we shall share good tidings from
the Dalles with your brothers and sisters in Jacksonville,
North Carolina. If you're ever visiting there,
you would be blessed by going and hearing Pastor Gary Shepard
and visiting with those folks there. They're just like being
here. It's just like being home. The second chapter of the Book
of Acts. I have been just I guess it's
been a juggling match that I've been going through from a scriptural
and spiritual standpoint of where to begin and how to begin the
second chapter, because it is so important. It is so important. The second chapter of the Book
of Acts, it is just so declarative of what we are to be doing. It's
declarative. And there are opportunities that
have been opened up here, and so often they're taking advantage
of turning a blessing from the Lord into an idol. I go by and
see signs that have this flame of fire coming down. It's just
been turned into an idol. I hear people talking about wind.
It's just been turned into an idol. I hear people talk about
tongues, it's been turned into an idol. And it's nothing more
than that. And then we find in the second
chapter of the book of Acts how God used those things to declare
one thing. Now, a whole bunch of people
understood we do here in our own language, our own tongue,
the wonderful works of God. And then in verse 31, I'm jumping
way ahead in the book of Acts chapter two, but the apostle
Peter is given an opportunity here. I don't find any place
in the gospels where any of the disciples ever preached a message
on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We're going to find out,
we're going to look back just a little bit. We're going to
find out Jesus preached about Jesus's resurrection, but they're
in training. And we realized that they had
some misconceptions about what the ministry of the Lord was
while he was here. That he had an interest in really
establishing a kingdom again for Israel. And then they found
out that wasn't his purpose at all. His purpose is to redeem
a people. and that people has been identified
in the Old Testament, in the Gospels and throughout the New
Testament. And again, I have to do what brother Lauren did.
I have to refer to an article in the bulletin and it's by Tim
James again, and I'm not gonna read it all, but in the middle
paragraph, it says, who are they? Who are these that Jesus Christ
is going to ransom? Who are these that Jesus Christ
is gonna die for? How are they made accepted? According to Ephesians 1, 3 through
14, they are those who have been blessed with all spiritual blessings
in Christ. They are those who have been
chosen in Christ from the foundation of the world. They are those
who have been predestinated to be adoption of children by Christ. They are those who have been
accepted in Christ. They are those who have been
redeemed by Christ. Forgiven their sins by Christ,
illuminated in Christ, gathered in Christ, given an inheritance
in Christ. They are those who have been
given faith after they heard the gospel. They are those who
have been sealed by the Holy Spirit in Christ. He just takes
a whole bunch of scripture and sums it up in such a fine fashion
in that paragraph. Well, we find that from the very
beginning that God had a real purpose in creating the heavens
and the earth, and he had a real purpose in what he did with Adam
and Eve, and he had a real purpose in what was going on throughout
all of history, and that is he has a people that he is going
to save by the grace of God. Now here Peter in Acts chapter
2 verse 31, he's going through some Old Testament scripture
and he says, he's seen this before spake of the resurrection of
Christ. This is the first message that
I can find that any disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ ever
preached about the resurrection of Christ. And here it is, and
it's going to be filled in the book of Acts. It's going to be
time and time and time again. This subject is going to come
up because it is a sign from Almighty God that Jesus Christ
was accepted. All right. Turn with me, if you
would, for just a moment to the Old Testament, to the book of
Job, Job chapter 19. The Old Testament is filled with
the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Job believed in the resurrection
of Christ. How he knew about it? The spirit
had to teach him. Someone came along that knew
something and the spirit gave him the revelation about that.
Now it doesn't identify the speaker, it doesn't identify the preacher,
it doesn't identify the prophet because really they are unnecessary
except for spreading the gospel. If you turn, and please don't
do that right now, but I'm just using this as a figure of speech.
