disciples' life.
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It turned men that were fearful
and prideful into men of courage
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of great conviction and
they would change the world.
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Pentecost was a sudden
and very supernatural event,
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and this Feast of the
Firstfruits became fitting
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for the spiritual
harvest of the Christian Church.
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Three thousand people
were baptized in a single day,
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and I think Mollie is
going to cover that for us.
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But many people
think that Pentecost
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as the birthday of the church.
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So I have Sunday's,
"The Coming of the Spirit"
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In Acts 1:4-5, the coming
of the Spirit is described
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as the promise of the Father...
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they had heard from Jesus
and that which John the Baptist
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had foretold.
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But all the disciples
were waiting in the upper room,
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120 of them, in
obedience to Christ's command to
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WAIT until the power
was poured out from on high.
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And they were assembled
together in fervent prayer,
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10 days of fervent prayer and
sincere repentance and praise.
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So let's look at Acts 2 and
were going to read verses 1-3:
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"When the day of
Pentecost had fully come,
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they were all with one accord,
in one place and suddenly
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there came a sound from heaven
as of a rushing mighty wind,
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and it filled the whole
house where they were sitting.
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Then there appeared to
them, it looked like to them,
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divided tongues as on fire,
and one sat on each of them."
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So the coming of the Holy Spirit
is a unique... this day of
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Pentecost is a unique moment
in time, moment in the history
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of the church and the
phenomena of the wind and fire
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were signs of God's presence.
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You know, in Scripture often
what is called a theophany,
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is a manifestation of
the Lord and wind and fire
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were frequently associated with
that, I think of Exodus 3:2,
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where the angel of the
Lord appeared in a bush.
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It was as fire - the bush
was burning with that fire,
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but it didn't burn up.
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I think of Exodus
19:18, when God was speaking
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the Ten Commandments in Israel
and He descended on the mountain
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as fire, or Exodus
13:21, when God's presence was a
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pillar of fire with
them throughout the night.
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There was a cloud by day
and a fire through the night.
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But, let's look at some symbols
or the places in the Scripture
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where wind and fire are
used for the Holy Spirit.
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CA, could you
read for us John 3:8;
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Mollie, will you
take Matthew 3:11;
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and Jill, Luke 3:16;
and Johnny, Acts 1:8.
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John 3:8, The Bible says,
"The wind blows where it wishes,
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I think the King
James says "listed,"
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and you hear the sound
of it, but cannot tell where
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it comes from and where it goes.
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So is everyone who
is born of the Spirit."
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So here we see the Holy
Spirit is associated with
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wind as a symbol.
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And Matthew 3:11, Okay...
"I indeed baptize you with
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water unto repentance,
but He that cometh after me
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is mightier than I whose
shoes I am not worthy to bear.
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He shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost and with fire."
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The Holy Spirit and
fire, so here we see fire used
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as a symbol for the Holy
Spirit, and you know, we know
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that the Holy Spirit worked
throughout the Old Testament
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and even in the New.
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His influence was
felt upon people, but never
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in His fullness did
He come until Pentecost.
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Luke 3:16, "John answered,
saying to all, "I indeed
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baptize you with
water, but One mightier than I
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is coming whose sandal
strap I am not worthy to loose.
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He will baptize you with
the Holy Spirit and fire."
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So John the Baptist
used that word "fire"
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to talk about the Holy Spirit.
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Acts 1:8... Acts
1:8, "But you shall
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receive power when the
Holy Spirit has come upon you,
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and you shall be
witnesses to Me in Jerusalem,
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and in all Judea, and Samaria
and to the end of the earth."
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So here we see that the
power of the Holy Spirit,
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when He comes upon
them, that they, at Pentecost,
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the promise was fulfilled.
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Jesus said, "Go, wait in
Jerusalem until the promise
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of the Father is poured out,"
and the baptism of the Spirit
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at Pentecost... once
again, we just want to say this,
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this is a unique event that was
associated with the resurrection
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of Jesus Christ at
His ascension into Heaven;
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His victory on the cross
and His exaltation in heaven.
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So even though that is a
unique event, we don't see the
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Holy Spirit again being
poured out with tongues of
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fire and the
mighty rushing wind,
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as a believer, being
filled with the Holy Spirit is
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something that is continuous
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in the believer's lives.
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And I want to read
to you, Acts 4:29-31,
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The disciples have come
together and they have been
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threatened not to
speak, with arrests going on,
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and in verse 29 it
says, they're praying...
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"Now Lord, look on their
threats, and grant to Your
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servants that with all boldness
they may speak Your word,
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by stretching out Your
hand to heal, and that signs
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and wonders may be
done through the name
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of Your Holy Servant Jesus.
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And when they had prayed,
and this is the same group
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of people who, in the upper
room, when they had prayed,
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the place where they were
assembled together was shaken
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and they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit."
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Now, this isn't a
repetition of Pentecost,
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but it is the continuation
of receiving power from on High.
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So he says, "They were all
filled with the Holy Spirit
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and they spoke the
word of God with boldness."
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So they
received a fresh filling.
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You know, when Jesus
said to us in Luke 11:9-13,
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He said, "To ask,
to seek, to knock...
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These are linear verbs and
it was a continual progression;
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we need to keep on
asking, keep on seeking,
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keep on knocking and He
said, "How much more will
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your Father give the
Holy Spirit to those who
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keep on asking, keep on
seeking and keep on knocking."
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And Ephesians 5:18, I want
to read that to you from the
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Amplified... Paul writes,
"Do not get drunk with wine
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for that is
debauchery, but ever be filled
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and stimulated
with the Holy Spirit."
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This is a continuous action.
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So, how do you know
when the Holy Spirit
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is working in your life?
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What evidence do you have?
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I want to give you what I
believe is the #1 thing...
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In Romans 5:5, Paul
writes that God pours His
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love, the very essence
of His being, this divine
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self-sacrificing
love, into our hearts
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by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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In 1 Thessalonians
3:12-13, one of my favorite
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Scriptures in the Bible
shows us that as we grow in the
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love of God by the
power of the Holy Spirit,
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we grow in holiness, we
grow to be more like God.
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It says this: "May the Lord
make you increase and abound
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in love to one another and
to all... who's doing the action
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here?... the Lord,
just as we do to you,
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so that, for the purpose
of, He may establish your hearts
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blameless in holiness
before our God and Father
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at the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ with all of His saints."
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So I believe that when someone
is filled with the Holy Spirit
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it is you're being
filled with the essence of God,
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this self-sacrificing
love and you'll see two things
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that will result from that...
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#1... When God's love
is operating in your heart,
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there is no selfishness in
your life - that is the way
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to overcome selfishness,
is to let God pour His
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love into you so that you
can love Him with all of your
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heart, soul, mind and strength
and love others as yourself.
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But the other thing is...
Why did Jesus say He was giving
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us the Holy Spirit? To
give us power to witness.
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And I believe when you are
filled with the Holy Spirit,
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you will speak boldly,
you'll share your testimony
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with others about how
Jesus is working in your life...
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You will be a witness for Him.
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Amen. Well done and well said!
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And I want to pick up
something that you touched on
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the idea that the Spirit
is given for a purpose. Yes
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It's mission-driven.
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On Monday, we talked
about the gift of tongues,
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and I want to read a little
something from the lesson,
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and then use that
as a launching pad for
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one or two
additional statements.
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The lesson says, "The
gift of tongues at Pentecost
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did not occur because it is
the typical or even the most
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important evidence of
endowment of the Spirit."
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We'll get back to that...
it was manifested in order
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to launch the
church's world mission.
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That is, the calling
given in Acts 1:8 required
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the gift of tongues.
