The indwelling Holy Spirit was only sent after Jesus' resurrection. YouVersion uses cookies to personalize your experience. Synopsis: When Jesus walked on the water to join the disciples in their boat, the Gospel mentioned that they were afraid - twice. And then there came a time, in verse 4, where they were assembled together with Him and He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father, which He said, "You have heard from Me, for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.". He is author of. And there wasn't a Jew in Jerusalem, not a rabbi, not a priest who'd ever understood Joel or the Psalms in that way, nor would they have ever dreamed of applying it to what had happened just weeks earlier, with the arrest, crucifixion, and death of this Man called Jesus of Nazareth. I remember taking my little bag and walking over and kind of looking around, and sitting down on a bench. 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. '", And so Luke's account gives us a very specific instruction, how He told them, You wait in Jerusalem and then you will receive the power from on high. And that is what they were doing as they waited for that period of time to come about. Christ Is Risen - An Easter plan by Matt Maher, The Essential 100 Bible Challenge14The Cross Of Christ. And more specifically for this group that they would be witnesses of Jesus in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth being fulfilled. No, He said wait till, wait in Jerusalem, and so they were there and they continued. 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. 2. Summary of Ideas of the Sunday readings. What we read about back in Matthew 28:19 Matthew 28:19Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:American King James Versionof the gospel being taken to the world. Question 8. After Pentecost, they were different people. 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. It goes on, "When He had spoken these things," in verse 9, "they watched and He was taken up in a cloud, received Him out of their sight. It is the ideal to which every subsequent church period has wished to be able to emulate, including ours today. 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. We can deal with them. She went and told those who had been with Him as they mourned and wept." And every breath you take ought to be a prayer of thanks that you live and move and have your being in the Spirit of God. 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. But Jesus immediately said to them: 'Take courage! Afterwards, though, they go about with the boldness described here. Peter says, "Repent, believe, be baptized, you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." 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. Did they doubt that it was real? Jentezen Franklin preached a sermon about scribes. But let's go back, let's look at a few of these scriptures in a little bit more detail and see exactly what had been taking place among the disciples during this period of time, that brought them to that morning of Pentecost. How could they have ever submitted to God's law and pleased himas many did, like Abel and Noah and Abraham and Moses and Rahab and Ruth and Deborah and David? So there is going to be a gap. 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. 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 allows us to then grow, because the next few verses here of 2 Peter speaks to a process of spiritual empowerment and growth and development. 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. I don't think it was an intergalactic tour that He was on to get to the third heaven. It gives me a lot of encouragement, when I am called to go places where I feel insecure, to know that the Spirit is within to give me the words I need and that he is also already in the place where I am going to prepare the way and to hold me when I get there. 'It's a ghost,' they said, and cried out in fear. Every generation of God's people have done that. 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. Judges 5:14 talks about the tribe of Zebulun either being scribes or having a commander's staff. Stop doubting and have faith! Though a miracle had taken place in front of them, that still wasn't enough to remove the doubt and fear. For example, in the life of Samson we read, "The Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and he tore the lion asunder as one tears a kid" (Judges 14:6). Back in Mark's account, chapter 16 of Mark, we see that the same thing lingered among the wide group of people there. But they saw Him for a period of time, and that's how I like to imagine it. The country folk downstream depended on it. As I was sitting there gazing around, nobody came. This time, Thomas was with them. And we must live knowing that way. Now let me suggest an analogy to illustrate the experience of the Spirit before and after Pentecost. "And fear came upon every soul," and this was a different type of fear. Copy. . These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. Fear not" (Haggai 2:5). And what happened? 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. "Behold, He said, My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. 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. When you look and you understand what was taking place, here are people who've been terrified, they had been doubtful, unbelieving to one degree or the other during this previous 50-day period. People should see God in us. At what point of what we watch as the MCU movies the branching started? 60 seconds. If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there! 2Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. First, and most basic, the OT believers were conscious of God's Spirit as the Creator and Sustainer of their natural life. It says, "The eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. But after Pentecost the power of the Spirit spread out to light the whole world. And one set upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." He understood that, and again, He is just laying it out that they were troubled and there was doubt. We live in the days that Isaiah (44:3) and Ezekiel (11:19; 36:26f. Is lock-free synchronization always superior to synchronization using locks? 