If you turn to the parable of the sower, after the seed is
sown, we don't read another word about the sower. We have somebody
else taking over from that point, and that is God taking over from
that point. So the sower is just anybody
that God has called by His grace and revealed Christ to them,
and they've been saved by His grace, and He says, I want you
to say a few words about the resurrection of Jesus Christ
to people, and they scatter the seed, and now it's up to God
to take care of the rest of it. Well, here in the book of Job,
we have somebody that is riding in great peril of health. We
read about people like this, and we hear people like this,
and sometimes it will affect us like this, in great peril
of our health. We have a man writing, but he's
writing about something that is very important to him. And
that very importance to him is found in the book of Job, Job
chapter 19. In Job chapter 19, and there
we read Job chapter 19 verses 25 and
26. Somebody came along and preached
the message of grace to Job and God was gracious because he was
one of those that had been numbered before the foundation of the
world and marked out by God to be saved. Now we don't see the
mark, but God certainly sees the mark. And here Job says this
in times of great peril. I just can't imagine what he's
going through, the agony he's going through if you just look
at the description of what was permitted to have happened to
him, to his body, and to his family. Going through this, he
says, for I know that my Redeemer liveth. Now that only comes by
the faith of God's elect. That only comes by faith of regeneration. I know my Redeemer liveth. Now
when we use the word Redeemer, we're talking about somebody
that buys us back out of a terrible situation. And Jesus Christ bought
his people back from sin. and the curse of sin. He said,
for I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy
this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. He believed in the
resurrected Messiah. Now, throughout the Old Testament,
we usually find the word Messiah. We don't find the word Christ
because it's a Greek word. Messiah is a Hebrew word. But
sometimes in the New Testament, we find them in the same verse
of scripture. So here is the Messiah. He's the one that's
been promised. Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15, the first time
human ears got to hear that there was someone that was set aside
before the foundation of the world to be a lamb slain. Someone to take care of the problem
that you're in right now, Adam, Eve. and your generations after
you face the same. So he believed. Now turn with
me to the book of Psalms. The prophets and the Psalms are
filled with verses of scripture that share with us the most important
message that Jesus Christ came to lay down his life, a ransom
for his people, and that he would be put aside in this earth for
three days. And then he would raise from
the dead because God was so pleased with the sacrifice that was given.
And he came out of that tomb and we'll read in the book of
Isaiah that he was well pleased with this. So here in the book
of the Psalm, Psalm 16, the scriptures share this. And we had part of
that read over the book of Acts, Acts chapter two there, but in
Psalm 16 and verse 10, the scripture shares this, for thou will not
leave my soul in hell or Sheol. You'll not leave me in the grave.
Neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. It
has already been promised years, hundreds of years, before the
fact that the Messiah would die. He would give his life a ransom. He would lay down his life for
his sheep. And in laying down his life for
the sheep, It had been promised to him, as we find here, it is
in first person. Thou will not leave my soul in
Sheol. Thou will not leave my soul in
the grave. I have that promise from the Father. I have that
promise from the Spirit. And I have that promise myself.
I will raise myself. The Father will raise me. The
Spirit will raise me. just as it takes the three, great
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to be involved in our salvation,
it took the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit to be involved
in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We must be raised by
that same power. So we have this prophecy here.
And you know, we read in the book of Matthew, it is a reference
to Jonah. Jonah, he had a lot more understanding
than I used to think he had about what was going on. He was not
a dummy. He knew exactly who was the problem
on that boat. And he said that he worshipped
the God of the Hebrews. There was a relationship that
God had with that man that he had with very few people on the
earth at that time. Jonah was swallowed by a great
fish that was prepared by God. Just as that great wind that
came was prepared by God, this great fish was prepared by God
and swallowed Jonah, and Jesus Christ brings up this point in
the Book of Matthew. In the Book of Matthew, chapter
12, Matthew chapter 12. And he also brings this verse
with it because he always had people that were following him
asking for a sign. You know, we got a volcano going
on over, or two of them maybe in the world right now. And I
just thought to myself, well, there's a bunch of preachers
got something to preach about this Sunday. Because they're always
looking for a sign. Sign of the end. Sign, sign. We're going to have hurricanes
and tornadoes and earthquakes and all these things. They've
been going on since the very beginning after the flood. they
will continue to the very end. And that's not the sign that
Jesus Christ is going to share with these people. He says here,
and he's referring to Jonah. We could have went to Jonah and
read that, but Jesus summed it up. But he said here in verse
39, but he answered and said unto them, an evil and adulterous
generation seek after a sign. So if you're reading the newspaper,
looking for a sign of the second coming of Christ, You'll just
have to read what Jesus said about that. An evil and adulterous
generation seek after a sign. And there shall no sign be given
to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. You know, his disciples
didn't comprehend what he was saying right here, but they would. Acts, they're going to understand
these words. Jesus took the time to instruct
them in all the things concerning himself in the Old Testament.
