1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,840 It's wonderful to be here with all of you this morning. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,720 We have a an excellent crowd and has been mentioned. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,120 We have visitors that are among us and we want you to know you 4 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:12,120 are our honored guest and we welcome you. 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,520 Thank you for being here with us and please come back anytime you 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,400 can. We're continuing our series this 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:23,880 morning on the Day the Kingdom Came, and the title of our 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:29,120 lesson is Peter's Masterful Sermon Part 1, and in 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,600 particular, Joel's prophecy. Now I'm just going to say at the 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:37,640 very outset, there's a lot of deep things in this prophecy 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,720 that we have to methodically go through and sometimes they can 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,080 be a little confusing. Sometimes there's various 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,920 opinions regarding what Joel was actually referring to when he 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,280 wrote the prophetic words and also when Peter was quoting that 15 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,880 on this day that the Kingdom came in Acts chapter 2. 16 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:57,520 So I'm going to ask you to do this. 17 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,800 First of all, I'm going to do my best to describe these things 18 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,599 methodically in ways that are understandable and simply as I 19 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:07,920 can, I'm going to ask you to saddle up and ride with me. 20 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,240 Stay with me and let's go through this together. 21 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,000 Maybe we can have a better understanding of what Joel's 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 prophecy in this sermon actually was talking about. 23 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,720 The passages before us are found in Acts chapter 2, beginning in 24 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,920 verse 17. And it shall come to pass in the 25 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:34,800 last day, says God, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. 26 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,440 Your sons and your daughters shall prophecy. 27 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,120 Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall 28 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,840 dream dreams. And on my men, servants and my 29 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:50,000 maidservants, I will pour out my spirit in those days, and they 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,960 shall prophecy. I will show wonders in heaven 31 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:58,480 above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and 32 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,160 vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned Into 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,960 Darkness, and the moon in the blood before the coming of the 34 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:06,840 great and awesome day of the Lord. 35 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,639 And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the 36 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,080 Lord shall be saved. As an introduction, very 37 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,880 briefly, last time we talked about the fact that Jesus 38 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,400 promised the apostles that they would receive power from on 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,120 high. They were to wait in Jerusalem. 40 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,680 That came in the form of the baptism of the Holy Spirit that 41 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,840 came to the apostles on Pentecost. 42 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,200 They were able to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them 43 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,800 utterance, and we studied that those things were not gibberish. 44 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,240 It was not ecstatic Babble that nobody could understand. 45 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,880 It was not their own private prayer language or angelic 46 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,720 language. It was actually normal languages 47 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,600 that were understood. In fact, the people that were 48 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,320 listening there on that day, it says there were Jews, devout men 49 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,840 gathered there out of every nation under heaven. 50 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:02,560 And it says that somebody said, aren't all these that speak 51 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,440 Galilean? And yet we hear them speak in 52 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:11,360 our own tongue or language, which means dialect, even the 53 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,640 dialect in which they were born. Did they understand? 54 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,520 They certainly did because it says that they heard them speak 55 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:25,400 the wonderful works of God. Now here's their response in 56 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,600 Acts chapter 2, beginning in verse 12. 57 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:31,760 So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one 58 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,280 another, whatever could this mean? 59 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,840 But notice, isn't there always this guy? 60 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,640 Others mocking said, these guys are full of new wine. 61 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,560 These guys are drunk. There's always the sarcastic 62 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,240 person that mocks what's going on. 63 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,680 They already recognized that what they were hearing was the 64 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,080 wonderful words and wonderful works of God. 65 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,200 And yet others were mocking and they said, these guys are full 66 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,920 of new wine. Peter's sermon now begins and he 67 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,360 begins with his response to them. 68 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,600 And this is what he says. But Peter, standing up with the 69 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,240 11, raised his voice and said to them, Men of Judea and all who 70 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,880 dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you, and heed my 71 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,360 words. For these are not drunk as you 72 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,360 suppose, For it is but the third hour of the day. 73 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:28,200 Now a Jewish day began at 6:00 AM. 74 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,920 That was hour number one. So hour number three is 9:00 AM. 75 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:38,160 The first thing that Peter says in response to their saying 76 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,960 these guys are drunk, is he saying he's appealing to their 77 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,920 logic. This is kind of what you might 78 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,000 call an attention getter. Somebody says something 79 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,800 absolutely ridiculous and they got to get their attention. 80 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,240 He says, wait a minute, these men aren't drunk like you're 81 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,720 talking about. It's 9:00 AM in the morning. 82 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,760 Why is that significant? Even the Bible says First 83 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,640 Thessalonians 5 and seven for those who sleep, sleep at night, 84 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,760 and those who get drunk are drunk in the night. 85 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,880 So the first thing he says is getting to their attention. 