WEBVTT 09:29.000 --> 09:34.400 Alright, good afternoon everybody and welcome back to Sher Foundation Baptist Church. 09:34.400 --> 09:42.680 Please find your seats at this time and open up your blue song books to page 544. 09:42.680 --> 09:43.940 Welcome back to Sher Foundation. 09:43.940 --> 09:49.880 At this time, find your seats and pull out your blue song books to 544. 09:49.880 --> 09:51.440 We'll work till Jesus comes. 09:56.100 --> 09:59.140 And that is 544 on the 1st. 09:59.140 --> 10:03.060 Oh, land of rest for the 10:55.500 --> 10:56.000 ME 11:25.300 --> 11:27.000 Shall roll 11:32.100 --> 11:35.100 and reach my head 11:40.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:41.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:42.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:43.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:44.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:45.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:46.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:47.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:48.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:49.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:50.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:51.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:52.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:53.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:54.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:55.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:56.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:57.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:58.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 11:59.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:00.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:01.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:02.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:03.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:04.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:05.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:06.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:07.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:08.300 --> 11:41.100 Tell 12:00.700 --> 12:03.500 Brother Alex, would you pray for us? 12:30.000 --> 12:46.200 to 453 rescue the perishing that is page 453 453 rescue the perishing 15:23.800 --> 15:27.300 to share foundation Baptist Church and on the front cover first of all does 15:27.300 --> 15:34.720 anyone need a bulletin this time no okay cool so once again the front cover we 15:34.720 --> 15:38.100 have our verse of the week the grass withereth the flower fadeth but the word 15:38.100 --> 15:43.280 of our God shall stand forever and so on the inside cover there you can see the 15:43.280 --> 15:48.360 service times and the soul winning times and so how many do we get out saved 15:48.360 --> 15:50.200 today 15:50.300 --> 15:54.060 We got one brother Jesse and brother Alex, anyone? 15:54.060 --> 15:57.260 Okay, so that one over there, that's two. 15:57.260 --> 15:59.740 And I know that myself and brother Jack, 15:59.740 --> 16:02.060 you guys got five, all right. 16:02.060 --> 16:03.660 So that's eight so far. 16:03.660 --> 16:05.180 Anybody else? 16:05.180 --> 16:06.700 Eight at the final? 16:06.700 --> 16:08.300 Need a few more to get the food to Elsa. 16:10.540 --> 16:11.660 Yeah, all right. 16:11.660 --> 16:12.540 So eight then. 16:13.180 --> 16:14.140 Amen for that. 16:15.100 --> 16:16.380 Yes, amen indeed. 16:17.000 --> 16:23.800 Alright and below that is the praise report and so by now you are way way way too late 16:24.120 --> 16:27.400 To go to that marching design on our anti-israel conference 16:27.760 --> 16:31.600 But again, that's what the internet is for use it as a tool for good 16:32.000 --> 16:38.080 June 20th the men's shooting blow up a Bible pay $3 if you live in Oregon you understand the drill at this point 16:38.320 --> 16:44.000 June 21st Father's Day July 23rd pastor Anderson himself preaching on Thursday night here and 16:45.000 --> 16:49.920 trip to Alaska, details are on that door. We are a family integrated church. Children 16:49.920 --> 16:55.180 and infants are welcome in the church services. We have the mother and dad baby rooms. You 16:55.180 --> 17:01.560 know, please keep to the respective genders on that one. And no eating in the service 17:01.560 --> 17:02.060 area. 17:02.400 --> 17:05.440 Please have your dinner in the back room there. 17:05.440 --> 17:07.360 And silence your cell phones at this time. 17:07.360 --> 17:10.480 You can see the tithes and offerings for April. 17:10.480 --> 17:14.240 And we already were jamming to happy birthday this morning. 17:14.240 --> 17:18.080 So with that being said, let me go grab my binder real quick 17:18.080 --> 17:22.400 and turn in your Bibles or your binders to Psalm 81. 17:29.000 --> 17:30.600 That is going to be Psalm 81. 17:30.600 --> 17:33.480 We will sing a Psalm and one more song and then receive the offering. 17:38.000 --> 17:38.700 Hmm 17:44.300 --> 17:50.300 Psalm 81 on the first. 17:50.500 --> 17:55.900 Sing aloud unto God our strength. 17:55.900 --> 18:01.600 Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 18:01.600 --> 18:06.400 Take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel, 18:06.400 --> 18:11.200 The pleasant harp with the psaltery. 18:11.200 --> 18:15.200 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon. 18:17.200 --> 18:27.640 time appointed on our solemn feast day. For this was a statute for Israel and a 18:27.640 --> 18:43.200 law of the God of Jacob. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he went out. 18:43.500 --> 18:53.540 Through the land of Egypt where I heard a language that I understood not. 18:53.540 --> 18:58.700 I removed his shoulder from the burden. 18:58.700 --> 19:04.540 His hands were delivered from the pots. 19:05.400 --> 19:12.400 I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. 19:12.400 --> 19:19.400 I proved thee at the waters of Reba. 19:19.400 --> 19:23.400 See, la, hear, oh, my people. 19:26.500 --> 19:35.000 I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou'll hear hark none to me. 19:35.000 --> 19:46.000 There shall no strange God be in thee, neither shall thou worship any strange God. 19:46.000 --> 19:49.000 I am the Lord thy God. 19:50.000 --> 19:56.000 Which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. 19:56.000 --> 20:01.000 Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it, 20:01.000 --> 20:07.000 But my people would not harken to my voice, 20:07.000 --> 20:09.900 And Israel would not. 20:10.300 --> 20:19.820 none of me so I give them up unto their own hearts lust and they walked in their 20:19.820 --> 20:29.500 own counsels oh that my people had heart given to me and it 20:33.000 --> 20:44.000 I should have some good enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries. 20:44.000 --> 20:49.000 The haters of the Lord should have submitted. 20:50.300 --> 20:55.100 Should have submitted themselves unto him 20:55.100 --> 21:00.700 But their time should have endured forever 21:00.700 --> 21:05.900 He should have fed them also 21:05.900 --> 21:11.200 With the finest of the wheat and with honey 21:13.400 --> 21:16.680 Out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. 21:16.680 --> 21:22.100 Out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. 21:24.200 --> 21:31.720 All right, and then we will turn again in our Blue Song Books to 316. 21:31.720 --> 21:36.640 That is page 316, channels only. 21:40.500 --> 21:42.500 316 channels only 21:49.100 --> 21:58.100 But praise Thee, precious Savior, That Thy love laid hold of me. 21:58.100 --> 22:07.100 Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me, That I might Thy channel be. 22:07.100 --> 22:16.900 Channels only, blessed Master, But with all Thy wondrous power. 22:19.100 --> 22:22.460 Thou canst use us every day. 22:30.800 --> 22:37.800 Shouldest fill me a clean vessel in my hand 22:37.800 --> 22:38.800 With no power 22:40.600 --> 22:44.840 As Thou givest graciously, 22:44.840 --> 22:47.440 Hath each command, 22:47.440 --> 22:52.200 Channels only, blessed Master, 22:52.200 --> 22:56.940 But with all Thy wondrous power, 22:56.940 --> 23:01.720 Flowing through us, Thou canst use us, 23:01.720 --> 23:07.300 Every day and every hour. 23:09.300 --> 23:18.300 Missing thy power to save me, setting free from self and sin. 23:18.300 --> 23:27.300 Thou who brought us to possess me in thy fullness, Lord, come in. 23:27.300 --> 23:35.100 Channels only, blessed Master, but with all thy... 23:35.200 --> 23:49.360 wondrous power flowing through us thou canst use us every day and every hour 23:49.360 --> 24:00.560 Jesus fill now with thy spirit hearts that full surrender know that the 24:00.560 --> 24:03.100 streams of living 24:03.800 --> 24:05.400 from a 24:12.800 --> 24:14.400 Master 24:17.700 --> 24:18.400 response 24:21.800 --> 24:30.200 Thou canst use us every day and every hour. 24:33.100 --> 24:36.000 And at this time, we will receive the offering. 24:36.000 --> 24:38.300 Brother Sean, can you bless the offering for us? 27:25.000 --> 27:26.200 chapter 2. 27:28.700 --> 27:32.460 As is our custom, we'll read the entire chapter. Please follow along silently. 27:43.700 --> 27:46.200 Acts chapter 2, the Bible reads, 27:46.200 --> 27:51.060 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 27:51.060 --> 27:55.200 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, 27:55.200 --> 27:57.960 and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 27:57.960 --> 28:03.900 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 28:03.900 --> 28:09.100 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 28:09.600 --> 28:15.440 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 28:15.440 --> 28:19.200 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, 28:19.200 --> 28:22.880 because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 28:22.880 --> 28:26.240 And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, 28:26.240 --> 28:29.760 Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? 28:29.760 --> 28:33.200 And now hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born. 28:33.400 --> 28:41.320 Parthians in Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers of Mesopotamia, and Injadea, and Cappadocia, 28:41.320 --> 28:47.880 and Pontus in Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, 28:47.880 --> 28:53.960 and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues 28:53.960 --> 28:59.720 the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one to another, 28:59.720 --> 29:01.000 What meaneth this? 29:01.300 --> 29:04.760 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. 29:04.760 --> 29:08.940 But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said unto them, 29:08.940 --> 29:15.060 Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words. 29:15.060 --> 29:20.300 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 29:20.300 --> 29:24.580 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. 29:25.000 --> 29:30.520 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh, 29:30.520 --> 29:34.680 and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your 29:34.680 --> 29:41.080 old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days 29:41.080 --> 29:46.760 of my spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth 29:46.760 --> 29:49.900 beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 29:50.000 --> 29:56.080 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come. 29:56.080 --> 30:01.380 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 30:01.380 --> 30:06.880 Ye men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, the man approved of God among you, 30:06.880 --> 30:12.880 by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know. 30:13.100 --> 30:16.940 Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, 30:16.940 --> 30:20.860 ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. 30:20.860 --> 30:24.700 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death, 30:24.700 --> 30:28.300 because it was not possible that he should be holding of it. 30:28.300 --> 30:32.620 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, 30:32.620 --> 30:36.100 for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. 30:36.500 --> 30:41.540 Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope 30:42.180 --> 30:47.780 Because I will not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption 30:48.700 --> 30:54.860 Thou wast made known to me the ways of life. Thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 30:54.860 --> 31:02.740 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the Patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day. 31:02.740 --> 31:12.540 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. 