Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 253.
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This is day five of the 2007
Palm Springs Bible School.
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This is day five of the 2007
Palm Springs Bible School.
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Our second period teacher is
Brother Jim Harper.
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His topic for the week is the
work of the Holy Spirit in the
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New in the New Testament.
And today’s class is the spirit
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gift of tongues or the gym.
Are you going to understand me?
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I hope.
Well, brothers and sisters, you
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you look at a subject like this.
The spirit gift of tongues.
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And it comes with its own built
in intrigue, doesn’t it?
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Whatever was this all about?
And I just hope at the end of
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the day you won’t feel that I’ve
been so speculative that we’ve
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been brought crashing down from
the mountain top because that’s
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where we’ve been brought to
already.
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The New Testament provides
several details.
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Related to the gift of tongues
that tell us something about the
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nature of what was spoken.
And these details are worth
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exploring biblically.
And I want to just run through a
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few of them quickly because
we’re not going to have time to
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run through them all.
Right Mark 16 verse 17, New
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tongues.
There’s the passage these signs
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will follow those who believe in
my name.
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They will cast out demons.
They will speak with new
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tongues.
Determining how the word new is
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used in both the New Testament
and the Greek Old Testament is a
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rewarding exercise, and I have
to leave it there.
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Acts 211.
The wonderful works of God.
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And this one we won’t end up
leaving alone, but we’ll come
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back to it.
But for the moment when they
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spoke in tongues, and here’s the
passage we’re told, we hear them
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speaking in our own tongues, the
wonderful works of God.
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What are the wonderful works of
God and why did Jews from all
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parts of the world recognize
them when they heard them?
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What is the unmistakable Old
Testament history behind this
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expression?
Acts 10, verse 46.
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Magnifying God.
They heard them speak with
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tongues and magnify God.
And I would suggest, brothers
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and sisters, we may have here a
figure of speech known as
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endiadis.
It’s the kind of thing that Luke
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does a lot with.
For example, we meet prayer and
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supplication in Acts one, and
they’re not two different
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things.
Or we meet full of wisdom in the
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Holy Spirit, and those aren’t
necessarily two different
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things, and I think here as
well.
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Let me just back up to that for
a moment.
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That tongues and magnifying God
are really part and parcel the
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same thing that when those in
the household of Cornelius spoke
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in tongues, what they were doing
was magnifying God.
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And as we saw yesterday, is it
mere coincidence that Luke
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provides A detailed example of
magnifying God in Mary’s song?
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It’s packed with Old Testament
allusions, brothers and sisters,
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to God’s redeeming work.
Substantive Supplement One in
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your notes.
Look at that later.
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Acts 19, verse 6 Prophesying.
When Paul laid hands on those
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disciples at ethicists, the Holy
Spirit came upon them.
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And they spoke with tongues and
prophesied.
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And I think we’ve got the same
kind of thing happening again,
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speaking with tongues and
prophesying are two different
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things in this context.
In fact, they’re identifiable
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with each other.
And is it again coincidence we
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saw this just briefly yesterday
much Puller notes on that in
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Supplement 1.
Is it again coincidence that
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Luke provides A detailed example
of prophesying under the
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empowerment of the Holy Spirit?
In Luke chapter one, And once
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more, the theme of God’s
redeeming work is fully evident.
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Here, 1st Corinthians 14.
Two.
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In the Spirit, he speaks
mysteries, and there’s the
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passage.
For he speaks in a tongue.
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He who speaks in a tongue does
not speak to men but to God.
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For no one understands him.
However, in the Spirit he speaks
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mysteries, and that would be
especially true, I think, in the
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Corinthians setting brothers and
sisters.
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But we can’t explore that at the
moment.
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But when Paul uses this term
mystery, or when it’s used
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elsewhere in the New Testament,
it isn’t just saying that
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there’s something enigmatic
here.
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The mysteries of God hidden the
hidden wisdom of God with him
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from the foundation of the
world, are being revealed to us
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by the tongues and determining
how the word mystery.
