Lord and Christ

Q: What does the Bible say about Pentecost?

Pentecost signifies the coming of the Holy Spirit, marking the empowerment of believers to proclaim the gospel. Pentecost, celebrated in Acts 2, represents the fulfillment of Jesus' promise to send the Holy Spirit to His disciples. This event was accompanied by miraculous signs, like the rushing mighty wind and cloven tongues of fire, signifying God's presence and approval of the apostles' ministry. The purpose was to empower the disciples for their mission to spread the gospel and serve as a testimony to all nations present in Jerusalem at that time.

Q: How do we know Jesus is Lord and Christ?

The resurrection of Jesus confirms Him as Lord and Christ, providing evidence that He is the promised Messiah. The assertion that Jesus is both Lord and Christ is rooted in His resurrection, which validates His claims and mission. Acts 2:36 states that God has made Jesus, whom the people crucified, both Lord and Christ. The apostolic preaching emphasized that Jesus’ miraculous works and resurrection bear witness to His divine authority and fulfilled the prophecies. This means that all who seek salvation must recognize Him as the appointed Savior, who is alive and reigning.

Q: Why is the Holy Spirit important for Christians?

The Holy Spirit empowers believers for effective witness and transforms them into the image of Christ. The Holy Spirit plays a crucial role in the lives of Christians by acting as a Comforter and empowering them for service. Acts 2 reveals how the Spirit equips the apostles to proclaim the gospel in diverse languages, signifying that the message of Christ is for all people. Furthermore, the Spirit is responsible for regeneration, sanctification, and guiding believers in truth, thus playing an indispensable role in the Christian life by enabling them to live in a way that glorifies God.

Q: How was the gospel preached by the apostles after Pentecost?

The apostles preached the gospel with boldness, declaring the resurrection of Christ and calling for repentance. After Pentecost, the apostles boldly proclaimed the gospel, particularly emphasizing the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. They called for repentance and faith, urging their listeners to turn from sin and believe in the risen Savior. The first sermon recorded in Acts 2, delivered by Peter, illustrates how the apostles directly connected Jesus’ resurrection to the promise of salvation, asserting that it was through Him that individuals could be reconciled with God.

I want you to open your Bibles
to the book of Acts. Acts chapter 2. I received so many favorable
comments concerning the message I brought last Sunday morning to the young people. Several people said, well, I'm
not as young as they are, but I surely did get a blessing out
of that. Maybe I'll preach to them again
next Sunday. Well, that's what I'll do then. I'll address the young people
again in a simple, clear message on the subject, Lord and Christ. Lord and Christ. most of today's religion in America. And it's not only here in America,
but it's spreading all over the world. And most of today's religion
is emotional, charismatic, demonstrative. This is what you'll see on television,
what you'll probably be exposed to if you go to other churches,
even in this area. A lot of exhibitionism, testimonies,
waving of the hands, hallelujah, praise the Lord, charismatic
Pentecostalism. And usually to back up this emotional
display called worship, they'll use the second chapter of the
book of Acts. That's usually the scripture
that they will use to encourage and promote this type of worship. They call it worship. But I want us to look at the
second chapter of Acts this morning. Just read it together. Let me
comment on these scriptures and see if we can be helped in this
matter of how to worship God. Now, when you hear the word Pentecost,
look at Acts 2, verse 1, when the day of Pentecost was fully
come. Pentecost, Pentecostalism. When
you hear the word Pentecostal, or Pentecostalism, or Pentecost,
what's the first thing that comes into your mind? Well, one of the first things
that comes into your mind is the Holy Spirit. Pentecostalism
usually is, has a picture out front of a dove, the Spirit descended
upon Christ at His baptism in the form of a dove, or it'll
have a picture of a tongue of fire, cloven tongue of fire. There'd be a dove and a tongue
of fire. So what you think of when you mention the word Pentecost,
you think of the coming of the Holy Spirit. And that's what
happened here. Let's read the first four verses.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all
with one accord in one place, these believers, disciples and
others. And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house
where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them,
and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." Now then, this
was what our Lord promised the disciples. He told them in Luke
24, he said, you tarry at Jerusalem. you be endued with power, the
Holy Ghost shall come upon you, the power of the highest shall
overshadow you, it shall come upon you, the Holy Spirit's coming. Now when our Lord Jesus Christ
came into the world, the Father surrounded his coming with many
different signs. There was the star over the manger,
the angels came to earth, and announced to the shepherds that
unto you is born this day the city of David a Savior, Christ
the Lord. The wise men came from the east.
