Day of Pentecost
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Summary of today: Last week was the 7th Sunday of Easter and so that is 7 x 7 = 49 but count this eight day (Sunday to Sunday is eight days and Easter was on a Sunday) and you get 50. We went from Easter resurrection, which was great but the real meaning is the cross “worked,” the devil was defeated and sin was paid for, Jesus raising from the dead was then the sign that the death did what it did. The general themes of Sundays following Easter was 2) believing without seeing; 3) open our minds to the scriptures; 4) The Good Shepherd; 5) love one another; 6) overcomers; 7) unity of the body of Christ
Summary of today: Last week was the 7th Sunday of Easter and so that is 7 x 7 = 49 but count this eight day (Sunday to Sunday is eight days and Easter was on a Sunday) and you get 50. We went from Easter resurrection, which was great but the real meaning is the cross “worked,” the devil was defeated and sin was paid for, Jesus raising from the dead was then the sign that the death did what it did. The general themes of Sundays following Easter was 2) believing without seeing; 3) open our minds to the scriptures; 4) The Good Shepherd; 5) love one another; 6) overcomers; 7) unity of the body of Christ
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. And they were amazed and wondered, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.” But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words. For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day; but this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; yea, and on my menservants and my maidservants in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and manifest day. And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
(LCMS reads 18-20 as well and so should we, this is hard to hear but must be heard) Peter addresses the believers gathered right before the coming of the Holy Spirit and speaks about Judas, how he died, how that fulfilled scripture, and mentions the need of finding his replacement.
Psa 1
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Wisdom psalm, "O the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, but [the godly] delight in the Torah yhwh meditating on it day and night."
1Jo 5.9-13
If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son. He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life. I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
LCMS through v 15) "I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God's Son does not have life."
Joh 17.6-19
“I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word. Now they know that everything that thou hast given me is from thee; for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me. I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine; all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one.They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth. As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.
The middle third of Jesus' high priestly prayer (first part Year A, third and last part Year C)
"I have passed on the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you and they believe you sent me."