As we have received the gift of God's Spirit, as those on that first day of Pentecost received the gift of the Holy Spirit were brought into the Church, they became, and so are we, partakers of the divine nature. "And they looked steadfastly in toward heaven," verse 10, "as He went up, and behold two men stood by them in white apparel." That's how we live the Word, that's how we drink in the Word, and it changes our life and it banishes the fear, gives us confidence in who we are and what we are to do. But all of this in the midst of a troubled, terrified, frightened mindset that they were having to work through, during these days between the resurrection and Pentecost. The answer is not Pentecost. A fellowship, a community, prayer, sharing food together, much like we do today. Please take the Tour, see below, where you will find that in order to practice biblical hermeneutics we need a text upon which to practice the technique. Really. This was something that was spiritual in nature, that bound them together and they prayed, they studied the Scripture, and they praised God, it says, and because of that, their example caused them to have favor with people and others were drawn to their example at that time. The world sees a mechanical process of evolution and natural selection. Luke 1:15 says that John the Baptist was filled with the Spirit from his mother's womband he got his head chopped off for denouncing Herod's unlawful marriage. What was possibly on the disciples' mind the morning of Pentecost? The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. A Second Wind: A Biblical Exploration of Gods Mind of Justice, The Essential Jesus (Part 17): The Resurrection of Jesus. And I didn't know how to make a connection. Maybe they had their hands in their pockets kind of like this, thinking, "Wow, that was neat. So when I pose myself a question like, "How did believers experience the Holy Spirit before Pentecost?" There are two groups of humans: those in the flesh (born of the flesh) and those in the Spirit (born again of the Spirit). We sometimes just kind of tail off when we get to the end of one of the Gospels and we know the events, Christ was crucified, Christ was risen, and we don't look at some of the details there. And those days you didn't fear getting on a Greyhound bus, and you could go all over the country on a very cheap pass. Mark chapter 16, verse 9, now, "When He rose early on the first day of the week," speaking of Christ's resurrection. They thought that the body had been ferretted away by the disciples, someone had stolen it. . Because they were seeing Christ risen and they saw Him in a bodily form, but then they were attributing something different to that. Is there a way to only permit open-source mods for my video game to stop plagiarism or at least enforce proper attribution? And He leaves them on the Mount of Olives, which is a very, very significant geographic feature there on the east of Jerusalem across from the city, and through the Kidron Valley and up on this Mount called Olives. He used Deborah and the tribe of Zebulun (the mountain may have been in their land) in the sermon. The indwelling Holy Spirit was only sent after Jesus' resurrection. It's an encouraging sermon, it's very pointed and direct, that includes a dramatic call to repentance. Trials hit us that will shake our faith, test our faith. So if I can come back to the question that I asked, what was going through their mind on that morning of Pentecost? Old Testament believers enjoyed the presence of God's Spirit wherever they went. A survey of Old Testament spiritual experience is needed to wake us up to our privileges in these last days that were inaugurated at Pentecost. Luke 24:53 says that the disciples stayed continually at the Temple praising God. It goes on, "Jesus came and He spoke to them saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. [Darris McNeely] On the morning of Pentecost 31 AD, what do you think was going through the minds of the assembled disciples in Jerusalem? The country folk downstream depended on it. All the gods of doubtand I say gods with a little g, because doubt, and guilt, and fear can really separate us from Godthe gods of doubt, and fear, and unbelief have all been shredded by Jesus Christ. He went on to show that, "It's not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own authority, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. Egypt's President Nasser announced the plan for construction in 1953. Beginning with Easter Sunday (e.g., Luke 24:32,45) and most likely throughout the forty days before ascending, the Lord instructed and formed the Apostles in the Gospel. As such, it requires a sabbath. The hated Samaritans and the occupying Romans were both shown to be within the reach of the grace of God. Bold, Men and brethren, he begins to explain what's happened. I am not comfortable with that speculation. Instead of competing, the disciples were now cooperating. So Jesus had to rebuke them. That is what caused them to banish their fear, trouble, doubt, and unbelief: Christ in them through the Holy Spirit. The Day of Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter in Western branches of Christianity. And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Their disbelief would extend not only to the idea that the dead could come back to life, as He did, but then they doubted the truth of these witnesses. Friday. Probably the Spirit was their instructor in two senses. And when they saw Him they worshiped him. That's what He did. We take that for the story that it is, and the gift of tongues, and the speaking of tongues that the Scriptures talk about but we don't see that as what we need to be doing in practice or in faith, but it is a dramatic story. These significant events from the life of Jesus are made easier to comprehend and better-illustrated thanks to the passages . Before that from the OT time onward, the Holy Spirit would come on a person and it is not permanent. