Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 253.
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This is day one of the 2007 Palm
Springs Bible School.
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This is day one of the 2007 Palm
Springs Bible School.
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Our second period teacher is
Brother Jim Harper.
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The title of his class is The
Work of the Holy Spirit in the
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New Testament.
The topic for today’s class is
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Holy Spirit baptisms and New
Testament times.
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Brother Jim.
Brothers and sisters, one of us
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needs all the Technical Support
he can get and I think you can
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figure out which one that is,
and I want to thank.
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Those who have scrambled in the
last probably 12 hours or so to
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get the projector, to get the
cords, to get all the
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connections, and as I said to
Brother and Nigel before the 1st
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class, I said I cannot imagine
the Lord getting into Peter’s
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fishing boat with a laptop and
an LCD projector.
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I simply can’t.
And what an infinitely better
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teacher and it’s great for us
for me to be here.
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We’re we’re very glad to be here
with you and we’re looking
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forward to the week together.
I just want to say a word or two
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about this study before we
launch into it.
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A few years ago, perhaps five or
six, I was given an assignment
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in the Merit and Ecclesia to do
2 Bible classes on the Holy
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Spirit And this was part of a
Bible seminar follow up program
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that we were running.
And I looked at the list of
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assignments and I looked at my
assignment and I said why me,
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you know?
And by the end of the week, you
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may be asking the same question,
but there we are.
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I can say this, that everything
I’m going to say to you this
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week, brothers and sisters, have
been born out of that
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assignment.
And Esther can attest to the
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fact that I found myself drawn
to this study over the last five
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or six years amidst other
things.
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And it has been something that
I’m sure will compel my interest
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for the rest of of my life as
that understanding grows.
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Now, if there’s any principles,
brothers and sisters, that have
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impressed themselves on me that
I I want to have very close at
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hand as we go through the
studies this week.
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There are two, and the first is
this.
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The more closely we find
ourselves drawing the lines
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between the work of the Holy
Spirit and New Testament times
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and the way God worked through
the power of His Spirit and Old
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Testament times.
Probably the closer we are going
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to be to understanding what’s
going on in the New Testament.
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All right, that’s principle
number one, with perhaps 1
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exception.
And that brings us to principle
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#2.
And I can state it very simply,
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echoing the words of John the
Baptist, he will baptize you
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with the Holy Spirit.
And that is without exception.
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That is without exception.
And those principles have far
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reaching implications, which
from time to time I may remind
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you of as we go along through
this, the week, the course of
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this week, and perhaps will lead
us into some areas that we have
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not generally viewed things
along the same lines.
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In any case, we begin today with
the Holy Spirit baptisms in New
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Testament times, and I I do
emphasize the plural there.
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And in the process, there are a
couple of questions I want to
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address.
We’ll go as as much as we can
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during this course of time, 45
minutes.
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The notes will embody more than
I’m able to present.
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And I can simply say to you, the
scriptures embody vastly more
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than I’m able to put into notes.
So I hope that puts this
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presentation and this week and
this presenter into proper
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perspective.
But one question What was the
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significance of the Day of
Pentecost?
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And a second question, how are
we to understand Holy Spirit,
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baptisms and New Testament
times?
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And I’m going to address those
as much as time will allow under
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these two headings.
First of all, Pentecost and
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Biblical perspective and the
little number that that shows up
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on the menu slide here will
refer you to the page in your
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notes where the where this part
of the presentation begins and
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you’ll be able to follow pretty
closely I think.
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The other aspect of this that I
want to get to, I hope, is
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Luke’s Holy Spirit Baptism
language, which is picked up on
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Page Six of Study One notes and
I begin here, Counterfeit
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Miracles by Benjamin B Warfield,
published in 1918, Tongues and
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Spirit Baptism.
A Biblical and Theological
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Evaluation by Anthony A Hokema,
published in 1966 Perspectives
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on Pentecost New Testament
Teaching on the Gifts of the
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Holy Spirit by Richard B Gappen
Junior, published in 1979 and
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4th Our Miracles, Our Miraculous
Gifts for Today. 4 Views.
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They include the view of Richard
B Gappen, who represents.
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The Cessationist Position of
Orthodoxy Robert L Saucy, who
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represents the fence sitters,
who isn’t sure that the gifts
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are not available but has not
necessarily experienced them
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himself.
See as Samuel Storms, who is a
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Pentecostal, and Douglas a ass,
Who is?
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We might call a Third Wave
Charismatic, or we might
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describe him as a Neo
Pentecostal.
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For those of you, in fact, this
book represents a fairly widely
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and it was published in 1996 a a
broad perspective of where
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Orthodoxy is coming from on the
subject of of Pentecost and Holy
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Spirit baptism.
When I say Orthodoxy, brothers
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and sisters, I mean basically.
And this would be true no matter
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what view they hold of the Holy
Spirit work.
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I mean basically those who
subscribe to the Nicene doctrine
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of the Godhead and those who
believe in the inherent
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immortality of man, the immortal
soul.
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All right?
And I want to just spend a
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moment or two with the Orthodox
positions on Pentecost and the
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Holy Spirit baptism, in order
that we may better perhaps
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appreciate our own ability to
look at the Scriptures and and
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ferret these things out for
ourselves.
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Looks like I’ve just shown our
products of the 20th century
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Christendom.
They represent Orthodoxy’s
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reaction to the emergency of the
Pentecostal movement in 19 O1.
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Just a quick word on that.
If you go to the Chris Adelphian
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magazine, you’ll find the term
Chris Pentecostal Revival first
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appearing in May of 19 O 8.
By 19 oh, by 1915, you see the
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term Pentecostal movement
emerging in the the literature
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of our magazine.
So all 20th century stuff,
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brothers and sisters, all right.
And so really the the last book
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I showed you, 1996, gives a
pretty good perspective of where
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Orthodoxy is coming from on
these subjects.
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But the movement began, at least
as Pentecostals would claim,
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January 1st, 1901.
Together, books of this kind
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show us how Orthodoxy attempts
to understand Pentecost and Holy
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Spirit baptism.
So just a few words about that
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in Orthodox theology, at least
in one major aspect of it.