31:12.900 --> 31:16.300 He seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, 31:16.300 --> 31:20.900 that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 31:20.900 --> 31:25.900 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 31:25.900 --> 31:28.500 Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, 31:28.500 --> 31:31.800 and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, 31:31.800 --> 31:35.300 he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear. 31:35.500 --> 31:39.200 For David is not ascended into the heavens, but he saith himself, 31:39.200 --> 31:46.040 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool. 31:46.040 --> 31:48.940 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, 31:48.940 --> 31:54.580 that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 31:54.580 --> 31:58.480 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter, 31:58.480 --> 32:02.380 and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 32:02.800 --> 32:12.240 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 32:12.240 --> 32:19.400 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 32:19.400 --> 32:25.240 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 32:25.800 --> 32:34.380 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized, and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 32:34.380 --> 32:40.440 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine, in fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 32:40.440 --> 32:45.080 And fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles, 32:45.080 --> 32:48.760 and all that believed were together, and had all things in common, 32:48.760 --> 32:53.560 and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men as every man had need. 32:54.100 --> 32:58.980 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, 32:58.980 --> 33:04.020 did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all 33:04.020 --> 33:08.340 the people. And the Lord added to the church daily, such as should be saved." 33:08.980 --> 33:10.700 Brother Alex, could you pray for us, please? 33:29.800 --> 33:30.300 Amen. 33:50.100 --> 33:56.020 And Peter's just preaching Biblical history. He's ripping on the Jews. He's preaching the gospel 33:56.580 --> 34:03.060 He's saying you'll make me full of joy with that countenance. So this like the positive stuff in there, too 34:03.300 --> 34:06.260 it's a well-rounded sermon for being so quick and 34:08.060 --> 34:14.180 You know, he's in it's actually pricking them in their heart. It's actually it's an effective sermon 34:14.800 --> 34:21.360 They want to have their sins forgiven, a bunch of people get baptized, and then all these newly 34:21.360 --> 34:28.080 saved people are greatly enjoying and being charitable in this community at the end and praising God. 34:28.080 --> 34:32.240 And so it's just like, you know, that's the whirlwind synopsis there. That's the cliff 34:32.240 --> 34:35.500 notes and it's an incredible chapter. 34:36.100 --> 34:41.460 I like Pentecost, it's a cool holiday. I'm not going to let the Pentecost steal it from me. 34:42.180 --> 34:48.340 And when I was a little kid growing up in the Presbyterian church, they would always bring a 34:48.340 --> 34:53.140 fire truck from the South Charleston fire department to the church for Pentecost, this big red truck. 34:53.780 --> 34:58.180 And because you've got these cloven tongues of fire coming down on people's heads, 34:58.740 --> 35:03.060 it's kind of odd to bring the fire department that's supposed to put out fires to Pentecost. 35:04.100 --> 35:07.300 I think it was just an excuse to let us climb on the fire trucks and have fun. 35:09.300 --> 35:15.000 But you know, red is traditionally the liturgical color associated with it for that reason. 35:15.700 --> 35:21.500 Alright, but you know, what's going on here when the Holy Spirit comes down 35:21.800 --> 35:26.400 and sits on their heads and they're filled with the Holy Ghost and they speak in tongues and all this stuff. 35:26.400 --> 35:29.500 Well, this is, this was promised to them by Jesus. 35:30.300 --> 35:35.880 Prior to his ascension this was promised just one chapter previous if you turn back to Acts 1 35:36.540 --> 35:38.540 It's back one chapter 35:38.940 --> 35:40.940 Acts 1 35:44.140 --> 35:47.500 I'll start and I'll start in verse 2 until the day in which he was taken up 35:48.300 --> 35:53.120 After that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments under the Apostles whom he had chosen 35:53.760 --> 35:55.760 To whom also he showed himself alive 35:56.520 --> 36:01.960 after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 days and 36:02.320 --> 36:07.400 Speaking of the things pertaining of the kingdom of God and being assembled together with them 36:08.020 --> 36:14.320 Commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father which saith he ye have heard of me 36:15.500 --> 36:25.940 And of course, it says for John, truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with 36:25.940 --> 36:29.020 the Holy Ghost, not many days hence. 36:29.020 --> 36:30.020 So this is already... 36:30.020 --> 36:30.200 Thanks for watching! 36:30.300 --> 36:36.220 40 days after the resurrection and he says not many days since and of course the cost is 36:36.780 --> 36:38.780 50 days after 36:39.060 --> 36:42.940 the Passover in the in the Old Testament or after the end of the 36:43.420 --> 36:49.060 The entire Passover right so in this case after the resurrection it's 50 days later 36:50.460 --> 36:56.980 And so that timing in the New Testament the Old Testament is the same for that 50-day period pretty interesting 36:58.400 --> 37:04.040 All right, let's open with a word of prayer a heavenly father. Thank you for the opportunity to preach here to your people and just 37:05.280 --> 37:07.360 help me to see good things and 37:08.560 --> 37:12.800 Not see anything that's incorrect and just be with us here tonight in Jesus name we pray amen 37:13.680 --> 37:15.480 all right in 37:15.480 --> 37:22.320 Luke 3 16 another great promise you don't have to turn there, but it is one of the great three sixteens in the Bible 37:23.100 --> 37:30.060 Luke 3, 16, John answered, John the Baptist, of course, John answered saying unto them 37:30.060 --> 37:30.800 all, 37:30.800 --> 37:38.160 I indeed baptize you with water, but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. 37:38.160 --> 37:42.800 He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." 37:42.800 --> 37:50.040 And so all the way back at the beginning of the New Testament, John the Baptist is saying this day of Pentecost is going to happen. 37:50.040 --> 37:53.440 He doesn't specifically say that it's going to happen. 37:53.900 --> 38:00.260 in coordination with this Old Testament feast, but you know maybe through a glass darkly someone might have 38:00.540 --> 38:04.280 been able to figure that out the different feasts in Leviticus 23 and stuff. 38:04.800 --> 38:09.540 It technically wouldn't be impossible. I don't think though that there's any evidence that someone specifically 38:10.360 --> 38:12.300 tied that together yet. 38:13.000 --> 38:18.400 But God is a God of timing, right? Bible says he appointed the moon for seasons, 38:18.400 --> 38:22.240 the sun knoweth his going down. There's a lot of other verses like that that just 38:22.240 --> 38:27.920 talk about how God sets all these cosmic things in motion and so I 38:27.920 --> 38:32.560 think the liturgical calendar even in cases where we can't prove the exact 38:32.560 --> 38:37.120 historical date of an event like Christmas, it gives a rhythm to the year 38:37.120 --> 38:39.100 and it 38:39.200 --> 38:45.280 In order it reminds people of important lessons, you know on a repeating basis 38:45.480 --> 38:50.080 Which is kind of what we need as humans because we can't simply be told something once and then have it down 38:50.240 --> 38:53.960 Like we all know that that's not how we are 38:54.960 --> 39:00.160 And so we need to be reminded of these things, you know annually at least 39:01.000 --> 39:04.480 Sometimes and so what it was so again, what is Pentecost? 39:06.100 --> 39:13.020 To give you the the very zoomed out view from you know the neutral view from the world I I asked AI 39:13.420 --> 39:14.940 right 39:14.940 --> 39:18.780 the source of all good things, but it was correct in its answer right now 39:18.780 --> 39:23.100 I think because I continued to look into it further in the Bible and elsewhere 39:23.300 --> 39:26.920 So but it says Pentecost meaning 50th in Greek 39:27.460 --> 39:31.420 I think of like pentagon pentagram, you know 39:32.500 --> 39:38.580 so forth. It's a five prefix, but I guess the Pentecost picks at 50th. 39:39.300 --> 39:45.460 So it originally refers to the Jewish feast of weeks. They call it Shavuot, like my boss was 39:45.460 --> 39:51.060 saying he's going to celebrate Shavuot. Celebrated 50 days after Passover. 39:52.100 --> 39:58.500 In Jewish tradition, it marked the end of the spring barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest. 39:58.500 --> 40:00.500 So barley and wheat mature at different times. 40:02.400 --> 40:06.560 I think that that's a picture of the Old and New Testament churches. 40:06.560 --> 40:09.520 The barley can grow in tougher soil. 40:09.520 --> 40:11.280 It's a little bit more durable, 40:11.280 --> 40:13.000 but wheat is more valuable, 40:13.000 --> 40:16.440 it's better for bread, and so forth and so on. 40:16.440 --> 40:18.680 Life was a bit harder in the Old Testament 40:18.680 --> 40:21.320 without having the permanent indwelling of the Holy Ghost. 40:21.320 --> 40:23.960 They saw through a glass darkly, 40:23.960 --> 40:26.300 they didn't have the entire body of scripture. 40:26.500 --> 40:31.620 And then the wheat harvest, it's a much bigger, more valuable harvest in terms of the number of souls. 40:31.620 --> 40:34.100 But that's an aside from the AI here. 40:34.100 --> 40:40.900 And it says, it was also associated with the giving of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai. 40:40.900 --> 40:46.100 It's Leviticus 23 and the renewal of the covenant with God, and Exodus 34. 40:46.100 --> 40:50.820 And the feast involved offerings of bulls, rams, lambs, and grain. 40:51.400 --> 40:55.240 And AI left out the goat that they're supposed to do. 40:55.240 --> 40:59.880 And it was a pilgrimage festival where Jews from various regions gathered in Jerusalem. 41:01.080 --> 41:05.480 And they're supposed to sacrifice a certain number of lambs and certain number of rams. 41:06.760 --> 41:11.240 You add them up and it's like 12 animals plus one goat. 41:11.400 --> 41:17.880 So it's like kind of kind of interesting because you got the 12 apostles and then judas, but like I don't I don't know if that's a symbolism 41:17.880 --> 41:19.880 But it did match up in that way 41:22.200 --> 41:26.360 So pentacos symbolizes the transition from the old covenant to the new covenant 41:28.040 --> 41:31.740 Which of course 50 days after the resurrection the new covenant's technically already 41:32.300 --> 41:38.140 you know operating but this is sort of the formal or the the this dramatic beginning of the new 41:38.140 --> 41:41.500 testament church in this fashion um 41:42.000 --> 41:45.520 And so you've got the spiritual harvest of souls instead of the wheat harvest, right, 41:46.160 --> 41:50.960 and the empowerment of believers to spread the gospel. And so it's connecting this Jewish 41:50.960 --> 41:57.040 harvest festival and the celebration of the law with the Christian mission, which is also in a 41:57.040 --> 42:02.240 way a harvest festival, but it's a celebration of grace. So it's a very clear transition and 42:02.240 --> 42:05.360 continuity with the Old New Testaments, but also shows the difference, right. 42:07.900 --> 42:14.280 So, again, historically, it's the Feast of Remembrance of God giving the Ten Commandments 42:14.280 --> 42:21.320 to Moses fifty days after the Passover, fifty days after they had left Egypt. 42:21.320 --> 42:28.940 And that's when he laid out the Ten Commandments and then later gave them rules about celebrating 42:28.940 --> 42:29.940 the feasts. 42:30.300 --> 42:33.980 that celebrate that event, you know, in Exodus and Leviticus and Deuteronomy. 42:34.700 --> 42:42.220 And so God bringing the law to Moses in the Old Covenant was a major turning point in human history. 42:42.700 --> 42:46.180 because those laws that they've gone over all over the world they've pricked 42:46.180 --> 42:50.180 men's conscience all over the world being a schoolmaster to lead them to 42:50.180 --> 42:53.620 Christ of course even in the Old Testament there were people hearing 42:53.620 --> 42:59.300 about these laws or reading the books of Moses and converting you know even 42:59.300 --> 43:04.400 though they weren't ethically Jewish that's always been a thing and 43:04.800 --> 43:08.640 So the law came by Moses, but grace and truth by Jesus Christ. 43:08.640 --> 43:13.840 And so the first Pentecost, so to speak, the law came, right? 