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Wait!
Wait!
Jesus had told them to wait, it would not be much longer (Act1:4-5)
Act1:
Well now it is 10 days later, so you get the time frame.
We have gone from Passover (picture of the death of Christ as our passover lamb) (Jn1:29)
Passover (picture death of lamb)
Jesus appeared to them for 40 days (Act1:3)
to the feast of first fruits - which pictures the resurrection of the dead (1Cor15:20-23)
Now it is 10 days later, Pentecost
Pentecost was commemoration
Fifty days after first fruits on the first day of the week after the Sabbath is the Feast of Pentecost, which we see as a picture of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church.
To the Jews it was a celebration of the giving of the law and the two tablets, that is why there are two loaves of bread used in the Pentecost Celebration.
We gather on Sunday, the first day of the week in celebration and in remembrance of the day the Lord arose from the dead and the day the church was born and the Holy Spirit given.
At firstfruits the Priest would wave two sheaf of grain but at Pentecost it would be two loaves.
The two loaves here would have leaven and leaven represented sin.
The church would not be perfect, sinless until it gets to heaven.
Pentecost was a
commemoration - commemorating the gift of the law
It was an illustration - on day law given 3000 died; here on this pentecost 3000 were made alive.
Exo32:2
Act2:
The two loaves which did represent the two tablets, now represent the two peoples, Jews/Gentiles coming together to be one, the church.
Things that transpired at Pentecost.
Holy Spirit came (v.2)
Holy Spirit filled them (v.4)
Empowered them (v.14)
Convicted (v.37)
Holy Spirit given (v.38)
So the waiting is over, the promise is upon them.
I. Symbols and proof
Act2:1
Act2:1-2
So we have the day, Pentecost, and we know they were all together.
Now some believe they were in hiding in the upper room (praying)
Some thought hiding out in upper room
Others thought they were in the temple
Lk24:
Either way, they were all together, they were in one accord when the promise happened.
We know what happen “a sound like a rushing wind” - - - the word wind is the same word pneuma, the same word Jesus used when speaking to Nicodemus (Jn3:7-8)
The Holy Spirit was not anything new, HE has been around since beginning.
In creation (Gen1:1-2)
In Israel history (1Sam16:13)
In Jesus ministry (Lk1:30-37, 4:1)
But now there are changes in what the Spirit will do
Spirit will dwell in people, not just come upon people to empower
Presence will be permanent, not temporary as seen
So we have sound like a wind, wind as mentioned has represented the Spirit before, and then there what appeared to be tongues of fire.
Fire has previously represented the presence of God.
Previous use of fire as representation of God’s presence (Exo3:2)
Another thing we can learn from (v.3) is the sound came before the site.
Commentator Jon Coursan says
“The Word of the Lord always precedes the work of the Lord.”
Man says “if I see it I will believe it.”
God says “if you believe it, you will see it.”
(2Cor5:7)
Now the Spirit filled the house (v.2) and filled them (v.4) and the filling caused the manifestation of tongues.
As the Spirit gave them utterance.
This speaking in tongues can be defined in the following verses so we allow the scripture to define the word.
This outpouring did not cause them to fall on the ground and get “slayed by the spirit.”
They were sitting (v.2) and the Spirit caused them to speak in the tongues, dialect of the gathering crowd (v.6).
The Greek word here is dialektos (meaning language, dialect) this is different from what you find in 1Cor14 that Paul describes there.
II.
Results of proof
Have you ever heard something and you wondered what was going on and had to go check it out?
That is what happened and the results were
bewilderment (v.5) amazement (v.7) astonishment (v.7)
We don’t want to get lost in the miracle of speaking in tongues here, but Luke’s theological purpose is not the tongues but the outpouring of the Spirit
Baptized with Holy Spirit, given power from on high.
This is a new change from Spirit coming on someone to filling someone.
From temporary to permanent
The Spirit outpouring is for the birth of the Church, the place Jesus went to prepare for us.
(Jn14:2)
And the way He went was the Cross, the grave, but the stone was rolled away and He rose as the scripture said and has ascended on High and assumed His throne and poured out His Spirit.
He assumed his throne (Heb1:3)
He had already given the Apostles the instructions and now is the time for the action.
(Jn15:26-27)
They will testify, starting right where He said.
(Act1:8)
Global mission to be accomplished by the Church!
They were bewildered, amazed and astonished all before the gospel message was even preached.
Who were bewildered, amazed and astonished? the devout men.
People who were followers of God who were in Jerusalem for Pentecost, they heard the sound and they came to check it out.
- hopefully we are devout and when we see the Lord moving, the Spirit moving we check it out too.
Why were they bewildered, amazed and astonished?
Because of what they heard.
Are there things that you hear, have heard that amaze you?
Maybe its a scripture that suddenly comes to light to you and you see it and understand it like you never did before.
Like the men then, they had questions (v.7) we may have questions, but don’t let the questions keep you from seeking and receiving the answers.
That now leads us to who was hearing?
III.
Who heard the results
Notice the peoples who were there (Act2:9-11)
15 peoples, from the areas surrounding Israel.
From the Parthians in the Far East to Rome and they were all hearing in their own language, tongue, dialect.
They all had come together.
Where God had confused and scattered them before at the tower of Babel (Gen11:1ff) here God is bringing them all together.
Who hears the results from us?
Is it Vernonites, Locketites, how about Chilicothians or Fargonionians?
Are we speaking to them, are we sharing the bewildering, amazing, astonishing work of the Lord with them?
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