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The Day of Pentecost stands
alongside the Incarnation, and I
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use their terminology now, all
right, stands alongside the
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Incarnation, the Crucifixion,
the Resurrection, and the
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ascension of Christ in
historical importance.
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It is viewed as the crowning act
of Christ’s redemptive work.
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But we read of an Acts too.
Is is viewed in some aspects
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some major aspects of of
Orthodoxy as the crowning
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redemptive act of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
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The Baptism and Holy Spirit that
took place on the day of
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Pentecost was an institutional
event.
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Its context was the Church.
Consequently, most Orthodox
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writers will insist that the
entire body of 120 believers was
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involved in the the baptism of
the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 versus
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1 to 4.
All right, those who had
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assembled in, presumably in in
an upper room at Jerusalem the
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day of Pentecost, categorically,
Anthony Hokema will say this.
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The day of Pentecost
categorically was the birthday
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of the Christian Church.
On the day of Pentecost, Christ
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established once for all that he
would ever work in his church by
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the power of the Holy Spirit.
And that has some frightening
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implications in some respects,
some comforting ones and others.
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All right.
In fact, one Orthodox
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cessationist writer would say
that on the day of Pentecost,
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God the Holy Spirit came into
the world, and that was as
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unrepeatable as the birth of
Christ.
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All right.
Orthodox Cessationists and and
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you’ll You’ll get the sense of
what I mean here, if if it isn’t
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already clear to you.
Orthodox cessationists assert
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that the miraculous baptism and
Holy Spirit that took place on
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the Day of Pentecost was an
unrepeatable event.
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In the cessationists view,
baptism and Holy Spirit today is
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the same as conversion.
So it’s no longer what you see
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in Acts 2 today.
It’s the same as conversion.
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It does not involve miraculous
empowerments.
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From the Cessationist point of
view, miraculous gifts were a
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phenomenon of New Testament
times only, all right.
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On the other hand, the orthodox
charismatics assert that the
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miraculous baptism and Holy
Spirit that took place on the
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day of Pentecost was a
repeatable paradigm.
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In the Charismatics view, a
believer today not only
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experiences conversion, but may
expect an empowering Holy Spirit
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baptism as well.
Miraculous gifts were intended
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for the last days, which the
charismatic movement will equate
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with the New Covenant age, which
they will equate with all church
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history.
All right.
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The thing that struck me as I
read across the literature,
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brothers and sisters, simply is
this.
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That both branches of Orthodoxy,
cessationists and Charismatics
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look for the meaning of Holy
Spirit baptism within the
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framework of Church history.
That seems to be fairly evident
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in in most of what they write
for the one, mainly the the
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sensationists.
At least since New Testament
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times, Holy Spirit baptism is
conversional.
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And subtle.
So if you’ve accepted Jesus as
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your Savior, you have had a Holy
Spirit baptism, whether you know
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it or not.
All right?
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For the other, the charismatics,
Holy Spirit baptism is extra
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conversional and it is
miraculous.
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In either case, Orthodoxy seeks
the significance of Holy Spirit
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baptism in the life of the
mortal believer here and now.
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Where do we stand?
And you know, I have to ask
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myself that because I’ve had to
ask myself that question.
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And I’ll come right to the
point.
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Brothers and sisters, you may
agree with this or not.
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I’ll spend the rest of the week
trying to convince you if you
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don’t.
And at the end of the week, you
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can make sure I get on the plane
back east.
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All right?
Orthodoxy fails to see Holy
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Spirit Baptism as the gift of
eternal life.
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Which believing men and women,
devoid of inherent immortality,
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devoid of inherent immortality,
will receive from the glorified
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Christ at his coming.
The doctrine of inherent
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immortality, the immortality of
the soul, makes it impossible in
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my estimation, having having
read across and and thought
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about what I’ve read.
The doctrine of inherited
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mortality makes it impossible
for Orthodoxy to comprehend that
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a converted believer must yet be
baptized with the Holy Spirit if
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he is to live forever in the
presence of God.
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Or put another way.
Why is it imperative?
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Why do we find the New Testament
just just, you know, riddled
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through with this concept?
Why is imperative for believing
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man or woman to be baptized with
the Holy Spirit in order to be
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saved?
An orthodoxy simply does not
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have a satisfactory answer to
this question.
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As far as I can see.
The cessationists will equate,
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as we’ve already seen, Holy
Spirit baptism with the
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believing process itself in this
day and age.
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They effectively evade the
question of why is it necessary
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for salvation by calling that
salvation.
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Have you been saved?
All right, Charismatics on the
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other hand, view Holy Spirit
baptism as extra conversional,
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but if pressed, they will grant
that the experience is not
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necessary for a believer to be
saved.
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Now, why is that the case?
Well, within the Pentecostal
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slash charismatic movement,
brothers and sisters, there are
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plenty of sincere people who
have have as much faith as
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anyone else and who have prayed
as hard as anyone else and have
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not been able to replicate the
miracles in their life.
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They’ve not been able to speak
in tongues, as many of the
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others claim to have done, to
the point where finally they
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have to be told, look, it’s all
right, you’re going to be saved
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anyway.
All right.
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They’ll grant that the
experience is not necessary for
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a believer to be saved.
Orthodoxy simply does not
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understand man’s fundamental
need for eternal life.
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Thank God for the truth,
brothers and sisters.
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Simply does not understand man’s
fundamental need of eternal
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life.
So let’s come to Pentecost.
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And by the way, Jeff, you know.
Give me the hook when the time
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comes.
I don’t.
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Is there clock around?
All right, yeah.
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Just give me the high side.
There’s a time to start and
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there’s a time to stop.
And I will as quickly as I can.
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That’s the way life works.
And I’ll.
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I’ll honor that.
All right, Let’s go to Pentecost
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itself.
Birthday of the Christian
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Church.
Brothers and sisters.
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Certainly that is an Orthodox
view, and it’s not uncommon in
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our own thinking.
Or is it something else?
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I want to go to John’s Gospel.
Brother Nigel I will he will
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plead for your help if I if I
get these points wrong and and
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you know I don’t mind being set
straight on this and we go to
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John Chapter 7 and we are in the
context of the feast of
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Tabernacles about six months
before the Lord’s crucifixion.