There were many things that happened when our Lord came into the world.
He didn't just slip in quietly. He came with an announcement
from heaven, this is my son. God even spoke one time from
heaven, said this is my son in whom I'm well pleased. Well,
when the Holy Spirit came to earth, to indwell the people
of God. God sent many signs. Suddenly
one man wake up one morning and Christ said, I go away, I'll
send the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Well, the Comforter didn't
slip in unannounced, unattended by signs from heaven. When the
Holy Spirit, like when the Son of God came, the Father gave
unquestionable, undeniable signs. This is my Son. When the Holy
Spirit came and indwelt believers, the Father gave undeniable and
questionable signs. The rushing mighty wind, the
cloven tongues of fire, they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in other tongues. Don't try to duplicate
it. When the Son of God comes today
in our worship, He said where two or three are met, I'll be
in the midst, but there's no star over this building this
morning. And there are no wise men journeying here from the
Far East. And there are no angels here to give us a message that
the Son of God has come. He has come. He's here. And when
the Holy Spirit attends our worship, and attends our preaching, and
attends our prayers, or attends the preaching of the gospel to
quicken a believer, don't expect a tongue of fire to light on
him, and a rushing mighty wind to fill this building. or him
to speak in another language. Don't try to duplicate signs
and marvelous wonders from heaven that announce special events
and special comings. So when people think of Pentecost,
they think of the Holy Ghost. Then they think of the second
thing they think about is the gift of tongues. Look at verse
4, And they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now let me remind you of something. A tongue, whenever you see the
word tongue in the Bible, any time you see it, it refers to
this part of your body in your mouth, your tongue. Or it refers
to another language spoken by and understood by somebody, a
language When the word unknown tongue is used in reference to
a person, that is him speaking in a language that he hasn't
learned and doesn't know, but somebody knows it. Somebody knows
it. If I spoke this morning in Spanish,
I'd be speaking in an unknown tongue. I don't know Spanish.
If I spoke in Greek, it'd be an unknown tongue. If I spoke
in Japanese, Chinese, Russian, it'd be an unknown tongue. It'd
be God enabling me to speak in a language I don't know. But
it's known to somebody. All right, this is what God gave
them utterance. And they were dwelling at Jerusalem,
Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. This was
a feast, Pentecost. People were here from all nations,
everywhere. They were assembled in Jerusalem
for this feast of the Pentecost. Now when this was noised abroad,
the multitude came together and they were confounded. They were
troubled in mind because every man heard them speak in their
own language. Now young people, listen to me.
You may turn on your television and your preacher's up preaching,
a Pentecostal preacher or charismatic or whatever, and suddenly you
can't understand what he's saying. And somebody says, what's he
doing? And somebody else will say, he's speaking in an unknown
tongue. Let me tell you something. He's not speaking in a tongue
at all. He's speaking in a gibberish.
He's speaking in something devised and come up with in his own twisted
mind. If he's not speaking a discernible,
known language by somebody, he's acting foolish. And I tell you, I've known some
of these fellas, and they practice this thing. They get off in the
closet somewhere, and out in the car somewhere, I had two
of them tell me this, and they practice speaking in this gibberish. There's no such thing known in
the Bible. The apostles had nothing to do
with this type of foolishness. And that's what it is, it's foolishness.
It's utter, absolute foolishness. Don't be taken in by this. Don't
be enamored by this. Don't be impressed by this. It's
foolishness. They heard what it said. Every
man heard them speak in his own language. A language. And they were amazed
and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these that
speak Galileans? Aren't these Galileans? What
are they doing speaking in these different languages? How hear
we every man in his own tongue? Somebody said, well, the man
was preaching and they all heard the language in which they were
born. I don't know. I don't know how
this was done. I know Paul said he spoke in
other languages. And the disciples might have
spoken one at a time, speaking in different languages. But nevertheless,
they heard them speak in their own language. It wasn't gibberish. It was an understandable language. When I go to Mexico and speak
those people, I'm speaking in an unknown tone to everybody
at the coffee ranch. Not anybody there knows what
I'm saying. You've spoken there. Not anybody.
