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Acts chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Acts chapter 2. Let's pray.
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  Oh God Almighty, we love you. Jesus, we thank you for these
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  holy scriptures. We thank you, Lord, for family
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  and for waking us up. We thank you, God, that you have
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  empowered us with the Holy Ghost from on high.
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  I thank you God, that we can have the mind of Christ.
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  I thank you, God, that you are sanctifying us and consecrating
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  this temple. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you will give us our marching orders and help us,
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  Lord, to charge the hill, help us to take back enemy territory.
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  Help us, God, to be filled with the Holy Ghost, Lord, not just a
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  little bit, Father, not just halfway, but God, I pray,
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  overflowing into the community, into all of our world at large.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll come back soon.
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  Maranatha, Father, we cry out, You have come and you are coming
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  and you will come. The Spirit and the bride says
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  come. We are lovesick, longing for our
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  bridegroom. We are watching, Lord.
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  We are looking up. We are waiting, Lord, but help
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  us to wait well. Help us to finish this race
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  well. Help us not to slack up.
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  Help us not to slack off. Help us not to grow despondent.
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  Help us not to quench the Spirit.
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  Help us not to sear our conscience.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus, we'll keep our love hot,
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  we'll keep our fire burning, we'll keep our lamps full, we'll
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  trim the Wicks. God, as we wait upon you, Lord,
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  and as you tarry, God, I pray that we'll go out into the
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  harvest. I pray that we will go out and
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  tell every single person that we come in contact with today about
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  your love and about what you did in our lives and about how much
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  you love them and how much you would die for them so that they
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  could be there with us for all of eternity.
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  And so, God, we just say yes and we say Amen to all the promises
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  contained in this book, Lord, knowing that anything we give
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  pales in comparison to you and the glory that you possess, and
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  it is your presence that we are chasing after.
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  Lord, we want more. We have tasted and we have seen
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  that you are good and we want more.
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  Father, we're not satisfied with material gain.
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  We're not satisfied with material wealth.
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  We're not satisfied with all of the things that this world is
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  trying to sell us. God, we want you and you and you
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  alone. Father God, Jesus Christ, Holy
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  Spirit, I decrease as you increase.
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  Teach us your eternal paths. We stand on the rock.
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  We stand on the good book, the Bible in its completeness.
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  Nothing added, just the good Book, nothing taken away.
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  So God, we build our lives upon this truth.
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  Help us as we read through this book.
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  You say whatever it is that you want to say.
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  Hide me, hide my words, hide my thoughts.
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  It's all about you, King Jesus. It's always been about you, King
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  Jesus, and it will always be about you, King Jesus.
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  Here we are, we are listening. Teach us in Jesus Christ, holy
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  worthy, lovely name, we pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And when the day of Pentecost
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  was fully come, they were all with 1 accord in one place.
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  So imagine that. Imagine how they're being
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  obedient and they are doing exactly what Jesus Christ told
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  them to do, and they are of 1 minded 1 accord.
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  And you can see here that they've put away all of their
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  own ideas, and they are emptied of self, and desirous to be
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  filled with the Holy Ghost. 2 Suddenly there came a sound from
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  heaven, as of a rushing, mighty wind, and they filled all the
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  house where they were sitting. I pray that you've experienced
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  this mighty rushing wind coming in.
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  I pray that you understand that this is available to you,
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  friend. But you must be poured out of
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  your own selfish desires, of all of your own selfish thoughts,
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  selfish ideas. You've got to be poured out of
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  how the world operates and what the world tells us, and we must
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  be emptied completely to be filled with the Holy Ghost. 3
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  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire,
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  and it sat upon each of them. I pray that you have experienced
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  this baptism of coming in this mighty rushing wind, this
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  baptism of fire coming down four.
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  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to
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  speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
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  So we know that these men are about to start speaking in
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  languages and there are people outside that are going to hear
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  these languages and they're going to marvel that they can
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  understand them clearly. And then we know that later on
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  in Scripture he talks about angelic language, and we know
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  that these two are mixed together in the sense of
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  speaking in tongues, which is what we're about to witness here
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  in the book of Acts 5. And there were dwelling at
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  Jerusalem, Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven.
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  So here you can see that these people were coming in from all
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  over the place who spoke different languages. 6 Now when
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  this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were
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  confounded, because every man heard them speak in his own
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  language. So you can see here that this
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  was a clear language that was being spoken by these disciples
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  and the people outside marveled because they understood the
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  words. This was not just some
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  repetition of syllables that makes other people think that
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  you're super spiritual and you try to gain an edge on people.
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  And that is not ignorance of the actuality that speaking in
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  tongues is real and is biblical. And that is non debatable.