86 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,920 He appeals to their logic and he says they're not drunk. 87 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,880 It's 9:00 AM in the morning. Oh, but there's more. 88 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:20,600 And very significant then he says this. 89 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:27,320 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. 90 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,120 In other words, one of their Jewish prophets, one of the 91 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,640 things that one of the people that they would have understood, 92 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:38,440 he refers to prophecy. And by the way, you can read 93 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:42,480 these almost exact words verbatim in Joel chapter 2, 94 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,800 verses 28 through 32. All right? 95 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:49,280 So they would have understood that, you know, this prophecy 96 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:51,080 can be summed up really in three words. 97 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:56,960 And I got to tell you, these 3 words are very, very much 98 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,200 misapplied today. So you're going to hear me do 99 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:01,360 this again. You know me. 100 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,520 Those of you that do know me, we're going to go to context of 101 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,120 the scripture so we can have the proper application. 102 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,800 You can sum up this prophecy in three words here. 103 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,840 They are prophecy, visions and dreams. 104 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,360 And these three things are often misunderstood and 105 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,240 misinterpreted. So what we have to do is we got 106 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:26,800 to find out when were these things that Joel's talking about 107 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,960 going to take place? Well, all we got to do is look 108 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,840 to the very next verse and Joel and the Bible's going to tell 109 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:34,400 us. Joel was going to tell us. 110 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,240 Joel did tell us in prophecy and Peter quoting him tells us 111 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,000 again. Here it is. 112 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:45,280 It shall come to pass in the last days. 113 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,440 I don't have time to go into all the things that this does not 114 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,200 mean, but I will say this, It is absolutely imperative for us to 115 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:02,120 understand what the phrase the last days mean by Joel to 116 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,880 understand when this prophetic prophecy and promise was to be 117 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,600 given. Let me tell you what it doesn't 118 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,680 mean. It does not mean the end of 119 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,160 time. It does not mean there's just a 120 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,920 few days left. It doesn't mean the end of time 121 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,600 is coming. These are the last days. 122 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,600 Very important for us to understand what the last days 123 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,480 mean. The last days is referring to 124 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:36,080 the Christian dispensation or the final spiritual arrangement 125 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,920 that God will have with man on the earth. 126 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:44,440 That is encapsulated in a phrase called the last days. 127 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,600 All right, if you look in the Bible, there were three 128 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,120 dispensations of time. And I'm going to be very brief. 129 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,680 Some of you, this is review. Others of you may, this may be 130 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,640 new to you, but there's been 3 dispensations of time. 131 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,240 By the way, dispensation, fancy word for spiritual arrangement. 132 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,800 God's had three spiritual arrangements #1 the patriarchal 133 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:11,000 age, or the age of the family spiritual arrangement where God 134 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,840 dealt with the heads of families, Abraham, Isaac, and 135 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,920 Jacob, for example. Then there was the Mosaic age, 136 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:19,920 and that was under the Law of Moses. 137 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,800 It was a national spiritual arrangement where God dealt with 138 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,280 the nation, the nation of Israel. 139 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,840 Then there wasn't something else. 140 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:32,600 Jesus took the old Law of Moses, according to Colossians, and he 141 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,760 nailed the old Law of Moses to the cross. 142 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,640 And I'm so thankful for that because guess what? 143 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,520 Now we've got a chance, now we've got hope, and now we've 144 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,400 got grace. Now we have things that they 145 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,120 never had under the law of Moses. 146 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,000 I'm so thankful for that. Jesus died, shed his blood on 147 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,400 the cross, nailed the old Law of Moses to the cross to usher in 148 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,160 the very last dispensation that will ever happen. 149 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,200 And that is the Christian age that we are in today. 150 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,360 Why is it called the last days then? 151 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,240 It's called the Last Days because there's not going to be 152 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:11,600 another. I'm grateful. 153 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,280 You know what happens after this eternity? 154 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,120 Eternity. There's not going to be another 155 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:28,320 dispensation on the earth. It's going to be a reward in 156 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,960 heaven one day for the child of God in the Christian age or 157 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,360 Christian dispensation. By the way, let me just throw 158 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,760 this in. How about all those that lived 159 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:42,720 before Jesus died on the cross? The Bible says in Romans 3 and 160 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:51,720 Hebrews 9, the blood of Jesus took care of the sins of those a 161 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,600 full time. In other words, if they live 162 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,600 before the Christian age and they were faithful, they were 163 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,720 obedient to God, they were good and righteous in the eyes of 164 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,040 God, then the blood of Christ went back. 165 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,520 Even though they're dead and gone, it went back and covered 166 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,200 their sin too. In the future, it covers our 167 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,240 sins when we become a child of God, and that will be later on 168 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,400 in our lesson. Very briefly, but notice the 169 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,760 Christian age. When did it begin? 170 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:22,560 It began in Acts Chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost in about AD 171 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:26,280 33. That's when the last days begin. 