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And we’re told on the last day,
that great day of the feast.
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Jesus stood and cried out
saying, if anyone thirsts, let
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him come to me and drink.
He who believes in me as a
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scripture has said out of his
heart will flow rivers of living
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waters, living water.
And that of course conjures up
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our thoughts of John Chapter 4,
doesn’t it?
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Because living water speaks of
eternal life, it has a
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relationship to the concept of
eternal life.
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And there Jacob’s well.
In the meeting with the woman of
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Samaria, Jesus answered and said
to her, If you knew the gift of
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God and who it is who says to
you, give me a drink.
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You would have asked him, and he
would have given you living
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water.
And then in verse 14, whoever
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drinks of the water that I shall
give him will never thirst.
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But the water that I shall give
him will become in him a
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fountain of water, springing up
into everlasting life.
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So we see the connections there,
and we come back to John 7 The
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end of verse 38, Living Water.
What does it mean?
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Well, John goes on to explain to
us in verse 39 this he spake.
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This Jesus spake concerning the
Spirit which.
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New King James, of course, as
you know, has a Trinitarian
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agenda, brothers and sisters,
and personalizes the pronouns I
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like it in many respects, but
that’s one area where where it
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lacks.
We will find another versions
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which the impersonalized pronoun
this he spoke concerning the
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Spirit which those believing in
him would receive.
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For the Holy Spirit was not yet
given because Jesus was not yet
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glorified.
So whatever else we make of this
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Holy Spirit baptism, the giving
of eternal life to those who
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believe in Jesus would depend on
the glorification of Jesus
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himself by the Father.
All of that makes sense to us.
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Our salvation at the hands of
Jesus depends categorically on
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his salvation by his Father.
And I ask this, did the Apostle
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John, as he wrote these things
to say nothing of Jesus as he
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spoke?
These have only the day of
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Pentecost in mind, keeping in
mind, brothers and sisters, that
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John wrote this after the days
of Pentecost, after the day of
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Pentecost.
And you go back, and you look at
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the phrasing again.
He who believes in me, those
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believing in him would receive.
I find nothing there to limit
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that.
To just the day of Pentecost,
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that sounds very universal to me
if the conditions are met for
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all believers.
And again, John is writing this
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record of the words of Jesus
when Pentecost is already
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history though just Pentecost or
just New Testament times.
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Did any believer receive eternal
life on the day of Pentecost or
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at any time afterward in all
church history?
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And I was just scanning through
and you wondered maybe how I got
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the statistics from the
Christadelphia magazine.
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You all have, perhaps the the CD
that you can go to and you can
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just track all the uses of
Pentecost and Pentecostalism and
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all the rest of these terms.
All right, Which off and on I’ve
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been doing for weeks.
And then I went and looked at
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what Brother Thomas wrote in
Eureka.
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And he says that the baptism of
the Holy Spirit that came upon
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the apostles on the day of
Pentecost left them as it found
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them mortal and dying men.
And that’s true.
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It hasn’t happened yet.
None of the believers received
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eternal life on the day of
Pentecost.
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And that already says to us that
Pentecost was in some way of
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foreshadowing an incipient event
rather than the ultimate event
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itself.
And at no time afterward, in all
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church history has that been
accomplished yet Back to John’s
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Gospel, and now to John 20.
So Jesus said to them, and now
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he’s meeting with at least ten
of his apostles, and it’s hard
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to know how many others.
So Jesus said to them, again,
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peace to you.
As the Father has sent me, I
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also send you.
So there is John’s version of
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the Great Commission coming out
here, and when he said this, he
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breathed on them and said to
them receive the Holy Spirit.
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I don’t know.
But perhaps this is a passage
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that sometimes we wish wasn’t
there because it seems to take
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attention away from Pentecost
and, well, it might, brothers
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and sisters, take it at face
value.
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Take it at face value.
He breathed on them and said to
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them, received the Holy Spirit.
If you forgive the sins of any,
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they’re forgiven them.
If you retain the sins of any,
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they’re retained.
And he’s, he’s, he’s preparing
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them for the Great Commission.
But what day is this?
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What day is this?
Well, clearly John 20 is the day
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that Jesus rose from the dead.
And if I’m reading John John’s
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gospel with everything else just
set aside and all preconceived
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ideas set aside.
If I’m reading John’s Gospel,
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brothers and sisters, and I read
this in John 20, my mind is
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going to go back to John 7.
All right?
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The Holy Spirit was not yet
given because Jesus was not yet
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glorified.
He breathed on them and said,
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receive ye the Holy Spirit.
Jesus has been glorified.
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Jesus has been glorified.
That’s the way I would read
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John’s gospel.
And this is the day of his
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resurrection.
And it’s the day when Jesus
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breathed the new life, as it
were, into all of his apostles,
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with the exception of Thomas,
who would make that classic
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confession 8 days later.
Was it?
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And Matthias, was he there?
We don’t know.
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But he’s been glorified, and he
now breathes new life, first of
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all into his apostles.
They are the foundation of his
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church and the Holy Spirit.
Ministry, brothers and sisters
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of our Lord Jesus, began on the
day that he rose from the dead,
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Not the day of Pentecost, in my
estimation.
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So birthday.
What does John 20, verse 22
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remind us of?
What does it take us back to?
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And it takes us back, Doesn’t
it?
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To Genesis 2, verse 7.
The Lord God formed man out of
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the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils.
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He breathed on them.
He breathed into his nostrils
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the breath of life and man
became a living being.
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There’s the birthday of man and
I submit, brothers and sisters.
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At least this is the view I’ve
come to after five or six years.
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It isn’t always what I’ve held.
But the birthday of the
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Christian Church took place on
the day that Jesus was begotten
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from the dead, received eternal
life from his father, and showed
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for the first time that he is
now the lifegiving spirit.
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What form that Holy Spirit
empowerment might have taken at
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that time, brothers, we’re not
told, but I think we can take
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it.
Say at face value that his Holy
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Spirit ministry has begun at
that moment with His apostles.
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The day of Pentecost I believe
served a related but different
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purpose.