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. 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. When I got off the bus from my hometown, I was in this large room, this large terminal, it was as larger, even larger than this room here, which for me, from my small town was a pretty big thing to walk into, and I did, first time I had ever traveled. 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. Acts 1:8 is the vital point about Pentecost. They saw it in different ways and understood it completely different from anything from our frame of reference and they were ascribing, would have been ascribing then even to Jesus something that was not of God, which in itself can be a problem. The disciples were afraid of the Jewish leaders, and on the evening of that same Sunday they locked themselves in a room. That is what caused them to banish their fear, trouble, doubt, and unbelief: Christ in them through the Holy Spirit. 157 views, 3 likes, 4 loves, 3 comments, 2 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Mora Grace Lutheran Church: Music used with permission from CCLI 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. Every now and then in extraordinary circumstances of need the Spirit enables ordinary Christians to perform amazing feats of rescue far beyond their ordinary capacitylike lifting a car off of a pinned husband or escaping from a raging rapist. 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. This was just three and a half years, and in really a few weeks, seven weeks and a day of intense thought, emotion, that they had to grapple with and deal with as they came into the presence of one another on the morning of Pentecost. Do Christians receive the Holy Spirit upon conversion or not (Ephesians 1:13 vs. Acts 8:14-17; 19:1-7)? We can internalize that and think that through. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. Luke 1:15 says that John the Baptist was filled with the Spirit from his mother's womband he got his head chopped off for denouncing Herod's unlawful marriage. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who were redeemed from the earth. What is this gift of prophecy? And so two things create this vision and this mission. That's a little-understood part of what was taking place. Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? More likely, the believers assembled in one . Before that the Holy Spirit came on people for specific gifts and purposes. And He opened their understanding that they might comprehend the Scriptures.". We live in the latter days of the Spirit. 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. This was a healthy fear of respect and awe and wonder at now what had happened. We are no exception today, as we wait and look for the time when the Kingdom will be restored. Let's go into Luke's account. That they're not drunk, that this is of God. 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. But they did so no more." So here's my answer to why the experience of the Old Testament saints is valuable for us today. Praying a Scriptural Rosary is accomplished by praying a traditional Rosary and adding scriptural verses related to each mystery of the Rosary. Tradition places the receiving of the Spirit on Pentecost in the upper room of Acts 1. 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). They weren't orphans, and we are not either in our life. And because both were working together, the mission and the vision, there was a remarkable picture being described here by Luke, of the Church at peace. And so I made a certain few inquiries, I got on the bus, didn't miss it. A firstfruit is one who follows Christ. In verse 14, it says, "Then later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table and He rebuked them, rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen." 20:22), which also tends to disrupt the theology of some! When the disciples saw the Lord, they became very happy. And this dramatic miracle, but beyond that, 3,000 people being added to the Church, and then a community being developed. This salvation experience comes before the . John the Baptist had promised: The one who comes after me "will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire" (Luke 3:16). The bonds of trust among the disciples were beginning to be frayed. 1. 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. Jesus began to teach them, we read, from the Law of Moses, from the prophets, the Scriptures about Him, to explain to them what had happened. 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. 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. We all have signs, we take certain things as signs. They didn't know. Second, the OT believers experienced the new birth and indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 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. "Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31). What's the next step?" And you will be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." But they were frightened and they thought that they had seen a spirit. So if I can come back to the question that I asked, what was going through their mind on that morning of Pentecost? And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in the breaking of bread and in prayers. The answer is not Pentecost. When Nicodemus was bewildered about Jesus' demand for new birth by the Spirit, Jesus responded (John 3:10), "Are you a teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand this?" They need to see within us, Jesus Christ. Probably the Spirit was their instructor in two senses. Show them otherwise what had been done, rebuke their unbelief, as it goes along here. And what was the key to that? As you read on in Acts chapter 1, one of the main things they did was to choose a successor to Judas. The same Jesus who's been taken up will come in a like manner as you saw Him go into heaven." Our sins will find us out. 