1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,400 County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,720 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,160 They were in unity. They weren't fighting or 6 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,200 arguing. They were waiting on the Lord 7 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,240 that it wasn't their prayer that brought this power of God upon 8 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,800 them. This was ordained by God. 9 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,480 And so some people think today, well, we need to have another 10 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:53,320 Pentecost. Well, I, I don't want to depress 11 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,400 you, but there's only one Pentecost that happened already. 12 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,000 But there's plenty of opportunity for more infillings 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,360 and empowerment of the Holy Spirit throughout your life. 14 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,360 It doesn't just happen one time when you get saved. 15 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:10,200 Unity in faith is like a choir singing in a harmony, creating 16 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,320 space for God's voice. In today's message, Pastor Clark 17 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:17,720 unveils how the disciples waiting together without 18 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,520 conflict experienced God's ordained outpouring of the 19 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,600 Spirit. The Holy Spirit offers fresh 20 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,840 infillings and empowerment throughout your life, not just 21 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,120 at salvation. It's not your striving or 22 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,240 perfect prayers that bring this. It's God's plan. 23 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,920 Are you open to the Holy Spirit's ongoing empowerment in 24 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,360 your walk with the Holy Spirit now? 25 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,480 Here's Pastor Clark in Acts Chapter 2 with today's edition 26 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,000 of Living Waters of Grace. We're in the book of the Acts 27 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,360 and we're going to study Pentecost today. 28 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,960 Chapter 2. In order to receive from the 29 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:01,360 Lord the power of the Holy Spirit in our life daily, we 30 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,200 have to be in a place of vulnerability and and 31 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,000 understandable weakness. If we're all together and we 32 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,360 think we got our strength all set up and we got everything 33 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,040 laid out that no matter what happens we can handle it, then 34 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,640 we're usually not good recipients of the need for 35 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,680 empowerment of the Holy Spirit. We're used to doing life our own 36 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,080 way and our own strength, but whenever we're weak, we have a 37 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,760 desperate need for the power of the Holy Spirit. 38 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,160 And I, I love the teaching of Paul in 2nd Corinthians 12 39 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,640 before we go into Acts. He had this affliction health 40 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:42,960 issue, and he asked the Lord three times that it might depart 41 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,440 from him in chapter 12 of Second Corinthians verse 8. 42 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,040 And he said to me, And this is the Lord's word to Paul, My 43 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,360 grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in 44 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,440 weakness. Therefore most gladly I will 45 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,080 rather boast of my infirmities, that the power of Christ may 46 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,640 rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasures and 47 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:08,960 infirmities and reproaches and needs and persecutions and 48 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,920 distresses for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am 49 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:17,840 strong. Paul understood the principle of 50 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:24,240 becoming aware of his own inability, his own weakness, his 51 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:29,000 own situation in his own life. He could not overcome in his own 52 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,360 power, his own ability. And I have that verse by my bed. 53 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,520 And sometimes when I go to bed at night or I get up in the 54 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,560 morning, I sense my own personal weakness and my need of the 55 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,120 Lord. And I'm so comforted and 56 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,600 couraged that it's not a bad thing to feel weak. 57 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,560 Matter of fact, it's a good thing to know you're weak 58 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,760 because in that weakness, that's when the power of God is 59 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,280 manifest. That's when the strength of God 60 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,400 will show up in your life, when you recognize your weakness. 61 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,400 And so that's a promise. And so when I think of the book 62 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,840 of the Acts, and I also think of the promise of Jesus in regard 63 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,440 to the person of the Holy Spirit, Jesus said, and I read 64 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,600 this last week, I want to review it again in chapter 14, verse 65 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,800 15. If you love me, keep my 66 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,399 commandments. In other words, obey the Lord in 67 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,440 your life moment by moment. If you love the Lord, you're 68 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,760 going to want to do what he asked you to do and that this is 69 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:27,560 this is not in front of other people. 70 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,920 This is your own private life, your own integrity of where you 71 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,520 are with God moment by moment and the decisions that you make 72 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,480 moment by moment. And Jesus says the evidence of 73 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,240 our relationship with him and and our love for him is living 74 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,120 in obedience and surrender to him. 75 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,400 And he said, and I will pray the Father, and he will give you 76 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,960 another helper, that he may abide with you forever. 