Jim Harper – The Work of the Holy Spirit in New Testament Times – Class 3 – The Active Role of Heaven

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

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Our second period teachers,
brother Jim Harper.

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His topic is the work of the
Holy Spirit in the New

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Testament.
His topic for today is the

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active role of heaven by the
gym.

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Before I start, brothers and
sisters, I just have to say that

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Bible school committee members
have to solve all kinds of

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problems.
And true to form, Brother Jeff

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has solved the problem getting
me through my material on time.

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You see, he owns a remote like
this as well, all right?

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The active role of heaven,
brothers and sisters.

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And this is something that has
that really impressed itself on

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me as I read through the book of
Acts and just saw these things

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happening over and over again.
A couple of questions to give

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ourselves focus and direction.
First of all, how did the

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glorified Jesus continue to work
throughout New Testament times

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from His ascension to God
onward?

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And secondly, how did the
apostles view their role in the

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work of the ascended Lord Jesus
Christ?

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All right.
And we’ll attempt to address

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those questions under these two
headings.

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First of all, we’re going to
look, God permitting, at

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promises Jesus made to his
disciples before his ascension

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and how those play out in some
of the rest of the New

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Testament.
And then we’re going to, if we

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have time, look at the testimony
of the apostles themselves as to

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how they perceived things.
And so the promises of Jesus,

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and we begin, perhaps, with one
of the best known and and

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greatest of them, he says, as
recorded at the end of Matthew’s

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Gospel.
Go there for and make disciples

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of all the nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father,

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and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.

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Teaching them to observe all
things that I have commanded

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you, and low I am with you
always, even to the end of the

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age.
Amen.

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And I don’t want now, brothers
and sisters, for us to digress

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into ways in which the Lord
obviously and clearly works in

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our own lives, but rather we’re
dealing with the work of the

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Holy Spirit of New Testament
times.

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And these words were first of
all addressed to the apostles.

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And there is a very real sense
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were an age unto themselves.
It was an age of Holy Spirit

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empowerment, and it it it
endured for that period of time

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in the Lord’s work through his
apostles.

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And this is a sweeping promise
by Jesus.

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Lo, I am with you always, even
to the end of the age.

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It’s a sweeping promise to his
apostles.

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And it hardly suggests, at least
to my mind, A1 time fulfillment

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on the day of Pentecost.
In his glory, Jesus would

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actively work with his apostles
throughout the rest of New

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Testament times.
The immediate objective has been

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defined there.
The immediate objective of the

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Lord’s promise was to advance
the cause of the Great

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Commission.
In a sense, that was Matthew’s

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record of the Great Commission.
To make disciples of all

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nations, baptizing them,
teaching them the empowerment

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that Jesus gave on the day of
Pentecost began to fulfill the

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promise.
And it happened again and again

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and again.
And this is what impressed

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itself upon me as I simply read
through the book of Acts, set

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the baggage aside, and said what
is it saying to me?

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Preaching the gospel of
salvation, brothers and sisters,

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to a world that was dying,
orchestrated, directed,

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empowered by the Lord Jesus
himself, was the first priority

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of Holy Spirit activity in New
Testament times, and edifying

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the body of believers quickly
became the second important

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priority.
We’ll do our best to explore in

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and around the first of these
today and.

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God permitting perhaps a bit
more of the second of these

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priorities in our our class
tomorrow, but giving eternal

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life in the power of the Holy
Spirit is still to come.

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Baptisms.
There were even multiple

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baptisms of the apostles, and
we’ll look again at one classic

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pair of these, at least today.
But the baptism of the Holy

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Spirit is still to come.
The work of the Holy Spirit in

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New Testament times was a
developmental work.

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It was not a work of completion.
We come to Mark’s Gospel, he

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said to them.
And again, the context is the

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11th from verse 14.
Go into all the world and preach

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the gospel to every creature.
He who believes in his baptized

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will be saved, but he who does
not believe will be condemned.

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And there is Mark’s version of
the Great Commission, and he

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goes on to say, or Mark goes on
to record, And they went out and

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preached everywhere, the Lord
working with them and confirming

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the word through the
accompanying signs.

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This is going to be a
partnership that we read of in

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the book of Acts and on through
the the New Testament.

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A partnership between these men
who were like us, who went forth

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in the name of Jesus and heaven
itself, working with them and

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empowering them as needed and
when needed and where needed.

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This again in Mark’s account, as
the Great Commission hardly the

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work of one day.
The Lord worked with his

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apostles in an ongoing manner
until the purposes were

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accomplished through them.
Now just pause for a moment

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here, Brothers and sisters, I
think we’ve taken on board the

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kind of thing that you could
read in Benjamin Warfield’s book

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that this was the age of the
apostles, and I have

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deliberately attempted to bring
myself away from that kind of

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terminology.
This is the age of the Holy

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Spirit.
Working through miracles,

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wonders and signs administered
by the glorified Lord Jesus

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Christ through his apostles, who
are his hands and are his feet

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and are his mouth for him, his
friends on earth.

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And they took note that these
men had been with Jesus.

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It’s not an age of the apostles.
It’s an age entirely under the

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control of heaven itself.
And so I no longer accept the

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idea that the apostles possessed
from the day of Pentecost

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forward some miraculous power
that they could pass on.

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And it’s at the end.
Brothers and sisters of the the

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Apostolic Age.
The Spirit gifts ended because

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the apostles died.
It worked the other way around.

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That’s the way life works.
When God’s purpose with us is

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finished, it’s over and we die.
And that’s all right.

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The best is yet to come.
And so when the end of the

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Lord’s purposes with America’s
wonders and signs comes to its

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to its culmination, those things
will cease, and the last of the

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apostles will die.
Heaven doesn’t have to say,

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well, there goes the last of the
apostles.

