Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction:

In our study of the Holy Spirit, the bible emphatically teaches that the third member of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, was provided as an outpouring on the day of Pentecost as an inauguration of the Kingdom of God, and the dispensation of time referred to as the last days.

Within the context of the book f Joel, God sent a Locust plague illustrative of an impending invasion of a foreign nation.

The Locust destroyed Israel's agriculture.

Yet as a means of restoration God said he would send the early and the latter rain.

The rain would be the means by which God would restore the agricultural wealth of Israel , providing a threshing floor full of grain.

It is within this context God suggested another restoration would come, but it would not be the pouring out of rain, but the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh resulting in sons and daughters prophesying.

Young men would see visions and old men dream dreams.

Upon servants and handmaids, the Spirit would be poured out.

So it was the beginning of the fulfillment of this prophetic utterance would happen on the day of Pentecost.

When the Spirit of God was poured out on Jewish flesh representative of the twelve apostles.

TThis was the inauguration of the Kingdom of God, in which Christ is sitting upon his throne.

The new movement had been launched.

Men and woman began to call on the name of the Lord being baptized for the remission of sins.

The gift of the Holy Spirit as a possession was no being provided as an indwelling.

However, there lies a socio-theological dynamic that yet plaques the church.

If you are a student of the bible, and you trace the progression of the book of Acts, the gospel was intended to move through for regions:

Jerusalem

Judea

Samaria

Uttermost parts

The socio-theological dilemma is that the Gospel up until this point has reached Jews, proselytes, and even the half Jewish racial hybrid called Samaritans.

While such was problematic, it was an absolute unfathomable notion that gentiles, people of other nations, could become part of the Kingdom separate from adherence to the Jewish law and customs.

It was a ridiculous notion, and an unconcievable idea that a gentile could be accepted with God without being proselyted.What would it take for a Jewish worshipper, who has the paradigm that he alone is God’s chosen people according to , and .

How would God open the hearts of the Jews to accept gentiles.

Illustration: What if i told you that a man could be saved outside of the church, and that one can be right with God separate from obedience to the Gospel?

Proposition: The purpose of the outpouring of the Spirit in was to confirm the acceptance of gentiles through repentance unto life.