And so we go to the book of Acts
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and being assembled together
with them and I say probably the
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apostles.
I don’t see any need to really
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equivocate there.
The the antecedent in verse two
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is the apostles.
He commanded them not to depart
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from Jerusalem, but to wait for
the promise of the Father, which
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he said, You have heard from me?
For John, Julie baptized with
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water, but you shall be baptized
with the Holy Spirit not many
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days from now.
Fair enough, Baptized with the
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Holy Spirit on the day of
Pentecost?
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Absolutely, absolutely.
But here, brothers and sisters,
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is the crunch.
I don’t know how many times I’ve
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read that and just assumed
certain things.
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But as the study has unfolded
and I’ve begun to see other
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things, I’ve come back to this
and I’d say to myself, yes,
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baptized with the Holy Spirit on
the day of Pentecost, but only
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once, and only on the day of
Pentecost.
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Now we have a theology, brothers
and sisters, that that that
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demands us to say yes to that
only once, and to which I agree
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there’s only one baptism of the
Holy Spirit.
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It hasn’t happened yet.
It simply hasn’t happened yet,
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and we’ll see more evidence
piling up for this.
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What we see, brothers and
sisters, I believe in the book
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of action to the New Testament,
is that the Lord Jesus Christ
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has been glorified by His
Father, and we are now being
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given categorical evidence of
this over and over and over
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again.
He has been glorified by his
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Father to baptize his believers
with the Holy Spirit and to give
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them eternal life.
And the New Testament is a
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documented evidence of this
marvelous truth, and we look
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forward to the fulfillment of
this When he comes again and
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does what I believe John the
Baptist meant when he said I can
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only baptize with water and
repentance, and that’s all we
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can ever say to any of our
candidates for baptism.
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He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit.
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He will give you the eternal
life.
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And I I’m thrilled of what
Brother Thomas wrote about that
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in Eureka.
You know, if you’re interested
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in seeing what he said about
that, it it, it tends to support
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what I’m saying, We may assume
not that that’s vital, by the
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way.
What is vital is ultimately that
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we’re scriptural in what we say.
We may assume a once for all
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baptism of the Apostles with the
Holy Spirit in the Day of
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Pentecost, but nothing in the
text.
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You go back and read acts one
verse five in the surrounding
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verses.
Nothing in the text compels us
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to believe that this was all
that Jesus intended.
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I liken that to to to a little
thought here, brothers and
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sisters, a little analogy.
You know, my grandchildren come
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to Sunday school and if I were
to say to them, wait for a
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moment after Sunday school, I’ll
give you a dollar.
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Does that mean it’s the only
time I’m going to give them a
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dollar?
And you don’t have to answer
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that question, all right.
But you see the point.
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You’re to wait in Jerusalem.
You will be in and do the power
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from on high.
You will be baptized with the
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Holy Spirit.
You received the promise, but
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only that.
We infer that from it.
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But I don’t think there’s
anything in the text that
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compels us to believe that
that’s all that Jesus ever
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intended.
We’ve already seen that he
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breathed the Holy Spirit into
His apostles on the Day of Day
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of Resurrection.
So Pentecost was not a person in
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this respect, and much in the
book of Acts, much in the book
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of Acts, as far as I’m
concerned.
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And the rest of the New
Testament demands that we
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rethink that assumption.
Multiple baptisms with the Holy
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Spirit, even not just, even
especially of the apostles, were
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a reality.
And New Testament times.
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And I’ll, I’ll show the
evidence.
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We’ll get there.
We’ll get there.
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So what then was the importance
of the day of Pentecost and
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quite simply brothers and
sisters, but profoundly and all
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I want to do here is, is redress
the the, the balance on things a
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bit.
If we can correct that.
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It was day one of the Great
Commission and the day after
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00:27:33,970 –> 00:27:40,050
Pentecost was Day 2.
All right, that’s not to
437
00:27:40,050 –> 00:27:43,530
minimize the importance of
Pentecost, but I hope it is to
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to bring it back into the
perspective that I think Luke
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00:27:46,010 –> 00:27:48,410
intends for it.
We.
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We’ll say more on that, I I’m
sure, as we go along.
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So we go on the next one to the
Great Commission.
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You shall receive power when the
Holy Spirit has come upon you,
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and you shall be witnesses to
me.
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That’s why the apostles, at
least one of the reasons why the
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apostles would be baptized with
the Holy Spirit and the day of
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Pentecost.
There are other reasons too, and
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we’ll touch on these multiple
reasons as we go.
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But you shall receive power when
the Holy Spirit has come upon
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you.
And you shall be witnesses to me
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in Jerusalem and in all Judea
and Samaria, and to the end of
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the earth.
Day one comes and it is the day
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of Pentecost.
It’s all right.
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00:28:29,130 –> 00:28:32,330
It’s wonderful.
When the day of Pentecost had
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fully come, they were all with
one accord in one place.
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By the way, the antecedents of
all with one accord are the are
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the 11 plus Matthias.
Check that for yourself.
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00:28:45,090 –> 00:28:49,020
The end of Acts one and suddenly
there came a sound from heaven
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as of a rushing mighty wind, and
it filled the whole house where
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they were sitting.
That is Old Testament temple
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00:28:55,340 –> 00:28:59,780
language.
It filled the whole house.
461
00:29:02,180 –> 00:29:05,020
Then there appeared to them
divided tongues as a fire, and
462
00:29:05,020 –> 00:29:08,580
one sat on each of them and they
were all filled with the Holy
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00:29:08,580 –> 00:29:12,340
Spirit and began to speak.
Now whatever we make of tongues,
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and God willing by by Friday
we’ll we’ll touch on this a bit.
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But whatever we make of tongues,
brothers and sisters, this was
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the beginning of the Great
Commission for the apostles.
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00:29:23,630 –> 00:29:28,310
They are now beginning the
witness to the glorified Jesus
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00:29:28,310 –> 00:29:32,270
of Nazareth who is empowered to
save us.
469
00:29:33,790 –> 00:29:39,070
The empowered witness to Christ
began, and it is an empowerment
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00:29:39,070 –> 00:29:45,420
given by the one who’s empowered
to empower on the day of
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Pentecost.
