Jim Harper – The Work of the Holy Spirit in New Testament Times – Class 2 – Inseparable Baptisms – Water and Spirit

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This is day two of the 2007 Palm
Springs Bible School.

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Our second period speaker is
Brother Jim Harper.

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His general subject is the work
of the Holy Spirit in the New

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Testament, and today’s subtopic
is inseparable baptisms, water

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and Spirit.
And so, brothers and sisters, we

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embark on this next study
together.

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And as always, I try to set some
focus at the beginning and make

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some attempt to to stay with it
questions that will attempt to

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address together in this
session.

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Brothers and sisters, first of
all, what are the Old Testament

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precedents for Holy Spirit?
Baptism.

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And what can we learn from them?
And secondly, how are water

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baptism and Holy Spirit baptism
related?

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And again, we’ll have a menu
which will more or less address

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those two questions in order.
And first we’ll look at the

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precedents and principles, and I
don’t know what.

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You have felt as you go through
the daily readings by January

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2nd, we’re into Matthew chapters
3:00 and 4:00, and we are

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immediately immediately set upon
by Holy Spirit baptism, and it

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just keeps coming at us through
our New Testament readings.

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Holy Spirit baptism seems to
burst on the scene in New

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Testament times, and it stands
at the forefront of New

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Testament teaching.
You go to Matthew 3.

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I indeed baptize you with water.
Under repentance, he will

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baptize you with the Holy Spirit
and fire Mark Chapter one.

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I indeed baptize you with water.
He will baptize you with the

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Holy Spirit.
Luke Chapter 3 I indeed baptize

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you with water.
He will baptize you with the

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Holy Spirit and fire John
Chapter One, He who sent me to

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baptize with water.
This is he who baptizes with the

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Holy Spirit, Acts chapter one.
You have heard of me for John

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truly baptized with water, but
you shall be baptized with the

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Holy Spirit not many days from
now, brothers and sisters.

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Matthew 3, Mark one, Luke 3,
John one, Acts 1A.

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Bible subject cannot get much
more forefront than that.

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It simply cannot get much more
forefront than that.

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And that’s always been something
that has struck me about this

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when we come to the New
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that it that it raises in my
estimation is where does it come

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from?
Where does this concept come

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from?
The phrase baptized with the

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Holy Spirit is unprecedented as
far as I can tell.

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In the Greek Septuagint, there’s
only one place where the word

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baptized as we find it in the
New Testament is used.

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It’s Isaiah 21.
And we don’t need to go back

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there now.
It it hardly seems at first

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glance to have a connection with
our subject.

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In fact, where does it come
from?

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It’s unprecedented.
Where do we find anything like

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it in the Old Testament?
Yet John the Baptist preached to

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Jews, and while some of the
things that he he said may not

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have been comprehended, I don’t
believe anything he said,

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brothers and sisters, was
incomprehensible.

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He preached to Jews.
The apostles of Jesus, to whom

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Jesus spoken.
Acts One were Jews.

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The concept of Holy Spirit
baptism has to be understandable

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in Jewish terms.
Consequently, my logic takes me

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here.
We are compelled to find it, and

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not just find it, but to find it
written large in the Old

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Testament.
And so we go back to Numbers

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Chapter 11, for example, and
you’ll remember some of these.

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And of course, you’ve probably
already put some of these

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together in your own thinking,
brothers and sisters.

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But Numbers Chapter 11.
So Moses went out and told the

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people the words of the Lord,
and he gathered the 70 men of

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the elders of the people and
placed them around the

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Tabernacle.
Then the Lord came down in the

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cloud and spoke to him.
And took of the Spirit that was

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upon him, and placed the same
upon the 70 elders.

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And it happened when the Spirit
rested upon them that they

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prophesied, although they never
did so again.

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But just look at the highlighted
words there, brothers and

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sisters, and I want you to think
about it again for just a

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moment.
We sometimes say that the

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apostles had the power to
transfer the Holy Spirit.

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I’m not sure that’s good
theology.

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I’m not sure it’s good Biblical
theology at least.

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There’s plenty of theology that
says that if there’s any

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principle of transfer, it has to
honor what I think we see here,

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brothers and sisters, the Lord
came down in the cloud and spoke

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to him and took of the Spirit
that was upon him and placed the

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same upon the 70 elders will
perhaps come back to that just a

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bit more when we come to Acts 8
and the Samaritans and so forth.

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Just keep in mind.
He shall baptize you with the

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Holy Spirit when we come to the
New Testament.

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It’s the Lord’s work, and it’s
the Lord’s work here, whatever

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we may understand of transfer
happening here from Moses to the

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to the 70 elders.
And when this happened, the

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Spirit rested upon them.
They prophesied, though they

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never did so again.
And so there was a spirit gift

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of limited scope and duration.
And these 70 men, for a for a

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time spoke for God, and bore
witness to the fact that God was

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now going to work with them in
various capacities as they

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joined Moses in the judgments of
Israel.

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And then it goes on.
But two men had remained in the

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camp.
The name of one was Eldad, and

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the name of the other me, Dad,
and the spirit rested upon them.

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Now they were among those
listed, but who had not gone out

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to the Tabernacle, yet they
prophesied in the camp.

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So Joshua the son of none.
Moses, assistant one of the

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choice men, answered and said,
My Lord Moses forbid them.

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Then Moses said to him, Are you
zealous for my sake?

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Oh that all the Lord’s people
were prophets, and the Lord

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would put his spirit upon them.
Whatever else, brothers and

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sisters, we just paused to
think, what a, what a lovely man

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of goodwill is, Moses.
What a lovely man of goodwill

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toward his fellows.
You know he’s not threatened by

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the fact that God now blesses
them, by the fact that they can

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do some wonderful thing in the
name of the Lord.

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He’s not threatened by that.
He is a man of goodwill toward

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his fellows and and Moses prayer
is that the Lord would bless his

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people, that all were prophets,
all were prophets, and that the

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Lord would have put his spirit
upon them.

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The prayer of Moses will not go
unanswered, but it was not yet

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the time for all God’s people to
be prophets and we say why?

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Well just keep in mind this is a
stiff necked people.

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We’ll return to that theme
later.