43:13.840 --> 43:19.600 And at the second Pentecost, if you will, or rather the first Pentecost of the Christian Church, 43:19.600 --> 43:23.440 the Spirit of God was given to believers in a dramatic fashion. 43:24.640 --> 43:28.560 And, you know, just imagine something like that happening after you got saved. 43:28.560 --> 43:29.840 I mean, most of us got saved in... 43:30.500 --> 43:34.580 you know depending on your personality or the circumstance or whatever maybe it was slightly 43:34.580 --> 43:40.100 dramatic maybe you cried or something maybe some of you might not have though i mean so 43:40.100 --> 43:44.180 like it definitely like there wasn't a bunch of people with fire over their heads speaking 43:44.180 --> 43:50.000 in languages this was this was a very this is a very dramatic event to sort of 43:50.200 --> 43:56.400 Bring the New Testament Church onto the scene in a way that the people could really feel it was real because remember 43:56.400 --> 43:59.120 The church was a very small organization back then it didn't have 43:59.360 --> 44:04.160 Any sort of validity put onto it by the world or by the Jewish leaders or really anybody? 44:04.400 --> 44:07.280 Other than than Jesus when he had to been here in the flesh 44:09.320 --> 44:16.020 And so, you know and again this first Pentecost on on Mount Sinai if you will 44:17.120 --> 44:18.200 that was 44:18.400 --> 44:21.440 frightening and terrifying to the people. Remember they said, 44:21.440 --> 44:25.440 Moses you go talk to him. We don't... make him stop. Make God stop doing this. We're scared. 44:26.080 --> 44:29.120 And so God, you know, because God thundered and smoked on the mountain. 44:29.840 --> 44:35.360 Well, you know, the New Testament Pentecost, Jesus describes this as the sending of the comforter. 44:35.700 --> 44:42.100 You know, so it's much more joyous and comforting to be in the New Testament than to be under the law. 44:42.100 --> 44:46.660 You know, it's a little flame, it's not a whole mountain on fire like blowing up and 44:47.300 --> 44:52.740 smoking. It's something personal to the believer that's harmless and actually comforting. 44:55.140 --> 44:59.540 And Isaiah, in Isaiah 64, he kind of... 45:00.600 --> 45:03.620 Whether he could foresee this specific event 45:03.620 --> 45:10.180 He's kind of asking for another appearance of God like at Mount Sinai in Isaiah 64 verse 1 45:10.180 --> 45:18.080 He says oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens that thou wouldest come down that the mountains might flow down at thy presence 45:18.600 --> 45:23.400 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, 45:23.400 --> 45:30.040 to make thy name known to thy adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence. 45:30.600 --> 45:37.720 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down. The mountains flowed down at thy presence." 45:37.720 --> 45:42.760 And so Isaiah's remembering that first Pentecost and he's saying, God, wouldn't you come down again 45:43.160 --> 45:48.440 with some fire and show both your adversaries and the nations that they need to fear you? 45:49.400 --> 45:56.920 And you know, but so he's kind of hoping it's going to be something like epic dramatic like um 45:57.600 --> 46:05.920 like the Sinai, but you know it was a little different in the New Testament when God appeared 46:05.920 --> 46:12.640 in that way. But also you could say that this also in Isaiah 64 is prefiguring when the day of the 46:12.640 --> 46:19.200 Lord and it will be pretty terrifying. So there's kind of a double fulfillment of this at least if 46:19.200 --> 46:20.960 you will. 46:22.000 --> 46:26.720 we do see here that Isaiah longed for another appearance of God before all the people 46:27.360 --> 46:34.080 and that is kind of what happened because you had basically probably the majority of the of the 46:34.080 --> 46:39.440 saved people in Jerusalem involved in this Pentecost event. Now I realize they were getting 46:39.440 --> 46:44.160 people saved in the other villages and things like that but this was the core group there. 46:44.160 --> 46:49.160 And so in Luke 1024- 46:50.800 --> 47:01.800 Jesus says, for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see and have not seen them, and hear those things which ye hear and have not heard them. 47:01.800 --> 47:06.800 And so again, Isaiah's hoping that God would come down and show himself. 47:06.800 --> 47:12.800 Jesus is saying, hey, there's many prophets and kings that wish they could have seen this stuff and they weren't able to. 47:12.800 --> 47:16.800 So, you know, it's a wonderful thing to be in the New Testament. 47:17.600 --> 47:21.600 We not only have the entire New Testament, we also have the Holy Ghost to guide us in all truth. 47:22.240 --> 47:28.400 And so even the most spiritual men of the Old Testament, that were probably better men than you or me, 47:30.400 --> 47:34.960 they simply just didn't have access to the same level of knowledge we do, you know, 47:35.840 --> 47:41.920 if we wouldn't neglect it, right? I mean it's available to us, but not everyone attains to that just because it's available. 47:42.500 --> 47:46.780 It's like we have the entire body of human knowledge available to us in 47:47.940 --> 47:53.300 You know Smithsonian and Oxford and Cambridge and everything else on our phone and we watch you know 47:54.100 --> 47:57.660 Like dog videos or something. So it's just human nature 47:59.860 --> 48:02.820 So but much much studies of weariness to the flesh 48:02.820 --> 48:08.180 but the point is is that we have access to so much knowledge in the New Testament we shouldn't take it for granted and 48:10.500 --> 48:12.900 And Peter says about Christ that, 48:12.900 --> 48:16.540 Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, 48:16.540 --> 48:21.060 and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, 48:21.060 --> 48:23.900 he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear. 48:23.900 --> 48:26.660 And so this is, he's saying that about Pentecost, 48:26.660 --> 48:30.140 that it's the fulfillment of the promise of the Holy Ghost. 48:30.140 --> 48:32.260 And that's what you now see and hear. 48:32.260 --> 48:34.340 And so Pentecost is the fulfillment. 48:35.200 --> 48:38.440 This promise of the Holy Ghost it's a promise that's given in Joel 48:39.680 --> 48:45.360 And it mentions that in Acts 2 that this was prophesied by Joel well 48:45.940 --> 48:48.740 you know I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh and 48:49.960 --> 48:52.560 And then of course if you go on to read what he's saying about Joel 48:52.560 --> 48:58.600 It's talking about the moon being turned into blood and so there's gonna be a there's a double fulfillment here, but 49:00.100 --> 49:06.020 Peter is through the Holy Ghost, he's saying that it is one of the fulfillments though is this day of Pentecost. 49:07.220 --> 49:12.020 And so again, we sometimes just take for granted how good we have it in the New Testament. 49:14.020 --> 49:19.060 Being born in the New Testament spiritually is kind of like being born in America carnally. 49:19.060 --> 49:22.580 If I could make like the comparison, it's like if you just lived here your whole life 49:22.580 --> 49:25.380 and you've never been abroad, you might not know how good you have it. 49:27.200 --> 49:31.200 you know because we can't really go back to the Old Testament and see what it was like but I mean 49:31.200 --> 49:36.480 I think it would be a little bit burdensome and even gruesome you know sacrificing all these 49:36.480 --> 49:43.280 hundreds of animals and you know not having deodorant and you know not having a modern 49:43.280 --> 49:49.680 toothpaste just like a lot of things I wouldn't want to do but 49:50.800 --> 49:55.360 You know the focus the focus though of this chapter even though it's about the holy ghost coming down 49:55.840 --> 50:00.480 The focus is still on christ. That's that's what even though you peter filled with the holy ghost 50:00.880 --> 50:07.760 He's not he's preaching about christ because the spirit is jesus said the spirit will um not testify of himself. He'll 50:08.240 --> 50:10.240 You know glorify christ 50:12.080 --> 50:17.680 Now again one of the ways we have it's better in the new testament is that 50:18.600 --> 50:26.600 Once the Spirit comes into the believer, once the Holy Ghost comes into the heart of the believer, 50:26.600 --> 50:31.600 it won't depart from us. In the Old Testament this wasn't the case. 50:31.600 --> 50:40.600 And I think when I've talked with people about, man, how is it that like saved guys would end up doing like idol worship and stuff in the Old Testament? 50:40.600 --> 50:44.600 Because like if someone was bowing down to a statue, like... 50:44.700 --> 50:47.900 from our congregation, we'd be like, wow, that person was an infiltrator. 50:47.900 --> 50:50.620 That's probably a reprobate or something, right? But 50:51.420 --> 50:56.300 it's, I guess it's easier to understand if they, if it was possible for the Holy Spirit to depart 50:56.300 --> 51:02.060 from that person, but then still be saved. That's just something that we can't experience now. 51:02.060 --> 51:06.780 It just literally can't happen. But the Old Testament, it happened. In 1st Samuel 16, 14, 51:07.340 --> 51:10.860 it says, but the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul. 51:11.600 --> 51:17.120 and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. That's terrifying to me. Like can you imagine? 51:18.000 --> 51:23.840 I mean yes it would encourage you to be on good behavior but human nature being what it is like 51:23.840 --> 51:28.000 we just you know it's all even a great man ends up in this situation. 51:31.040 --> 51:35.680 And you know but when Jesus says talks about the comforter 51:36.600 --> 51:42.720 In John 14, it says, and I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter 51:43.400 --> 51:48.760 Capital C comforter. It's a Holy Ghost that he may abide with you forever 51:49.480 --> 51:53.680 Right this great the great him under his wings would a refuge in sorrow 51:54.280 --> 51:56.340 How the heart yearningly turns to his rest? 51:57.160 --> 52:01.640 Often when earth has no balm for my healing there. I find comfort in there and blessed 52:05.000 --> 52:12.520 Under his wings who from his love can sever under his wings my soul soul shall abide safely abide forever. So 52:13.720 --> 52:17.240 Because we're we're under a more excellent ministry, right? 52:17.960 --> 52:24.760 And jesus is the mediator of a better covenant which is established upon better promises like the fact that 52:25.600 --> 52:30.560 Even if you're a crumbum Christian, at least you have the Holy Ghost still inside you. 52:30.560 --> 52:33.840 Like that's a great comfort. 52:33.840 --> 52:40.560 I mean the overall message of Pentecost is very encouraging and comforting. 52:40.560 --> 52:46.480 And so I mean Christianity just in general has much better promises than any other religion. 52:46.480 --> 52:52.080 I mean, that the God of the universe is really here personally with you at all times. 52:52.800 --> 53:04.640 not some faceless vague life force or mystic karmic energy, but real persons with names and voices and feelings, 53:04.640 --> 53:10.140 the person Jesus Christ and the person the Holy Ghost, right? 53:10.140 --> 53:16.140 Living inside you, it's very different than say... 53:16.300 --> 53:22.100 the gods of the Egyptians and the Greeks and the Babylonians and the Romans and the Germans, right? 53:22.100 --> 53:23.100 And so on. 53:23.100 --> 53:29.540 These entities might pop into your life once in a while to help you out if you've been 53:29.540 --> 53:31.660 persistent in sacrificing to them. 53:32.300 --> 53:37.260 but they're busy doing other things most of the time. for adventure they're taking a nap or 53:38.060 --> 53:45.740 right when like Elijah mocking the prophets of Baal. and generally if you read like 53:46.380 --> 53:49.660 maybe like the Greek accounts of them interacting with the gods they always take a 53:50.220 --> 53:52.140 special interest in certain special people. 53:53.000 --> 53:57.480 And even then they're not always acting benevolently. Like they get jealous of Hercules. 53:57.480 --> 54:02.440 Like some of the gods are trying to stifle him and some are like sympathetic to him and same with 54:02.440 --> 54:08.680 like Odysseus and all these folks, right? It's a very, you don't have a very good stable 54:10.360 --> 54:12.360 comforting relationship with those gods. 54:16.400 --> 54:21.840 I mean, the Greek gods, it's a lot more like having a crazy girlfriend than having the Holy Ghost. 