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Is used in both the New
Testament and the Greek.
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Old Testament is a very
rewarding exercise, and I’ll
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just add one point to that, an
extensive and exclusive use of
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this word.
The exact Greek word for mystery
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is found in Daniel Two in the
Septuagent, with one and only
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one more related use in Daniel
4, extensive and exclusive.
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What mystery was not only
revealed but interpreted in this
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Old Testament setting?
And you know the answer to that
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First Corinthians 14 and five,
unless indeed he interprets the
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gift of tongues in certain
circumstances, required a
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companion gift of
interpretation.
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And there’s one of those
passages he could say, I wish
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you all spoke with tongues, but
even more that you prophesied.
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In this case, there’s a
difference for he who
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prophesizes greater than he who
speaks with tongues, unless
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indeed he interprets that the
Church may receive edification.
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Now just say something here,
brothers and sisters, before we
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move on.
I fully sympathize with those
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who look at the day of Pentecost
and assuming that the 12
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apostles spoke in a variety of
foreign languages.
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Try to get around all the
difficulties there by supposing
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that there is also a spirit gift
or a miracle of hearing.
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The spirit gift of tongues, as
far as I can tell, never came
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with a companion gift of
hearing.
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It required a companion gift of
interpretation, and that’s
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different by far.
Tracking the many uses of the
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word interpret and its cognate
Greek words in the New Testament
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is a very useful exercise.
The two key ideas behind the
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word are translation and
exposition.
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So if one is to understand a
tongue in a context where it is
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not understood, there won’t be a
gift of hearing that reveals it.
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There will be a gift of
interpretation.
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Otherwise, the speaker was to
keep silence.
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And what are we to make of this
15 times out of 17 examples in
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the New Testament?
And these notes were done
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sometime between Thanksgiving
and now.
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I’d revise the numbers.
In fact, as I continue to read
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in the New Testament, I see the
numbers go up and I see the
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evidence converging.
Brothers and sisters, what are
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we to make of the fact that when
I did my notes 15 times out of
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17 examples in the New
Testament, the interpretation of
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a tongue translates Hebrew or
Aramaic words into Greek?
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The language of the New
Testament world for the purpose
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of clarifying what Jewish
expressions meant and you you
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can think of this in Hebrews
Melchizedek, King of Salem,
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which by interpretation is King
of Righteousness and King of
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Peace.
We’re told we’re given an
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exposition of Genesis 14 by the
simple interpretation of the
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Hebrew words there.
Of the two remaining examples
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that I’d found by this time, one
translates a word of unknown
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origin into Greek for the
purpose of clarifying its
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meaning, and that’s Elimus the
sorcerer.
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Your lexicons will say it’s
unknown origin, but we’re told
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it means sorcerer.
The other use of the term is
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from Luke 24 verse 27, where
it’s not so much a matter of
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translating from a language to a
language, but this marvelous
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experience which the apostles
had when Jesus expounded to them
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in all the scriptures the things
concerning himself.
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So the gift of interpretation
carries with it translation.
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And Exposition Supplement 2.
Now moving forward, Acts One,
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Acts 2 Acts 21.
Acts 22.
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Acts 26 and for the moment I
want to keep our focus on Acts
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two language as Luke uses it six
times and the word is only used
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by Luke in the New Testament.
Is the electors.
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Tongues of course, is glossa.
Luke uses two different words in
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the book of Acts.
The one language is always in
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the singular, the other tongues,
is in the plural on three of the
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six occasions, and this is a
tantalizing little detail.
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And you know, you gather up
these details and you look at
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them and you say, is there a
convergent conclusion on this?
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But on three of the six
occasions that Luke and only
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Luke uses the word language,
it’s qualified by Hebrew, and
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those are in Luke 21, Luke 22
and Luke 26 respectively.
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For example, Paul.
On another Pentecost, mind you,
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about to be ripped limb from
limb by the Jews of Jerusalem,
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gathered, there was given
permission by the captain of the
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guard to stand on the stairs
motion with his hands and speak
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to the people, And when there
was a great silence, he spoke to
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them in the Hebrew language,
saying.
