Pentecost
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Since creation God has desired to have a relationship with man!
A relationship that is intimate
A relationship that is personal
A committed relationship
God created man to commune with Him!
but One man’s sin!
Broke the relationship
God never had to initiate a conversation again…
But Love…
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
Love called out to man
“Where are you?”
God wants a relationship with man!
while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
“I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.”
“If you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant.”
“You shall be my treasured possession.”
God loved Isreal but Isreal often did the exact opposite.
God spoke to Jeremiah before the Babylonian captivity
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
God spoke to Ezekiel during the Babylonian captivity
And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them.
Imp-pudent
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
God plan will be fulfilled!
Isreal’s restoration was not just going to be physical
God promised Isreal
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
God was going to purify Isreal from her sins.
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
For Ezekiel, “heart” denotes the human capacity to think, feel, judge, decide, and commit. Israel’s behavior and loyalties exposed a misaligned heart, as unresponsive to God’s voice as a stony human heart.
That is the fundamental problem to which God now promises an answer.
He envisions an unprecedented heart transplant in which that unresponsive, stony heart is removed, and a new, fleshy heart (tender and responsive) is given to Israel (36:26).
And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
“Spirit” the dynamic by which the loyalties of the heart will be translated into action.
In this case, God promises to give Israel his own Spirit,
Dramatically enabling them to “follow [his] decrees and … obey [his] regulations” (36:27).
The cross brings us Justification
but Pentecost brings us Sanctification - The conforming work of God
Luke 24:49 (ESV)
And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
It was the right place
It was the place for a heart transplant!
It was a place where God was going to make his residence with Man!
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
I know we want to get stuck on tongues…
But God’s plan was to indwell in man…
To cause us to walk in his statues
To obey His rules
To renounce ungodliness and worldly passions
To live self-controlled
To live Upright (justly adv. — in accordance with moral or social standards.)
To live godly lives in the present age!
God becomes flesh to satisfy His judgement against us… (Justification)
The turns around and puts His spirit in us… So we can live for Him (Sanctification)
Be the Image!
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
We have debated over these scriptures!
But let’s let Peter speak!
For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel:
“ ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams;
even on my male servants and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
We are still in the last days...
to prophesy v. — to deliver a prophetic message, either of proper behavior to a standard, or of future events.
vision (supernatural) n. — a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance (that imparts a message); often in dreams.
dream (trance) n. — a dream in which something supernatural is revealed or transmitted to a person by God or an agent of God.
The were prophesying the “Wonderful works of God”
1 Peter 2:9–10 (ESV)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Prophesy!