54:23.440 --> 54:26.400 They're very fickle and sometimes they throw people under the bus. 54:28.880 --> 54:34.160 But then you say, well, you know, that's just paganism. Like everyone knows paganism's 54:35.600 --> 54:39.040 out of fashion, right? But I mean, the god of Islam or Mormonism, 54:40.560 --> 54:43.040 their promises are basically offer you a harem in the sky. 54:43.600 --> 54:49.320 Which is the kind of promise that the carnal mind of man would imagine 54:50.080 --> 54:53.720 Right that like he'd grant to himself for his friends like well if I was God 54:53.720 --> 55:00.360 I would give myself a harem or like that's what like that's like what the flesh would come up with or 55:01.320 --> 55:03.420 reprobate mind really but 55:04.640 --> 55:07.080 And then you then you have the gods 55:07.800 --> 55:20.280 You can even go down the rung like to the Canaanites and the Carthaginians and the Aztecs where their gods want you to kill people and sacrifice humans and you know just to gain some advantage in your harvest or in war. 55:20.840 --> 55:27.280 And so all these promises are worthless compared to what God has in store for them that love him. 55:27.760 --> 55:32.840 Like we have the best deal going in any religion for sure. 55:33.700 --> 55:38.620 Aside from, even aside from eternal life in heaven, we have the best deal. 55:40.620 --> 55:45.300 And so, it's, so Pentecost, it's a day of comfort. The Holy Ghost is sent to comfort us. 55:45.300 --> 55:52.180 His presence gives us not just assurance of pardon of sin, and assurance of our justification with God, 55:52.180 --> 55:55.300 but also all these, all the other benefits that come with the Holy Ghost. 55:55.300 --> 56:01.180 The bond of peace between brethren, all the, all the positive virtues that are the fruits of the Spirit. 56:01.800 --> 56:05.960 and the assurance that God is with us in this present world also. 56:08.360 --> 56:11.480 The assurance comes important from God performing these kinds of great miracles 56:12.120 --> 56:19.080 like at this Feast of Pentecost in order that we in turn can perform the things that he's asked of us. 56:19.600 --> 56:24.240 Now other religions, because it's a day of comfort but it's also a day of them getting to work 56:24.240 --> 56:28.720 because now they're going to go evangelize the world. They've been given the tools to do this at this point. 56:28.720 --> 56:32.640 So it's comfort but also comfort so that you can go work. 56:32.640 --> 56:37.680 There's always a balance, right? We're not just to rest on our laurels. 56:37.680 --> 56:44.880 But now other religions, what are the work they ask you to do? Other religions, they often ask evil things. 56:45.100 --> 56:49.820 like as I mentioned with the Aztecs or the Phoenicians like this little bit of an extreme case but 56:50.460 --> 56:57.260 they also might ask silly and arbitrary things like repeating the same phrase to Mary a thousand 56:57.260 --> 57:03.100 times like that's not how I talk to my mom like they say she's their mother but like 57:03.660 --> 57:09.180 that's a really weird way to interact with your mom that's super weird like no one calls their 57:09.180 --> 57:11.580 their mom and does that. 57:11.700 --> 57:14.900 Or, you know, you have to eat fish on Fridays. 57:14.900 --> 57:17.200 Like, where's that in the Bible? 57:17.200 --> 57:22.420 That's just like saying, hey, you gotta wear a green shirt on Tuesdays and eat hamburgers 57:22.420 --> 57:23.420 on Wednesdays. 57:23.420 --> 57:25.060 It's bizarre. 57:26.100 --> 57:32.260 you know, Christianity's requirements are all reasonable and they're often helpful to the 57:32.260 --> 57:38.020 believer and God has promised to help us and to give us the means and the heart and the mind to 57:38.020 --> 57:43.140 accomplish them. That's part of what's going on in Pentecost. He's giving them the comfort, 57:43.140 --> 57:46.180 He's giving them the power of the Holy Ghost to go and do these things. 57:47.700 --> 57:53.460 So this chapter is incredible. It's packed with doctrine, verses one through eight. 57:55.100 --> 58:04.860 you have sort of the miracle itself a rushing wind from heaven and it filled the house and 58:04.860 --> 58:10.700 there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire and it sat upon each of them so wind and fire 58:10.700 --> 58:17.900 these are often pictures of the spirit of god they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to 58:17.900 --> 58:22.100 to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 58:22.400 --> 58:30.940 And it also says that 58:33.300 --> 58:39.300 they were dwelling in Jerusalem development out of every nation under heaven. So that's pretty 58:39.300 --> 58:46.260 important because it's really making clear that the gospel, the new testament, this is for everybody, 58:46.260 --> 58:56.100 right? It's not for the Jews. It's not a restricted thing, right? And Peter preaches that the promises 58:56.100 --> 59:00.740 are to the Jews and everyone else too, to all that are far off. 59:01.500 --> 59:03.500 Pentecost kind of announced 59:03.860 --> 59:06.420 And other parts of Acts and else, you know 59:06.420 --> 59:10.180 The Jews and Gentiles is equals in terms of the plan of salvation and God's promises 59:11.220 --> 59:15.420 But his ideas found in the Old Testament as well, but culturally, you know 59:15.740 --> 59:20.420 Especially by this time many Jews had not internalized this this notion and we know 59:20.940 --> 59:23.780 Later that you know, Peter and Paul would be at odds 59:24.600 --> 59:31.560 for a time over this issue of integrating the two into one body without distinction, right? 59:35.080 --> 59:41.320 But of course Peter comes around, okay, and he brings up Pentecost and also an event in Acts 10 59:41.320 --> 59:47.400 where the Holy Ghost descends on Gentiles and Jews alike in a rebuke of the Pharisees in Acts 15. 59:47.400 --> 59:49.640 In Acts 15 and 17 he says, 59:49.640 --> 59:51.680 and when there had been much disputing. 59:51.900 --> 59:58.380 with the Pharisees, Peter rose up and said unto them, Men and brethren, you know... 59:58.600 --> 01:00:04.880 How, that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should 01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:11.900 hear the word of the gospel and believe, and God which knoweth the hearts, bear them witness, 01:00:11.900 --> 01:00:17.400 giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us, and put no difference between us 01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:20.240 and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 01:00:20.600 --> 01:00:25.720 Now, therefore, why tempt ye God, and put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which 01:00:25.720 --> 01:00:28.960 neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" 01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:37.120 So Peter 100% comes around to the correct position by the middle of the book of Acts. 01:00:37.120 --> 01:00:43.200 He was already kind of there in Acts 2, but he got just a little bit sidetracked along 01:00:43.200 --> 01:00:44.200 the way. 01:00:44.200 --> 01:00:47.700 And anything, there's no difference between us and them. 01:00:48.500 --> 01:00:54.900 And so these people that heard the gospel in their own language, these were not all 01:00:54.900 --> 01:00:55.900 ethnic Jews. 01:00:55.900 --> 01:01:01.140 It says it includes proselytes and so forth. 01:01:01.140 --> 01:01:06.500 This is just another nail in the coffin for dispensational theology, right? 01:01:06.500 --> 01:01:12.180 Dispensational theology, like aka biological racists who would preach that the ancient 01:01:12.180 --> 01:01:15.700 Israeli bloodline is what gives someone standing with God. 01:01:16.700 --> 01:01:20.060 It's just not true. 01:01:20.060 --> 01:01:25.100 Matthew 3, 9 says, and think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father. 01:01:25.100 --> 01:01:30.620 For I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 01:01:30.620 --> 01:01:35.180 And of course we all know the verses, the promises are to Abraham's seed, such forth 01:01:35.180 --> 01:01:39.820 and so on. 01:01:39.820 --> 01:01:41.180 And, you know, Peter. 01:01:41.700 --> 01:01:46.460 He preaches and he brings up the Day of the Lord and the other harvests. 01:01:46.460 --> 01:01:51.700 It's kind of tying together to the Harvest Festival of Pentecost with like the current 01:01:51.700 --> 01:02:00.780 and future harvests that are going to happen at the end of the world and stuff. 01:02:00.780 --> 01:02:06.900 But one thing I want you to notice about this chapter is, yes, you have this dramatic miracle. 01:02:07.700 --> 01:02:13.360 at the beginning, but what's the miracle for? The focus of the first church service and the focus of the chapter 01:02:13.540 --> 01:02:15.540 that records it is the preaching. 01:02:16.180 --> 01:02:17.300 Like, 01:02:17.300 --> 01:02:23.500 the purpose of the miracle is that all these people get preached to and then it specifically gives us Peter's preaching. 01:02:23.820 --> 01:02:26.860 So we emphasize preaching to traditional Christians. 01:02:28.100 --> 01:02:45.100 Traditional, like in quotes, right, like Catholics and whatnot, right, traditional Christians say the emphasis should be on the ceremony, on the liturgy, on the, you know, the incense and the going back and forth with little brass objects and all this stuff, right? 01:02:45.100 --> 01:02:49.100 That's what they say the emphasis should be on. 01:02:49.300 --> 01:02:55.860 Contemporary Christians, you know, just using that term broadly say the emphasis should be on the praise music, right? 01:02:56.220 --> 01:02:59.220 The rah-rah stuff, right? 01:02:59.660 --> 01:03:07.360 But the emphasis of Peter, right? The rock of the church, like he's the main character here, you know, aside from the Holy Ghost. 01:03:08.980 --> 01:03:10.900 His emphasis is preaching. 01:03:11.100 --> 01:03:15.820 It's hard preaching. I mean he's telling people that they're evil and they need to repent and get baptized 01:03:16.940 --> 01:03:21.020 He's saying like you kill Jesus like get it together 01:03:21.660 --> 01:03:22.860 like 01:03:22.860 --> 01:03:28.460 You know David David believed in Christ and preached Christ and you need to get saved 01:03:29.060 --> 01:03:30.540 and 01:03:30.540 --> 01:03:31.700 He says 01:03:32.200 --> 01:03:39.300 It says in first Corinthians Paul says in first Corinthians even so ye for as much as your zealous of spiritual gifts 01:03:39.720 --> 01:03:44.380 Seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church. So 01:03:46.040 --> 01:03:53.240 Checkmate Pentecostals like the main spiritual gift you're supposed to covet is being able to to preach and edify the body of Christ 01:03:53.240 --> 01:03:55.160 You're not edifying 01:03:55.160 --> 01:03:57.160 anyone in gibberish 01:03:57.500 --> 01:04:06.500 You're making Christianity a laughing stock to the world when they can put it on YouTube and just see people acting a fool. 01:04:06.500 --> 01:04:19.500 Now, and again, Peter is a Jew ethnically speaking, but he's giving it to the Jews here very straight about how wrong they were to crucify Jesus. 01:04:19.500 --> 01:04:20.500 Jesus. 01:04:20.500 --> 01:04:21.420 And some people, if you... 01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:26.160 just quote passages about that the Jews killed Jesus. They said well Jesus was a Jew. 01:04:26.160 --> 01:04:28.400 Like as if that somehow cancels it out. It's like well okay, 01:04:29.520 --> 01:04:33.760 Peter and Paul were Jews and they're the ones writing and preaching these passages. 01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:39.680 Like you know this is like this is this is this is crazy. This is like if you 01:04:39.680 --> 01:04:45.840 like called the police to report a murder, right? And you're like someone killed my brother 01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:49.520 and they're like well was the murderer the same ethnicity? 01:04:50.700 --> 01:04:53.700 Yeah? Okay, well, you know, it's fine then. 01:04:55.200 --> 01:04:57.700 Like, it doesn't make any sense to me. 01:04:58.700 --> 01:05:01.700 As like, as somehow that gets them off the hook. 01:05:03.700 --> 01:05:04.700 Anyway. 01:05:05.700 --> 01:05:09.700 And, and, and, and I feel like this, this event in Pentecost, 01:05:10.700 --> 01:05:16.700 it's, it's, it's one, one possible fulfillment of Ezekiel 36. 01:05:17.500 --> 01:05:22.600 I think Ezekiel 36 is one of those things that could have multiple meanings, but in Ezekiel 01:05:22.600 --> 01:05:24.060 36, 24, it says... 01:05:24.600 --> 01:05:32.280 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:39.880 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your filthiness, and from all your idols. 01:05:39.880 --> 01:05:46.600 Will I cleanse you? A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. 01:05:46.600 --> 01:05:52.520 And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 01:05:52.600 --> 01:05:55.760 So you have Jews from all over the world coming to Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost 01:05:56.520 --> 01:06:02.840 Getting saved if they weren't already saved even if they're already saved they're getting this Holy Spirit 01:06:03.560 --> 01:06:05.560 permanently for the first time 01:06:07.160 --> 01:06:11.840 And so I think that Ezekiel 36 this is one of the fulfillments 01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:14.900 and 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:21.800 Again, it says here in Acts 2, they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship 01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:24.740 and in breaking of bread and in prayers. 