172 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:30,200 Guess what? We're in the year 2025. 173 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:36,000 We're still in the last days. If the Lord wills and the time 174 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,720 shall be that the world stands in 2026, If we see a new year, 175 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,520 it's still the last days. If the world stands for another 176 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:52,240 1000 years, it's still the last days that began in Acts 2IN 177 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,880 Pentecost when the Christian age was brought in the day the 178 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:02,560 Kingdom of Jesus Christ came. The Hebrew writer speaks of the 179 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:07,120 last days as this Christian spiritual arrangement too God 180 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,800 who at various times Hebrews one beginning in verse 1 and in 181 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,360 various ways spoken time past to the fathers has in these last 182 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,320 days spoken to us by his son who may as appointed heir of all 183 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:24,200 things through whom also he made the world's. 184 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,640 So the last days are the Christian age. 185 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,480 What's going to happen in the Christian age? 186 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,160 So let's methodically stay through this. 187 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:38,440 Now, what did God say? God says in the Christian age I 188 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:46,240 will pour out my spirit. What does that mean? 189 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:54,920 I will pour out my spirit. The pouring out of the Spirit is 190 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:59,840 indicative of the beginning of the miraculous age of the early 191 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:06,280 New Testament church. It is talking about a miraculous 192 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,200 age that began on Pentecost. On that day. 193 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,480 I've already noticed with you that the apostles received the 194 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:18,800 baptism of the Holy Spirit. OK, so that phrase that plays 195 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,080 there in the last days when the Christian dispensation begins in 196 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,040 Acts 2, when the Kingdom came, I'm going to pour out my Spirit. 197 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,280 Now, why would they do? Why did they do that? 198 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,080 It was necessary to confirm the Word of God because the Word of 199 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,000 God wasn't written yet to confirm, to reveal and confirm 200 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,440 the word of God as the beginning of Christianity, the 201 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,080 establishment of Christianity. And we already studied that 202 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,920 those things of the miraculous period would last until the word 203 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,160 of God was complete. First Corinthians 13 beginning 204 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,320 in verse 8. Love never fails. 205 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,920 But notice, please, whether there are prophecies. 206 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:01,800 This means miraculous prophecies, OK, they will fail 207 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,040 whether there are tongues. And by the way, that's this 208 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,520 where the Holy Spirit gives you the ability to speak in a 209 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,680 language you didn't study. OK, there's a time for that. 210 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,520 It's going to cease when there is knowledge. 211 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,640 That's miraculous knowledge given directly by God. 212 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:17,880 What's going to happen with that? 213 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,160 It's going to banish away for we know, impart miraculously, we 214 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,440 promise. I impart miraculously. 215 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,840 And by the way, impart means temporarily. 216 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,240 These things were temporary, but notice when that which is 217 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,600 perfect has come, then that which is in part would be done 218 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,720 away. And we already studied what that 219 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,560 was. That which is perfect is the 220 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:41,880 Word of God. James 125 is the perfect law of 221 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,240 liberty. So in other words, the 222 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:51,800 miraculous age that began on Pentecost would last until the 223 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,760 Word of God was completed. OK, notice this please. 224 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,360 And this is sometimes misunderstood. 225 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:03,200 God said, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. 226 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,280 That has to be qualified, OK? That has to be qualified. 227 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:13,800 It has to be restricted. Remember this number one, OK? 228 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,640 It is exclusive to the age of Miracles. 229 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,560 We've already shown that. That's number one. 230 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,440 Therefore, this particular thing regarding the pouring out of the 231 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,760 Holy Spirit does not apply to us today. 232 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,480 I want to say a little side note here, OK, Holy Spirit does 233 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,040 wonderful things in our life today. 234 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,680 The Holy Spirit is working in our life today. 235 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,200 The Holy Spirit is a benefit to the Christian today. 236 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,280 That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying he doesn't do 237 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,680 anything. I'm saying the miraculous age of 238 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,200 the Holy Spirit is over. That's what I'm saying. 239 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,760 Now later on in this masterful sermon, he talks about the gift 240 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,200 of the Holy Spirit. And I mentioned that a few 241 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,880 lessons ago. And we may get into some of the 242 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,840 benefits of what we get with the gift of the Holy Spirit in a, in 243 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,600 a lesson down the road. So all that means said what you 244 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,120 think I'm taking a shot of the Holy Spirit? 245 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:08,800 What I'm saying is the miraculous Holy Spirit is a time 246 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,160 that once had and was for a reason and is no longer in 247 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,640 existence. Therefore, all flesh cannot 248 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,040 refer to you and I today. Why? 249 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,600 Because these things are referring to the miraculous age. 250 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,560 That's number one. Number two, I heard this the 251 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,720 other day. Oh, the Bible says the Holy 252 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,360 Spirit's pour down on the animals too. 253 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:36,400 It says all flesh. No, it has to be restricted. 1st 254 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,000 Corinthians 1539 All flesh is not the same flesh. 255 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,320 There is one kind of flesh of men, another kind of flesh of 256 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,840 animals, another kind of fish, and another a bird. 257 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:53,360 So the phrase means all flesh is referring to Jews and Gentiles. 