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What do we do now?
No more spirit gifts.

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No, no, no, no.
No works the other way around.

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It’s the way it worked with John
the Baptist.

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When it was over, it was over
and it wasn’t pleasant.

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And he understood that he must
think it increase.

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I must decrease.
He understood that we must

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understand that.
You know, if the Lord’s work

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with me is done with this
period, I won’t see lunch.

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And that’s okay.
That’s okay.

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The best is yet to come.
So the Lord worked through His

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apostles in an ongoing manner
until His purposes were

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accomplished.
Through them the gifts ceased

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and the the last of the apostles
died off.

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The Lord’s work was done with
them.

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He has much better things in
store for them.

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That’s all for now, and the
historical record here in March

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seems deliberately qualified.
The Lord working with them the

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age of eternal life for all
believers.

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Has not yet come, and so now we
want to focus.

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We want to look at promises
Jesus made to His apostles while

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He was yet with them before the
Ascension, before, even in many

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respects His crucifixion.
And then we want to see how

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these play out in their work
through the rest of the New

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Testament.
And we go back to Luke chapter

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12.
We’ll start with a couple of

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promises Jesus made in Luke’s
gospel, and we’ll go to Acts and

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see how Luke records the
fulfillment, the keeping of

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these promises.
You’ll remember this now when

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they bring you to the synagogues
and magistrates and authorities.

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Do not worry about how or what
you should answer or what you

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should say, for the Holy Spirit
will teach you in that very

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hour.
What you ought to say, or this

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one again, in Luke chapter 21,
you will be brought before kings

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and rulers for my name’s sake,
but it will turn out for you as

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an occasion for testimony.
Therefore settle it in your

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hearts not to meditate
beforehand on what you will

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answer for.
I will give you a mouth and

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wisdom.
Which all your adversaries will

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not be able to contradict or
resist.

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There’s the promise.
And the Lord is saying this to

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them.
Be ever before His crucifixion.

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Oh, what the Lord understood,
It’s just absolutely

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breathtaking.
He’s already projected himself

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in into the the age of of His
glory.

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Brothers and sisters, the Holy
Spirit will teach you what you

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ought to say.
I will give you a mouth and

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wisdom, their equivalent
statements.

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The ad hoc work of the Holy
Spirit was in fact the ongoing

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work of the glorified Jesus.
And what I mean by that ad hoc,

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it came at a time when it was
needed for the purpose that it

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was needed, and then when it was
over, it was over.

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It was toward a specific end
that these empowerments would

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come, and when that was over, it
was over and it would come again

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for a specific end.
It was in fact the ongoing work

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of the glorified Jesus.
The Holy Spirit is a

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personified.
The Holy Spirit will teach you

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in that hour what you ought to
say.

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I will give you a mouth and
wisdom.

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It’s the person of the glorified
Jesus who’s behind the

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personification of the Holy
Spirit in in these promises.

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The empowering of the apostles
for the purpose of bearing

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witness was carried out by Jesus
when he saw fit to do it, where

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he saw fit to do it as he saw
fit to do it, And I could add,

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as only he would know when it
was fit to do it, His apostles

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in turn had to depend day by day
by day, on the faithfulness of

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Jesus to his promise.
And so when they got up in the

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morning, brothers and sisters, I
don’t envision them flexing

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their Holy Spirit muscles and
saying let’s rattle off a few

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words in Cappadocian before we
head out for breakfast.

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I don’t see them having that
kind of power, and I don’t.

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I don’t mean to say that
flippantly, because it sounds

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like it, but if they needed that
day the ability to do some

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miracle, the Lord knew it and
he’d provide it when it was

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necessary.
Promise kept and we’ll go to the

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healing of the lame man and
we’ll go to acts for actually

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the sequel.
You remember how after the

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healing of the lame man that the
the crowds rushed to see what

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has happened.
They had been, they had gone on

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into the temple, and the man was
leaping and praising God and and

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they rushed to see this.
And Peter sees the moment and

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began his preaching.
And we see that the message he

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preached in Acts three was
parallel to the message he he

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spoke in Acts 2.
The the.

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It’s a replication again of what
was preached on Pentecost.

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You remember that they were
arrested.

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Peter and John were arrested.
So I think was the lame man.

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They were put in prison
overnight and the next day all

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three of them are on the carpet.
Peter and John and the man

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standing there with them, and
they are answering to the

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rulers.
It came to pass on the next day,

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that their rulers, elders and
scribes, as well as Annas, the

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high priest, Caiaphas, John and
Alexander, and as many as were

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of the family of the high
priest, were gathered together

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at Jerusalem.
And when they upset them, Peter

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and John, in the midst, they
asked, by what power or by what

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name have you done this?
They have been brought before

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kings and rulers for my name’s
sake.

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Then Peter, filled with the Holy
Spirit said to them.

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In that very hour I will give
you a mouth and wisdom, rulers

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of the people and elders of
Israel.

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Here’s the mouth.
Here’s the wisdom.

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Let it be known to you, to all,
to all the people of Israel,

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that by the name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth.

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And notice the phrasing in Acts
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It’s no longer just Jesus of
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The way Peter began his address
in Acts 2 verse 22 and had to

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bring them to the realization
that God had made that Jesus

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whom they crucified both Lord
and Christ.

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Now they’re all the stops are
pulled out here, Jesus Christ of

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Nazareth.
And he says that to the rulers.

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You’ve got to understand, He’s
no longer just Jesus of

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Nazareth, the prophet of
Galilee.

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This is Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom you crucified,

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whom God raised from the dead by
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This man stands here before you
hold nor is there salvation in

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any other.
For there is no other name under

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heaven given among men by which
we must be saved.