01:06:24.740 --> 01:06:30.780 And so this is a great chapter. 01:06:30.780 --> 01:06:33.740 They don't drop the ball right away. 01:06:34.600 --> 01:06:41.640 Whereas remember at the first Pentecost, they're in the process of getting the law and they get 01:06:41.640 --> 01:06:46.840 impatient and make a golden calf while they're waiting for the commandments. That's totally 01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:53.880 crazy. That'd be like the equivalent of if during the 10 days after Jesus ascended, 01:06:54.920 --> 01:06:58.520 the apostles went back all the way back to idolatry or something. 01:06:59.000 --> 01:07:01.160 That would be like insane, right? 01:07:01.160 --> 01:07:10.440 But like, so the church did a little bit, had a little bit better track record about staying on track in the short term anyway. 01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:23.880 And then we have sort of the communism verses here at the end of Acts 2 that people like to misinterpret. 01:07:26.600 --> 01:07:32.600 Let's see. Yeah, and they continued to sit fastly in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship, 01:07:32.600 --> 01:07:37.400 and a breaking of bread and a prayer, so they're eating meals together, they're praying together, 01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:45.000 having fellowship, right? That's the context. And all that believed were together. Why were 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:49.000 they together? Because it's the feast of Pentecost. They're all supposed to be together. 01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:55.160 Okay, that's not saying they formed a commune because you don't care about it anywhere else in the book of Acts that there's some 01:07:55.160 --> 01:07:58.020 Hippie commune in Jerusalem where they're all living together. That's not the point 01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:04.600 And had all things in common, right and again, we cannot like anachronistically 01:08:05.400 --> 01:08:16.760 like put Marxism back into first century Judea when it says they had all things in common. This is not like a literal all encompassing thing. This is something that you've experienced too. 01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:27.800 Like if you've gone to a conference and a whole bunch of people all go out to dinner together, you know, you're sharing appetizers, you know, you're picking things off your brother's plate. 01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:29.800 and and and 01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:37.760 Strong chance that someone's just gonna pay for everything if they have the resources right either pastor or just someone from one of the congregations, right? 01:08:38.460 --> 01:08:44.180 That's kind of having all things in common like we all like 50 people went out to eat like someone just took care of it 01:08:44.180 --> 01:08:51.220 Right, that's kind of what's going on here because it says, you know, they sold possessions and goods and parted them among themselves 01:08:52.100 --> 01:08:55.540 as every man had need. So these people are coming all the way from 01:08:55.540 --> 01:08:59.380 Portia and Crete and whatever right? This is like 01:08:59.380 --> 01:09:03.140 they have travel expenses whatever. They're probably not all rich they're 01:09:03.140 --> 01:09:06.660 doing this out of religious duty to show up to the Pentecost right? 01:09:06.660 --> 01:09:10.100 So like you've probably been at conferences where like you know 01:09:10.100 --> 01:09:13.140 there's guys that are just getting started out in life and someone puts 01:09:13.140 --> 01:09:18.500 them up on the couch or whatever right? These sorts of things. 01:09:18.500 --> 01:09:19.260 What's this? 01:09:20.200 --> 01:09:23.760 And it says breaking bread from house to house. 01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:25.960 So they're just, they're having fellowship. 01:09:25.960 --> 01:09:27.400 This is not communism, okay. 01:09:27.400 --> 01:09:30.520 So they're going from house to house, 01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:33.760 not from all in the same commune. 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:35.760 These people still own their homes, okay. 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:37.760 We can presume. 01:09:39.400 --> 01:09:45.100 There are people in the New Testament that sold their homes just to give a big lump sum donation to the church and 01:09:45.400 --> 01:09:47.400 Two of those people lied about it and got killed 01:09:48.280 --> 01:09:50.280 by God for lying about 01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:58.100 Lying about it. So it's not to say that didn't happen, but it's also not it's not wasn't a universal thing that they all did 01:09:58.640 --> 01:10:00.640 It's not a command to do that 01:10:01.080 --> 01:10:03.080 God commands the tithe and 01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:05.600 Anyway 01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:14.200 So Pentecost is this impetus to work and to praise, which are our free will sacrifices in the New Testament. 01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:20.280 Because if you go back to Deuteronomy 16, I kind of got ahead of myself there with that. 01:10:20.280 --> 01:10:26.680 If you go back to Deuteronomy 16, we're talking about how to celebrate this feast of weeks. 01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:29.320 Deuteronomy 16 10. 01:10:30.300 --> 01:10:36.300 It says and thou shalt keep the feast of weeks. That's another name for the feast of Pentecost 01:10:36.940 --> 01:10:44.580 Unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a free will offering of thy hand which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God 01:10:45.260 --> 01:10:49.860 According as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee. So at the 01:10:50.200 --> 01:10:54.920 The Old Testament Feast of Weeks at the Old Testament Pentecost, you gave a freewill offering, 01:10:54.920 --> 01:11:00.360 basically the honor system. It says, as the Lord they Goddoth bless thee. It doesn't give a percent, 01:11:00.360 --> 01:11:05.080 it doesn't give a number, it's just a freewill offering. Hey, if you had a good year, 01:11:05.960 --> 01:11:11.000 give something good out of your own heart at this Feast of Weeks, right? And so, 01:11:12.200 --> 01:11:18.620 New Testament Pentecost comes, we have the Holy Ghost, and so our free will sacrifices in the New Testament are 01:11:18.620 --> 01:11:22.760 doing the works of God and praising God with their lips and these sorts of things. 01:11:22.760 --> 01:11:29.040 It's implied in the miracle that God did this miracle so that the Apostles 01:11:29.040 --> 01:11:32.460 and the other believers could get more work done faster. 01:11:32.460 --> 01:11:35.960 Right? And because of this miracle... 01:11:36.500 --> 01:11:39.300 should be cause for praise and worship just in and of itself. 01:11:41.700 --> 01:11:47.780 And Paul is still thinking about Pentecost in the book of Corinthians, 01:11:47.780 --> 01:11:52.180 Epistle to Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 16, 8. 01:11:52.700 --> 01:11:58.620 says, but I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost, for a great door and a 01:11:58.620 --> 01:12:02.860 factual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. 01:12:02.860 --> 01:12:07.020 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear, 01:12:07.020 --> 01:12:15.420 for he worketh the work of the Lord as I also do. So two things here 01:12:15.420 --> 01:12:20.000 in the Epistle to the Corinthians, Pentecost is still being observed. 01:12:20.300 --> 01:12:25.100 partly because he's probably still trying to reach some of the Jews who might still be celebrating 01:12:25.100 --> 01:12:30.140 the Old Testament version, but obviously he's aware of the New Testament one. I think that's what he's 01:12:31.020 --> 01:12:37.740 referring to because he's in Ephesus until Pentecost. So you know this is a gentile 01:12:37.740 --> 01:12:39.740 church that he's going to celebrate Pentecost with. 01:12:42.100 --> 01:12:48.180 But also note that in this passage, Paul directly transitions from that to work and evangelism. 01:12:50.340 --> 01:12:55.540 I think there's a direct connection between God giving us the power to do the works at Pentecost 01:12:56.660 --> 01:12:59.060 and the fact that we should go do them. 01:13:02.180 --> 01:13:08.420 Oh, Gabe, could I get some water? Thank you. So in 2 Chronicles 8, 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:15.440 Solomon commands the observance of the feast of weeks or the feast of Pentecost and 01:13:16.680 --> 01:13:22.080 And so and it says that through this and the other good works the house of the Lord was perfected 01:13:22.280 --> 01:13:28.580 So obviously they were commanded to celebrate this feast among others and by doing that 01:13:29.040 --> 01:13:32.960 And doing other good things. This is the house of the Lord was perfected in 01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:35.680 second Chronicles 812 01:13:36.900 --> 01:13:43.140 uh you don't have to turn there but it is a longer passage if you want to read it second chronicles 01:13:43.140 --> 01:13:49.300 8 12 then solomon offered burnt offerings unto the lord on the altar of the lord which he had built 01:13:49.300 --> 01:13:50.500 before the porch 01:13:53.200 --> 01:13:59.920 Verse 13, even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses on the Sabbaths, 01:14:00.400 --> 01:14:02.560 and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, 01:14:03.120 --> 01:14:09.840 three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. 01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:11.440 So those are the big, 01:14:11.440 --> 01:14:13.440 those are the big three, okay? 01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:16.400 And the feast of unleavened bread 01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:19.520 is also the Passover. 01:14:20.300 --> 01:14:27.180 And that's sort of like the death burial and resurrection, the Feast of Weeks. 01:14:27.180 --> 01:14:29.900 This is kind of like prefiguring the New Testament pentagonists. 01:14:29.900 --> 01:14:34.180 The Feast of Tabernacles, this is like where they go dwell in booths and tents. 01:14:34.180 --> 01:14:38.940 This is kind of prefiguring we're going to go get new bodies and a new home and mansions 01:14:38.940 --> 01:14:41.500 and be in heaven and all this stuff, right? 01:14:41.500 --> 01:14:42.500 So those are the big three. 01:14:42.500 --> 01:14:46.180 and it mirrors three major elements in salvation. 01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:51.040 Okay, second Chronicles 8-14, the passage continues, 01:14:52.080 --> 01:14:57.600 And he appointed according to the order of David his father the courses of the priests to their service, 01:14:58.320 --> 01:15:02.000 And the Levites to their charges to praise and minister before the priests, 01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:07.200 As the duty of every day required, the porters also by their courses at every gate. 01:15:08.160 --> 01:15:09.920 So there's your ushers. 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:12.420 For so had David the man of God commanded. 01:15:12.900 --> 01:15:18.220 they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter or 01:15:18.900 --> 01:15:25.640 Concerning the treasures now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord until was finished 01:15:25.940 --> 01:15:29.900 So the house of the Lord was perfected or complete 01:15:31.620 --> 01:15:34.380 And part of that completion was that they're observing 01:15:35.620 --> 01:15:37.620 Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks 01:15:37.940 --> 01:15:39.600 All right 01:15:40.400 --> 01:15:46.920 Now just as a practical matter, this is kind of a rabbit run here, but you know, this whole 01:15:46.920 --> 01:15:53.880 thing about the language, like this is God temporarily solving the problem or solving 01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:54.920 the curse of Babel. 01:15:55.500 --> 01:16:06.700 Right all the way back in the Old Testament he confounded the languages and then in order to bring about like the grace and truth of the gospel he temporarily lifts this in order to jumpstart the New Testament church. 01:16:06.700 --> 01:16:14.300 Very cool, very cool miracle in that regard right because this is kind of like a big thing that separates people internationally as language. 