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This is a stiff necked people,
and they grieve the Holy Spirit

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that worked amongst them, as
Isaiah 63 will tell us, and

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we’ll come back to that.
But right now we’re just looking

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for the concept of Holy Spirit
baptism in the Old Testament,

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and we come to Isaiah 44.
Yet here now, old Jacob, my

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servant, and Israel, whom I’ve
chosen.

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Thus says the Lord who made you,
informed you from the womb, who

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will help you.
Fear not, oh Jacob, my servant.

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And you, Gesherin, whom I’ve
chosen for I will pour water on

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him.
Who’s thirsty, living water,

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Brothers and sisters, I will
pour water on him who is thirsty

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and floods on the dry ground.
I will pour my spirit on your

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descendants and my blessing on
your offspring.

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When, when still Isaiah 44
single heavens.

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For the Lord has done it, shout
you lower parts of the earth,

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break forth into singing you
mountains or forests and every

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tree in it.
For the Lord has redeemed a

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Jacob and glorified himself in
Israel, in Israel.

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Isaiah 59 As for me, says the
Lord, this is my covenant with

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them, my spirit that is upon
you.

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And my words, which I have put
in your mouth, shall not depart

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from your mouth.
Incredible Brothers and sisters,

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no more trivial talk.
No more chatter coming from the

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mouths of these people.
And I don’t say this to to be be

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meaning, demeaning brothers and
sisters.

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I don’t say it that way, But we
think of how trivial can be the

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words of our mouths.
My words which I have put in

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your mouth shall not depart from
your mouth, nor from the mouth

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of your descendants, nor from
the mouth of your descendants to

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descendants.
Says the Lord from this time

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forevermore.
Oh, that all the Lord’s people

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were prophets.
Moses was a man of vision, and

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that vision resurfaces here.
It’ll resurface in Joel.

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It’ll resurface in a in a
limited way on the day of

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Pentecost.
It will yet resurface when all

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of God’s people are prophets and
he’s poured his spirit upon

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them.
When the Redeemer will come to

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Zion, this chapter ends.
And to those who turn from

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transgression.
And Jacob says the Lord, And it

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goes on to say, Arise, shine,
For your light has come, and the

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glory of the Lord is risen upon
you, is risen upon you.

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And we were taken earlier this
week to Matthew 13 verse 43.

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Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the Son in the Kingdom

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of the Father.
The glory of the Lord is risen

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upon you.
For behold the darkness you’ll

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cover the earth, and deep
darkness the people.

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But the Lord will arise over
you, and his glory will be seen

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upon you.
Ezekiel 36 I will put my spirit

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within you, and cause you to
walk in my statutes, and you

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will keep my judgments and do
them when For I will take you

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from among the nations, gather
you out of all countries, and

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bring it to your own land.
And we’re going to expand on

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that concept in in a bit.
Brothers and sisters, Then you

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shall dwell in the land that I
give to your fathers.

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You shall be my people, and I
will be your God, which is a

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refrain that repeats itself
again and again through the

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prophets at last.
At last they are his people, and

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at last the one who reigns in
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And these people are saved.
Joel too.

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It shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out my spirit

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on all flesh.
Your sons and your daughter

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shall prophecy, oh, that all go.
The Lord’s people were prophets.

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Your old men shall dream dreams.
Your young men shall see

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visions.
And also on my men’s servants,

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and on my maid servants.
I will pour out my spirit in

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those days, and it shall come to
pass.

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That whoever calls on the name
of the Lord shall be saved.

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For in Mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem there shall be

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deliverance, as the Lord has
said, among the remnant whom the

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Lord calls When when, and this
is bracketed in Joel, then the

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Lord will be zealous for his
land, and pity his people.

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For behold, in those days at
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When I bring the captives of
Judah and Jerusalem, when I

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bring them back, and we’ll
return to that theme of being

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brought back momentarily, God’s
spirit will be poured out on all

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flesh.
When Israel is restored to God

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and the land, they’re restored
to the land in some respects at

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this time, brothers and sisters,
but not to God.

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God’s spirit will be poured out
in all flesh when Israel is

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restored to God in the land.
These great events of Old

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Testament prophecy go together.
The restoration of Israel and

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the outpouring of God’s spirit
on His people.

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They go together, and this is
the background.

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It’s the backbone of Acts
chapter One.

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Thus the Old Testament prophets
spoke eloquently of the day when

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the Redeemer would come to Zion.
God would restore His people,

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Israel, and pour out His spirit
on them.

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They would henceforth walk in
His laws, speak His words, and

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be His people.
He would be their God.

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Please grasp these points, The
Redeemer.

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Israel’s restoration and Holy
Spirit baptism go together in

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the saving message of the Old
Testament prophets.

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Enter Acts One.
It’s against this Old Testament

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theme and and Luke, if you
haven’t really delved into this.

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Luke may have been a gentile
brothers and sisters, but his

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treatment of the Old Testament
is unbelievably magnificent.

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He builds Acts One, Acts 2, Acts
3 on the very themes we’ve just

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seen.
His use of Old Testament

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languages is incredible, and
it’s against this Old Testament

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theme of Israel’s salvation that
Luke wrote the first few

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chapters of the Book of Acts.
And thus, brothers and sisters,

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it’s in keeping with the purpose
of God, with Israel, that the

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Great Commission began amongst
the Jews of Jerusalem on the day

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of Pentecost, and in the days,
and the weeks and the months,

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and even the years, immediately
following Acts 1 To his

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apostles, they are the
antecedent.

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They are Luke’s focus.
At least as far as the work of

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the Lord Jesus Christ is
concerned, through men the

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Apostles are the focus.
He also presented to them

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himself alive.
After his suffering by many

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infallible proofs, being seen by
them during 40 days, and

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Speaking of the things
pertaining to the Kingdom of

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God, he opened their
understanding of the Scriptures,

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we’re told from Luke 24.
Israel’s redemption, Israel’s

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redemption.
But then it goes on, and we

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sometimes leapfrog over these
verses to get to the question of

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the apostles.
Lord, will you at this time

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restore the Kingdom to Israel,
having seen from the earlier

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verses that he had spoken to
them for 40 days concerning the

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Kingdom of God?
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as well-being assembled together
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And now again the focus remains
on the 12 For the moment he

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commanded them not to depart
from Jerusalem, but to wait for

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the promise of the Father.
And that promise he’d been

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talking to them about.
That promise goes back to Isaiah

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44 or Isaiah 59, or Ezekiel 36,
or Joel to or even all the way

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back to the words of Moses.
Would God that all the Lord’s

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people were prophets, and that
he would put his spirit upon

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them, but wait for the promise
of the Father, which he said,

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You’ve heard from me?
Perhaps we’ve just got a little

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idea here of some of the Old
Testament background that he

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opened their understanding of.
For John truly baptized with

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water, but usually baptized with
the Holy Spirit Not many days

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from now.
These words are intimately

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related to the things he has
been saying to them about the

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Kingdom of God, Israel’s
redemption.