There'll be 120, 150 people there, not a single one of them can
understand a word I'm saying. Well, you shouldn't do that,
Henry. Yeah, I have an interpreter. Milton's standing right beside
me. interpreting everything I say. That makes it acceptable. But
if I try to preach to them in a language they don't understand,
I'm wasting their time and my time. Always have an interpreter. That's what Scripture says. All
right, verse 9 names all these different nations represented.
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia,
Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, other parts of Libya, Cyrene,
strangers of Rome, Jews, proselytes, Creeks, and Arabians. Listen,
we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of
God. Now listen, let's don't try to
imitate some kind of gibberish or foolish talk or try to come
up with it to imitate the great things of God. Let's just use
what God gives us, the ability God gives us. Let's speak in
our language, in our tongue, or whatever tongue God's given
us, let's speak the wonderful works of God. What are the wonderful
works of God? The grace of God, the love of
God in Christ, the death of Christ, the atonement of Christ, the
intercession of Christ, the person and work of Christ. Let's speak
the wonderful works of God. We don't need to impress anybody
with our spirituality by inventing some kind of gibberish and calling
it a gift of God. It's not a gift of God unless
it's genuine. It's not a gift of God unless
it's for the glory of God and for the good of others. And they were amazed and were
in doubt, saying one to another, what meaneth this? Others mocked
and said these men are drunk. They're full of new wine. Let me show you something over
here in 1 Corinthians. Hold that axe too and turn to
1 Corinthians 14. You see, these disciples of Christ Our
Lord came, born of a poor Jewish woman, laid in a manger. They said He's from Nazareth.
Can anything good come out of Nazareth? They said He's a carpenter. They said He's a winebibber.
They said He's a friend of publicans and sinners. They said He's a
gluttonous man. They said He has no education.
They said He's not approved by the people who are in the know. He's not accepted. He was rejected of men. And here
he sends out twelve disciples, and they were fishermen, ordinary
people, picked up along the way as he chose them, that the glory
might be of God, not of them. And these men were going out
to preach this message of grace, the fulfillment of all the Old
Testament scriptures. And our God gave these humble,
unknown, unassuming men special gifts, special gifts and special
power, credentials, so to speak, that people would hear them.
In other words, here at Pentecost, people everywhere, here these
men are standing here and they're going to preach Christ. Well,
they start speaking, and every man hears them in his own language.
And a crowd came, and they said, aren't these Galileans? How do
we hear them preaching our tongue? It's a miracle. It's a gift of
God. It's like Nicodemus said to Christ,
no man could do these miracles except God be with him. We know
you're a teacher from God. And here in 1 Corinthians 14,
verse 22, tongues, these languages God gave the disciples, are for
a sign. They are for a sign. Not to them
that believe, but to them that believe not. That's why God gave
these men these gifts, that people might say, well, I've never heard
this message before, My, he's got the power of God on him.
I need to listen to him. This is, this, I can't deny this
is of God. Turn to Hebrews, let me show
you this again, Hebrews 2. These men came, disciples, these
apostles, and they were given special gifts that you and I
don't have. And let me add, that you and
I don't need. We don't have. I cannot heal
the sick by putting my hands on them, the disciples. Peter
touched that man at the gate and he rose up and walked. I
can't do that. But I don't need to. I don't need to. I don't need to prove that God
sent me. All I have to do is read His Word. You have His Word.
I have His Word. I read to you His Word. When
you hear a preacher, Don't be impressed by miracles that he
performed. Be impressed by the gospel he
preaches. If he's true to the scriptures. But these men didn't
have the scriptures. They wrote the scriptures. They
couldn't say, turn to the book of Galatians or Ephesians or
Philippians or Titus or Hebrews for the full film of the Old
Testament scriptures. They had to say, I'm telling
you what the Old Testament scripture says. Well, so I said, well prove
it. I can't prove it. But I can prove that God sent
me to tell you that by raising a dead man, by healing a sick
man, by speaking in your language, a language I never learned. And
you've got to say, well, God's with him. Look at Hebrews 2,
verse 3. How shall we escape if we neglect
so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken
by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him."