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. We give ourselves to that devotion, to that devoted study and the process of taking on the nature of God. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. How can I recognize one? You may find that without a specific text of scripture your question could be voted for closure as 'off-topic'. We know in Acts chapter 2, when we turn there and look at the story alluded to in the sermonette here this morning, that they were gathered together. I also think this is true in some way, but in gospels there is record that Jesus 'gave them authority over devils and diseases and sent them to preach gospel, to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead. If we can borrow a phrase that we've used over the last two years, two phrases, they labored in the Word and they lived in the Word. And you will be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." So it's something for us to examine in our own way, see how much of that is being demonstrated in our life. Suddenly, Jesus appeared in the middle of the group. With a UCG.org account you will be able to save items to read and study later! Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. People were forgiven, saved and received everlasting life before the cross and before Pentecost (Lk. So there is going to be a gap. And not for the reality that the 1st century world would have known and experienced, that other dimension. Far more people than they could have ever imagined and Peter gets up and gives the sermon of his life. Fear not" (Haggai 2:5). And the people of God in this period are to be a people born of the Spirit, baptized in the Spirit, filled with the Spirit, empowered by the Spirit to bear witness to "the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ." Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. I remember taking my little bag and walking over and kind of looking around, and sitting down on a bench. Thank you Mr. McNeely , for making Christ more real. The second power that they'd run up against was that of the Jewish authorities. So here are ten ways Old Testament believers experienced the Holy Spirit which in these "last days" of Pentecostal fulfillment ought to be enjoyed by the church. How do we handle them? And what was the key to that? Everybody who gets up and gives a sermon in a congregation, that sermon before it's ever posted on a website, has been reviewed or at least approved by individuals within the congregation. And so it was very key that His final ascension would be from this mountain. But when was it first true? "Let all things be done for edification" (1 Corinthians 14:26). We live in the latter days of the Spirit. But after Pentecost the power of the Spirit spread out to light the whole world. "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.". PrivacyPolicyTerms ofUse. Mt., 47 counts, XII, 30-37)<br> <br> Gospel Reading (Matthew 71 ch., XVII, 10-18)<br> <br>10 And his disciples asked . We do well to read about these things, and ask ourselves the simple question: if they experienced so much of God's Spirit which was but a trickle of the reservoir, how much more should we enjoy under the dozen turbines of Pentecost? To be candid, it does feel like a complete change of the subject. Labor in the Word, meaning to read the Word, and to learn it, and to soak it in and drink it in; and to live the Word, this past year. They drank it, they washed in it, it watered their crops and turned their mill-wheels. Rename .gz files according to names in separate txt-file. 145 views, 2 likes, 6 loves, 16 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Crossroads Baptist Church: Crossroads Baptist Church Live 02/05/2023 Jesus was enveloped within a pillar of fire, but was not harmed. Peter says, "Repent, believe, be baptized, you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." He was the one who was the leader of that doubt and fear and terrified approach, because he denied Christ three times, and he had to be pointedly taught by Jesus. How could the person in Luke 9:49 cast out demons without Jesus' mandate? Third, the OT believers enjoyed the constant presence of God's Spirit. What we are seeing here is again, the power of the Word of God. When thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground.". Every now and then in extraordinary circumstances of need the Spirit enables ordinary Christians to perform amazing feats of rescue far beyond their ordinary capacitylike lifting a car off of a pinned husband or escaping from a raging rapist. The people who have faith in me without seeing me are the ones who are really blessed!. That He had to rebuke them and teach them. You remember what Ruth said to Naomi when Naomi, in the book of Ruth, had lost her husband and children, and these two daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah, tried to follow her away from Moab, and Orpah decided to leave. When God wanted to encourage the people to rebuild the temple after the exile, he said, "Work, for I am with you . Even as the reservoir was filling, part of the river was allowed to flow past. The disciples stood gazing, and they didn't know what to do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.". When they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe. An eyewitness account, there was a lack of belief that put them in the situation here that they did not understand and didn't believe that