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"If the apostles were
to cross cultural barriers
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and reach the ends of
the earth with the gospel,
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they would need to be
able to speak in languages
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of those who needed to
hear what they had to say."
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So the gift of tongues was a
manifestation of the presence
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of the Holy
Spirit on that occasion.
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This "inauguration,"
if I can use that term,
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of the Christian
era, is a one-of-a-kind
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as you so well said,
event, and so those things that
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happened at Pentecost
should not be taken as necessary
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every time the
church meets. Absolutely!
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Because this is a special thing.
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The Holy Spirit
is mission-driven.
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Christ said in John
16:13, It's not going to speak
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on its own, He's not
going to speak on His own.
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He's going to speak about Me.
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That was His mission.
Christ said, "If I don't
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go, it's not going to
come, and when He comes,
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He's not going to flag Himself,
He's going to talk about Me.
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So there has been a parsing...
you notice sometimes we get
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off on things - was the
miracle speaking in tongues
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or hearing the
tongues, and I've heard that
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discussion over and over again.
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Where was the miracle?
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I think it is best always
to stay with the word of God
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and take it as it is
presented before you.
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In Acts 2:4, the Bible
says this: "And they were all
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filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak
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in other tongues as the
Spirit gave them utterance."
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So I'm coming down on
the side that the miracle
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was they spoke in other tongues.
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For what purpose?
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The purpose was so that the
gospel could be promulgated. Yes
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That's the purpose of
the Spirit, not to say,
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"Well, I got the Spirit" or
you know, that kind of thing.
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The Spirit had a mission.
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The mission was to get
the word out about Jesus.
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Further evidence is the
fact that there were those who
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understood that the
people who were speaking
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were Galileans.
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Now evidently, there was
something about the Galilean
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speech pattern because
when Peter was speaking in the
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courtyard of the high priest,
the maiden said, "Your speech
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betrays you."
There's something about
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your speech pattern...
Now Galilee was up north
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and Jerusalem down south.
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I remember the first time we met
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Mollie Steenson,
you may not remember.
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You came to New York to
talk to all the pastors,
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and when you opened your
mouth, about two words in,
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we said, "Oh, she's
not from here." Laughter...
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Now I wonder why? Laughter...
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Now having gone
to school in Alabama,
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I recognized that it
was an Alabama accent,
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but we had French pastors,
and Spanish pastors who were
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kind of struggling because
they weren't really used to
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the New York accent, let
alone the Alabama accent.
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But there was something about
the speech... so there were
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those who understood
that these speakers were
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Galilean and yet we
hear in our own language
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the wonderful words of God.
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Now there are some
themes that I want to go through
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very quickly - that I
think should not be missed.
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#1.. This Book of
Acts is Luke talking about
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the Acts of the New Testament.
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Later on, Paul discusses
the theology when he goes to
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Corinth and we get a
better breakdown of what he's
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doing and what he's
saying here, but there are some
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things that I
should not be missed...
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#1... The gift of tongues
was for the purpose of the
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promulgation of the
gospel, and when we think about
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about the gift of
tongues and how tongues is used,
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it must be
understood that the Holy Spirit
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didn't come just to
la, la, la, la, la, la.
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The Holy Spirit
has a mindset and it's
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being used to lift up Christ.
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And at this point,
what they were trying to do
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is to move that audience
from their Jewish thinking
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to a Christ-centered thinking
and the purpose of the Spirit
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on that occasion was to
lift up and magnify Jesus.
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#2... There is no evidence in
this narrative that would make
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this a test of presence
of the power of the gospel
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So what I'm saying here is
that the Bible is not saying
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that unless you speak in
tongues at any given occasion
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you are devoid of the Holy
Spirit - you can't get that
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from this text; nor can
you get that from Paul's
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message to the Corinthians.
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So it's not a test - this
is as you well said, Shelley,
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the inauguration of a
brand new event - God is doing
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something special
because of this inauguration.
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#3... Tongues were known
languages - how do we know?
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We go back to Acts 2.
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Go into Acts 2, I
want to start at verse 6,
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and then we can move on.
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"And when this sound occurred,
the multitude came together
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and were confused because
everyone heard them speak
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in his own language."
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So we're talking about
intelligible languages.
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And, of course, there were Jews
that were part of the diaspora
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who had come together
for this particular time.
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I should have read verse
5 with that because it says,
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"Devout men from every
nation." Yes, from every nation
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under heaven."
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So we know that
people are coming together,
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and it's shown a
little bit later.
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"And how is it that we
hear each of our own language
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in which we were born?
Parthians, Medes, Elamites,
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those dwelling in Mesopotamia,
Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
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Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, parts
of Libya adjoining Cyrene."
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So this is a wide
dispersion, visitors from Rome,
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both Jews and proselytes,
those who had joined themselves,
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Cretans, Arabs - we hear
them speaking in our own tongues
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the wonderful works of God.
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So again, the reason that
this is happening is so that
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they can understand and hear
of the wonderful works of God.
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So, there are Jews
living outside of Palestine,
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and the focus was the
wonderful works of God.
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And really,
whenever we come together,
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the focus is the
wonderful works of God. Amen!
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And what the Holy
Spirit is impressing upon us
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IS how wonderful God
is to us, His children.
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The notion of an unknown
tongue or an unintelligible
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heavenly tongue
cannot be sustained
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from this particular passage.
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You can't use this
passage to prove that or even to
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assert that because
it simply is not there.
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And #6... What
happens at the inauguration
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of an event is not usually
normative for its operation.
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When the president is elected,
there is an inauguration...
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That's a one-time thing,
it doesn't happen every day,
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it's just to
kickoff the presidency,
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so a year later,
you don't re-inaugurate,
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that's a one-time thing.
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As such, the events of
Acts 2, the Pentecost experience
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were a singular
one of a kind event.
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It was a singular experience.
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So to come to
church and routinely expect
00:22:39.42\00:22:44.19
everyone to have this
experience to manufacture
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this
experience, is not biblical.
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It is not something
that is supported by
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this particular text.
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And so that's the
experience here... again, Paul
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spends a lot more time
walking us through this
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later on in
Corinthians, but in Luke
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in looking at this
day and trying to diagnose
00:23:07.98\00:23:11.29
what he saw and what
was going on, realized
00:23:11.32\00:23:14.49
that this was a powerful,
powerful, powerful experience
00:23:14.52\00:23:19.79
preparatory to Peter's
great sermon which I know
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is coming up and we
can move to that now.
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Well and the response to
these different tongues...
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some people, it says in
verse 12 "and they were amazed,"
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but what did it say in verse 13?
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Others mocking said, "These
men are full of new wine."
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Now that's the
King James version.
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What were they saying,
Jill, about what was the
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indication of that?
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They were
drunk, they were drunk!
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Okay, now Peter is not
gonna just to set on that.
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Look at verse 14...
"But Peter standing up
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with the eleven lifted up
his voice," and this is what I
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get to talk to you
about, Peter's sermon.
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You know this is Peter's
first evangelistic crusade...
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right here in the Book of
Acts and he has just come down
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from the upper room
and he is full of what?
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Filled with the
Holy Spirit and power.
00:24:10.25\00:24:12.85
Now can you imagine,
before Peter went up into
00:24:12.88\00:24:15.95
the upper room saying,
"Hey Pete, what are you all
00:24:15.98\00:24:17.95
gonna do up there?
He didn't have a clue.
00:24:17.99\00:24:20.29
And he sure didn't know
what was going to happen
00:24:20.36\00:24:22.92
when he came down...
he was just submitted
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and committed to God and ready
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to do whatever the
Lord would show him.