01:16:14.300 --> 01:16:18.300 You can have, you know, unlimited 01:16:18.700 --> 01:16:22.620 point one second internet connection to someone in India but if they speak 01:16:22.620 --> 01:16:26.300 Indian you speak English you're still your communication is still 01:16:26.300 --> 01:16:31.980 pretty limited. So I mean I realized with AI and Translate now 01:16:31.980 --> 01:16:36.300 it's getting a little it's it's it's uh we have a lot of 01:16:36.300 --> 01:16:40.780 interesting technology at our disposal now that they didn't have but 01:16:40.780 --> 01:16:44.460 one of the parallels I thought of though is is you know when our country our 01:16:44.460 --> 01:16:45.400 kingdom. 01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:52.000 our carnal physical kingdom if you will, tries to influence and collect information from other nations. 01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:57.400 One of the hardest things in human intelligence from the American perspective 01:16:57.400 --> 01:17:03.800 is having competent, motivated, loyal people who are totally fluent in a language 01:17:04.200 --> 01:17:09.720 other than English or Spanish. Okay? And I realize we have a few French people in like Arcadia and 01:17:09.720 --> 01:17:15.080 the Bayou and stuff but like those are dialects. They would stand out in like West Africa or 01:17:15.080 --> 01:17:24.280 something. So many people, they might learn some French or Italian or German to be cultured or 01:17:24.280 --> 01:17:31.320 for travel or whatever. You know, and some businessmen might learn some Japanese or Chinese to be polite. 01:17:32.300 --> 01:17:39.660 But the number of guys that are born in America and look like me, who are 100% native fluent in Kurdish... 01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:49.040 or Javanese or Korean or Bulgarian or Serbian or Armenian or Farsi or even Russian for that matter, 01:17:50.320 --> 01:17:55.920 it's very small. And the number of these people who have not only native fluency, 01:17:56.480 --> 01:18:03.200 but the ability to culturally blend in in those places and gain the trust of powerful or critical 01:18:03.200 --> 01:18:04.800 individuals is even smaller. 01:18:05.200 --> 01:18:12.720 And so America's always had a problem with like being able to do old-school sneaky spying. 01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:16.680 We pretty much rely on turning people from those countries that... 01:18:17.100 --> 01:18:22.940 don't like the regime they're under or paying them or you know saying hey you can come live 01:18:22.940 --> 01:18:28.620 here if you tell us some secrets or whatever right like our actual like cloak and dagger 01:18:28.620 --> 01:18:35.740 abilities are are not so great compared to some countries. So 01:18:37.100 --> 01:18:42.220 you can be totally conversational in a language and still be quite obviously foreign is what I'm saying. 01:18:42.220 --> 01:18:47.020 And you can be totally fluent and still have tons of cultural... you can be totally fluent though even 01:18:47.020 --> 01:18:52.620 but still have cultural tells right that you're foreign. And so America always has an asymmetrical 01:18:52.620 --> 01:18:58.140 handicap in this area because we're such an open and welcoming society and so when someone has an 01:18:58.140 --> 01:19:03.980 accent or they just have different mannerisms or manners it doesn't necessarily set off alarm bells 01:19:03.980 --> 01:19:05.100 in the same way it 01:19:05.100 --> 01:19:10.320 would in like red China or the Soviet Union, right? You just, even though you're 01:19:10.320 --> 01:19:16.900 different, you still stand out relatively less compared to some countries. We also 01:19:16.900 --> 01:19:21.060 bring in hundreds of thousands of foreign students and so our adversaries 01:19:21.060 --> 01:19:23.940 are always well supplied with people who have experience in our culture and how 01:19:23.940 --> 01:19:28.820 things work here. But to bring it back from this parallelism to the Christian 01:19:28.820 --> 01:19:29.800 perspective, 01:19:30.400 --> 01:19:33.760 The language barrier is always one of the struggles of missionary efforts. 01:19:36.080 --> 01:19:40.560 It's less important to completely blend in culturally as a missionary compared to 01:19:40.560 --> 01:19:45.200 intelligence work, but the language barrier alone is a tough one when trying to discuss 01:19:46.080 --> 01:19:50.880 theological concepts or nuances of law and morality rather than, you know, 01:19:50.880 --> 01:19:54.640 hey, what's for dinner? How are you doing? Things like this. 01:19:56.300 --> 01:20:01.020 And those of us who spend any time in the traditional IFB movement, we all saw people 01:20:01.020 --> 01:20:07.020 struggle to learn the language and customs of some obscure nation for years and go on 01:20:07.020 --> 01:20:12.620 deputation and finally go there and maybe start a church with like four people in it. 01:20:12.620 --> 01:20:19.500 And it was just, it was really sad sometimes. And, you know, a lot of times, you know, 01:20:19.500 --> 01:20:22.860 the people that they'd gather under the wings had already been saved. 01:20:23.400 --> 01:20:30.120 by somebody else and you know a lot of times they have the most noble intentions and it's true that 01:20:31.160 --> 01:20:35.960 sometimes the work we're called to seems small but it's still important to God little as much 01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:40.680 when God is in it right but we all probably thought in the back of our minds there has to 01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:45.560 be some superior way to organize these efforts right and so 01:20:46.200 --> 01:20:52.520 Our efforts are usually, you know, not as good as what the Holy Ghost did here. 01:20:52.520 --> 01:20:59.880 The Holy Ghost entirely shortcut this process by preaching to people who were 100% native 01:20:59.880 --> 01:21:06.040 speakers and then sending them to those places filled with the Spirit themselves and equipped 01:21:06.040 --> 01:21:09.400 to spread the gospel organically from the ground up in their own culture. 01:21:09.800 --> 01:21:13.880 without any additional steps of language and culture training, right? 01:21:14.600 --> 01:21:22.240 And on top of that because a lot of them or most of them almost all of them were either Jews or converts to Judaism 01:21:22.240 --> 01:21:24.320 That's why they were in Jerusalem that day in the first place 01:21:25.720 --> 01:21:27.540 They were already 01:21:27.540 --> 01:21:31.540 Separated to a degree from the bad elements of their respective cultures 01:21:31.660 --> 01:21:35.720 They were in those cultures and knew those cultures already, but they were already kind of 01:21:36.500 --> 01:21:40.660 separated from the pagan elements of it because they were already Jewish. 01:21:42.660 --> 01:21:52.180 And so these first churches in these areas might not have been dragged down quite so fast as say like 01:21:52.900 --> 01:21:58.420 the Roman church where like all that paganism got mixed in pretty quick, right? 01:22:00.200 --> 01:22:04.280 because it was more of a gentile church that was bringing in a lot of former pagans. 01:22:07.160 --> 01:22:10.520 Right with the ancestor veneration becomes the saint veneration, things like this. 01:22:11.160 --> 01:22:18.760 You know, we've all read about things from the old Roman religion that got brought into Roman Catholicism. 01:22:22.700 --> 01:22:28.140 And so God's very wise. He kind of like, he used people that were already a bit separated, 01:22:28.140 --> 01:22:33.500 that already spoke all these different languages, were already integrated culturally and had them 01:22:33.500 --> 01:22:39.740 go back to their places. Like the ultimate mission sending conference. 01:22:42.600 --> 01:22:49.400 And again, I'll touch back on the parallel between Israel falling to idolatry and the 01:22:49.400 --> 01:22:50.560 Christian church. 01:22:50.560 --> 01:22:55.120 So like Pentecost is commemorating Moses getting the law. 01:22:55.120 --> 01:23:02.760 And of course we remember that there's only 10 commandments and they are immediately 01:23:02.760 --> 01:23:05.600 breaking like the second commandment like before they even... 01:23:05.700 --> 01:23:11.460 have the written copy. it's just it's like it's so crazy right? but it's such a powerful commentary 01:23:11.460 --> 01:23:18.020 on how corrupt and how stupid we are, how bad human nature is. even Aaron's falling into this. 01:23:18.020 --> 01:23:24.100 like Aaron, like i mean this is this guy's gonna be the high priest and he's doing this. it's like 01:23:24.100 --> 01:23:30.500 you just um you just facepalm i think when you read this but god still loved them anyway. 01:23:31.900 --> 01:23:37.180 Alright, I still love these people and it's a it's a it's a but it's a very grievous sin 01:23:37.180 --> 01:23:43.420 And it's one we shouldn't shy from calling out like when we see it today in in the Roman Catholic Church because 01:23:43.860 --> 01:23:48.820 You had the first Pentecost and then just like immediately they're doing golden statues 01:23:49.220 --> 01:23:52.500 You have the New Testament Pentecost and it does take a little while 01:23:52.500 --> 01:23:56.060 I don't know how long 50 years 100 years 200 years 300 years 01:23:56.700 --> 01:24:02.300 for the Catholics have just buildings full of statues. And it's just like, how can you possibly 01:24:02.300 --> 01:24:06.620 get that from reading the Bible? Like, how can you read the Bible and come away thinking you should 01:24:06.620 --> 01:24:12.780 make a statue of anything? Like, if anything, like, you'd err on the side of caution and not even have 01:24:12.780 --> 01:24:20.620 like a garden gnome, right? I mean, like, you don't want to be like overly puritanical, you know, 01:24:20.620 --> 01:24:22.800 know and be like, oh son you can't have a... 01:24:22.900 --> 01:24:30.180 you know an army man figurine because it's an idol it's a graven image but i mean after a certain 01:24:30.180 --> 01:24:36.740 point you know there starts being a gray area right like we don't have like a brass statue of 01:24:36.740 --> 01:24:45.380 pastor thompson in the lobby you know if you seem a little odd um but and so 01:24:46.300 --> 01:24:51.420 You have the plagues that God does. You have the crossing of the Red Sea. You have the miracle of the manna. 01:24:51.420 --> 01:24:54.940 God's smoking on the mountain in front of all of them. 01:24:54.940 --> 01:25:01.580 And yet their flesh still reverted to idolatry like the second they had a minute of freedom without the leader around. 01:25:01.580 --> 01:25:06.940 And there's kind of a parallel, right? You have the miracles of Christ. 01:25:07.200 --> 01:25:12.880 the miracle of Pentecost, all the miracles the apostles are doing, and yet people still 01:25:13.520 --> 01:25:20.000 reverted to the weak and beggarly elements, to praying to painted statues and wooden statues and 01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:25.200 pieces of cement and plastic merry garden statues. And it's just, it's crazy, right? 01:25:25.920 --> 01:25:33.440 And, but it's, it's not unprecedented. It's, it's what even some saved Jews fell into. 01:25:34.800 --> 01:25:37.680 in the covenant where they didn't have the permanent indwelling of the Holy Ghost. 01:25:38.400 --> 01:25:42.000 Today we have the permanent presence of the Holy Ghost in us. 01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:48.080 If someone is falling into like gross idolatry, I think it'd be fair to question their salvation. 01:25:49.360 --> 01:25:56.160 Way more so than, you know, obviously Aaron was saved, but it's a little bit of a different 01:25:56.160 --> 01:26:01.760 situation. They didn't have the Bible for one thing. They also didn't have 01:26:03.100 --> 01:26:05.100 the Holy Ghost permanently indwelling them. 01:26:07.100 --> 01:26:09.100 Now in Acts 17, 01:26:10.100 --> 01:26:12.100 almost done here, in Acts 17, 01:26:12.100 --> 01:26:15.100 Paul is preaching to the Athenians, 01:26:16.100 --> 01:26:19.100 and you know the passage probably, it says, 01:26:19.100 --> 01:26:22.220 For as much then as we are the offspring of God 01:26:22.900 --> 01:26:27.860 We ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone 01:26:28.340 --> 01:26:35.220 Graven by art and man's device and the times of this ignorance god winked at but now commandeth all men 01:26:35.920 --> 01:26:38.020 Everywhere to repent so you can't say 01:26:38.820 --> 01:26:44.740 Well catholicism is just my culture. We just have these statues because of the culture says he commanded all men 01:26:45.460 --> 01:26:48.020 Everywhere to repent. He's done winking at 01:26:48.900 --> 01:26:50.500 that sort of thing and 01:26:50.600 --> 01:26:53.960 giving the heathen a pass on it just because that you know 01:26:54.680 --> 01:26:58.600 Obviously that the gospel had less people going around the world preaching it in the Old Testament 01:26:59.080 --> 01:27:02.580 God was a little bit more understanding of some of these heathen nations 01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:07.480 But it's just you know playtime's over basically is what he's saying 01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:17.880 And there's a prefigurement of Pentecost, I think, at the baptism of Christ, because 01:27:17.880 --> 01:27:23.420 you have the Holy Spirit descending like a dove above Christ. 