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0:00Acts chapter 2.
0:02When the day of Pentecost had come,
0:05they were all together
0:07in one place.
0:10Right there I'm going to stop.
0:12What was the day of Pentecost?
0:14That was the day
0:16when the entire nation of Israel
0:19celebrated
0:22the day that Moses came down from the
0:25mountain carrying [music] the tablets of
0:27stone.
0:29So,
0:30Luke wants us to know that God waited to
0:35birth his church until the birthday of
0:38the old nation.
0:40And on that day,
0:42when God birthed Israel with the law on
0:46stone,
0:47that is the day he's going to [music]
0:49birth Israel again
0:51with a new power, a new covenant. What
0:56is this covenant? Jeremiah speaks of
0:58this in Jeremiah 31:31,
1:01when he says, "Behold, the days are
1:02coming," says the Lord, [music] "when I
1:04will make a new covenant with the house
1:05of Israel, not like the one I made with
1:08their fathers when I took them by the
1:10hand and led them out of Egypt, but I
1:12will make a new covenant with them. I
1:15will put my law on their hearts
1:17>> [music]
1:18>> and write it on their minds, and I will
1:20cause or empower them to walk in my
1:24ways."
1:25>> [music]
1:25>> He goes on and he says, "I will forgive
1:27their lawless deeds and their sins I
1:30will remember no more."
1:32So, there's a new covenant. That's the
1:34promise made by the Father. That's the
1:37promise that Jesus reiterated. That's
1:40the promise that John the Baptist
1:42reiterated. This is the promise that
1:44Ezekiel spoke of when he said, "I will
1:46give them a new spirit. I will put my
1:48spirit in them
1:50>> [music]
1:50>> and cause them to walk in my statutes."
1:52This is the promise that Isaiah spoke of
1:55when he said, "My spirit will not depart
1:57from your descendants forever.
2:00And out of the dry places rivers will
2:02flow. This is going to fulfill what
2:04Jesus promised in John 7:37 when he
2:07said, "If you believe in me, out of your
2:09innermost being will flow rivers of
2:11living water." And John said he spoke
2:13this of the spirit, but why hadn't the
2:16spirit yet been given? Because the king
2:18had not taken his throne. The high
2:20priest had not entered the holy place of
2:22heaven itself. The new Moses had not
2:25gone up onto the mountain, heaven, where
2:28the cloud received him. And so, he could
2:30not yet release that blessing, that
2:33benediction, that gift from the new
2:36king, a gift of himself
2:40to us.
2:42So, when the day
2:44of the old covenant's birthday had fully
2:47come,
2:48in order to show that this was the birth
2:50of the new nation, the new kingdom,
2:53something special began to happen.
2:56When the day of Pentecost had fully
2:59come, the literal says, they were all
3:01together in one place.
3:04And suddenly, there came from heaven
3:08a noise like a violent rushing wind, and
3:13it filled the whole house where they
3:15were sitting.
3:18Now, Jesus had told Nicodemus that
3:22"Do not marvel that I say you must be
3:23born again, for the wind blows where it
3:25wishes. You don't know where it's coming
3:28from, and you don't know where it's
3:29going, but you hear its sound."
3:31And they were
3:33And there appeared to them tongues as of
3:36fire distributing themselves, and they
3:39rested on each one of them.
3:42And they were all filled with the Holy
3:45Spirit
3:46and began to speak with other tongues as
3:49the spirit was giving them
3:52voice or utterance.
3:55Now, there were Jews living in
3:57Jerusalem, devout men from every nation
4:00under heaven. And when this sound
4:04of speaking in tongues occurred,
4:07the the crowd came together and were
4:10bewildered because each one of them was
4:13hearing them speak in his own language.
4:17They were amazed and astonished saying,
4:19"Why are not all these who are speaking
4:22Galileans?
4:24And how is it that each
4:26And how is it that we each hear them in
4:28our own language to which we were born?
4:31Parthians and Medes and Elamites and
4:33residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and
4:36Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and
4:39Pamphylia, Egypt and the district of
4:42Libya around Cyrene and visitors from
4:45Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans
4:48and Arabs, we hear them in our own
4:50tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of
4:54God.