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So, the first thing Peter
does when he raised up his voice
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when he was countering
this that they were drunk...
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He laid a scriptural foundation
from the old testament.
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Actually, it was from - I
think it's the Book of Joel.
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Joel's prophecy, but
now remember the people
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that are there, what was
the population of Jerusalem?
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I think it was between
like 30 and 40,000. Um hm
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It is estimated the number of
people that is here in Jerusalem
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at this time...
see they are there for
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the Feast of Pentecost
and there could be over
00:25:06.43\00:25:09.77
80,000 people there and
they're coming to celebrate
00:25:09.80\00:25:15.11
the Feast of Pentecost,
so what would that tell you
00:25:15.14\00:25:17.68
about them? They're Jews!
00:25:17.71\00:25:20.22
They are Jewish
believers, but they weren't all
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from this area...
we've already seen in the
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Scriptures where they
were from all over the world.
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And they didn't all
understand Arabic which is
00:25:30.63\00:25:34.93
probably what they, you
know, were speaking was Arabic.
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"Therefore, the need
for the gift of tongues."
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So when Peter quoted from
the Old Testament Book of Joel,
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these people that
were there as celebrating
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the Feast of Pentecost,
they were very familiar
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with the Book of Joel.
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So they were
familiar with the Scriptures.
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So now, I have this opportunity
and I just thought of
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what is the best way to
present this and I decided
00:26:02.56\00:26:05.73
just "let me read this to you."
00:26:05.76\00:26:08.53
This is the sermon and
we're gonna see at the end,
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it was a mighty powerful sermon.
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Okay, Acts 2, I'm going
to start with verse 16-21.
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"But this is what was
spoken by the prophet Joel:
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"And it shall come to pass
in the last days, says God,
00:26:20.41\00:26:23.68
that I will pour out
of My Spirit on all flesh;
00:26:23.75\00:26:27.02
Your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy,
00:26:27.05\00:26:29.42
Your young men
shall see visions,
00:26:29.45\00:26:31.52
Your old men
shall dream dreams...
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CA, I know
you're dreaming dreams.
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And on My menservants
and on My maidservants
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I will pour out My
Spirit in those days;
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And they shall prophesy.
00:26:41.53\00:26:43.57
I will show
wonders in heaven above
00:26:43.63\00:26:46.94
And signs in the earth beneath;
00:26:47.00\00:26:49.10
Blood and fire and vapor
of smoke... again there's
00:26:49.14\00:26:53.07
those things that are
indicative of the Spirit of God
00:26:53.11\00:26:56.44
of God moving powerfully.
00:26:56.48\00:26:58.08
Verse 20: The sun shall
be be turned into darkness.
00:26:58.11\00:27:01.05
And the moon into blood,
00:27:01.08\00:27:02.42
Before the coming of the great
and awesome day of the Lord.
00:27:02.45\00:27:06.25
And it shall come to
pass that whoever calls on
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the name of the Lord
Shall be saved." Amen!
00:27:09.76\00:27:12.36
So first Peter lays
the Scriptural foundation,
00:27:12.39\00:27:16.60
but now this is his
first evangelistic crusade;
00:27:16.67\00:27:19.67
he's just explaining to
them this is what's going on.
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You know he's going to have to
bring in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Okay, Joel's prophecy was about
the future age of salvation
00:27:26.51\00:27:31.98
which was characterized by
several signs as a result of the
00:27:32.01\00:27:35.95
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
00:27:35.98\00:27:38.02
Peter stresses the historical
relevance of what they were
00:27:38.05\00:27:43.09
witnessing firsthand.
00:27:43.12\00:27:45.06
Verse 17 is a
quote from Joel 2:28,
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but there is one difference
and I think this is worth
00:27:48.90\00:27:52.40
noting... instead of
Joel's introductory afterwards
00:27:52.43\00:27:56.34
"And it shall come to
pass afterward, Peter said,
00:27:56.37\00:28:00.61
"And it shall come to
pass in the last days."
00:28:00.64\00:28:03.91
And what he is doing is
making the point that the final
00:28:03.98\00:28:08.42
act of this great drama
of salvation has just begun.
00:28:08.45\00:28:14.09
And they didn't know
when the end would come,
00:28:14.12\00:28:16.42
but were convinced it wouldn't
be... and aren't we convinced
00:28:16.46\00:28:19.36
of that... it's not gonna
be long - the Lord is returning
00:28:19.39\00:28:22.83
He's returning for
everyone who is committed
00:28:22.86\00:28:26.10
and submitted their life to Him.
00:28:26.13\00:28:27.74
So that was Peter's plea.
00:28:27.77\00:28:32.27
After highlighting the prophetic
significance of Pentecost,
00:28:32.31\00:28:36.61
Peter turned to the
recent events of Jesus' life,
00:28:36.64\00:28:40.25
death and resurrection.
00:28:40.32\00:28:42.52
This is the crux - it is
the resurrection; however,
00:28:42.55\00:28:47.26
that received the greatest
emphasis - what would that be?
00:28:47.29\00:28:50.83
Without the resurrection,
there is no gospel message.
00:28:50.86\00:28:53.80
For Peter, the resurrection
was the ultimate vindication
00:28:56.26\00:29:00.27
of Jesus because
Jesus was the Messiah;
00:29:00.30\00:29:03.67
He could not be
detained by death.
00:29:03.74\00:29:06.61
So for Peter and for all the
writers of the New Testament,
00:29:06.64\00:29:10.68
the resurrection of Jesus
had become the most powerful
00:29:10.71\00:29:15.25
evidence, not only
of Jesus as the Messiah,
00:29:15.28\00:29:19.32
but for the whole
Christian message of salvation.
00:29:19.35\00:29:22.59
Now, let's pick up again
on this wonderful powerful
00:29:22.62\00:29:26.09
message of Peter
- we will look in
00:29:26.13\00:29:28.00
Acts 2- again
we're going to start with
00:29:28.03\00:29:31.20
verse 22 and go
through verse 33...
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"Men of Israel, hear
these words, Jesus of Nazareth,
00:29:34.14\00:29:38.47
a Man attested by
God to you by miracles...
00:29:38.51\00:29:41.98
Now who is he
talking to? Men of Israel!
00:29:42.01\00:29:45.21
Attested by God to you
by miracles, by wonders
00:29:45.25\00:29:50.02
and signs which God did
through Him in your midst,
00:29:50.09\00:29:53.56
as you
yourselves already know...
00:29:53.59\00:29:56.52
Him, being delivered by
the determined purpose and
00:29:56.56\00:30:00.40
foreknowledge of God, you
have taken by lawless hands,
00:30:00.43\00:30:04.87
have crucified and put
to death... see Peter didn't
00:30:04.90\00:30:07.70
mince words, did he? He
just spoke it like it was.
00:30:07.74\00:30:11.07
... whom God raised
up... and God did what?
00:30:11.11\00:30:13.68
Praise God! Raised up.
00:30:13.74\00:30:15.21
Having loosed the
pangs of death because it was
00:30:15.24\00:30:19.21
not possible that He
should be helped by it."
00:30:19.25\00:30:22.02
"For David says
concerning Him...
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... Now we're going back
to Psalms quoting from the
00:30:24.19\00:30:26.65
Old Testament, Psalm 16:8.
00:30:26.72\00:30:29.56
David said, "I foresaw
the Lord always before my
00:30:29.59\00:30:34.03
face for He is at my right
hand that I may not be shaken.
00:30:34.10\00:30:38.37
Therefore my heart
rejoiced and my tongue was glad;
00:30:38.40\00:30:42.07
moreover, my flesh
also will rest in hope.