77 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,040 The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it 78 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,040 neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for He dwells 79 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,680 with you and will be in you. And I will not leave you 80 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:04,200 orphans. I will come to you. 81 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,040 So this wonderful work of God, the Holy Spirit in the book of 82 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,520 the Acts, this is the beginning of the church age. 83 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,280 Acts chapter 2. If you have your Bibles, you can 84 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:15,800 turn there. If you don't, you can listen or 85 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,640 look on your phone, whatever you app you have there for your 86 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,080 Bible. We will go through this chapter 87 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,360 of Acts, part of it at least today. 88 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,120 Now I just want to set the stage. 89 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:34,840 We have Passover significant in the sense of the day that Jesus 90 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:40,760 was crucified on Passover, Jewish feast, and then you had 91 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:47,280 the Feast of First Fruits was the resurrection that occurred 3 92 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:51,680 days after the death of Christ. And then you have the feast of 93 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,720 Pentecost which is 50 days after the resurrection. 94 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:01,680 So these were all lined up in Jewish history to show the 95 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,240 Jewish people that Christ was truly the Messiah. 96 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,680 Now they would still celebrate these various festivals and not 97 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,120 tie Christ into it because of the deception and the lies that 98 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,960 were going around regarding who Jesus was. 99 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:18,160 And did he or did he not truly raise from the dead? 100 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,680 And then we had the Feast of Tabernacles in the fall. 101 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,880 So there was three major feasts that the Jewish people took 102 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,280 pilgrimage. The Jewish males took pilgrimage 103 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:31,640 to go up to Jerusalem. And so here we are now at at 104 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,840 Pentecost and the city is jam packed. 105 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,400 The Jewish people celebrated Pentecost for the giving of the 106 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,040 law. That's when Moses gave the law. 107 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,160 Now we are in a different dispensation beginning at this 108 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,040 particular point. Now we have church history when 109 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,880 the church's birth and the day of Pentecost. 110 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,520 Now we have to think about the people who were invited into the 111 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,720 temple court somewhere in the temple compound to have enough 112 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,120 room for 120 people and that eventually 3000 people who would 113 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,840 listen to Peter's sermon on that day and and become Christians. 114 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,800 3000 people had to be a pretty big area to house all those 115 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:14,760 people. At one time. 116 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,720 These people that were called to go up into the room to wait. 117 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,160 Jesus said you go after he ascended 10 days. 118 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,400 They were to wait until the Holy Spirit came upon them. 119 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,440 What were they like during those ten days? 120 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,400 What, what was happening with them? 121 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,800 Well, we know from last week, it says they were in one accord. 122 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,840 They were in unity. They weren't fighting or 123 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,800 arguing. They were waiting on the Lord. 124 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,760 But it wasn't their prayer that brought this power of God upon 125 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,320 them. This was ordained by God. 126 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,840 And so some people think today, well, we need to have another 127 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,640 Pentecost. Well, I I don't want to depress 128 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,120 you, but there's only one Pentecost and it happened 129 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,000 already. But there's plenty of 130 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,160 opportunity for more infillings and empowerment of the Holy 131 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,480 Spirit throughout your life. It doesn't just happen one time. 132 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,440 When you get saved, you need to continually be filled. 133 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,000 But the difference between what happens in the book of the Acts 134 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,440 here and what happened to you and me is that I wasn't baptized 135 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,400 by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. I was baptized by the Holy 136 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,320 Spirit when I got saved. The moment I got saved, the 137 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,080 moment you got saved, you were baptized into the body of 138 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,920 Christ. The body of Christ didn't exist 139 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,720 the way it does now until the day of Pentecost. 