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." Jesus said, Thomas, do you have faith because you have seen me? But first let me tell you why I think it is so relevant. Thank you Mr. McNeely , for making Christ more real. 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). 19952023 All correspondence and questions should be sent to info@ucg.org. I am not comfortable with that speculation. They might have fidgeted a bit and wondered, "Well, should we go fishing?" The world we grew up in and live in does not see things this way. Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him. Life, that a doubt every once in a while creeps in, sometimes an unbelief, fear, bonds of trust might be tested. What was possibly on the disciples' mind the morning of Pentecost? By using our website, you accept our use of cookies as described in our Privacy Policy. Third, the OT believers enjoyed the constant presence of God's Spirit. And then the 50th day came, the morning of Pentecost, and they were gathered together. That's what the gift of the Holy Spirit is for us. There was doubt. Before Pentecost: What Were They Thinking? But they were terrified, and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit." What we are seeing here is again, the power of the Word of God. After Jesus had greeted them again, he said, I am sending you, just as the Father has sent me. Then he breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. Another reason, I suspect, is because they were overwhelmed with disappointment by Jesus' arrest. How to increase the number of CPUs in my computer? 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. From this point, they had only 10 days. Did they doubt what they were seeing? They have two sons, who are both married, and four grandchildren. I never have believed in knowledge for its own sake or art for art's sake. PrivacyPolicyTerms ofUse. Everybody who gets up and gives a sermon in a congregation, that sermon before it's ever posted on a website, has been reviewed or at least approved by individuals within the congregation. How was the Holy Spirit being seen (perceived) in Acts 8? For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Darris is the Associate Media Producer for the Church. And you have to understand that and realize that, that's what they were doing during that period of time as well. Now, when we turn over to Acts chapter 1, and we look at, kind of summing up of this as it is. These significant events from the life of Jesus are made easier to comprehend and better-illustrated thanks to the passages . (1 Cor., 148 pp., XI, 8-22). The Key to a Life Well Lived. They had not been a part of anything like that before. In other words, Peter says, we have entered the last days: the Messiah has come, he has accomplished redemption on the cross, he has risen and ascended to the right hand of God, and the interval before he returns in glory will be marked by an incomparable outpouring of the Holy Spirit on men and women, old and young, slave and free, near and far. It is rooted in the Word of God. And it brings it down to the end of the chapter. ; 39:29) and Joel (2:28) prophesied and longed to see. That is what caused people to see something in those disciples and to want to be a part of it. And so they didn't really think about that, and yet all of a sudden it came upon them. 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. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. The people who have faith in me without seeing me are the ones who are really blessed!. Thanks for contributing an answer to Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange! Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. 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. Really. Week 8 to Pentecost. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love. Those in the flesh are devoid of the Spirit and cannot submit to God's law or please God. Not many days, we would look at it roughly 10 days from that 40-day period. Where do we go from here? He and his wife, Debbie, have served in the ministry for more than 43years. He also is a residentfaculty member at the Ambassador Bible Center teaching Acts, Fundamentals of Belief and World News and Prophecy. 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. 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. Because they were seeing Christ risen and they saw Him in a bodily form, but then they were attributing something different to that. Doubt, some of them doubt, what did they doubt? etc.'. The vision of the Church was coming together and the mission of the Church was being accomplished. I like that phrase. He greeted them and showed them his hands and his side. . 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). The Church was given favor, we're told, as they demonstrated these fruits and others were added. Jesus took all believers out of Hades ten days before Pentecost, when He ascended into the third heaven. Is the promise of "power" in Acts 1:8 only for the apostles or for Christians in all ages? So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! How can I explain to my manager that a project he wishes to undertake cannot be performed by the team? The Word of God. This means that all the saints of the OT who trusted God and followed his ways in the obedience of faith were born again by the Spirit and indwelt by the Spirit. But Thomas said, First, I must see the nail scars in his hands and touch them with my finger. We will handle them by the Word of God and the Spirit of God. So Jesus had to rebuke them. 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. And God will expose sin, ours to ourselves, sometimes to others. https://www.bible.com/bible/392/JHN.20.19-29.CEV. Look at John 3:16. Any Israelite who has ever been saved had to be born again by God's Spirit. The disciples met in the upper room after the ascension, but ten days elapsed between the ascension and the events described in Acts 2. Was the power they received in Matthew 10 different from the one they received in Acts 2? Before Pentecost the river of God's Spirit blessed the people of Israel and was their very life. 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