When The Spirit Shows Up

The Believer’s Power

I have a glove here in my hand. The glove cannot do anything by itself, but when my hand is in it, the glove can do many things. True, it is not the glove, but my hand in the glove that acts. The Christian is a glove. It is the Holy Spirit in us, the hand who does the work. We must room for the hand so that every finger in the glove is filled.

The Gospel Continues....

Jesus conducts his last meeting with the remaining disciples and reminds them of John’s words concerning the baptism by the Holy Spirit that would come not many days after, and instructing them to wait on the power that would equip them to witness in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth....They watched as Jesus ascended back to the Father with the promise he would come the same way they saw him go into heaven (Acts 1:11). The scene shifts from the shores of Galilee to the upper room where the disciples and women gathered and devoting themselves to prayer, and replaced Judas who commited suicide as foretold in the Old Testament....He would be replaced by one who accompanied them from John the Baptist until he was taken from us...

Context

The disciples and other followers of Christ gathered in the upper room as they await the promise of the Comforter…

Sound

Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 67.113 αἰφνίδιος, ον; ἐξαίφνης; ἐξάπινα; ἐξαυτῆς; ἄφνω; ἄρτι; παραχρῆμα

pertaining to an extremely short period of time between a previous state or event and a subsequent state or event—‘suddenly, at once, immediately’ (in a number of contexts there is the implication of unexpectedness, but this seems to be a derivative of the context as a whole and not a part of the meaning of the lexical items).

Sign

Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 13.106 πληροφορέω; πληρόω; ἐκπληρόω; ἀναπληρόω; πίμπλημι

to cause to happen, with the implication of fulfilling some purpose—‘to cause to happen, to make happen, to fulfill.

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