4:56That God is working. That God is acting.
5:02And they all continued in amazement and
5:05great perplexity saying to one another,
5:07"What does this mean?" But others were
5:10mocking and saying, "They are full of
5:12sweet wine."
5:15Okay, so let's look at what has happened
5:18here.
5:19On the birthday of the old nation, God
5:23births a new nation.
5:25And as
5:27when Moses went up on the mountain,
5:31who came and wrote
5:33on the stone?
5:35The finger of God.
5:37By what? By a blazing fire.
5:40So, just as fire descended when Moses
5:43went up on the mountain, now the fire
5:45also has descended. But it's not writing
5:48in stone. It's descending on each and
5:51every one. Every person is receiving
5:56this gift. It's not just the high priest
5:58once a year.
5:59It's the presence of God coming into
6:02every human life.
6:04And then we have this miracle of
6:08glossolalia, unknown utterance, unknown
6:11tongues.
6:12But this is the voice. This is the
6:15utterance of the Father. This is the
6:17utterance of the Holy Spirit.
6:20And the miracle is two ways because it
6:23says that all of those gathered
6:26were hearing them all speak each in his
6:30own tongue.
6:31So, everybody thought the whole crowd of
6:34disciples were declaring the mighty
6:36works of God in his language. But then
6:39there apparently were some who were
6:40unbelieving and they said, "They're
6:42drunk. They're full of new wine."
6:45But this new language is the utterance
6:49of God taking over that most unruly
6:52member in a person's life. It's the sign
6:56that this devotedness to prayer has
7:00crossed a threshold of total surrender.
7:03And the same anointing that rested on
7:05Jesus is now coming into his people as
7:08they begin to speak things that they
7:10don't understand, but that God
7:12understands.
7:13And when they speak in tongues, Luke
7:16calls it a sound, and he uses the same
7:19word phone A that Jesus used when he
7:21talked to Nicodemus when he said, "A
7:23sound occurs." It's the sound of the
7:27voice of God. It's the sound of people
7:30speaking not what their own minds are
7:33coming up with, but what the Father is
7:35uttering through them. It's the mighty
7:37works of God coming out of their mouths.
7:41Do you understand? And it's phenomenal
7:45that this is the complete inversion of
7:49Babel.
7:50Here, they're all together of one mind
7:53and one accord, and a sound comes where
7:57the almighty God begins to speak his
8:00voice through them, and it does not
8:02cause confusion. It causes the greatest
8:05unity the world has ever known because
8:08it is the voice of a new language. It is
8:10the voice of the Holy Spirit.
8:13Some began to mock,
8:15but Peter,
8:17taking his stand
8:19with the 11,
8:21raised his voice and declared to them.
8:26Peter, throughout all the gospels, has
8:28tried to show how he's different than
8:30the 11.
8:32He's better, stronger, more loyal.
8:35He loves Jesus more than these, right?
8:39But now he takes his stand with the 11
8:43because he's lost his independence. He's
8:46surrendered his holier-than-thou images,
8:50and he's just so glad to be one lively
8:53stones, one lively stone in a new house
8:57and temple that God is building. So, he
8:59takes his stand with the 11.
9:02And he says And he raises his voice.
9:05This man has power that he didn't used
9:08to have.
9:10This man is the same guy who denied he
9:12knew Jesus to a servant girl, but now a
9:15multitude is gathered.
9:17Maybe in the temple courts, we don't
9:19know. And he raises his voice, and he
9:22begins to speak.
9:24And this this same yieldedness to the
9:27unknown tongue is now a yieldedness to
9:30God's ways that are higher even when we
9:32do understand what we're saying.
9:35He raised his voice and declared to
9:37them, "Men of Judea and all who live in
9:40Jerusalem, let this be known to you and
9:43give heed to my words.
9:46For these men are not drunk as you
9:48suppose, for it is only the third hour
9:50of the day, 9:00 in the morning.
9:53But this is what was spoken of through
9:56the prophet Joel.
9:58And it shall be in the last days, God
10:00says, that I will pour forth of my
10:04spirit on all mankind.
