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  Speaker 1: For centuries, the prophets had whispered of a day that
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  Speaker 1: would change everything. Joel saw it in visions. David sang
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  Speaker 1: of it in psalms. A day when God would no
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  Speaker 1: longer dwell in temples made of stone, but inside the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of men. A day when servants and handmaidens would prophesy,
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  Speaker 1: when old men would dream dreams and young men would
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  Speaker 1: see visions. That day had a date, that day had
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  Speaker 1: a place, And when it finally came, the world was
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  Speaker 1: not ready. In a crowded upper room in Jerusalem one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty, trembling believers waited for something they could
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  Speaker 1: not understand. They had no idea that in mere moments,
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  Speaker 1: fire would fall from heaven, not to destroy, but to ignite,
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  Speaker 1: not to consume, but to empower. The sound that followed
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  Speaker 1: shook the walls, shook the streets, and shook the very
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  Speaker 1: foundations of religion itself. What happened next would launch a
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  Speaker 1: movement that no emperor could stop, no person secution could silence,
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  Speaker 1: and no grave could contain. This is Acts chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: This is the day the Spirit was poured out, and
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  Speaker 1: after two thousand years, its fire still burns. Forty days
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  Speaker 1: had passed since Jesus rose from the dead. During those weeks,
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  Speaker 1: he appeared to his disciples many times. He ate with them,
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  Speaker 1: he walked with them, he spoke to them about the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. But now the time had come for
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  Speaker 1: him to leave. They stood together on the Mount of Olives,
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  Speaker 1: just outside Jerusalem. The disciples looked at their master, the
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  Speaker 1: one who had died and come back to life. They
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  Speaker 1: still had questions, They still had doubts. They still wondered if, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: just maybe he would finally establish his earthly kingdom. As
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  Speaker 1: Luke records in Acts Chapter one, verses six and seven,
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  Speaker 1: they asked him directly, Lord, will you at this time
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  Speaker 1: restore the kingdom to Israel? And he said to them,
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  Speaker 1: it is not for you to know times or seasons
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  Speaker 1: which the Father has put in his own authority. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did not give them the answer they wanted. He did
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  Speaker 1: not promise thrones or crowns or political victory. Instead, he
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  Speaker 1: gave them something far greater, a mission that would outlast
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  Speaker 1: every empire and every kingdom the world had ever known.
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  Speaker 1: In verse eight, he spoke these words, but you shall
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  Speaker 1: receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
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  Speaker 1: and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and
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  Speaker 1: in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. This was the last command, This was the
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  Speaker 1: final instruction. They were not called to conquer nations by
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  Speaker 1: the sword. They were called to be witnesses. But first
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  Speaker 1: they needed power. Power they did not yet have power
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  Speaker 1: that would come from Heaven itself. And then right before
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  Speaker 1: their eyes, something extraordinary happened. Acts Chapter one, verse nine
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  Speaker 1: tells us, Now, when he had spoken these things while
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  Speaker 1: they watched, he was taken up, and a cloud received
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  Speaker 1: him out of their sight. Jesus ascended. He rose from
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  Speaker 1: the ground, higher and higher, until a cloud covered him,
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  Speaker 1: and he disappeared from view. The disciples stood there, frozen,
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  Speaker 1: staring at the sky. The one they had followed for
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  Speaker 1: three years was gone. The one who had called them,
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  Speaker 1: trained them, loved them. He was no longer with them.
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  Speaker 1: They could not move, they could not speak. They just
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  Speaker 1: kept looking up, hoping perhaps he would come back, hoping
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  Speaker 1: this was not the end. But then, as verse ten describes,
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  Speaker 1: two men in white apparel appeared beside them, angels, messengers
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  Speaker 1: from heaven, and they spoke, Men of Galilee, why do
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  Speaker 1: you stand gazing up into heaven. This same Jesus who
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  Speaker 1: was taken up from you into heaven, will so come
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  Speaker 1: in like manner as you saw him go into heaven.
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  Speaker 1: The message was clear. Jesus was coming back, but not today,
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  Speaker 1: not tomorrow. There was work to be done first. There
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  Speaker 1: was a promise to receive. And so the disciples did
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  Speaker 1: exactly what Jesus had told them to do. Verse twelve
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  Speaker 1: records their obedience. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the
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  Speaker 1: mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.
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  Speaker 1: They walked back to the city step by step, heart
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  Speaker 1: by heart. They did not fully understand what was coming.
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  Speaker 1: They did not know how long they would have to wait,
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  Speaker 1: but they trusted the words of their master. If he
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  Speaker 1: said to wait in Jerusalem, they would wait. If he
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  Speaker 1: said power would come, they believed it would come. The
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  Speaker 1: ascension was over, the waiting had begun. When the disciples
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  Speaker 1: returned to Jerusalem, they did not scatter. They did not
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  Speaker 1: go back to their fishing boats, or their tax booths,
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  Speaker 1: or their old lives. They stayed together, and they gathered
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  Speaker 1: in a space place an upper room. Acts Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verse thirteen gives us the location and when they had entered,
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  Speaker 1: they went up into the upper room where they were staying.
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  Speaker 1: This upper room was likely the same room where Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had shared the last supper with them. It was a
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  Speaker 1: place filled with memories, a place where bread had been
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  Speaker 1: broken and wine had been poured, a place where Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had washed their feet and spoken of love and betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: Now it became a place of waiting. The room was
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  Speaker 1: not large. It was not a palace or a temple.
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  Speaker 1: It was simply a room in someone's home, probably on
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  Speaker 1: the second floor, away from the noise of the streets below.
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  Speaker 1: But in that small, humble space, something was being prepared,
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  Speaker 1: something that would shake the entire world. Luke tells us
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  Speaker 1: exactly who was in that room. Verse thirteen continues, Peter, James,
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  Speaker 1: John and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas Bartholomew and Matthew, James,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas
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  Speaker 1: the son of James, eleven apostles, eleven men who had
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  Speaker 1: walked with Jesus from the beginning. One was missing, Judas Iscariot,
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  Speaker 1: the one who had betrayed the Lord for thirty pieces
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  Speaker 1: of silver. His absence was felt. His seat was empty,
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  Speaker 1: but the others remained faithful. They were still here, still believing,
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  Speaker 1: still waiting, and they were not alone. Verse fourteen tells
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  Speaker 1: us these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication,
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  Speaker 1: with the women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and
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  Speaker 1: with his brothers. The apostles were joined by faithful women
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  Speaker 1: who had followed Jesus throughout his ministry, women who had
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  Speaker 1: stood at the foot of the cross when most of
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  Speaker 1: the men had fled, women who had gone to the
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  Speaker 1: tomb on that first Easter morning. They were there now
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  Speaker 1: praying alongside the men, united in hope. And among them
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  Speaker 1: was Mary, the mother of Jesus, the woman who had
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  Speaker 1: carried him in her womb, who had raised him, who
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  Speaker 1: had watched him die. She was there in that upper room,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the promise her son had made. Even the
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  Speaker 1: brothers of Jesus were present. These were men who had
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  Speaker 1: once doubted him. The Gospel of John chapter seven, verse
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  Speaker 1: five tells us plainly, for even his brothers did not
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  Speaker 1: believe in him. But something had changed. The resurrection had
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  Speaker 1: opened their eyes. Now they believed. Now they were part
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  Speaker 1: of the gathering. Verse fifteen reveals the total number and
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  Speaker 1: in those days, Peter stood up in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: the disciples. Altogether, the number of names was about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one hundred and twenty people, not thousands,
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  Speaker 1: not hundreds of thousands, just one hundred and twenty ordinary
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  Speaker 1: men and women gathered in an upper room waiting for
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  Speaker 1: something they could not see. They had no army, they
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  Speaker 1: had no wealth, they had no political connections. By every
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  Speaker 1: measure of the world, they were powerless. But they had
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  Speaker 1: one thing, a promise, and they held on to that
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  Speaker 1: promise with everything they had. The upper room became their sanctuary,
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  Speaker 1: their meeting place, their waiting room for Heaven's fire. To
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  Speaker 1: understand what was about to happen, we must first understand
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  Speaker 1: the day on which it happened. The disciples were not
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  Speaker 1: waiting for just any day. They were waiting during one
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  Speaker 1: of the most important times in the Jewish calendar, the
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  Speaker 1: Feast of Pentecost. The word Pentecost comes from a Greek
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  Speaker 1: word meaning fiftieth. This feast was celebrated fifty days after Passover.
