WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.560 Well, if people who know different languages impress you, there 2 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:05.160 is nothing more impressive than this next story. 3 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:07.440 So here's Chris and I'm Jeff, and we are the 4 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:08.320 Daily Bobb guys. 5 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:28.679 Okay, so today we are doing something fun, I think. Okay, 6 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:31.039 So here's what I've done about fun. Well, you have 7 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:32.920 no idea what I'm about to do, no idea? Okay, 8 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.560 here it is. I've pulled up a list on my 9 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:40.759 phone that has the top ten most common fears, and 10 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:43.200 I want you to try to name off the top 11 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.479 of your head as many as you think are on 12 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.159 this top ten list, on this one on the top ten. 13 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:50.479 These are the top ten of the world. 14 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:51.200 Public speaking. 15 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:55.359 Oh, hang on, I guess I should have studied these first, 16 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:59.079 I guess. Yes, public speaking is up there. 17 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:00.000 Yes, spiders. 18 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.719 Spiders is actually number one. Sneaks snakes is number three, 19 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:04.879 public speaking was number two. 20 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:07.239 By the way, Okay, oh, signailed one, two and three. Yes, 21 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:08.959 what more do you need from me, dude? 22 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:14.200 Well, come on heights, Yes that's number four. 23 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:23.040 Speed speed yeah nay. Drowning Nope, no, like water. There's 24 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:23.959 no water thing in there. 25 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.640 No, not not well, yes, but not in the top ten. Okay, 26 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:29.879 do you want me just to listen to the rest. 27 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.920 I gave you the top four. Okay, I feel like 28 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:33.840 that should count it for. 29 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:39.239 Some crowded spaces or small spaces, believe it or not. 30 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.000 It says the fear of thunder and lightning. 31 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.359 Wow, and then the fear the top ten. 32 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:48.920 Yes, who's writing this? I don't know. It's called I 33 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:50.280 don't want I don't I don't want to. I don't 34 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:52.439 want to even give the website. But it's just it's 35 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.200 it is a website because I. 36 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.000 Don't want to, you know, because everything on the internet 37 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:56.319 is true. 38 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:01.480 Yes, fear of germs. And by the way, this one here, 39 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:04.040 there's a note that it has risen fear. 40 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:04.719 Of germs moving up. 41 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:06.959 It's it has moved up into the top ten. Okay, 42 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.759 well you think about that right, yeah. So and then 43 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:11.759 the fear of being alone? 44 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:13.800 Oh okay, isn't that terrible? 45 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:17.039 Yeah, so here's my next question for you real quick. 46 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:18.280 Yeah, thanks for investing us all. 47 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:19.840 Yeah, it's not depressing now. 48 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:21.560 Everybody's waking up. They're just getting them the morning they 49 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:23.199 listen to the podcast, going oh good, this is gonna 50 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:25.479 help me today. Oh, that reminds me. I'm terrified of germs. 51 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:28.080 Well, you know what about people who listen at. 52 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.719 Night for the go to bed, Go to bed fighters? 53 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.439 All right, okay, so here's so here's a question. 54 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:37.639 I've never listened to this again. 55 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:41.599 Of the fears that we mentioned, which one are you 56 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:43.240 most afraid of? Oh? 57 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:50.039 Man, I just need to pick one. I guess I 58 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:53.479 think the one. So I'm not afraid of heights, But 59 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:56.240 the one that I'd become most cautious about is the 60 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:59.439 higher I go. So I just crossed the bridge, a 61 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.520 hanging bridge in Nepal. Yeah, it's a mile long, one 62 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.000 of those like Indiana Jones hanging ridges. Oh yeah, and 63 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.759 it shook like that. Yeah, and I'm up about I 64 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.560 don't know, two hundred feet and uh. Aster of fact, 65 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:12.919 we had a seven hundred foot elevation game to get 66 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.199 up and go across this bridge. We were going to 67 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:20.039 this giant idol of Shiva, and it was that that 68 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.319 turns my stomach right, So I like it. So I 69 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.400 like scary things. Yeah me too, So I like it. 70 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:29.280 But I found myself hanging on a little tighter thing. 71 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.360 So probably heights. Out of all those that we mentioned, 72 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:33.400 heights is the one that causes me to pause the moment. 