10:07And your sons and your daughters shall
10:10prophesy, and your young men shall see
10:12visions, and your old men shall dream
10:15dreams. Even on my bondservants, both
10:18men and women, I will in those days pour
10:21forth of my spirit, and they shall
10:23prophesy. And I will grant wonders in
10:26the sky above and signs on the earth
10:28below, blood and fire and vapor of
10:31smoke. The sun will be turned into
10:33darkness and the moon into blood before
10:35the great and glorious day of the Lord
10:38shall come. And it shall be that
10:40everyone who calls on the name of the
10:43Lord will be saved. So, he quotes this
10:45large section from Joel. And he says,
10:49this speaking in tongues that makes you
10:51think we're drunk,
10:52that is a sound
10:54that Jesus said would accompany those
10:56who are born of the spirit, this is not
10:59drunkenness. This is what was spoken of
11:02by the prophet Joel. I will pour out my
11:04spirit on all mankind. So, the first
11:08thing he says is, this is the outpouring
11:10of the spirit. This isn't a strange
11:12one-time event that'll never occur
11:14again. This is what God promised he'll
11:17give to all mankind.
11:20Verse 22, men of Israel, listen to these
11:23words. Do you hear the boldness? What
11:26has changed in Peter? He has the power
11:29of the spirit and he didn't have it
11:30before.
11:31What has changed in Peter? He's come to
11:33repentance. He's no longer seeking to
11:36save his life. He's not running from
11:38pain. He's being girded up and carried
11:41and taken in a way he never would have
11:43gone, but he's glad he's going there.
11:46Men of Israel, listen to these words.
11:49Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to
11:53you by God with miracles and wonders and
11:55signs, which God performed through him
11:59in your midst, just as you yourselves
12:02know, this man delivered over by the
12:05predetermined plan and foreknowledge of
12:07God, you nailed to a cross by the hands
12:12of godless men and put him to death.
12:17He says what he was doing wasn't him, it
12:19was God in him working through him. He
12:22was a man, but God was in him. And you,
12:26you nailed him to a cross. Your sin
12:29killed Jesus.
12:31And that's a message that should pierce
12:33every one of our hearts.
12:35Because our sin is what nailed him to
12:37the cross.
12:40But
12:42Peter goes on, but God raised him up
12:46again, putting an end to the agony of
12:50death, since it was impossible for him
12:53to be held in its power.
12:56He had no sin, so death had no power.
13:00And ultimately, he submitted to death's
13:02power just to take the power of death
13:04away, to disarm the devil, to knock the
13:08weapon out of the enemy's hand.
13:12For David says of him, of Jesus, I saw
13:16the Lord always in my presence, for he
13:19is at my right hand, so that I will not
13:21be shaken. Therefore, my heart was glad
13:24and my tongue exalted. Moreover, my
13:27flesh also will live in hope, because
13:30you will not abandon my soul to Hades,
13:34meaning the grave, nor allow your holy
13:37one, the Messiah, to undergo decay.
13:42You have made known to me the ways of
13:44life. You will make me full of gladness
13:47with your presence.
13:49So, he's saying David prophesied
13:53that the Messiah
13:54would not rot in a tomb.
13:57Three days was not enough time for that
13:59to happen. You will not allow your holy
14:02one to undergo decay
14:04before he's resurrected,
14:06because in his presence, he will find
14:09gladness.
14:10The spirit of God is going to reenter
14:14that man that laid down everything to be
14:17the lamb and the propitiation of our
14:19sins.
14:21Brethren,
14:22I may confidently say to you regarding
14:25the patriarch David, that he both died
14:28and was buried and his tomb is with us
14:30to this day.
14:31Peter's saying he decayed.
14:34He rotted.
14:35His body's gone.
14:37His tomb is still here. You could
14:38probably find the bones. So, it's not
14:41talking about David. Peter's saying,
14:43who's it talking about? And so, because
14:46he was a prophet and knew that God had
14:48sworn to him with an oath to seat one of
14:51his descendants on his throne,
14:54he looked ahead and spoke of the
14:56resurrection of the Christ,
14:59that he was neither abandoned to Hades
15:02nor did his flesh suffer decay.