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Spirit poured out.
You and I are apostles, and we

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look at each other.
We say this is it.

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This is it.
Or is it?

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Imagine this.
Brothers, sisters, you and I are

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Jewish apostles of Jesus.
Jesus, the Messiah, the Redeemer

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of Israel, is alive from the
dead, alive eternally.

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He’s just taught us well
concerning the Kingdom of God.

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We’re well versed in the Old
Testament hope of Israel.

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God will restore His people and
put His Spirit in them.

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Stay in Jerusalem, and you will
receive the promise of the

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Father of which I’ve spoken to
you.

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He now tells us to remain in
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We will be baptized with the
Holy Spirit not many days from

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now.
What’s the question?

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That’s obvious, therefore.
They get the sense as you read

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this, brothers and sisters, that
as they listen to Jesus and they

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heard these things coming
together.

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And he said, now you remain not
many days from now you’ll be

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baptized with the Holy Spirit.
And they’re putting this

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together against the Old
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And they go home and that they
with each other and they talk

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about it and they come back with
Jesus when they come together.

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They asked him, saying, Lord,
will you at this time restore

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the Kingdom to Israel?
Holy Spirit, baptism and the

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restoration of the Kingdom to
Israel go together.

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It went together in the Old
Testament prophets.

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It goes together in Acts, and it
goes together in the minds of

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the apostles, and it goes
together in Acts chapter One.

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When when will you at this time
restore the Kingdom to Israel?

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You know the answer.
It’s not for you to know.

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Rasp, the impact of that
Pentecost is not the fulfillment

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of the promise.
It is not for you to know when

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it is a fulfillment of the
promise.

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It is a fulfillment of the
promise.

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In a token sense for 12 it is
not the fulfillment of the

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promise, the Kingdom, the Spirit
of God and all his people.

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No, not yet, not yet.
Stop the presses.

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And the presses have been
running for generations, and

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hundreds of books have been
published on Pentecost and

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millions of words have been
printed.

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And a tremendous theological.
Super theological, yes,

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theoretical too.
Theological superstructure has

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been built on that.
And Jesus is saying no, this is

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not the time.
It’s interesting, brothers and

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sisters and go back through the
pages of the Chris Adelphian

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magazine to the 19th century and
there was a great debate that

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was very often the theme of a
Sunday evening lecture.

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Amongst our brethren in in
Britain was Pentecost, the

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establishment of the Kingdom of
God and the the general Orthodox

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position was yes, it was
Pentecost was the establishment

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of the Kingdom of God on earth.
And that Kingdom is the church

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and Christ began his reign on
the heavenly throne of David,

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etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
And our brethren in the 19th

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century constantly were refuting
that idea.

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And well, they ought to have,
because it wasn’t yet.

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Stop those presses.
All Holy Spirit, baptisms and

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New Testament times, beginning
with the day of Pentecost, must

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now be understood as incipient
events.

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Is this the Time Lord?
No, it isn’t.

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You’re going to be baptized not
many days hence.

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And so they were.
And so that grand token, that

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empowering token, that that
moved explosively, started the

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the, the, the Great Commission
in Jerusalem, brothers and

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sisters.
But that was not it.

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It simply was not it.
All Holy Spirit baptisms and New

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Testament times must now be
understood as incipient events.

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The final great baptism of the
Holy Spirit that Messiah will

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administer in the name of God
remains for the end times,

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restoration of Israel and the
establishment of the Kingdom of

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God on earth.
And that was not the day of

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Pentecost, though Orthodox
theology may have emphasized

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that a great deal more perhaps
than even now, at the end of the

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19th century, these times and
seasons, the Father holds in his

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own power, and we know where
Jesus is, is taking us.

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He’s taking us back to Daniel
Chapter 2, and the passages are

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printed there in your notes for
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And we know what Daniel Two is
about.

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And we know something about when
the Kingdom will be established.

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In the days of the feet of of
mixed myrie, clay and iron.

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In the days of these kings, the
God of heaven shall set up a

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Kingdom which shall never be
destroyed.

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It shall not be left to other
people, but it shall break and

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consume all these kingdoms, and
it shall stand forever.

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That’s when this will be.
And these are the times and the

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seasons which the fathers put in
his own power.

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So, brothers and sisters, what
had to come first?

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Here’s the structure of acts
again.

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What had to come first?
What has to come first?

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What is the fundamental Old
Testament principle on which the

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restoration of Israel is
predicated?

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The answer is again written
large across the pages of the

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Old Testament Has to be These
things may not have been

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comprehended by the Jews, but
they were not incomprehensible,

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and they were not
incomprehensible from their

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Scriptures.
The answer is repentance.

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Enter Acts 2.
Enter Acts three.

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We go back first to Deuteronomy
30.

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Now it shall come to pass when
all these things come upon you,

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the blessing and the curse which
I have set before you, and you

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call them to mind.
And that’s, that’s a vitally

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important word for the sisters.
And every time you see it

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highlighted, it’s the same
Hebrew word, and it carries the

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idea of turning, of returning.
It carries the spiritual

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significance of repentance when
it applies to men, and in a

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sense, repentance when it
applies to God.

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Because he will turn again to
you if you will turn to Him.

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There’s the burden of the day of
Pentecost, isn’t it?

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If you bring these things to
your mind that I’ve set before

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you, if you call them to mind
among all the nations where the

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Lord your God drives you, and
you return same word to the Lord

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your God and obey His voice,
repentance, all these things.

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I can only but say, brothers and
sisters, let’s take our minds

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back to the penultimate things
that brother Brother Nigel was

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saying about the significance of
the law of Moses and the impact

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it ought to have had upon the
hearts of the Jewish people.