73 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:34.759 Have you ever jumped out of a plane. 74 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:38.240 No, I haven't. I wanted to my son. Our plan 75 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:39.960 always was when he turned eighteen, We're gonna mp out 76 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:42.000 of a plane. And then the church has a key 77 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.479 man policy on me, and it specifically says I can't 78 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.000 jump out of planes or I avoid the policy. 79 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:48.719 Oh, she can't do anything like that, so. 80 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:50.960 I couldn't do it. Yeah, yeah, I wanted to. Pretty soon, 81 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.240 I hope that key man policy goes away and then 82 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:53.680 I can do it. 83 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:55.800 Well, nobody cares about me enough, so I jumped out 84 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.039 of a plane, so I'm not important enough to have 85 00:03:59.080 --> 00:03:59.560 a policy. 86 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:02.560 Yeah. Yeah, Well it's all the church people are just 87 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.000 hoping someday Jeff cashes out so that they can, you know, 88 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:07.080 get several million dollars and pay off the building. There 89 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:08.759 you go, there's going to be a day when I'm 90 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:10.879 worth more dead than alive to the elders the here 91 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.400 Itage Church. That that's gonna happen, but not today, hopefully 92 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:17.519 not today. So anyways, Hey, that's that was a cool one, man. 93 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.639 Yeahs ten reasons why things that people are afraid of. 94 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.439 So one of the best things you can do is 95 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:25.480 face your fears. Yes, honestly, and just pushed through it. 96 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:26.120 Face your fears. 97 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:27.519 I see what you did there, You turned it. 98 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.519 Yeah, that's right, because most of the time our fears 99 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.720 are are somewhat unreasonable. There there's a little bit of danger, 100 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:37.079 but the probability of this actually being the thing that 101 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:40.000 gets you is very, very small. So learning to face them, 102 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:41.240 I think, is one of the best things you can do. 103 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:43.560 And the second best thing you can do is google 104 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:45.680 Bob Newhart Stop It. 105 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:47.079 Yeah. 106 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:49.800 Bob Newhart is a counselor. He plays a counselor in 107 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:52.199 this bit. Yeah yeah, and it's and it's called stop It. 108 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:53.639 And that's all I'm going to say. And it is 109 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:56.680 one of the funniest counseling bits I have ever seen 110 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:57.439 him entire life. 111 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:59.399 If you ever decide you want to come and counsel 112 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.879 with either me or Chris, you should watch that video 113 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.199 clip first and just realize that's essentially what you're gonna 114 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.839 get from it, right, stop it? So Okay, So we 115 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.360 are continuing in this series on the Book of Acts, 116 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:12.759 and I love the Book of Acts, and it just 117 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:14.680 revs up. It takes a little while and then it 118 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.879 starts revving up and going faster and faster with the 119 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:21.000 spread of the Gospel. So Jesus has resurrected, and we 120 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:23.120 read that in the end of Book of Matthew he 121 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.319 gives them the great commission go make disciples. He tells them, 122 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:27.920 I'm going to fill you with the Holy Spirit, and 123 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.079 then you're going to go to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the 124 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.079 uttermost parts of the world. And then they pray because 125 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:35.639 they're not sure what's suposed to happen. Next they go 126 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:38.319 in the upper room. Every problems of her problem they're praying. 127 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:40.959 And then now this is the result of this a 128 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:44.160 few days later. So all these first three days we've 129 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.160 read are just a few days apart. Right, So here 130 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.079 we go. We're gonna read the first like sixteen verses, 131 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:51.319 and then we're going to jump to the end of 132 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.920 the chapter. Because Peter preaches a long message. He's long winded, 133 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:58.480 like you are, Chris. So on the day of Pentecost, 134 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.759 all the believers were meeting together in one place. Suddenly 135 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:04.839 there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of 136 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:07.560 a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they 137 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.600 were sitting. Then what looked like flames or tongues of 138 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.360 fire appeared and settled on each of them, and everyone 139 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:15.680 present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking 140 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.800 in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. 