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Brethren and fathers, hear my
defence before you now.
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And when they heard that he
spoke to them in the Hebrew
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language, they kept all the more
silent.
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So also, when a man on the way
to Damascus is arrested and
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stopped in his tracks by the
resurrected Lord Jesus, the Lord
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Jesus speaks to this man in the
language that he would
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understand.
Jesus spoke to him in the Hebrew
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language.
If you want to get the attention
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of an unbelieving Jew, speak to
him in his own language.
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The 4th occasion outside of Acts
2 is an Acts one, verse 19, and
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there the Aramaic name Akeldama
or Akeldama is translated for
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Greek readers and I don’t know
what it is in Greek.
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So thankfully our English
translators have brought it over
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to English Akhil Dama.
I don’t know what that means.
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I’m told it’s the field of
blood.
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The Aramaic is categorically
called their own language, with
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obvious reference to the
language of the Jewish people.
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Are we to make anything of the
fact?
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Brothers and sisters and I I
throw these out as much as
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questions, and not just
attempting to to to browbeat you
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with ideas?
Here are we to make anything of
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the fact that on the day of
Pentecost every Jew at Jerusalem
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heard the apostles speak in his
own language.
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Luke virtually repeats the
expression of Acts 119.
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The universal response was we
hear each in our own language,
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and I know that’s creating as
many questions as it solves.
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Again, Luke virtually repeats
the expression of Acts one,
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verse 19, and so we’re we’re
left in Acts 2 where he doesn’t
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qualify it.
And so if I wish I could say,
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well, if all the other cases
it’s a reference to Hebrew, it
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must be so here.
But the other side of the coin
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is just as true.
If he doesn’t qualify it in Acts
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2, it may be because it isn’t
Hebrew.
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So we really can’t conclude
brothers and sisters and all the
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time our questions Well, if it’s
Hebrew, if it’s one language,
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what do we do with tongues?
What do we do with tongues,
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which clearly is plural?
What are we to make of the fact
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that Acts 2 speaking with other
tongues, plural in our own
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language, singular?
Has so many similarities, in
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contrast with the Babel story of
Genesis 11, and that’s one of
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the other appendices or
supplements.
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Was the day of Pentecost just
more of the same, a multiplicity
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of languages, or did it point
forward to God’s promise
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restoration of 1 pure language?
With which men will call on him
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with one consent.
Now just comment here brothers
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and sisters, you read the
literature and time and time and
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time again expositors will tell
us categorically the apostles or
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sometimes it’s 120 depending on
your your theological starting
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point.
That they spoke with foreign
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languages.
In fact, you read some
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literature.
There were 15.
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There was a language of the
Parthians and the Meads and the
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Elamites and the Mesopotamians
and the Judeans and the
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Cappadocians and all the rest of
those folks. 15 In fact, we’re
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told I have yet to find an
expositor, brothers and sisters,
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that comes to grips with the
Babel effect.
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Because God imposed different
languages for what reason?
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To drive men apart, not to bring
them together.
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And it’s tempting to lapse off
into some further discussion of
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that.
And I’m trying to cover these
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quickly because I’m not covering
them all.
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Right, now supplement for it.
I’ll leave you there.
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We’ll touch on this just a bit.
Perhaps more.
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One other point I just want to
mention, which you’re perhaps
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well aware of.
One other observation that I’d
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like to make.
The King James refers to the
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gift of tongues as an unknown
tongue, and does so six times
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and always within One
Corinthians 14.
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The word unknown does not occur
in the New Testament Greek.
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It’s the efforts of the
translators and they were
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wonderful.
Translators read the book.
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What is it?
The the, the, the, the men of
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King James.
The King James’s men.
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What I can’t remember the the
title of the book.
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Marvelous, marvelous discussion
of of the people who made-up
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those committees that did the
King James translation.
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And in their effort, brothers
and sisters, to help us to
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understand, they introduced the
word unknown, and perhaps it
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should have remained unknown.