had actually happened. https://www.bible.com/bible/392/JHN.20.19-29.CEV. I have my own Star Trekkian-type of way to imagine how Jesus ascended. And that is of people led by the Holy Spirit, knit together, everyone providing that which they can toward a community of faith, power, and love, sharing, looking out after one another and caring for one another. To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers. But it was a very intense period of time of Jesus appearing to them both in Galilee and Jerusalem, teaching them from the Scriptures, appearing to them in larger groups, perhaps even, more smaller groups, and in some of the ways they're talking like He did to Peter, on the Sea of Galilee, having meals with them. What was the doubt that was nagging away at them even as they saw Him, and even worshiped Him, knowing that they as they did know that He had died, and yet there was doubt? But some doubted." Welcome to BH. The religious leaders are "astonished" and marvel that such common and unlearned men can have such a sweeping command of their topic, and such serene courage. They had a lot of fear. So that when they came to that morning of Pentecost and this mighty event takes place, they were ready then to move into the experience provided, and that extra dimension of power that the Spirit of God would give them and did give to them, and Peter takes the lead to give the sermon of his life. They turned the world upside down because they fully understood two simple . Christ in you, the hope of glory. Did they experience fear, doubt, and disbelief as we sometimes do? A firstfruit is one who follows Christ. These are the days of Pentecost, the days of the fullness of the Spirit, the days of worldwide mission. More likely, the believers assembled in one . The disciples were afraid of the Jewish leaders, and on the evening of that same Sunday they locked themselves in a room. About 10 days earlier, Christ had finally ascended for the final time and they were left alone. Prior to Pentecost, the Apostles, though often zealous and willing to make sacrifices to follow Jesus, were also slow to understand and often confused. The ministry has had those two themes for the past two conferences. Judges 5:14 talks about the tribe of Zebulun either being scribes or having a commander's staff. And God will expose sin, ours to ourselves, sometimes to others. Finally, the Holy Spirit gave some in the OT a gift of prophecy. Those in the flesh are devoid of the Spirit and cannot submit to God's law or please God. This was just three and a half years, and in really a few weeks, seven weeks and a day of intense thought, emotion, that they had to grapple with and deal with as they came into the presence of one another on the morning of Pentecost. And I think there was and is today a special touch or filling of the Holy Spirit that elevates the work of an artist or a musician or a craftsman from mere technical skill to divinely empowered ministry that exalts God and builds faith. They had come up against the two most powerful authorities of their day in their world. Luke 2:25-27. We have a very involved, and very good, and a very detailed review process at many different levels of our writings, of our speaking in the United Church of God today. As Jesus' disciples they may be afraid of someone that would deliver them to soldiers to punish them for taking part in 'rebellion' (as occupants may see it). They thought that Jesus Himself didn't actually know that asleep people wake up? That is how the mission of the Church is done and that is how then that vision of a community, of a Church, of a people who are rooted in the Word of God, who actually do care for one another, is accomplished; by no other means, by no other means. Well, the real answer is for you and I, the same things that are going through your mind right now, and my mind. Consider this question, with what we have just read: how could people filled with doubt, even a measure of unbelief, fear, general fear, intense fear, heightened fear, abject fearfear takes many different forms and guises; sometimes we can control our fear, sometimes it overcomes us and we're just shaking in our bootshow could a people dealing with all of these emotions during this 50-day period of time be expected to do what Jesus told them here in verse 8, they would do, when they have problems figuring it all out at that particular moment? Could very old employee stock options still be accessible and viable? He greeted them Douay-Rheims Bible But they were terrified, and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit." Eighth, some OT believers were enabled by the Spirit to do extraordinary feats of power to help God's people. 19952023 All correspondence and questions should be sent to info@ucg.org. Guardians Of Ancora Bible Plan: Ancora Kids See Jesus Alive! Synopsis: When Jesus walked on the water to join the disciples in their boat, the Gospel mentioned that they were afraid - twice. Colossians 2:15 Colossians 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.American King James Version, tells us that He disarmed the powers with His death. Is the promise of "power" in Acts 1:8 only for the apostles or for Christians in all ages? As we came here this morning, to services, and as we gathered here this morning ourselves, there is a very important lesson for us to learn as well. And yet, they had not been able to completely separate the fact that now what they were part of was the real, the real thing, because Christ had died. He was just [snaps fingers] gone, He was there. And in their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without fault before the throne of God.". Did they doubt themselves? '", And so Luke's account gives us a very specific instruction, how He told them, You wait in Jerusalem and then you will receive the power from on high. And that is what they were doing as they waited for that period of time to come about. 