When There Is A New Reformation (Outline)

An Undeniable Experience with God

When God Shows Up!

Luke 24:49; Acts 2:1-4

I. The Expectation.

II. The Environment (Circumstance).

1. The expectation of a prophetic promise.

2. They were waiting in an upper room.

3. They were all together.

4. They were all together in one place.

III. The Experience.

1. A noise from heaven like a violent, rushing wind that filled the whole house where they were sitting.

2. Tongues that look like fire, which were distributing themselves among them, and they rested on each one of them.

3. They spoke with spiritual languages that they had never learned, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

1) The history of the church, which moved to institutionalize speaking in tongues and move it away from the people.

2) B. B. Warfield’s response to the abuses and extremes with respect to tongues in the early 1900’s was accepted and widely affirmed.

3) Bias against tongues, because of past abuse.

4) Little biblical teaching on tongues.

5) Personality Issues.

(1) Issues of intellectualism.

(2) Issues of pride.

(3) Issues of misunderstanding.

(4) Issues of control.

(5) Issues of abuse, which have deadened, suppressed, or repressed the emotions.

(6) Issues of fear.

(7) Issues of God’s sovereignty.

IV. The Example (Principle).

We should learn that:

1. We should not leave Jerusalem or move on with our lives, until we are clothed with power from on high.

2. This clothing with power has been promised to us, according to:

Acts 2:38-39.

3. We should be all together.

4. We should be on one accord.

5. Because we are in the middle of a reformation, we should have great expectation for God to show up!