It doesn’t help.
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Doesn’t help.
Doesn’t help.
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Several modern versions omitted.
We must be careful, I think,
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based on the King James, not to
make an incorrect assumption
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about the nature of tongues
based on that reading.
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Almost certainly the tongues
that were miraculously spoken
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were well known, even if under
certain circumstances.
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The salvational power in the
words required interpretation
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for some listeners and I’m not
sure.
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I don’t see any hint of it that
it required interpretation in
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Jerusalem on the day of
Pentecost.
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It might well do so in Greek
speaking Corinth, but I don’t
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see any hint of that added gift
on the day of Pentecost in
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Jerusalem.
And so we’re finally ready to
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start.
What was the nature of the
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spirit gift of tongues and New
Testament times?
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And to be honest with your
brothers and sisters, I’ll only
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address this incidentally from
here on out.
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Because when all is said and
done, if we just hammer away at
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this, we will come down from the
mountain top.
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What can we learn about the
inspired message that tongues
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conveyed?
And that’s where I really want
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to focus the rest of our
attention.
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Because the word of God, if
that’s where we will go, and we
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will, will not let us
necessarily come down from that
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mountaintop.
Speculation might, but the word
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of God won’t.
And how did the interpretation
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of tongue serve to edify those
who heard?
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Well, we’ve in a sense already
answered that.
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If it interprets and expounds,
it edifies.
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And we have three different
areas.
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That we won’t go to.
I only want to pick up the
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second one, The Wonderful Works
of God, and spend the rest of
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our time looking at this.
That’s the one from The Day of
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Pentecost in your notes.
It’s on page 510.
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We just need to remember the
setting, brothers and sisters,
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and then let a bit of Bible
study carry us where it will.
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On the day of Pentecost, the
apostles of Jesus began to
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fulfill the Great Commission
that they had received from him.
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Whatever else, the gift of
tongues must be understood as
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related to that here it is.
You should receive power when
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the Holy Spirit has come upon
you, and you shall be witnesses
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to me in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the
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end of the earth.
And it will start in Jerusalem
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on the day of Pentecost.
The gift of tongues that Jesus
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gave his apostles that day in
Jerusalem empowered them to
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begin their witness of his
Messiah ship.
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And if we can stay close to that
last portion, that last part of
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the expression, we can stay at
the mountain top, brothers and
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sisters.
And so on the day of Pentecost,
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they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and began to speak
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with other tongues as the Spirit
gave them utterance.
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Now just comment here because it
crosses my mind as I say this as
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the Spirit gave them.
Utterance is in the imperfect
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tense.
And again, I’m not a great
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language scholar, but I
understand that means
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incompleted or ongoing action.
There’s plenty of evidence to
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suggest that the apostle stayed
completely together as a group
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sitting and as the Spirit gave
them utterance.
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An apostle would stand and say
what Christ inspired him to say.
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And when Christ was finished
inspiring him, he sat down and
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another would stand and say what
he was inspired to say.
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And sit down gave is in the
imperfect tense and suggests A
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continuing kind of action.
And why do I say they were
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together, brothers and sisters?
Because you can remember when at
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last the detractors or detractor
in the crowd said they’re These
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men are full of new wine.
What an irony that is.
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New wine, indeed new wine is put
into new wine skins, new wine.
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Peter rose with the 11 try to
get 12 drunk men to do that at
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one time and he spoke and he
spoke in one language and they
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all understood it.
There would have been at least 2
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languages that they all
understood.
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Greek in Hebrew, the Greek,
which would have been the
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vernacular, so to speak, in the
Hebrew, which they always heard
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or read every Sabbath day in
their synagogues.
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Except May I suggest, brothers
and sisters, that now if that’s
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the way the apostles spoke, the
rabbis read it in the
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synagogues.
These are gramatos and idiotes.
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Cited it impeccably, without a
scroll in their hands, and
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everybody was riveted.
And may I just then add to that.
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Rather than thinking of them
speaking in the language of the
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Parthians or the Meads or the
Elamites, think of them speaking
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in the dialects of Hebrew that
they were used to hearing in
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those synagogues.