The Apostles of Jesus, not the
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00:29:47,700 –> 00:29:51,700
1:20 in my estimation, were
empowered for the first time to
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make public what they had
learned on the day Jesus rose
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00:29:56,300 –> 00:29:58,820
from the dead.
And that specifically is that
475
00:29:58,820 –> 00:30:05,780
God had raised the crucified
Jesus from the dead, given him
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00:30:05,780 –> 00:30:11,540
glory, and empowered him to give
eternal life to all who believe
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00:30:11,540 –> 00:30:16,710
in him.
And the evidence of Christ’s
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glorification was made plain to
the Jews that day, that which
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you see and hear.
And so Peter would later explain
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the significance of it.
This Jesus God has raised up, of
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which we are all witnesses.
And there are the 12 able to
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stand up in unison, all in one
place, therefore being exalted
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to the right hand of God, and
having received from the Father
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the promise of the Holy Spirit.
So he has received that promise.
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00:30:54,140 –> 00:30:56,620
He has received the promise of
the Holy Spirit.
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00:30:56,820 –> 00:31:00,340
He’s poured out this which you
now see and hear.
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00:31:01,580 –> 00:31:03,180
They’ve certainly heard it in
the tongues.
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00:31:05,300 –> 00:31:08,460
They had perhaps seen it in the
tongues of fire as well.
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We can’t be sure on that, but
Peter says that which you have
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seen and heard.
It’s as if I might paraphrase
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00:31:16,870 –> 00:31:23,670
this Jews of Jerusalem, Jesus of
Nazareth has been glorified by
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God to give you eternal life.
Observe the evidence of this
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00:31:28,990 –> 00:31:33,790
truth, respond to it, and
receive the gift.
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00:31:36,990 –> 00:31:41,960
And so some asked men and
brethren, what shall we do?
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00:31:42,240 –> 00:31:46,560
Recognizing the the the depth of
their sin in in the crucifixion.
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00:31:46,720 –> 00:31:50,400
Then Peter said to them, repent,
and let every one of you be
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00:31:50,400 –> 00:31:53,200
baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of
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00:31:53,200 –> 00:31:58,480
sins, and you shall receive the
gift of the Holy Spirit for the
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00:31:58,480 –> 00:32:02,600
promises to you and to your
children, and to all who are far
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00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:08,360
off as many as the Lord our God
will call you shall.
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00:32:08,440 –> 00:32:14,680
When that day there may have
been some token that day, I’m
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00:32:14,680 –> 00:32:17,280
inclined personally to think
that might have been so.
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00:32:18,840 –> 00:32:21,160
But surely, brothers and
sisters, it wasn’t all done and
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00:32:21,160 –> 00:32:22,680
over with on the day of
Pentecost.
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00:32:23,040 –> 00:32:28,000
It simply was not.
It goes on to read then in Acts
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00:32:28,000 –> 00:32:31,440
2, verse 41.
Then those who gladly received
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00:32:31,440 –> 00:32:37,490
His Word were baptized, and that
day about 3000 souls were added
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00:32:38,010 –> 00:32:44,090
to them.
Added to them the Church already
509
00:32:44,090 –> 00:32:51,050
existed, brothers and sisters,
The day of Pentecost did not
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00:32:51,050 –> 00:32:53,290
mark the birthday of the
Christian Church.
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00:32:53,810 –> 00:32:58,210
It marked the first growth of
the church as the gospel message
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00:32:58,210 –> 00:33:04,160
went first of all, to the Jews
of Jerusalem, the day of
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00:33:04,160 –> 00:33:06,920
Pentecost was day one and only
day one.
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00:33:07,160 –> 00:33:11,680
And yet that’s mighty in
meaning, Day one of the Great
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00:33:11,680 –> 00:33:13,920
Commission.
This, I believe, is its rightful
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00:33:13,920 –> 00:33:20,920
place in church history.
How many minutes have we got?
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00:33:24,600 –> 00:33:26,560
10 or 15 minutes with an hour
and a half to do it.
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00:33:27,280 –> 00:33:28,120
Work.
Work to do.
519
00:33:28,240 –> 00:33:33,190
An hour and a half work to do.
All right, Luke’s Holy Spirit,
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00:33:33,190 –> 00:33:36,350
baptism, language, brothers and
sisters, And if we get through
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00:33:36,350 –> 00:33:41,750
that, we’ll be going well.
When you look across the book of
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00:33:41,750 –> 00:33:45,230
action, by the way, Luke is the
only one who actually uses the
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00:33:45,230 –> 00:33:46,790
term filled with the Holy
Spirit.
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00:33:46,910 –> 00:33:49,230
That’s not to say that the
concept isn’t throughout the New
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00:33:49,230 –> 00:33:52,270
Testament, but he’s the only one
who actually uses those terms
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00:33:52,550 –> 00:33:55,870
three times, by the way, in the
first chapter of his gospel.
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00:33:57,510 –> 00:33:59,950
That’s something we need to
bring into our frame of
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00:33:59,950 –> 00:34:07,570
understanding, as well as about
six times in the book of Acts.
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00:34:07,810 –> 00:34:11,730
And as you look across all of
these examples, there are
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00:34:11,730 –> 00:34:20,449
certain nouns promise Spirit
modified by holy gift, and
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00:34:20,449 –> 00:34:27,010
certain verbs that recur,
baptize, receive, fill, give,
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00:34:27,500 –> 00:34:30,659
pour out, fall upon.
And if I were making up the list
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00:34:30,659 –> 00:34:33,020
today instead of about two or
three months ago, I would have
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00:34:33,020 –> 00:34:38,620
add, added, came upon, all
right, which is rich, rich, rich
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00:34:38,620 –> 00:34:44,139
and Old Testament background,
Luke uses summer.
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00:34:44,139 –> 00:34:48,900
All of these words in several
Holy Spirit baptism contexts,
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00:34:50,219 –> 00:34:52,980
and I just want to look at those
and we’ll just introduce them,
538
00:34:53,139 –> 00:34:55,659
say a few words about them and
we’re going to have to stop.