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And there’s the mouth and the
wisdom that came under

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inspiration to Peter in that
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A mouth and wisdom now, when
they saw the boldness of Peter

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and John and perceived that they
were uneducated and untrained

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men, they marveled and they
realized that they’d been with

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Jesus, vitally important.
The apostles will begin to be

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magnified in Jerusalem, and it’s
already beginning to happen.

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And they know that these men had
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They are the visible link to
Jesus on this earth, and they

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are his hands, and they are his
feet, and they are his mouth.

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And I always love this little
expression, uneducated and

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untrained, Agra Matos and
idiotes.

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I sympathize with that.
All right, uneducated

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ungrammered.
And idiots.

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That’s how they viewed them.
But transfigured men transformed

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men, whatever else.
The punctuated empowerments that

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they received from heaven to
carry out the Great Commission,

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brothers and sisters, it had a
lasting effect on them as well,

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and within them developed an
indwelling Spirit that is also

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making them full of the Holy
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But the multi but the the
miraculous empowerments are

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punctuated events.
They realize that they’ve been

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with Jesus, and seeing the man
who had been healed standing

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with them, they could say
nothing against it, saying what

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should we do to these men?
For indeed a notable miracle has

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been done through them is
evident to all who dwell in

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Jerusalem.
And we cannot deny it.

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We cannot deny it.
What did Jesus promised your

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adversaries will not?
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And they wrote the last word on
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And so Acts 4 verses 8 to 16,
brothers and sisters, is both a

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fulfillment of the promise of
Jesus and it’s the language of

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Holy Spirit baptism in the sense
of giving miraculous inspiration

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and empowerment.
And we know, too, that this

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event occurred sometime after
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Pentecost did not provide a once
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Spirit in any kind of sense of
making.

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The Apostles repositories of
Holy Spirit power.

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That baptism of continuous Holy
Spirit power is yet to come.

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The Lord Jesus.
Filled His men with Holy Spirit,

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He inspired them.
It’s And remember we said it the

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first day.
The more closely we find

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ourselves drawing the lines
between the New Testament work

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of the Holy Spirit and the way
that God worked through the

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power of His Holy Spirit and Old
Testament times, probably the

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closer we are to understanding
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And there, in Old Testament
times, the inspiration of the

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prophets was a punctuated
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Go back to the judgement judges.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon

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Samson.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon

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Samson.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon

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Samson.
They were punctuated events.

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And Samson did the mighty works
and still it is the soul here.

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This is not the ultimate, yet
this is a developmental work.

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The work of the Apostles was the
ongoing work of the glorified

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Lord Jesus.
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he’s in control.
Another example of that promise

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kept.
And now we come forward to the

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Apostle Paul.
We come to Acts 13 and we go

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from Jerusalem to Cyprus.
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stop, brothers and sisters, at
Antioch in Syria, up on the

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northeast corner there of the of
the Mediterranean Sea and there

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in the Ecclesia in Antioch,
there were certain prophets and

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teachers.
You can read of this at the

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beginning of Acts 13.
And they are fasting and

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praying.
And I have to believe, brothers

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and sisters, being the the nerve
center that Antioch had become

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for preaching the gospel, that
they are fasting and praying for

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direction from heaven.
What do we do next?

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Where do we go next?
Where do you want us to go To

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carry the gospel to a perishing
world?

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And then perhaps through the
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There in Antioch the Holy Spirit
says, separate to me, Barnabas

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and Saul, for the work where
until I have called them.

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And so, being sent out by the
Holy Spirit, that’s the Lord

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Jesus.
Accomplishing this by the power

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of the Holy Spirit.
Being sent out by the Holy

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Spirit, they, Barnabas and Saul
went down to Salucia, and from

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there they sailed to Cyprus, the
active role of heaven.

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And when they’d gone through the
island to Pappas, they found a

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certain sorcerer, a false
prophet, a Jew whose name was

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bar Jesus, who was with the pro
consul, Sergeus Paulus, an

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intelligent man.
And he was I I I think we’ll see

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some evidence of that
momentarily.

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This man called for Barnabas and
Saul that was intelligent.

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We’ll see more evidence.
And he sought to hear the word

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of God.
But Elimus the sorcerer, so his

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name is translated, interpreted.
We’ll talk about very briefly

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the interpretation of tongues,
but that’s the same word

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withstood them seeking to turn
the Pro Council away from the

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faith.
So here’s the adversary.

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We’ve got a variation on the
theme.

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They are now before a ruler, not
an adversarial ruler, but in his

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midst is 1 who’s the adversary?
And we’re going to see again the

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Lord Jesus taking control of
this situation and bringing a

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wonderful, wonderful result out
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Then Saul, who’s also called
Paul, filled with the Holy

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Spirit, looked intently at him
and said in that very hour.

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So this promise even applies to
the apostle Paul originally

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given in Luke’s gospel to the to
the 12 take away Judas, add

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Mathias.
But it applies to Paul as well.

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In that very hour.
And Paul’s experience invites

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comparison with Peters.
There is the Greek.

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And except that we’ve got Saul
and Peter.

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All right, you take a look.
Filled with the Holy Spirit,

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filled with spirit, holy.
Here, brothers and sisters, same

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Greek word, right down to the
verb parsing.

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Exactly the same.
Here we’ll see a similar kind of

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comparison.
And another time in the book of

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Acts.
This is a very, very similar

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experience to what Peter had
before the Council.

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And the just to to fill out this
verb parsing.

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It’s the aoris tense we spoke
of.

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It’s the passive voice.
So it’s done to Peter, it’s done

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to Paul.
It’s the participle.

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They’re filled at that moment
with the Holy Spirit.

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The Greek is exactly the same,
and the language is that of Holy

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Spirit, baptism and ad hoc
inspiration in New Testament

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times when it applies to special
empowerment.

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And so Paul says something that
none of us would dare to say.