258 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,440 By the way, I don't know everybody in this audience, but 259 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,080 I would imagine, and maybe I'm talking out of school, but I 260 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,320 don't think so. I think everybody here is a 261 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:09,400 Gentile, and a Gentile is anybody that's not a Jewish 262 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,720 person by blood. I'm grateful for this promise 263 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,600 here. Notice here in the age of 264 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,680 miracles, God poured out His Spirit. 265 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,760 Joel prophesied it would happen. It would be among all flesh, 266 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:30,200 which included the Jews, which by the way, like I said before, 267 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,680 happened to the apostles on the day of Pentecost, That's the 268 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,400 Jews. It happened also in the baptism 269 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,760 of the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 10 in the household of 270 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,240 Cornelius. That's the Gentiles thus 271 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:47,960 fulfilling this specific prophecy of the Holy Spirit, the 272 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,000 baptism of the Holy Spirit being poured out on all flesh. 273 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,040 Now the underlying theme here is wonderful. 274 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,560 We don't have the miraculous direct operation of the Holy 275 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,680 Spirit with us like they had them. 276 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,160 But because it weren't the Jew and Gentile, the blessings and 277 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,040 Christianity in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ are for everyone. 278 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:13,480 Whether you're a Jew or a Gentile. 279 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,560 It doesn't matter. And Ephesians chapter 3 says it 280 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,560 was always God's plan that Jew and Gentile alike would be 281 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,440 together in one body in the Kingdom, beautiful, all because 282 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:25,319 of Jesus. Isn't that great? 283 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,840 Now, why is this significant? It's significant because up 284 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,880 until this time, the Jews were the only people that had favor 285 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,800 with God. Pentecost, Acts 2 would change 286 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:42,480 everything, and now the gospel would also go out to the entire 287 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:50,040 world, as we just noticed. OK, specifically then what else? 288 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,520 Again, we're talking about the age of Miracles, keeping 289 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,800 context. And by the way, by the way, if 290 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,480 you missed the context, you missed the applications. 291 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:00,640 We've got to stick to the context. 292 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,800 It's in the age of miracles. We've already talked about. 293 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,800 That would last until the word was completed. 294 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:06,720 The word is completed. So this doesn't apply. 295 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:08,640 What were they going to be able to do? 296 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:13,120 Also, your sons and daughters shall prophecy. 297 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:19,040 Your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream 298 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:24,280 dreams. Now Joe in this prophecy was 299 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:28,280 mentioning other blessings that come as a result of the pouring 300 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,960 out of the Holy Spirit. Three things. 301 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:35,360 One, your sons and daughters shall prophecy. 302 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,400 Now the word prophecy actually means to speak forth. 303 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:44,440 The mind of to speak, excuse me, signifies the speaking forth of 304 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,240 the mind and counsel of God. According to West Evine, that's 305 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,760 what it means. And by the way, this is 306 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:54,760 miraculous. Now, you can say that there we 307 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,120 prophecy when we take the Word of God and speak the word of 308 00:18:58,120 --> 00:18:59,920 God, we do that, but that's not miraculous. 309 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:04,360 We do that from the word of God. In this case, this promise was 310 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,440 to prophecy miraculously. What else? 311 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,200 Two other things. This is where people get all 312 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,960 that little bit out of whack. Notice, please, visions and 313 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,320 dreams. I got a good buddy of mine. 314 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,480 Good. He's one of my roping partners. 315 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:22,600 He calls me on the phone. He goes, oh man, he said it must 316 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,920 be the last days, the end of times coming because I'm having 317 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:30,640 these dreams. Had a great study with him about 318 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,560 that. He was relieved because he 319 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,480 thought the dreams he was having meant the end of time. 320 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:38,200 Last days is not talking about the last few days of life 321 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,040 context. And these were talking about 322 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,840 specific things that happened during the age of miracles that 323 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,960 don't exist today. So let me sum up. 324 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,840 Visions and dreams refers to the way in which God has revealed 325 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,120 himself to the prophets in times past. 326 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,280 That's how God revealed himself in the old days to the prophets. 327 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,840 Visions and dreams. How many times can we read about 328 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,720 that? The Angel of the Lord said, and 329 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,080 so forth and so on. Visions and dreams. 330 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,800 Here's what God is saying in this prophecy through Jehovah. 331 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,320 The indication is that God intends to continue to reveal 332 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:22,440 His will to man. But now there's no partiality as 333 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:27,800 to Jew or Gentile, male or female, young or old, or bond or 334 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,160 free. OK, and something else 335 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,760 specifically too, to add to that. 336 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,640 Verse 18. And on my men, servants and my 337 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,560 maidservants, I will pour out my spirit in those days, and they 338 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:48,840 shall prophecy. In other words, the Holy Spirit 339 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,960 who brings these miraculous measures of power will bless 340 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,240 others with miraculous gifts such as the gift of prophecy. 