Are not all these who speak
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Galileans?
And then the maid said to Peter,
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you’re one of them, You’re a
Galilean, because your speech
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betrays you.
But now there’s no betrayal of
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the speech and the sibilance
that might have come from
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Galilee.
They frame to pronounce them
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Shibboleth, and they are
understood in the dialects, and
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everybody else hearing knows the
language.
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And even though the dialect may
vary from synagogue region to
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synagogue region, they know what
they’re hearing.
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We do here in our own tongues
and our own Hebrew dialects, the
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wonderful works of God.
We’re going to want to explore
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what that is.
I just suggest that brothers and
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sisters, they began to speak in
other tongues that transformed
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them from these Galileans from
the other side of the tracks
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into men that even their
adversaries had to stand and
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listen to with their mouths open
as they perhaps cited scripture
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after scripture without a scroll
in their hands.
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Just imagine, just imagine if
now, here in English, someone
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stood up and cited Psalm 71
without the Bible open and
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someone else Psalm 106.
I think we’d all say what’s what
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does this mean?
What does this mean?
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Just a bit of imagination there,
brothers and sisters, but it has
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to be relevant.
It has to be relevant.
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This is the beginning of the
witness to Christ.
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Everything the apostles said
that day was guided by heaven
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for a single purpose to prepare
Jewish hearts to receive the
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saving truth that Jesus of
Nazareth is the glorified Christ
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of Israel.
That’s what it’s all focusing on
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and leading up to anything
remotely chaotic.
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Any Babel effect, anything
unintelligible, could not have
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carried the day.
Had it been so.
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The reaction to these men, who
have absolutely no credentials
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of their own, would have been
so, so chaotic, and so just
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demeaning and and rejecting, in
my estimation, that instead of
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Christianity, as it were,
getting off on a good start,
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Christianity on the day of
Pentecost would have died of
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borning.
They’re riveted potential
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enemies in the crowd of
listeners, chief priests,
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scribe’s elders, were all but
disarmed by the miracle of
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tongues.
Otherwise the apostles who
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spoke, every one of them a
despised Galilean, would have
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drawn ridicule rather than
wonder, and the day would have
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almost certainly ended in
failure, died of warning.
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No serious opposition was
mounted against the apostles
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when they spoke with other
tongues, and the day of
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Pentecost was an unprecedented
success.
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What the worshippers knew that
they were hearing when the
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apostles spoke with tongues was
surely A contributing factor to
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the success of the day.
We hear them speaking in our own
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tongues, the wonderful works of
God.
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So they’re all amazed and
perplexing to one another.
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Whatever could this mean?
Well, you you couldn’t want
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something better as a teacher.
And to have the students finally
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come to the point where they’re
asking, you know they’re ready
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for the answer, What does this
mean?
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And Peter will give them the
answer.
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What, brothers and sisters to
the Jewish mind are the
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wonderful works of God?
It’s the redemption of Israel.
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It’s the redemption of Israel,
God’s redemption of his people.
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Is that not relevant?
Pentecost.
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God’s law given at Sinai, only
now a new covenant being made
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with those people.
How did the Jews come?
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By their common knowledge of the
wonderful works of God.
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And the answer is the Hebrew
scriptures, which they heard
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read in their synagogues every
Sabbath day.
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Here’s Luke’s word and all I’ve
done is a screen capture from my
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online Bible with the Strong’s
numbers turned on.
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Acts 2, verse 11.
Cretans and Arabs.
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After that long list of of
perhaps dialogues rather than
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languages, we dialects.
I mean Cretans and Arabs.
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We hear them speaking in our own
tongues.
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The wonderful works of God.
There it is.
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And there’s the Lexicon entry.
All right, you can read the
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Greek as well as I Luke uses it.
He only uses it twice.
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Once is here in Acts 2 and the
others in Luke 149.
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Mary’s song.
He who is mighty has done great
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things for me and Holy is His
name.