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00:34:56,510 –> 00:34:59,110
But what I do want to emphasize,
brothers and sisters, is I think
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00:34:59,110 –> 00:35:03,390
we’re seeing some repetitive
events here that Luke does not
541
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place on some kind of a value
scale, as if to say one of these
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00:35:07,870 –> 00:35:09,310
is more important than the
other.
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00:35:09,950 –> 00:35:13,710
They are all going to fuel, if
you will, the progress of the
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00:35:13,710 –> 00:35:16,270
Great Commission in one way or
another.
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00:35:16,630 –> 00:35:19,870
They are also going to give
testimony to the fact that Jesus
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00:35:19,870 –> 00:35:22,390
has been glorified to give
eternal life to men.
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00:35:23,040 –> 00:35:24,760
It’s going to fulfill all of
these things.
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00:35:24,760 –> 00:35:26,560
And these kinds of events are
repeated.
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00:35:26,560 –> 00:35:29,200
They punctuate the the book of
Acts.
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00:35:29,840 –> 00:35:34,920
And so in Acts Chapter 2 with
the apostles at Pentecost, there
551
00:35:34,920 –> 00:35:39,040
are the passages which refer,
using these terms to what
552
00:35:39,040 –> 00:35:41,520
happened on the day of
Pentecost, whether it’s the use
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00:35:41,520 –> 00:35:45,120
of the word promise and these
writings of Luke, passages of
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00:35:45,120 –> 00:35:47,960
Luke, or Holy Spirit or gift,
there are the nouns, or whether
555
00:35:47,960 –> 00:35:50,920
it’s these verbs.
It’s a very comprehensive set of
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passages in which Luke at one
time or another uses these
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00:35:55,680 –> 00:35:57,680
words.
They’re they’re also used, of
558
00:35:57,680 –> 00:36:00,200
course, in that passage.
We looked at it at John 7, verse
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00:36:00,200 –> 00:36:06,560
39, the one where the Holy
Spirit had not yet been given
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00:36:06,560 –> 00:36:08,440
because Jesus has not been
glorified.
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00:36:08,560 –> 00:36:13,950
They had not yet received it.
All right, so Pentecost was
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00:36:13,950 –> 00:36:17,750
precedent setting.
In many ways, Luke’s record of
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00:36:17,750 –> 00:36:21,270
Pentecost establishes a
comprehensive language base from
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00:36:21,270 –> 00:36:24,510
which we can recognize any Holy
Spirit baptism when he reports
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00:36:24,510 –> 00:36:27,750
it to us.
Come to Peter before the council
566
00:36:29,470 –> 00:36:32,510
and you’ll find, in fact, if you
want, you can get your Bibles
567
00:36:32,510 –> 00:36:36,830
open to Acts and go to Acts
Chapter 4, and just just see
568
00:36:36,830 –> 00:36:42,240
this as we go along.
This is the problem with the
569
00:36:42,240 –> 00:36:54,680
PowerPoint is you sit here and
and never open your Bibles, but
570
00:36:54,680 –> 00:37:00,080
you look at Acts for verse 8.
Then Peter filled with the Holy
571
00:37:00,080 –> 00:37:01,200
Spirit.
And this is not the day of
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00:37:01,200 –> 00:37:03,320
Pentecost.
This is afterward.
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00:37:04,880 –> 00:37:09,340
This is afterward, and we’ll
take the time later in the week,
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00:37:09,500 –> 00:37:12,980
God willing to to look up
passages like Luke 1212 and Luke
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00:37:12,980 –> 00:37:17,140
2115, and I think the evidence,
as you compare it with the Acts
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00:37:17,140 –> 00:37:22,340
for incident, the evidence
begins to mount up that Peter
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00:37:22,500 –> 00:37:28,980
was given that feeling of the
Holy Spirit then in that very
578
00:37:29,100 –> 00:37:32,660
hour.
And there’s nothing to
579
00:37:32,660 –> 00:37:35,340
distinguish that, brothers and
sisters, from the language of
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00:37:35,380 –> 00:37:38,150
Acts 2.
Maybe our theology makes a
581
00:37:38,150 –> 00:37:41,310
distinction in that, but I don’t
find that distinction in the way
582
00:37:41,510 –> 00:37:43,070
Luke is writing the book of
Acts.
583
00:37:43,270 –> 00:37:45,390
We just say a word or two about
this.
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00:37:47,270 –> 00:37:50,870
If you look at the nine places
where Luke speaks about being
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00:37:50,870 –> 00:37:53,190
filled with the Holy Spirit, the
first one is of course the
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00:37:53,190 –> 00:37:55,750
reference to John the Baptist
and Luke chapter one.
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00:37:56,030 –> 00:37:58,750
He shall be filled with the Holy
Spirit from his mother’s womb.
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00:37:58,750 –> 00:38:06,150
That’s future tense.
All other references to the the
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00:38:06,150 –> 00:38:09,910
filling with the Holy Spirit are
in what is called the aorist
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00:38:09,990 –> 00:38:14,790
tense in the Greek, and what
that simply means to me at
591
00:38:14,790 –> 00:38:16,870
least.
And I’m no language expert, so
592
00:38:16,870 –> 00:38:20,510
you can correct me if I’m wrong
on this, but what the aorist
593
00:38:20,510 –> 00:38:24,710
tense means to me very simply is
that it’s a snapshot of past
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00:38:24,750 –> 00:38:28,630
action, and it doesn’t say how
long it lasted.
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00:38:28,870 –> 00:38:31,310
It doesn’t say if it happened
before, and it doesn’t say if it
596
00:38:31,310 –> 00:38:34,640
happened afterward.
It’s just simply a snapshot of
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00:38:34,640 –> 00:38:38,360
past action.
An analogy again, if I may.
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00:38:39,160 –> 00:38:42,280
You get the family photo album
out of the closet, and you blow
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00:38:42,280 –> 00:38:44,800
the dust off, and you put it
down and you open it up and
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00:38:44,800 –> 00:38:48,760
there’s a photo taken in 1954.
All right.
601
00:38:49,080 –> 00:38:51,680
And your dad is standing next to
his Nash Rambler.