00:30:42.10\00:30:45.37
For You will not
leave my soul in Hades.
00:30:45.41\00:30:48.44
Nor will You allow Your
Holy One to see corruption.
00:30:48.48\00:30:52.48
You have made known
to me the ways of life.
00:30:52.51\00:30:55.35
You will make me full
of joy in Your presence."
00:30:55.38\00:31:00.26
Then Peter goes on and
says, "Men and brethren,
00:31:00.29\00:31:02.82
let me speak
freely... which he is doing...
00:31:02.86\00:31:05.83
to you of the patriarch
David that he is both dead and
00:31:05.86\00:31:09.96
buried and his tomb
is with us to this day.
00:31:10.03\00:31:13.80
Therefore, being a prophet
and knowing that God had sworn
00:31:13.84\00:31:17.57
with an oath to him that
of the fruit of his body,
00:31:17.61\00:31:20.64
according to the flesh,
he would raise up the Christ
00:31:20.68\00:31:24.15
to sit on his throne.
00:31:24.21\00:31:26.05
He, foreseeing this, spoke
concerning the resurrection
00:31:26.08\00:31:29.88
of Christ, that His
soul was not left in Hades,
00:31:29.92\00:31:34.06
nor did His
flesh see corruption.
00:31:34.12\00:31:36.46
This Jesus God has raised up
of which we are all witnesses."
00:31:36.49\00:31:42.76
There's that word
again, "witnesses."
00:31:42.80\00:31:45.63
You can argue with anything,
anybody's doctrine - something
00:31:45.67\00:31:49.77
they say, "Oh I've taught"
or something you get secondhand,
00:31:49.80\00:31:52.61
but these had seen and
they had heard with their own
00:31:52.64\00:31:56.71
eyes and their own ears.
00:31:56.78\00:31:58.85
It's so vitally important
that we have a personal
00:31:58.88\00:32:02.88
relationship, a
personal experience with the
00:32:02.92\00:32:06.42
Lord Jesus Christ.
00:32:06.45\00:32:07.79
Let's finish
this up with verse 33.
00:32:07.82\00:32:10.53
"Therefore, being by
the right hand of God,
00:32:10.56\00:32:14.30
... talking of Jesus...
exalted and having received
00:32:14.30\00:32:17.97
of the Father the
promise of the Holy Ghost,
00:32:18.00\00:32:20.14
He has shed forth
this... He has shed forth this,
00:32:20.20\00:32:24.91
which you now see and hear."
00:32:24.94\00:32:28.34
Now, we know that Peter...
again this is his first sermon
00:32:28.38\00:32:34.28
after he comes out of
the upper room FULL of the
00:32:34.32\00:32:38.25
Holy Spirit, full of
boldness and we know that this
00:32:38.29\00:32:41.96
was a powerfully impacting and
successful evangelistic crusade
00:32:41.99\00:32:47.86
because the Scripture
goes on to say that over
00:32:47.86\00:32:50.93
3,000 were added to
the church that day.
00:32:50.97\00:32:54.34
So Peter's sermon,
powerful, full of God's word,
00:32:54.37\00:32:59.17
and anointed of the
Holy Spirit and that same
00:32:59.21\00:33:03.45
anointing will rest
on every one of us as we
00:33:03.48\00:33:07.22
... just ask God,
"Oh Father, fill us with
00:33:07.25\00:33:10.19
Your Holy Spirit,
Father we want this power
00:33:10.22\00:33:14.09
to be witnesses
to the whole world."
00:33:14.16\00:33:18.23
AMEN, thank you so much Mollie!
00:33:18.26\00:33:20.70
Wouldn't you have
loved to be there? Yes!
00:33:20.73\00:33:22.60
Being there in
Jerusalem and to sit under Peter
00:33:22.63\00:33:25.80
and just to hear the
anointing of the Holy Spirit
00:33:25.83\00:33:28.60
and want what he had to share.
00:33:28.64\00:33:30.47
I mean, we can read that
and you did a wonderful job of
00:33:30.51\00:33:33.44
portraying some of that
power and energy that was
00:33:33.48\00:33:35.98
in the text, but just to
sit there and to hear that
00:33:36.01\00:33:38.98
it's amazing, but the
beautiful thing to me is that
00:33:39.01\00:33:42.05
here at the end of time,
the Holy Spirit I believe will
00:33:42.08\00:33:45.19
be poured out in
great measure again. Amen!
00:33:45.22\00:33:48.56
We have seen the Holy
Spirit at work in the church
00:33:48.59\00:33:51.23
all the way through
the ages since that time,
00:33:51.26\00:33:53.26
but I think in the great
measure we're going to see
00:33:53.29\00:33:56.00
the latter rain fall
again and I'm just excited...
00:33:56.03\00:33:58.43
Lord Jesus, I want
to be part of that.
00:33:58.47\00:34:01.74
I want to experience that
and to see that and know that.
00:34:01.77\00:34:05.34
Well I have Wednesday... you
just got me all excited Mollie.
00:34:05.37\00:34:08.48
Alright! I have
Wednesday which is on
00:34:08.51\00:34:10.85
"The Exaltation of Jesus."
00:34:10.88\00:34:15.02
What was the condition
for the coming of the Spirit?
00:34:15.05\00:34:18.22
Shelley talked about
that... being in one accord,
00:34:18.25\00:34:20.89
in one place - that
prayer, that upper room
00:34:20.96\00:34:24.33
experience, that unity.
00:34:24.36\00:34:26.03
In addition, there's
another condition for receiving,
00:34:26.06\00:34:29.63
the coming of the
Holy Spirit and that is the
00:34:29.66\00:34:31.40
exaltation of Jesus.
00:34:31.43\00:34:33.40
My portion of
Scripture here is Acts 2:33-36,
00:34:33.44\00:34:38.61
but before we go there, I
want to take a step back...
00:34:38.64\00:34:41.04
When we talk about
the exaltation of Jesus...
00:34:41.08\00:34:43.91
you might be saying - I
have no idea what that means,
00:34:43.95\00:34:46.25
and after Jesus was
crucified, He rested in the tomb
00:34:46.28\00:34:49.82
over Sabbath, he was
resurrected on Sunday,
00:34:49.85\00:34:53.32
and we know that He spent
the 40 days with the disciples,
00:34:53.36\00:34:59.39
not every day all day,
but He was seen of them
00:34:59.43\00:35:02.43
several times during that time.
00:35:02.46\00:35:04.77
But the exaltation of Jesus
refers to when He ascended up.
00:35:04.80\00:35:08.64
Acts 1:9-11 talks about
the clouds receiving Him
00:35:08.67\00:35:11.84
from the disciples' sight.
00:35:11.87\00:35:13.88
"And when He went up,
Him being, as it were,
00:35:13.91\00:35:17.28
reinstated at the
right hand of the Father
00:35:17.35\00:35:20.32
that hand of power
signifying God's approval
00:35:20.35\00:35:24.59
of what had taken place...
00:35:24.62\00:35:26.25
Jesus' accomplishment, you
can say, His death on the cross,
00:35:26.29\00:35:30.63
and the vindication
of the character of God.
00:35:30.66\00:35:34.20
So I want to look, just a
moment at the Great Controversy.
00:35:34.20\00:35:38.73
We see the Great Controversy
began in heaven really.
00:35:38.77\00:35:42.74
Satan and how sin originated
to me is just a mystery...
00:35:42.77\00:35:47.81
A perfect created being
we know and in Ezekiel 28,
00:35:47.84\00:35:51.45
it talks about Lucifer
being created, it talks about
00:35:51.48\00:35:54.98
him being the covering
cherub and all of that,
00:35:55.02\00:35:58.09
and then it say that
he was perfect in the day
00:35:58.12\00:36:01.92
that he was created and
then Ezekiel 28:16 says that...