And when he passed by Jonah, he said, I want you to understand
emphatically that Jonah is a picture of the death, burial, and resurrection
of me. Because he goes on to tell that.
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly,
so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth. That's a promise. Now he had
received that promise from the Father, so it was on good word
that he could promise it to you and I. This is a promise. I'll be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth. I'll be in a tomb, a borrowed
tomb. And it's all brought out throughout the scriptures. All
right, now that's Jonah in the Old Testament, but let's go back
to another place in the Old Testament, in the book of Isaiah, chapter
53. The prophets of old preached of the resurrection of Jesus
Christ. It is part of the glorious way
that God is going to save his people. He had a people before
the foundation of the world. Their names are written down
in the Lamb's Book of Life. He had in his mind and in his
heart the deep, deep love of Jesus on behalf of his people.
And here, through the scriptures, he's demonstrating how he's going
to save his people. We could go over there to Adam
and Eve, how did he make them fit to be in his presence? He
covered them with the coats of skins. Someone had to be a sacrifice,
had to die so that they could have that covering. And what
did Abel do? He offered a more excellent sacrifice. And how did God demonstrate that
he was satisfied with that sacrifice? Fire from heaven came down and
consumed it. He said, I'm satisfied with this
because it depicts and pictures what I am going to go through
to save my people from their sins. And though that critter
cannot be raised from its death, I, the Son of God, will be raised
from my death. And that will be a demonstration
that God the Father is well pleased. And we're gonna find out through
the book of Acts that those apostles, those preachers of righteousness,
spent a great deal of time and some of them gave their life
over this very thing that Jesus Christ is raised from the dead.
Authority says, we don't want you talking about that subject.
Why? Well, if that's true, we're guilty.
And we're not that. There's not a guilty person on
this earth until God makes us guilty. We'll go through life. It's someone else's problem.
It's not my fault. I heard the other day the reason
we have committees. Someone told me the reason we
have committees is because we don't want anybody to be put
into a position that any fault falls on them. It can always
be blamed on someone else. Now, if we had one person in
charge and they did something stupid and foolish, we could
blame them. But if there's two or three or four to blame, well,
we can't find anybody to blame because nobody will take it.
Well, God is not a committee. It fell at his feet. The redemption
of his people fell at his feet and he said, I will take this. All right, Isaiah 53. Turn back
there to the book of Isaiah 53 if you would. What a classic
chapter. But this is not, I used to hear
this is the gospel chapter of the Old Testament. Oh my goodness. When the Lord saved me, I got
a new Bible. Now, I didn't trade my old Bible
in. I just got a new Bible. It was so different than it was
reading there, trying to find verses of scripture that proved
my point. And you know what? God's people
today say, show me what your word has to say. So I have something
to say. We're not trying to prove a point
here. The point about Jesus Christ is scattered throughout all the
Old Testament, through the Gospels, and throughout all the rest of
the New Testament. So here in the 53rd chapter of
the book of Isaiah, and you know there's much said in the book
of Isaiah that is not very good for an actual man. If it had
not been for a very small remnant Isaiah chapter one, verse six,
we should have all been as Sodom and we should have been as Gomorrah.
Now just go read over there in the book of Genesis and find
out how God treated that folk. He rained down fire from heaven
and justly so. And you know, one of the prophets
said, that people that do not honor, preachers who do not honor
God are worse than the inhabitants of Sodom. And we talk about the
sin of those folks, it's worse to say a word that's not true
about God. All right, let's get to Isaiah
53. Isaiah 53, there's so much said
here, but I wanna read verses 10 and 11. It pleased the Lord
to bruise him. He hath put him to grief, when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. Now notice the next
phrase. Isaiah is telling us what great
grief the Lord Jesus Christ is going to go through on the behalf
of his people because of their sin. He is going to have all
their sin imputed to him and then he is going to suffer justice
from God for all that sin. And then Isaiah is led by the
Holy Spirit to bring to our mind He shall see his seed. What's that mean? This is not
a permanent position for him. He's not gonna be dead forever.