140 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,120 And on the day of Pentecost, that's when all these people who 141 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,960 were believers were baptized by the Holy Spirit into this entity 142 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,559 we call the body of Christ. And Jesus being the head of the 143 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:44,720 body, and we're parts of the body. 144 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,080 And so these folks that were waiting for this to occur, they 145 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,800 were very, I'm sure, intimidated in a lot of ways. 146 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:56,920 They were weak. They were in weakened 147 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,560 conditions. They were gathered together, 148 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:02,440 perhaps not knowing exactly what was going to happen and how it 149 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,960 was going to happen and what was going to happen to them because 150 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,720 of this event called Pentecost. So they weren't proud, they 151 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:11,520 weren't arrogant, they weren't independent. 152 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,280 They were in a place of surrender and a place of willing 153 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:19,200 brokenness to be able to receive from God the Father what he was 154 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:24,520 going to send by the Son in the person of God the Holy Spirit. 155 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:30,160 First Corinthians 12/13 for us today and those of us who are 156 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,560 believers and those of us perhaps maybe will come become 157 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:35,720 believers the day or in the days to come. 158 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,200 It says for by 1 Spirit are we baptized into the body of 159 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,040 Christ. So an unbeliever is not in 160 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,000 Christ. They're totally unaware of their 161 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,960 need of Christ. Most of the time they're not 162 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,080 even aware of the fact that there is a power called the Holy 163 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,000 Spirit, a person, the Holy Spirit. 164 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,240 The Holy Spirit is the one who convicts the world and convicts 165 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,880 lost people of sin. They need a savior of 166 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,600 righteousness. They're unholy, they're impure. 167 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,120 And the potential judgment of dying without forgiveness from 168 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,960 Christ and going into eternity without a savior, that's the 169 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,400 work of the Holy Spirit. He's also called the Comforter 170 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,800 and the Helper. And I mentioned that last that 171 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,360 we need to continually ask the Holy Spirit for help and to 172 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:25,200 comfort us not to try to do life in our own strength and try to 173 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:29,040 make it through by our own ability on our own wisdom, but 174 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:33,120 to be humble and say, Lord, I need your help or ask someone 175 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,200 else to pray for you or or to encourage you and the Lord we we 176 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,120 that's the purpose of the church to comfort and encourage and 177 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,760 minister to one another to be there for one another to help 178 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:47,240 one another. That's the health of of a Bible 179 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,600 teaching church is to have crisis ahead and we're all 180 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,560 serving him and serving one another. 181 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:59,200 And so these folks now are told in chapter 2, verse one, they're 182 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,560 waiting and it says they've been waiting for 10 days. 183 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:06,560 And verse one, when the day of Pentecost said fully come, they 184 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:08,840 were all with 1 accord in one place. 185 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,360 So they're they're waiting, they're not leaving each other 186 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,200 during this period of time. They're staying in this place to 187 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,640 receive what God, through the Lord Jesus Christ, God the 188 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,320 Savior, told them would come to pass. 189 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:27,600 And suddenly everything's real calm and sort of normal. 190 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:32,000 And then suddenly this is this happens in a blink of an eye. 191 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:37,320 Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty 192 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,600 wind. They could hear this. 193 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,400 They couldn't see it, but they heard this noise probably sound 194 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,880 like 100 locomotives coming at them at one time. 195 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,520 And not only did they hear this wind, but everybody in that 196 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,960 compound that confines of Jerusalem where they were 197 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,680 located were also hearing the wind because it was eventually 198 00:11:57,680 --> 00:12:00,760 going to attract thousands of people to see what was going on. 199 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,120 And it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 200 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,560 And so they weren't standing and they weren't jumping around. 201 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,920 They're they're just sitting there like you guys are sitting 202 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,600 here today. They're not knowing what to 203 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,320 expect. Nothing like this has ever 204 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,880 happened before in human history. 205 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:23,640 And then there appeared to them divided tongues as a fire, and 206 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:28,760 one sat upon each of them. And so you've got to visualize 207 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,440 this, that you've got 120 people in this room, and as you're 208 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,080 looking around, you're hearing this wind. 209 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,800 You're probably shocked and and awe and fearful. 210 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,680 What's going on? Is this a tornado or hurricane? 