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  Speaker 1: It was also known by another name, the Feast of Weeks,
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  Speaker 1: or in Hebrew Chavot. This was an ancient celebration established
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  Speaker 1: by God himself centuries earlier. In the Book of Leviticus,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty three, Verses fifteen and sixteen, the Lord had
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  Speaker 1: given Moses specific instructions. And you shall count for yourselves
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  Speaker 1: from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that
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  Speaker 1: you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven sabbaths
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  Speaker 1: shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after
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  Speaker 1: the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall offer a new grain
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  Speaker 1: offering to the Lord. Pentecost was a harvest festival. It
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  Speaker 1: marked the end of the grain harvest. Farmers from all
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  Speaker 1: across Israel would bring their first fruits to the temple
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  Speaker 1: as an offering of thanksgiving. It was a time of joy,
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  Speaker 1: a time of celebration, a time when the people remembered
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  Speaker 1: God's provision. But there was another layer of meaning to
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  Speaker 1: this day. Jewish tradition held that Pentecost was also the
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai,
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  Speaker 1: fifty days after the Israelites left Egypt on Passover, they
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  Speaker 1: arrived at the mountain where God descended in fire and
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  Speaker 1: smoke and gave Moses the Ten Commandments. This connection was
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  Speaker 1: not lost on the religious leaders of Israel. Pentecost was
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  Speaker 1: the day when God had revealed his Law to his people.
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  Speaker 1: It was the day when Israel had entered into a
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  Speaker 1: covenant with the Almighty, and now centuries later, something new
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  Speaker 1: was about to happen. On this same day. God was
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  Speaker 1: about to give something even greater than the Law. He
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  Speaker 1: was about to pour out his spirit. The timing was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: It was divine. Jesus had been crucified on Passover, the
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  Speaker 1: day when lambs were sacrificed. He was the true Passover
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  Speaker 1: lamb whose blood delivered his people from death. He rose
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  Speaker 1: from the dead and spent forty days with his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: Then he ascended to Heaven. Ten days later came Pentecost,
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  Speaker 1: fifty days after Passover, fifty days after the Resurrection. The
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  Speaker 1: pieces were fallen into place. Heaven was counting down the
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  Speaker 1: feast that had celebrated the harvest, and the Law was
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  Speaker 1: about to become the birthday of the Church. The disciples
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  Speaker 1: in the Upper Room knew the significance of the day.
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  Speaker 1: They knew the crowds would be massive. They knew pilgrims
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  Speaker 1: would be arriving from every corner of the world. But
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  Speaker 1: they did not yet know that this Pentecost would be
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  Speaker 1: unlike any other. They simply waited and prayed, and trusted
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus would keep his word. Jerusalem was never quiet
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  Speaker 1: during the great feasts, but during Pentecost the city was
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  Speaker 1: especially full. Pilgrims poured in from every direction. The roads
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  Speaker 1: were crowded, the inns were packed, Every available room was taken.
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  Speaker 1: Luke gives us a glimpse of this international gathering in
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  Speaker 1: Acts Chapter two, verses five through eleven. He writes, and
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  Speaker 1: there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every
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  Speaker 1: nation under head by These were not casual travelers. They
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  Speaker 1: were devout men, men who took their faith seriously, men
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  Speaker 1: who had traveled great distances, sometimes for weeks or even months,
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  Speaker 1: just to celebrate the feast in the Holy City. They
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  Speaker 1: came from the east and the west, from the north
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  Speaker 1: and the south. The list of nations is remarkable. Who
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  Speaker 1: continues in verses nine through eleven, Parthians and Medes and Elamites,
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  Speaker 1: those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
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  Speaker 1: Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya, adjoining Syrene.
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  Speaker 1: Visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the scope of this gathering. Parthians came from
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  Speaker 1: the region of modern day Iran. Meds came from an
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  Speaker 1: ancient empire that had once rivaled Babylon. Elamites traced their
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  Speaker 1: heritage to one of the oldest civilizations in history. Mesopotamia
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  Speaker 1: was the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the
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  Speaker 1: cradle of civilization itself. From the north came people from Cappadocia, Pontus,
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  Speaker 1: and Asia, regions we now call Turkey. From the west
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  Speaker 1: came visitors from Rome, the capital of the greatest empire
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  Speaker 1: the world had ever seen. Some were Jews by birth,
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  Speaker 1: others were proselytes gentiles who had converted to the Jewish faith.
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  Speaker 1: From the south came Egyptians and Libyans, descendants of those
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  Speaker 1: who had lived along the Great Nile River. From the
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  Speaker 1: island of Crete came others, and from Arabia came still more.
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  Speaker 1: All of these people, from all of these nations, speaking
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  Speaker 1: dozens of different languages, had gathered in one city. They
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  Speaker 1: walked the same streets, they worshiped in the same temple.
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  Speaker 1: They waited for the same feast. The population of Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: which normally numbered around fifty or sixty thousand, swelled to
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  Speaker 1: several hundred thousand. During the feasts. The narrow the streets
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  Speaker 1: were shoulder to shoulder with pilgrims. The sound of different
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  Speaker 1: languages filled the air. Merchants sold their goods, Priests prepared
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  Speaker 1: their sacrifices. Children played in the courtyards while their parents
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  Speaker 1: caught up with relatives they had not seen in years.
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  Speaker 1: It was chaos and celebration all at once, and right
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of it all, in a small upper room,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty believers continued to pray. They could
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  Speaker 1: hear the noise of the city below, they could feel
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  Speaker 1: the energy of the crowds, but they stayed where they were.
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  Speaker 1: They did not join the festivities. They did not get
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  Speaker 1: distracted by the excitement outside. They remained focused on the promise.
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  Speaker 1: Little did the city know that these one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty nobodies were about to become the most important people
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  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem. Little did the pilgrims know that they had
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  Speaker 1: traveled all this way not just for a feast, but
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  Speaker 1: for a moment that would be remembered for all eternity.
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  Speaker 1: The city was over flowing with people, and God was
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  Speaker 1: about to overflow them with his spirit. Every day they waited,
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  Speaker 1: the promise grew heavier, not heavier in a burdensome way,
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  Speaker 1: but heavier insignificance. The disciples carried the words of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: with them, constantly turning them over in their minds, wondering
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  Speaker 1: what exactly was coming. Before his death, Jesus had spoken
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  Speaker 1: to them about this promise in the Gospel of John
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  Speaker 1: chapter fourteen, verses sixteen and seventeen. He had said, and
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  Speaker 1: I will pray the Father, and he will give you
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  Speaker 1: another helper, that he may abide with you forever, the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it
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  Speaker 1: neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,
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  Speaker 1: for he dwells with you and will be in you
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  Speaker 1: another helper, the Spirit of Truth, someone who would not
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  Speaker 1: just be with them, but in them. These words must
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  Speaker 1: have echoed in their hearts as they prayed in the
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  Speaker 1: upper room. Jesus had said even more in John chapter sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: verse seven. He had made a statement that seemed almost
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  Speaker 1: impossible to believe. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It
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  Speaker 1: is to your advantage that I go away, For if
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  Speaker 1: I do not go away, the Helper will not come
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  Speaker 1: to you. But if I depart, I will send him
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  Speaker 1: to you. All it was to their advantage that Jesus left.
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  Speaker 1: How could that be? How could anything be better than
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  Speaker 1: having Jesus physically present with them. Yet he had promised
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  Speaker 1: that this helper, this Holy Spirit, would come only after
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  Speaker 1: he departed. And now Jesus had departed, he had ascended
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  Speaker 1: to heaven. The condition had been met, the departure had happened,
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  Speaker 1: which meant the promise was about to be fulfilled. Just
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  Speaker 1: before his ascension, Jesus had repeated the promise one more
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  Speaker 1: time in Acts Chapter one, Verses four and five Luke records,
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  Speaker 1: and being assembled together with them, he commanded them not
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  Speaker 1: to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise
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  Speaker 1: of the Father, which he said, you have heard from me.
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  Speaker 1: For John truly baptized with water, But you shall be
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  Speaker 1: baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.
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  Speaker 1: Not many days, That was all Jesus said. He did
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  Speaker 1: not give them a specific date. He did not say
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  Speaker 1: ten days or twenty days. He simply said, not many days.
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  Speaker 1: And so they waited, counting each sunrise wondering if to
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  Speaker 1: day would be the day. The phrase the promise of
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  Speaker 1: the Father carried enormous weight. This was not just a
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  Speaker 1: promise from Jesus. It was a promise from God, the
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  Speaker 1: Father himself. It stretched back through the sentries spoken through
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  Speaker 1: prophets long before Jesus was born. The prophet Joel had
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  Speaker 1: proclaimed it. Isaiah had foretold it, Ezekiel had described a
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  Speaker 1: day when God would put his spirit within his people.
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  Speaker 1: And now in that upper room, one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: ordinary men and women stood on the edge of fulfillment.
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  Speaker 1: They did not know exactly what would happen. Would there
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  Speaker 1: be thunder, would there be lightning? Would an angel appear?
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  Speaker 1: They had no road map. They had only the promise,
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  Speaker 1: and so they held on to it. They trusted it.
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  Speaker 1: They believed that Jesus would not leave them as orphans.
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  Speaker 1: They believed that power was coming. They just had to
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  Speaker 1: wait a little longer. Ten days that was how long
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  Speaker 1: they waited between the ascension and Pentecost. Ten days of prayer,
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  Speaker 1: ten days of preparation, ten days of becoming. One Acts,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, verse fourteen describes their condition during this time.