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And here in Acts two, we hear
them speaking in our own
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tongues.
The wonderful works of God
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Pentecost there, Merry song
there, And this word, brothers
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and sisters.
And here’s what I say.
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Let’s let the Bible study, lead
us to our ending thoughts and
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try to keep us high on the
mountain with our Lord.
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This word that Luke uses is rich
in Old Testament associations.
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This is the beauty of having a
computer and having the power of
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a modern day search engine and
being able to take his word and
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just run back into the Septuagin
without knowing a stitch of
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Greek and finding its use over
and over and over again and
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saying to yourself, wow, here we
are, Exodus 6, Septuagint
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English version.
So here will be an English
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rendering of a Septuagint
version of Exodus 6, verse 6.
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Go speak to the children of
Israel saying, I am the Lord and
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I will lead you forth from the
tyranny of the Egyptians, and I
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will deliver you from bondage,
and I will ransom you with a
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high arm and great judgment.
And I’ll highlight every time
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that word or one of its cognate
words, it it comes out in this
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context.
We’ll see a couple of contexts.
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And I think brothers and sisters
will have to say to ourself,
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this is, this is wonderful
stuff.
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It’s the word of God, Exodus 14.
And Israel saw the mighty hand,
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the great work which the Lord
did to the Egyptians.
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And the people feared the Lord,
and they believed God and Moses
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his servant.
And this now is the great
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deliverance at the Red Sea.
Stand still and see the
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salvation of the Lord.
And they saw the mighty work.
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Deuteronomy 4 God has a Sade to
go and take to himself a nation
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out of the midst of another
nation, with trial and with
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signs and with wonders.
Where do we hear that language?
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Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved by God amongst you by
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miracles and wonders and signs
which God did by Him, as you
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yourselves also know him, being
by the determinant counsel and
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foreign knowledge of God, you
have taken with wicked hands,
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have crucified and slain whom
the God has raised up miracles,
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wonders, and signs.
And so the Apostles went forth,
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and they did wonders and signs
as well.
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The language that we read of in
the early chapters of of of Acts
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is Exodus language.
God has a say to go and take to
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himself a nation out of the
midst of another nation, with
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trial and with signs, and with
wonders, with war, and a mighty
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hand, and with a high arm, and
with great sights, according to
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all the things which the Lord
our God did in Egypt, in thy
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sight.
Deuteronomy 11 And ye shall know
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00:34:11,679 –> 00:34:14,880
this day.
For I speak not to your
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children, who know not, and have
not seen the discipline of the
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Lord thy God and his wonderful
works.
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That is exactly Luke’s word, his
wonderful works, and his strong
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hand and his high arm.
That’s Luke’s word in Acts 2.
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00:34:34,719 –> 00:34:40,639
And in Mary’s song, well, it’s
the word that Luke records.
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00:34:41,719 –> 00:34:45,480
Deuteronomy 26 And the Lord
brought us out of Egypt himself,
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with his great strength and his
mighty hand and his high arm,
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00:34:50,320 –> 00:34:55,040
and with great visions, and with
signs, and with wonders.
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00:34:57,210 –> 00:35:03,130
Deuteronomy 34 As it comes to
its climax, there rose up no
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more a prophet in Israel until
now.
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00:35:11,010 –> 00:35:14,850
There rose up no more a prophet
in Israel like Moses, whom the
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Lord knew face to face in all
the signs and wonders which the
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Lord sent him to work in Egypt
on Pharaoh and his servants, and
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00:35:24,410 –> 00:35:30,730
all his land, the great wonders
and the mighty hand which Moses
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displayed before all Israel.
And they were to remember
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00:35:38,130 –> 00:35:41,530
hearing judges.
The people served the Lord all
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00:35:41,530 –> 00:35:44,850
the days of Joshua and all the
days of the elders that lived
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many days with Joshua, as many
as knew all the great work of
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the Lord.
What things he had wrought in
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Israel, you must remember.
Tell them to your children.
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What do you mean by this
sacrifice?