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And that’s what this I think is
about.

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And repentance is at the very
heart of it, literally and

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figuratively.
The Lord your God will bring you

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back.
He’ll restore you from captivity

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and have compassion on you, and
gather you again from all the

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nations where the Lord your God
has scattered you.

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Restoration Restore your heart
to God.

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He’ll restore you.
Deuteronomy 30 For the Lord will

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again rejoice over you.
He will turn to rejoicing again

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as he rejoiced over your
Father’s.

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If you obey the voice of the
Lord your God to keep His

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commandments and His statutes,
which are written in this book

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of the Law, if you turn to the
Lord your God with all your

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heart and with all your soul
restoration, if repentance,

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Lord, will you at this time
restore the Kingdom to Israel?

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No, there’s a key ingredient
missing.

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But God will again rejoice over
you if you restore your heart to

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Him first.
Kings, eight brothers and

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sisters.
These are as as you can well

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appreciate, these are not
obscure places in the Old

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Testament.
In Deuteronomy chapter 30,

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they’re on the verge of going
into the land to become, as it

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were, the Kingdom of God.
In First Kings Eight.

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We now have the dedication of
the temple, in which, at least

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in symbol, God is making a
further commitment to dwell with

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men on earth.
These are not obscure contexts.

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When your people Israel, are
defeated before an enemy because

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they have sinned against you.
When they turn back.

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Same word.
When they turn back to you and

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confess your name and pray and
make supplication, acts One

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verse 14 they continued in one
accord in prayer and

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supplication.
Same Greek words here as in the

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as in the acceptuagent, as in
the as in the Book of Acts, when

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they turn back to you and
confess your name and pray and

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make supplication to you in this
temple.

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Do we want to know where the day
of Pentecost took place?

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From A-Z in this temple?
Granted, it’s not the same

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physical building as perhaps in
the days of Solomon, but there

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is the right place.
That’s as places, as close as

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they’re going to come, as it
were, to the presence of God, as

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they are in prayer and
supplication.

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In this house where they are
sitting.

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Acts too.
This is where it is, when they

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turn back to you and confess
your name and pray and make

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supplication to you in this
temple, then here in heaven and

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forgive the sin of your people
Israel, and bring them back same

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same word again to the land
which you gave to their fathers.

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Restoration when repentance.
When Israel turns back to God,

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he will bring them back to him.
Isaiah 44 again.

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I have blotted out like a thick
cloud your transgressions, and

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like a cloud your sins return to
me, for I’ve redeemed you.

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There is the appeal of the
glorified Lord Jesus Christ

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through 12 simple men on the day
of Pentecost.

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And that appeal of Jesus through
their lips is returned to me.

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And it’s it’s it’s it’s God
speaking by Jesus through his

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apostles.
Return to me, for I’ve redeemed

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you.
I’ve redeemed you.

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Isaiah 59 Again, our
transgressions are multiplied

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before you, and our sins testify
against us, for our

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transgressions are with us.
Here’s ownership and our

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iniquities.
We know them.

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We know them.
Ezekiel. 36 Again.

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Then you will remember your evil
ways and your deeds that were

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not good, and you will loathe
yourselves in your own sight for

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your iniquities and your
abominations.

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Joel.
Two again.

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00:29:43,840 –> 00:29:46,200
Now therefore, says the Lord,
Turn.

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00:29:46,200 –> 00:29:48,960
There it is again.
Restore to me with all your

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00:29:48,960 –> 00:29:54,380
heart, with fasting, with
weeping, with mourning, and rend

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00:29:54,620 –> 00:29:58,820
your heart and not your
garments.

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00:30:00,340 –> 00:30:04,940
Restore to me.
Restore to the Lord, your God,

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00:30:06,940 –> 00:30:09,500
repentance, and the blotting out
of sins.

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00:30:09,500 –> 00:30:12,300
And just remember that little
phrase from Isaiah 44.

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00:30:12,540 –> 00:30:16,260
I’ve blotted out your sins or
your transgressions like a

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00:30:16,260 –> 00:30:17,940
cloud.
Like a thick cloud.

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00:30:18,440 –> 00:30:20,520
The repentance and the blotting
out of sins are the

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00:30:20,520 –> 00:30:25,760
prerequisites of Israel’s
restoration and Holy Spirit

446
00:30:25,760 –> 00:30:29,840
baptism in the grander scheme of
things.

447
00:30:30,560 –> 00:30:32,760
And so we come back to Acts two
and Three.

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00:30:32,920 –> 00:30:37,320
This is surely what Luke is
building on as he now unfolds

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00:30:37,320 –> 00:30:39,600
this story.
But it isn’t just Luke building

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00:30:39,600 –> 00:30:41,720
on it.
This is the story that’s being

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00:30:41,760 –> 00:30:46,280
orchestrated from heaven.
No wonder it fits the Old

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00:30:46,280 –> 00:30:49,160
Testament so well.
This is the story that’s being

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00:30:49,160 –> 00:30:54,040
orchestrated by God Almighty
through the Lord Jesus Christ at

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00:30:54,040 –> 00:31:01,840
his right hand, and so acts too,
therefore, that all the House of

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00:31:01,840 –> 00:31:06,320
Israel know assuredly that God
has made this Jesus whom you

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00:31:06,320 –> 00:31:13,000
crucified both Lord and Christ.
Now when they heard this, they

457
00:31:13,000 –> 00:31:16,830
were cut to the heart, and they
said to Peter and the rest of

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00:31:16,830 –> 00:31:19,630
the apostles, men and brethren,
what shall we do?

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00:31:20,470 –> 00:31:25,510
They were cut to the heart.
I can’t say it well enough.

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00:31:27,070 –> 00:31:33,390
The Lord Jesus has starting with
the tongues which were totally

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00:31:33,390 –> 00:31:39,430
comprehensible to the Jews,
Starting with the tongues and

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00:31:39,430 –> 00:31:45,940
going on to Peter’s exhortation.
The Lord Jesus has been

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00:31:45,940 –> 00:31:54,060
appealing to these people to
turn back, and he has succeeded.

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00:31:55,580 –> 00:32:01,220
They were cut to the heart.
Rend your heart and not your

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00:32:01,220 –> 00:32:09,660
garments, What shall we do?
And now Acts 2 and Acts 3.

