The Spirit of Christ Poured Out
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
6/9/2019 AM
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Text:
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Acts 2:1-4
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Psalters: |
255, 339, 391, 287 |
- A crowning event.
- Jesus followers were “with one accord in one place.”
- Likely that they were in a large “upper room” (1:13) - a room in the upper part of a house or building.
- They were “with one accord,” i.e., with one mind, with one passion waiting (now ten days) in Jerusalem.
- The promise of the exalted Savior was the sending of the Savior’s Spirit to the church of the Savior.
- Church of the Old Dispensation did not have the Spirit of Christ (John 7:39), only spiritual works which realized salvation.
- The exalted Savior used His Spirit to give the blessings of salvation, abiding “in you” “with you forever” (John 14:16-18).
- Thus, Pentecost is the crowning event in Jesus’s ministry.
- The exalted Savior sent His Spirit upon the church accompanied by important and significant signs.
- The signs were necessary to reveal an invisible reality.
- The “sound” from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, which sound filled all the house (2).
- “Cloven tongues like as of fire” which “sat upon each of them” (3).
- And Jesus’s followers “began to speak with other tongues (4).
- The great significance of this event is that “they were all filled with the Holy Ghost” (4).
- “All” indicates the 120 (1:15b), who represent the whole church of the New Dispensation – not just the apostles.
- The light which was dim in the Old Dispensation became much brighter light; shadows became reality.
- Now every believer is in the office of all-believer, not just a few, for all are prophets, priests, and kings (Rev. 1:6; 5:10).
- Now every believer can speak of “the wonderful works of God” (11).