Acts 2:1-41

Coram Deo Church — Bremerton, WA · Jan 24, 2021 · 40m

Big Ideas

1. The Holy Spirit empowered the Church to bear witness about Jesus.

This text has proven to be confusing for many people, though it need not be. Jesus had commissioned the disciples to disciple the nations. This would require a special linguistic bridge. In this text, we read how the Holy Spirit empowered the disciples to speak the languages (dialects) of the nations, though they themselves had no previous experience speaking these foreign languages. These languages were known and understood by those who heard the preaching (Acts 2:7-8).

2. Jesus didn’t come to start a new religion…