00:36:01.96\00:36:05.69
"By the abundance of
your trading you became
00:36:05.73\00:36:09.16
filled with violence within."
00:36:09.20\00:36:11.13
The word for trading
is "slander or literally
00:36:11.17\00:36:14.17
to go about from one to another
trading either goods or words.
00:36:14.24\00:36:19.91
And so in the very beginning
Satan began to cast doubt
00:36:19.94\00:36:23.58
as it were, Mollie,
on the character of God,
00:36:23.65\00:36:26.28
on God's righteous law
and began to cast that doubt.
00:36:26.31\00:36:30.52
... God really isn't
loving, God's law really isn't
00:36:30.59\00:36:34.06
such and such and he
began to cast that doubt...
00:36:34.09\00:36:36.83
And that was spread to
this earth and for 4,000 years
00:36:36.86\00:36:40.80
until the coming of Jesus,
there was still some doubt
00:36:40.83\00:36:44.97
as to the character of
God and so Jesus came...
00:36:45.00\00:36:48.44
When He came and lived a
perfect life proved that the law
00:36:48.47\00:36:54.08
of God is holy, just
and good and He died,
00:36:54.14\00:36:57.78
of course we know He died
to redeem sinful humanity...
00:36:57.81\00:37:00.85
Romans 3:23: "All have
sinned and fallen short
00:37:00.88\00:37:04.49
of the glory of God."
00:37:04.52\00:37:06.39
And we know that
we're all under, as it were,
00:37:06.42\00:37:08.72
the curse of the law
because we all have sinned.
00:37:08.76\00:37:11.46
And the wages of
sin... if we're a sinner,
00:37:11.49\00:37:13.56
the wages of sin,
Romans 6:23, is death.
00:37:13.63\00:37:17.90
1 Peter 1:18-19: One of
my favorite Scriptures...
00:37:17.93\00:37:21.40
"Knowing that you are
not redeemed with corruptible
00:37:21.44\00:37:24.71
things like silver or
gold, but with the precious
00:37:24.74\00:37:28.48
blood of Christ, as of a lamb
00:37:28.51\00:37:31.45
without blemish
and without spot."
00:37:31.48\00:37:32.95
So Jesus' death on the cross,
it redeemed sinful humanity.
00:37:32.98\00:37:36.82
We were given the choice
to accept the blood of Jesus.
00:37:36.89\00:37:40.66
Applied to, as it were, the door
post and the lintel of our heart
00:37:40.69\00:37:44.86
to be cleansed and to
have that hope of eternal life.
00:37:44.89\00:37:48.10
But not only that, at the
cross, the character of God
00:37:48.13\00:37:53.30
in a special way was vindicated
and Satan was exposed as a
00:37:53.34\00:37:56.77
fraud and was fully
defeated. Praise God!
00:37:56.81\00:37:59.67
He was cast
down! Praise the Lord!
00:37:59.71\00:38:01.51
Let's look at John
12 and then we'll get to
00:38:01.54\00:38:06.75
our passage in Acts
- we are going there.
00:38:06.78\00:38:14.52
John 12:31-32: Jesus
said, "Now this is the judgment
00:38:14.56\00:38:23.47
of this world; now the ruler
of this world will be cast out.
00:38:23.50\00:38:28.74
He's referring to
Satan and the judgment
00:38:28.77\00:38:31.14
that's going to
take place upon Satan.
00:38:31.17\00:38:33.38
And I, if I am lifted up
from the earth, will draw
00:38:33.41\00:38:36.44
all men, all people to Myself."
00:38:36.48\00:38:39.61
So at the cross, in a special
way, the character of Satan
00:38:39.65\00:38:44.52
versus the character of
God was clearly revealed
00:38:44.55\00:38:47.72
and shown and
Satan was cast out.
00:38:47.76\00:38:51.06
Now we have Jesus' exaltation
in heaven when He ascended...
00:38:51.09\00:38:55.50
We know that He had
exalted status before
00:38:55.53\00:38:58.17
He came to this earth.
00:38:58.20\00:38:59.60
John 1:1- what does it say?
"In the beginning was the word,
00:38:59.63\00:39:02.70
and the word was with
God and the word was God.
00:39:02.74\00:39:06.81
And then John 1:14
says: "The word was
00:39:06.84\00:39:09.68
made flesh and dwelt among us."
00:39:09.71\00:39:11.15
We know that word is the
Lord Jesus Christ, so in the
00:39:11.18\00:39:14.38
beginning He was
with God and He was God.
00:39:14.42\00:39:18.02
So in the
beginning, from all eternity,
00:39:18.05\00:39:20.69
Jesus had the
same exalted position.
00:39:20.72\00:39:22.96
He IS God, He WAS God.
00:39:22.99\00:39:25.49
But then Philippians 2
talks about Him humbling
00:39:25.53\00:39:28.50
Himself as a man and
to the death of the cross.
00:39:28.53\00:39:32.87
After the cross and
after He brought back into
00:39:32.90\00:39:37.11
heaven, the Holy Spirit would
not have been given if Jesus
00:39:37.14\00:39:42.34
was not exalted and
Jesus would not have been
00:39:42.38\00:39:45.41
exalted if He had not
triumphed on the cross.
00:39:45.45\00:39:50.59
John 17:4-5: "Jesus says,
I have glorified You on the
00:39:50.62\00:39:54.46
earth. I have finished the
work You have given Me to do.
00:39:54.49\00:39:57.53
And now, O Father, glorify
Me together with Yourself
00:39:57.56\00:40:00.40
with the glory I had with
You before the world was."
00:40:00.43\00:40:03.63
Now let's read
our passage in Acts...
00:40:03.67\00:40:05.77
Acts 2, I'm going to
pick up with a couple of the
00:40:05.80\00:40:08.47
verses Mollie finished with.
00:40:08.50\00:40:09.84
Acts 2:32: "This Jesus
God has raised up of which
00:40:09.87\00:40:15.94
we are all witnesses...
he is talking about the
00:40:15.98\00:40:17.68
resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ...
00:40:17.71\00:40:20.22
Then verse 33..."Therefore being
exalted to the right hand of God
00:40:20.28\00:40:25.62
and having received from
the Father the promise of the
00:40:25.65\00:40:29.12
Holy Spirit, He
poured out this which you now
00:40:29.16\00:40:32.26
see and hear." To
pour out means to pour out,
00:40:32.29\00:40:35.03
to shed liberally...
He poured out the gift
00:40:35.06\00:40:38.47
of the Holy
Spirit. Then he goes on...
00:40:38.50\00:40:40.87
For David did not ascend
into the heavens," but he says
00:40:40.90\00:40:44.81
and then Peter quotes
from Psalm 110:1: "The Lord
00:40:44.84\00:40:49.81
meaning God the Father
said to my Lord, David's writing
00:40:49.84\00:40:54.52
meaning "My Lord the
Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ,"
00:40:54.55\00:40:58.02
Sit at my right hand till I make
your enemies your footstool.
00:40:58.05\00:41:05.76
The right hand of the Father
is that position of authority,
00:41:05.79\00:41:10.93
position of power.
00:41:10.97\00:41:13.17
The Holy Spirit could not
fully come if Jesus were not
00:41:13.20\00:41:16.97
exalted... Remember, Jesus told
His disciples, in John 7:39,
00:41:17.01\00:41:21.98
"But this He spoke
concerning the Spirit, who knows
00:41:22.01\00:41:25.01
believing in Him would
receive for the Holy Spirit
00:41:25.05\00:41:28.18
was not yet given."