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He has sensed this empowerment.
He has sensed the connection

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with heaven.
His will is entirely In Sync

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with that of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and when he opens his

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mouth, it’ll be the Lord, the
Lord’s words that He speaks.

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And he says to Elimus the hand
of the Lord is upon you.

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He’s not saying I’m going to put
my hands on you.

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He already has had by
inspiration, a knowledge of the

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judgment that Jesus is going to
carry out.

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The hand of the Lord is upon
you, and you shall be blind, not

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seeing the sun for a time.
And immediately a dark mist fell

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on him.
Paul’s put his neck in the noose

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here, and Jesus doesn’t let him
get hung.

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Immediately a dark mist fell on
him, fell on him.

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Remember yesterday?
Not all right.

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Where did it come from?
And he went around seeking

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someone to lead him by the hand
prophecy, the immediate

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fulfillment of prophecy.
Under inspiration, Paul

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prophesied this judgment of
Elimus.

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And Jesus carried out the
judgment.

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Paul was given a mouth and
wisdom, and his adversary was

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not able to contradict or
resist.

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And he went around groping for
somebody to lead him by the hand

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A man made blind, you know.
There we are.

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Isn’t it because he had
resisted?

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The truth just occurred to me.
Thank you, Brother Nitro.

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Thank you.
A dark mist fell on him.

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And it uses Holy Spirit baptism
language.

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Except that this intervention of
heaven came in the form of a

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miraculous judgment rather than
a gift that promised life.

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This is the great thing we see
of these events in the New

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Testament, brothers and sisters.
We see Jesus as the Savior of

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men through the power of the
Holy Spirit, and we also see

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them as the judge of men.
And if our friends in the

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religious world around us want
to claim those kind of powers

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for themselves, show us both
sides of the coin,

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categorically, unequivocally,
without any question, not just

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the saving power, but the
judgment power striking Anonizer

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Safira dead, would they dare do
it?

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Neither did Peter.
He pronounced the judgment and

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Christ did it.
And same here, the council

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believed, when he saw what had
been done, being astonished at

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the teaching of the Lord.
And it’s this praising that just

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says to me, this man is
intelligent because he’s

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perceived.
This is not just the preaching

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of Saul and Barnabas.
It’s not just their teaching

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about the Lord.
He has, I think, perceived and

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gotten right to the heart of the
matter.

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This is the teaching of the Lord
that he’s hearing.

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I will give you a mouth and
wisdom.

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This man, Sergeus Paulus, was an
intelligent man, and I think he

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recognized this truth in some
way.

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These were the words of heaven,
that he was hearing another

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promise.
Brothers and sisters, going back

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now again to the Gospels before
the Lord’s crucifixion, going to

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that series of of of chapters
John 14 to 16.

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And Jesus promises to his
apostles, whatever you ask in my

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name that I will do, that the
Father may be glorified in the

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Son.
If you ask anything in my name,

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I will do it.
Or in John 16 most assuredly I

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say to you, whatever you ask the
Father in my name, he will give

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you.
And I just want to highlight

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that that is again one of those
Holy Spirit baptism words that

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we looked at on Monday.
But I want for us to also see

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that this word is going to come
back in a moment in exactly this

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kind of setting in Acts, because
Jesus is inviting his apostles

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to pray, to pray for the help
that would come from his Father

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in Christ’s name.
Until now you’ve asked nothing

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in my name.
Ask and you will receive that.

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Your joy may be full.
And before we go over to Acts, I

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just want you to notice
something.

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There’s been a changing of the
guard here, in a sense.

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Previously, we looked at
promises that Luke recorded in

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his Gospel, and we look at his
fulfillment of those, or his

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record of the fulfillment and
acts.

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Now we’re going back and looking
at promises that Jesus made

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recorded in John’s Gospel, and
Luke will show us the

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fulfillment and Acts, and the
changing of the guard is

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seamless, such as the integrity
of the Gospels in the book of

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Acts, such as the integrity of
the New Testament, though the

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promise is recorded by John,
Luke will show us the keeping of

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the promise and we come to
Jerusalem and we come to Acts

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00:28:32,960 –> 00:28:37,760
chapter 4, and we come to the
sequel to the healing of the

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lame man and the interrogation
of the council, who threaten the

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00:28:42,680 –> 00:28:48,080
Peter and John and send them on
their way and they come back to

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their companions.
It picks up about verse 23 or

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00:28:51,320 –> 00:28:54,760
thereabouts, and in verse 29, I
want you to see what they’re

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00:28:54,760 –> 00:28:58,640
doing.
They are praying.

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00:29:00,170 –> 00:29:04,890
Whatever you ask the Father in
my name, he will give you.

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00:29:06,970 –> 00:29:11,730
And so they pray.
Now, Lord, look on their

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00:29:11,730 –> 00:29:19,050
threats, and give the same word.
Grant to your servants that with

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00:29:19,050 –> 00:29:22,970
all boldness they may speak your
word, and as their profile

447
00:29:22,970 –> 00:29:27,540
grows, so brothers and sisters
does the threat of persecution

448
00:29:27,540 –> 00:29:31,500
from the rulers, and by the
grace of God they will remain

449
00:29:31,500 –> 00:29:34,140
untouchable.
At least the apostles will for

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00:29:34,140 –> 00:29:36,220
some time yet to come.
James.

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No, ultimately he’s slain by
Herod, but the Apostolic College

452
00:29:41,140 –> 00:29:44,660
will remain largely intact up
until the time of the Jerusalem

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00:29:44,660 –> 00:29:49,340
conference.
With their center in Jerusalem,

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00:29:50,180 –> 00:29:54,620
they will remain untouchable in
in in most regards, not

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00:29:54,620 –> 00:29:58,940
entirely, but in most regards.
While even the persecution of

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00:29:58,940 –> 00:30:02,620
Sol of Tarsus will drive others
out, the apostles remain

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00:30:02,620 –> 00:30:06,020
untouchable in many, many
respects, and will perhaps try

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00:30:06,020 –> 00:30:09,220
to come back and and comment on
that if if time allows.

