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[504.66 --> 510.54] why would you go away and what what is the advocate like this is a very confusing thing they had no frame |
[510.54 --> 519.84] for making sense of these words until pentecost until acts chapter 2 where they did what jesus told |
[519.84 --> 525.90] him to do he said stay in jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high and so now we get |
[525.90 --> 531.22] to acts chapter 2 and i want to name first the importance of what's going on what does it say in |
[531.22 --> 537.18] the first verse when the day of pentecost came now we can skip over this because we we sort of have |
[537.18 --> 542.12] this assumption of what it is but pentecost then was a huge celebration for the jewish people |
[542.12 --> 547.24] it was a day off in the city everyone would be taking time away from their work gathering with |
[547.24 --> 552.24] family getting involved in the city it's huge and there are two particular things that happened at |
[552.24 --> 559.74] pentecost the first is they remembered their story specifically they remembered the good law that god |
[559.74 --> 564.78] gave his people they remembered the generosity of god leading his people but the second thing is |
[564.78 --> 570.58] pentecost was an agricultural harvest celebration where farmers i mean this is a bit removed for some |
[570.58 --> 575.60] of us very few of us are farmers we did have them in the 9 a.m they get the first fruit of their crops |
[575.60 --> 583.48] they take sheaves of wheat and they offer them as a gratitude to god with hopeful anticipation that |
[583.48 --> 588.38] the rest of the crop is still coming and god will provide that's what they're doing and it was like big |
[588.38 --> 593.04] feast celebration god's going to take care of them and this is a really important connection |
[593.04 --> 599.40] that harvest feast in some sense becomes a picture what the church is one commentator says that the |
[599.40 --> 605.96] church then becomes actually this first fruits as god fills the church with his holy spirit he creates |
[605.96 --> 611.42] a new humanity human beings that are full of the life of god filled with the power of the spirit |
[611.42 --> 618.56] becoming what they are created to be and they become the first fruit of many who come after them |
[618.56 --> 626.00] a harvest that follows them and church can i pause and say we are part of that harvest we today as the |
[626.00 --> 633.56] church of jesus christ by faith in jesus we have the spirit we join the generations of believers who go |
[633.56 --> 640.90] before us in being part of the family of the new humanity people who have the gift of the spirit |
[640.90 --> 649.54] one of the things i love about this passage is the way luke describes the event i i almost think he |
[649.54 --> 656.26] he had trouble describing what's going on like how do you describe this event i mean again just imagine |
[656.26 --> 663.36] this with me i'll read it again luke writes they were all together in one place suddenly a sound like |
[663.36 --> 669.16] the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting can you |
[669.16 --> 675.66] picture that they saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them |
[675.66 --> 682.50] all of them were filled with the spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the spirit enabled them |
[682.50 --> 691.62] i mean what a scene don't you think a violent wind blowing in the place tongues of fire somehow resting on |
[691.62 --> 698.96] each of the disciples i have a feeling it was terrifying and exhilarating it's like what is happening and |
[698.96 --> 703.88] yet we don't want to be anywhere else right now something is going on and what you need to know |
[703.88 --> 709.66] about this passage is that it is packed and i do mean packed with echoes from the rest of the bible |
[709.66 --> 713.74] like i was thinking of preaching on all these passages but i had to narrow it down because this |
[713.74 --> 723.58] is just so full of old testament imagery wind and fire are both symbols of god's presence perhaps |
[723.58 --> 729.80] most notably we have ezekiel 37 there's a prophet named ezekiel god sends him to this valley where |
[729.80 --> 734.66] there's dry bones i mean this is like a creepy scene but so so remarkable god says to ezekiel |
[734.66 --> 740.82] prophesy to these bones and ezekiel's like god said it i'm gonna do it so he's prophesying to bones |
[740.82 --> 747.74] what happens the breath of god the wind of god brings life to these bones and they sort of take on |
[747.74 --> 754.78] flesh and life and become living beings because of the wind of god the breath of god that's the power |
[754.78 --> 760.88] of god now secondly the image of fire exodus 3 moses in the burning bush takes off his sandals because |
[760.88 --> 767.32] that fire represents the presence of god fast forward 10 chapters god leads his people out of egypt |
[767.32 --> 774.28] he's leading them through the desert and what leads them by night do you remember exodus 13 a pillar of |
[774.28 --> 784.76] fire wind and fire the presence of god the leading of god i also want to say a holy god it's it's not |
[784.76 --> 789.88] lost on me that when moses experienced the fire of that burning bush he stepped back and he took his |
[789.88 --> 796.70] sandals off because this is no small deal this is no small god this is the holy one the god of gods |
[796.70 --> 805.18] showing up in the fire and now that fire comes to the disciples but there's a third passage |
[805.18 --> 810.84] that really needs to be talked about in relation to pentecost and that comes from the book of joel |
[810.84 --> 815.12] in the book of joel and actually there's more than one prophecy on this but it talks about the spirit |
[815.12 --> 820.24] coming in the last days and i'll just back up a little bit one of the things that's remarkable |
[820.24 --> 825.92] about acts 2 is that when the disciples all start speaking in different languages people from the city |