01:27:23.420 --> 01:27:26.860 And he also suffered before the Church would suffer. 01:27:26.860 --> 01:27:31.360 He rose again before the general, before the first and second resurrections. 01:27:31.360 --> 01:27:32.860 He's the first fruits. 01:27:32.860 --> 01:27:35.080 He got a glorified body before everybody else. 01:27:35.600 --> 01:27:38.600 In all things he has the preeminence. 01:27:38.600 --> 01:27:43.500 And so I think that the Holy Ghost coming down on Christ, 01:27:43.500 --> 01:27:45.460 this was a prefigurement of the Holy Ghost coming down 01:27:45.460 --> 01:27:46.860 on the entire church there. 01:27:48.760 --> 01:27:52.260 It's one of the things you're represented, right? 01:27:54.400 --> 01:27:57.820 So Pentecost is first and foremost about the empowerment 01:27:57.820 --> 01:28:00.440 of God's people to preach Christ. 01:28:00.600 --> 01:28:06.380 hear Christ preached and thus maximize the number of people who go on to be with Christ 01:28:06.380 --> 01:28:08.040 and to be like Christ. 01:28:08.040 --> 01:28:15.080 Because he's getting the Holy Ghost descending on him first, he's suffering first, he's rising 01:28:15.080 --> 01:28:18.400 again first, he's getting glorified by first, he's leading the way, right? 01:28:18.400 --> 01:28:20.720 He's captain of our salvation. 01:28:20.720 --> 01:28:24.720 And so we want other people to follow in those steps. 01:28:24.720 --> 01:28:27.720 It is there. 01:28:28.500 --> 01:28:36.500 It's therefore also a day, Pentecost is also a day of hope and joyful anticipation, right? 01:28:36.500 --> 01:28:42.060 That Holy Ghost, it says it's the earnest of our inheritance, right? 01:28:42.060 --> 01:28:45.700 And so like we don't have the new man yet, we're not sinless yet, but we have the Holy 01:28:45.700 --> 01:28:50.900 Ghost in us witnessing to us at least what's the right thing to do. 01:28:50.900 --> 01:28:53.580 So it's not our full inheritance yet. 01:28:53.580 --> 01:28:56.020 but you can imagine like a young man. 01:28:56.400 --> 01:29:00.400 like receiving the earnest of his inheritance right 01:29:00.400 --> 01:29:05.400 I'm assuming he's a good character he's not just gonna blow it right 01:29:05.400 --> 01:29:08.400 he can't fully enjoy the whole inheritance yet but getting that earnest 01:29:08.400 --> 01:29:12.400 you know gives them some confidence to move forward in his endeavors 01:29:12.400 --> 01:29:15.400 and be glad and and and hopeful for his future right 01:29:15.400 --> 01:29:20.400 if he's got the right mindset right if he's not just a prodigal son right 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:25.560 Just getting, getting, getting, you know, if you've got a $10,000 inheritance coming in, you can get a thousand. 01:29:26.280 --> 01:29:30.280 Like you're still going to be happy. You're going to be more confident about your situation, right? 01:29:33.400 --> 01:29:37.320 And so what about the Pentecostals? I think I already touched on this. 01:29:38.360 --> 01:29:40.840 I feel like you have to touch on it in a Pentecost sermon. 01:29:41.800 --> 01:29:44.280 There's a sect who take their name from the events in Acts 2. 01:29:44.920 --> 01:29:47.960 And it's really a stain on the name of Christ. 01:29:49.200 --> 01:29:56.960 We do not let people who think the miracle Pentecost was talking in gibberish, we don't let them take 01:29:56.960 --> 01:30:02.640 this holiday from us, you know, any more than the fact that Mormons celebrate Easter is going to 01:30:02.640 --> 01:30:07.520 discourage me from celebrating Easter. Okay, Catholics celebrate Christmas, they celebrate 01:30:07.520 --> 01:30:13.120 Easter, they celebrate Pentecost. I'm going to celebrate all those things. It's not a binary thing, right? 01:30:13.120 --> 01:30:14.600 like they're just 01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:19.000 They're not doing it in the spirit of truth though. 01:30:24.300 --> 01:30:28.460 And in some cases, you know, as long as they're not saying anything like wildly 01:30:28.460 --> 01:30:32.060 heretical, they're sometimes laying a foundation for us to build upon. 01:30:32.060 --> 01:30:38.620 Because a lot of times, like a very generic Catholic holiday service, saying positive 01:30:38.620 --> 01:30:42.140 things about Jesus, saying positive things about God, we come along later, 01:30:43.020 --> 01:30:45.260 actually fill them in on the whole truth. 01:30:48.380 --> 01:30:51.260 So, a couple last thoughts on Pentecost. 01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:57.520 The first church, if you think about it, was a very small and persecuted group. 01:30:57.520 --> 01:31:03.120 Like, we can sometimes have a persecution complex in the New F.B. because we're small, 01:31:03.120 --> 01:31:08.000 but like there's literally millions of Baptists just in America, right? 01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:11.360 Like we feel pretty comfortable coming to church, going to church, whatever. 01:31:11.360 --> 01:31:17.760 Been a couple times where it was a little uncomfortable, but imagine the New Testament 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:19.920 church where there's one congregation. 01:31:20.200 --> 01:31:24.600 right? You feel a little bit more isolated, a little bit more vulnerable, right? And you're in 01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:30.520 a country that's already under foreign occupation by pagan romans. And then on top of that, locally, 01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:37.320 you've got all these Pharisees, Jewish Pharisees on your back. It's a scary and uphill time to be 01:31:37.320 --> 01:31:42.840 a Christian. So that where even the disciples nearly went back to their old lives, went just 01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:44.440 just went back to fishing, right? 01:31:45.700 --> 01:31:52.580 And so to see 3000 people saved and baptized in the same day, this was a great reassurance 01:31:52.580 --> 01:31:59.060 of God's promise to build his church. It was a sort of a first fruits of the worldwide evangelism 01:31:59.060 --> 01:32:05.300 that Christianity would go on and thrive all over the world instead of remaining like some local 01:32:05.300 --> 01:32:12.660 fringe movement of ethnic Jews around Jerusalem, right? That situation would have been inherently fragile. 01:32:13.400 --> 01:32:17.280 Especially given Christ prophecy that Jerusalem is going to be destroyed anyway 01:32:19.160 --> 01:32:22.720 God has to make sure that this message goes out to everybody else 01:32:26.300 --> 01:32:30.300 And in Mark 4, Jesus said, and he said, 01:32:31.660 --> 01:32:36.780 Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God, or with what comparison shall we compare it? 01:32:37.420 --> 01:32:41.900 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in the earth, 01:32:41.900 --> 01:32:44.300 is less than all the seeds that be in the earth. 01:32:44.860 --> 01:32:49.580 And that first church in Jerusalem was probably the smallest religion in the world 01:32:50.460 --> 01:32:52.940 at that initial service, right? 01:32:53.800 --> 01:32:59.200 Maybe there was a witch doctor in Africa that only had like 20 followers. 01:32:59.200 --> 01:33:04.040 But like in terms of like serious religions, right? 01:33:04.040 --> 01:33:06.700 It's like a grain of mustard seed sown in the earth. 01:33:06.700 --> 01:33:08.800 It's less than all the seeds to be in the earth. 01:33:08.800 --> 01:33:12.360 But when it is sown, it groweth up and become greater. 01:33:12.700 --> 01:33:18.620 than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the 01:33:18.620 --> 01:33:24.620 shadow of it." And so the church is spread worldwide. Many people are lodged under that shadow. 01:33:25.900 --> 01:33:28.540 Even among the churches that don't have the right gospel. 01:33:28.700 --> 01:33:38.200 They've provided a lot of health and human services to just people in general and spread goodwill about the name of Jesus in a lot of cases. 01:33:38.200 --> 01:33:42.860 Sometimes they've made people think ill of Jesus because of the bad things they've done. 01:33:42.860 --> 01:33:51.600 But on the whole, a lot of these squishy Protestant churches, they're still spending money to... 01:33:51.700 --> 01:33:56.420 feed people and give people medical care and stuff like that right and there's a lot of 01:33:56.980 --> 01:33:59.940 there's a lot of good that has come out of the new testament 01:34:02.580 --> 01:34:05.220 first and foremost getting people saved but there's just a lot of 01:34:06.100 --> 01:34:10.980 benefits that is given to the world like the fact that we don't have polygamous marriage anymore 01:34:11.600 --> 01:34:20.000 The fact that you don't just go out and revenge people like, you know, ancient German pagans or something and just we're just like 01:34:20.400 --> 01:34:22.900 Having a honor blood feuds and stuff 01:34:23.440 --> 01:34:25.440 like the law 01:34:26.600 --> 01:34:28.600 It's been a great benefit 01:34:28.640 --> 01:34:32.800 Gotten so many benefits from it culturally beyond spiritual salvation 01:34:33.320 --> 01:34:35.320 All from this one little nucleus 01:34:36.360 --> 01:34:37.700 in the Near East 01:34:38.900 --> 01:34:49.300 And so I saved the history lesson for the end so that you know the people that are asleep can remain so. 01:34:49.300 --> 01:34:52.700 But at least I didn't lose you in the beginning, okay? 01:34:52.700 --> 01:34:59.900 So just to go recap where this pentagon of some feast of weeks come from Deuteronomy 16. 01:34:59.900 --> 01:35:03.600 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee. 01:35:03.800 --> 01:35:08.680 Begin to number the seven weeks from such times they'll begin us to put the sickle to the corn 01:35:08.680 --> 01:35:16.000 So it's like, you know, Monty Python's holy hand grenade count out of three neither count though for do not count two unless they'll then proceed 01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:17.000 It's the three 01:35:17.100 --> 01:35:19.100 Seven weeks shall thou number unto thee. 01:35:19.460 --> 01:35:24.300 Begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle in the corn, 01:35:24.580 --> 01:35:29.980 and thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with the tribute of free will offering of thy hand, 01:35:30.420 --> 01:35:33.980 and thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee. 01:35:35.000 --> 01:35:41.440 And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant 01:35:41.440 --> 01:35:47.140 So it's for everybody and the Levite that is within thy gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow 01:35:47.440 --> 01:35:52.240 That are among you in the place which the Lord the God hath chosen to place his name there 01:35:52.240 --> 01:35:54.640 So there's some things in the ancient 01:35:55.160 --> 01:36:00.560 Or in the old in the Old Testament. It's more exclusive like only certain people can go into the 01:36:01.360 --> 01:36:03.000 Tabernacle and things like this 01:36:03.300 --> 01:36:10.100 Feast of Weeks, Feast of Pentecost, it's saying like, get everybody, the servants, the Levites, 01:36:10.100 --> 01:36:16.660 the strangers, the orphans, the widows, you know, this is what, and so this kind of prefigures, 01:36:16.660 --> 01:36:24.260 right, the New Testament in that sense. It says, and thou shalt remember that thou was a bondman 01:36:24.260 --> 01:36:27.700 in Egypt, and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. And so. 01:36:28.700 --> 01:36:33.800 Egypt of course, you know remember that you were in the world and you know now you've been saved from it 01:36:37.400 --> 01:36:42.440 So again you have the Passover, then you start counting weeks. Seven weeks plus one day, 01:36:43.000 --> 01:36:50.360 it's 49 days plus one that's 50. Pentecost just means 50th day in Greek or whatever. 01:36:53.080 --> 01:36:57.400 You know, I think just leaving it kind of untranslated like that kind of makes sense 01:36:57.400 --> 01:37:01.800 because just saying 50th day doesn't have the same ring to it. 01:37:05.200 --> 01:37:07.200 Makes it clear what we're talking about. 01:37:08.080 --> 01:37:10.080 Okay, in Mark 4, 01:37:10.320 --> 01:37:12.320 11, he said, 01:37:12.720 --> 01:37:15.120 Jesus speaking again, and he said to them, 01:37:15.120 --> 01:37:17.520 Under you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, 01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:23.720 but under them that are without, all these things are done in parables, that seeing they may see and not perceive, 01:37:24.040 --> 01:37:31.120 and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted and their sin should be forgiven them. 01:37:31.600 --> 01:37:36.880 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? And how then will ye know all parables? 