211 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:43,040 Are we all going to be killed? I mean, there had to be all kind 212 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,200 of thoughts going through their head. 213 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:49,000 The only was that when alarming and unlike anything they had 214 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,720 ever encountered. But they're looking and they're 215 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:56,160 seeing on top of each of the people's heads, the 120 there 216 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,960 something that appeared to look like a flame of fire. 217 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,920 It sort of reminded me when Jesus was baptized, it says that 218 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,320 the, the dove ascended, descended upon him, the Holy 219 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,760 Spirit to give the picture that Christ was the Messiah. 220 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,640 And they saw it visibly. And so in this case, they, they 221 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,960 see these tongues of fire. What does fire represent? 222 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,560 Fire represents the power to purify something. 223 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:27,880 Fire also represents the holiness of God in the burning 224 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:32,400 Bush, the fire pillar of fire by night as they travelled through 225 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,320 the wilderness with the Tabernacle. 226 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:40,920 Our God is a consuming fire, the Bible says So the fire of God, 227 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:47,400 the power of God, the glory of God, the the absolute holiness 228 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:52,160 of God is manifest in this picture of these fiery tongues. 229 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:59,680 You mix fire with wind and you get major energy explosion and 230 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:03,120 this is what was happening. The fire and the wind together 231 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,200 was creating this phenomena that was actually a physical 232 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:13,480 phenomena and they were experiencing this and and then 233 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:18,760 it says in verse 4, and they were all filled with the Holy 234 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:24,560 Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave 235 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:30,760 them utterance. Now the Greek word for the idea 236 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,280 of tongues and also in verse 6, we'll get there in a minute when 237 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:39,560 it talks about them hearing the people, hearing these guys and 238 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:45,360 gals speaking in language was from the Greek word where we get 239 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,560 our word linguistic, we get our word. 240 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,960 I forget the word that slips my mind now, but it's the word that 241 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,680 means language. And so this was not babbling. 242 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:01,560 This was not something that was unable to be discerned as far as 243 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,360 what it meant. As we continue here, this is 244 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:10,760 literally a gift that they were given to proclaim the greatness 245 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:14,320 of God in the midst of all the people that would hear them. 246 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,320 This was something too that they weren't doing themselves. 247 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,320 It was the Spirit. The Holy Spirit was giving them 248 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,520 this utterance to do this and verse 5 and there were dwelling 249 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,000 in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. 250 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,320 There had to be at least 15 different people groups from 251 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,880 various places as far as Iran and Egypt and and the Roman 252 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,800 Empire and and and Greece and and this on and on and on. 253 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,200 So there was all these people with these multiple languages at 254 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,600 at this time in Pentecost visiting Jerusalem. 255 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,880 And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and 256 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,680 they were confused because everyone heard them speak in his 257 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,600 own language. OK, this was not in Babel. 258 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:06,080 Like say I'm say I'm Greek and I'm there and I don't understand 259 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:11,760 Hebrew, but I'm part of this crowd and I'm hearing some of 260 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,840 these people speaking in fluent Greek. 261 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,480 The great acts of God throughout the Old Testament in the Bible. 262 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,040 The New Testament wasn't written yet. 263 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,200 So they would be proclaiming the greatness of God's deliverance 264 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:30,400 from the, the bondage of Egypt and Pharaoh and all the things, 265 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,560 the great things that God had done. 266 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:37,160 And someone else would be there and, and, and no Italian or 267 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:41,480 someone else would be there and, and no some other Egyptian 268 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,520 language or whatever. So the word I was looking for 269 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,440 was dialects. OK, That's the Greek word of 270 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,520 that word, language, dialects. So they were speaking in various 271 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:56,160 dialects, OK, at one time, and it's a reversal. 272 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,000 What happened at the Tower of Babel when they decided to use 273 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,400 one language to build that tower to get up to God and sort of 274 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,880 control things was all based on pride. 275 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,200 And God had to disperse the crowd by giving them different 276 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,599 languages where all of a sudden they couldn't understand one 277 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:13,880 another, right? Well, in this instance, now 278 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,520 everybody is understanding the same message given by the Holy 279 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,319 Spirit through these various languages. 