15:06He was not left in the grave nor did his
15:09body rot there.
15:11This Jesus God raised up again, to which
15:16we are all witnesses. Therefore, having
15:20been exalted to the right hand of God
15:23and having received from the Father the
15:25promise of the Holy Spirit, he has
15:28poured forth this
15:30which you both see
15:32and hear.
15:34The Holy Spirit is the promise. The
15:38Father was going to send it in Jesus'
15:40name. Of course, Jesus is the Father, so
15:42he says, he, Jesus, has poured forth
15:46this that you both see
15:49and hear.
15:51Jesus told Nicodemus, when you're born
15:53of the spirit, you don't know where it's
15:55coming from and where it's going, but
15:56you hear its sound. So, it is with
15:58everyone who is born of the spirit.
16:00Peter says, when you're born of the
16:01spirit, you see it and you hear it.
16:05It's not an invisible, inaudible,
16:08imaginary experience. It's something
16:10that changes your life. It's something
16:13that makes other people freak out. It's
16:15something that makes them think you
16:16might be drunk, and maybe they'll mock,
16:19maybe they'll rejoice, but you see it
16:22and you hear it.
16:23The pouring forth of the Holy Spirit.
16:28For it was not David who ascended into
16:30heaven, but he himself says, the Lord
16:32said to my Lord, sit at my right hand
16:35until I make your enemies a footstool to
16:37your feet. Therefore, let all the house
16:40of Israel know for certain that God has
16:42made him both Lord and Christ, this
16:45Jesus whom you crucified. Now, when they
16:48heard this, they were pierced to the
16:50heart.
16:53The Jews, some who were marveling, some
16:55who were mocking when they when they
16:57heard it.
16:58They were pierced to the heart.
17:02And said to Peter and the rest of the
17:04apostles,
17:05brethren,
17:07what shall we do?
17:11And Peter answers
17:12with the gospel of the kingdom.
17:16Peter was given the keys to the kingdom.
17:20So, he pulls them out and he uses them
17:22right here. And he opens the door.
17:26Amen.
17:27He's going to give them the threefold
17:28gospel and how they can believe and obey
17:31it. The gospel is the death,
17:35burial, and resurrection of Jesus
17:37Christ. And so, he's going to tell them,
17:40you can obey and believe that gospel
17:42when you die to your sin in repentance,
17:45when you bury your sin in the covenant
17:47of baptism, and when you're resurrected
17:51in newness of life through the power of
17:53the Holy Spirit.
17:54Amen. That's the gospel, but it's not
17:57just a gospel
17:58that we hear about. It's the gospel of
18:01the kingdom. So, Peter and the 120 are
18:05the first members of this new nation.
18:08But they're standing there inside the
18:09gates with the keys in their hands
18:11saying, we can help others come into
18:13this new kingdom as well.
18:16They say to him, men and brethren, what
18:19shall we do?
18:22Well, not what shall we think?
18:24Not what shall we remember?
18:27What shall we do?
18:29Peter tells them, Peter said to them,
18:32repent
18:34and each of you be baptized in the name
18:37of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of
18:40your sins,
18:41and you will receive the gift of the
18:44Holy Spirit.
18:46For the promise
18:48and the promise says, this is what the
18:50Father promised. This is what just
18:52happened in Jerusalem. This is what they
18:55were supposed to wait for. This is when
18:57they're clothed with power. It's all the
18:59promise. For the promise is for you.
19:05It's not just us.
19:07It's not just a strange miracle one
19:09time. The promise is for you
19:13and for your children
19:15and for all who are afar off,
19:18as many as the Lord our God will call to
19:22himself.
19:25It is through the spirit that the Lord
19:27our God regains communion with us.
19:30It is through the spirit that we pass
19:33through the flaming sword. No longer
19:36with our hearts condemning us because of
19:38the blood of Jesus, a new and living way
19:42opens. The flaming swords at Eden are no
19:45longer there. We can have communion with
19:47God again. The Lord our God calls us to
19:52himself to communion with himself
19:55through the Holy Spirit.
19:58And with many other words, he Peter
20:00solemnly testified and kept on exhorting
20:03them saying,
20:05"Be saved from this perverse
20:08generation."