Who's that? Peter, James, and John, and Paul,
these men that heard him. God also bearing them witness. Bearing who? Bearing witness
to these men that God sent them, both with signs and wonders and
diverse miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his
own Is that clear what I'm saying? Our Lord Jesus Christ came and
fulfilled all the Old Testament scriptures. The Jews had the
Old Testament scriptures. The Old Testament scriptures
that told them to keep a Sabbath, that told them to tithe, build
you to the storehouse, that told them to keep the feasts, that
told them not to go so far on the Sabbath days and the holy
days, that told them to come to a temple, They told them to
bring their offering to the priest. They told them to offer a blooded
lamb. They told them to keep all these different ordinances
and washings. The disciples came and told them
they were fulfilled. The Sabbath was fulfilled. The
atonement was fulfilled. The high priest is Jesus of Nazareth
who died on the cross. How do we know? God raised Him
from the dead. How do we know? You're telling
the truth. God's with me. How do we know God's with you?
The things I do, no man can do. You see that? And we don't need
those gifts. We've got the canon complete.
We've got the scriptures complete. We can say, here it is, the apostles
tell us the fulfillment of the Old Testament scriptures. And
that's what's happening here. And you know, actually, what
was Pentecost? Well, there are several feasts
in the Bible in Leviticus 23. Let me just tell you, there's
a Passover feast that they kept every year. Slaying the lamb. There's the waving of the sheath.
That was the first day after the Passover Sabbath. That was
Sunday. The Passover Sabbath, the first Sunday, they brought
the first fruits and they waved them before the Lord. The beginning
of the harvest, the very first corn, the first wheat, the first
rye, they waved it before the firstfruits. Christ rose from
the dead, the firstfruits of them that slept. He came forth. Alright, then you number 50 days. 50 days from this waving of the
sheep. And at the end of the harvest,
that's 50 days, the Feast of Pentecost. The end of the harvest. The people gather before the
Lord at the end of the harvest to give thanks at Pentecost.
That's why they were there, this Feast of Pentecost. The word
Pentecost means fiftieth. That's what it means, the fiftieth
day. All right, at this feast now we have Peter preaching.
Let's go over here. And he describes, let's look
at Acts 2 a minute, here in verse 14. Peter, standing up with the
eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them, to the people,
Ye men of Judea, and all that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known
unto you, hearken to my words. These men are not drunk, as you
suppose. This is just nine o'clock in
the morning, third hour. What's happening here is that
which was spoken by the prophet Joel. This is a fulfillment of
Old Testament scriptures. It shall come to pass in the
last days, the last days are the days from the days of Christ
on this earth. Sayeth God, I will pour out my
Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men
shall dream dreams, and on my servants, on my handmaids, I'll
pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall preach,
prophesy, preach. And I'll show wonders in heaven
above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire, and
vaporous smoke. And the sun shall be turned to
darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable
day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass that
whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Now, ye men of Israel, hear these words. Oh, this is so important here.
Hear these words. Peter is saying to them, don't
hear the wind, hear these words. What men today want to do is
hear the wind. He said don't hear the wind,
hear these words. It's not, it's not see the cloven
tongues of fire, it's hear these words. The issue has come down
to this, not the tongues and not the cloven tongues of fire,
and not the Holy Spirit, the Ishuk Peter is presenting to
them. Now, hear these words. Listen.
This is the message. Jesus of Nazareth, a man. Yes, Jesus of Nazareth was a
man, born a woman, lived in Nazareth, was a carpenter, but he's no
ordinary man. It says here, he's approved of
God among you by miracles and wonders and signs. which God
did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know."
These things were not done in a corner. Jesus of Nazareth came,
attended by the power of God. Verse 23, and him, him, being
delivered by the determinate counsel of God and foreknowledge
of God, you have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and
slain. It was just a few days before
that Christ was crucified and slain. Just fifty days before. Just
seven weeks. And Him being delivered by the
determined counsel of God. You with wicked hands have crucified
and slain. Turn to Acts 4 a moment. This
is what Peter is saying. Acts 4 verse 26. Acts 4, 26, "...the kings of
this earth stood up, and the rulers gathered together against
the Lord, against his Christ, for of a truth against thy holy
child Jesus, whom thou stonered both Herod and Pontius Pilate,
and the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together
to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before
it to be done." This death of Christ was no accident. ordained
of God, purposed of God, planned of God, the people did what God
ordained for them to do. Verse 24, "...whom God hath raised
up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible
he should beholden of it." You see what Peter's doing? He's
preaching Christ. These people now are not taking
up with the wind, they're not taking up with the tongues, they're
listening to these words. They're listening to the gospel,
to the message. Hear these words. Verse 25, For David spoke concerning
him, this was a message of the prophets as well as the apostles. David spoke concerning him. David
said, I foresaw the Lord always before my face. He's on my right
hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice,
and my tongue was glad moreover, also my flesh shall rest in hope. Because thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, abandon my soul, leave my soul in hell, neither
wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to seek corruption. This is Christ
speaking through David. David wrote of Christ, and he
wrote the words of Christ, that Christ is speaking to the Father.