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  However, there are many who do it as a show and do it to gain
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  some kind of super spiritual badge on their vest so that
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  others will accept them into their congregation.
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  And Paul is going to tell us later on in the New Testament,
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  he's going to tell us that we should not speak in tongues
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  unless there is someone there to interpret those speaking in
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  tongues. So a lot of this is mostly for
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  show and it is known that there is truly no edification of the
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  Spirit. We need to be edifying our
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  brothers and sisters with the speaking in tongues, and that is
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  a clear biblical mandate that if there is no one there to
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  interpret what you were saying, you need to be silent and you
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  will answer for all the times that you made it about self and
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  put everybody's eyes off of the Lord and on you. 7 And they were
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  all amazed and marveled, saying, one to another, Behold, are not
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  all these which speak Galileans? And we know that when Peter was
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  warming himself by the fire, the servant said, Your speech
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  bereaeth you, your speech gives you away.
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  Because they had a thick Galilean accent.
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  And so all these people passing by were hearing their own
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  languages, and it was clear, and it was discernible, friends, and
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  they marveled, 8 And how here we every man in our own tongue,
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  where we were born. So imagine that it's clear and
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  it is discernible. 9 Parthians, Medes, Alamites, and the
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  dwellers in Mesopotamia and Judea, and Cappadocia, and
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  Pontus in Asia, Frish and Pampt, and Egypt, and the parts of
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  Libya about Cyrene and strangers, Rome, Jews,
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  proselytes, Cretes, Arabians. We do hear them speak in our
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  tongues the wonderful works of God.
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  This was the purpose that God desired, that all these people
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  from all these different places would hear the good news of the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. And He gives us the same gifts
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  today. These gifts are still being
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  given today that we are able to go into another land and we have
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  never even been trained in that language.
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  And the Holy Spirit takes over and the people understand
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  clearly about the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ when we
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  open our mouths and he unhinges our tongue and we are able to
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  give a clear gospel presentation in a language that we know
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  nothing about. It's still available to us
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  today. Friends 12 And they were all
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  amazed and we're in doubt, saying one to another, what does
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  this mean? Thirteen others mocked saying
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  these men are full of new wine. So you can see here that it's no
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  different today that whenever God works a mighty miracle,
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  you'll have those that are completely yielded and they give
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  their lives over. But whenever the bird comes in,
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  Satan comes in and snatches the seed.
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  People will mock. And it is a fact that God will
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  not be mocked and His Word never returns void.
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  So we would do well to be found the ones that are yielded over
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  to the miraculous, and not doubting. 14 Peter stood up with
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  the 11. He lifted up his voice and said
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  unto them, You men of Judea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem,
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  be this known unto you, and listen to my words.
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  So he's going to show them that Jesus is the Christ and that
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  Jesus is Lord. And we're seeing Peter take this
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  leadership role. He's going to start preaching
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  praise God for his obedience unto the Lord Jesus Christ. 15
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  For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing that it is about
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  9:00 in the morning. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the
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  prophet Joel. 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days,
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  says God, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and
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  your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, your young men
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  shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. 18 And
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  on my servants and on my handmaids I will pour out in
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  those days my spirit, and they shall prophesied. 19 And I will
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  show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath,
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  blood and fire and vapor of smoke, 20 in the sun shall be
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  turned Into Darkness, and the moon into blood, before that
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  great day, that great notable day of the Lord comes. 21 And it
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  shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name
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  of the Lord shall be saved. What an amazing prophecy that
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  was coming to fulfillment here in the the 1st century as Peter
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  and as the church gets birthed. And you can see here that they
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  considered that time to be the last days.
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  And here we are 2000 years later, and some might scoff and
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  say, where is this coming of the Lord?
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  Everything goes on as it has from the beginning.
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  And they turned back to their vomit.
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  They turned back to their worldly ways, their worldly
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  wisdom, and they turned their backs in their apostate and
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  fallen away from the Lord Jesus Christ because they're offended
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  that He has not yet come. But you need to know that 1000
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  years is like a day unto the Lord, and a day is like 1000
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  years. And we would do well to make
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  sure that our eschatology says nothing more than we're closer
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  today than we were yesterday. By and by, however long the Lord
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  decides to tarry, it is for the salvation of those who are going
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  to come into the fold. And we need to get out of our
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  own way and make sure that we're scattering that seed.
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  Friends, no matter the soil, scatter the seed.
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  And here Joel prophesied about this Acts 2 church and he's
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  prophesying about our day and our hour for right now, for such
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  a time as this, this great outpouring upon the sons and
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  daughters, dreaming dreams and seeing visions, friends.