00:41:28.22\00:41:29.55
Meaning in this great measure,
as it was at the inauguration
00:41:29.58\00:41:32.69
of the church there at
Pentecost because Jesus
00:41:32.72\00:41:35.76
was not yet glorified.
00:41:35.79\00:41:37.73
He was not yet ascended
to His Father and reinstated
00:41:37.76\00:41:41.76
as it were, installed at
the right hand of the Father.
00:41:41.80\00:41:47.07
I want to look at one more
verse, jump over 2 chapters.
00:41:47.10\00:41:52.34
Acts 5:32-33, No,
I'm sorry, 31 and 32...
00:41:52.37\00:41:59.11
"Him, God has exalted to
His right hand - meaning Jesus
00:41:59.15\00:42:07.16
is exalted to the
right hand of God the Father,
00:42:07.19\00:42:09.46
to be Prince and
Savior, to give repentance
00:42:09.49\00:42:12.96
to Israel and forgiveness
of sins and we are His
00:42:12.99\00:42:16.67
witnesses to these things,
and so also is the Holy Spirit
00:42:16.73\00:42:19.63
whom God has given
to those who obey Him."
00:42:19.67\00:42:22.70
Talking the same
thing... after the cross,
00:42:22.74\00:42:25.01
Jesus on the tree, resurrected
and reinstated, exalted
00:42:25.04\00:42:30.15
to the position at the
right hand of the Father
00:42:30.21\00:42:33.18
to give repentance to
Israel, forgiveness of sins
00:42:33.21\00:42:35.55
and to give the church
in power the Holy Spirit.
00:42:35.58\00:42:39.95
Amen! Amen!
Well praise the Lord,
00:42:40.02\00:42:42.29
that just brings us to
the last part of the lesson,
00:42:42.32\00:42:46.09
and you built a good
foundation, praise the Lord.
00:42:46.13\00:42:50.80
This is a
marvelous work that God does.
00:42:50.83\00:42:54.50
Now notice that the Scripture
she read says that the fact
00:42:54.54\00:42:59.41
that Jesus Christ was exalted
to be a Prince and a Savior
00:42:59.44\00:43:04.55
to give repentance to
Israel and forgiveness of sins.
00:43:04.58\00:43:09.25
So this is the basis
and here is Peter preaching
00:43:09.28\00:43:12.65
about that very thing.
00:43:12.69\00:43:14.86
And so God is doing
a work like that today,
00:43:14.89\00:43:20.30
and we're going to talk
about that in a little while,
00:43:20.33\00:43:22.76
but let's go... again
Peter is talking and I want to
00:43:22.80\00:43:26.43
highlight something
that was going on because
00:43:26.47\00:43:29.70
before Peter started to
preach, the other disciples,
00:43:29.74\00:43:35.28
the people that had received,
the others that had received
00:43:35.31\00:43:37.68
the blessing of the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
00:43:37.71\00:43:40.38
they were speaking as
it says in Acts 2:11...
00:43:40.42\00:43:46.39
We do hear them
speak in our tongues
00:43:46.42\00:43:49.62
the wonderful works of God.
00:43:49.66\00:43:52.56
So their hearts were
being prepared for what Peter
00:43:52.59\00:43:55.43
was about to do,
but here comes the devil
00:43:55.46\00:43:57.63
trying to throw in
one of those stones...
00:43:57.67\00:43:59.90
Oh these guys are
just full of new wine...
00:44:00.04\00:44:02.20
In other words, "Don't
listen to these people,
00:44:02.24\00:44:03.84
they are just
babbling, but they had heard the
00:44:03.91\00:44:07.28
wonderful works of God and
their attention was peaked.
00:44:07.31\00:44:10.85
And Peter
starts to talk with the
00:44:10.88\00:44:13.72
inspiration of the
Holy Spirit, and that's
00:44:13.75\00:44:16.42
what we have to understand.
00:44:16.45\00:44:17.79
You know, anyone that
gets up in front of people
00:44:17.82\00:44:20.56
to speak the word of God,
needs to do what they did.
00:44:20.66\00:44:23.53
What did they do?
They humbled themselves
00:44:23.56\00:44:25.73
before the Lord asking
for the Lord to forgive them,
00:44:25.76\00:44:28.76
asking for the Holy
Spirit to be poured out,
00:44:28.80\00:44:31.07
the promised blessing.
00:44:31.10\00:44:33.50
This is what we do
here, we come to the Lord,
00:44:33.54\00:44:36.17
ask the Lord to bless us
with the Holy Spirit that we may
00:44:36.20\00:44:38.77
speak the
wonderful works of God.
00:44:38.81\00:44:41.74
So these people were hearing
00:44:41.84\00:44:43.41
the wonderful works
of God and as they heard
00:44:43.45\00:44:46.88
oh, it's a marvelous
Scripture - let's go there
00:44:46.92\00:44:49.52
to Acts 2 and you
read already verse 36.
00:44:49.55\00:44:55.69
Let's read that verse 36 again.
00:44:55.72\00:44:57.63
Acts 2:36: And
this is the Scripture...
00:44:57.66\00:45:02.10
"Therefore let all the
house of Israel know assuredly
00:45:02.13\00:45:05.53
that God has made this
Jesus, whom you crucified,
00:45:05.57\00:45:09.90
both Lord and Christ. Amen!
00:45:09.94\00:45:13.27
So now they are understanding
you have crucified the Messiah!
00:45:13.31\00:45:18.85
And as they heard
this... notice verse 37,
00:45:18.88\00:45:21.68
Now when they heard this,
they were cut to the heart
00:45:21.72\00:45:25.29
and said to Peter and
the rest of the people...
00:45:25.32\00:45:27.99
Men and brethren,
what shall we do?"
00:45:28.02\00:45:32.66
So it's interesting that
it says, "What shall we do?"
00:45:33.03\00:45:35.70
It wasn't just one individual,
it was a lot of people,
00:45:35.73\00:45:39.33
and I imagine that some
with just tears in their eyes,
00:45:39.37\00:45:42.44
they realized that they were
guilty of killing the Messiah.
00:45:42.47\00:45:48.44
And when they were cut to
the heart, they were asking
00:45:48.48\00:45:50.65
"Now what do we do?"
00:45:50.71\00:45:52.75
They had no idea what they
had to do, so Peter answered...
00:45:52.78\00:45:56.75
Under the power of
the Holy Spirit, he says:
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Verse 38, "Then Peter
said to them, "Repent and let
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every one of you be baptized
in the name of Jesus Christ
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for the remission of
sins and you shall receive
00:46:09.53\00:46:13.74
the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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For the promise is to
you and to your children,
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and to all who are afar
off and as many as the Lord
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our God will call."
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And so the lesson, as we look
at the lesson, it brings us into
00:46:24.88\00:46:28.52
some questions about
what is this... repentance.
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He asked them to REPENT,
they apparently understood
00:46:32.09\00:46:35.59
what the message was
and only when you understand
00:46:35.62\00:46:39.06
a message, can
you really repent?
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Only when you understand
that you have committed
00:46:40.93\00:46:42.93
some sin - can you
really repent of the sin.
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You know I'm
saying this to you because
00:46:46.30\00:46:48.34
recently I
received a little video...
00:46:48.37\00:46:51.11
I don't know how my name
gets into some of these things.