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00:30:10,580 –> 00:30:13,460
But here’s what they’re doing.
They’re they’re asking grant to

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00:30:13,460 –> 00:30:17,980
your servants that with all
boldness with their men like us,

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00:30:19,550 –> 00:30:24,190
they’ve just been threatened.
And they realize that along with

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00:30:24,190 –> 00:30:27,790
the power to speak the word,
they need to have the

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00:30:27,790 –> 00:30:32,470
reassurances of heaven that give
them the boldness to do this.

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00:30:33,230 –> 00:30:36,590
And so grant to your servants
that with all boldness they may

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00:30:36,590 –> 00:30:40,230
speak your word by stretching
out your hand to heal marvelous

466
00:30:40,230 –> 00:30:41,870
echo of the healing of the lame
man there.

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00:30:42,030 –> 00:30:45,150
When Peter stretched out his
hand to help that man up, that

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00:30:45,150 –> 00:30:49,710
was the hand of Jesus at that
moment.

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00:30:50,430 –> 00:30:56,070
Lifting that man up by
stretching out your hand to heal

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00:30:56,270 –> 00:30:59,430
and that signs and wonders may
be done through the name of your

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00:30:59,430 –> 00:31:03,870
holy servant, Jesus, whatever
you ask in my name.

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00:31:04,310 –> 00:31:06,310
And we’re getting an
interpretation of this now.

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00:31:06,510 –> 00:31:08,350
We’re getting an interpretation
of this now.

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00:31:08,910 –> 00:31:12,750
Preaching in the name of Jesus
in Jerusalem was dangerous work.

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00:31:14,350 –> 00:31:18,860
The apostles needed boldness.
They asked for boldness.

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00:31:19,020 –> 00:31:24,700
They were given boldness.
This prayer in the name of Jesus

477
00:31:24,700 –> 00:31:28,540
was not so much a formula of
words, brothers and sisters, as

478
00:31:28,540 –> 00:31:33,980
it was a request for help as the
apostles preached salvation in

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00:31:33,980 –> 00:31:36,580
the name of the glorified
Savior.

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00:31:37,380 –> 00:31:48,670
Or to put it another way, prayer
in the name of Jesus is prayer

481
00:31:48,870 –> 00:31:55,590
dedicated to his service.
When I began to realize that,

482
00:31:55,630 –> 00:32:00,710
thinking these things through,
I’ve had perhaps to examine my

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00:32:00,710 –> 00:32:04,510
own prayers a bit more
carefully, Are they truly,

484
00:32:04,510 –> 00:32:08,870
genuinely from my heart?
Prayers dedicated to his service

485
00:32:09,230 –> 00:32:12,150
that I can legitimately offer in
his name.

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00:32:12,870 –> 00:32:15,230
Not just prayers that
incorporate his name and the

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00:32:15,230 –> 00:32:20,510
phrasing.
We’ll come back to that promise

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00:32:20,510 –> 00:32:24,070
kept.
And so they said grant, Lord.

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00:32:24,070 –> 00:32:27,630
And when they had prayed, the
place where they were assembled

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00:32:27,630 –> 00:32:32,430
together was shaken, and they
were all filled with the Holy

491
00:32:32,430 –> 00:32:34,830
Spirit.
Now this is Peter and John and

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00:32:34,830 –> 00:32:38,310
their companions who almost
certainly must have include

493
00:32:38,510 –> 00:32:40,910
included the rest of the
apostles and perhaps some

494
00:32:40,910 –> 00:32:43,850
others.
But they were all filled with

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00:32:43,850 –> 00:32:47,130
the Holy Spirit and they spoke
the word of God with boldness.

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00:32:47,130 –> 00:32:49,250
And this is Holy Spirit baptism
language.

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00:32:49,410 –> 00:32:52,970
I’m going to ask you to to to
bear with me on this for another

498
00:32:52,970 –> 00:32:58,330
moment.
They spoke the word of God with

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00:32:58,330 –> 00:33:05,250
boldness, and that is going to
play out now through Acts 5 and

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00:33:05,250 –> 00:33:07,890
over into to to the end of Acts
5.

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00:33:11,020 –> 00:33:14,660
Boldness came with the
inspirations, the Holy Spirit

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00:33:14,660 –> 00:33:20,980
baptisms strengthening them to
continue preaching in Jerusalem,

503
00:33:21,220 –> 00:33:24,660
and the results, brothers and
sisters, of Acts 4 versus 29 to

504
00:33:24,660 –> 00:33:29,980
31 and the following verses into
chapter five were nothing less

505
00:33:29,980 –> 00:33:38,020
than a replication of Pentecost.
There was a Theophony on the day

506
00:33:38,020 –> 00:33:39,940
of Pentecost.
There was the rushing mighty

507
00:33:39,940 –> 00:33:44,060
wind and the tongues as a fire.
And now there is Earthquake.

508
00:33:45,540 –> 00:33:49,620
Let’s make no mistake about it.
When they had prayed, the place

509
00:33:49,620 –> 00:33:52,100
where they were assembled
together was shaken.

510
00:33:54,700 –> 00:33:57,300
There were the inspirations that
came.

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00:33:57,710 –> 00:33:59,990
Here’s Acts Two Day of
Pentecost.

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00:34:00,150 –> 00:34:02,030
They were all filled with the
Holy Spirit.

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00:34:02,190 –> 00:34:05,710
Here’s Acts 4 after Pentecost,
they were all filled with the

514
00:34:05,710 –> 00:34:08,830
Holy Spirit.
And it is not just the same in

515
00:34:08,830 –> 00:34:11,710
English.
There’s the Greek.