341 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,720 The reception of these gifts though will be through the 342 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,320 laying on of the apostles hands. And that examples in Acts 343 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,760 chapter 8 and verse 18. Philip had already gone there 344 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,440 and preached the word of God, but it wasn't enough. 345 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,920 They had to call for Peter and John to come and lay their hands 346 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,440 on them because they were apostles. 347 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,040 So, by the way, when the Word of God was completed, the 348 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,960 Revelation letters completed, the last apostle died. 349 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,760 That was John. Then so did the miraculous 350 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,440 measure of the Holy Spirit that also died too. 351 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:35,080 OK, three points of emphasis and interest in this prophecy #1 352 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,200 Joel's promise of the miraculous outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 353 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,840 That's number one. Number two, the Spirit would 354 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,400 also be miraculously poured out without distinction. 355 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,840 It would even go to old men and young men and #3 it would be 356 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,800 without social distinction. Even servants would get it to in 357 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,800 Joel's prophecy. Again, this emphasizes the 358 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,040 blessings of the gospel age is without distinction, Jew or 359 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,880 Gentile. This covered the entire 360 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,600 miraculous age of the early New Testament church when the 361 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,480 apostles passed on miraculous spiritual gifts on the ones 362 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:22,520 mentioned in this prophecy. So all that being said, if all 363 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,400 these things were in the miraculous age, then none of 364 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,080 these things apply to you and I today in our life. 365 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:41,000 OK, all right, let's move on. But then verses 19 and 20, I 366 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:46,560 will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth 367 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:51,280 beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 368 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,640 The sun shall be turned Into Darkness and the moon into 369 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,240 blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the 370 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,880 Lord. OK, now I'm going to ask you to 371 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:01,680 really TuneIn, because here we go. 372 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:08,200 A lot of stuff here, and there's a lot of speculation regarding 373 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:14,560 what are these verses talking about #1 for example, is Joel 374 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:19,240 referring or literally describing what is to shake 375 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,720 heaven and earth? Or is it a fearful omen to 376 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,960 describe the coming destruction of Jerusalem, which, by the way, 377 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,880 Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 and that happened in AD 70? 378 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,000 Or is these passages talking about the end of time and the 379 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:42,360 final judgment of men OK? Some people believe the entire 380 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:45,800 passage is talking about when Jesus was on the cross. 381 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,280 Some scholars say that the entire passage is referring to 382 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,800 the destruction of Jerusalem that happened in 8070. 383 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,320 And some people believe that the entire passage is referring to 384 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:01,440 the end of time. So in my very in depth study of 385 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,960 this, let me take you through what I believe these passages 386 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,560 are referring to. First of all, we're going to 387 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,920 pull out phrases here. The number one phrase I want to 388 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,680 pull out is the sun shall be turned Into Darkness and the 389 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,280 moon into blood. Here's a good question for us. 390 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:22,200 Was this an eclipse? Was this an eclipse? 391 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,600 You can read commentators and they say it was an eclipse. 392 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,720 And by the way, I got to tell you, I remember as a kid, I, I 393 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,800 don't remember what grade I was in, but I was going to Fred L 394 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,440 Williams Elementary School. I remember there was an eclipse 395 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,520 and you really had to build those boxes and that thing as 396 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,360 you go see it and all that. It was kind of a big deal. 397 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:45,800 It was kind of cool, right? Not so much in the ancient 398 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,360 Mesopotamian world. I did a little research 399 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:54,960 regarding the concept of eclipses, for example, and I 400 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,520 found out some very interesting things and I want to share that 401 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:02,040 with you. In ancient Mesopotamian society, 402 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:11,560 they actually considered an eclipse as a bad omen #2 they 403 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,280 thought it was a sign that a Kingdom was going to be 404 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,640 destroyed, or a king was going to be removed, or something 405 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,840 really bad was going to happen to a king himself. 406 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:22,600 That's what they actually believed. 407 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:27,240 And it brings up the concept, by the way, of substitutionary 408 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:29,880 rights. Now, if you go back to the Old 409 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,000 Testament, I'll just say this. We understand about 410 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,080 substitutionary rights, and really substitutionary rights 411 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,920 were ordained of God in a spiritual perspective. 412 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,640 This is what God said. Under the Law of Moses, the 413 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,320 Israelites provided substitutionary atonement for 414 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,440 wrongs, ordinarily through the animal sacrifice. 415 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,520 In other words, they would take the blood of animals and the 416 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,640 high priest would take the blood of animals for the atonement of 417 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,920 the sins of the people. God ordained that. 418 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,280 And by the way, all of those animals represented the blood of 419 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,200 Jesus that would be shed later on on the cross way down the 420 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,320 road, right. But let me tell you what society 421 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:16,840 did society, not God took it a step further and we and brought 422 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,920 in the idea of a substitute king. 423 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,160 In other words, human substitution was much rarer. 