141 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.560 At that time, there were devout Jews from every nation 142 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:24.399 living in Jerusalem. When they heard the loud noise, everyone 143 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:26.800 came running, and they were bewildered to hear their own 144 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.240 languages being spoken by the believers. They were completely amazed. 145 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.519 How can this be, they exclaimed, These people are all 146 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.079 from Galilee, and yet we hear them speaking in our 147 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:39.480 own native languages. Here we are Parthians, Medes, Elamites, people 148 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:45.800 from Mesopotamia, Judea, Capaducia, Pontius, the province of Asia, Phrygia, Pamphilia, Egypt, 149 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.920 and the areas of Libya around Syene, visitors from Rome, 150 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:52.839 both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, and 151 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:55.480 we all hear these people speaking in our own languages 152 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.600 about the wonderful things God has done. And they stood 153 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:01.399 there amazed and perplexed. What can this mean? They asked 154 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.879 each other, But others in the crowd ridiculed them, saying 155 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:09.000 they're just drunk, that's all. Then Peter stepped forward with 156 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.759 the eleven other apostles and shouted to the crowd, listen carefully, 157 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.800 all of you, fellow Jews and residence of Jerusalem. Make 158 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.959 no mistake about this. These people are not drunk, as 159 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.160 some of you are, assuming nine o'clock in the morning 160 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:22.680 is much too early for that. Know what you see 161 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:26.319 was predicted long ago by the prophet Joel. Then he 162 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.000 preaches this whole message about how God had promised the 163 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.839 Holy Spirit would come. Then he talked about Jesus dying 164 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:36.040 and resurrecting, and then it comes down to in verse 165 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.399 thirty six. So let everyone in Israel know for certain 166 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:43.519 that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, to 167 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:47.120 be both Lord and Messiah. Peter's words pierced their hearts, 168 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.639 and they said to him and to the other apostles, brothers, 169 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:52.360 what should we do? And Peter replied, each of you 170 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.639 must repent of your sins and turn to God and 171 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:56.680 be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the 172 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:59.720 forgiveness of your sins, and then you receive the gift 173 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:02.399 of the Holy Spirit. This promise is to you, to 174 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:05.040 your children, and to those far away, all who've been 175 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.720 called by the Lord our God. Then Peter continued to 176 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.360 preach for a long time, strongly urging all his listeners 177 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.279 save yourselves from this crooked generation. And those who believed 178 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.199 what Peter said were baptized and added to the church 179 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:19.959 that day, about three thousand in all. And then here's 180 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.439 the descriptor of their very first church, which I love. 181 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.439 I want to be just like this as a church. 182 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.040 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and 183 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.040 to fellowship, and to sharing and meals, including the Lord's Supper, 184 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.759 and to prayer. A deep sense of awe came over 185 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.279 all of them, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs 186 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.799 and wonders, and all the believers met together in one 187 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.720 place and shared everything they had. They sold their property 188 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:44.879 and possessions and shared the money with those in need. 189 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.720 They worshiped together at the temple. Each day they met 190 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.240 in homes for the Lord's Supper, shared their meals with 191 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:53.840 great joy and generosity, all the while praising God and 192 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:56.200 enjoying the good will of all the people. And each 193 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:58.960 day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were 194 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:03.759 being saved. Wow, yeah, definitely, Well that's the goal. 195 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:08.399 Well, it's it's definitely the mentality, the sentiment, right, the 196 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:12.799 attitude I'm not sure about selling everything I have and 197 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:14.240 then throwing it all into the middle. 198 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.679 Well, it's because you're not a good Christian you love 199 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:19.480 things rather than. 200 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.639 So all the multi millionaires so have they throw in 201 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:23.000 the middle. 202 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:25.440 It's not a command, no, I know, it's just that 203 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.200 they loved each other so much that they were willing. 