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  And we will see all of these prophecy prophecies come to
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  fruition, this moon into blood, the sun Into Darkness.
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  We're going to see it all, friends.
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  Armageddon. We're going to see it all as we
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  come back with the Lord after the rapture.
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  And if we'll call on the name of the Lord, we'll be saved.
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  That is it. That's the simple gospel,
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  friends. We complicate it. 22 You men of
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  Israel hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, the man
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  approved of God among you by miracles, wonders, signs, which
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  God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also
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  know. So he's going to show them that
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  the works of Jesus prove him to be the Lord, and he is talking
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  to all of Israel, all of Jerusalem, and he's showing them
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  that Jesus is proven by the works that he displayed while he
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  walked this earth. 23 Him being delivered by the determinate
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  counsel and foreknowledge of God you have taken, and by wicked
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  hands you have crucified and slain.
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  Even though God ordained it, it does not excuse the wicked men
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  who put him on the cross out of greed and out of envy, 24 whom
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  God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, Amen.
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  Because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
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  So we know that Death could not hold him, the grave could not
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  keep him. Oh Death and hell, where is your
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  sting? We do not need to fear death,
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  friends. We don't go to it prematurely,
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  but we do not fear it when it comes knocking.
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  We need to finish the race. Well, no matter how many more
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  days you have left on this earth, this could be your very
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  last day on earth and life is but a vapor.
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  And if you in 100 years time will not put your full faith in
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  the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll never do it.
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  You could live 100 lifetimes over and you would never do it
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  if you won't do it in the 100 years that He gives you.
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  And once you have done that, it should be of great encouragement
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  to you when the Lord comes to call you home.
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  And we'll all have to walk that out. 10 out of 10 people die,
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  and death is the number one fear of mankind.
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  And we need to make sure that we're not gripped by fear.
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  But we let go of it, knowing that we will be in paradise with
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  Him today. 25 For David spoke concerning him.
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  I first saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my
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  right hand that I should not be moved. 26 Therefore did my heart
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  rejoice, and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall
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  rest in hope. 27 Because you will not leave my soul in hell,
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  neither will you suffer your holy One to see corruption. 28
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  You have made known to me the ways of life, that you shall
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  make me full of joy with your countenance.
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  So here Peter is referencing in the Psalms.
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  He's referencing how David prophesied that Jesus would not
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  stay in hell, that he went to snatch the keys to preach the
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  good news to the souls that were there, to lead a mighty
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  triumphant procession out of that place, and to close down
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  Abraham's bosom. 29 Men, brothers, let me freely speak
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  unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead, buried,
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  and his tomb is here with us today. 30 Therefore being a
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  prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him,
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  that the fruit. Out that of the fruit of his
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  loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit
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  on his throne. 31 He, seeing this before, spoke of the
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  resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell,
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  neither His flesh did see corruption.
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  He evaporated out of the grave Clothes, friends, He left them
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  in the tomb. He put his headpiece to the side
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  to show that he would return. And here Peter understood these
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  truths. Now that he's baptized with the
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  Holy Ghost, he's indwelled. And Holy Ghost is revealing all
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  of the scripture to the disciples and the apostles now,
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  just like Jesus had promised them.
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  Look how Jesus always makes good on His word.
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  If He has spoken a word over your life.
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  We need to take it at face value and we need to make sure we walk
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  in that promise knowing that it never returns.
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  Void friends. And Peter understood it at this
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  point, and he's saying that David understood that out of his
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  lineage the Lion of Judah would come, but he was from eternal.
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  What a paradox, what an idea. 32 This Jesus has God raised up,
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  whereof we are all witnesses. There's that apostleship,
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  there's that martyrdom, these witnesses. 33 Therefore, being
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  by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of
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  the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth
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  this which you now see and hear. So he's talking about this
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  outpouring of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. 34 For
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  David is not ascended into the heavens.
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  But he said unto himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit you
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  on my right hand, 35 until I make your foes your footstool.
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  36 Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that
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  God has made the same Jesus, whom you've crucified, both Lord
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  and Christ. So here Peter is painting a
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  masterpiece for them. He's showing them line by line,
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  precept on precept. He's walking them through the
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  Scriptures to show them that they murdered their Messiah,
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  that they need not wait on another, that he was in their
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  midst and they murdered him. And now he's ascended to the
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  right hand of God, and he sits to make intercession for you and
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  for me. And there is only one way to the
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  Father, and that is through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. 37
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  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and
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  said unto Peter, and to the rest of the apostles.