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  Speaker 1: These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication
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  Speaker 1: one accord. In the original Greek, the word is homothumodon.
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  Speaker 1: It means with one mind, with one passion, with one purpose.
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  Speaker 1: There was no division among them, no arguments about who
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  Speaker 1: was greatest, no competition for position. They were completely united.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a small thing. Remember who was in
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  Speaker 1: that room. Peter was there, the one who had denied
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  Speaker 1: Jesus three times. John was there, the one who had
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  Speaker 1: asked to sit at jesus right hand in the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas was there, the one who had doubted the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: until he saw the nailmarks with his own eyes. These
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  Speaker 1: men had failed, They had argued, they had scattered when
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was arrested. But now something had changed. The resurrection
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  Speaker 1: had transformed them, The ascension had focussed them, and the
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  Speaker 1: promise had united them. They did not spend these ten
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  Speaker 1: days debating theology. They did not spend them planning strategies
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  Speaker 1: or organizing committees. They spent them in prayer, constant prayer,
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  Speaker 1: persistent prayer, prayer that expressed their complete dependence on God.
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  Speaker 1: The women prayed alongside the men. Mary, the mother of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: prayed with the disciples. The brothers of Jesus prayed with
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  Speaker 1: those who had followed him from Galilee. Social barriers melted away,
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  Speaker 1: gender distinctions faded. They were simply believers, waiting together for
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  Speaker 1: the same promise. Day after day, they gathered morning after morning.
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  Speaker 1: They lifted their voices evening after evening, they sought the
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  Speaker 1: face of God. They did not grow weary. They did
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  Speaker 1: not give up. They continued. The word continued in verse
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  Speaker 1: fourteen is important. It suggests persistence. It suggests steadfastness. They
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  Speaker 1: did not pray once and stop. They kept going hour
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  Speaker 1: after hour, day after day. What did they pray for?
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  Speaker 1: The Bible does not give us their exact words, but
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  Speaker 1: we can imagine they prayed for the promise to come.
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  Speaker 1: They prayed for courage to be witnesses. They prayed for
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  Speaker 1: understanding of what Jesus had taught them. They prayed for
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  Speaker 1: each other. They prayed for the city around them. They
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  Speaker 1: prayed for the nations represented by all those pilgrims. These
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  Speaker 1: ten days of unity were not wasted time. They were
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  Speaker 1: preparation time. God was doing a work in their hearts
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  Speaker 1: before he did a work through their lives. He was
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  Speaker 1: binding them together before he sent them out. He was
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: making them one before he multiplied them into thousands. Unity
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  Speaker 1: is never automatic. It requires humility, It requires forgiveness, It
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  Speaker 1: requires laying down personal agendas for a shared purpose. And
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  Speaker 1: in that upper room, one hundred and twenty people did
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  Speaker 1: exactly that. When the Spirit far finally came, he did
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  Speaker 1: not come to a group of individuals. He came to
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  Speaker 1: a community. He came to a family. He came to
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  Speaker 1: a people who had learned to pray together, wait together,
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  Speaker 1: and believe together. The ten days of unity prepared them
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  Speaker 1: for the day of power. Among the one hundred and twenty,
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  Speaker 1: the apostles held a special place. They were the ones
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had personally chosen. They were the ones he had
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  Speaker 1: trained for three years. They were the eye witnesses of
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  Speaker 1: his ministry, his death, and his resurrection. Luke lists their
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  Speaker 1: names in Acts, Chapter one, verse thirteen. Peter, James, John
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  Speaker 1: and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew James the
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: son of Alpheus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: son of James. Eleven names, eleven men with different backgrounds,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: different personalities, and different stories of how they came to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: follow Jesus. Peter was the fisherman from Galilee who had
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: walked on water and sunk beneath the waves. He had
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: declared Jesus to be the Christ, and then rebuked him
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  Speaker 1: for speaking of his death. He had drawn a sword
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  Speaker 1: in the garden and denied knowing Jesus before a servant girl.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Jesus had restored him by the Sea of Galilee,
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  Speaker 1: asking three times do you love me? James and John
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  Speaker 1: were brothers, also fishermen, whom Jesus had nicknamed Sons of
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  Speaker 1: Thunder because of their fiery temperaments. They had once asked
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  Speaker 1: to call down fire from heaven on a Samaritan village.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yet here they were patiently waiting and praying. Andrew was
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Peter's brother, the one who had first brought Peter to Jesus.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Philip was from Bethsada, the same town as Peter. And
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas, forever remembered for his doubt, had also declared
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: his willingness to die with Jesus. Bartholomew, also called Nathaniel,
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  Speaker 1: was the one about whom Jesus said be an Israelite,
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  Speaker 1: indeed in whom is no deceit. Matthew had been a
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  Speaker 1: tax collector despised by his own people until Jesus called
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  Speaker 1: him from his booth. James the son of Alpheus and
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  Speaker 1: Judas the son of James were faithful followers, whose stories
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  Speaker 1: we know little about. And then there was Simon the Zealot.
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  Speaker 1: Before following Jesus, Simon had been part of a political
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  Speaker 1: movement that wanted to overthrow Rome by force. He had
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  Speaker 1: believed in violence and revolution. Now he sat in the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: same room as Matthew, a man who had collaborated with Rome,
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  Speaker 1: the Zealot and the tax collector, united by their love
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  Speaker 1: for Jesus. But one chair was empty. Judas Iscariot was gone.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: He had betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, and
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: when the weight of his guilt crushed him, he had
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  Speaker 1: taken his own life. Peter addressed this matter during the
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  Speaker 1: Ten Days of Waiting in Acts, chapter verses twenty through
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. Peter said, for it is written in the
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  Speaker 1: book of Psalms, let his dwelling place be desolate, and
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  Speaker 1: let no one live in it, and let another take
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  Speaker 1: his office. Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us
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  Speaker 1: all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and
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  Speaker 1: out among us, beginning from the baptism of John to
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  Speaker 1: that day when he was taken up from us. One
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  Speaker 1: of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: Two men were proposed Joseph, called Barsabas and Matthias. The
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  Speaker 1: group prayed and cast lots, and the lot fell on Matthias,
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty six records, and he was numbered with the
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  Speaker 1: eleven apostles. Now they were twelve. Again, the number was complete.
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  Speaker 1: The Apostles were ready to lead what was coming. The
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  Speaker 1: sun rose over Jerusalem on the fiftieth day. The day
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  Speaker 1: of Pentecost had fully come. Acts Chapter two, Verse one
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  Speaker 1: record it simply, when the day of Pentecost had fully come.
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  Speaker 1: They were all together in one place, fully come. The
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  Speaker 1: waiting was over. The fifty days since Passover had been counted,
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  Speaker 1: the ten days since the ascension had passed. This was
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  Speaker 1: the appointed day. This was the moment marked on Heaven's
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  Speaker 1: calendar since before the world began. The believers were in
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  Speaker 1: their usual place together. They had not scattered, they had
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  Speaker 1: not grown tired of waiting. After ten days of continuous
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  Speaker 1: prayer and unity, they were still gathered as one body
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  Speaker 1: in one room. The morning began like any other morning.
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  Speaker 1: The sounds of the city rose from below. Pilgrims moved
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  Speaker 1: toward the temple for the feast day celebrations. Priests prepared
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  Speaker 1: their sacrifices. Merchants opened their stalls. The smell of bread
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and incense filled the air. In the Upper Room, the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty lightly prayed as they had prayed
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  Speaker 1: every day. They did not know that this morning was different.
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  Speaker 1: They did not know that this was the day everything
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  Speaker 1: would change. Outside the streets were packed with devout Jews
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  Speaker 1: from every nation. Inside, a small group of Galileans sat together,
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  Speaker 1: united by faith in a risen savior. They could no
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  Speaker 1: longer see. The stage was set, the city was full,
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  Speaker 1: The believers were ready. The fiftieth day had arrived. All
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  Speaker 1: the pieces were in place. The ascension had happened, the
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  Speaker 1: command to wait had been obeyed. The Upper Room had
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: become their meeting place. The Feast of Pentecost had brought
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  Speaker 1: the nations to Jerusalem, the promise of the Father echoed
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  Speaker 1: in their hearts. Ten days of prayer had forged them
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  Speaker 1: into one body. The apostles were among them twelve once again.
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  Speaker 1: And now the morning of the fiftieth day had dawned.
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  Speaker 1: What happened next would be recorded in scripture, remembered by
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  Speaker 1: generations and sell elebrated for two thousand years. But in
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  Speaker 1: those quiet moments before heaven opened, the one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty simply sat together, waiting in faith for what they
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  Speaker 1: could not yet see. The morning prayers had begun like
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  Speaker 1: any other. The one hundred and twenty sat together, their
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  Speaker 1: hearts lifted toward Heaven, their voices joined in supplication. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: about those first moments suggested that this day would be
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  Speaker 1: different from the nine days before, And then without warning,
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  Speaker 1: everything changed. Acts Chapter two, Verse two describes what happened next.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven, as of
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled the whole house
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  Speaker 1: where they were sitting. Suddenly. That word is important. There
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: was no countdown, there was no gradual build up. One
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  Speaker 1: moment they were praying in silence. The next moment heaven
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  Speaker 1: broke through. The sound came first. It was not a
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  Speaker 1: gentle breeze rustling through the trees. It was not a
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  Speaker 1: soft whisper in the night. It was the roar of
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a mighty wind, violent, powerful, overwhelming, the kind of sound
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  Speaker 1: that makes your heart stop, the kind of sound that
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  Speaker 1: shakes you to your core. But here is the remarkable thing.