602
00:38:54,680 –> 00:38:56,720
All right.
And you say, oh, yeah, I
603
00:38:56,720 –> 00:38:59,880
remember that car.
You know, Dad really liked that.
604
00:39:00,670 –> 00:39:02,830
You know, Now you look at the
photograph, brothers and
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00:39:02,830 –> 00:39:06,070
sisters, and you cannot tell
from the photograph how long he
606
00:39:06,070 –> 00:39:10,070
had that car.
You cannot tell from that
607
00:39:10,070 –> 00:39:14,390
photograph whether he had one
like it in 1953 or 1952, and you
608
00:39:14,390 –> 00:39:16,750
cannot tell whether he had
another one like it after that.
609
00:39:17,310 –> 00:39:20,190
It’s simply a snapshot of some
past event.
610
00:39:22,190 –> 00:39:25,630
Now, we’re not going to know
much about the history of Dad
611
00:39:25,630 –> 00:39:29,190
and Nash Ramblers unless maybe
we turn the page in our photo
612
00:39:29,190 –> 00:39:32,990
album and there he is standing
next to another one.
613
00:39:33,830 –> 00:39:35,790
He really did like those Nash
Ramblers.
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00:39:36,030 –> 00:39:38,910
He got another one later.
I don’t know how long they made
615
00:39:38,910 –> 00:39:42,070
those cars.
But anyway, if you know if, if,
616
00:39:42,150 –> 00:39:44,790
if, I’m off on that, you know,
substitute Studebaker or
617
00:39:44,790 –> 00:39:47,110
something in there.
But anyway, all right.
618
00:39:47,790 –> 00:39:50,510
In any case, you you get the
point.
619
00:39:50,790 –> 00:39:55,350
If you see that again, then you
say he had another one.
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00:39:55,770 –> 00:39:58,890
Well, now that’s the way Luke
presents things in all of its
621
00:39:59,130 –> 00:40:02,210
simplicity.
A series of aorist tenses,
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00:40:02,210 –> 00:40:05,690
brothers and sisters that simply
say here it happened, here it
623
00:40:05,690 –> 00:40:07,810
happened again, here it.
And by the way, this is
624
00:40:07,810 –> 00:40:09,970
happening to Peter.
And if you come to Peter before
625
00:40:09,970 –> 00:40:13,370
the Council now in Acts, well,
I’m sorry, we just did that.
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00:40:13,370 –> 00:40:17,210
Let’s come to Peter and his
companions, still in Acts
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00:40:17,210 –> 00:40:20,570
chapter 4.
And they are the passages.
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00:40:20,570 –> 00:40:23,650
Not much.
But you’ll find that they are
629
00:40:23,650 –> 00:40:26,890
praying.
Grant Lord, that your servants
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00:40:27,210 –> 00:40:32,170
may with all boldness preach by
word that by restretching out
631
00:40:32,170 –> 00:40:33,890
your hand.
And that’s taking us back to the
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00:40:33,890 –> 00:40:36,490
healing of the lame man,
stretching out your hand to
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00:40:36,490 –> 00:40:37,850
heal, etcetera, etcetera,
etcetera.
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00:40:38,090 –> 00:40:41,810
And the place where they were
was shaken and they were all
635
00:40:41,810 –> 00:40:44,770
filled with the Holy Spirit and
began to speak the word of God
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00:40:44,770 –> 00:40:48,180
with boldness.
Now, brothers and sisters, I
637
00:40:48,180 –> 00:40:50,780
can’t emphasize enough that the
features of that are a complete
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00:40:50,780 –> 00:40:53,940
replication of Pentecost.
And not just a replication.
639
00:40:54,140 –> 00:40:56,740
There are repeat event, there
are a twin event.
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00:40:57,060 –> 00:41:01,540
And Luke in his Greek is exactly
the same there in Acts 431 is as
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00:41:01,540 –> 00:41:04,620
he is in Acts 2 verse four,
right down to the parsing of the
642
00:41:04,620 –> 00:41:06,100
Greek verb.
It’s the same.
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00:41:07,140 –> 00:41:10,140
So why should we say that one of
them is the ultimate event and
644
00:41:10,140 –> 00:41:12,680
all the rest are something else?
It’s interesting.
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00:41:12,680 –> 00:41:15,320
It’s interesting to read the
cessations on this who say that
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Pentecost was an unrepeatable
paradigm, an unrepeatable event.
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How?
They try to dance around these
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other passages.
They’re there.
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They’re there again.
They’re there again.
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This is the third time that
Peter’s being filled with the
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Holy Spirit.
We’ll have more to say on this
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tomorrow as we get into the idea
of two inseparable baptisms,
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water and spirit.
So the Samaritan case, How we
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doing, time wise, Jeff?
3 minutes, 3 minutes, and I’m
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down to an hour and 20 minutes
worth of work.
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All right, Quite a few passages.
Quite a few passages.
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All right.
And here again we are seeing an
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A Holy Spirit baptism of
Samaritans.
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And may I say something here,
brothers and sisters.
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And this will probably have to
to draw this to a close and then
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we’ll glance at the summary.
If you read in the the orthodox
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literature or even some of our
own will be inclined to say,
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well, this is a, this is a a
Holy Spirit baptism of the
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Samaritans.
Or if we come to to Acts 10 and
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here’s here’s Saul, by the way,
in Acts 9, it’s come to Acts 10
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and there’s a tremendous
representation of the same
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language with Cornelius and the
Gentiles.
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We have an inclination to say,
well, this is the Pentecost, the
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Gentiles or Acts 8 is the
Pentecost of the Samaritans or
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Acts 19 is the Pentecost of the
the disciples of John.
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If you’re comfortable with that,
brothers and sisters, that’s
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fine.
I have become uncomfortable with
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that kind of language.
First of all, it’s not a
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scriptural rhetoric.
It is not a scriptural rhetoric.
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The New, the New Testament.
Luke, do not look back on
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Pentecost that way.
They don’t look back on it as
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Founders Day.
They don’t look back on it as
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the crowning event of Christ’s
redemptive work.
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They don’t look back on it and
conceptualize it.
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They don’t.
