Welcome to BH. Stop doubting and have faith! John 16:7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. They saw it in different ways and understood it completely different from anything from our frame of reference and they were ascribing, would have been ascribing then even to Jesus something that was not of God, which in itself can be a problem. Reading the Holy Scripture. Luke chapter 24. They might have fidgeted a bit and wondered, "Well, should we go fishing?" The country folk downstream depended on it. The old creation had a sabbath, and the new creation requires a sabbath as well. The Key to a Life Well Lived. Acts 2 Peter says, "Repent, believe, be baptized, you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." How can I explain to my manager that a project he wishes to undertake cannot be performed by the team? "Behold, He said, My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. In Job 33:4 Elihu speaks for all faithful Jews when he says, "The Spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life." Yet until the spirit was poured out at Pentecost, the disciples were a homogenous bunch. That He had to rebuke them and teach them. Probably the Spirit was their instructor in two senses. So there was still this not fully developed confidence and faith in what had happened, and so He goes even further and asks for some food. Instead, they turned the world upside down. Question 8. And one set upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." And more specifically for this group that they would be witnesses of Jesus in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth being fulfilled. And yet, they had not been able to completely separate the fact that now what they were part of was the real, the real thing, because Christ had died. I never have believed in knowledge for its own sake or art for art's sake. Christ Is Risen - An Easter plan by Matt Maher, The Essential 100 Bible Challenge14The Cross Of Christ. Did they experience fear, doubt, and disbelief as we sometimes do? The indwelling Holy Spirit was only sent after Jesus' resurrection. Being mentally separated from other people (because of being ashamed of lost of their 'cause') made them being afraid of people. Then I finally figured out, "Oh, I got to do this myself. Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him. From the sorrow of the Cross to the glory of Resurrection. Peter was quoting Scripture and applying it to something that had happened and that is Jesus, His death and His resurrection. Well, that's a sign that I should go here, take this job, do this or do that. But miracles, well, that just takes a little bit more work, but they were here in the midst of a very large miracle. and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting and in carving wood, for work in every craft.'". Trials hit us that will shake our faith, test our faith. We just get a few snippets from the gospel accounts, at least, of this 40-day period. Verse 41, "But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, 'Have you any food?'" Even before the dam was completed and the reservoir was officially unleashed on the day of Pentecost, the OT saints downstream enjoyed stupendous benefits from the river of God's Spirit. Seven weeks later, on the day of Pentecost, the risen Lord Jesus fulfilled the promise he had made in John 15:26namely, that he would send the Holy Spirit. And yet some doubted. Site design / logo 2023 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. The Jewish authorities of their day had a very thorough doctrinal review process and Peter's would not have passed, which is why they ran smack in trouble with the Jewish leadership from this point forward because they were applying new meaning to old Scriptures that no Jew had ever heard before. They got the courage and strength they needed and they came out of their hiding place, starting to proclaim Jesus's death and resurrection. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance" (Acts 2:24). What's the next step?" That's what He did. The disciples met in the upper room after the ascension, but ten days elapsed between the ascension and the events described in Acts 2. And He opened their understanding that they might comprehend the Scriptures.". Jesus was enveloped within a pillar of fire, but was not harmed. And the tomb was empty, and the disciples had seen Jesus, and the authorities were beside themselves trying to figure it out, looked for the body. As I was sitting there gazing around, nobody came. I also think this is true in some way, but in gospels there is record that Jesus 'gave them authority over devils and diseases and sent them to preach gospel, to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1-31). It goes on, verse 12, "After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country." Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. Matthew 71:seventeen, XVII, 10-18, and on the Sabbath (beginning): Rome, 111:seventeen, XIII, 1-10. . But the disciples didn't stop focusing on the Kingdom of God after Pentecost. Life, that a doubt every once in a while creeps in, sometimes an unbelief, fear, bonds of trust might be tested. I can't think about it more than five minutes without saying, "So what?" When I got off the bus from my hometown, I was in this large room, this large terminal, it was as larger, even larger than this room here, which for me, from my small town was a pretty big thing to walk into, and I did, first time I had ever traveled. John the Baptist had promised: The one who comes after me "will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire" (Luke 3:16). Such notions have always struck me as profoundly atheistic. But as Christ begins to give them the teaching from the Scriptures, of how He had fulfilled literally, in every way, the scriptures about the Messiah. And . It did not become true after Jesus said that. And every breath you take ought to be a prayer of thanks that you live and move and have your being in the Spirit of God. I kind of think that He kind of, you know, elevated, and rose, and they saw Him, and they saw Him and the clouds, and the clouds, and then all of a sudden just like that, [snaps fingers] He was gone, kind of like in a "Star Trek" just a flash of light. A survey of Old Testament spiritual experience is needed to wake us up to our privileges in these last days that were inaugurated at Pentecost. Everybody who gets up and gives a sermon in a congregation, that sermon before it's ever posted on a website, has been reviewed or at least approved by individuals within the congregation. As such, it requires a sabbath. But they were frightened and they thought that they had seen a spirit. Theoretically Correct vs Practical Notation. Those in the Spirit are indwelt by the Spirit and are enabled by him to fulfill the just requirement of the law. At what point of what we watch as the MCU movies the branching started? Or is it? 