They came together, in verse 1 of chapter 2, "On the day of Pentecost when it was fully come, they were with one accord in one place. [Darris McNeely] On the morning of Pentecost 31 AD, what do you think was going through the minds of the assembled disciples in Jerusalem? That's an important trait for a firstfruit, for a firstfruit to have in their life, and in their approach to life. When He approached, they thought they saw a spirit and were afraid, and of course, Peter became afraid when he saw the waves and felt the wind, when he was attempting to walk on the waves to Jesus. Well, the real answer is for you and I, the same things that are going through your mind right now, and my mind. What is "the gift" of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:38? In the New Testament, Elisabeth, John the Forerunner's mother, was filled with Spirit as she saw the pregnant Virgin, and she prophesied immediately (Luke 1:39-41) and so did the old widow-prophetess Anna at vision of Jesus taken to the temple (Luke 2:36-38); John the Forerunner himself was filled with Holy Spirit from his childhood (Luke 1:15), and of course the apostles, even before the Pentecost, had a degree of presence of Spirit in them (at least no less than John the Forerunner), through which presence they could act miracles; they got even to a greater degree of intensity the gift of the Spirit, when Jesus - before the Pentecost - blew in them the Spirit and added to them (through this new dimension of the presence of Spirit) an ability to forgive sins (John 20:22). Trials hit us that will shake our faith, test our faith. When I was 15 years old, I got on a bus from my little hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. When people are filled with the Holy Spirit, they do not blink at evil. The Church was given favor, we're told, as they demonstrated these fruits and others were added. And then even when we see in the days after Jesus' final ascension, a roughly 10-day period, when they came to make a decision to replace Judas, they read Scripture, they applied it properly, God blessed the decision. We will handle them by the Word of God and the Spirit of God. 2. It's God's Spirit that is the only thing that we can have to overcome those fears, because really, it's all the Church of God has ever had. He greeted them Douay-Rheims Bible Suddenly, Jesus appeared in the middle of the group. 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. It was the Roman soldiers that had carried out the death of Christ and had sealed the tomb and a Roman guard had been placed there. Zechariah 4:6 says, "Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit says the Lord of hosts.". Go, therefore, make disciples of nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded, and lo, I am with you, always, even to the end of the age.'" Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? Instead of competing, the disciples were now cooperating. Did they doubt that it was real? have had the same God-given talent as the apostles and could learn any new language three days after arriving in the region. A week later the disciples were together again. Then Peter preached a sermon and said, "This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel, 'And 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 shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams'" (Acts 2:1617). They were also filled with fear for their own future. We take that for the story that it is, and the gift of tongues, and the speaking of tongues that the Scriptures talk about but we don't see that as what we need to be doing in practice or in faith, but it is a dramatic story. And you can begin to imagine how this dynamic begins to must have been being set up within the disciples, because when you begin to doubt one another, you begin to lose trust. Was Galileo expecting to see so many stars? We get on to verse 40, the wrap-up: "With many other words, he testified and exhorted them saying, Be saved from this perverse generation, that those who were, who gladly received his word were baptized; about 3,000 souls were added to them. So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! 1 Samuel 11:6 When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he burned with anger. Welcome to BH. Doubt, some of them doubt, what did they doubt? Jesus said, Thomas, do you have faith because you have seen me? The Jewish authorities of their day had a very thorough doctrinal review process and Peter's would not have passed, which is why they ran smack in trouble with the Jewish leadership from this point forward because they were applying new meaning to old Scriptures that no Jew had ever heard before. John 16:7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Luke 24:49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high. As we have received the gift of God's Spirit, as those on that first day of Pentecost received the gift of the Holy Spirit were brought into the Church, they became, and so are we, partakers of the divine nature. Maybe a few more decided to go to Jerusalem on Pentecost to see what was going on, and the town was bursting at the seams, and from all these nations that we're told about here and areas. This then begins to be the anchor and the soil into which they can anchor a life of faith that they were to have and to develop. Thomas replied, You are my Lord and my God! How does a fan in a turbofan engine suck air in? I wouldn't bother with the question if I didn't. So at 9:00 on Pentecost morning, while the disciples were praying, "a sound came from heaven like a rush of mighty wind . He understood that, and again, He is just laying it out that they were troubled and there was doubt. And they did, and thousands were added to the Church that day. Every minister's dream, to give one sermon and thousands of people get baptized and join the Church in one day, every minister's fantasy. The NIV adds the word "disciples," saying, "The disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid." But the word "disciples" is not in the Textus Receptus Greek text. Labor in the Word, meaning to read the Word, and to learn it, and to soak it in and drink it in; and to live the Word, this past year. And I didn't know how to make a connection. How can I recognize one? Site design / logo 2023 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. What's the next step?" No longer did they flee like sheep without a shepherd. Look at John 3:16. And yet some doubted. For example, when Moses gathered with the seventy elders of Israel at the tabernacle, it says in Numbers 11:25, "The Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him and took some of the Spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy elders; and when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. I want to show you ten ways the Old Testament saints experienced the Holy Spirit. But on the day when the reservoir poured through the turbines a power was unleashed that spread far beyond the few folk down river and brought possibilities they had only dreamed of. Apparently not. In 2 Peter chapter 1, 2 Peter chapter 1, Peter writes, "Grace and peace be multiplied to you and the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. How was the Holy Spirit being seen (perceived) in Acts 8? These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. With a UCG.org account you will be able to save items to read and study later! 