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00:32:10,940 –> 00:32:15,110
As if the witness of Acts 2 is
not enough, Luke will repeat

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00:32:15,110 –> 00:32:19,110
Peter’s message again in Acts 3.
And I just want you to see the

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00:32:19,110 –> 00:32:22,110
exact parallels, brothers and
sisters, between the message and

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00:32:22,110 –> 00:32:25,150
Acts 2 and the and the message
that’s repeated in Acts 3.

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00:32:25,430 –> 00:32:28,230
From the the healing of the lame
man at the beautiful gate of the

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00:32:28,230 –> 00:32:32,790
temple on through Acts chapter 4
to to verse 31, brothers is

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00:32:32,790 –> 00:32:35,630
we’ve got a replication of
Pentecost.

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Then Peter said to them repent
and let every one of you be

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00:32:42,510 –> 00:32:45,110
baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ.

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00:32:45,270 –> 00:32:50,230
Acts 3 repent and be converted
and in the Greek New Testament

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00:32:50,310 –> 00:32:54,670
that’s the same word that’s used
for return restore in the Old

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00:32:54,670 –> 00:32:58,710
Testament.
And the parallelism says that

478
00:32:58,710 –> 00:33:02,310
conversion and baptism are are
are inseparable in their own

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00:33:02,310 –> 00:33:06,480
right.
It is part of our repentant

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00:33:06,480 –> 00:33:11,200
response to God that we want our
sins washed away.

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00:33:12,320 –> 00:33:16,040
And this is the means whereby
God in in just such a simple

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00:33:16,040 –> 00:33:20,200
way, has provided for us to
express that faith obediently.

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00:33:21,640 –> 00:33:29,200
Repentance and restoration to
God for the remission of sins.

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00:33:30,400 –> 00:33:37,780
For the remission of sins.
Acts 3 Isaiah 44 That your sins

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00:33:37,780 –> 00:33:40,220
may be blotted out.
I’ve blotted out your

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00:33:40,220 –> 00:33:42,420
transgressions like a thick
cloud.

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00:33:43,180 –> 00:33:46,340
There’s the Isaiah language
being picked up again, and the

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00:33:46,340 –> 00:33:49,060
Jews would have heard it.
They would have recognized it

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00:33:49,500 –> 00:33:58,540
that your sins may be blotted
out forgiveness of sins and you

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00:33:58,540 –> 00:34:00,700
shall receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit.

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00:34:00,900 –> 00:34:06,710
There’s when it’s finally going
to be Is this the time to

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00:34:06,710 –> 00:34:07,750
restore the Kingdom?
No.

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00:34:07,870 –> 00:34:15,230
This is the time, and it’s the
times of refreshing that will

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00:34:15,230 –> 00:34:16,670
come from the presence of the
Lord.

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00:34:16,870 –> 00:34:20,030
And here’s the parallel that
Luke gives at Acts 3 compared

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00:34:20,030 –> 00:34:23,469
with this part of Acts two.
We mustn’t miss those

497
00:34:23,469 –> 00:34:27,260
connections, the time when they
will receive the gift of the

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00:34:27,260 –> 00:34:29,940
Holy Spirit.
Ultimately, whatever tokens

499
00:34:29,940 –> 00:34:32,699
might have been received in the
New Testament times are the

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00:34:32,699 –> 00:34:36,580
times that refreshing will come
from the presence of the Lord.

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00:34:37,020 –> 00:34:42,260
In fact, they must repent, so
that the times of refreshing may

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00:34:42,260 –> 00:34:45,139
come from the presence of the
Lord, that He may send Jesus

503
00:34:45,139 –> 00:34:48,940
Christ, who was preached to you
before whom heaven must receive

504
00:34:49,139 –> 00:34:55,650
until the times of restoration
of all things which God has

505
00:34:55,650 –> 00:35:00,370
spoken by the mouth of all His
holy prophets since the world

506
00:35:00,370 –> 00:35:04,050
began.
This would not be lost on the

507
00:35:04,050 –> 00:35:09,730
Jews.
Holy Spirit baptism and

508
00:35:09,730 –> 00:35:13,170
restoration go together.
They go together.

509
00:35:13,170 –> 00:35:17,130
And what does it mean then to
the Jewish mind?

510
00:35:17,130 –> 00:35:19,570
And we just juxtapose a few
passages.

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00:35:20,010 –> 00:35:23,140
You should receive the gift of
the Holy Spirit, times of

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00:35:23,140 –> 00:35:26,420
refreshing from the presence of
the Lord, the times of the

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00:35:26,420 –> 00:35:30,820
restoration of all things.
I will put my spirit within you.

514
00:35:33,100 –> 00:35:38,260
Ultimately, all of the overt
Holy Spirit activity of the New

515
00:35:38,260 –> 00:35:42,540
Testament has ultimately got to
come to dwell within the hearts

516
00:35:42,540 –> 00:35:45,660
of those who receive that
ministration.

517
00:35:45,900 –> 00:35:50,140
I will put my spirit within you.
Then you shall dwell in the land

518
00:35:50,140 –> 00:35:54,730
that I gave your Father’s, You
shall be my people, and I will

519
00:35:54,730 –> 00:35:58,690
be your God.
And there is Israel’s salvation.

520
00:36:02,850 –> 00:36:06,570
The gift of the Holy Spirit and
the restoration of all things

521
00:36:06,770 –> 00:36:10,570
went inseparably together, not
just in the Old Testament, but

522
00:36:10,570 –> 00:36:13,490
in Peter’s preaching to the Jews
of Jerusalem.

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00:36:13,890 –> 00:36:16,650
And that’s the grander structure
of these early chapters of the

524
00:36:16,650 –> 00:36:19,620
Book of Acts.
This is what the prophets had

525
00:36:19,620 –> 00:36:22,860
been saying, at least from the
beginning of Israel’s history

526
00:36:23,020 –> 00:36:26,820
all that all the Lord’s people
were prophets, and that the Lord

527
00:36:26,820 –> 00:36:34,780
would put his spirit upon them.
The restoration of the hearts of

528
00:36:34,780 –> 00:36:37,780
the Jewish people began on the
day of Pentecost.

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00:36:38,780 –> 00:36:41,860
The restoration of the Kingdom
to Israel is still to come.