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00:36:06,760 –> 00:36:10,240
And so we come over into the
time of the kings, and they’re
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00:36:10,240 –> 00:36:14,000
reminded.
The Lord brought you up out of
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the land of Egypt with great
strength and with a high arm.
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Him shall ye fear, and him shall
ye worship.
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To him shall you sacrifice.
And they did remember, and yet
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in a way they didn’t.
They might remember the passages
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of Scripture.
But what about the meaning?
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00:36:39,740 –> 00:36:44,300
They forgot God that saved them,
and it wrought great deeds in
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00:36:44,300 –> 00:36:50,180
Egypt, wondrous works in the
land of Ham, and terrible things
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00:36:50,180 –> 00:36:59,220
at the Red Sea.
Psalm 35 For I know that the
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Lord is great, and our Lord is
above all gods, who smote the
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00:37:05,360 –> 00:37:08,120
first born of Egypt, both of man
and beast.
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00:37:08,280 –> 00:37:12,920
He sent signs and wonders into
the midst of the, O Egypt on
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00:37:12,920 –> 00:37:15,400
Pharaoh, and on all his
servants.
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00:37:17,720 –> 00:37:23,160
Jeremiah, thou didst bring out
thy people, Israel, out of the
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00:37:23,160 –> 00:37:26,960
land of Egypt, with signs and
with wonders, with a mighty hand
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00:37:26,960 –> 00:37:30,520
and with a high arm, and with
great sights.
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00:37:32,950 –> 00:37:36,750
And even Steven picks this up in
his defense.
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00:37:37,270 –> 00:37:42,710
He brought them out after he had
shown wonders and signs in the
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00:37:42,710 –> 00:37:47,590
land of Egypt and in the Red
Sea, and in the wilderness 40
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00:37:47,590 –> 00:37:52,750
years.
But the associations just don’t
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00:37:52,750 –> 00:37:57,270
end there.
Brothers and sisters, this
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00:37:57,270 –> 00:38:01,110
concept of the wonderful works
of God have another Old
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00:38:01,110 –> 00:38:05,040
Testament context.
If you go back to Mary song and
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you don’t need to turn to it now
in in Luke one verse 49, you’ll
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00:38:10,280 –> 00:38:15,920
have a cross reference back to
Psalm 71 or Psalm 70 in the
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Septuagint.
And here it is the wonderful
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works of God.
Oh, God, Thou hast taught me
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from my youth.
And until now will I declare thy
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00:38:36,600 –> 00:38:42,120
wonders, even until I am old and
advanced in years.
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00:38:42,120 –> 00:38:47,640
Oh God forsake me, not until I
have declared thine arm to all
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00:38:47,640 –> 00:38:53,360
the generation that is to come,
even thy power and thy
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00:38:53,360 –> 00:38:56,600
righteousness.
Oh God, up to the highest
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00:38:56,600 –> 00:39:01,160
heavens, even the mighty works.
There it is.
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That’s Luke’s word.
Even the mighty works which thou
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00:39:05,450 –> 00:39:13,730
hast done so in the the
consequence of the enunciation,
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00:39:14,010 –> 00:39:21,330
Mary says, the Lord has done to
me great things, mighty works,
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00:39:22,890 –> 00:39:25,690
even the mighty works which thou
hast done.
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00:39:25,970 –> 00:39:32,650
Oh God, who is like thee?
There’s Luke’s word, But read
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00:39:32,650 –> 00:39:36,650
on, Read on, my brother and
sister.
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00:39:36,650 –> 00:39:42,170
Read on.
What afflictions many in sore
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00:39:42,170 –> 00:39:48,850
hast thou showed me, yet thou
didst turn and quicken me.
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00:39:51,330 –> 00:39:58,450
We have moved from a national
redemption to a personal
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00:39:58,530 –> 00:40:02,870
redemption.
Whatever can this mean?
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00:40:03,390 –> 00:40:08,470
Whatever can this mean?
What afflictions many and sore
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00:40:08,470 –> 00:40:12,110
has thou showed me?