00:46:51.14\00:46:54.04
I received a video and
they are showing this person
00:46:54.08\00:46:57.88
that supposed to be
some kind of priest baptizing
00:46:57.91\00:47:00.68
a baby and the little baby
has no idea what's going on,
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and he turned the baby
upside-down, dunked his
00:47:05.95\00:47:09.22
head in the water and then
dunked his feet in the water
00:47:09.26\00:47:12.36
and dunked his
head in the water again
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while he was saying some things,
00:47:13.83\00:47:15.80
but the baby could not
repent because the baby had no
00:47:15.83\00:47:19.33
idea what sin is.
00:47:19.37\00:47:20.94
So what is repentance?
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Repentance has already been
mentioned by Sister Shelley,
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it includes sorrow for
sin, a desire for cleansing,
00:47:25.87\00:47:30.58
but you want to be cleansed
and turn away from the evil
00:47:30.65\00:47:35.48
that brought you
to that condition.
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You don't want to be
doing those things anymore.
00:47:37.92\00:47:39.72
You want the Lord to give
you the power to be victorious.
00:47:39.75\00:47:45.23
You want to be
renewed and David said,
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"Take not Your Holy
Spirit from me" in Psalm 51.
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So repentance is
not just sorrow for sin,
00:47:52.77\00:47:56.07
it's a desire to turn
away, and I say this...
00:47:56.10\00:47:58.87
I better look at the time
because I'm getting excited
00:47:58.91\00:48:01.01
forgetting about the time...
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And Judas - you look at
Judas and it seemed like he had
00:48:02.54\00:48:06.98
some kind of sorrow for sin.
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You know, as we look at
Judas, he didn't really expect
00:48:10.32\00:48:14.66
Jesus to allow
Himself to be taken captive,
00:48:14.69\00:48:17.36
to allow Himself to be beaten...
00:48:17.39\00:48:18.99
He thought Jesus
was going to escape.
00:48:19.03\00:48:21.63
He thought...I'm gonna
make some money out of this
00:48:21.66\00:48:23.50
and go my way...
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And I imagine that Judas
was waiting for the moment,
00:48:25.60\00:48:28.24
kept following to see
where are they taking Him?
00:48:28.27\00:48:30.44
When is He going to get away?
00:48:30.51\00:48:32.24
But Jesus would
not, He stayed there,
00:48:32.27\00:48:36.14
He was suffering
every insult; the spitting;
00:48:36.18\00:48:39.68
the slapping; and every insult.
00:48:39.71\00:48:43.25
And, of course, he
comes... he says, "I have sinned
00:48:43.28\00:48:46.15
in that I have
betrayed innocent blood."
00:48:46.19\00:48:49.29
So we see Judas coming to
this condition, but he didn't go
00:48:49.32\00:48:56.20
all the way - he had
sorrow for the results
00:48:56.23\00:48:59.73
of the sin, but not a
desire to turn away from it...
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And that's what makes the
difference between these people
00:49:04.47\00:49:07.21
listening there because
they're asking men and women,
00:49:07.24\00:49:09.84
"What shall we do?"
Repent and Peter follows by
00:49:09.88\00:49:12.95
saying, "And be
baptized every one of you
00:49:12.98\00:49:16.22
in the name of Jesus Christ."
00:49:16.25\00:49:17.62
So repentance and
baptism come together,
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and that's what the disciples
were teaching - repentance
00:49:21.19\00:49:24.29
and baptism.
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And baptism is, as we understand
it, and illustrated in
00:49:26.59\00:49:32.87
Romans 6, is that you are
fully submerged in water...
00:49:32.90\00:49:37.87
that's what the word
"baptism" means, "baptiso"
00:49:37.91\00:49:40.98
submersed in water
fully covered and then when
00:49:41.01\00:49:44.88
you're brought back
up out of the water,
00:49:44.91\00:49:46.82
it symbolizes the
resurrection of Jesus Christ,
00:49:46.85\00:49:49.65
and you, when you're
under the water, it's a death
00:49:49.68\00:49:52.62
to your old way of life. Amen!
00:49:52.65\00:49:54.46
And coming out of the water,
it's a resurrection- born again.
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Jesus said, "You must be
born of water and the Spirit."
00:49:59.29\00:50:02.33
Now here it is connected to
John 3- Jesus said, "You must
00:50:02.36\00:50:06.53
be born of water and the
Spirit"... the Holy Spirit.
00:50:06.57\00:50:09.97
Now, the person
understands and begins
00:50:10.01\00:50:13.38
a new walk with the Lord.
00:50:13.44\00:50:14.88
Now, as has been said,
the Holy Spirit was always
00:50:14.91\00:50:17.88
working in the person's
life, trying to lead them
00:50:17.91\00:50:20.22
close to the Lord, but
when the person is baptized,
00:50:20.28\00:50:24.95
just as we saw when Jesus
was baptized, the Holy Spirit
00:50:24.99\00:50:28.29
comes upon the person
in a new way... in a sense
00:50:28.32\00:50:33.26
that now the person
allows the Holy Spirit to lead
00:50:33.29\00:50:36.70
and guide his or her life
and that person now becomes
00:50:36.73\00:50:41.47
"a new creature," as it
says in 2 Corinthians 5:17...
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How does it go? "Old
things are passed away
00:50:45.01\00:50:50.78
and all things have become new."
00:50:50.81\00:50:52.18
You become a new
creation, it says.
00:50:52.21\00:50:54.25
"If any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature,
00:50:54.28\00:50:56.62
old things have passed away,
00:50:56.65\00:50:57.99
all things have become new."
00:50:58.02\00:50:59.75
And you then become
an ambassador for Christ
00:50:59.79\00:51:02.42
with the power of the
Holy Spirit - to be able to
00:51:02.46\00:51:06.53
witness unto
others of the great things
00:51:06.56\00:51:08.53
that God has done for you.
00:51:08.56\00:51:10.13
And I want to again
highlight before we close
00:51:10.23\00:51:13.60
that the Holy Spirit was poured
out on the Day of Pentecost
00:51:13.64\00:51:17.27
and the promise of the latter
rain - the outpouring of the
00:51:17.31\00:51:21.21
Holy Spirit is coming
soon to God's Children. Amen!
00:51:21.24\00:51:25.75
We should be
preparing for the outpouring of
00:51:25.78\00:51:28.15
the Holy Spirit...
how did they prepare?
00:51:28.18\00:51:30.55
We need to study, Acts 2,
what were the disciples doing?
00:51:30.59\00:51:34.16
We need to be doing that,
we need to empty ourselves
00:51:34.22\00:51:36.69
of sin - put away
sin, come to the Lord
00:51:36.73\00:51:39.26
and say, "Lord, here I am,
bless us with the Holy Spirit."
00:51:39.29\00:51:42.23
We need to ask for the
blessing of the Holy Spirit
00:51:42.26\00:51:46.43
in the fullness of the
measure that God wants to do
00:51:46.47\00:51:49.40
because the Day of Pentecost,
3,000 people were baptized.
00:51:49.44\00:51:53.61
We expect to see
GREAT miracles take place
00:51:53.64\00:51:57.08
under the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit - the latter rain
00:51:57.11\00:52:01.02
that is needed
today to finish the work.
00:52:01.05\00:52:04.09
The work needs to be finished.
00:52:04.12\00:52:05.95
Jesus said, "And this
gospel of the kingdom shall be
00:52:05.99\00:52:09.49
preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations
00:52:09.52\00:52:12.19
and then the end shall come."
00:52:12.23\00:52:14.10
Let us ask for this
blessing, we need the blessing
00:52:14.10\00:52:17.13
of the Holy Spirit in
the fullness of the power
00:52:17.17\00:52:19.47
because the time has come
for God's people to be used
00:52:19.50\00:52:22.24
by the Lord in such a
mighty way that they will
00:52:22.27\00:52:24.81
once again - the crowd,
the multitudes will ask,
00:52:24.84\00:52:28.01
"Men and
brethren, what shall we do?"