424 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,800 One example is the substitute king known from the Mesopotamian 425 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,280 text, with most examples from the time of the Assyrian king 426 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,160 Esther Hadden. That was in the early 7th 427 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,360 century BC. What in the world does all that 428 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:41,800 mean? The concept of the substitute 429 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:47,720 king OK was precipitated stay with me by the omen, generally 430 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,200 an eclipse that predicted the demise of the king. 431 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,120 In order to save himself from this fate, he temporarily 432 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:59,320 removed himself from the throne and informed an expendable 433 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,400 substitute enlisted for that purpose. 434 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,280 Further, in some cases the substitute was someone 435 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,080 considered of no significance and perhaps even mentally or 436 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,320 physically impaired. He was then exalted to a high 437 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,680 status of office for as long as 100 days, though often for a 438 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,640 shorter period. And during this time, the real 439 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,880 king was kept in relative isolation. 440 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,560 It was a virtual exile, participating in numerous 441 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,560 purification rituals. Meanwhile, guess what happened? 442 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,920 The substitute king went through the motions of sitting on the 443 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:45,760 throne, and during that time all of the so-called bad omens were 444 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:53,400 passed on to the substitute. I'm going to let that sit for a 445 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,440 minute. The substitute will be on the 446 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:02,080 throne. The bad omens will be passed to 447 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,960 the substitute who did nothing wrong, that was completely 448 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:18,120 innocent. All the while the other king, 449 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:23,360 the real king, was safe. You know what they actually 450 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:26,480 called the substitute king? You can't make this stuff up. 451 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,880 You know what they called him? A shepherd, yeah, you know 452 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,360 what's coming. But you know what he really was? 453 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,680 He was a lamb about to go to the slaughter. 454 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,640 At the end of the period, the substitute was put to death so 455 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,440 that the evident design of the quote UN quote gods would be 456 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,680 accomplished. As one text read, he died to 457 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,080 save the king and the Crown Prince, but his sacrifice is 458 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,480 also understood to accomplish redemption of the people. 459 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,440 And so the substitute king and his queen were put to death, 460 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,360 carrying the fate of the real king upon himself. 461 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:22,880 So I believe this first phrase, the sun shall be turned Into 462 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,520 Darkness and the moon into blood. 463 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,720 That phrase I believe, is referring to our substitute 464 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:34,800 Jesus Christ on the cross, who was sacrificed for our sins. 465 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,800 Only this was not a natural eclipse. 466 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,440 It was a prophetic miracle according to Bowls and Zerah. 467 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,840 Wow. In Luke chapter 23, beginning in 468 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,560 verse 44, that's what happened. It was about the 6th hour and 469 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,920 there was darkness over all the earth until the 9th hour. 470 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,680 Then the sun was dark and then the Bale of the temple was torn 471 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:57,600 into. That's what happened. 472 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,240 Now let's notice these other two phrases, please. 473 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,520 So I think this phrase here is with reference to our substitute 474 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:15,320 Jesus Christ on the cross. What about the other two 475 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,760 phrases, blood and fire, vapor and smoke, and then this phrase 476 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,520 here before the coming and great and awesome day of the Lord. 477 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,120 What is that talking about? Well, first of all, some 478 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,760 commentators say that blood and fire, vapor and smoke, or even 479 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,920 in reference to the Passover with all the Passover lambs that 480 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,640 were shed during that time, they were killed, blah, blah, blah, 481 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,240 blah, blah, blah, and all the ideas, they have some merit, but 482 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,680 I think in context, what makes the most sense. 483 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,720 This is what happened to Jesus, blood and fire, vapor and smoke, 484 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,040 and before the coming of the great and awesome day. 485 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,720 Those two phrases I believe are talking about the destruction of 486 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,480 Jerusalem and it happened in AD 70. 487 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,920 The destruction of Jerusalem was also a prophetic type or a 488 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:12,400 picture of the end of time. How do I know that? 489 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,360 Well, first of all, let me just say this. 490 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,880 Blood suggests, as one scholar said, the bloodshed that would 491 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,680 occur. And fire suggests the burning of 492 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,320 the city that could have produced billows of smoke. 493 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,200 Now, let me talk about the destruction of Jerusalem. 494 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,360 You might say. What in the world was that? 495 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,120 The destruction of Jerusalem, Jesus foretold about it in 496 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,880 Matthew 24. I've said a lot of things to you 497 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,760 about the destruction of Jerusalem in the past. 498 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,920 This is not what I've said to you before. 499 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,320 This is something else. And the destruction of 500 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,520 Jerusalem, it was marked by both blood and fire. 501 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,880 By the way, this is all history. You can just you can look it up 502 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,040 too. Accounts describe widespread 503 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,040 bloodshed from mass killings and the temple of the city being 504 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:02,320 engulfed in flames. As described by the historian 505 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,960 Josephus, Roman soldiers intentionally set fire to the 506 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,920 temple and the rest of the city, burning it to the ground. 507 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,760 Archaeological evidence confirms a massive fire, with reports of 508 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,720 the flames reaching extreme temperatures. 