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  Speaker 1: The text says it was as of a rushing, mighty wind.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded like wind, but it was not wind. No
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: shutters banged against the walls, no clothes were blown about,
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  Speaker 1: no dust swirled through the room. The sound had no
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: natural source. It came directly from Heaven itself. This sound
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: filled the whole house, not just one corner, not just
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the area where the apostles sat. Every inch of that
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  Speaker 1: upper room was consumed by the roar of Heaven's arrival.
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  Speaker 1: The walls seemed to vibrate with it, The air itself
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  Speaker 1: seemed thick with the presence of God. Those outside the
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  Speaker 1: room could hear it too. The sound was so loud,
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  Speaker 1: so distinct, that it reached the streets below. People stopped
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  Speaker 1: what they were doing, Conversations halted mid sentence. Merchants paused
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  Speaker 1: their selling. Something was happening, something extraordinary. For the believers
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  Speaker 1: in that room, the sound must have been both terrifying
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  Speaker 1: and exhilarating. This was it, This was what they had
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  Speaker 1: been waiting for. The promise of the Father was arriving,
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  Speaker 1: and it was announcing itself with the voice of a hurricane.
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  Speaker 1: In the Old Testament, wind often represented the spirit of God.
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  Speaker 1: The Hebrew word ruach means both wind and spirit. When
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  Speaker 1: God created man, he breathed into his nostrils the breath
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of life. When Ezekiel prophesied to the dry bones, he
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: called upon the wind to breathe life into them. Now,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: on this Pentecost morning, the wind of God was blowing
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  Speaker 1: once again. But the wind was not blowing to destroy.
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  Speaker 1: It was blowing to empower. It was blowing to fill.
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  Speaker 1: It was blowing to give birth to something new. The
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  Speaker 1: sound from heaven was only the beginning. What came next
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  Speaker 1: would mark them forever. While the sound still echoed through
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the room, something appeared, something visible, something that had never
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  Speaker 1: been seen before in all of human history. Acts Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse three records it. Then there appeared to them divided
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  Speaker 1: tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
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  Speaker 1: Tongues of fire. Not a single flame, but many flames,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Not one great bonfire in the center of the room,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: but individual flames that separated and moved with purpose. These
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  Speaker 1: tongues of fire divided themselves and came to rest upon
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  Speaker 1: each person in the room. Think about what they saw.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred and twenty people, and above each head a flame,
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  Speaker 1: not burning their hair, not scorching their skin, just resting there, glowing,
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  Speaker 1: flickering with supernatural light. The flame sat upon Peter, It
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  Speaker 1: sat upon John. It sat upon Mary, the mother of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: It sat upon the women who had followed Christ. It
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: sat upon the brothers of Jesus who had once doubted him.
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  Speaker 1: It sat upon Matthias, the newly chosen apostle. Every single
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  Speaker 1: person in that room received their own tongue of fire.
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  Speaker 1: This was not like anything they had seen Jesus do
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: during his earthly ministry. Jesus had healed the sick, raised
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the dead, walked on water, and calmed storms, but he
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: had never placed fire on his followers. This was something new.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: This was the beginning of a new era. Fire has
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: always been associated with the presence of God. When Moses
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: saw the burning bush, God was in the fire. When
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Israel wandered in the wilderness, God led them by a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: pillar of fire. At night, when Solomon dedicated the temple,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifice. Fire
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: meant God was present. Fire meant God was acting. And
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: now that same fire, the fire of God's presence was
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  Speaker 1: resting not on a bush, not on a mountain, not
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  Speaker 1: on an altar, but on people, ordinary people, fishermen, tax collectors, women,
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  Speaker 1: brothers who had doubted, followers who had failed. The fire
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  Speaker 1: of God was claiming them as his own. The flames
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: were described as being as of fire, just like the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: sound was as of a rushing wind. The flames were
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: as of fire. They looked like fire, they glowed like fire,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: but they did not burn like natural fire. This was
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: heavenly fire, supernatural fire, fire that purified without destroying, fire
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: that empowered without consuming. Each person could see the flame
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  Speaker 1: on others. They could look around the room and see
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  Speaker 1: see one hundred and twenty flames hovering over one hundred
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and twenty heads. The sight must have been overwhelming, beautiful, terrifying, glorious.
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  Speaker 1: The sound had announced Heaven's arrival. The fire confirmed it.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: God was here, God was moving, and he was not
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: just visiting. He was taking up residence. The sound had come,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the fire had appeared. But the promise was not just
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: about sights and sounds. The promise was about something far
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: more personal, something internal, something that would change them from
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the inside out. Acts Chapter two, verse four tells us
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  Speaker 1: what happened next, And they were all filled with the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the Spirit gave them utterance. They were all filled, not
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: just the apostles, not just the leaders. Every single person
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: in that room, all one hundred and twenty was filled
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit did not choose some
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and skip others. He came upon them all. This was
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  Speaker 1: the baptism Jesus had promised just days before his ascension.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: He had told them they would be baptized with the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Now it was happening. They were being immersed, saturated,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: completely filled with the presence and power of God. What
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: does it mean to be filled with the Spirit. It
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: means that God himself, the third person of the Trinity,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: took up residence inside of them. He was no longer
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: just with them, He was in them. He was not
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: a guest making a brief visit. He was moving in permanently.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: And immediately something happened. They began to speak, but not
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: in their native Aramaic, not in the Hebrew they used
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: for prayers. They began to speak in languages they had
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: never learned, languages they had never heard. Languages they could
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: not have known. The text says. They spoke as the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Spirit gave them utterants. This was not something they did
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  Speaker 1: on their own. This was not a skill they had practiced.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit himself was giving them the words. He
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: was moving their tongues, he was forming the sounds. They
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  Speaker 1: were simply yielding to his power. Imagine being one of them.
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  Speaker 1: One moment, you are praying in your own language. The
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  Speaker 1: next moment, words you do not understand are flowing from
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  Speaker 1: your mouth. You hear yourself speaking, but you do not
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: recognize the language. You cannot stop it, you do not
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: want to stop it. The Spirit is in control, and
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the words keep coming. This was the evidence, This was
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the proof. The Holy Spirit had come, and he was
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: making himself known in a way that could not be ignored,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: could not be explained away, could not be forgotten. The
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: upper room was no longer a waiting room. It had
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: become a launching pad. These spirit filled beliefs were about
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  Speaker 1: to carry the message of Jesus to the ends of
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the earth. But first they had to leave that room.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: They had to go outside. They had to let the
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: city hear what the Spirit was saying through them. The
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  Speaker 1: sound had been heard beyond the walls of the upper room.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: The roar of the mighty wind had echoed through the streets,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: and now the voices of one hundred and twenty spirit
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: filled believers added to the noise. They could not stay inside.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: The power that filled them pushed them outward. They spilled
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  Speaker 1: out of the Upper Room and into the streets of Jerusalem.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And as they went they kept speaking in those unknown languages,
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  Speaker 1: proclaiming words they did not understand, but could not hold back.
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  Speaker 1: The city was already crowded with pilgrims. The feast of
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Pentecost had brought devout Jews from every corner of the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: known world. These visitors were making their way to the temple,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: buying supplies in the markets, gathering with family members they
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: had not seen in years. It it was a normal
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: feast day morning until the believers appeared. Acts Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse six describes what happened and when this sound occurred.
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  Speaker 1: The multitude came together and were confused because everyone heard
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  Speaker 1: them speak in his own language. The multitude came together,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: they gathered, they crowded around. Something was happening that demanded
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: their attention. These Galileans, ordinary uneducated people from the northern region,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: were speaking in languages that the pilgrims recognized. The streets
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: came alive with curiosity. People pushed closer to here. They
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: grabbed their neighbors and pointed, listen, that man is speaking
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: my language. How is this possible? The confusion spread like wildfire.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Everywhere you looked, people were stopping, staring, listening. The normal
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: rhythm of the feast day was completely disrupted. No one
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: could focus on anything else. The temple could wait, the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: sacrifices could wait. Something unprecedented was happening right here in
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the streets. The believers moved through the crowds, speaking, proclaiming,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: declaring the works of God. They did not understand their
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: own words, but the listeners did. Each person heard the
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  Speaker 1: message in their mother tongue, the language they had learned
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: at their mother's knee, the language of their homeland, the
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  Speaker 1: language of their heart. The streets of Jerusalem had seen
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: many things. They had seen Roman soldiers march through in conquest.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: They had seen pilgrims arrive for countless feasts. They had
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: seen Jesus ride in on a donkey while crowds waved
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: palm branches. They had seen him carry his cross to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Golgatha but they had never seen anything like this. One
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty ordinary people speaking in dozens of languages
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: they had never learned, proclaiming a message that cut through
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: every barrier of culture, and the streets were alive with
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the sound of Heaven speaking through human voices. The miracle
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: was not just that they spoke in other tongues. The
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: miracle was what those tongues accomplished. Every pilgrim, no matter
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: where they came from, heard the message in their own
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: native language. Acts Chapter two, verse eight captures the astonishment.