20:22), which also tends to disrupt the theology of some! Before Pentecost the river of God's Spirit blessed the people of Israel and was their very life. Not only apostles, but even the prophets of the Old Testament, who are lower than apostles, had a degree of presence of Spirit in themselves, through Whom they prophesied (needn't to give references, for they are so numerous!). It's an informed sermon. Stack Exchange network consists of 181 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. The second obvious change in the lives of the disciples was in their spiritual strength. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." These accounts of like what we have read in the gospels and others for a 40-day period. They turned the world upside down because they fully understood two simple . During the long period of construction the Nile River wasn't completely stopped. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Whoever believes in Jesus has everlasting life. It seemed to point to something more that might come in the future. He quotes Joel, he quotes Psalms and he gives interpretations upon those scriptures, here in chapter 1, no one had ever heard of before. However, of course, the apostles had smack of the Spirit even before, for even before Spirit was present in them to a certain degree and intensity; they possessed the Spirit-ual gifts even before the Pentecost, however the gifts of the Infinite Spirit are also infinite and at the Pentecost they got a greater share of this graceful infinity, so as to totally be absorbed in it. Matthew 71:seventeen, XVII, 10-18, and on the Sabbath (beginning): Rome, 111:seventeen, XIII, 1-10. Or is this authority that I mentioned just about Jesus' own power he gave them and isn't about Spirit in themselves like when he said to Peter to cast net into water and pulled out much fishes? So there was still this not fully developed confidence and faith in what had happened, and so He goes even further and asks for some food. And we can have the power to believe that, and to grow together and develop together as a bride of Christ, and accomplish His work and His purpose and His will. That's what the gift of the Holy Spirit is for us. But on that 50th day, from the morning after Christ's resurrection, a lot had happened. Afterwards, though, they go about with the boldness described here. Probably the Spirit was their instructor in two senses. So Jesus had to rebuke them. He spent days and days, and weeks and weeks doing that, bringing new dimension of understanding to the Scriptures that they had never had. Consider this question, with what we have just read: how could people filled with doubt, even a measure of unbelief, fear, general fear, intense fear, heightened fear, abject fearfear takes many different forms and guises; sometimes we can control our fear, sometimes it overcomes us and we're just shaking in our bootshow could a people dealing with all of these emotions during this 50-day period of time be expected to do what Jesus told them here in verse 8, they would do, when they have problems figuring it all out at that particular moment? That's how we live the Word, that's how we drink in the Word, and it changes our life and it banishes the fear, gives us confidence in who we are and what we are to do. Bold, Men and brethren, he begins to explain what's happened. Surely we have need today of men and women filled by the Spirit to expose and denounce evils in our society that are hardly blinked at any more: the exploitation of women's bodies and debasement in advertising, the unconscionable destruction of human life through abortion on demand, the maneuvers of our own country to destabilize other governments, the gross waste and gluttony of American life, the cavalier attitude to divorce and remarriage which God hates, and the multi-million dollar promotion of alcohol and cigarettes as anything less than family-destroyers and body-killers. "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.". YouVersion uses cookies to personalize your experience. How do we handle them? So there is going to be a gap. 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. I am not comfortable with that speculation. That is what caused them to banish their fear, trouble, doubt, and unbelief: Christ in them through the Holy Spirit. They had been told to be there, to wait in Jerusalem until that day. They didn't believe that He had risen, they didn't believe that they had been seen, that He had been seen, and therefore, then they would not believe these eyewitnesses. It is a remarkable period of church history, because right here we have a vision being fulfilled that Jesus Christ has for His Church. "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. Theoretically Correct vs Practical Notation. The disciples were afraid of the Jewish leaders, and on the evening of that same Sunday they locked themselves in a room. Zechariah's prophecy in chapter 14 shows that Christ will, on that day, set foot on the Mount of Olives. Even before the dam was completed and the reservoir was officially unleashed on the day of Pentecost, the OT saints downstream enjoyed stupendous benefits from the river of God's Spirit. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. The dam was completed in 1970 and in 1971 there was a grand dedication ceremony and the 12 turbines with their ten billion kilowatt-hour capacity were unleashed with enough power to light every city in Egypt. Eighth, some OT believers were enabled by the Spirit to do extraordinary feats of power to help God's people. In Colossians chapter 1, Colossians 1:27 Colossians 1:27 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:American King James Version, Paul writes, "To them, God will to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." 