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Sara’s Garden
Sara is a persistent gardener.
Have any of you tried to plant anything in this soil?
Rocks and shade.
You dig and you hit a rock.
There’s no room to plant much.
And, the rocky soil doesn’t have a lot of nutrients that would naturally feed plants.
So, when you keep hitting rocks do you quit?
Give up trying?
Then, there’s the shade issue.
We love our trees.
But, plants need direct sunlight.
Finding a place w/ enough sun and no rocks.
Good luck.
Sara, rather than digging down, she built up.
Rather than the futility of digging all around our property, she built an above ground garden and put healthy soil in it.
She’s had great success w/ kale, peas, beans, some broccoli.
And, then, the animals have found Sara’s salad bar.
Squirrels and a javelina have wrought havoc in the garden.
Thus, the chicken wire around it.
Tomatoes have not worked out at all.
The growing season is too short.
She tried in the garden, then up on the deck.
No real success.
So, now we have a little greenhouse and it’s hot in there.
She has faced rocks, shade, squirrels, javelina, and cool temps.
And, yet, we have fresh vegetables.
She is going to have a garden and we are going to have fresh vegetables.
You see our investment.
It’s taken more to get this started than what it costs to maintain it every year.
But, now that it’s going, it’s easier to keep it going.
Sara is going to do whatever it takes to have fresh vegetables.
If something gets in her way, she will work around it.
Jesus said He is going to build His church.
As smart as Sara is and as hard as she works; Jesus is that much smarter and more powerful.
It’s going to happen.
Rather than the futility of digging all around our property, she built an above ground garden and put healthy soil in it.
Jesus is going to do whatever it takes to do what He wants to do.
If people get in the way, He is going to work around them.
Do you want to work w/ God? Or, would you prefer He work around you?
The church was conceived when Jesus told Peter He was going to build it on faith like his.
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He told the disciples He was going to build His church and no one’s death, his or theirs, would prevent it from happening.
Israel tried.
Threw rocks and shade at Jesus.
Eventually, they killed Him.
So, God created a work around.
The concept of the church presented in Matthew.
The church was born in Jerusalem, on Pentecost; .
It takes a lot more to get something started than it does to keep it going later.
And, God provided everything needed start something that was totally new and different.
Start Up Capital
Acts
Jesus had told the 120 disciples to not go anywhere, just wait till the HS shows up and baptizes you.
And, they wonder what exactly that means.
Never happened before.
So, what do they do?
They had to eat, work, fish, talk…and they waited.
Pentecost, we think of it as the event we’re about to talk about.
“Pentecost” had been a time for a festival since Moses gave Israel the law.
Literally, means “50”.
50 days after the Passover.
The day after plus 7 weeks, or 49 days.
This was the feast of weeks.
Also called first fruits.
A harvest festival in the summer.
Plant in the spring, harvest in the summer.
Worship and sacrifice the first fruits of the harvest.
What would have brought all 120 people together in one room in the morning before breakfast?
A Jewish festival, that they had celebrated all their lives.
All they knew to do was keep doing what they had always done until they were told to do something different.
Then, it happened.
Luke, Peter, John, didn’t have the benefit of modern CGG.
They are describing it as best they can.
Wind and fire.
Clear references to God.
Pillar of fire, burning bushes, speaking in the wind.
All OT refs when God showed up.
Baptized and filled, two different things.
They were changed on the inside, baptism.
They were also filled.
The HS fills people with the ability to do something He wants them to do.
Teach, exhort somebody, speak fluently in a language they’d never studied.
All were baptized and all were filled, not just a few.
This was a powerful and dramatic sign that it was time to do something completely different.
And God was equipping people accordingly.
Not normal.
Not a regular display.
This doesn’t happen all the time.
In fact, it’s only happened this once.
Start up Capital.
The HS was poured out on the people and they did things they’d never done before.
It took more to get the church started than it does to keep it going.
People from all over had come to Jerusalem for the Feast of Weeks.
A list of nations who spoke languages besides Aramaic or Greek.
They heard the commotion and made their way over to find out what was going on.
This was a speaking miracle not a hearing miracle.
They heard their native tongue, b/c someone was speaking in it.
Q#1: Where did they get this ability?
Uneducated Galileans.
Only from God.
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