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00:34:15,230 –> 00:34:18,670
You find a way to fit a file
card edgewise between those.

517
00:34:20,670 –> 00:34:24,230
It’s exactly the same, exactly
the same phrasing.

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00:34:24,920 –> 00:34:28,520
There’s the word filled.
Again, there is the parsing of

519
00:34:28,520 –> 00:34:30,920
the verb.
It is aorist.

520
00:34:31,000 –> 00:34:32,920
It is passive.
It is indicative.

521
00:34:32,920 –> 00:34:36,280
In both cases, as simple as
statement of past action

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00:34:36,639 –> 00:34:39,159
performed on the apostles, as
you can have.

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00:34:39,360 –> 00:34:42,639
I don’t understand, but I’m not
a language expert and as I said

524
00:34:42,639 –> 00:34:45,960
yesterday, just a simple physics
teacher, in fact a retread

525
00:34:45,960 –> 00:34:48,840
engineer.
All right, so I don’t understand

526
00:34:48,840 –> 00:34:50,600
things of language.
You tell me how those are

527
00:34:50,600 –> 00:34:53,889
different.
Our theology makes them

528
00:34:53,889 –> 00:34:56,449
different.
Our theology says this is the

529
00:34:56,449 –> 00:34:58,890
baptism of the Holy Spirit, and
this is something different.

530
00:35:00,290 –> 00:35:02,890
And I thought that brothers and
sisters, I don’t see that.

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00:35:02,930 –> 00:35:06,450
I just don’t see it.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit.

532
00:35:06,450 –> 00:35:09,610
Yes, it came on Pentecost.
Jesus said categorically that it

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00:35:09,610 –> 00:35:12,090
would.
But hasn’t it again happened?

534
00:35:13,450 –> 00:35:17,330
I believe it has, because I
believe all of those events, as

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00:35:17,330 –> 00:35:20,290
we saw from a totally different
direction yesterday, were

536
00:35:20,290 –> 00:35:24,720
incipient events for the
promulgation of the gospel, the

537
00:35:24,720 –> 00:35:28,560
Great Commission, and ultimately
for the edifying of believers.

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00:35:30,720 –> 00:35:36,040
But the best has yet to come,
and the outcome’s the same.

539
00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:38,760
They began to speak the Word
with other tongues.

540
00:35:39,150 –> 00:35:40,990
They spoke the word of God with
boldness.

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00:35:40,990 –> 00:35:44,670
And on Friday, God willing, will
attempt to make some connections

542
00:35:44,670 –> 00:35:47,830
here between speaking with other
tongues and speaking the word of

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00:35:47,830 –> 00:35:49,310
God.
Because I believe on the day of

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00:35:49,310 –> 00:35:53,230
Pentecost, this is very much
what was was embodied in what

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00:35:53,230 –> 00:35:58,750
they spoke with tongues to the
Jewish people who understood,

546
00:35:59,110 –> 00:36:00,710
who understood what they were
hearing.

547
00:36:03,110 –> 00:36:09,010
Before we proceed, they often
need the same inspiration, the

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00:36:09,010 –> 00:36:11,890
same outcome, the same.
The apostles are involved in

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00:36:11,890 –> 00:36:15,690
both cases, so that’s the same.
And may I also say, brothers and

550
00:36:15,690 –> 00:36:18,970
sisters, that the greater
spiritual lesson in both Acts 2

551
00:36:18,970 –> 00:36:22,890
and Acts 4 is the same.
Even Acts 2, the Spirit filled

552
00:36:22,890 –> 00:36:24,330
the whole house where they were
sitting.

553
00:36:24,530 –> 00:36:28,970
And as we said on Monday, that’s
Old Testament temple language.

554
00:36:30,490 –> 00:36:35,330
And so they are now, in a sense,
the house in which God dwells by

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00:36:35,330 –> 00:36:38,820
his spirit.
You take a look at Acts 4.

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00:36:38,820 –> 00:36:42,140
Starting at verse 23, you’ll be
able to find at least a handful

557
00:36:42,140 –> 00:36:46,660
of details that also tell us
that this Harkins back to the

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00:36:46,660 –> 00:36:49,380
dedication of the temple.
In Second Chronicles chapter

559
00:36:49,380 –> 00:36:52,180
five and Second Chronicles
chapter 6, you’ll see those

560
00:36:52,180 –> 00:36:54,700
details.
This again is telling us that

561
00:36:54,700 –> 00:36:58,700
these men are the House of God
in whom God wishes to dwell.

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00:36:59,820 –> 00:37:02,700
So even the spiritual lessons
are the same in Acts 2 and Acts

563
00:37:02,700 –> 00:37:07,320
4I fail in my simplicity to see
how they are different in what

564
00:37:07,320 –> 00:37:14,720
they have to to, to to mean and
to and to teach us and the

565
00:37:14,720 –> 00:37:18,680
apostles prayer.
Lord grant to your servants

566
00:37:19,160 –> 00:37:23,000
continued to be answered.
God continued to stretch out his

567
00:37:23,000 –> 00:37:26,520
hand, granting signs and wonders
to be done in the name of the

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00:37:26,520 –> 00:37:29,440
glorified Jesus.
The active role of heaven

569
00:37:29,440 –> 00:37:31,240
continued and continued and
continued.

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00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:37,520
We go on to Acts 5 through the
hands of the apostles.

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00:37:38,200 –> 00:37:42,360
I like the phrasing there.
I particularly like the choice

572
00:37:42,360 –> 00:37:46,160
of the preposition.
It isn’t just by the hands of

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00:37:46,160 –> 00:37:49,960
the apostles.
It’s through the hands who’s

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00:37:49,960 –> 00:37:52,720
doing it through the hands of
the apostles.