01:37:38.080 --> 01:37:46.800 Verse 14, The sower soweth the word. And again what is this festival? 01:37:47.500 --> 01:37:54.620 A, okay, 50 days from the giving of the law slash 50 days from the resurrection, but it's also a it's a harvest time 01:37:55.180 --> 01:38:01.340 Festival, it's when you start harvesting the wheat. Okay, and so the sower soweth the word this phrase 01:38:02.220 --> 01:38:08.140 Or rather the phrase the seed is the word of god. This is kind of the crux of 01:38:08.700 --> 01:38:13.260 The agricultural symbolism I think in the bible to understand that the seed is the word of god 01:38:13.900 --> 01:38:19.020 The sower soweth the word, it grows up in people and then it's harvested. 01:38:19.020 --> 01:38:24.660 This place is Christ at the center of all the symbolism because He is the Word of God. 01:38:24.660 --> 01:38:30.460 So He's the seed, He's the Word of God, everything grows forth out of Him before it's harvested. 01:38:31.000 --> 01:38:33.160 You know, we sing a song, it says, 01:38:33.160 --> 01:38:35.600 as lives the flower within the seed, 01:38:35.600 --> 01:38:37.520 as in the cone the tree, 01:38:37.520 --> 01:38:39.120 so praise the God of truth and grace, 01:38:39.120 --> 01:38:40.520 his spirit dwelleth in me. 01:38:40.520 --> 01:38:41.760 All things were made by him, 01:38:41.760 --> 01:38:43.320 all things proceed from him, 01:38:43.320 --> 01:38:44.360 such forth and so on. 01:38:44.360 --> 01:38:46.360 So, all these harvest festivals, 01:38:46.360 --> 01:38:48.520 all the different agricultural symbols in the Bible, 01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:52.120 I think the core of it is that Christ is the seed, 01:38:52.120 --> 01:38:54.160 it's called the seed of Abraham, 01:38:54.160 --> 01:38:56.280 it's called, by different things, 01:38:56.280 --> 01:38:57.680 it's called the word of God. 01:38:58.800 --> 01:39:03.800 And so, if you skip down to verse 26, 01:39:05.240 --> 01:39:07.760 and he said, so is the kingdom of God, 01:39:07.760 --> 01:39:11.240 as if a man should cast seed into the ground, 01:39:11.240 --> 01:39:13.320 and should sleep and rise night and day, 01:39:13.320 --> 01:39:16.600 and the seed should spring and grow up, 01:39:16.600 --> 01:39:17.880 he knoweth not how. 01:39:19.040 --> 01:39:21.720 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself, 01:39:21.720 --> 01:39:23.760 first the blade, then the ear, 01:39:23.760 --> 01:39:26.080 after that the full corn in the ear. 01:39:26.600 --> 01:39:33.560 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he put it in the sickle, because the harvest has come." 01:39:34.360 --> 01:39:40.440 And so again, then that's going to be, this is the last thing before 01:39:42.040 --> 01:39:48.440 you get the final harvest, the angels come and all that. And you know, Peter addresses this, 01:39:49.480 --> 01:39:53.960 you know, the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon into blood before the great notable day of the Lord. 01:39:54.600 --> 01:39:58.700 And all that and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved 01:40:00.540 --> 01:40:02.220 All right one last 01:40:02.220 --> 01:40:07.040 One last historical reference here just so we know or Old Testament reference so we know 01:40:07.940 --> 01:40:09.820 100% 01:40:09.820 --> 01:40:11.820 You're gonna know the Feast of Weeks in Pentecost 01:40:12.820 --> 01:40:14.820 100% right so 01:40:14.820 --> 01:40:18.780 Leviticus 23 15 Leviticus 23 15. This is what describes 01:40:20.580 --> 01:40:22.400 This feast 01:40:22.600 --> 01:40:25.240 And I back loaded this so you didn't fall asleep in the beginning. 01:40:28.100 --> 01:40:34.900 So, the Vedicus 23, 15, this chapter explains the feasts of the Lord. 01:40:35.780 --> 01:40:42.180 And, uh, your Bible might not have this, but mine has, like, the little section heading Pentecost. 01:40:43.140 --> 01:40:44.900 Um, verse 15, 01:40:44.900 --> 01:40:48.340 And you should count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, 01:40:48.900 --> 01:40:53.860 from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths shall be complete. 01:40:54.400 --> 01:40:59.200 even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath ye shall number fifty days and 01:40:59.200 --> 01:41:02.160 ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the lord 01:41:02.160 --> 01:41:05.440 ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loafs 01:41:05.440 --> 01:41:09.280 of two tenths deals they shall be a fine flour 01:41:09.280 --> 01:41:12.720 they shall be bacon with leaven they are the first fruits 01:41:12.720 --> 01:41:15.760 on to the Lord. So I think it's interesting that 01:41:16.900 --> 01:41:23.780 Passover you have the unleavened bread that like symbolizes like affliction but then in the harvest festival you're baking with leaven that symbolizes 01:41:23.780 --> 01:41:27.340 You know like growth the spreading of things right? 01:41:29.060 --> 01:41:36.280 In verse 18 and you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year and one young bullock and two rams 01:41:36.280 --> 01:41:43.080 They shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord with their meat offering and the drink offerings even an offering made by 01:41:43.700 --> 01:41:49.260 fire of sweet savor unto the Lord. Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a 01:41:49.260 --> 01:41:56.060 sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for sacrifice of peace offerings. And the 01:41:56.060 --> 01:42:00.100 priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the 01:42:00.100 --> 01:42:05.200 Lord with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. 01:42:05.300 --> 01:42:11.060 And you shall proclaim on the self same day that it may be a holy convocation unto you, 01:42:11.060 --> 01:42:16.580 you shall do no servile work therein, and shall be a statue forever in all your dwellings throughout 01:42:16.580 --> 01:42:22.340 all your generations." So that's why they're still celebrating it in Acts 2 because it's a command 01:42:22.340 --> 01:42:28.260 that it's throughout all the generations, at least as long as this book of the law is in force, right? 01:42:28.260 --> 01:42:32.800 And when you reap the harvest of your land... 01:42:32.900 --> 01:42:37.300 Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, 01:42:37.300 --> 01:42:42.660 neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest. Thou shalt leave them unto the poor 01:42:42.660 --> 01:42:48.340 and the stranger. I am the Lord your God." So then you have this hat tip to the the stranger again, 01:42:49.780 --> 01:42:56.980 part of the prefigurement of all these people from other countries getting saved and 01:42:56.980 --> 01:42:59.140 and taken care of at Pentecostal. 01:42:59.700 --> 01:43:05.180 Okay, so now you've seen Deuteronomy and Leviticus where this comes from and 01:43:06.260 --> 01:43:09.380 It's it's incredible that you have 01:43:10.900 --> 01:43:14.340 You know the Christ showing himself for 40 days 01:43:14.940 --> 01:43:16.940 He ascends ten days later 01:43:17.180 --> 01:43:21.320 Right on schedule. They get the Holy Ghost just on timing with the feast 01:43:22.460 --> 01:43:25.420 There's just this perfect continuity between 01:43:26.500 --> 01:43:32.660 You know Exodus Leviticus Deuteronomy acts. I mean like the whole Bible ties together. That's very cool 01:43:34.660 --> 01:43:37.860 So what comes after the harvest I already mentioned that the feast of tabernacles 01:43:38.980 --> 01:43:40.980 Kind of represents I think 01:43:41.460 --> 01:43:46.260 The resurrection the new body we're going to go dwell in the safety of a new tabernacle 01:43:47.540 --> 01:43:50.660 New mansion god's heaven generally speaking 01:43:51.700 --> 01:43:53.700 Be like a place of safety 01:43:55.200 --> 01:44:00.720 And so a Pentecost is part of this long thread of agricultural and seasonal symbolism in the Bible, 01:44:01.280 --> 01:44:06.240 which makes sense because God designed all those systems of food growing and seasons and 01:44:06.240 --> 01:44:09.120 the way plants work and the weather works and stuff. And 01:44:11.520 --> 01:44:16.720 God's not a God of chaos. There's sometimes temporary disorder in this world due to man's 01:44:16.720 --> 01:44:21.100 God's got a pattern and cycles and order and structure. 01:44:21.100 --> 01:44:26.140 you know, because that's the only way like a complicated world and universe can function. 01:44:31.100 --> 01:44:37.260 disproves evolution by the way because like how would you get all this order out of chaos um 01:44:39.020 --> 01:44:45.820 pentecost demonstrates the mighty power of god but it does so in a comforting in an encouraging 01:44:45.820 --> 01:44:51.660 way right if god came down and blew up a mountain and smoked and rained brimstone on us that would 01:44:51.660 --> 01:44:55.980 definitely demonstrate his power but would necessarily be comforting and encouraging okay 01:44:55.980 --> 01:44:57.900 This is a very... 01:44:58.400 --> 01:45:04.640 comforting and encouraging type of holiday and remembrance of things that happened in Act II. 01:45:05.280 --> 01:45:12.320 And it basically, it shows that, you know, if we're in his service, that all this power he has, 01:45:12.320 --> 01:45:16.160 it's going to be used to back us up and to help us to do the things he's asked to us. 01:45:16.720 --> 01:45:20.880 It's going to give us the boldness to preach like Peter. I mean, Peter was tearing it up 01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:25.760 in Acts 2. He has a lot of good sermons in Acts. Peter was a pretty good preacher. 01:45:26.300 --> 01:45:32.020 I mean, he's doing it through the power of the Holy Ghost, but I mean, God still picks 01:45:32.020 --> 01:45:33.980 these people for a reason, I suppose. 01:45:33.980 --> 01:45:41.420 It's kind of a, you know, using the personality and the Holy Ghost in conjunction. 01:45:41.420 --> 01:45:45.940 It is a, you know, and it was more impressive too, because these guys speaking in foreign 01:45:45.940 --> 01:45:48.100 tongues were Galileans. 01:45:48.100 --> 01:45:52.060 And these were like blue collar, backwards guys. 01:45:52.500 --> 01:45:59.540 This is like if like the salmon fishers from Alaska were all speaking in like some Southeast 01:45:59.540 --> 01:46:04.100 Asian language and like African languages and like you would just be like you didn't go to 01:46:04.100 --> 01:46:13.140 college what's going on here right I mean it would be a miracle right um if just some roughneck salmon 01:46:13.140 --> 01:46:18.740 fishers from Alaska were all doing what they were doing made it more impressive I made Peter's preaching 01:46:19.700 --> 01:46:21.700 More impressive, I think. 01:46:21.700 --> 01:46:23.700 We see that all the time. 01:46:23.700 --> 01:46:29.700 Where you just have guys that have no formal training and they're better preachers than seminary guys. 01:46:29.700 --> 01:46:31.700 You see it all the time. 01:46:31.700 --> 01:46:35.700 It's a proof of the Holy Ghost. 01:46:35.700 --> 01:46:37.700 It's a proof of the power of God's Word. 01:46:37.700 --> 01:46:45.700 And so Pentecost, it's the promise that the Holy Ghost, like Christ, will never leave us or forsake us. 01:46:46.700 --> 01:46:53.440 You know, God's here with us literally. He's ready to help us. He's ready to help us do big things like world evangelism 01:46:54.140 --> 01:46:58.940 And we're little things like the at the end of the chapter where there's breaking bread house to house and just hanging out 01:46:59.740 --> 01:47:01.740 And so, you know next 228 01:47:03.180 --> 01:47:10.780 Next 228 says thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. I think that's that's kind of uh the message 01:47:11.300 --> 01:47:18.100 of Pentecost. Yes, it's about, hey, get to work and do all this evangelism, but it's a very comforting, 01:47:18.860 --> 01:47:26.300 encouraging type of joyful message. So I think it's a great, great holiday in the Rolodex of Christian holidays there. 01:47:26.300 --> 01:47:30.980 And with that, we'll close with the Word of the Heavenly Father. Thank you for all the 01:47:32.980 --> 01:47:35.740 everything in your Bible, the feasts and how they teach us things. 01:47:36.400 --> 01:47:41.360 and how we can mine like all this meaning out of your word and it's never going to be exhausted 01:47:42.080 --> 01:47:47.280 and we didn't even scratch the surface and uh the word just blesses us for our time here today 01:47:47.280 --> 01:47:50.800 and bless any soul winning this week in Jesus name we pray amen. 01:48:07.900 --> 01:48:14.860 Alright, now for our closing song. Please turn once more in your blue songbooks to number 209, 01:48:14.860 --> 01:48:22.140 Wonderful Words of Life. That is page 209, Wonderful Words of Life.