[825.92 --> 829.90] who are watching them you know what they said to them right like these people are drunk like their |
[829.90 --> 834.28] only frame for understanding what's going on like these people have had too much to drink and i love |
[834.28 --> 840.50] peter's defense you know what he says we're not drunk it's 9 a.m you gotta love the bible i mean luke |
[840.50 --> 845.88] included that detail it's amazing take us seriously it's 9 a.m like it's not dinner time or like evening |
[845.88 --> 850.68] maybe we'd have a drink then but we're not drunk it's it's the morning but listen to then what he quotes |
[850.68 --> 858.64] in this verse it says in the last days god says i will pour out my spirit on all people |
[858.64 --> 865.32] your sons and daughters will prophesy your young men will see visions your old men will dream dreams |
[865.32 --> 872.22] even on my servants both men and women i will pour out my spirit in those days and they will prophesy |
[872.22 --> 877.96] and just a few verses later we read and everyone who calls on the name of the lord |
[877.96 --> 880.62] will be saved |
[880.62 --> 887.50] this verse is super important because it brings us not just back to the old testament it points us to |
[887.50 --> 891.36] the forward this is something that took me a long time to learn about the pouring of the spirit the |
[891.36 --> 896.72] old testament envisioned that when the spirit is given however that was to look it's the the end |
[896.72 --> 901.88] that's the end of history that's where god brings his total renewal the spirit is the sign of the end |
[901.88 --> 907.46] that he's filling the world with the fullness of the life of god by his spirit that marks the end |
[907.46 --> 913.68] and what peter is saying is the end has come in fact i was going to sort of humorously name this |
[913.68 --> 918.28] sermon the beginning of the end but you would have been like what an ominously dark sounding sermon |
[918.28 --> 925.36] but that's exactly what this is the life that is going to fill the entire creation by the power of |
[925.36 --> 933.24] the spirit when jesus returns breaks into the present at pentecost and what that means is the spirit of |
[933.24 --> 939.58] god enables us now oh man i love this to taste and experience the way the world is going to be |
[939.58 --> 947.32] when jesus returns so think about this the love of god that you will be filled with when jesus returns |
[947.32 --> 954.44] you can already now experience by the power of the spirit the justice and the mercy of god that |
[954.44 --> 959.28] will fill the earth and make peace in the nations in fact just after the 9 a.m service i was talking |
[959.28 --> 963.32] to three ukrainian women who were telling me a bit about their story and the hardship they're going |
[963.32 --> 968.34] through but the justice and mercy that will one day fill the earth we can already begin to taste now |
[968.34 --> 974.42] by the life of the spirit the richness and the harmony of relationships and family and friends and |
[974.42 --> 979.02] all the rest that we will have in fullness in the end breaks into the present as we follow the life |
[979.02 --> 987.38] of the spirit right now in short when the spirit of god comes it's the beginning of the end |
[987.38 --> 993.38] and when the spirit of god is at work in the church we become who we were created to be from the beginning |
[993.38 --> 1002.00] before sin before rebellion and who we will be when jesus returns in glory we already taste that now |
[1002.00 --> 1011.82] as we receive the gift of the holy spirit we are becoming a new humanity do you see the gift |
[1011.82 --> 1018.20] that is the holy spirit i'm going to make this comment in future sermons but i'll make it now as well |
[1018.20 --> 1025.06] when the spirit is poured out in this passage it's a very dramatic very memorable event like wind and fire |
[1025.06 --> 1029.96] and power there's a lot going on and it's important to note that throughout the book of acts and even in |
[1029.96 --> 1037.64] the church today so much of the spirit's work is the slow gradual transformation i think the suspicion |
[1037.64 --> 1041.16] that i grew up in the church of some of the charismatic tradition and i love my charismatic |
[1041.16 --> 1045.92] friends friends with a number of charismatic pastors but almost an overemphasis of the dramatic |
[1045.92 --> 1051.98] at the expense of the ordinary an overemphasis of the gifts of the spirit which are present and real |
[1051.98 --> 1057.56] we believe that at the expense of the fruits of the spirit the slow gradual becoming more loving to |
[1057.56 --> 1064.52] neighbor loving towards enemy generous with resources kind to those around us long suffering in the face |
[1064.52 --> 1070.84] of difficulty all those things are the work of the spirit making us more like jesus more full of the |
[1070.84 --> 1073.56] father's love more led by the spirit |
[1076.84 --> 1082.52] what's the first thing that these apostles do once they're filled with the spirit |
[1082.52 --> 1090.76] what does it say at the very end of our passage they began to speak in tongues now we're going to |
[1090.76 --> 1094.12] come back to this in the series as well but i'll just say it's very important for luke that when we |
[1094.12 --> 1098.92] hear tongues he's just saying different languages in fact there's a god-fearing jews from all over |
[1098.92 --> 1104.44] they're all gathered in jerusalem and what do they do they all hear about jesus from these apostles in their |
[1104.44 --> 1110.20] own language that must have been quite a scene hey they're sitting there they have a different language |
[1110.20 --> 1114.28] all of a sudden they're like whoa i understand that this person's speaking about jesus he's |
[1114.28 --> 1119.80] speaking about what's happening in a way that i could hear it and this represents i cannot overstate |
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