There are only two other places,
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and in the New Testament where
Pentecost is even referred to
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Acts 20 and 1st Corinthian 16.
And in both cases, Paul is
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looking at a day on the calendar
and that day on the calendar is
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the next spring, not looking
back.
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Remember the first time I
thought that thinking I was
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going to be able to really get
my teeth into this theology of
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Pentecost.
And I said this is no help
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because I’m not sure the New
Testament spins out of theology
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of Pentecost.
The problem with calling this
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the Pentecost of the Gentiles or
whatever is it’s taking our
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vision and it’s throwing it back
to the day of Pentecost.
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The New Testament starts from
there, and it goes forward to
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the age to come, then hardly
looks back, hardly looks back.
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All right, where the emphasis
belongs.
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And the emphasis is placed here
in the case of the the House of
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it’s not the Pentecost of the
Gentiles.
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Brothers, sisters, this is a
Holy Spirit Baptism of the
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Gentiles.
And what does it mean?
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Well, you can look this up for
yourself in Acts 11.
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When when Peter is called on the
carpet, so to speak, back in
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Jerusalem, you went into
Gentiles and he explains the
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whole thing.
And those in Jerusalem in the
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00:44:33,440 –> 00:44:36,800
Ecclesia there finally had to
accept the fact.
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Then God has granted under the
Gentiles repentance unto life.
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And that’s what the Holy Spirit
baptism that fell upon the
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householder Cornelius, meant to
them at that time.
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That’s what I take to be the
meaning of it.
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They don’t say, well, now God
has Pentecost of the Gentiles,
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all right?
And I don’t mean to be critical
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brothers and sisters.
I don’t mean to be critical.
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There are beloved brethren who
have used that kind of language.
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All I say is that language is
not scriptural.
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00:45:06,870 –> 00:45:10,230
It’s a lovely rhetoric, but I
think it clouds the issue.
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These are Holy Spirit baptisms
that are telling us
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categorically that the one whom
God has glorified at his right
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hand is empowered to save the
Jews of Jerusalem, or the
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Samaritans of Samaria, or the
Gentiles of Caesaria, or the
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ends of the earth.
Thank God for that.
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We got the documented evidence
of it, brothers and sisters.
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Well, I’m past the three
minutes.
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I suspect by now.
Jeff, turn to page 13.
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We’re going to sum this up,
brothers and sisters.
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We’re going to leave an awful
lot unsaid.
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But again, and I don’t say this
to be funny in any way, there’s
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a time to start and there is a
time to stop.
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We may not accomplish within
that framework all that we want
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to accomplish, but that’s life.
And we accept that fact.
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And when the end comes, the end
comes.
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We’ve done all we need to do
before Almighty God.
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Now page 13 is the summary and I
just, I will just go through
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this with you to sum up where I
would have finished had had we
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had the other hour and 15
minutes Now I believe and again
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brothers and sisters, I’ve
thrown an enormous amount at
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you.
I’ve asked you to to flex your
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00:46:22,050 –> 00:46:26,890
thinking, probably, and I
apologize if if it has been been
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too tough an exercise.
But the birth of the Christian
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00:46:31,260 –> 00:46:34,260
Church took place on the day
that Jesus rose from the dead,
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received eternal life from his
Father, and breathed the Holy
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Spirit, the breath of eternal
life, as it were a down payment
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00:46:43,700 –> 00:46:49,580
and earnest A token, A
foretaste, into his Apostles.
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The Day of Pentecost was day One
of the Great Commission.
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This, I believe, is its rightful
place in church history and
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shouldn’t be taken away from it,
nor necessarily enlarged on.
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00:47:02,920 –> 00:47:06,280
On the day of Pentecost, the
Apostles of Jesus were baptized
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with the Holy Spirit, empowering
them to bear public witness for
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the first time in Jerusalem to
Christ’s resurrection, glory,
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and life saving power.
Consequently, the Day of
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Pentecost saw the first growth
of the Christian Church from
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among the Jews at Jerusalem who
believed the witness of the
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apostles repented of their sins
against God, and were baptized
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in the name of Jesus Christ for
the forgiveness of sins.
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00:47:38,900 –> 00:47:42,180
All Holy Spirit baptisms in the
New Testament times were
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administered by the glorified
Jesus.
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I’ll revisit that point,
brothers and sisters.
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I think that has great bearing
on the Samaritan case, which I
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think we’ve misused.
But you know, enough is enough
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00:47:53,470 –> 00:47:55,950
for the day.
All right, All Holy Spirit
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00:47:55,950 –> 00:47:58,150
baptism in the New Testament
times were administered by the
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00:47:58,150 –> 00:48:00,990
glorified Jesus.
He will baptize you with the
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Holy Spirit and with fire, and
provided the faithful recipients
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with an earnest of eternal life
to come life from the dead.
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If we had had time to track the
language in other contexts, we’d
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find again that those words
which are part of Luke’s Holy
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Spirit baptism language occur
again and again and again, and
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they have reference to eternal
life from the dead.
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Holy Spirit baptism and eternal
life from the dead.
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00:48:25,890 –> 00:48:29,890
Same.
Same in the ultimate sense,
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00:48:30,450 –> 00:48:31,490
same.
Same.
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To be sure, brothers and
sisters, I believe this with all
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my heart.
God works in our lives now by
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the power of His Holy Spirit to
bring us to Himself.
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Holy Spirit baptisms and New
Testament times teach us more
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00:48:47,810 –> 00:48:51,540
than this, however.
They confirm God’s promise of
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00:48:51,540 –> 00:48:54,620
life to come.
Just look at what’s going on in
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the New Testament.
They vouchsafe to all of us,
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00:48:57,340 –> 00:49:01,100
brothers and sisters, the
certainty that Jesus will come
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00:49:01,100 –> 00:49:05,500
and give us eternal life over
and over and over again.
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00:49:05,500 –> 00:49:09,820
They tell us that Holy Spirit
baptism transcends the here and
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00:49:09,820 –> 00:49:13,180
now.
It transcends the here and now
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00:49:13,180 –> 00:49:17,140
lives of mortal believers.
Its greatest promise is for the
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Kingdom age that will succeed
Church history.
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