2930), "When thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust. You may find that without a specific text of scripture your question could be voted for closure as 'off-topic'. They had not been a part of anything like that before. 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. Which again points forward to the last days inaugurated at Pentecost. This morning let me close simply by returning to the Aswan High Dam for a moment. About 10 days earlier, Christ had finally ascended for the final time and they were left alone. As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. It only takes a minute to sign up. We have a very involved, and very good, and a very detailed review process at many different levels of our writings, of our speaking in the United Church of God today. 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). And it brings it down to the end of the chapter. That Christianity grew, after such a brief inception, into the world religion we know to today is testimony to the power of the message Jesus preached. On the day of Pentecost Peter said that in these last days "your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). He and his wife, Debbie, have served in the ministry for more than 43years. They were with Him and they asked Him in verse 6, "Lord, will You at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?" It is the Word of God and it is the Spirit of God that did it for them, and will do it for you and for I today as we live our lives, as we go about our lives. He greeted his disciples and said to Thomas, Put your finger here and look at my hands! And perhaps like you and I would today, we might look at it as a little bit odd. It is rooted in the Word of God. We, again, don't necessarily always pause and think about this, in these hours and days following Christ's resurrection. As we came here this morning, to services, and as we gathered here this morning ourselves, there is a very important lesson for us to learn as well. We do well to read about these things, and ask ourselves the simple question: if they experienced so much of God's Spirit which was but a trickle of the reservoir, how much more should we enjoy under the dozen turbines of Pentecost? Show them otherwise what had been done, rebuke their unbelief, as it goes along here. Because Ruth saw in Naomi, God, an example that she wanted to be a part of. But ten billion kilowatts were added to enable the church to take the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ to every tongue and tribe and nation. What did they do during that 10 days? And let's look at it beginning in verse 36, this is after His resurrection, "As they said these things," this is the two that He had appeared to on the road to Emmaus, "Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, 'Peace to you.' I wonder if more people came to Jerusalem for Pentecost in that year because of what had happened 50 days earlier, plus three, and they had heard about that. If we can learn to take on the divine nature and drink that in, in our lives, then we can banish doubt, uncertainty, and fear, unbelief, that will creep in at various times as we go through our lives, and stages in the developments of life. A Church that was grounded in the Word of God. And they chose Matthias by casting lots. "Behold, He said, My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. There's a lot of information in the details that we are given in chapter 28 verse 16. Jentezen Franklin preached a sermon about scribes. We are going to be taking giant steps toward creating that kind of Church that we read about here in the book of Acts, that has been imbued with the power of the Holy Spirit, and changes are being made. On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. . Because they were seeing Christ risen and they saw Him in a bodily form, but then they were attributing something different to that. People need to see that Spirit within us. The disciples had to walk a week away to get to Jerusalem (Acts 1:12). 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. After Pentecost, a radical transformation took place. 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.' Most people believe the disciples were assembled in the "upper room" when the holy spirit of YEHOVAH God descended upon them during that Pentecost of 31 A.D. But by doing so, when you read the account, you understand that they knew the Scripture, and they applied Scripture to their choice and their decision to replace Judas. 2Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. Summary of Ideas of the Sunday readings. The disciples met in the upper room after the ascension, but ten days elapsed between the ascension and the events described in Acts 2. He is author of. We give ourselves to that devotion, to that devoted study and the process of taking on the nature of God. That's been the hallmark of our feature. That's a little-understood part of what was taking place. Then I finally figured out, "Oh, I got to do this myself. "Let all things be done for edification" (1 Corinthians 14:26). Joh 1:13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but . The world of the 1st century was very much tied into an awareness that there was a spirit world, and a lot different than even we today, we see a spirit world today in media and entertainment form. And in the room of the house where they were gathered, it obviously became a little bit too small for all that took place, because as these other people take note of it, you get the impression they moved out into a more public location in Jerusalem. In verse 38, after everyone has calmed down, they realize theyve been involved and they were responsible for the death of Jesus. "Standing with the Lamb on the Mount of Olives," in Revelation 14:1 Revelation 14:1And 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.American King James Version, "144,000 with the Father's name written on their foreheads. I happen to think that they, no doubt during this period of time, as the days go on they talked and they read. The ministry has had those two themes for the past two conferences. Christ did not leave His disciples as orphans. How was Simeon able to have the Holy Spirit upon him prior to Pentecost? 