00:52:28.04\00:52:32.18
AMEN! Amen! Praise
the Lord! Thank you!
00:52:32.21\00:52:35.05
You know, I'm sitting
here thinking - "Praise God for
00:52:35.08\00:52:38.05
the Pentecost," praise
God for the "resurrection,
00:52:38.09\00:52:41.52
the exultation of Jesus Christ,"
00:52:41.56\00:52:43.89
but aren't we glad that
Jesus promised to send another
00:52:43.93\00:52:49.23
just like Him Holy, I
think of John 14:15 when Jesus
00:52:49.26\00:52:54.30
said, "If you love Me, keep
my commandments," and it goes on
00:52:54.34\00:52:59.31
in the next verse, verse 16...
00:52:59.34\00:53:01.51
He said, "And... this is
kind of a conditional thing...
00:53:01.54\00:53:04.91
if you're
keeping My commandments,
00:53:04.95\00:53:06.75
I will pray the Father and
He will send another Helper."
00:53:06.82\00:53:12.35
In the Greek that's
"allos Parakletos" - one who is
00:53:12.39\00:53:16.16
exactly like Me
is what that means.
00:53:16.19\00:53:19.06
He says, "He's going to send
you one who's exactly like Me,
00:53:19.09\00:53:23.33
and He will abide
with you forever."
00:53:23.37\00:53:26.27
He will live in
you, He is the One...
00:53:26.30\00:53:28.97
The Holy Spirit is actually
the One who is working in us
00:53:29.00\00:53:32.51
to will and to do
His good pleasure,
00:53:32.54\00:53:34.74
that Holy Spirit power.
00:53:34.78\00:53:36.34
CA, your day was on
tongues and I was thinking
00:53:36.38\00:53:39.68
as you were talking, you know,
the Bible says the Holy Spirit
00:53:39.71\00:53:44.59
distributes the gifts
of the Spirit as He wills.
00:53:44.62\00:53:48.86
So it can't be that
everyone is going to do that.
00:53:48.89\00:53:52.83
Give us a quick summation.
00:53:52.86\00:53:55.03
The Lord
promised us dunamis power.
00:53:55.06\00:53:58.50
That power came down with
the great authority at the
00:53:58.53\00:54:02.70
Day of Pentecost and now
we have the power to do what
00:54:02.74\00:54:06.98
Christ has called us to do,
even unto the end of the world.
00:54:07.01\00:54:10.78
Christ will be with
us through the power of
00:54:10.85\00:54:13.35
His Holy Spirit. Amen!
00:54:13.42\00:54:14.78
And Mollie, you did such a
wonderful job on Peter's sermon.
00:54:14.85\00:54:18.22
Well I want to
read something from
00:54:18.25\00:54:20.39
Sister White, if
that's okay with you. Sure!
00:54:20.46\00:54:22.12
"The Pentecostal outpouring
was heaven's communication
00:54:22.16\00:54:25.89
that the redeemer's
inauguration was accomplished.
00:54:25.93\00:54:29.46
According to His promise,
He had sent the Holy Spirit
00:54:29.50\00:54:32.90
from heaven to His followers
as the token that He had
00:54:32.93\00:54:36.37
as Priest and King
received all authority in heaven
00:54:36.40\00:54:39.91
and on earth and
was under the anointing
00:54:39.94\00:54:42.38
word over His people."
00:54:42.41\00:54:43.75
So who has all
power and all authority?
00:54:43.81\00:54:45.55
What does Jesus say?
00:54:45.58\00:54:46.92
"All power and all
authority has been given unto Me
00:54:46.98\00:54:49.72
then He turns to Jill Morikone
and He says, "Jill, go ye
00:54:49.75\00:54:53.62
therefore," and He distributes
that power and authority
00:54:53.66\00:54:57.59
to us to take and be like
Peter and teach a mighty sermon.
00:54:57.63\00:55:02.76
Praise God and I know, Jill,
you did a wonderful job also
00:55:02.80\00:55:06.07
on the exaltation of Jesus.
Give us a little synopsis.
00:55:06.10\00:55:10.44
If I can say just one
thing on what Mollie said...
00:55:10.51\00:55:13.24
You said, "All authority,
all power has been given Me
00:55:13.27\00:55:15.84
in heaven and in
earth, go ye therefore,
00:55:15.88\00:55:17.65
the great commission,
what you talked about Mollie,
00:55:17.68\00:55:19.68
it says "all authority."
That word is "exousia" meaning
00:55:19.71\00:55:23.12
"all authority is given,"
so God gives us that authority.
00:55:23.15\00:55:27.56
That's just tremendous!
00:55:27.59\00:55:28.99
The Scripture I want to read
is John 16:7: "Nevertheless,
00:55:29.02\00:55:31.96
I tell you the truth, it is to
your advantage that I go away,
00:55:31.99\00:55:35.10
for if I do not go
away, the Helper (Parakletos),
00:55:35.13\00:55:38.37
the Holy Spirit
will not come to you,
00:55:38.40\00:55:40.64
but if I depart, I
will send Him to you."
00:55:40.70\00:55:42.94
So praise the Lord
that He wants to give
00:55:42.97\00:55:45.04
us the gift of the Holy Spirit.
00:55:45.07\00:55:46.84
Amen and Johnny, would you
like to give us a little...
00:55:46.88\00:55:49.61
what's your take
away from the firstfruits.
00:55:49.64\00:55:52.51
Well the blessing is that
God wants to give us repentance.
00:55:52.55\00:55:56.85
This is a gift of God. Amen!
00:55:56.89\00:55:59.59
But the person has to respond
and I would say to you that
00:55:59.62\00:56:02.49
God is calling upon people
to repent and give their hearts
00:56:02.52\00:56:05.69
to the Lord and be
baptized and get ready
00:56:05.73\00:56:08.53
for the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit in full measure. Amen!
00:56:08.56\00:56:12.27
And I just want to remind
each of you that this is not
00:56:12.30\00:56:16.04
... even though Pentecost
was unique, it is NOT something
00:56:16.07\00:56:20.18
that just happened once.
00:56:20.21\00:56:21.54
These disciples were filled
with the Holy Spirit repeatedly,
00:56:21.58\00:56:24.98
and we need to
do what Jesus said.
00:56:25.01\00:56:27.52
We need to, every day
before you even go out the door,
00:56:27.55\00:56:32.39
be praying to God... ASK,
seek, knock, pray that God
00:56:32.42\00:56:37.16
will fill you with His
Holy Spirit and then there are
00:56:37.23\00:56:40.00
three R's... in the
school of Christ the 3 R's are:
00:56:40.03\00:56:44.23
Receive -
receive the Holy Spirit.
00:56:44.27\00:56:47.84
Recognize - That He abides
with you forever, that He never
00:56:47.87\00:56:53.14
leaves you or forsakes
you, so recognize His presence
00:56:53.17\00:56:58.45
all day long and
then the third is to...
00:56:58.48\00:57:01.28
Rely on Him totally. That's
what Pentecost is all about.
00:57:01.32\00:57:05.72
This is the answer,
this is God's gospel and
00:57:05.75\00:57:09.69
salvation is this
simple - that we depend TOTALLY
00:57:09.72\00:57:13.73
upon God, so we
rely on His Holy Spirit.
00:57:13.76\00:57:17.27
Ha! Wonderful study!
Thank you and we invite you
00:57:17.30\00:57:20.17
to join us next time
for the "Teaching Life
00:57:20.24\00:57:24.21
in the Early Church."
00:57:24.24\00:57:25.71