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life. Thou shalt make
me full of joy without countenance. Now here's Peter speaking again
to those people there. He said that's what David wrote
about Christ, about Jesus of Nazareth. Now me and brethren,
let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David. He's
dead and buried. His sepulchre is with us to this
day. So David wasn't talking about
himself. When David said back here, thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to seek corruption,
he wasn't talking about himself. We know he's buried, we have
his grave. Verse 30, therefore being a prophet,
and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the
fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, that he would raise
up Christ to sit on the throne. David, seeing this before, spake
of the resurrection of Christ, of Jesus Christ. That's what
David was writing about. You see, God, this man, now we
know that because we've got all this scripture. We live here
in 1993 and we look back, our Lord died back there 2,000 years
ago, he was buried and rose again, the apostles lived, they wrote
the scriptures, we have all these scriptures. I preach, what David
said back yonder in the book of Psalms, I preach that every
Sunday. And you believe it and you turn and read it in the scripture.
But Peter, standing before these people here, declined for the
first time. This is the first sermon after
Christ died. The first sermon after Christ
rose again. The first gathering. And gathered
in front of him were the people who nailed him to the cross.
The very ones. And God sends a mighty wind,
and clobbering tongues of fire, and the Holy Spirit, and gives
these men the power to speak in languages they never heard,
they never learned. And Peter stood before them and
said, Let me tell you something. That Jesus of Nazareth, a man,
raised up by God, ordained of God, approved of God among you,
you saw the miracles that he did. Many of you right here saw
the miracles that he did. Well, you crucified Him, but
you did what God before determined before to be done. You crucified
Him, but you carried out the will of God because God wrote
by His servant David that you'd crucify Him and that He'd raise
Him from the dead. And He said when David wrote
that, David was not talking about himself. David said when he wrote
that that that God would not abandon his soul, wouldn't leave
his body in the grave, and made known to me the ways of life,
and raised him from the grave. David's dead, he said. David
was talking about Jesus, not about the cross. Verse 31, David,
seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that
his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh ceased to corruption. Verse 32, This Jesus, this Jesus,
this same Jesus, hath God raised up whereof we all are witnesses. This Jesus. And I tell you, it's
important when he says this Jesus. Look back at Acts 1, verse 11.
Acts 1, verse 11. When the angels announced Christ,
when Christ ascended back to heaven, the angels announced
He'd come again, they said, verse 11 of Acts 1, You men of Galilee,
why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken
up from you into heaven. Not another. This same Jesus. The same One who came. The same
one who fulfilled the law, the same one who was crucified, the
same one you buried, that same Jesus God raised up. That's what
he said, that same Jesus. Over here in verse 32, that same
Jesus whom God raised up. Now, let me tell you something
right here, just a moment. The Pharisees and the Sadducees hated
the doctrine of the resurrection. The disciples were persecuted
and put in prison, forbidden to speak, mostly because they
preached the resurrection of Christ. Did you know that? That
was a cheap charge against them. Don't preach the resurrection
of this same man, this man. You see, if God raised him up,
number one, he is who he said he was. This is the importance of the
resurrection. If this same Jesus, whom you crucify and bury, if
He's raised up, then He's who He said He was. Number two, if
He raised Him up, what He said was true about us and about God. What He said. What He said about
Himself was true. What He said about us was true.
Thirdly, if God raised Him, then what God Almighty did in him,
God accepted. What God provided, God accepted.
Isn't that true? Accepted. God accepted his sacrifice. Fourthly, if he arose, all who
died in him and were buried in him will rise too. Now that's,
they hated that doctrine. And that's what he says here,
this same Jesus had God raised up where we're all witnesses.