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00:36:42,670 –> 00:36:46,830
The restoration of the heart was
and is manifested in the baptism

531
00:36:46,830 –> 00:36:49,670
of repentance for the
forgiveness of sins.

532
00:36:49,830 –> 00:36:53,670
The restoration of all things at
the coming of Jesus Christ will

533
00:36:53,670 –> 00:36:56,350
bring the baptism of Holy
Spirit.

534
00:36:56,750 –> 00:37:06,270
The two baptisms are inseparable
repentance unto life.

535
00:37:11,550 –> 00:37:16,590
There can be no human salvation
without repentance and the

536
00:37:16,590 –> 00:37:20,270
forgiveness of sins.
Water baptism.

537
00:37:21,710 –> 00:37:26,670
That’s the divinely ordained way
that we publicly confess this

538
00:37:28,480 –> 00:37:32,320
There can be no human salvation
without the full restoration of

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00:37:32,320 –> 00:37:34,360
life.
This is where we said yesterday

540
00:37:34,480 –> 00:37:37,960
that Orthodoxy simply cannot
appreciate our need for eternal

541
00:37:37,960 –> 00:37:41,520
life because of its doctrine of
inherent immortality.

542
00:37:42,680 –> 00:37:45,840
There can be no human salvation
without the full restoration of

543
00:37:45,840 –> 00:37:49,200
life, the life of God and man.
And here’s where Holy Spirit

544
00:37:49,200 –> 00:37:54,140
baptism plays its role.
The Old Testament principles of

545
00:37:54,140 –> 00:37:59,820
salvation, repentance, and
restoration were understood and

546
00:37:59,820 –> 00:38:02,660
consistently applied in New
Testament times.

547
00:38:02,980 –> 00:38:07,100
Water baptism and Holy Spirit
baptism were and remain

548
00:38:07,300 –> 00:38:10,100
inseparable in the saving
purpose of God.

549
00:38:11,020 –> 00:38:15,620
And so John the Baptist and I
just want to survey quickly the

550
00:38:15,620 –> 00:38:19,540
New Testament references you’ll
find again and again and again

551
00:38:19,540 –> 00:38:21,460
and again.
They’re both there.

552
00:38:24,470 –> 00:38:27,910
I indeed baptize you with water.
He will baptize you with the

553
00:38:27,910 –> 00:38:31,830
Holy Spirit and fire.
I indeed baptize you with water.

554
00:38:32,110 –> 00:38:33,830
He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit.

555
00:38:34,950 –> 00:38:37,710
I indeed baptize you with water.
He will baptize you with the

556
00:38:37,710 –> 00:38:40,510
Holy Spirit and fire.
Let me just stop there.

557
00:38:40,510 –> 00:38:43,950
Brothers and sisters, we talk or
wait.

558
00:38:43,950 –> 00:38:45,070
Well, we don’t.
Well, we do.

559
00:38:45,070 –> 00:38:48,950
Yes, we do.
But so do people like Benjamin

560
00:38:49,110 –> 00:38:55,850
Warfield of orthodox fame and
say that the apostles received

561
00:38:56,010 –> 00:38:58,330
the power of the Holy Spirit and
could pass it on.

562
00:39:04,760 –> 00:39:08,400
John is saying there’s only one
that baptizes with the Holy

563
00:39:08,400 –> 00:39:13,680
Spirit.
John couldn’t do it.

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00:39:15,000 –> 00:39:20,280
When we administer baptism to
our friends and our children, we

565
00:39:20,280 –> 00:39:25,380
cannot do it.
There’s only one no mortal

566
00:39:25,380 –> 00:39:29,980
follower of the Lord Jesus
Christ can give the tokens of

567
00:39:29,980 –> 00:39:34,660
eternal life, even now, in this
age, to other mortal men.

568
00:39:35,580 –> 00:39:39,300
The Savior is the one who does
this, and that’s what the New

569
00:39:39,300 –> 00:39:43,260
Testament is telling us.
It’s the Savior.

570
00:39:43,380 –> 00:39:46,100
So when Peter and John go down
to Samaria, they don’t give the

571
00:39:46,100 –> 00:39:48,900
Holy Spirit.
In fact, you’ll remember they’re

572
00:39:48,900 –> 00:39:50,940
praying that the Holy Spirit may
come.

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00:39:51,490 –> 00:39:53,290
That doesn’t sound like the
words of, well, we’ve got to get

574
00:39:53,290 –> 00:39:54,890
down to Samaria and give them
some Holy Spirit.

575
00:39:56,610 –> 00:39:58,210
And how does the Holy Spirit
come?

576
00:39:58,690 –> 00:40:04,050
It fell on them.
Now, you know, I’m kind of a

577
00:40:04,050 –> 00:40:08,210
stupid physics teacher, and to
me, that means this way, not

578
00:40:08,610 –> 00:40:10,970
that way.
All right?

579
00:40:11,890 –> 00:40:13,490
They prayed, brothers and
sisters.

580
00:40:13,490 –> 00:40:17,680
They knew their role.
They were the feet and the hands

581
00:40:17,720 –> 00:40:20,720
and the mouth of Jesus.
They were the ones whom he had

582
00:40:20,720 –> 00:40:22,760
commissioned.
They were his apostles.

583
00:40:22,840 –> 00:40:24,600
And there are other lessons to
learn here.

584
00:40:24,720 –> 00:40:28,520
They come down from Jerusalem
because, brothers and sisters,

585
00:40:28,520 –> 00:40:31,320
there’s not going to be the
first Church of Christ at

586
00:40:31,320 –> 00:40:35,970
Jerusalem and the first Church
of Christ in Samaria and the

587
00:40:35,970 –> 00:40:38,250
first Church of Christ in
Caesarea.

588
00:40:38,490 –> 00:40:40,890
And we’ve got multiple
denominations going on here.

589
00:40:41,170 –> 00:40:45,290
These Samaritans are going to be
at one with the Ecclesia in

590
00:40:45,290 –> 00:40:47,690
Jerusalem.
The Jews, the Jews had no

591
00:40:47,690 –> 00:40:52,850
dealings with the Samaritans.
They do now, and the apostles

592
00:40:52,850 –> 00:40:55,330
are the means whereby that’s
made clear to us.