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  Speaker 1: And how is it that we hear each in our
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: own language in which we were born? This question echoed
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: through the crowd. How is this possible? These speakers were
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: clearly Galileans. Their accents, their appearance, their mannerisms gave them away.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Galilee was not known for producing scholars or linguists. It
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: was a rural area looked down upon by the sophisticated
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: residents of Jerusalem. Yet here were Galileans speaking perfect Egyptian,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: flawless Latin, impeccable Arabic. The scope of the miracle was staggering.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Parthians heard Parthian Medes heard the language of Media, Elamites
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: heard the ancient tongue of Elam. Those from Mesopotamia heard
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Aramaic dialects specific to their region. Visitors from Cappadocia, Pontus,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: and Asia heard the languages of their provinces. Phrygians and
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Pamphylians each heard their own distinct tongues. Egyptians heard Egyptian
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Libyans from the regions around Syren heard their local dialects.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Visitors from Rome heard Latin. Cretans heard the language of
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: their island, Arabs heard Arabic. Jews and proselytes from every
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: nation heard the wonderful works of God, declared in the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: very language they had spoken since childhood. Acts Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven tells us exactly what they heard. We hear
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: them speaking in our own tongues, the wonderful works of God,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the wonderful works of God. That was the message. The
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: spirit filled believers were not not speaking random words, they
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: were not babbling nonsense. They were declaring the mighty deeds
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: of God, his creation, his salvation, his promises, his faithfulness.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: And every ear heard it in the language that touched
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: their heart most deeply. There is something powerful about hearing
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: truth in your native tongue. You can learn another language,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: you can become fluent in it, But your mother tongue
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: reaches a place in your soul that no other language
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: can touch. It is the language of your childhood, your family,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: your identity. God chose to announce the coming of his
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Spirit in every language at once. He did not favor
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Hebrew over Greek. He did not prioritize Latin over Arabic.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Every language was equal, every nation was included. The message
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: was for everyone. This was a reversal of Babel. Thousands
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  Speaker 1: of years earlier, at the Tower of Babel God God
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  Speaker 1: had confused the languages of humanity and scattered them across
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  Speaker 1: the earth. Now, on Pentecost, God was using many languages
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  Speaker 1: to bring humanity back together. The curse of confusion was
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  Speaker 1: being undone by the clarity of the spirit. The crowd
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  Speaker 1: did not know what to make of it. They had
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  Speaker 1: never seen anything like this. They had never heard anything
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  Speaker 1: like this. Their minds struggled to process what their ears
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  Speaker 1: were hearing and their eyes were seeing acts. Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse seven describes their reaction. Then they were all amazed
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  Speaker 1: and marveled, saying to one another, look are not all
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  Speaker 1: these who speak Galileans? Amazed? Marveled. These are strong words.
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  Speaker 1: The people were not mildly curious, They were not casually interested.
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  Speaker 1: They were stunned, overwhelmed. Their understanding of how the world
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  Speaker 1: worked was being shattered right in front of them. The
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  Speaker 1: question they asked their confusion, are not all these who
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  Speaker 1: speak Galileans? Everyone could see it. These were not educated
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  Speaker 1: priests from Jerusalem. These were not trained rabbis who had
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  Speaker 1: studied languages for years. These were simple people from Galilee, fishermen, farmers,
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  Speaker 1: ordinary workers. How could they possibly speak so many languages
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  Speaker 1: with such perfection? Verse twelve continues. So they were all
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  Speaker 1: amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, whatever could this mean? Perplexed?
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  Speaker 1: The Greek word suggests being at a complete loss. They
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  Speaker 1: had no explanation, They had no framework for understanding what
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  Speaker 1: was happening. All they could do was ask each other,
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  Speaker 1: what does this mean? The question hung in the air.
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  Speaker 1: Thousands of voices murmured it. Small groups huddled together, debating possibilities.
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  Speaker 1: Some suggested one explanation, others proposed another, but no one
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  Speaker 1: had an answer that made sense. This was not magic,
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  Speaker 1: this was not trickery. These Galileans were clearly sincere. They
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  Speaker 1: were not performing for money or attention. They were caught
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  Speaker 1: up in something far beyond themselves, speaking words they did
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  Speaker 1: not understand, proclaiming a message they could not have invented.
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  Speaker 1: The amazement spread through the crowd like ripples on a pond.
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  Speaker 1: Those who had arrived late pushed forward, asking what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: Those who had witnessed it from the beginning tried to explain,
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  Speaker 1: but their explanations fell short. How do you describe the indescribable?
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  Speaker 1: How do you explain a miracle? The pilgrims had come
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost. They had expected
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  Speaker 1: to offer their sacrifices, hear the reading of the law,
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  Speaker 1: and celebrate the harvest. They had not expected this. They
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  Speaker 1: had not prepared for this. They were witnessing something that
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  Speaker 1: would be talked about for generations. The amazement was real,
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  Speaker 1: The perplexity was genuine. But not everyone responded with wonder
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  Speaker 1: Some hearts remained hard and their mouths spoke a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of word. Not everyone in the crowd was searching
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  Speaker 1: for meaning. Not everyone was open to the possibility that
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  Speaker 1: God was at work. Some people looked at the same
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  Speaker 1: miracle and chose to mock acts Chapter two, Verse thirteen
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  Speaker 1: records their words. Others mocking said they are full of
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  Speaker 1: new wine, new wine, sweet wine. The mockers were accusing
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  Speaker 1: the believers of being drunk. According to them, this was
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  Speaker 1: not a miracle, This was not the work of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: This was simply the result of too much alcohol too
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning. It was an easy accusation to make.
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  Speaker 1: The believers were speaking in languages no one expected them
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  Speaker 1: to know. They were animated, excited, overwhelmed by the spirit's power.
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  Speaker 1: To why nickel eye, It might have looked like intoxication
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  Speaker 1: to a closed heart. Drunkenness was a simpler explanation than
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  Speaker 1: divine intervention. The mockers did not bother to examine the
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  Speaker 1: evidence carefully. They did not pause to consider how drunk
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  Speaker 1: people could speak fluent foreign languages. They did not ask
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  Speaker 1: why these supposed drunkards were proclaiming the wonderful works of God.
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  Speaker 1: Rather than slurring nonsense. They simply dismissed what they saw
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  Speaker 1: and moved on. This is often how mockery works. It
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  Speaker 1: does not engage with the facts, It does not wrestle
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  Speaker 1: with the evidence. It makes a quick judgment, offers a
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  Speaker 1: clever insult, and walks away feeling superior. But the accusation,
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  Speaker 1: though meant as an insult, actually proved something important. Even
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  Speaker 1: the mockers admitted that something unusual was happening. They did
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  Speaker 1: not deny that the believers were speaking strangely. They did
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  Speaker 1: not claim that nothing remarkable was occurring. They simply offer
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  Speaker 1: an alternative explanation, a bad one, but an explanation none
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  Speaker 1: the less. The presence of mockers in the crowd reminds
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  Speaker 1: us that miracles do not automatically produce faith. People can
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  Speaker 1: witness the most extraordinary works of God and still find
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  Speaker 1: reasons to reject them. The problem is not lack of evidence.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is the condition of the heart. The mockers laughed,
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  Speaker 1: they shook their heads. They walked away feeling clever. But
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  Speaker 1: their mockery would soon be answered. Someone was about to
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  Speaker 1: stand up and speak. Someone was about to explain exactly
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  Speaker 1: what was happening, and when he did, the mockers would
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  Speaker 1: have no more excuses. The sound had come, the fire
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  Speaker 1: had fallen, the believers had spoken in tongues, the crowd
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  Speaker 1: had gathered. The mockers had made their accusations. Now it
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  Speaker 1: was time for someone to explain acts Chapter two, verse
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  Speaker 1: fourteen tells us who stepped forward. But Peter, standing up
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  Speaker 1: with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them,
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  Speaker 1: men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let
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  Speaker 1: this be known to you, and heed my words. Peter,
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  Speaker 1: the fisherman from Galilee, the one who had denied Jesus
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  Speaker 1: three times on the night of his arrest, the one
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  Speaker 1: who had wept bitterly when the rooster crowed that Peter
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  Speaker 1: now stood up, raised his voice and commanded the attention
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  Speaker 1: of thousands. He stood with the eleven. The other apostles
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  Speaker 1: stood beside him, a united front, a visible demonstration that
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  Speaker 1: this message came from all of them. But Peter was
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  Speaker 1: the one who spoke. Peter was the one who had
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  Speaker 1: been given the keys to the kingdom. Peter was the
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  Speaker 1: one who had opened the door of faith to the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish world on this very day. His voice rose above
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  Speaker 1: the murmuring of the crowd. Men of Judea and all
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  Speaker 1: who dwell in Jerusalem. He addressed everyone, locals and pilgrims alike.