'It's a ghost,' they said, and cried out in fear. Because they were seeing Christ risen and they saw Him in a bodily form, but then they were attributing something different to that. And then it came to an end, it came to a close. And it brings it down to the end of the chapter. Thanks for contributing an answer to Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange! We, again, don't necessarily always pause and think about this, in these hours and days following Christ's resurrection. John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Far more people than they could have ever imagined and Peter gets up and gives the sermon of his life. It's always fun to try to imagine how this happened. He went on to show that, "It's not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own authority, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. This is what He does as He moves them through the Law of Moses, the Psalms, and the prophets, and opening their understanding. But the Christian ought to see the creative, imaginative work of God's Spirit. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. We take that for the story that it is, and the gift of tongues, and the speaking of tongues that the Scriptures talk about but we don't see that as what we need to be doing in practice or in faith, but it is a dramatic story. Where do we go from here? And I didn't know how to make a connection. Please take the Tour, see below, where you will find that in order to practice biblical hermeneutics we need a text upon which to practice the technique. He had a lot to come back, he was at the back of the pack. Pentecost (also called Whit Sunday, Whitsunday or Whitsun) is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 50th day (the seventh Sunday) after Easter Sunday. Copy. And yet Peter does, and he gives a bold sermon. Suddenly, Jesus appeared in the middle of the group. Jesus took all believers out of Hades ten days before Pentecost, when He ascended into the third heaven. He quotes Joel, he quotes Psalms and he gives interpretations upon those scriptures, here in chapter 1, no one had ever heard of before. 157 views, 3 likes, 4 loves, 3 comments, 2 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Mora Grace Lutheran Church: Music used with permission from CCLI Those in the flesh are devoid of the Spirit and cannot submit to God's law or please God. And what was the key to that? But how could the various prophecies found in Ezekiel, Joel and Zechariah be fulfilled if this were true? But Jesus immediately said to them: 'Take courage! About 10 days earlier, Christ had finally ascended for the final time and they were left alone. They had a very life is now, living in the present mindset that this was all going to happen in their lifetime, which is something that pertains to every group of people from that time forward, that looking for the appearance of the Kingdom, the return of Christ. Does anybody care? Jesus said, Thomas, do you have faith because you have seen me? This was a healthy fear of respect and awe and wonder at now what had happened. But ten billion kilowatts were added to enable the church to take the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ to every tongue and tribe and nation. It was by God's Spirit that the prophets spoke to the people God's Word (Nehemiah 9:30), and it was by the Spirit that the people were enabled to grasp and apply the Word. The gospels and the book of Acts tell us that would-be zealots and messiahs had come and gone. However, of course, the apostles had smack of the Spirit even before, for even before Spirit was present in them to a certain degree and intensity; they possessed the Spirit-ual gifts even before the Pentecost, however the gifts of the Infinite Spirit are also infinite and at the Pentecost they got a greater share of this graceful infinity, so as to totally be absorbed in it. In Nehemiah 9, Ezra gives thanks to God for all his past benefits to Israel and says in verse 20, "Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them and didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth." 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. With a UCG.org account you will be able to save items to read and study later! There was doubt. As you read on in Acts chapter 1, one of the main things they did was to choose a successor to Judas. The church today is so sleepy that some of us have even fallen behind the Old Testament saints in our appropriation of what the Spirit has to give. What do we do now? What happens?". Luke 24:49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high. This was just three and a half years, and in really a few weeks, seven weeks and a day of intense thought, emotion, that they had to grapple with and deal with as they came into the presence of one another on the morning of Pentecost. In Colossians chapter 1, Colossians 1:27 Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:American King James Version, Paul writes, "To them, God will to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." The religious leaders are "astonished" and marvel that such common and unlearned men can have such a sweeping command of their topic, and such serene courage. Although Thomas the Twin was one of the twelve disciples, he wasn't with the others when Jesus appeared to them. From this point, they had only 10 days. The Sadducees were more focused on the Five Books of Moses than the history and prophets. That Numbers 32 and verse 23, is correct. Finally, please know the disciples did receive the Spirit when Jesus breathed on them BEFORE Pentecost (Jn. Joh 1:11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. and there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. It was their life. When you read what Peter said about these prophecies from Joel and the Psalmstrust me, folks, Peter's sermon would not have passed doctrinal review by the Jewish doctrinal committee of that day. But when was it first true? 38Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. 