280 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,720 This is the real gift of tongues. 281 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,200 I mean, we'll get into other things down the road, but I 282 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,360 mean, if I'm going to have a language, a gift to speak in 283 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:34,400 tongues, Lord, give me Italian. I'd like to travel Rome and not 284 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,760 have to study and be able to just talk to people and give 285 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,920 them the gospel, right, Without having to study, you know, this 286 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:44,240 software, learning how to speak a foreign language. 287 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,280 I mean, I took I took two years of Spanish in high school and I 288 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:53,240 all I can say is like buenas tarde or hostile luego como SE 289 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,800 almost dead. And I know that one. 290 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,280 I'd learned how to order breakfast a little bit because 291 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,800 one time I had to go to Mexico. So I wanted to know how to order 292 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,120 pancakes and panaceos and that kind of stuff. 293 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,800 Caliente chocolate. And I like that too, you know, 294 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,080 anyway, it's a lot of work to know a language. 295 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,680 Well, these people were, I learned it in regard to these 296 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,080 languages. Wasn't God was looking down and 297 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,120 said, well, you already know Italian, so you're going to 298 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,440 proclaim the greatness of God in this language. 299 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,880 And no, it was a supernatural manifestation of languages. 300 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,040 I talked to Mike Dawson one time and they spent many years in the 301 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,560 jungles. They're still there in the 302 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,040 jungles of Venezuela with the Anamont Indians. 303 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,960 He said, Clark, we prayed many times, Lord, give us a gift to 304 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,040 speak this language. It is brutal when you go into a 305 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,960 foreign country where there's no language and you have to point 306 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,520 at things forever to figure out does that word mean tree or 307 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,160 branch or leaf? I mean, it's it's it takes a 308 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,600 while to eventually know the language and then to be able to 309 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,040 write the language down in the Bible in the New Testament 310 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,720 translated and but he told me one time an interesting story. 311 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:06,480 His father was very pragmatic man, very balanced in his 312 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:10,000 theology, wasn't flying by the seat of his pants. 313 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,640 He knew the word, he knew doctor, and he understood what 314 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,960 the Bible teaches regarding truth. 315 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:18,400 And one time he was sitting there talking to a witch doctor, 316 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,440 trying to have a conversation, but there was no conversation 317 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,520 because he didn't understand Yanomano. 318 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,360 And the Yanomano Indian didn't understand him, his language, 319 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,280 But they were smiling at each other and talking to each other. 320 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,920 Well, lo and behold, years later, when this witch doctor 321 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,920 became a Christian, he said, I'll never forget that one time 322 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,960 you and I were sitting down there by the river talking, and 323 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,120 you were telling me about Jesus. And I understood what you were 324 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,000 saying. And he said what he says. 325 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,520 Yeah, you were talking to me. The way you were communicating 326 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,920 somehow was translated to me in my language, even though you 327 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:56,800 were speaking something different. 328 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,200 Now, that's only God. It only happened for a little 329 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,240 while, a little bit, but it was enough to touch that Indian's 330 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,520 heart and the Lord used it. I know missionaries I've talked 331 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,000 to for years, it's been years, you guys know, you study 332 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,480 language, you know to go to be a missionary. 333 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,280 And it wouldn't have been nice if you just would have been 334 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,800 given that gift and you can get on the plane the next day after 335 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,480 you were ready to go and just go give the gospel. 336 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,960 It doesn't work that way for some reason, but nonetheless, in 337 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,920 Pentecost here these are literal languages. 338 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,800 This is not Babble. If you would have been there and 339 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,280 said, well, these people are drunk. 340 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,360 And we're going to see what some of the people thought about what 341 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:40,120 was happening here as we studied this together, the the crowd's 342 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:44,120 response and when they responded to this, it says in verse 5, and 343 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:46,840 there were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from 344 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,640 every nation under heaven. So it gives you the idea of all 345 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,400 these different people groups. And when the sound occurred, the 346 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,200 multitude came together and they were confused because everyone 347 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:57,920 heard them speak in his own language. 