509 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,480 Now, historical accounts describe the Roman soldiers 510 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,200 killing of the Jews indiscriminately, even those who 511 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,800 begged for their lives. The historian Josephus noted 512 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,960 that the number of the slain were greater than those of the 513 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,080 slayers, and the streets flowed with blood. 514 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:42,920 So in context, the great and awesome day of the Lord refers, 515 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,160 I believe, to the destruction of Jerusalem in context. 516 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:53,040 But notice, here's my reason. The very next verse allows us to 517 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:57,120 know their salvation in the midst of such a terrible 518 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,280 calamity. Verse 21 And it shall come to 519 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,880 pass that whoever calls in the name of the Lord shall be saved. 520 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,320 This verse restores hope. In the midst of turmoil there 521 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,800 still can be found salvation. The Jews who became Christians 522 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,360 were spared in the destruction of Jerusalem. 523 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:22,560 Remember Jesus gave them 5 remote signs, Matthew 24 and 1 524 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,080 immediate sign. And the immediate sign is when 525 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,560 you see the armies come and get out and go to the mountains. 526 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,160 They knew. The people of God knew, they 527 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,960 understood, and they waited and they got out. 528 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,840 And Josephus, a Roman historian, said when they came to destroy 529 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,760 the entire city, and when that happened, Rome pulled back and 530 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,560 every Christian got out. Christians got out. 531 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:57,000 Now in addition, all humanity going beyond this has the same 532 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,560 hope in Jesus before the end of time, that whoever calls on the 533 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:06,520 name of the Lord shall be saved. In the days before the 534 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,040 destruction of Jerusalem. They would be saved in the 535 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,800 destruction of Jerusalem and also eternally saved. 536 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,840 The Christian today that lived way longer and after the 537 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,000 destruction of Jerusalem like us today, guess what? 538 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,080 Still the same hope, whoever calls on the name of the Lord 539 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,320 will be saved. Isn't that great? 540 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,080 My question is this though. What's it mean? 541 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:36,239 What's it mean calling on the name of the Lord? 542 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:41,000 I'm going to prove this to you, I promise, and I'm going to give 543 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,320 you a Bible. Calling on the name of the Lord 544 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,360 does not just mean speaking the Lord's name. 545 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:57,320 It also does not mean, and it's also not exclusive to confessing 546 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,840 your faith in Jesus either. That's not what calling on the 547 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,880 name of the Lord means either. It involves those things, yes, 548 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,440 but more than that. What did Jesus say? 549 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,960 I'm a name drop. I'm a name drop. 550 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,040 The master. What did you say? 551 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:19,400 Not everyone says to me, Lord, Lord shall enter the Kingdom of 552 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,840 heaven, but he that does the will of my Father, which is in 553 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,920 heaven. What did Jesus also say? 554 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,600 He says, Why do you call me Lord Lord and do not do the things 555 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,840 that I say? So calling on the name of the 556 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,920 Lord to be saved is a promise, right? 557 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,560 It has to be more than just calling on His name. 558 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,160 So what does it actually mean to call on the name of the Lord? 559 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,560 Well, first of all, the word call means to invoke adore, 560 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,560 worship the Lord, IE Christ. It is the same Greek word for 561 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:57,400 calling that's found in a very familiar passage in Acts 2216, 562 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,600 where the context shows that calling on the name of the Lord 563 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,360 for salvation means to obey His commands. 564 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,240 And that fits exactly what Jesus said. 565 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,440 Why you call me Lord. Lord, don't do the things I say. 566 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,760 Jesus says if you love me, keep my commandments. 567 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,600 He also said, if you love me, keep my words. 568 00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:19,960 And if you keep my words, you will abide in my love as I've 569 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,520 kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 570 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,560 So calling on the name of the Lord is obeying what the Lord 571 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,840 said in Acts chapter 22 and verse 16. 572 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,600 Very interesting, very familiar passage. 573 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,320 The apostle Paul was converted. Jesus appears before him. 574 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,200 He blinds him dead in his tracks. 575 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,520 He said, why are you persecuting me? 576 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,640 He said, who are you, Lord? He said, I'm Jesus who you are 577 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,320 persecuting. It's hard for you to kick 578 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,280 against the goads. He said, what do you want me to 579 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:50,720 do, Lord? You think he believed? 580 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,080 Yeah, he believed. Oh, he believed. 581 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:55,520 He said, what do you want me to do? 582 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,880 He said you go into Damascus and you go down to the street, which 583 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,320 is called straight, and it'll be told to you what you're going to 584 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,600 do. He prays for three days, Three 585 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,600 days. Was he saved? 