He's gonna be in a tomb for three days and three nights is what
we know, but he shall see his seed. How can he do that? He
has to come out of that tomb. He shall see his seed. There
is going to be a resurrection. Well, it goes on to tell us here,
he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days and
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall
see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. How do we
know that God was satisfied with his travail? Because he brought
him out of the tomb. And the church says, hallelujah,
thank you, God. We are so in desperate need. You know, those disciples, for
that period of time, we can read about them, the three on the
road to Emmaus, they're in a third day since Jesus Christ has gone
into that tomb, and they are in wonder, what's next? What is next? This is not panning
out like we thought. We thought it was he. It's not working out like we
thought. Generally speaking, it doesn't,
does it? It works out as according to
God's eternal purpose. So there, there, Jesus comes
up. They don't know who he is. And
how many times that may have happened in your life and my
life? Here he speaks to them, they don't know who he is, he
reveals himself, and he says, oh my goodness, didn't our hearts
burn within us when he started talking about the Old Testament?
Just the same as it happens to us. So he says, He shall see
the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their
iniquities. All right, finally, if you join
me before we get to the book of Acts, in the book of Matthew,
the book of Matthew, in the book of Matthew, the Lord Jesus Christ,
during his personal ministry, Three and a half years, not much
said between his birth and when he's 30 years old about this
subject. Now, there were certain people that understood. I think
Mary understood. That man that took him up in
the temple, I think he understood. I think Anna understood some
things, but not very many people understood his purpose in coming. And here he is in Matthew chapter
16, Matthew chapter 16, verse 21. Sometimes Mrs. Porter would just
slap my hand if she saw my handwriting like this, my second grade teacher. Matthew chapter 16, verse 21.
From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples. how that he must go unto Jerusalem,
and suffer many things of the elders, and of the chief priests,
and the scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third
day. Luke chapter nine, would you
turn there with me? Luke chapter nine. This is a
subject that has been throughout the scriptures, Old Testament
scriptures, preached by prophets, preached by ministers, preached
Jesus himself during his own public ministry, brought this
subject out. This must happen. And here in
the book of Luke chapter nine, Luke chapter nine, there in verse
22, we have these words recorded. about the ministry of the Lord.
He brings this up saying, the son of man must suffer many things
and be rejected of the elders. Who are those? That's religion. He's rejected of religion. Boy,
it just didn't happen then, did it? He's rejected of religion
today. Nobody wants this Jesus. They
don't want this Jesus that's going to lay down his life a
ransom for many, or lay down his life as a shepherd would
give his life for his sheep. They want a Jesus that is all-inclusive,
but never got the job done for anybody. I told a young man this
last week, I said, that is a gospel that has absolutely no hope in
it. There is no hope at all. that
if it's up to you to make the choice, there's no hope. My hope is in a Savior that can
save, a Redeemer that can redeem. One that can do exactly what
he said he would do. Lay down his life a ransom for
the sheep. Alright, it goes on here. Says,
the elders and chief priests and scribes. We have a the plethora
of religion all voted against him. And these religious people
are of his own nation. And you know what? Then he went
and heard them in the synagogue and in the temple and they hated
him. Goes on to say, and be slain
and be raised the third day. So when we get to the book of
Acts, page after page, message after message. Those disciples
of the Lord Jesus Christ and those who are made through the
preaching of the gospel by those disciples, they are going to
come to grips with this and preach the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
a successful God, a God that did exactly what he said he would
do, and he shall lose none of them. Everyone that he has intended
to save will be there in his presence on that day. Well, for
a short time that we have left, would you join me back in the
Book of Acts, and let's start at the very beginning. Book of
Acts Chapter 2. The Book of Acts Chapter 2, as
we start this most glorious book, this most glorious chapter. They
have been sitting there for 10 days after the Lord ascended
back to glory. Jesus Christ raised from the
dead. He spent 40 days with those disciples. What an education they received
in 40 days. That beat having that two-week
Bible study, didn't it? Here we are, 40 days of instruction
by the Lord, and then they're told to wait for 10 days. And it's interesting, this is
going to be Pentecost. Now, isn't it interesting that
the Lord fulfilled all of his ministry on the Passover. And you go back to the Passover
and you find out the identification of the Lamb, here he is. The
qualifications of the Lamb, here he is. What's going to happen