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  Speaker 1: No one was excluded. Every one needed to hear what
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  Speaker 1: he was about to say. Let this be known to you,
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  Speaker 1: and heed my words. This was not a casual conversation.
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  Speaker 1: This was a proclamation. Peter was demanding their attention. He
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  Speaker 1: was telling them to listen carefully, because what he was
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  Speaker 1: about to say would change everything. The mockery had accused
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  Speaker 1: them of drunkenness. Peter addressed this immediately in verse fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: For these are not drunk, as you suppose. Since it
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  Speaker 1: is only the third hour of the day, the third hour,
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  Speaker 1: nine o'clock in the morning, it was far too early
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  Speaker 1: for any one to be drunk on new wine. The
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  Speaker 1: accusation was absurd, and Peter dismissed it with simple logic.
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  Speaker 1: But he did not stop there. He did not simply
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  Speaker 1: defend himself and sit down. He had a message to deliver.
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  Speaker 1: He had a sermon to preach. He had a savior
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  Speaker 1: to proclaim. The crowd fell silent. The mockers had no response.
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  Speaker 1: The curious leaned in closer, the amazed held their breath. Peter,
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  Speaker 1: filled with the same spirit that had just fallen on them, all,
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  Speaker 1: opened his mouth to explain the most powerful event Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: had ever witnessed. The fisherman was about to become a preacher,
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  Speaker 1: the denier was about to become a proclaimer, and the
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  Speaker 1: words he spoke next would pierce the hearts of thousands
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  Speaker 1: and birth the Church of Jesus Christ. Peter stood before
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  Speaker 1: the massive crowd, his voice steady and strong. The Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit that had just filled him now gave him words
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  Speaker 1: he could never have spoken on his own. The fisherman
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  Speaker 1: who once cowered before a servant girl was now addressing
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  Speaker 1: thousands without fear. He had already dismissed the accusation of drunkenness.
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  Speaker 1: It was only nine in the morning, far too early
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  Speaker 1: for such foolishness. But Peter did not stop with a
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  Speaker 1: simple denial. He knew the crowd needed more than a defense.
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  Speaker 1: They needed an explanation. They needed to understand the significance
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  Speaker 1: of what they had just witnessed. Acts Chapter two, verse
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  Speaker 1: sixteen records his next words, But this is what was
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  Speaker 1: spoken by the prophet Joel. This is what was spoken.
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  Speaker 1: With those five words, Peter connected the present moment to
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  Speaker 1: ancient prophecy. What the crowd had witnessed was not random,
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  Speaker 1: It was not an accident. It was not the result
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  Speaker 1: of human effort or planning. This was the fulfillment of
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  Speaker 1: words spoken centuries earlier by one of Israel's own prophets.
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  Speaker 1: Peter was telling them that God had been planning this
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  Speaker 1: day for hundreds of years, long before any of them
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: were born, long before their grandparents were born. God had
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  Speaker 1: revealed through Joel that this moment would come, the Spirit
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: would be poured out, signs would appear, wonders would be seen,
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  Speaker 1: and now in the streets of Jerusalem, on the day
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: of Pentecost, the ancient words were becoming reality. This was
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  Speaker 1: a powerful argument. The Jewish pilgrims in that crowd knew
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures. They had grown up hearing the words of
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  Speaker 1: the prophets read in their synagogues. They respected the authority
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  Speaker 1: of the prophetic writings. If Peter could show them that
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  Speaker 1: what they had witnessed was prophesied in their own holy books,
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  Speaker 1: they would have to take it seriously. Peter was not
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: inventing a new religion. He was not introducing foreign ideas.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: He was showing them that the God of Abraham, Isaac,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: and Jacob was at work, the same God who had
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: spoken through Moses and the Prophets, the same God who
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: had delivered Israel from Egypt and given them the Law
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: at Sinai. This God was now doing something new, something promised,
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  Speaker 1: something that their own scriptures had anticipated. The defense was
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  Speaker 1: not defensive at all. It was offensive in the best sense.
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  Speaker 1: Peter was taking the initiative. He was framing the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: He was telling the crowd exactly how to interpret what
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  Speaker 1: they had seen and heard, and he was about to
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  Speaker 1: quote the prophet Joel at length, leaving no room for
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: doubt about what was happening. The crowd listened, the mockers
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  Speaker 1: fell silent, The curious pressed closer. Peter had their attention,
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  Speaker 1: and he was about to deliver the most important message
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  Speaker 1: any of them would ever hear. Peter opened the scroll
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: of Prophecy and brought it to life. The words of Joel,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: written perhaps eight hundred years earlier, were no longer ancient history.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: They were present reality. Acts Chapter two, verses seventeen through
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  Speaker 1: twenty one records the prophecy Peter quoted. And it shall
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: come to pass in the last days, says God, that
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I will pour out of my spe spirit on all flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men
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  Speaker 1: shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. And
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  Speaker 1: on my men servants and on my maid servants, I
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  Speaker 1: will pour out my spirit in those days and they
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above, and
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  Speaker 1: signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vapor
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: the moon into blood, before the coming of the great
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: and awesome Day of the Lord. And it shall come
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: to pass that whoever calls on the name of the
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Lord shall be saved. The words echoed through the streets.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd hung on every phrase. This was not just
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: any prophecy. This was a prophecy about them, about this moment,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: about what God was doing right now. I will pour
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: out of my spirit on all flesh. That was exactly
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: what had happened. And the spirit had been poured out,
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  Speaker 1: not on a select few, not only on priests or
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: prophets or kings, on all flesh, on fishermen and tax collectors,
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  Speaker 1: on women and men, on young and old. The fire
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: had fallen on every person in that upper room, without distinction.
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  Speaker 1: Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. The gift was
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: not limited by gender. Both men and women had received
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: the spirit. Both men and women had spoken in tongues.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: The old barriers were crumbling. God was doing something radically inclusive.
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  Speaker 1: Your young men shall see visions, your old men shall
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  Speaker 1: dream dreams. Age did not matter. The spirit was for
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: the young with their energy, and the old with their wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: No one was too young to receive, No one was
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: too old to be used. On my men's servants, and
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: on my maid servants, I will pour out my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Even social status could not limit God's gift servants, those
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of society would receive the same spirit
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  Speaker 1: as their masters. The ground was level at the foot
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  Speaker 1: of the cross, and it was level in the outpouring
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: of the spirit. Peter was showing them that Pentecost was
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: not a surprise to God. It was his plan all along.
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  Speaker 1: Joel had seen it coming, He had written it down.
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  Speaker 1: He had preserved the prophecy for this very generation to
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: read and recognize. The last part of the prophecy pointed
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  Speaker 1: forward to even greater things, wonders in heaven, signs on earth,
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  Speaker 1: the great and awesome day of the Lord. But right
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: in the middle of cosmic events and end time drama,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: was a promise of hope. Whoever calls on the name
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: of the Lord shall be saved. Whoever not just Jews,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: not just the righteous, not just those who had kept
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: every law perfectly. Whoever called on the name of the
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Lord would be saved. The door of salvation was being
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: thrown wide open, and Peter was inviting everyone to walk
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  Speaker 1: through it. The prophecy of Joel had been fulfilled, the
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: last days had begun, and now Peter was about to
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  Speaker 1: tell them exactly whose name they needed to call upon.
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  Speaker 1: The prophecy had set the stage. Now Peter turned to
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  Speaker 1: the heart of his message. Everything he had said so
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: far was preparation for what came next. He was about
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: to speak the name that would divide the crowd and
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: change history. Acts Chapter two, verse twenty two records his proclamation,
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  Speaker 1: Men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders and
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: signs which God did through him in your midst. As
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: you yourselves also know, Jesus of Nazareth. The name landed
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  Speaker 1: like a thunderbolt. Everyone in that crowd knew who Peter
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  Speaker 1: was talking about. This was the teacher who had walked
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: the streets of Jerusalem. This was the healer who had
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  Speaker 1: given sight to the blind and made the lame walk.
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  Speaker 1: This was the prophet who had challenged the religious leaders
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: and drawn massive crowds wherever he went. Peter did not
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: introduce Jesus as a stranger. He introduced him as someone
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  Speaker 1: they already knew, as you yourselves also know. Many in
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  Speaker 1: that crowd had seen Jesus with their own eyes. They
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  Speaker 1: had watched him perform miracles, They had heard him teach.