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  Men, brothers, what shall we do? 38 Then Peter said unto them,
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  Repent, be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus
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  Christ, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the
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  gift of the Holy Ghost. So imagine that these men were
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  mocking and saying that the disciples and apostles were
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  drunk at 9:00 in the morning. And now after Peter preaches the
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  sermon about Scripture, fulfilling Scripture, their
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  prick to their heart, and now they're ready for radical
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  obedience. I pray that you're there.
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  I pray that you're filled with the Holy Ghost today.
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  I pray that you haven't quenched the Holy Ghost, and I pray that
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  you are not searing your conscience today.
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  Turn off the noise. Get out of the rat race.
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  Be still and know that He's God and allow him to dwell and allow
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  that fire to be fanned, that flame to be fanned.
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  Fill your oil. You cannot go to your brother or
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  sister and ask for their oil. You must fill up your own lamp,
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  39 for the promises unto you, and to your children, and to all
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  that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
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  So he's saying that the gospel is for the whole world, not just
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  for the Jews. We see a lot of Messianic Jews
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  coming into the fold today. Praise God, Hallelujah, they're
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  finally getting it. And we can see that technology
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  has brought about such a division and there are many that
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  are choosing to go to hell. There are many that are paying
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  attention to all of the satanic garbage.
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  But the double edged sword, the tree of good and evil, is that
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  there are many who are seeing the gospel presentation and
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  putting their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ for the first time.
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  What an amazing time that we live in.
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  What an exciting time that we live in.
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  We're getting to see so many different prophecies coming to
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  fruition in our day right now under our nose, and we would do
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  well to lock in to make sure that we know that God is moving
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  mightily in this world. 40 And with many other words did he
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  testify, exhort, saying, save yourselves from this untoward
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  generation. So Peter was never lacking in
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  his ability to open his mouth and to speak.
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  He spoke what needed to be said, but he went on to tell them to
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  turn from all of their wicked ways. 41 Then they that gladly
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  received his word were baptized. In the same day.
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  There were added unto them about 3000 souls.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah.
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  Jesus said that they would do greater things when the
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  comforter came. And you can see here that Peter
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  preached a simple sermon and 3000 people made a love decision
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  for the Lord Jesus Christ sold out bondservants of our Lord in
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  one day. Praise God God for this
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  outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon the early church. 42 And
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  they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and
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  fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayers.
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  So here you can see that the apostles made sure that they
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  taught all the words of the Lord Jesus Christ that were spoken to
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  them up on the Mount of Transfiguration, out on the
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  boat, out in the water when calming the sea, whenever they
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  were with him, to watch the Lazarus get raised from the
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  dead. All the words of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ they had put together to teach all of these new converts.
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  43 Fear came upon every soul. Many wonders and signs were done
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  by the apostles. So here we need to understand
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  that there's such an atmosphere of purity, and this is what it
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  means to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
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  When the glory of God, the Shekinah glory, encompasses you,
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  you cannot even minister, you cannot even speak.
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  It is nothing but awe and wonder at His face. 44 And all that
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  believed were together, and had all things in common. 45 and
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  sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all
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  men, as every man had need. 46 And they continuing daily with 1
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  accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to
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  house, they did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of
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  heart. 47 praising God, and having favor with all the
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  people, and the Lord added to the church daily such as should
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  be saved. This is not communism, this is
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  them coming together and understanding the mind of
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  Christ. This is the Holy Spirit thick in
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  their midst. This is them relying not on
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  their own understanding, but relying on the moving of the
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  Holy Ghost. And it pleased the Lord that
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  they would give up everything to start the church that you and I
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  are so privileged to be a part of.
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  We need to make sure that we are in tune with the Holy Ghost and
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  walking in the Spirit and we will know what He desires for us
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  for this day, for this hour, for right now.
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  This is not something we just need to look back on and wonder
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  about. This is something that we need
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  to live out today in this very day for this time. 1 accord, 1
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  mind, which is the mind of Christ.
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  There's been a lot of wolves in sheep's clothings who have gone
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  on and who will go on to be false Christ and false messiahs.
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  And they are taking advantage of the ones who just want to be
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  spoon fed. And the way that we can
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  safeguard against these cultic leaders who try to start all
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  this garbage, it's by getting in the word, understanding the
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  word, owning the word, memorizing the word, hiding the
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  word, studying the word. So when the counterfeit comes
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  across, we can get out before it's too late, before the trap
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  snaps on us, we need to make sure that we are in tune and
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  walking lock step with the Holy Ghost.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here in Acts.
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  This is a famous chapter that you are going to hear get quoted
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  the longer you stay in the faith.
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  People look back to this time, this Acts 2 church, but we need
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  to be living it out today. This is not of antiquity.
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  This is relevant for today. I'm praying for you and I love
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  you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.