to the Lamb? Here it happened. Paul said,
he's our Passover. Everything that was prescribed
in the 12th chapter of the book of Exodus is fulfilled in the
Lord Jesus Christ, and he did it on the right day, the Passover,
the last one recognized by God. And 50 days later, we have the
Holy Spirit coming in power and great glory, 50 days later on
Pentecost. You know, it's called the Feast
of Weeks. There's seven weeks between the Passover and Pentecost. Now, on Passover, they brought
a sheaf in and passed it before, and this is the first fruits
of the harvest. Now, I've never lived anywhere
where one day, Passover day, I could count on starting to
harvest, and on 50 days later, Pentecost I could count on finishing
the harvest but it seems to be that that was kind of what worked
out in that day and time So the harvest is over They are fulfilling
the requirement that God gave to them. They are meeting together. What better time in this world
than to have the Holy Spirit of God promised by God come down
and do what he did. Now, this is not the first time
that the Holy Spirit has entered into the picture. My goodness,
he was there in creation. He was there in the Council Halls
of Eternity. He's not a second-rate part of
the Godhead. I cannot comprehend the Godhead. The Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit, one. I used to have pictures in my
mind, and you know the scripture says, to what will you compare
me? Just don't do it. Don't make it ice, water, and
steam. Don't make it egg, shell, and
all that stuff. That's trying to put it into
a frame that we can figure out. It's not figurable. Believable. Figurable, no. All right. So we have the Holy Spirit. It
says, and when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all
with one accord in one place. I don't know how many places
I've driven around, and we got churches named after this. Why? Why? Why would there be a Pentecostal
church? Because they need a God. Pentecost means nothing. What
happened in the preaching of Christ, that's important. We
don't need the gods. We need the God. We don't need
the peripheral. I was listening to someone the
other day and they were telling the story and I just, I don't
know whether it was I or the person telling it. Cut to the
chase. Let's cut to the chase. Jesus
Christ and Him crucified. That's the chase. Let's go to
there. All right, suddenly, I can't imagine how this happened. You
know, I have been given the faith to believe it as if I was sitting
there, that this actually happened. This took place. And I can hear
the preacher preach what he preached there in the second chapter of
the book of Acts. I can go through there and say, Peter, hallelujah. This is what a wonderful message
that you're bringing. And there's 11 others saying
the same thing. We don't have the record, but there was no
contradiction in their messages. Suddenly there came the sound
from heaven. Now I like this because it's
very descriptive. As of a rushing mighty wind. It doesn't say it was a rushing
mighty wind. It says it had the noise. When
the Holy Spirit came down there was came in a noise. It was something
that attracted people's attention. We're going to find that out.
And it was filled all the house where they were sitting. And
there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as fire, like as
fire, cloven tongues that like as fire. We don't need another
God. We don't need another idol. Let's
just say God blessed them and sat upon each of them. and they
were filled with the Holy Ghost. You know that God did that for
all of these people in regeneration. But this is a special time that
God came down. I don't want to separate it at
in the least from the gospel. We don't have something absolutely
beginning new here because we've had the Holy Spirit since the
very beginning. We had the Holy Spirit come down upon some people
in the Old Testament. Moses wrote and said, God gave
that man God's Spirit so he'd know how to build the tabernacle.
God gave that man God's spirit so he'd know how to build a temple.
So the Holy Spirit has been around. There wouldn't have been one
person ever saved without the Holy Spirit. It takes regeneration. You must be born again. And that's
not just for today. That's been in every century,
every era, every period of time that God has done that great
work of giving the new birth. So here we have God coming. You know, what's it been? Three
weeks ago, two weeks ago, we had a thunderstorm. My goodness. I talked to a man, he said, he's
lived here 50 years, and he says, that is the biggest thunderstorm
I've ever seen here in the area. It was so black. It was so bright. The lightning was so intense. The rain was so intense. The
thunder was so intense. But you know what? Every one
of us have seen smaller thunderclouds. This is not something new. God
didn't send a thundercloud a week ago and say, well, I'm sending
you something new. Well, I say that to say this,
the Holy Spirit came in a very special way, but he's been around
ever since there's been creation on this earth and in the council
halls of eternity for eternity. So we're not getting something
new here. We're getting something blessed
here, but not something new. He's the spirit of the Lord came
upon me. It's what is recorded in the
book of Isaiah. And Jesus quoted that when he's there in Nazareth.