348 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:02,000 I mean, that would be wild, wouldn't it, just to be able to 349 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:07,520 hear every language at that particular time being spoken at 350 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,000 the same time. And it's only resonating with 351 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,520 people who are from that particular people group that 352 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,120 would understand. Someone over here is talking 353 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,600 Italian, but if I'm Greek, I'm just listening to the guy that's 354 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,720 speaking in Greek and I'm hearing what it is he's saying, 355 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:25,080 OK. And so it says in verse 7. 356 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,360 Then they were all amazed and they marveled, I should say, so 357 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,320 I would be amazed and marveling too. 358 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:35,760 I marvel and amaze reading this. And they said to one another, 359 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,240 look, are not all those who speak Galileans? 360 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,480 I mean, they, they only knew like one kind of dialect, the 361 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,160 Galileans. And how is it that we hear each 362 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,080 in our own language in which we were born? 363 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,320 That's the question. How in the world is this 364 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,920 happening? It's a miracle, the work of God, 365 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,000 the Holy Spirit. Parthians, that's the first 366 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:06,240 people group and knees from Persia and Elamites, those 367 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:10,400 dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontius in Asia, 368 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,960 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya joining 369 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:22,000 Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and Proselytites, Cretian 370 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,040 and Arabs, We hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful 371 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:34,680 works of God. So they were able to witness of 372 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,440 their faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 373 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:44,560 biblically through the language to all these people who were in 374 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,200 town at Pentecost to celebrate the giving of the law. 375 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,680 No one expected this to happen except obviously our faithful 376 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,520 God and those he told that this was going to happen and why they 377 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,800 had to wait. But the world was not prepared 378 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,480 for this at this time nor were they expecting this. 379 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,760 I was listening to someone talk about this particular section of 380 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:13,080 scripture and they said Jesus one time in the scriptures was 381 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,800 they believe this could have happened by the portico of 382 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,640 Solomon with the big pillars where it had a big expanse of, 383 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,560 of space and cement where people could congregate. 384 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,480 And Jesus was over there one time praying and walking around. 385 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,000 And, and you would have loved to heard the conversation if you 386 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,920 could. But you know, he knew he was 387 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,760 going to go to the cross and die. 388 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,480 He knew he was going to suffer. He knew he was going to raise 389 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,880 again from the dead. But he probably walked around 390 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,360 that room and that big area of space. 391 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,320 And this was praising his father, saying it won't be too 392 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,200 long before they'll be 3000 people here one day. 393 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:55,480 They'll get saved by hearing the gospel from the Apostle Peter. 394 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,400 Thanks for joining us on today's edition of Living Waters of 395 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,560 Grace, a ministry of Calvary Chapel, Westmoreland. 396 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,640 Today, Pastor Clark is teaching about the book of Acts, and as 397 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,760 we learn more about Acts, it becomes clear that the early 398 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,760 church didn't miss a single opportunity to share the gospel. 399 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,800 In nearly every chapter, you see apostles like Peter and Paul 400 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,640 stepping into conversations, crowds, and crises with 401 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,120 boldness, ready to proclaim the name of Jesus. 402 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,240 Their example challenges us to consider how we might step into 403 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:35,040 gospel moments in our own lives. What doors might God open this 404 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,720 week for you to speak truth, offer hope, or live out your 405 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,960 faith in a way that points others to Him? 406 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,520 The story of Acts reminds us we are part of the same mission. 407 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:49,240 Today, let's live with eyes open and hearts ready to respond. 408 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,080 We hope you are challenged by today's message. 409 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,680 If you're in the Greensburg, PA area, we'd love to see you in 410 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,680 person this Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E Pittsburgh St. 411 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,160 Unit 6B. For more information, visit 412 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,160 calvarychapelonline.com. You can also join our e-mail 413 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,920 list, give online, or submit a prayer request right from the 414 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,160 site. 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