39By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. I was going to get on a Greyhound bus. But it is also due to a much simpler and . After Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream about the coming famine, Pharaoh says, "Can we find such a man as this in whom is the Spirit of God?" 3 days by their calendar. 1. And it is also the mission of the Church, we see right here, it has begun. Now, when we turn over to Acts chapter 1, and we look at, kind of summing up of this as it is. This event is very significant because the Bible says when we are born again, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit; in other words, the Holy Spirit comes to live on the inside of us (Ephesians 1:13, 4:30). He also is a residentfaculty member at the Ambassador Bible Center teaching Acts, Fundamentals of Belief and World News and Prophecy. Psalm 104 celebrates the wonder and variety of all living things and says (vv. And what happened? It seemed to point to something more that might come in the future. In the New Testament, Elisabeth, John the Forerunner's mother, was filled with Spirit as she saw the pregnant Virgin, and she prophesied immediately (Luke 1:39-41) and so did the old widow-prophetess Anna at vision of Jesus taken to the temple (Luke 2:36-38); John the Forerunner himself was filled with Holy Spirit from his childhood (Luke 1:15), and of course the apostles, even before the Pentecost, had a degree of presence of Spirit in them (at least no less than John the Forerunner), through which presence they could act miracles; they got even to a greater degree of intensity the gift of the Spirit, when Jesus - before the Pentecost - blew in them the Spirit and added to them (through this new dimension of the presence of Spirit) an ability to forgive sins (John 20:22). Zechariah's prophecy in chapter 14 shows that Christ will, on that day, set foot on the Mount of Olives. So the Word of God is what Jesus took and explained, it is what the Church went to, to explain what was happening, and then, it is the Spirit of God. The disciples were afraid of the Jewish leaders, and on the evening of that same Sunday they locked themselves in a room. Otherwise how would they ever overcome their natural hostility to God? Number one was the Roman Empire. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up," and this is through the account here in Luke, then, would be the final bodily appearance of Jesus to them. We are going to be taking giant steps toward creating that kind of Church that we read about here in the book of Acts, that has been imbued with the power of the Holy Spirit, and changes are being made. John has another set of accounts, and then he kind of ends and he leaves it wide open. It gives me a lot of encouragement, when I am called to go places where I feel insecure, to know that the Spirit is within to give me the words I need and that he is also already in the place where I am going to prepare the way and to hold me when I get there. This makes it seem that the Disciples were astonished, but those who followed behind them were afraid. To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. And this dramatic miracle took place, of wind, and fire, and language, and hearing, and people took notice. have had the same God-given talent as the apostles and could learn any new language three days after arriving in the region. "Let all that you do be done in love" (1 Corinthians 16:13). He had a long way to come to be the one to stand up and to give the sermon on this day, but he did it. Suddenly, Jesus appeared in the middle of the group. Acts 1:8 is the vital point about Pentecost. And it was the high priest and those people who had engineered His death, and they knew the power that they did have. Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for professors, theologians, and those interested in exegetical analysis of biblical texts. Though a miracle had taken place in front of them, that still wasn't enough to remove the doubt and fear. After the disciples received the Holy Spirit, received Christ in them, they began to operate under the strength and ability of Christ in them. etc.'. Most people believe the disciples were assembled in the "upper room" when the holy spirit of YEHOVAH God descended upon them during that Pentecost of 31 A.D. So here are ten ways Old Testament believers experienced the Holy Spirit which in these "last days" of Pentecostal fulfillment ought to be enjoyed by the church. Jentezen Franklin preached a sermon about scribes. Centering layers in OpenLayers v4 after layer loading. Well, Pentecost is like the dedicatory opening of the Aswan High Dam. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. They sailed on it in the moonlight and wrote songs about it. They turned the world upside down because they fully understood two simple . And when they saw Him they worshiped him. People were forgiven, saved and received everlasting life before the cross and before Pentecost (Lk. Jesus showed Himself for 40 days after the resurrection (Acts 1:3). It doesn't lie within man's own power to risk his life and stand up for the truth of God and denounce sin. And there wasn't a Jew in Jerusalem, not a rabbi, not a priest who'd ever understood Joel or the Psalms in that way, nor would they have ever dreamed of applying it to what had happened just weeks earlier, with the arrest, crucifixion, and death of this Man called Jesus of Nazareth. 100 Bible Challenge14The Cross of Christ, doubt, and they thought that they did to! 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