593
00:40:55,530 –> 00:40:58,250
And after they left there, they
preached through the villages of

594
00:40:58,250 –> 00:41:00,690
Samaria, and the Great
Commission is going forth

595
00:41:00,690 –> 00:41:03,960
through them.
But all of that result is part

596
00:41:03,960 –> 00:41:05,840
and parse makes them one
ecclesia.

597
00:41:05,920 –> 00:41:07,880
That’s why the apostles are
involved.

598
00:41:08,920 –> 00:41:11,760
Let’s jettison Benjamin
Warfield’s ideas here, Brothers

599
00:41:11,760 –> 00:41:15,400
and sisters, no mortal follower
of Jesus gives the tokens of

600
00:41:15,400 –> 00:41:17,440
eternal life to another mortal
follower.

601
00:41:18,720 –> 00:41:21,160
That is the Lord’s province to
do.

602
00:41:21,760 –> 00:41:24,720
He gives the Holy Spirit.
John says I can’t do it.

603
00:41:25,160 –> 00:41:29,440
He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit, and so through the

604
00:41:29,440 –> 00:41:32,750
hands of his designated
apostles.

605
00:41:32,870 –> 00:41:37,390
It is Jesus who brings the Holy
Spirit upon the Samaritans and

606
00:41:37,390 –> 00:41:39,550
says to us, this is not a
Pentecost of the Samaritans.

607
00:41:39,750 –> 00:41:43,830
This is the proof that these
Samaritans are on an equal

608
00:41:43,830 –> 00:41:46,670
footing with the Jews of
Jerusalem as the heirs of

609
00:41:46,670 –> 00:41:51,430
eternal life to be given by the
glorified Lord Jesus Christ.

610
00:41:51,790 –> 00:41:55,590
That to me is what it’s saying.
I indeed baptize you with water.

611
00:41:55,950 –> 00:41:58,190
He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit.

612
00:41:59,310 –> 00:42:01,350
He who sent me to baptize with
water.

613
00:42:02,550 –> 00:42:05,710
This is he who baptizes with the
Holy Spirit.

614
00:42:07,310 –> 00:42:10,670
John Baptist made it clear that
water baptism and Holy Spirit

615
00:42:10,670 –> 00:42:13,550
baptism fully.
God ordained and fully

616
00:42:13,550 –> 00:42:17,750
complimentary, and I have no
qualms about John’s baptism.

617
00:42:17,750 –> 00:42:23,750
It was absolutely valid, and it
was still a valid baptism on the

618
00:42:23,750 –> 00:42:28,570
day of Pentecost.
John did not teach that Holy

619
00:42:28,570 –> 00:42:32,090
Spirit baptism would replace
water baptism, but rather that

620
00:42:32,090 –> 00:42:34,490
the coming might.
Here one Jesus would administer

621
00:42:34,490 –> 00:42:38,250
the Holy Spirit baptism that
neither John nor the Apostles,

622
00:42:38,250 –> 00:42:42,490
nor you, nor I, nor any other
evangelical, can give to men.

623
00:42:47,690 –> 00:42:55,370
The apostles repent and be
baptized and receive the gift of

624
00:42:55,370 –> 00:43:00,970
the Holy Spirit following the
preaching of Philip.

625
00:43:00,970 –> 00:43:03,410
When they believed the things
concerning the Kingdom of God in

626
00:43:03,410 –> 00:43:05,890
the name of Jesus Christ.
They were baptized, both men and

627
00:43:05,890 –> 00:43:09,130
women, but they’d only been
baptized in the name of the Lord

628
00:43:09,210 –> 00:43:11,810
Jesus.
Then they laid hands on them and

629
00:43:11,810 –> 00:43:14,370
they received the Holy Spirit
from heaven.

630
00:43:14,970 –> 00:43:20,850
It fell on them and it doesn’t,
telling us that somehow the

631
00:43:20,850 –> 00:43:23,570
baptism in water was inadequate.
It’s telling us that the

632
00:43:23,570 –> 00:43:26,770
paradigms not complete yet.
It’s not complete yet.

633
00:43:27,370 –> 00:43:30,370
They’ve done this part, and now
heaven does its part.

634
00:43:31,530 –> 00:43:34,730
Baptized in the name of Jesus,
and they received the Holy

635
00:43:34,730 –> 00:43:38,490
Spirit.
The conversion of Saul and Anaya

636
00:43:38,490 –> 00:43:42,170
says be filled with the Holy
Spirit, and he arose and was

637
00:43:42,170 –> 00:43:44,610
baptized.
And now it almost looks to us,

638
00:43:44,610 –> 00:43:46,930
we can’t be sure that the
order’s reversed here.

639
00:43:47,930 –> 00:43:51,690
Maybe it’s that maybe there was
this baptismal gift that was

640
00:43:51,690 –> 00:43:55,400
given to to to Saul.
And in response to that, Hannah

641
00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:58,960
and I says, why Terrius, Thou
arise and be baptized and wash

642
00:43:58,960 –> 00:44:00,960
away your sins, calling on the
name of the Lord.

643
00:44:01,280 –> 00:44:03,960
They had to go together.
And the order isn’t necessarily

644
00:44:03,960 –> 00:44:06,960
important at this point in time.
It’s the message.

645
00:44:06,960 –> 00:44:09,600
It’s the inseparableness that’s
important.

646
00:44:10,160 –> 00:44:12,520
You come to Acts 10.
We see the same thing, don’t we?

647
00:44:12,720 –> 00:44:14,600
First the Holy Spirit fell on
them.

648
00:44:14,600 –> 00:44:17,560
There’s the same language.
Peter’s hands are off here.

649
00:44:18,240 –> 00:44:20,200
Peter has nothing to do with
this.

650
00:44:20,200 –> 00:44:23,000
His hands are not on on
Cornelius as far as we can tell

651
00:44:23,000 –> 00:44:26,600
At this point in time.
He’s as amazed as anybody else

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is.
The Spirit fell upon those who

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00:44:29,520 –> 00:44:33,200
heard the word and he commanded
them to be baptized and will

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00:44:33,200 –> 00:44:37,160
perhaps see a hint in Chapter 11
later of why Peter was instantly

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00:44:37,320 –> 00:44:41,720
moved to do this.
The order is reversed here,

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isn’t it?
The order of water baptism and

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00:44:44,340 –> 00:44:46,740
Holy Spirit baptism was clearly
not as important in New

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00:44:46,740 –> 00:44:49,620
Testament times as was the
principle inseparableness.

