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The Promise Was Spoken · 5-Minutes of Good News

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, Christians.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: This is Dallas Beecham.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I have good news.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: Long before there was an upper room, long before Peter stood before a wandering crowd in Jerusalem, God made a promise.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: It was not a promise of wealth.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was not a promise that life would be free from trouble.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: It was something far greater.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Through the prophet Joel, God said, And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, and also upon the servants and upon the handmaidings in those days will I pour out my spirit.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: For generations faithful people waited, they prayed, they searched the scriptures, they wondered when the promise would come and what it would look like.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Then centuries later a man stood in the wilderness crying, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: His name was John.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: John baptized with water, but his message pointed beyond the river Jordan.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: He said I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: The old promise was drawing near.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Then Jesus came.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: On the last great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: He that believeth on me as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: But what were those rivers of living water?
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: The next verse explains.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Notice those words, should receive.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: The Spirit was not presented as a general idea, a religious argument or an experience reserved for a special few.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was the promise of the Father.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus had told his disciples to wait for.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: Still, the disciples did not fully understand the time or the manner.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: They had walked with Jesus.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: They had heard his words.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: They had seen the empty tomb.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: But before they could carry the gospel to the world, they needed what the Father had promised.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: And so the story moved toward Jerusalem.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: A promise spoken through Joel, announced by John, explained by Jesus, was about to be fulfilled.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps someone listening today feels spiritually dry.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: You believe in God, but you long for something deeper.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: You hunger for his presence.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: You desire strength to live faithfully.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: The same God who gave the promise is still faithful.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: His spirit is not earned by human goodness.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: It is not purchased by money.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: We receive it by faith, through obedience to the gospel.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow we will follow the disciples to the place where Jesus told them to wait.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: They did not know how long they would wait.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: They only knew that he had promised power from on high.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: I hope today's message has touched your heart and causes you to have a good day.