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  Speaker 1: Some had perhaps been in the crowds that welcomed him
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  Speaker 1: on Palm Sunday. Others may have been in the mob
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  Speaker 1: that called for his crucifixion. Peter called Jesus a man
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: attested by God. The miracles, wonders, and signs were not
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  Speaker 1: tricks or illusions. They were God's own testimony about who
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Jesus was. Every blind eye that was opened, every demon
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: that was cast out, every leper who was cleansed, these
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: were God's way of putting his stamp of approval on Jesus,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: was saying, through these works, this is my son. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to him. But Peter did not stop with the miracles.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: He pressed forward to the darkest moment. The cross. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty three continues him being delivered by the determined purpose
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: and fore knowledge of God. You have taken by lawless hands,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: have crucified and put to death. The accusation was direct
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: and unflinching. You have taken, you have crucified, you have
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: put to death. Peter was speaking to a Jewish crowd
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem, the very city where Jesus had been condemned.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Some of the people standing before him may have been
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: in the crowd that shouted crucify him just weeks earlier.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Peter did not soften his words. He did not avoid
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: the uncomfortable truth. He named their sin plainly. They had
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: killed Jesus. They had handed him over to the Romans,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: those lawless hands, and demanded his execution. But even here
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Peter revealed something remarkable. The death of Jesus was not
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: an accident. It was not a tragedy that caught God
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: off God. It was the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: God had planned it, God had allowed it. God had
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: used the very wickedness of men to accomplish his saving purposes.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: This did not excuse their guilt. They had still sinned,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: they had still rejected their Messiah, but their sin had
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: been woven into God's greater plan. The cross was not defeat,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: It was the doorway to victory. Peter had confronted them
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: with the cross. Now he was about to confront them
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: with something even more powerful. The Empty Tomb Acts Chapter two,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: verse twenty four declares whom God raised up, having loosed
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: the pains of death, because it was not possible that
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: he should be held by it. God raised him up
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: four words that changed everything. The same Jesus they had crucified,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the same Jesus they had watched die, the same Jesus
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: they had buried in a burrowed tomb. God had raised
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: him from the dead. Death could not hold him. Peter
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: used vivid language. God loosed the pains of death. The
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: word pains can also be translated as birth pains. Death
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: tried to hold Jesus the way a womb holds a child.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: But the time came for release, Death went into labor
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: and had to let him go. It was not possible
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: for death to keep its grip on the author of life.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: This was an audacious claim. Peter was standing in Jerusalem,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: just a short walk from the tomb where Jesus had
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: been buried. If his words were false, the authorities could
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: have easily produced the body and ended the movement right there.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: But there was no body to produce the tomb was empty,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: the grave clothes were folded. Jesus was alive. To support
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: his claim, Peter turned to scripture once again. He quoted
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: King David, showing that the resurrection had been prophesied a
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: thousand years before it happened. Verses twenty five through twenty
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: eight record David's words from Psalm sixteen. For David says,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: for he is at my right hand, that I may
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: not be shaken. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: was glad. Moreover, my flesh also will rest in hope.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: For you will not leave my soul in hades, nor
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: will you allow your Holy one to see corruption. You
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: have made known to me the ways of life. You
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: will make me full of joy in your presence. My
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: These words were well known to the Jewish audience. They
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: had sung this psalm in their worship, But Peter was
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: about to show them that David was not speaking about himself.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Verse twenty nine makes the argument clear, Men and brethren,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: let me speak freely to you of the Patriarch David,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: is with us, to this day David was dead. His
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  Speaker 1: tomb was still in Jerusalem. Everyone knew where it was.
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  Speaker 1: David's body had decayed. David had seen corruption. Therefore, Peter argued,
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  Speaker 1: David could not have been speaking about himself when he
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  Speaker 1: wrote those words. Verses thirty and thirty one explain who
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  Speaker 1: David was really talking about. Therefore, being a prophet, and
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  Speaker 1: knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him
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  Speaker 1: that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne.
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  Speaker 1: He foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ,
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  Speaker 1: that his soul was not left in hades, nor did
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  Speaker 1: his flesh see corruption. David was a prophet. He saw
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  Speaker 1: the future. He knew that one of his descendants would
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  Speaker 1: be the Messiah, the Christ, and he prophesied that this
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  Speaker 1: must sire would not stay dead, His soul would not
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  Speaker 1: remain in hades, his body would not decay in the grave.
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  Speaker 1: God would raise him up. Peter drove the point home
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  Speaker 1: in verse thirty two. This Jesus, God has raised up,
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  Speaker 1: of which we all are witnesses. We are witnesses. Peter
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  Speaker 1: and the other apostles had seen the risen Jesus with
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  Speaker 1: their own eyes. They had eaten with him, they had
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  Speaker 1: touched him, they had received his instructions. This was not
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  Speaker 1: a legend or a myth. This was eye witness testimony
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  Speaker 1: from people who had everything to lose by telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The resurrection was declared, the evidence was presented, the prophecy
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  Speaker 1: was fulfilled. Jesus was alive, and the apostles were willing
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  Speaker 1: to stake their lives on that claim. The resurrection was
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  Speaker 1: not the end of the story. Jesus had not simply
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  Speaker 1: come back to life only to remain on earth. Something
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  Speaker 1: greater had happened. He had ascended to the highest place
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  Speaker 1: in the universe. Acts Chapter two, verse thirty three explains, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: being exalted to the right hand of God, and having
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  Speaker 1: received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: he poured out this which you now see and hear,
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  Speaker 1: exalted to the right hand of God. This was the
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  Speaker 1: place of supreme hona. In ancient courts, the seat at
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  Speaker 1: the king's right hand was reserved for the most trusted
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  Speaker 1: and powerful person in the kingdom. Peter was declaring that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus now occupied that seat, not in an earthly palace,
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  Speaker 1: but in heaven itself, at the right hand of God,
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  Speaker 1: the Father. From that position of authority, Jesus had received
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  Speaker 1: something from the Father, the promise of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And what had he done with that promise? He had
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  Speaker 1: poured it out. The sound from heaven, the tongues of fire,
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  Speaker 1: the speaking in languages, all of it was the work
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  Speaker 1: of the Exalted Jesus. He was the one who had
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  Speaker 1: sent the spirit. He was the one behind everything they
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  Speaker 1: had witnessed that morning, This which you now see and hear.
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  Speaker 1: Peter pointed to the evidence all around them. The believers
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  Speaker 1: were still speaking in tongues, the miracle was still unfolding,
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  Speaker 1: and Peter was telling the crowd that Jesus, the one
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  Speaker 1: they had crucified, the one God had raised, the one
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  Speaker 1: now seated at God's right hand, was responsible for all
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  Speaker 1: of it. Once again, Peter turned to David to support
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  Speaker 1: his claim Verses thirty four and thirty five quote from
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  Speaker 1: Psalm one hundred and ten. For David did not ascend
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  Speaker 1: into the heavens, but he says himself, the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: to my Lord, sit at my right hand, till I
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  Speaker 1: make your enemies your footstool. David did not ascend to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: David was not seated at God's right hand. Yet David
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  Speaker 1: wrote about someone whom he called my Lord, being invited
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  Speaker 1: to sit at God's right hand. Who could David's lawd
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  Speaker 1: be if not the Messiah? Who could sit at the
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  Speaker 1: right hand of God the Father? If not God the son.
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  Speaker 1: Peter was building an heir tight case. David prophesied about
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah's resurrection, David prophesied about the Messiah's exultation. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled both prophecies. Therefore Jesus was the Messiah. The logic
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  Speaker 1: was unavoidable. Then came the climax, as thirty six records
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  Speaker 1: the most important sentence in Peter's entire sermon. Therefore, let
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  Speaker 1: all the House of Israel know assuredly that God has
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  Speaker 1: made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Let all the House of Israel know. This was not
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  Speaker 1: a suggestion, This was a declaration. This was truth that
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  Speaker 1: demanded a response. God has made this Jesus both Lord
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  Speaker 1: and Christ. Lord, the title reserved for God himself, the
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  Speaker 1: name that Jews would not even speak aloud. Christ, the
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  Speaker 1: Greek word for Messiah, the anointed one whom Israel had
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  Speaker 1: been waiting for throughout their entire history. And then Peter
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  Speaker 1: added the knife's edge whom you crucified. There it was
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  Speaker 1: again the accusation, the confrontation. You killed him, you rejected him,
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  Speaker 1: you handed him over to be executed. And yet despite
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  Speaker 1: your rejection, God has exalted him to the highest place.
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  Speaker 1: The one you murdered is now lord of all. The
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  Speaker 1: sermon had reached its peak. The evidence had been presented,
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  Speaker 1: the prophecies had been quoted, the conclusion had been declared.
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  Speaker 1: Now it was time for the verdict to fall on
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of those who heard. Peter had finished speaking.
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  Speaker 1: His words hung in the air, heavy with truth and accusation.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: The crowd stood silent. Something was happening inside of them,
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  Speaker 1: something they could not control and could not res Rezist Acts,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, verse thirty seven describes their response. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: they heard this, they were cut to the heart and
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  Speaker 1: said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, men
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  Speaker 1: and brethren, what shall we do? Cut to the heart.
