Sermon Tone Analysis

*Acts 2:14-39*

*Peter’s First Message *

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*I.                    **A.G. *When we last saw the disciples they were baptized in the HS who was sent by Jesus because He had prayed to the Father and ascended into heaven and He was sent.

Jesus had told them to go to Jerusalem to wait for the promise.

*THEY WENT.

THEY WAITED.

THEY RECEIVED.*

*a.        **Application - *We noticed that God always comes through with His promises.

God had shared this prophecy

*b.       *As the HS came there were divided tongues as of fire that came and sat upon each of the disciples and they all began to speak in other tongues.

*c.        *As they spoke in other tongues we discovered a few biblical facts about being baptized in the HS and the gift of tongues:

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When God fills you with the HS, He doesn’t transgress your will and your ability to exercise self control.

God doesn’t cause you to act in strange ways and attribute it to His HS.

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*Tongues Defined - *It is a gift of God which is a heavenly language that’s directed toward God by which a believer can communicate to God in a way which human language is incapable.

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It is one of the manifestations of being baptized by God’s Holy Spirit, but not the only manifestation and not all believers who are baptized in the HS do have the gift of tongues.

*1.        **1 Corinthians 12:29-31 *- /"Are all apostles?

Are all prophets?

Are all teachers?

Are all workers of miracles?

Do all have gifts of healings?

Do all speak with tongues?

Do all interpret?

But earnestly desire the best gifts.

And yet I show you a more excellent way."/

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It is a gift that is given primarily for self edification and not necessarily for the church as a whole.

*1.        **1 Corinthians 14:23 - */"Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are out of your mind?"/

*d.       **The Reaction – *There were 16 nations represented at this point.

We also know that at the end of the message there were 3,000 that gave their lives to Jesus Christ of the total who heard the message.

How many then were there?

i.

*Imagine – *Can you imagine the scene?

There was this crowd that had gathered for the feast of Pentecost.

They had heard this incredible rushing might wind sound, they ran to go check it out.

They hear these Galileans speaking  in their native tongues proclaiming God’s praises, and now they are standing there scratching their heads wanting to know what to make of all this.

*e.        *The people responded by saying, “whatever could this mean?”

*II.

**Intro. *Today we are going to look at the first Gospel message of the church.

We are going to look at Peter’s response to the crowd in being able to explain what God was doing.

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*III.

**Preview*

*a.        **Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (14-21)*

*b.       **Jesus’ Resurrection (22-36)*

*c.        **Crowd’s Reaction (37-39)*

*IV.

**Body*

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*a.        **Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (14-21)*

"/But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words.

“For these 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 it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.

And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy.

I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.

And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.’/"

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/These are not drunk as you suppose/.

It could mean: /These men are not drunk as you’re suggesting.

/Or /these men are not drunk in the way that you think./

*1.        **Ephesians 5:18* - "And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit," (Ephesians 5:18, NKJV)

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*Peter’s Quotation – *Peter quotes from Joel 2 in his instruction to the Jews that are present.

Peter didn’t have to look into a reference or a study bible in order to share what was going on with the crowd.

He was able to share with them from what Jesus had taught him.

He had hidden God’s word in his heart.

*1.        **Application – *If we want to be people who desire God to use us, we need to be men and women of the word.

We need to pour over its pages.

We need to hide it within our hearts that we may not sin against the Lord.

Peter here shows that he had spent quality time with Jesus in that he seems to have a mastery of God’s word.

*2.        *One of the first characteristics of the man~/woman God uses is that:

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They are a person of prayer – /these all continued with one accord in prayer.

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They are a person of the Word –

3.        *Peter’s example of expository teaching - *He goes to the word and reads it.

After he reads, he explains it.

And after he explains it he gives the application and exhortation.

And we try to make it applicable to our lives.

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*Imperative Principle* – /this is what was spoken –/You should always be able to say, “this is what was spoken” when there is a particular experience we have.

This is where many in the body have greatly erred.

When we see these type of things we need to ask these brothers and sisters, “Where do you see this in the Bible?”

We should be careful that we don’t try to make the Bible subjected to our experiences, but our experiences should be subjected to the word of God.

*1.        **Criteria *- It should always meet the criteria of being found in the gospels as taught by Jesus; practiced in the book of Acts, and expounded on by the apostle Paul.

*2.        **Poor Excuses - *“Well you have to realize that more can be cooked up in the kitchen than appears on the menu.”

This means that there are more things that aren’t found in the Bible that can be experienced by Christians.

As Christians we should be able to say to one another, “where do you see this written in the bible?”

There is enough in this book to keep me busy until Jesus comes back.

*3.        *We must be able to say like Peter, “this is what the bible says”.

If not we shouldn’t even be practicing it.

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The lack of this is why we have so many Christians asking what is God’s will for their lives.

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The lack of this is why we are tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine as *Ephesians 4:14 *says for Christians individually and for many churches.

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There are churches that will wait to catch the latest and greatest trend that comes through the building.

If you and I know that our experiences in the Christian life are validated by the word of God we wont need strange experiences and we will be able to validate when God is doing something in our lives like Peter’s experience here.

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**Peter answers their questions* – God has placed you and I in our various areas of work or school or family so that as we get to know Jesus better we will be able to answer the questions people have about what God is doing in our lives.