204 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.320 To Yeah, I know, yeah, so yeah, but but yeah. 205 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:31.919 They're a little bit of a legalist, and so when 206 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.480 you read the Bible, you tend to read every word 207 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:35.600 as a command to you rather than no. And this 208 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.279 is what happens. When the spirit really impacts me by 209 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.519 the way he's making my spirit comes on you, then 210 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:41.159 you probably will. 211 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.519 But okay, anybody who knows me knows I'm the opposite 212 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:48.200 of a legalist for certain. But yeah, I love the 213 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.480 fact that people loved each other so much that they 214 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.600 took care of each other. And so the sentiment behind 215 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.000 that is is that if somebody is in the church 216 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:59.360 and they're hurting, that we should be able to be 217 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.720 so close and so tight knit and and you know, 218 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:04.799 be a part of their lives in such a way 219 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:06.279 to where we help them. 220 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:10.840 Right, and there are always people in a church who's hurting. Yeah, right, 221 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.799 so it would be I think the point here is 222 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.440 that they were sacrificial right right there. They were willing 223 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.159 to sacrifice for their brothers and sisters in Christ. That 224 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:22.200 was it. And by the way, it's three thousand of 225 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.720 them at that point, right right. It was just this 226 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.120 overwhelming thing. The other part of it was immediately when 227 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.200 you converted to this because Christianity was just a sacked. 228 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:33.399 It was a for most people, they thought it as 229 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.960 a cult, and so they lost their homes a lot 230 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:39.000 of times, they'd lose their jobs, they'd lose a lot 231 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.960 of their their their ability to make money, income, and 232 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.639 so there's this kind of a crisis that's happening right there. 233 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:48.799 And you know, those who had resources were willing to 234 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.200 sacrifice the resources for those who were losing resources because 235 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:52.759 of the kingdom. 236 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:55.879 Yeah. Yeah, So let's go back to the very beginning 237 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.679 where it says the tongues of fire came down, So 238 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:03.080 obviously there is experience was unlike ours today. They had 239 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:09.240 this quite literal and physical experience of visually seeing flames 240 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.840 come down and set upon each person, and they experience 241 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:17.840 this very unique introduction in their lives by hearing other languages. 242 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.919 So imagine if I'm speaking a language and then people 243 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.399 have five different languages walking in. All five of those 244 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.720 people here hear me in their own native tongue. That 245 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.080 is what it's describing. And it is just an unbelievable miracle, 246 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:34.480 is what it is. And so it's just like God 247 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:39.559 to you know, introduce the Holy Spirit with this unbelievable, unexplainable, 248 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.799 miraculous experience where where those who are you know, in 249 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:46.759 act chapter two are not going to doubt it anymore, 250 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:50.159 right like, because after all, you know, we receive the 251 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.559 Holy Spirit and it may take us a little time 252 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.600 to realize, Wow, this is beyond coincidence. You know, this 253 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.639 is this is God working in my life. I sense, 254 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.000 I experience, I feel the power of God in me. 255 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:05.639 It made up. But they needed convinced because they didn't 256 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:08.240 have any history of the Holy Spirit, right right, So 257 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.679 God introduces the Holy Spirit to this group of people 258 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:16.639 and to us with this unbelievable, miraculous, you know, out 259 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:18.000 of this world kind of experience. 260 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.840 Well, it's no secret I love the Life application study Bible. 261 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:23.399 If you don't have one, get one. You can get 262 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:26.519 them on an Amazon for like thirty dollars or thirty 263 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:29.879 five dollars in hardback, and I just love it. I 264 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:32.159 have several of them. But the notes here, there's two 265 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.639 notes for verses three and four. It says this was 266 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:38.440 a fulfillment talking about the fire, the earthquake, all that 267 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:40.679 kind of stuff. This was a fulfillment of John the 268 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.039 Baptist words about the Holy spirits baptizing with fire, and 269 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.679 of the prophet Joel's words about the outpouring of the 270 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:51.679 Holy Spirit. So this moment was a fulfillment of prophecy. Right. 