This same Jesus. And therefore, verse 33, therefore,
being by the right hand of God exalted, that's where he is,
having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,
he has shed forth this which you now see and hear. For David
is not ascended into the heavens, but he himself, but he says himself,
the Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand. Hold that scripture and turn
to Hebrews 1. This is important. Turn over to Hebrews 1. Hebrews chapter 1. Just a few
moments more. Listen to me. Hebrews chapter
1. Verse 1. Hebrews 1 verse 1. God, who at sundry times and
in different manners spake in times past to the fathers by
the prophets. Old Testament prophets, Old Testament
people. He hath in these last days, starting
right there at Pentecost and before when Christ, Christ our
preacher and then the Apostle, hath in these last days spoken
to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom he made the worlds, who being the brightness of his glory,
the express image of his person, left holding all things but the
word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat
down at the right hand of God." That's where he is. And that's
what Peter's saying here. He sat down at the right hand
of God. All right, back to the text. Verse 34 of Acts 2. Now, Dave is not ascended to
the heavens. Verse 34, He said, The Lord said
to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, and I will make thine enemies
thy footstool. Therefore, that all the house
of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus,
there it is again, that same Jesus, whom you crucify, He's
Lord, He's Lord of Lords, He's King of Kings, He's Messiah,
He's the only Mediator, He's the Exalted Intercessor, He's
our Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption, He's our Hope
of Life, He's our Salvation, He's everything, He's made that
same Jesus, whom you crucified, Lord in Christ. Now verse 37,
Now, when they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts.
When they heard what? Well, brother man, if we could
just have today that Russian mighty wind. The wind didn't
convict them of sin. The wind didn't reveal the grace
of God to them. They heard the wind, they were
enamored by the wind, they were excited by the wind, and they
were confused by the wind, and they were confounded by the wind.
But wind won't do a thing for you. It doesn't save when they saw
the fiery tongues. What good would that do? Suppose
fire and torches came and lit on my shoulder up here. And you
were sitting there and you were amazed. Say, boy, God must have
sent Him. What I said, I said, here's what
God said. Does that change anything here?
You know, if I had the fire on my shoulder, no fire on my shoulder
won't change what I said. Well, suppose I said it in Spanish.
I can't. Well, suppose I said it in Russian. Would that help you? No, you'd
be fascinated, but you wouldn't be instructed. No, you wouldn't. The place wouldn't
hold the people tonight. We'd have to put a TV screen
back here in the back to hold the people. The parking lot wouldn't
hold the cars. They'd come from everywhere to
hear me speak a language I didn't know. Or see the tongues of fire,
hear the wind. It says when they heard this,
when they heard Peter say, this man approved of God among you
by miracles of the Son, this man whom you crucified, this
man whom God raised from the dead, this man of whom David
wrote, this man is Lord and Christ. This man is the Son of God. This
man is the only Savior. When they heard this, they were
pricked in their hearts and they said to Peter and the rest of
the apostles, what shall we do? What are we going to do? We've
crucified the Son of God. What are we going to do? What
are we going to do? Peter said, repent. Not seek
the tongues, repent. Not seek the gift of tongues,
repent. Not seek to be baptized with
the Holy Ghost, repent! And be baptized, every one of
you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you'll receive
the Holy Spirit. And you'll receive salvation,
forgiveness. For the promise is to you and
your children, and to all that are far off, as many as the Lord
our God shall call. And with other words did he testify
and exhort, saying, deliver yourselves from this perverse generation.
Get out of this perverse, twisted generation.
It was a religious generation, but without God. Come to Christ. Believe on Christ. Look to Christ.
I hope that's helpful. I'm troubled that that so much is being done and
so little is being said. There's so much noise abroad
and so little teaching. There's so much exhibitionism
and very little instruction. There's so much whoop-dee-doo
and praise in God and so little knowledge of God. Young people, you go through
the scripture and when the Lord talks about worship, He talks
about be still and know that I'm God. God is in the heavens,
you upon the earth. When you come before God, let
your words be few. Select them carefully. All the way through the Old Testament,
worship was marked by the fear of the Lord. by broken heart
and a contrite spirit and bowing before the Lord and worshiping
before the Lord. And don't be impressed with people
who make a lot of noise. Don't be impressed. That's not
spirituality. Spirituality is a genuine love
for God, a love for others, a faith in Christ, and a walking humbly
before thy God. in integrity and honesty and
truth and godliness and righteous living. A quiet spirit, a meek
and a quiet spirit God does not despise. We need to lay hold
on that. All right, I want us to turn
to number 42. All hail the power of Jesus'
name. That's number 42.

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