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Acts 2-Message of Pentecost - Part 3 of 4 Alright, you will turn with me at Acts chapter 2 and we had looked at the events that took place on a day of Pentecost. We start the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost and we saw Peter; the leader of the twelve, standing up to explain to the people of Israel there in Jerusalem on a what had taken place because they were wondering, what does this mean? And so, we start his message. We saw that he focused on the back at number one, what took place on the day of Pentecost? It was something that was prophesied in the old testament scripture by the prophet Joel. It wasn’t a fulfilment of Joel’s prophecy but it was at least the partial fulfilment. This is what Joel spoke about it was coming to pass. And then we saw his message last Sunday morning where he preached beginning in verse 22 down to verse 36. And we start to focus off his message was on the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. That Jesus of Nazareth was the son of God. He had been proved so by the miracles, wonders and signs which God did through Him in the midst, they knew that. They had taken Him even in spite of the proof. They had taken Him by lawless hands and they crucified Him, put Him to death but God had raised Him from the dead. And that was also a fulfillment of prophecy. The old testament has prophecy about the resurrection of Christ. And he quoted to them from David’s prophecy in Psalm 16. Well, look at verse 27. It says,” You will not leave my soul in Hades nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption”. That’s talking about Christ. David is prophesying in behalf of Christ. Christ soul was not left in Hades, the abode of the dead. His flesh could not see corruption. Verse 28, “You may have known to me the place of life and you will make me full of joy in your presence”. The ways of life, it points to resurrection. His fullness of joy in your presence is His exaltation and His ascension to the right hand of God. And then it goes on and explains to, let me tell you freely that the patriot David is dead. He is buried. His grave is with us to this day. David is not just talking about himself, he’s talking about the greater son of David, the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at verse 32. “This Jesus, God has raised up which we are all witnesses. Therefore, being exalted to the right hand of God having receive from the Father, the promise of the Holy Spirit; He the Lord Jesus Christ poured out this which you now see in here”. He poured out the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost having receive the promise from His Father. For David did not ascend into the heavens but he says himself, “The Lord said to my Lord sitteth my right hand until I make your enemies yours foots to”. Now, that is also a psalm of David, the 110th song. We cut off kind of right here and didn’t get the chance to look at this and I want to go back and look at this, because the Lord Jesus quoted this very same passages scripture to the Jewish rulers back the week before He was crucified. So, turn back with me for just a second to Matthew chapter 22, it replaces here. Now, look at Matthew chapter 22. When Jesus made a triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the Jewish rulers were very upset about it. They were upset that the people were pronouncing Him to be Israel’s king, Messiah. The one who comes in the name of the Lord. So, they tried to entangled Jesus in His feet trying a number of different attempts, and everyone of them failed. They’re asking question and He would answer. And they were just put to shame as far their wisdom versus His wisdom. And so, at close of that, He asked them a question. Look at me in verse 41. Matthew 22:41, “While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question saying, what do you think about the Christ? Whose son, is He?”. Now, he didn’t ask them what do you think about me? Although in effect that’s what the question was. Why did he ask? What do you think about who? The Christ, they believed in the Christ. They believe in the Messiah who’s going to come and save them and deliver them from their enemies. And so forth and so, He asked them, what do you think about the Christ? Then He asked, whose son, is He? And so, they said to Him, “He is the son of David”. Now, is that true?

Acts 2 - Message of Pentecost - Part 2 of 4 Alright, we begin looking a couple of weeks ago at the day of Pentecost what many people believe to be the birthday of the church; the body of Christ. But as we have seen in these studies, everything that has taken place is Jewish in nature, Jewish in character. This is a Jewish feast day, a Pentecost celebrated in Jerusalem, capital city of the Jews. This was the fulfillment of the day of Pentecost because Pentecost is always pointed to the coming of the Holy Spirit. God prophesied and promised pouring out of His Holy spirit upon His people in Israel preparing them to receive the King and their kingdom and that’s what it was for. It was a baptism not just of the indwelling presence of the spirit but a baptism of power, it was accompanied by signs particular the signs of tongues so that the people that were there, Jews from every nation could understand either in their own language the hidden Word of God, the wonderful works of God, as it was preached by the apostles that were there. The people as they experienced this were amazed. In another place, they were confused. It didn’t make sense. Everybody who was speaking were Galileans and yet, they can all understand in their own languages, their own dialects what was being said. And so, some of them were wondering, what could this mean? And others were mocking and say, “Well, these people are drunk. They must be”. And in order for to explain what’s going on. So, Peter stood up, the leader of the twelve, the one who have been given the keys in the kingdom by the Lord Jesus Christ in Mathew 16 and he told them. He said, “This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel”. Joel prophesied that in the last days of the latter days of God’s dealings with Israel, God would pour out his fear upon all flesh. He would pour out his fear upon the people of Israel and they would be signs. There would be dreams and visions, there would be prophecy. All of these things would take place and there are even these signs that would precede the second coming of Christ, the day of the Lord when He will come back of this earth. So, what took place in the day of Pentecost is really since not the beginning of something, it’s really kind of the end of something. It was the end of the beginning of the end of Gods dealing with Israel. Now, what Peter did not say was this fulfills what was spoken by the prophet Joel. It was not a fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy and the reason that it was not fulfilled is because in order for the Lord to come back to this earth, in order for that Kingdom to be established, what had to happen? That nation of people had to repent. Not just a remnant of it, not just a little flock as it believed in the Lord Jesus ministry. But that nation had to repent of crucifying the Lord Jesus Christ, receive Him as their king, believe that He was the Lord and Christ, and that did not happen. And that’s why the day of the Lord did not occur. But what he clearly says is this is something that was a subject of prophecy. And when you look at the church of the body of Christ and look at the truth that God made known through Paul concerning the church, we know that that truth was a mystery. We know that it was not the subject of prophecy.

