A Rushing Wind

Chase Sanders

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Acts 2:1–11

Holy Spirit

Pentecost

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The Holy Spirit Is

Powerful

Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.””

Acts 2:1-4 “When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them. Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them.”

Luke 4:18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

Handfuls on Purpose for Christian Workers and Bible Students, Series I–XIII (The Power of the Spirit (Acts 1:8))

To the believer the power of the Spirit is the power of an ever present Divine Personality (John 16:7–14).1. His is convicting power (John 16:8, margin).2. His is life-giving power (John 6:63).3. His is teaching power (John 16:13).4. His is revealing power (John 16:14).5. His is witnessing power (Acts 1:8; Rom. 8:16).6. His is interceding power (Rom. 8:26).7. His is indwelling power (1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19)

isaiah 11:2-3 “The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— a Spirit of wisdom and understanding, a Spirit of counsel and strength, a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. His delight will be in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, he will not execute justice by what he hears with his ears,”

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 16

Then the LORD said, “Anoint him, for he is the one.” 13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully on David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 28: Acts (Waiting on the Edge of a Miracle)

When He enters a human being, the mind is transformed, the computer of the brain is given new data, the will is released from bondage, and the nervous system becomes the channel of supernatural energy. That’s what happened at Pentecost, beginning a new age of spiritual renaissance.

The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 28: Acts (Waiting on the Edge of a Miracle)

The greatest longing in the church today, stated both directly and indirectly, is the quest for something more than dull religion. People are in need of the intimacy, inspiration, and impelling power of the Holy Spirit. Answering that cry is the key to church renewal and prophetic preaching and teaching. It is impossible to live the Christian life without the indwelling Spirit. Courageous discipleship in the crisis of society cannot be accomplished without the guidance and enabling energy of supernatural power. The church today, like the disciples in the Upper Room, is waiting on the edge of a miracle.

The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 28: Acts Waiting on the Edge of a Miracle

The final hours before Pentecost were filled with the anxious frustration of the impossibility of living Christ’s message and emulating His life.

The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 28: Acts (The Dynamics of the Miracle)

And what wind does when it rushes, so too the Holy Spirit was doing in their souls: blowing out cobwebs of fear and the layered dust of uncertainty. The presence of the wind outwardly was soon an inward rushing of new thought, emotion, and will. The Lord’s people were being stirred up, quickened, brought back to life because He had come.

It was the power of the Holy Spirit that brought forth creation in Genesis 1:2 “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”

It was the power of the Holy Spirit that equppied and prepared David to be king 1 Samuel 16:13 “So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully on David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.”

It was the power of the Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead Romans 6:0-11 “What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, since a person who has died is freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him. For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but t…”

And that same power now lives inside of you

Personal

Acts 2:3 CSB

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them.

1 Corinthians

Ephesians 1

The filling of the Holy Spirit resulted in Praise to God

The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 28: Acts (The Miracle of Communication)

The praise of the newly filled believers was what caused the crowd to gather that day in Jerusalem. It was not just that they heard in their own language, but what they heard that was so astonishing. Like a homing instinct that inherently knows the way to a destination, the desire to praise lies deep within every human being, and the praise the crowd heard for what the Lord was doing touched a resounding chord within them. When we see authentic praise, we are drawn mysteriously, irrevocably. That is why it is sin to use the capacity for praise for the wrong subject or object

The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 28: Acts (The Miracle of Communication)

Robert Louis Stevenson said, “Show me your praises and I will think more of your prayers.”

Missional

You will be my witnesses

Equipped for you assignment - David - you don’t need to be the best looking, most talent, most wealthy, most skillful or knowledgable.

All you need is the anointing of the Holy Spirit

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me

Peter’s first sermon - 3,000 converts

The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 28: Acts The Miracle of Communication

The disciples were not a jolly, carefree band of believers before Pentecost. They had personal problems, relational difficulties, and a hostile world to face without much confidence that they would have the courage to grapple with them. We are not told that praise was a part of their prayers before Pentecost, but are told repeatedly that it was a never-ceasing note of their prayers afterward. And we live today as recipients of the secret they discovered. The same Holy Spirit who produced unfettered praise in them is the source of our ability to praise in difficult times. He knows that the blessings He wants to give cannot be received until we praise in advance of a resolution. Praising enables endurance, pertinacity, fortitude—and an openness to the future.