Spirit of the Lord came upon me. So it's the spirit of God. So everyone is born of the spirit. We get there, the book of John
chapter three, talking about the new birth, talking about
regeneration, the wind, And so is everyone that is born of the
Spirit. So this has been around since
the very beginning. The Spirit of God. in some sense,
had come before the death of Christ. He had appeared in creation
of all the things out of nothing as a joint creator with the Father
and the Son. He has come in the spirit of
prophecy. In the book of Revelation, we
find that Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Who wrote about
that? The Spirit of God. Old Testament saints had received
him as the Spirit of Truth. He had been given to Christ as
a man without measure, and the disciples had been partakers
of his gifts and his graces in their regeneration. The coming
of the Spirit as an attester of truth That's what he's going
to do for these believers now. He's going to be the attester
of truth. Jesus said while he was here,
I'm the way, the truth, and the life. You know what? We still
preach that. He is the way, the truth, and
the life. Who's the attester for us of that very fact? You
know, people don't believe our words. Just check it out. Go talk to your family. Start talking to them about things
of grace. They will not believe you. Who's
the attester? Who's the one that stands behind
it and says, he's telling you the truth. Holy Spirit of God. That's what he's going to do
here in this book of Acts. We find that he is the comforter
of the disciples. He comforted Job. He's going
to comfort us now. He's going to comfort them. He's
going to comfort Stephen as he hears the rocks coming through
the air. He's a teacher of scripture.
He's the drawer of the lost. This is our spirit, the spirit
of God. And here he is descending upon
these people this day because they need it. This is the promise
that God has given to them. God, the Lord Jesus Christ tells
us, and we read this previously in the book of John chapter 14,
15 and 16. I promise you the comforter. I promise you the comforter.
When I leave, I promise you the comforter. What will he do? He
will be an attester of the truth. They will not believe your words,
but when I convince them, they will believe. And we follow the
Apostle Paul, Saul of Tarsus. He didn't believe Stephen's words,
but he certainly believed the Spirit's words when he revealed
him, revealed Christ to him on the road to Damascus. They appeared on them, cloven
tongues, verse 4, and they were filled with the Holy Ghost. And
there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven. And aren't you glad that verse
of Scripture is there? Out of every area, known province. They are there. Now, when this
was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded
because that every man heard them speak in his own language. Now, I've discussed this with
people, was the miracle in the voice or was the miracle in the
ear? And guess what? Doesn't make
a bit of difference. They did hear the wonderful works
of God in their own language. Now, the Lord did not stop there.
In verse seven, it says, and they were all amazed and marveled,
saying one to another, behold, they are not all these which
speak Galileans. And if you look up, Peter was
identified as being one of the disciples because he used a Galilean
dialect. And you know, that's just like
using Louisiana dialect. I can pick you out a long ways
away. These were Galileans. This is
not their normal conversation. They're not leaving. They're
not using the word ain't. They're not butchering the king's
English. They are speaking the wonderful
works of God in their own language. Now it lists us in hallelujah,
verse 9, 10, 11, Parthenians, they had languages. And they do hear in their own
tongues the wonderful, in their own languages, the wonderful
works of God. Parthenians and Medes and Elamites
and dwellers of Mesopotamia and in Judea and Cappadocia and Pontus
and Asia. Who are these guys? They came
to Jerusalem for Pentecost. And you know what? They are like
you and I. They got more than they bargained
for. They thought they were just going
to hear a dry message and God sent them a glorious message. Let me finish verse 11. It says,
Pergia, Pamphylia in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene,
the strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians,
we do hear them speak in our tongues. the wonderful works
of God, and they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one
to another, what meaneth this? Others mocking said, these men
are full of new wine. Now, you know who those guys
were? Those were the Jewish religionists. If there's any way that we can
discredit these disciples, we will bring it up. They're drunk.
With that, we'll stop today. Brother Mike.