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00:44:49,780 –> 00:44:52,300
Because the Holy Spirit baptisms
were incipient.

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00:44:52,940 –> 00:44:56,540
They’re not the ultimate
bestowal of eternal life on men.

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00:44:57,620 –> 00:45:02,500
Put another way, having scanned
John’s preaching, having scanned

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00:45:02,500 –> 00:45:05,900
the apostles experience, put
another way, one baptism cannot

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00:45:05,900 –> 00:45:10,340
happen without the other.
The alternating order also

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00:45:10,340 –> 00:45:13,530
underscores the fact that Holy
Spirit, baptisms, and New

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00:45:13,530 –> 00:45:17,290
Testament times were a token of
salvation to come and not

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00:45:17,290 –> 00:45:24,370
salvation itself.
What it meant in those days was

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00:45:25,090 –> 00:45:31,610
that God has granted to the Jews
in Jerusalem, to the Samaritans,

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00:45:31,810 –> 00:45:36,170
to the Gentiles of Caesarea,
ultimately extend the principle

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00:45:36,610 –> 00:45:40,890
God has granted to the Gentiles
repentance to life.

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00:45:42,850 –> 00:45:46,370
Paula Deposus.
They were baptized and the Holy

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00:45:46,370 –> 00:45:49,850
Spirit came upon them.
Water baptism and Holy Spirit

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00:45:49,850 –> 00:45:53,130
baptism were inseparable in the
New Testament times.

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00:45:53,490 –> 00:45:58,130
The evidence of the Gospels and
Acts is unmistakably clear, and

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00:45:58,130 –> 00:46:05,450
the clock has beaten me.
I was thinking that would happen

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00:46:06,130 –> 00:46:12,110
and my mind went to our hymn
time like an over ever rolling

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00:46:12,110 –> 00:46:20,350
stream bears All our talks away
and probably if you’re like me,

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00:46:20,350 –> 00:46:24,070
the rest is true.
They fly forgotten as a dream

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00:46:24,070 –> 00:46:26,750
dies at the break of day.
But somehow, brothers and

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00:46:26,750 –> 00:46:28,830
sisters were the better for this
exercise.

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00:46:29,110 –> 00:46:31,430
Even if we don’t remember the
details, we’re the better for

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00:46:31,430 –> 00:46:34,070
it.
The Lord Jesus was the ultimate

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00:46:34,070 –> 00:46:36,230
paradigm of water and spirit,
wasn’t he?

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00:46:37,450 –> 00:46:40,810
And you’ll just have to look at
those thoughts in the notes.

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We turn to page 13.
Fitting, I guess.

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This is today’s date, isn’t it?
213?

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00:46:51,930 –> 00:46:54,450
And we just look at the summary
together and Brother David told

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00:46:54,450 –> 00:46:57,210
me I stop at high noon, it’s now
high noon +2.

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00:46:58,090 –> 00:47:02,970
Holy Spirit baptism is at the
forefront of New Testament

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00:47:02,970 –> 00:47:04,890
teaching.
It is therefore, it’s got to be

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00:47:04,890 –> 00:47:06,690
an integral part of man’s
salvation.

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00:47:07,440 –> 00:47:10,240
Its significance is established
in the Old Testament.

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00:47:10,880 –> 00:47:14,920
The repentance of Israel, its
restoration to God in the land,

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00:47:14,920 –> 00:47:17,240
and the outpouring of God’s
Spirit on His people are

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00:47:17,280 –> 00:47:21,560
inseparable events.
They are all fundamental to the

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00:47:21,560 –> 00:47:25,720
restoration of the Kingdom to
Israel by the Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:47:25,920 –> 00:47:29,240
They are all fundamental to
Israel’s eternal salvation.

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00:47:30,920 –> 00:47:33,800
Pentecost marked only a
beginning of Israel’s

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00:47:33,800 –> 00:47:36,840
repentance.
It was characterized by a

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00:47:36,840 –> 00:47:40,040
baptism of repentance in the
name of Jesus Christ for the

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00:47:40,040 –> 00:47:43,720
remission of sins.
It carried the promise of Holy

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00:47:43,720 –> 00:47:48,160
Spirit Baptism, the gift of the
Holy Spirit, to those whose

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00:47:48,160 –> 00:47:52,960
hearts were turned, turn, turn,
turn.

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00:47:54,400 –> 00:47:56,480
God has also granted repentance
to life.

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00:47:56,480 –> 00:47:59,960
To Gentiles the necessity of
repentant baptism and Holy

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00:47:59,960 –> 00:48:02,480
Spirit.
Baptism is the same for us.

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00:48:03,460 –> 00:48:05,900
The culmination point is also
the same.

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00:48:06,660 –> 00:48:11,100
The return of Israel’s Redeemer
to Zion and the glory of God are

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00:48:11,100 –> 00:48:17,180
rising upon us and seen in us.
The Redeemer Himself.

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00:48:17,180 –> 00:48:20,140
The Lord Jesus Christ is the
living embodiment of the

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principles of human salvation.
His water baptism.

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00:48:23,460 –> 00:48:27,060
Brethren and sisters expressed
his commitment to death as a son

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00:48:27,060 –> 00:48:31,300
of Adam and the Holy Spirit
baptism that Jesus that God

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00:48:31,300 –> 00:48:34,860
immediately gave to our Lord.
Jesus expressed God’s commitment

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00:48:34,860 –> 00:48:39,620
to his eternal life as the Son
of God.

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00:48:41,420 –> 00:48:44,780
Water baptism and Holy Spirit
baptism are thus seen as

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00:48:44,820 –> 00:48:48,620
inseparable essentials of human
salvation.

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00:48:48,950 –> 00:48:52,550
This message was clear and for
with John the Baptist to all who

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00:48:52,550 –> 00:48:55,990
applied to him for baptism.
And this was the clear message

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00:48:55,990 –> 00:49:00,270
of the apostles being attested
to now by the miraculous

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00:49:00,270 –> 00:49:03,510
outpourings of the Spirit during
New Testament.