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. And He opened their understanding that they might comprehend the Scriptures.". You know, before we ever get to that rushing wind that came in, it's good to think about this question, because it has a direct application to you and I today. But on the morning that those disciples were gathered there, before it happened, you have to imagine that they had no idea that, that would be what would take place. 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. Well, that's a sign that I should go here, take this job, do this or do that. But miracles, well, that just takes a little bit more work, but they were here in the midst of a very large miracle. That is how the mission of the Church is done and that is how then that vision of a community, of a Church, of a people who are rooted in the Word of God, who actually do care for one another, is accomplished; by no other means, by no other means. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I like that phrase. Would it make any difference for our lives today if we knew the answer? There are no more decisive turning points in redemptive history that must happen before Jesus returns to establish his kingdom. John the Baptist had promised: The one who comes after me "will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire" (Luke 3:16). What happens?". This is it. So He begins to teach them from the Scriptures that they might understand, and that they might comprehend what He was and how He had fulfilled everything that they would have understood to one degree, and then even more they had begun to develop a fuller understanding of the prophecies of Isaiah, or Joel, or Jeremiah, or Ezekiel, the statements about the Messiah. That's what He did. Third, the OT believers enjoyed the constant presence of God's Spirit. So when I pose myself a question like, "How did believers experience the Holy Spirit before Pentecost?" People should see that in us. And so she was the first to see the empty tomb and have that appearance, and she goes and tells them. What we are seeing here is again, the power of the Word of God. Learning and labor which do not lead people in love to God are not prompted by the Spirit of Christ. Browse other questions tagged, Start here for a quick overview of the site, Detailed answers to any questions you might have, Discuss the workings and policies of this site. Fourth, OT believers experienced the Spirit of God as their Counselor or Teacher. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Exodus 31:15 says, "The Lord said to Moses, 'See, I have called by name Bezalel . Egypt's President Nasser announced the plan for construction in 1953. And He leaves them on the Mount of Olives, which is a very, very significant geographic feature there on the east of Jerusalem across from the city, and through the Kidron Valley and up on this Mount called Olives. And to live with the reality that there is a God who judges, who sees, and who knows. Christ Is Risen - An Easter plan by Matt Maher, The Essential 100 Bible Challenge14The Cross Of Christ. Picture a huge dam for hydroelectric power under construction, like the Aswan High Dam on the Nile, 375 feet high and 11,000 feet across. It did not become true after Jesus said that. 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. The Sadducees were more focused on the Five Books of Moses than the history and prophets. It is the ideal to which every subsequent church period has wished to be able to emulate, including ours today. But they were terrified, and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit." Jesus came in while the doors were still locked and stood in the middle of the group. It was one of the three great pilgrim feasts that every Jewish male was required to attend (see Deuteronomy 16:16 ). "What do we do?" All the gods of doubtand I say gods with a little g, because doubt, and guilt, and fear can really separate us from Godthe gods of doubt, and fear, and unbelief have all been shredded by Jesus Christ. The Essential 100 Bible Challenge14The Cross Of Christ. Acts 1:8 is the vital point about Pentecost. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And as we've seen, even when they were confronted with the miracle of Christ's resurrection, and they recognized that they still had to deal with the hostility of the world around them, in a kind of a two-pronged government called the Roman Empire and the Jewish society, plus their own human nature, and themselves. Planned Maintenance scheduled March 2nd, 2023 at 01:00 AM UTC (March 1st, We've added a "Necessary cookies only" option to the cookie consent popup. Again, what they thought that they were becoming a part of was a movement that was noble, that was good, there had been many movements of other Messiah-type figures at this period of time in Judea. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1-31). When thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground.". People were forgiven, saved and received everlasting life before the cross and before Pentecost (Lk. At what point of what we watch as the MCU movies the branching started? Matthew records that "when the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. And speaking about the deep things of the Kingdom of God to prepare them for what they were to take part in, and what they were to be a part of. You ever been in that type of situation where you don't know what to do next? Another reason, I suspect, is because they were overwhelmed with disappointment by Jesus' arrest. This is the underlying message Jesus gave to his disciples in today's 2nd Sunday of Lent year A Gospel (Mt 7:1-11) which narrates the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ, after having announced to them his Passion and Death on the cross. "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." Expand So the Word of God is what Jesus took and explained, it is what the Church went to, to explain what was happening, and then, it is the Spirit of God. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. They had a lot of fear. The disciples were afraid of the Jewish leaders, and on the evening of that same Sunday they locked themselves in a room. "Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31). These significant events from the life of Jesus are made easier to comprehend and better-illustrated thanks to the passages . 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