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2 When fthe day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like ga mighty rushing wind, and hit filled the entire house where they were sitting.
3 And divided tongues ias of fire appeared to them and rested1 on each one of them.
4 And they were all jfilled with the Holy Spirit and began kto speak in other tongues las the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
6 And mat this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
7 And nthey were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking oGalileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
9 Parthians and pMedes and qElamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and rproselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” 12 And sall were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others tmocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
When fthe day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like ga mighty rushing wind, and hit filled the entire house where they were sitting.
3 And divided tongues ias of fire appeared to them and rested1 on each one of them.
4 And they were all jfilled with the Holy Spirit and began kto speak in other tongues las the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
6 And mat this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
7 And nthey were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking oGalileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
9 Parthians and pMedes and qElamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and rproselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” 12 And sall were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others tmocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
When fthe day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like ga mighty rushing wind, and hit filled the entire house where they were sitting.
3 And divided tongues ias of fire appeared to them and rested1 on each one of them.
4 And they were all jfilled with the Holy Spirit and began kto speak in other tongues las the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
6 And mat this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
7 And nthey were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking oGalileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
9 Parthians and pMedes and qElamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and rproselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” 12 And sall were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others tmocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
Introduction
Brothers and sisters this is the Lord’s day and we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Thank you for having me back.
I’ll take that as either I didn’t do half bad last week or you simply didn’t know I’d return.
I’d like to think the former, but maybe it’s the latter, I don’t know.
But seriously, thank you.
It’s a rare treat at this stage in my life and ministry that I get to preach back-to-back weekends at the same church.
So I look forward to sinking deeper into the book of Acts.
Last week we dove into the promise of the Holy Spirit and what that means for us today.
We remember from last week that we are empowered supernaturally, for a supernatural mission.
Today we’re going to wade deeper into our treatment of the Holy Spirit because brothers and sisters we have a profound task at hand, to make disciples among all nations and it’s a mission far too cumbersome to shoulder just on our own effort.
So if you will I’d ask you to open to and as you find your way there I want to ask you, why do we gather?
There’s kind of a saying that I’ve heard circulating amongst spiritual people when they say something like, “I’d rather be out fishing and thinking about God than sitting in church and thinking about fishing.”
Now, I love fishing as much as the next guy and I know what a saying like this intends to communicate and once you peel it back you do eventually stumble upon the biblical truth that creation testifies to God’s magnificence and glory, but for as long as the church has existed, so has this thing called the corporate gathering.
So why do we gather?
It’s with that in mind that I’d like us to open to .
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Hear the Word of the Lord...
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
6 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
7 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” 12 And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
This is God’s Word… Thanks be to God.
Connection
Brothers and sisters I have fell under conviction as of late about my neglect of this third person of the Trinity and I feel like I might not be alone in that neglect that is why I have been so keen to focus on these first couple chapters of Acts and reflect on the rest of the book as we see this magnificent display of churches being birthed, lives being changed by the gospel, and thousands upon thousands coming to faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior.
What we get to be a part of today, this gathering, is special.
This church has a long and proud history, no doubt but none so much as the fact that we all share a bloodline with the churches of old that exist to glorify Jesus above all else.
And we read here how absolutely indispensable the Holy Spirit is to the livelihood of the church.
I’ll simplify it this way...
Main Idea: The Holy Spirit is the means by which God’s people are both bound together and sent out.
So like any good baptist preacher I got three points in light of today’s Scripture.
I want us to consider
why we gather
the content of our gathering
and the response to our gathering.
Main Idea: The Holy Spirit is the means by which God’s people are both bound together and sent out.
Prayer
Father,
We gather as your people today.
Thankful that you allow us a place to worship and remind one another the faith you have once for all delivered to the saints.
Father, remain with us here today, and every day.
May the words of my mouth be holy and acceptable unto you.
Speak now, Lord.
Your people are listening.
vv. 1 - Why We Gather
“When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place...” A seemingly unimportant detail, just another mundane detail in the Bible but I was particularly struck thinking about this.
Why do we gather?
We see here in the ensuing verses that this is the “day of pentecost,” this is the event in Scripture that we look at and see God pouring out the Holy Spirit on His people and we see the inauguration of the first century church.This is the Helper promised by Jesus in and its the spiritual empowerment given to us to carry forth our supernatural mission, to see lives dwelling in sin and darkness come to salvation in the name of Jesus.
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So why do we gather?
We gather to stoke the Spirit in one another as we come together.
Brothers and sisters, I can be quite forgetful.
I’m sure some of the brothers in here can relate.
Before I leave for work, I kiss Becca good-bye, we’ll hash out what all the day holds, and there is generally a “honey-do” that accompanies me out the door.
“When you come home can you stop by the grocery?
Can you pick up the prescription?
Can you take care of this?”
And I almost automatically file that away in the back of my brain where it will be very lucky to make an appearance back in the front of the brain.
This isn’t meant to say anything against my wife.
We both work and we got a lot going on so we genuinely need the both of us to help one another out to get everything we need, done.
But again, I’m forgetful.
It’s not just me this is a characteristic of God’s people throughout Scripture.
Time after time we receive account of miraculous happenings of God intervening on the behalf of His people and they worship, only to quickly forget.
We remember the Exodus where God orchestrated the parting of the Red Sea, delivering the Hebrews from slavery and oppression only for them to eventually cry out in the dessert, “surely we had it better in chains, at least we weren’t hungry!”
Can you imagine?
Being a direct beneficiary of one of the more significant events in all of history, and not but a matter of a couple of years later you are grumbling against that same God.
But that’s exactly the point, we are a forgetful people.
So why do we gather?
We gather to remind each other of this blessed gospel, of our savior who saved us from our sin.
It is embedded into everything we do, .
We greet each other in joy, we pray together, we baptize new believers, we sing , we teach our kids to sing all to remind each other why it is that we gather.
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