Yet thou didst turn and quicken
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00:40:12,110 –> 00:40:16,870
me, and broughtest me again from
the depths of the earth.
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00:40:18,710 –> 00:40:22,230
Thou didst multiply thy
righteousness, and didst turn,
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00:40:22,230 –> 00:40:28,310
and comfort me, and broughtest
me again out of the depths of
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00:40:28,310 –> 00:40:36,310
the earth, and read on.
I will also, therefore, give
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00:40:36,310 –> 00:40:40,110
thanks to thee, O God, because
of thy truth.
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00:40:40,590 –> 00:40:46,110
On an instrument of Somadi, I
will sing psalms to thee on the
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00:40:46,110 –> 00:40:51,630
Harpo, Holy one of Israel.
My lips shall rejoice when I
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00:40:51,630 –> 00:40:56,110
sing to thee and my soul, which
thou hast redeemed.
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00:40:57,510 –> 00:41:06,150
Moreover, also my tongue, I
suggest, brothers and sisters,
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00:41:06,630 –> 00:41:11,230
in addition to the tongues, as
it were the dialects that they
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00:41:11,230 –> 00:41:14,790
understood and could recognize,
though they might not always be
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00:41:14,790 –> 00:41:20,830
their own, was also the tongue
of their glorified Lord.
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00:41:22,110 –> 00:41:27,020
My tongue shall dwell all the
day upon thy righteousness, when
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00:41:27,020 –> 00:41:29,980
they shall be ashamed and
confounded, that seek my hurt,
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00:41:33,260 –> 00:41:35,260
and think about the role of the
apostles.
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On that day, brothers and
sisters, and come to Psalm 145
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00:41:42,540 –> 00:41:50,220
The Lord is great, and greatly
to be praised, and there is no
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00:41:50,220 –> 00:41:56,250
end to his greatness.
Generation after generation
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00:41:56,250 –> 00:42:01,930
shall praise thy works, and tell
of thy power, and they shall
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00:42:01,930 –> 00:42:09,610
speak of the glorious majesty of
thy holiness, and recount thy
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00:42:09,610 –> 00:42:14,290
wonders.
And so they began to speak with
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00:42:14,290 –> 00:42:18,770
other tongues as the Spirit gave
them utterance.
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They shall speak and recount thy
wonders.
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00:42:23,730 –> 00:42:28,130
We do hear them speak in our own
tongues the wonderful works of
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00:42:28,130 –> 00:42:36,610
God, and they shall speak of the
power of thy terrible acts, and
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00:42:36,610 –> 00:42:43,450
recount thy greatness.
They shall utter the memory of
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00:42:43,450 –> 00:42:48,490
the abundance of thy goodness,
and shall exult in thy
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00:42:48,490 –> 00:42:55,220
righteousness.
The Lord is compassionate and
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00:42:55,220 –> 00:43:01,660
merciful, long-suffering and
abundant in mercy.
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00:43:02,540 –> 00:43:08,460
The Lord is good to those that
wait on him, and His compassions
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00:43:09,060 –> 00:43:15,340
are over all His works.
Whatever could this mean?
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00:43:16,220 –> 00:43:22,900
Whatever could this mean?
And so, brothers and sisters,
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we’ve already looked at the
possible scenario and our time
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00:43:31,660 –> 00:43:36,460
has run its course.
Does it?
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Is it just possible that the
relevance is there in a witness
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00:43:51,040 –> 00:44:02,920
to the mighty wonders of God?
God has visited his people and
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00:44:02,920 –> 00:44:16,390
has redeemed Israel, and they
stood there and they listened,
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00:44:19,050 –> 00:44:22,930
and Peter could give a message
of hope, whatever, whatever can
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00:44:22,930 –> 00:44:31,690
we do, what have we done?
And the simple and consoling
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00:44:31,690 –> 00:44:42,810
message Repent.
Be baptized in the name of Jesus
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Christ for the forgiveness of
your sins and you you shall
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00:44:53,120 –> 00:44:56,720
receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit.
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God bless you.
Thank you for the gym.
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