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00:37:53,560 –> 00:37:57,960
I believe it’s the glorified
Lord Jesus Christ that this is

576
00:37:57,960 –> 00:38:03,960
his work and they are his men
and they are recognized.

577
00:38:04,560 –> 00:38:08,920
They have been with Jesus
through the hands of the

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00:38:08,920 –> 00:38:10,960
apostles.
Many signs and wonders were done

579
00:38:10,960 –> 00:38:14,760
among the people and they were
with one accord in Solomon’s

580
00:38:14,760 –> 00:38:18,480
porch.
Anytime we see this one Greek

581
00:38:18,480 –> 00:38:21,880
word 1 accord in the early
chapters of Acts, it’s a

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00:38:21,880 –> 00:38:25,360
reference to the apostles.
Brothers and sisters, you go

583
00:38:25,360 –> 00:38:28,800
back and look at Acts 1 long
about verse 1415.

584
00:38:28,960 –> 00:38:32,080
Look at Acts 2 verse one.
Look at the antecedents.

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00:38:32,280 –> 00:38:35,180
Look at the antecedent here
through the hands of the

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00:38:35,180 –> 00:38:37,180
apostles.
Many signs and wonders were done

587
00:38:37,180 –> 00:38:40,180
among the people, and they were
all with one accord in Solomon

588
00:38:40,180 –> 00:38:42,100
sports.
And in a sense it plays off

589
00:38:42,100 –> 00:38:46,460
against what we saw on Acts 1.
Judas was not with one accord

590
00:38:46,460 –> 00:38:49,020
with them, and he went to his
own place.

591
00:38:51,540 –> 00:38:55,260
And when the day of Pentecost
comes, Matthias and the Eleven

592
00:38:55,460 –> 00:38:57,820
are in one place with one
accord.

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00:39:00,090 –> 00:39:04,010
These are the ones that that
Luke is showing us that and are

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00:39:04,010 –> 00:39:07,490
being magnified to carry forth
the work of the Great

595
00:39:07,490 –> 00:39:09,850
Commission.
So through the hands of the

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00:39:09,850 –> 00:39:12,490
Apostles, many signs and wonders
were done among the people.

597
00:39:12,570 –> 00:39:16,090
They were all with one accord in
Solomon’s Porch, yet none of the

598
00:39:16,090 –> 00:39:20,370
rest dared join them.
But the people esteemed them

599
00:39:20,370 –> 00:39:23,690
highly.
And if you read 1/2 a dozen

600
00:39:23,690 –> 00:39:26,770
different expositors on verse
13, you’ll get a half a dozen

601
00:39:26,770 –> 00:39:28,890
different ideas as to what that
means.

602
00:39:31,410 –> 00:39:36,850
None of them, right.
That’s an arrogant statement.

603
00:39:36,930 –> 00:39:39,450
That is an arrogant statement,
brothers and sisters.

604
00:39:39,930 –> 00:39:45,370
And I may just as well be wrong,
but I believe what that’s saying

605
00:39:45,370 –> 00:39:54,370
is this was scary work, and it
was the work that Christ granted

606
00:39:54,370 –> 00:39:57,570
the gift of boldness to his
apostles to carry out.

607
00:39:58,050 –> 00:40:02,490
And the rest of the ecclesia
does not have to join them in

608
00:40:02,490 –> 00:40:05,850
this work.
It’s going to be bad enough when

609
00:40:05,850 –> 00:40:13,610
Saul of Tarsus has to track down
moving targets for them to have

610
00:40:13,610 –> 00:40:16,170
been stationary targets,
standing there with the rest of

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00:40:16,170 –> 00:40:21,260
the apostles.
The apostles are untouchable for

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00:40:21,260 –> 00:40:24,220
a couple of reasons.
The people esteemed them highly,

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00:40:24,220 –> 00:40:26,620
and you remember how they, even
the rulers, were afraid to take

614
00:40:26,740 –> 00:40:30,900
Jesus for the very same reason
they have to do it secretly.

615
00:40:32,740 –> 00:40:34,740
All right.
And there’s another reason

616
00:40:35,500 –> 00:40:39,900
because Saul of Tarsus, who
would ultimately spearhead the

617
00:40:39,900 –> 00:40:43,820
purge of Christians in
Jerusalem, had a mentor and his

618
00:40:43,820 –> 00:40:46,620
name was Camellia.
And very shortly Camellia is

619
00:40:46,620 –> 00:40:51,280
going to say, leave these men
alone, Leave these men alone.

620
00:40:52,720 –> 00:40:57,040
And so Paul may have honored the
the edict of his mentor, but I

621
00:40:57,040 –> 00:41:00,000
think he was bound and
determined to prove him wrong as

622
00:41:00,000 –> 00:41:03,120
he went after the the other
believers in Jerusalem.

623
00:41:03,120 –> 00:41:07,000
This was dangerous work and none
of them dared join with the

624
00:41:07,000 –> 00:41:10,480
apostles there in Solomon’s
court to do this at Solomon’s

625
00:41:10,480 –> 00:41:12,160
porch.
And they didn’t have to.

626
00:41:13,250 –> 00:41:15,450
Christ was working through them.
That doesn’t mean that the

627
00:41:15,450 –> 00:41:19,170
lovely old sister who learned
the truth from the apostles

628
00:41:19,290 –> 00:41:22,410
didn’t tell their neighbor,
didn’t tell their relatives,

629
00:41:22,410 –> 00:41:25,450
didn’t tell their friends.
I’m sure the truth went forward

630
00:41:25,450 –> 00:41:28,770
that way, as it does today.
But they didn’t have to stand up

631
00:41:28,770 –> 00:41:32,450
there with the apostles in
Solomon’s porch and be counted

632
00:41:33,650 –> 00:41:37,490
as those amongst the preachers
who are growing in their

633
00:41:37,490 –> 00:41:40,370
magnitude, because the Lord is
magnifying them.