271 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:53.399 It wasn't a declaration that this is the way it 272 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:55.399 has to happen all the time. This is what was 273 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:57.720 prophesied was going to happen the first time, right, Right, 274 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.240 And then it says why tongues of fire. Fire symbolizes 275 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:04.639 God's purifying presence, which burns away the undesirable elements of 276 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.200 our lives and sets our hearts aflame to ignite the 277 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:11.159 lives of others. Right. And then at Pentecost, God confirmed 278 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.200 the validity or Holy Spirit's ministry by sending fire, just 279 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:17.399 like he sent fire for Elijah, just on Mount Carmel, 280 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:21.759 just like he sent fire with Moses, with the Ten commandments, 281 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.120 all these kinds of things. And then the next note says, 282 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:26.159 God made his presence known to this group of believers 283 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:30.399 in a spectacular way, roaring wind, fire, and his Holy Spirit. 284 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:32.679 Would you like God to reveal himself to you in 285 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.480 such recognizable ways. He may do so, but be wary 286 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:40.200 of forcing your expectations on God. And then it talks 287 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.519 about Elijah also needed a message from God in One 288 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:45.799 Kings chapter nineteen. First came to great wind, then an earthquake, 289 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:49.600 and finally a fire. But in that instance, God's message 290 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:53.519 came in a gentle whisper. So God may use dramatic 291 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:55.960 methods to work in your life, or he may speak 292 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:00.399 in gentle whispers. Wait patiently and always listen. So God's 293 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:04.159 not bound by a circumstance, or we can't require him 294 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.159 to do a thing or another thing. God most of 295 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.200 the time speaks in gentle whispers. Sometimes he does something dramatic, 296 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.559 but most of the time it's that gentle whisper. Yeah, 297 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:14.279 so he says and psalms, be still and know that 298 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:15.759 I'm got That's great. 299 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.559 So that's really what the what is the what happened, 300 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:23.360 and it's and it was prophesied. The why did God 301 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.879 choose to do something like this? I find it very 302 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.159 interesting the notes in chapter two, verses nine through eleven 303 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:32.399 in my study Bible as well, and it says, why 304 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:35.399 were all these places mentioned? You know, all the different lands, right, 305 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:38.000 there's a list of many lands from which the Jews 306 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:41.480 had come to the festival in Jerusalem. These Jews were 307 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:44.600 not from Palestine because their ancestors had been dispersed to 308 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.399 other parts of the world to the captivities and persecutions, 309 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.799 and very likely some Jews, some of the Jews who 310 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:53.879 responded to Peter's message returned to their homelands with God's 311 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.879 good news of salvation. And here's sort of the point. 312 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:00.120 It says, thus God prepared the way for the the 313 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:02.600 spread of the good news. And as you read the 314 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:04.840 Book of Acts, you will see how that way was 315 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.720 often prepared for Paul and other messengers by people who 316 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:12.360 had become believers at Pentecost. So think about this, So 317 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:14.720 the world, you know, Jesus came at the perfect time. 318 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:17.679 Jesus came at the time you know. In fact, the 319 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:21.840 Book of Glatian says when such a time had come right. 320 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:24.679 It said when the perfect when the perfect time had come. 321 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.000 You know, I forget the King James phrase that I'm 322 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.960 thinking of, but anyway, but that's what it means. It 323 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.919 means when the perfect time had come, Jesus came into 324 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.559 the world. God sent his son. So for all the 325 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:41.200 times you know in past history, you know in future history, 326 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.919 God chose for Jesus to come down. And the world 327 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:48.159 was perfectly prepared for the Gospel to spread. Number one, 328 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.600 we know that Romans had developed a system where they 329 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:53.559 conquered the world, and even the roads that led and 330 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:57.360 united the different cities. It was perfectly a positioned for 331 00:15:57.399 --> 00:15:58.759 the Gospel to have spread easily. 332 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:01.960 Not only that that was a fairly new technology. Yes, 333 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:05.279 those well built roads, Yes, was kind of a new thing. 