The message of pentecost. Part 1 of 4 We began looking last Sunday morning at the miracle of Pentecost. When the day of Pentecost had fully come, this was a Jewish feast day, but it was a feast that prophetically pictured the pouring out of God’s fear upon Israel which is a part of the redemption that God had planned for his people, but now that day was fully realized because the Holy Spirit had come. The apostles are gathered there, the 12 apostles, 120 disciples are there at Jerusalem waiting for the promise of the Spirit all on one accord and then suddenly astound from heaven comes like a rushing muddy wind, fill the whole house where they’re all sitting and they’re all filled with the Holy Spirit. So… something they heard, then it were something they saw, they appeared to them divided on cloven tongues like fire that sat upon each one of them; and the Holy Spirit came upon them, that’s what’s taking place not just the Holy Spirit come to dwell within them but coming upon them and they were all filled with Spirit and begin to speak with other tongues or literally other languages as the Spirit gave them utterance. There was a reason for that because the people that are gathered there in Jerusalem were Jews and Proselyte, those are Gentiles who converted to Judaism. They were gathered there from all nations, all nations that inhabited earth, they come together for Pentecost and course they all spoken in different languages. This day, they had the opportunity, each and every one of them to hear the wonderful works of God spoken by these apostles in their own language – to hear the word of God and to believe in. And of course, they were amazed, they were confused certainly with it but they were also amazed. And they question, how is this possible? How could this happen? And they… someone said, “What can it mean?” They could see that this is significant, this is a major event, what can this mean? But others begin to mock, and said, “Oh, the only explanation is everybody’s drunk, they’re drunk, you know, and so they’re full of new wine.” And so, they’re kinda scorning the whole thing, sometimes people do that to try to explain something away - they used to make fun of it and that’s what they did, trying to make fun of this particular miracle. And so, this miracle of Pentecost, what took place there when the Holy Spirit came really gives occasion to what’s truly needed in the hearts of these Jews, these Israelites and that is to hear the word of God.

God often does this when he has things that are a part of the worship spectrum of the law, in the temple, in the tabernacle, in the priesthood, in the sacrifice, in offerings. All of them picture something, all of them point to something, and the new and scriptures describe the old testament laws are shadows of things to come, as symbolic, until the perfection would come. These feasts are a prophetic picture, I believe, of Israel’s future redemption. All taken all together they give all the various aspects of Israel’s first future redemption. The spring feasts, the ones that occur in the first months most of them in the first month, and then Pentecost is later, they are picturing the sense of the first coming of Christ, and the emphasis is on the Christ of Redemption that has paid for Israel’s sins. For instance, Passover, which is the death of the Passover lamb, is the picture of the death of Christ. The unleavened bread, in a sense is the feast of unleavened bread, is a picture of the burial of Jesus Christ, and then, first fruits, is a picture of the resurrection. Jesus Christ is described as the first fruits of the dead, and he is the first fruits, and we are the ones who are raised after, because of him. He is the first fruits, so that pictures resurrection, and then we see the 50 days after that one is the day of Pentecost. Now, what does Pentecost picture? It takes through something that really kind of happens in the between the feasts, in between of the spring feasts and the fall feasts, and it pictures to us the pouring out of God’s spirit. The pouring out of God’s Spirit. The fall feasts, this pictures more the second coming of Christ, you got the power redemption as it is put forth by Christ to redeem His people. The feast of trumpets, pictures His regathering of Israel, back to the land of the time, back when they would blow trumpets it was to gather people together for convocations, so it pictures the regathering of Israel back to their land. The day of atonement pictures their recognition of the Lord Jesus Christ, Him being recognized, by them, when he comes back second time. On the day of atonement, the priest went in to the holy of holies and they had to wait and see if he was going to come out again. When the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, he went to the holy holies and Israel is waiting for him to come out and that’s the day of atonement. And then the feast of tabernacle, the very last feast pictures a day of rest for Israel that they will experience during their kingdom.