634
00:41:41,730 –> 00:41:45,130
And with that growth of
magnitude comes the dangers as

635
00:41:45,130 –> 00:41:48,170
well.
The people esteemed them highly,

636
00:41:48,450 –> 00:41:54,450
and believers were added to the
to the, to the, to the body.

637
00:41:54,850 –> 00:41:57,650
Preaching was the work of the
apostles who asked for and

638
00:41:57,650 –> 00:42:00,290
received having special gift of
boldness.

639
00:42:01,930 –> 00:42:06,170
And believers were increasingly
added to the Lord multitudes of

640
00:42:06,170 –> 00:42:08,890
both men and women.
And that’s the language of

641
00:42:08,890 –> 00:42:14,050
Pentecost all over again.
It’s a language of Pentecost all

642
00:42:14,050 –> 00:42:17,530
over again.
The apostles seem brothers and

643
00:42:17,530 –> 00:42:23,250
sisters, at least from a
miraculous empowerment point of

644
00:42:23,250 –> 00:42:26,250
view.
The apostles seem to have had

645
00:42:26,250 –> 00:42:30,530
continuous access to God and His
Holy Spirit power.

646
00:42:30,690 –> 00:42:40,360
Whatever you ask, he will give
in my name, and we’ve seen the

647
00:42:40,360 –> 00:42:44,760
context now of how that works
out in the preaching of

648
00:42:44,760 –> 00:42:48,320
salvation.
There is no other name given

649
00:42:48,360 –> 00:42:51,960
under heaven amongst men whereby
we must be saved.

650
00:42:52,320 –> 00:42:55,880
The apostles have had access
continuously to God and his Holy

651
00:42:55,880 –> 00:42:59,560
Spirit power, rather than
continuous possession of

652
00:42:59,560 –> 00:43:03,200
miraculous power.
Their work was a work of ongoing

653
00:43:03,200 –> 00:43:07,680
partnership with God, in which
their will and the will of God

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became fully aligned.
They were all with one accord

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with God, and God was
exceedingly active and evident

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and fulfilling his role in the
partnership.

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In fact, he is the initiator of
these roles.

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And so they brought the sick
onto the streets and laid them

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on beds and couches that at
least the shadow of Peter

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passing by might fall on some of
them.

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There’s no Holy Spirit power in
Peter’s shadow, any more than

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there will be in Paul’s
handkerchiefs and aprons and

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Acts. 19 So who knows and has
the wisdom to heal these people

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when Peter’s shadow falls on
them, or when the handkerchiefs

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and aprons come to the afflicted
in in Asia?

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It’s the work of heaven,
brothers and sisters, in my

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estimation, it’s the work of the
glorified Lord Jesus Christ, and

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also a multitude gathered from
the surrounding cities to

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Jerusalem, bringing sick people
and those who were tormented by

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unclean spirits.
And they were all healed by

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stretching out your hand to heal
whatever you ask in my name.

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And when they, that is the high
priest and council, had called

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for the apostles and beaten
them, they commanded that they

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should not speak in the name of
Jesus and let them go.

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So they departed.
And now Gamalia has given his

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advice.
Leave these men alone.

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So they departed from the
presence of the council,

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rejoicing.
Comparing Acts, brothers and

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sisters with John, it’s evident
that prayer in the name of Jesus

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was petition related to serving
God.

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In the name of Jesus more than
it was a formula of words.

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They let them go, and so they
departed from the presence of

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the council, rejoicing that they
were counted worthy to suffer

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shame for his name.
What did Jesus said about the

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promise?
That your joy may be full and

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this causes us, brothers and
sisters, to stop and entirely

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redefine what joy means?
We have a wonderful time here at

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Bible school.
We can have a wonderful time in

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many of the things we do in
life.

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But here is joy that transcends.
And they were suffering shame

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for the name of Jesus, and daily
in the temple and in every

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house.
They, the apostles, did not

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cease.
Here’s the wonderful answer to

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that prayer.
Lord, grant your servants, and

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he does, and daily in the temple
and in every house.

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They did not cease teaching and
preaching.

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Jesus is the Christ.
Come what may come whatever the

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the rulers might bring against
them.

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Boldness, indeed.
Boldness indeed.

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And our time is gone.
You’ll have to look in your own

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notes, brothers and sisters, to
see how the apostles themselves

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will bear testimony to the way
that they were instruments in

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the hands of the Lord Jesus and
all the work that they did.

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There’s some comprehensive
statements, but let’s just turn

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to page 12 and we’ll we’ll bring
it to a conclusion here.

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Brothers and sisters, page 312.
The summary, Jeff, you just

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didn’t use that remote control
fast enough today.

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I don’t know.
Here we are.

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Every day in the life of an
apostle was an adventure in

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faith.
Peter, Paul, and the rest

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00:47:20,180 –> 00:47:25,220
ventured forth prayerfully to
serve in the name of Jesus,

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relying on the fact that God
would grant the power when

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needed to advance the cause of
the Great Commission.

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00:47:36,530 –> 00:47:40,610
The entire New Testament period
can be characterized as an

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ongoing, dynamic partnership
between God and Christ in heaven

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00:47:47,810 –> 00:47:50,450
and the Friends of Jesus on
earth.

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They took note that these men
had been with Jesus, and it’s

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for the purpose of offering the
gospel of salvation to a

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perishing world.
Pentecost was simply day one of

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the process, the day on which
the New Covenant was first

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offered to Israel as an Old
Covenant had been offered to

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their fathers at Mount Sinai on
the first Pentecost of their

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history.