20:10Get out of this way of thinking that
20:14just killed Jesus.
20:16Get out of this way of thinking that's
20:17so committed
20:19to its own pride and its own
20:20expectations that it would nail the son
20:24of God to a tree and mock him as he
20:26died.
20:28Get out of this perverse generation.
20:31It's an exodus. It's a leaving of a
20:33generation and an entrance into a
20:37regeneration. And this regeneration is
20:40the kingdom of God. And this generation,
20:43this regeneration will not pass away
20:45until the Lord returns
20:47for that final time.
20:50So then, those who had received his
20:53word, which means gladly welcomed it,
20:57so then those who had received his word
21:00were baptized.
21:02And that day there were added about
21:053,000
21:07souls.
21:08Does that number ring a bell in your
21:10mind?
21:11Exodus 28 tells us that 3,000 were
21:15killed
21:18on the giving of the law because of
21:20their sin.
21:233,000 couldn't
21:25come near the presence of God. The Lord
21:28our God could not receive them to
21:31himself. They stood afar off and they
21:34begged that no word be spoken.
21:37But when they heard the voice of God
21:39through his people, they marveled and
21:42they said, "What is this? How do we
21:44become part of it?"
21:46And 3,000
21:48were not killed. They were added
21:51to the church.
21:53On this birthday of a new nation,
21:56they were continually devoting
21:59themselves. So here we have the word
22:01devote again and now we're going to see
22:03what the first church looked like. They
22:06were continually devoting themselves to
22:09the apostles teaching.
22:12They wanted to learn more about God.
22:14These 3,000 were in constant teaching.
22:20To the apostles teaching and to
22:23fellowship.
22:25They were breaking bread. They were
22:27laughing. They were sharing meals.
22:30To the breaking of bread and to prayer.
22:35Teaching, fellowship, prayer, food.
22:39That's the church.
22:42Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe.
22:47Oh man.
22:48Our God is an awesome God. He reigns
22:53from heaven above on those who like
22:56Peter
22:57have dropped all of their defenses, all
23:00of their self-confidence
23:02and allowed themselves to be filled with
23:04his spirit.
23:05Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe.
23:09And many wonders and signs were taking
23:12place through the apostles.
23:15And all those who had believed were
23:18together
23:20and had all things in common.
23:23If they had a
23:25If they had a horse, you could use it.
23:27If they had a house, let's meet at my
23:29place.
23:31I brought some food, let's eat it
23:32together. It's not just for my family.
23:35They had all things in common and they
23:38began selling their property and
23:40possessions and were sharing them with
23:42all as anyone might have need.
23:45So-and-so suffering, well, I've got a
23:47little extra. Let me sell and help out.
23:51Day by day continuing with one mind in
23:55the temple and breaking bread from house
23:57to house, they were taking their [music]
23:59meals together with gladness and
24:02sincerity of heart.
24:06They were happy.
24:08They were together.
24:10All of the divisions, all the rivalries,
24:14all the I want to be the best, I want to
24:17be the greatest, I want to sit on your
24:18left, I want to sit on your right. What
24:21about this man? All of it has melted
24:23away
24:25because they've been received into the
24:27very presence of the God who is love.
24:31And they've got gladness of heart. They
24:34were praising God and having favor with
24:37all people.
24:38And the Lord was adding to their number
24:41day by day those who were being saved.
24:47And that
24:48is the birthday of the new nation, of
24:51the church. That is when the disciples
24:54no longer ask any questions about the
24:56kingdom.
24:57Now they know. They don't just know
24:59about it, they're living in it.
25:02The first Adam became a living soul,
25:04[music] but the second Adam became a
25:07life-giving spirit. He had descended not
25:12carrying tablets of [music] stone,
25:14but giving himself to us
25:17that he would be with us forever and
25:19that where he [music] was with the
25:21Father in that union with God, we also
25:24could be. This is where his servants
25:26came to be with him. This is where the
25:29following culminated in the union,
25:32>> [music]
25:32>> in the indwelling,
25:34in the baptism, in the outpouring, in
25:37the rebirth
25:38of the Holy Spirit.
25:52>> [music]

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