3 days by their calendar. I must put my hand where the spear went into his side. In Revelation chapter 14, we are given an image of the firstfruits, called the 144,000 in this part of the Revelation. Apparently, two angelic figures appeared to them as the disciples were kind of watching Christ go. That's what the gift of the Holy Spirit is for us. They were going up against a lot, just as we go up against our world today, and ourselves, and what Satan might throw at us. But let's go back, let's look at a few of these scriptures in a little bit more detail and see exactly what had been taking place among the disciples during this period of time, that brought them to that morning of Pentecost. It was celebrated 50 days after Passover and was marked by pilgrims coming to Jerusalem from all over the world to celebrate the event. And so Christ gives them teaching and He gives them understanding. It doesn't lie within man's own power to risk his life and stand up for the truth of God and denounce sin. There's a lot of information in the details that we are given in chapter 28 verse 16. That is what caused people to see something in those disciples and to want to be a part of it. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting, and it appeared to them, divided tongues as of fire. So, as Jesus Christ was teaching His disciples to focus on the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God during the time between His resurrection and Pentecost, we can be focusing on that now too. Well, that's a sign that I should go here, take this job, do this or do that. But miracles, well, that just takes a little bit more work, but they were here in the midst of a very large miracle. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. It was a mighty, powerful machine, the most powerful that the world in that day had ever seen. It goes on, "When He had spoken these things," in verse 9, "they watched and He was taken up in a cloud, received Him out of their sight. He quotes Joel, he quotes Psalms and he gives interpretations upon those scriptures, here in chapter 1, no one had ever heard of before. When the disciples saw the Lord, they became very happy. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up," and this is through the account here in Luke, then, would be the final bodily appearance of Jesus to them. Thomas replied, You are my Lord and my God! PTIJ Should we be afraid of Artificial Intelligence? But by doing so, when you read the account, you understand that they knew the Scripture, and they applied Scripture to their choice and their decision to replace Judas. Now all of a sudden, as Peter steps forward, and of course, you know the story of Peter. And then it came to an end, it came to a close. Suddenly, Jesus appeared in the middle of the group. Tradition places the receiving of the Spirit on Pentecost in the upper room of Acts 1. Sixth, OT believers experienced the filling of the Holy Spirit as a power to be bold in denouncing evil and declaring righteousness. Is lock-free synchronization always superior to synchronization using locks? The disciples had seen Jesus reach out across ethnic and religious divides birth in His parables and in real life. The Church was given favor, we're told, as they demonstrated these fruits and others were added. 'It's a ghost,' they said, and cried out in fear. And so they had become a part of something that again, they were still trying to understand. Again, nothing like this had been a part of their frame of reference before. Some say apostles got Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The last holy day season, the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread had seen the death of Jesus Christ, and then three days later He was resurrected and He had appeared to them. The disciples met in the upper room after the ascension, but ten days elapsed between the ascension and the events described in Acts 2. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love. If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there! They had been told to be there, to wait in Jerusalem until that day. I can't think about it more than five minutes without saying, "So what?" Seven weeks later, on the day of Pentecost, the risen Lord Jesus fulfilled the promise he had made in John 15:26namely, that he would send the Holy Spirit. But on that morning as they gathered, made their preparations, put on their clothes, walked to the location where they all were gathered, and they were about 120 disciples as chapter 1 of Acts tells us, they no doubt had a lot on their mind. The disciples were afraid of the Jewish leaders, and on the evening of that same Sunday they locked themselves in a room. As you read on in Acts chapter 1, one of the main things they did was to choose a successor to Judas. Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. Two things we can summarize to show what was the key to bring about this scene that we see here at the end of chapter 2 in Acts. John 16:7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. First, and most basic, the OT believers were conscious of God's Spirit as the Creator and Sustainer of their natural life. Most people believe the disciples were assembled in the "upper room" when the holy spirit of YEHOVAH God descended upon them during that Pentecost of 31 A.D. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit occurs in every believer the moment they make Jesus their Lord. 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