Listen to Glisten
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Introduction:
Introduction:
Listen to Glisten:
God’s chosen: Listen, Holy Spirit pours in, radiate!
Church witnesses, people hear, respond in faith, Holy Spirit ordains...
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Introduction: Who’s acts?
Acts: of the Apostles?
Chrysostem: “The Gospels… are a history of what Christ did and said; but the Acts, of what that ‘other Comforter said and did.”
Acts: “Acts of the Apostles” (Already 2nd Century)
Acts of the Holy Spirit?
ACTS! (Praxeis)
Acts 1:8: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses
Acts 5:32 And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Outline of this morning:
Verses 1-2: Review of First Book
Verse 3: 40 Days of Purpose
Verses 4-5: Waiting for the Promise
Verses 1-2: Review of First Book
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
Sets the Context:
Author:
Style of Luke is polished Greek:
Colossians 4:14: Luke the beloved physician greets you,
Luke Physician and Theologian
Traveler and companion to Paul: Later in Acts, Paul begins to use the pronoun ‘WE’
2. Addressee
Luke addresses a guy named Theophilus
Luke: The Witness to Theophilus, Luke: Most Excellent Theophilus
Gospel of Luke: Describes what Jesus did and taught
Roman? Excellent Greek
3. Purpose
Luke 1:4: “that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.”
Similar purpose?
3. Passing of the Baton
Jesus had given commands… Discipleship
Through the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit to the Church
WHOM HE HAD CHOSEN FOR A PURPOSE
Peter’s sermon:
Acts 10:38-43: God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit… 39 And we are witnesses... They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, 40 but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, 41 not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. 43 To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Verse. 3: 40 Days of Purpose
3 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
40 days
Preparing for Jesus’ Ministry
Preparation for the Church’s Ministry
Two Purposes:
1. Resurrection Proof
Proved himself as alive after experiencing a crucifixion
Presented himself alive after his Suffering=Passion
Like Good Friday and Easter, passion and resurrection go together.
Can’t tease apart his resurrection from the passion. To see the Risen Lion is also to see the crucified Lamb.
“Many convincing proofs”
“In ancient rhetoric this same word is used of the hard evidence that convinces the skeptic...” (NIB, 40)
Opta=opthomologist: Doctor of the Eye
Examples in Luke 24:
vv.13-33: Cleopas and his companion. Road to Emmaus
v.34: Simon
vv.36-51: to the Eleven and ‘those with them’
Other Bible passages:
I Corinthians 15: He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive.... 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
40 days of purpose was to prove he could eat and drink yet go through walls as a living breathing resurrected body person.
2. Speaking about the Kingdom
v. 2: He gave commands through the Holy Spirit
v. 3: Speaking about the Kingdom of God
Why is this important?!
Luke 180 Results
Acts:Kingdom in Action: 6x
Kingdom was ushered, inaugerated, fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection!
KINGDOM IS NOW HERE and in action!
To talk about Jesus is to talk about the Kingdom
To talk about salvation is to talk about the Kingdom.
To talk about repentance is to talk about the Kingdom.
To talk about faith
To experience healing,
When the Holy Spirit does come at Pentecost, who is the first person Peter talks about?
Who are the two people Peter talks about in that first sermon?
Jesus!
DAVID! The King who died but whose bones are still in a tomb!
“The final reign of God has arrived “in the events of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and to proclaim these facts, in their proper setting, is to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God” (Dodd 1964:24)
Gospel Presentation:
Remember Jesus the King!
Paul: 28:30 He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him, 31 proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
Verse 4-5: Time of Waiting
Anointing of the Holy Spirit. Waiting for their ordination.
Galatians 3:14: So that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Role of the Holy Spirit is more “‘functional than soteriological: Initiation into the realm of the Spirit enables the believers to bring an effective witness of the risen Jesus to the world (1:7-8).” NIB 41. Robert Wall
Waiting in Jerusalem: “The place where Jesus was rejected was to be the place where fresh witness to him would begin.” Howard Marshall
Holy Spirit:
Listen to Jesus
Commands and Kingdom
But listening is one thing, the Christian needs to experience the anointing of the Holy Spirit
Listen to GLISTEN!
Apostles no longer just listen but they now preach
Some say that anointed must be coupled with some form of manifestation:
Some churches say the outpouring of the Spirit means experiencing a speaking in tongues or something like that...
That’s not what I mean by anointing
Anointing
Practical Application:
Shared information:
Table of Contents: reviewing the past and passing on the divine baton...
Do you know information about Jesus?
Do you know information about the Kingdom?
Can you list off the commands of Jesus?
That’s good!
Jesus taught about about commands
He taught about the Kingdom
But it can’t stop there...
I just gave you a whole lot of information about the book of Acts this morning, but information is not what saves you.
The Apostle’s needed the Spirit to emblazon them. To take the information about commands and the Kingdom and make that information preach!
Preaching isn’t a seminar.
Preaching isn’t even primarily about teaching.
Preaching isn’t about entertainment.
Preaching is the means in which the Holy Spirit takes information about Jesus, his commands the Kingdom, and makes it come alive in our hearts.
Knowing vs. Glowing
Listen and Glisten vs. Listen and flicker or Listen and Dim
Pastors, by the way, are not immune to this challenge:
Pastors:
Paul David Tripp: Dangerous Calling
Story as Seminary Student
hours for months studying Romans
“It had been all grammar and syntax, theological ideas and logical arguments. It had been a massive intellectual exercise but almost completely devoid of spiritual power. I can remember staring at my ink-filled pages. They seemed distant and blurry, somehow not attached to real life, somehow not having anything to do with me. No, I wasn’t delusional; I had written all of it, but it all seemed detached from me, my real life, my marriage, my struggles with sin, my past, my future, my deepest hopes, dreams, and fears. I stared at the page, and it seemed impossible that I could have done all of this work when it had been little more than an assignment for a class, for a grade, in pursuit of a degree.” (42)
Bad things happen when maturity is more defined by knowing than it is by being. Danger is afloat when you come to love the ideas more than the God whom they represent and the people they are meant to free. (42-43)
I can resonate with Tripp at times.
Fun information sparkles my synapses!
The Holy Spirit, however, radiates forever!
From Listen to Glisten… Take the commands and the Kingdom and make it a way of life!
Commit yourself to applying Acts.