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  Speaker 1: The Greek word here is powerful. It means to be pierced,
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  Speaker 1: to be stabbed, to be struck with deep pain. Peter's
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  Speaker 1: words had not merely informed their minds, his words had
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  Speaker 1: penetrated their souls. They felt the weight of what they
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  Speaker 1: had done. These were the people of Jerusalem. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them had been in the crowd when Pilot asked what
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  Speaker 1: he should do with Jesus. Some of them had shouted
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  Speaker 1: crucify him with their own voices. Some of them had
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  Speaker 1: watched him carry his cross through the streets. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them had stood at Golgatha and mocked him as he died.
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  Speaker 1: And now they realized the horror of their actions. The
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  Speaker 1: man they had killed was not a criminal. He was
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  Speaker 1: not a blasphema. He was the Messiah, He was the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: He was the Holy One of Israel, and they had
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  Speaker 1: murdered him. The conviction was not just about guilt for
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  Speaker 1: the past. It was about fear for the future. If
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was truly Lord, if God had truly raised him
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  Speaker 1: from the dead, if he was now seated at the
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  Speaker 1: right hand of the Father, what would he do to
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: those who had rejected him? What judgment awaited those who
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  Speaker 1: had crucified the son of God? Their cry was, desperate
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: men and brethren, what shall we do? This was not
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  Speaker 1: a casual question, This was not intellectual curiosity. This was
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  Speaker 1: the cry of people who suddenly realized they were in
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  Speaker 1: serious trouble. They had sinned against Heaven, they had killed
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  Speaker 1: the author of life, they had rejected their own salvation,
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  Speaker 1: and now they were terrified of the consequences. The conviction
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  Speaker 1: that fell on them that day was the work of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. Jesus had promised in the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Joe chapter sixteen, verse eight that when the Spirit came,
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  Speaker 1: he would convict the world of sin and of righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and of judgment. Urdu That conviction was now happening in
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  Speaker 1: real time in the streets of Jerusalem, in the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of thousands. They could not defend themselves. They could not
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  Speaker 1: excuse their actions. They could not pretend they had done
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong. The truth had pierced them, and they were
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  Speaker 1: bleeding with conviction. But conviction is not the same as condemnation.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit convicts to bring people to repentance, not
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: to destroy them. The same spirit that showed them their
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: sin was about to show them the way out. Peter
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  Speaker 1: had an answer for their desperate question, and that answer
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: would change their lives forever. The crowd stood broken before Peter.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: Their hearts had been pierced, their guilt had been exposed.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: They had asked the most important question anyone can ask,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: What shall we do? Peter did not hesitate, He did
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: not make them wait. He gave them a clear, direct answer.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Acts Chapter two, verse thirty eight records his response. Then
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: Peter said to them, repent, and let every one of
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  Speaker 1: you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for
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  Speaker 1: the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. Repent That was the first word.
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  Speaker 1: Repentance means to change your mind, to turn around, to
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  Speaker 1: go in a different direction. It means to stop running
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  Speaker 1: away from God and start running toward him. It means
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge that you were wrong and that God is right.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd had rejected Jesus. Now they needed to accept him.
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  Speaker 1: They had called for his death. Now they needed to
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  Speaker 1: call on his name for life. They had turned their
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  Speaker 1: backs on him. Now they needed to turn their faces
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  Speaker 1: toward him. Repentance is more than feeling sorry. It is
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  Speaker 1: more than regret. It is a complete change of direction.
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  Speaker 1: It is abandoning the old way and embracing the new.
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  Speaker 1: It is dying to self and living for God. Along
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  Speaker 1: with repentance came baptism, let every one of you be
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  Speaker 1: baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Baptism was a
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  Speaker 1: public declaration. It was a way of saying to the world,
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  Speaker 1: I am identifying with Jesus, I am no longer ashamed
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  Speaker 1: of him. I am his and he is mine. To
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  Speaker 1: be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: just weeks after his crucifixion was a bold step. It
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  Speaker 1: meant aligning yourself with the one the authorities had executed.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: It meant risking rejection from family and friends. It meant
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  Speaker 1: counting the cost and deciding that Jesus was worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Peter promised two things to those who repented and were baptized. First,
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  Speaker 1: the remission of sins. The guilt that was crushing them
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  Speaker 1: could be removed, The stain that was covering them could
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  Speaker 1: be washed away. The debt they owed could be canceled.
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  Speaker 1: Forgiveness was available, complete, total, free forgiveness. Second, the gift
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. The same spirit that had fallen
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: on the one hundred and twenty was available to them.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: The same power that had enabled ordinary believers to speak
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: in unknown languages could be theirs. They were not being
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  Speaker 1: invited to simply follow a set of rules. They were
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  Speaker 1: being invited into a relationship with the living God, who
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  Speaker 1: would dwell inside of them. Verse thirty nine expanded the
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  Speaker 1: promise even further. For the promises to you and to
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  Speaker 1: your children, and to all who are afar off, as
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  Speaker 1: many as the Lord, our God will call. The promise
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: was not limited. It was for them, it was for
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: their children. It was for those who were far away,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: both geographically and spiritually. As many as the Lord would
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  Speaker 1: call could receive this gift. The door was open wide.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Verse forty tells us that Peter kept going, and with
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: many other words, he testified and exhorted them, saying, be
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  Speaker 1: saved from this perverse generation. Peter did not give one
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  Speaker 1: short invitation and stop. He pleaded with them, He urged them,
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  Speaker 1: he begged them with many other words. He called them
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  Speaker 1: to leave behind the corruption around them and embrace the
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  Speaker 1: salvation offered through Jesus. Be saved from this perverse generation.
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  Speaker 1: The world they lived in was crooked, twisted, broken, but
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  Speaker 1: they did not have to be swept away with it.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: They could be rescued, They could be saved. All they
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: had to do was respond. The cry of repentance went
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: out the invitation was extended. Now the question was how
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: would they respond. The sermon was over, the invitation had
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  Speaker 1: been given, the moment of decision had arrived, and the
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: response was beyond anything Peter could have imagined. Acts Chapter two,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: verse forty one records what happened. Then, those who gladly
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  Speaker 1: received his word were baptized, and that day about three
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  Speaker 1: thousand souls were added to them. Three thousand souls in
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: a single day, through a single sermon from a fisherman
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  Speaker 1: who had denied Jesus just weeks before, they gladly received
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: his word. There was no reluctance, there was no hesitation.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: The conviction in their hearts had prepared them. The Holy
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Spirit had opened their eyes. They heard the truth, and
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: they embraced it with joy. Think about what this meant. Practically,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: three thousand people needed to be baptized. The apostles and
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: the original one hundred and twenty believers must have worked
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: for hours, taking people down to the pools and mikvahs
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem, immersing them one by one in the name
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. The water flowed, the confessions were made.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: The new believers emerged, dripping wet and spiritually transformed. Three
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  Speaker 1: thousand people who had woken up that morning as ordinary pilgrims,
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  Speaker 1: went to bed that night as members of a new family.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: Three thousand people who had come to Jerusalem for the
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: Feast of Pentecost discovered something far greater than a harvest celebration.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: They found forgiveness. They found the Holy Spirit. They found
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: the Messiah they had been waiting for all their lives.
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  Speaker 1: The Church was born, not in a building, not through
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  Speaker 1: an organization, not by human effort or planning. The Church
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: was born through the power of the Holy Spirit and
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: the proclamation of the Gospel. It was born in the
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: streets of Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. It was
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  Speaker 1: born when broken people heard the good news and believed.
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  Speaker 1: Three thousand added in one day. Remember there were only
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty believers that morning. By evening, the
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  Speaker 1: number had multiplied twenty five times over. The movement that
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  Speaker 1: had started with a small group in an upper room
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  Speaker 1: had exploded into a community of thousands. These three thousand
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  Speaker 1: came from every nation represented at the feast. They spoke
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  Speaker 1: different languages, they came from different cultures. They would return
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  Speaker 1: to their homelands carrying the message of Jesus with them.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: The gospel would spread to Parthia, to Egypt, to Rome,
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  Speaker 1: to the ends of the earth, all because of what
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  Speaker 1: happened on this single day. The fire that fell in
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: the Upper Room was now burning in three thousand hearts.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: The sound that shook the house was now echoing across
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  Speaker 1: the world. The promise that Jesus made before his ascension
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: was being fulfilled before their very eyes. Acts Chapter two
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  Speaker 1: records the birthday of the Church. It records the day
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  Speaker 1: when Heaven invaded Earth and everything changed. It records the
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  Speaker 1: sermon that turned fishermen into apostles and sinners into saints.
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  Speaker 1: It records the moment when three thousand souls said yes
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: to Jesus and stepped into eternal life. The most powerful
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: chapter in the Bible had reached its climax. The Spirit
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: had come, the message had been preached, the Church had
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: been born, and the world would never be the same again.
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  Speaker 1: If this video touched your heart, if the story of
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Pentecosts stirred something inside of you, then do not let
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  Speaker 1: the ancient world because ordinary people shared what they had
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  Speaker 1: Acts chapter two reach people you may never meet, but
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  Speaker 1: until the end. May the same spirit that filled the
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  Speaker 1: upper Room fill your heart to day