334 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:09.440 Yeah. And then also Greek. Everybody spoke the Greek. There 335 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:13.200 was one language. It was the business language, which means 336 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.440 that everybody could talk with everybody of a different language 337 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.759 because they all knew Greek. Well, here's sort of what 338 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.399 this passage is saying. It's saying those who were present 339 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:27.240 at the festival heard everything in their native language, and 340 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.679 they would have gone home. And it was for the 341 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.960 purpose of spreading the Gospel and spreading the news of 342 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.039 this Christian movement that God is starting. So think about 343 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:40.759 what better way to kickstart, you know, the spreading of 344 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:43.279 the news than to have this great experience. And by 345 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:46.840 the way, it's in everybody's language, which says everybody understands. 346 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:49.840 It's so brilliant. God is so strategic. Sometimes we miss 347 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.159 out on how God is playing. We're in life, we're 348 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.279 playing checkers. You know what God should do? He should 349 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.240 do this, he should do that. And God's always playing 350 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.000 like multi level chests, right right, like from Star Trek. 351 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.799 Yeah, multi level Chess. I am so pleased that you 352 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:04.759 just throughout that reference. 353 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.680 Yeah, it warms my heart that you talked to Trachy. Yeah, 354 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:09.960 a little bit wife is too. 355 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:10.720 That's great. 356 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:15.359 But so in this it was incredibly strategic that Jesus 357 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:18.960 died at Passover, probably because of the prophecies of it, 358 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.359 but it also really highlights for those Jews that were 359 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.960 looking for the answer. Jesus is the lamb of God 360 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:25.680 who takes away the sins of the world, so that 361 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:30.799 was important. Forty days later is the Pentecost, the Feast 362 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.960 of Pentecost, and that's another kind of big festival. So 363 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.200 it wasn't uncommon in those days that people would make 364 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:39.920 a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Jews that were dispersed all around 365 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.559 the world make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and stay from 366 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:47.920 Passover to Pentecost right during that time. So all of 367 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.400 the word about Jesus dying in this resurrection, the rumors 368 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.160 are spreading, all this stuff is happening, and then the 369 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:57.359 Holy Spirit comes only forty days later. You gotta imagine 370 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:58.480 if it take you a month and a half or 371 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.680 two months to get there. You know, they're not flying 372 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.559 on planes, so they're riding in boats and riding on 373 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.279 donkeys and walking, so take a couple months to get there. 374 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:08.680 You'd stay a month or two and then take another 375 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.519 month to go home. So these people are from all 376 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.319 around the world, and God chose then on that day 377 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.640 to be able to spread the gospel through the whole 378 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.519 almost the entire Roman Empire at the time, all on 379 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:24.799 this one day, because they're all the step up and 380 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:27.000 preach the gospel. So this is the first time that 381 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:29.799 the idea of tongues is introduced in the Bible. And 382 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.599 this version of tongues is very clearly the supernatural ability 383 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:38.240 to communicate the Gospel in known languages, even though it's 384 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:40.839 said here these people are just Galileans. They thought of 385 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.519 Galileans as being the most uneducated people in Israel. 386 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:45.160 Right, They just the blue collar work right. 387 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.200 Right, Well, they're thinking of it as the hillbilities of Israel. Right. 388 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:50.519 That's kind of the how they treated them. It's how 389 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:52.880 they treated Peter. It's how they later on are going 390 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:55.160 to treat Peter and John later as you guys are 391 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:57.920 unlearned men from Galilee. What in the world? And here 392 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.480 they are again, they're amazed. These guys aren't educated. They 393 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.039 didn't go out and learn all these languages, but they're speaking. 394 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.880 And so it's interesting they while almost everybody could have 395 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:09.960 done business in Greek, that wasn't their heart language. Their 396 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:15.039 heart language was Parthian or Mead or Elamite or right that. 397 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:19.119 So God made sure that with this gospel, the Gospel 398 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.440 was not presented on a business level. It was presented 399 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:25.039 in a heart language kind of way. And that's why 400 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.119 he decided to have them all be able to speak 401 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:30.680