"What do we do?" We sometimes just kind of tail off when we get to the end of one of the Gospels and we know the events, Christ was crucified, Christ was risen, and we don't look at some of the details there. In other words, I'm not teaching or requiring anything new. The elixir, the antidote to our faith, to every one of our problems, if we could see a miracle; and we like signs, but miracles, well, they're a little harder to come up with. So Jesus had to rebuke them. Really. None of the benefits enjoyed in the pre-Pentecostal days were taken away. As I was sitting there gazing around, nobody came. Chapter 4 takes as its starting point the gift of speaking in tongues from the narrative of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-13. . Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: And I looked, and, see, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And then going on here, in verse 44, "He said to them, 'These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning Me.' And God will expose sin, ours to ourselves, sometimes to others. "And He said to them, 'Thus it is written, thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and the remissions of sins would be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem, and you are witnesses of these things. This is the dimension that was given on Pentecost, and what this day is all about for those of us who are the firstfruits. No, He said wait till, wait in Jerusalem, and so they were there and they continued. This time, Thomas was with them. Did they doubt that it was real? They were looking for power from on high. Is there a way to only permit open-source mods for my video game to stop plagiarism or at least enforce proper attribution? John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. They thought that Jesus Himself didn't actually know that asleep people wake up? To be candid, it does feel like a complete change of the subject. And then the 50th day came, the morning of Pentecost, and they were gathered together. The disciples were afraid of the Jewish leaders, and on the evening of that same Sunday they locked themselves in a room. Rename .gz files according to names in separate txt-file. They got the courage and strength they needed and they came out of their hiding place, starting to proclaim Jesus's death and resurrection. Peter says, "In the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy." And had they seen anything near that type of an ecstatic demonstration, it might have been in a form by someone doing something by their form of religion that they didn't identify with. If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there! Today the Spirit still instructs us by the Word of Scripture and we ought to pray earnestly for an outpouring of God's enlightening Spirit so that the Scriptures really live for us and become intensely personal. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. ", A church begins to develop. PrivacyPolicyTerms ofUse. When did that become true? And we can be about the work that we see that the Church did then and has always done, of taking the message of salvation and of repentance to life, to people who need that message. He used Deborah and the tribe of Zebulun (the mountain may have been in their land) in the sermon. We will handle them by the Word of God and the Spirit of God. Where is it being manifested in the church today? The world we grew up in and live in does not see things this way. More likely, the believers assembled in one . YouVersion uses cookies to personalize your experience. If you go back to Matthew chapter 28, chapter 28 and verse 16, let's just read a few of the accounts of that period following the resurrection, that the Gospel accounts tell us and there's more there. 38Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. 39By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. But it was a very intense period of time of Jesus appearing to them both in Galilee and Jerusalem, teaching them from the Scriptures, appearing to them in larger groups, perhaps even, more smaller groups, and in some of the ways they're talking like He did to Peter, on the Sea of Galilee, having meals with them. She went and told those who had been with Him as they mourned and wept." We just get a few snippets from the gospel accounts, at least, of this 40-day period. But when was it first true? And of course, one of the most dramatic scenes in all the Bible occurred with the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the gathered disciples, and the speaking in tongues, and a mighty rushing wind that we find it hard to imagine what it was like, because it's not part of our custom to try to pray that down today like some other denominations and religious forms do. INTRODUCTION Jesus told the disciples to wait for the power of the Holy Spirit before doing ministry. I am not comfortable with that speculation. All of these qualities are to the divine nature, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love. You ever been in that type of situation where you don't know what to do next? The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting, and it appeared to them, divided tongues as of fire. Although John does not say this is the point when the disciples were born again, or that was when the New Covenant started, Erwin takes it to mean both: "it marks the transition from the terms of the old covenant to those of the new covenant" (p. 20). To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. Why were Jesus' disciples so disheartened and fearful after His death? And there was fear of the unknown, of what was going to take place, fear of the future. If these saints experienced privileges and powers in the Holy Spirit before the dam was opened, how much more should we in these billion kilowatt days experience these things or more. We can internalize that and think that through. Yet until the spirit was poured out at Pentecost, the disciples were a homogenous bunch. This morning let me close simply by returning to the Aswan High Dam for a moment. But if you don't forgive their sins, they will not be forgiven. Apparently not. In Job 33:4 Elihu speaks for all faithful Jews when he says, "The Spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life." And again, He gives, through Mark's account here, He gives the same commission to go. Welcome to BH. Jesus was enveloped within a pillar of fire, but was not harmed. This is the threefold commission that is given to this group of disciples where they are to be witnesses of Him in the city of Jerusalem, and Judea, and Samariathe wider region of the country, look at it as kind of the wider counties of the country of Israel at the timeand then ultimately, to the end of the earth, to take the Gospel and to be a witness of God, to do this. Do Christians receive the Holy Spirit upon conversion or not (Ephesians 1:13 vs. Acts 8:14-17; 19:1-7)? Or is it? Peter was quoting Scripture and applying it to something that had happened and that is Jesus, His death and His resurrection. The Church was given favor, we're told, as they demonstrated these fruits and others were added. Did they doubt what they were seeing? Even though they had seen miracles, again, another indication to us always to remember that miracles are important, miracles can be faith-builders, but miracles by themselves will not do it all. A week later the disciples were together again. I must put my hand where the spear went into his side. That's what He did. On that day of Pentecost, people who had been doubtful were moved to speak powerfully, to repentance, to belief, and to action. Jerusalem was swelled with pilgrims, at this point in time, and this added to the drama of the moment. Though a miracle had taken place in front of them, that still wasn't enough to remove the doubt and fear. If these latter days are to be days of dreams and visions from the Holy Spirit, we had better pray earnestly for gifted Josephs to arise among us who can discern truth and error in such claims. Egypt's President Nasser announced the plan for construction in 1953. We live in the latter days of the Spirit. Otherwise how would they ever overcome their natural hostility to God? It was celebrated 50 days after Passover and was marked by pilgrims coming to Jerusalem from all over the world to celebrate the event. At the end of John, you remember, John says, there were so many other things that He did in his life and no doubt probably part of that 40-day period that it would take volumes to teach it, and to record it during this period. They were going up against a lot, just as we go up against our world today, and ourselves, and what Satan might throw at us. He also is a residentfaculty member at the Ambassador Bible Center teaching Acts, Fundamentals of Belief and World News and Prophecy. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. Mt., 47 counts, XII, 30-37)<br> <br> Gospel Reading (Matthew 71 ch., XVII, 10-18)<br> <br>10 And his disciples asked . Hadn't He told them that He'd come back to life again? And it is in that, we reach the real nexus, the real critical point of our life before God, where we recognize that, with the Holy Spirit, we are taking on the very nature of God, the divine nature. The world sees a mechanical process of evolution and natural selection. Before that the Holy Spirit came on people for specific gifts and purposes. I hope you share this world view with the OT saints: namely, that your conception as a person in your mother's womb was a sovereign act of creation by God's Spirit and that every breath you take now and every chemical transaction in the cells of your body is sustained every moment by work of the Holy Spirit. Instead, they turned the world upside down. How could the person in Luke 9:49 cast out demons without Jesus' mandate? "Also for this very reason, giving all diligence into your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, the divine nature. No longer did they flee like sheep without a shepherd. Has 90% of ice around Antarctica disappeared in less than a decade? At what point of what we watch as the MCU movies the branching started? It's an informed sermon. "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." 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