586 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:10,720 Let me ask you something. If he couldn't pray his sins 587 00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:15,000 away in three days, how does a person today think they could 588 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,360 pray their sins away in one little sentence prayer this 589 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,920 notice what happened. He already prayed for three 590 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,920 days. He was a chosen vessel of Jesus 591 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,400 to be an apostle. This was going to be the Lord's 592 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,840 right hand guy and this is what happened after he prayed for 593 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,600 three days. Ananias says what are you 594 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,520 waiting? Arise and be baptized and wash 595 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:39,680 away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord. 596 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,320 I already said that calling on the name of the Lord is obeying 597 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,640 the Lord's command. The first thing you got to do is 598 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,720 obey the gospel. That's what He commanded us to 599 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:49,960 do. What is that? 600 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,680 To be baptized for the remission of our sins. 601 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:58,480 In this passage it says be baptized to wash away your sins. 602 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:02,640 That's what calling on the name of the Lord is from the 603 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,520 Scriptures. So on the day the Kingdom came 604 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,800 in, Acts 2, Peter began his sermon with the words of the 605 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:20,600 prophet Joel. OK, Peter after this preaches 606 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,920 Jesus. I love how he set it all up. 607 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,680 He went through the early miraculous age of prophecy. 608 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,760 Why did he do that? Because they said these guys are 609 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,040 drunk when they were speaking in languages they never studied, 610 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,440 when everybody was hearing them and they were speaking in their 611 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,360 own language. And by the way, there were Jews, 612 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,880 devout men gathered there out of every nation under heaven. 613 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,840 Scholars tell us there was probably over 1,000,000 people 614 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,240 there, and everybody there from their own dialect heard and 615 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:54,000 understood. So they said these guys are 616 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,320 drunk. Peter says, no, it's only 9:00 617 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:01,040 AM, and what you're hearing is the beginning of the miraculous 618 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,960 age. And one of your prophets, your 619 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,560 Jewish prophets, prophesied about that. 620 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:11,000 That was Joe's prophecy. Next he preaches Jesus. 621 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,080 That'll be my next sermon in this series. 622 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,600 Thank you so much for your kind listening. 623 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,760 I hope this was understandable. I hope it was clear. 624 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,320 I really do. If you have any questions, 625 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:27,080 please let me know afterwards. But but a lot of things here, 626 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,560 they're sometimes misunderstood and taken out of context. 627 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,800 And so I hope we have a better understanding about those 628 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,320 things. We never close a time when we 629 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,000 assemble and teach from the Word of God that we don't extend an 630 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,360 invitation to somebody that might be subject to the 631 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,040 invitation. The steps to become a child of 632 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,200 God are very simple. We touched on a little bit of 633 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,480 that, but first of all, Romans 10/17 says so. 634 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,800 Then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. 635 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,800 In other words, the Word of God and the hearing of the Word of 636 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,480 God must produce faith. In fact, after you hear the Word 637 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,640 of God, you got a choice. Do you believe it or don't you 638 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,080 believe it? You got to believe with all your 639 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,480 heart. Hebrews 11 and 6. 640 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,160 Without faith it's impossible to please Him, for he who comes to 641 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,560 God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those 642 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,760 who diligently seek Him. Do you believe? 643 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,880 Surely you do. Then you got to repent of your 644 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,200 sins. And all that means is this. 645 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,040 I got to change my ways. I'm going in that direction. 646 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,880 I'm going to fall to the Lord today, that's all. 647 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,440 Am I going to be perfect? No, I'm going to fall down, make 648 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,080 all kinds of mistakes. I'm going to change my 649 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,600 direction. That's what repentance is. 650 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,240 It's a changing twenty of these times of ignorance God 651 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:35,280 overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent. 652 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,160 Then what must I do? I must confess that Jesus Christ 653 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,560 is the Son of God. Acts 837 And Philip said, if you 654 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:43,840 believe with all your heart, you may. 655 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:48,760 And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the 656 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,800 Son of God. All of these steps point toward 657 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,920 the point of salvation. They are necessary. 658 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,120 They're part of the plan of salvation. 659 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,000 But then we must be baptized for the remission of our sins. 660 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,880 That is the point of salvation, where we contact the blood of 661 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,160 Jesus, have our sins washed away. 662 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,880 Jesus himself said in Mark 16/16. 663 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:13,040 He who believes that is baptized will be saved, but he who does 664 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:21,040 not believe will be condemned. Is baptism what saves us, or is 665 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,520 it just an outward sign of an inward faith or a confirmation 666 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,840 of what we already are? Let's go to one more verse and 667 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,200 I'm done. First, Peter 321 The LAX figure 668 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:36,120 where the even baptism does also now save us. 669 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:43,240 Not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of 670 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:45,720 a good conscience toward God by the resurrection of Jesus 671 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:48,320 Christ. When you realize I'm a Sinner 672 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,680 and I'm away from Jesus, you know what you need? 673 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,800 You need an answer. Baptism for the remission of 674 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,080 sins is the answer. Are you here and you're not a 675 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,880 child of God? We can assist you in that. 676 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,480 We can baptize you for the remission of your sins. 677 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,520 Maybe you have, maybe you've drifted away. 678 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,360 Maybe there's something in your life you need to correct. 679 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,760 I don't know what it could be. If we could be here for you for 680 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,600 any way. Come forward while we stand, 681 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:08,080 while we say.