sermon on the birth of the church

We are to let our light shine forth and share the Joy of Christmas, Jesus, to those around us. And there they were, together, waiting, and on the day of Pentecost, there was, verse 2 says, “Suddenly from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind. The filling of the Holy Spirit is the ongoing experience that we want to sustain. It’s why you love what you love and hate what you hate. So I’m all – I’m saying all that to let you know that the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost because of all of this. The challenge for a Christian is not to redo the baptism. Luke points only to the history and only to the timing of God. The baptism with the Holy Spirit was a sovereign act of God based on God’s timing, not based on anything they did. Baptism grants the Holy Spirit. He paid a price. And the key feasts really are pictures of the work of Christ. Their baptism had occurred. The word translated here, wind, is not the usual one, which is pneuma, but it’s one used here, and only one other place in chapter 17, verse 25, and it really means a blast, a blast. This is not the baptism of fire of Matthew 3:11. The wheat is baked and offered. It was very important to Him to pray for the unity of his own. Here we meet the flock for whom Jesus is the good shepherd. It wasn’t real wind, and it wasn’t real fire. Completing the Mission that Jesus Began The Birth of the Church, Part 1 Acts 2:1-4 Read Acts 2:1-4 This is a tremendous transitional passage. It doesn’t say that they fulfilled some spiritual requirements. In this series we see Jesus words ring true, building faith. GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. Sermon - January 3, 2021. Chapter 9. In chapter 4, verse 8, Peter, who obviously was there on the day of Pentecost and was baptized with the Holy Spirit placed into the body, was again filled with the Holy Spirit. And here in 1 Peter 1:3 we see that God wasn’t done with miraculous births with Jesus. This is the divine work of God.”, So when some well-meaning Pentecostal says things like this, here is a quote from one of their journals. And what signifies its birth is the arrival of the Holy Spirit. Then there was the next great event in redemptive history. He who believes in me as the Scripture said from His innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’  But this he spoke of the spirit whom those who believed in Him were to receive for the spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified.”. You can see Israel as a building that God is building. See Romans 8:26. We might not all act like it, but we are one. There’s no physical wind. But I want you to notice something. This is why they connected Pentecost with first fruits. You might have felt emotion or whatever, but you can’t feel the presence of God. Registered User And they must have just sort of decided to stay there since the time was short. Because while there’s no sin in Christ, there is sin in the church. The believers were together. When you hear somebody talk about the baptism of the spirit, you want to take them back to Acts 1:5 and say, “Jesus promised that the baptism with the Holy Spirit would come not many days from now.”  He had to be referring to what happened a few days later on Pentecost. You can actually translate it the immersing with the Holy Spirit. This becomes the norm for every believer. Verse 20, “I don’t ask on behalf of these, but for those who believe in me that they may all be one, even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they may be in us so that the world may believe.”  And He says it again in verse 22. These little tongues appeared over each one of them, over each one of them to make it clear that with no exception, each had received the Holy Spirit. It is Christ immersing us in the Spirit, in the life of the Spirit, which we share with every other believer and constitute together the body of Christ. And that’s why Ephesians 5 says, “Be being kept filled with the spirit. Tongues that looked like fire. As many as were baptized in this way have put on Christ. “Ananias departed, entered the house. So they’re just there. While He was at the Jordan going through His baptism, the Holy Spirit was seen descending as if He were a dove. It’s not something you experience, but it is a reality. Then, wonder of wonders, you sent the Holy Spirit to live in us very much like you sent your son to live in our world. “He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.”  If you’re joined to the Lord and I’m joined to the Lord, we’re one with each other. As you know, we are working our way rather slowly through the book of Acts, especially in the early chapters, because they’re so foundational. What is Pentecost? The word Pentecost is a Greek word meaning the 50th part of something or the 50th in sequence or in order. Literally we’re saturated with the Spirit, immersed with the Spirit, and we all take in the Holy Spirit. People say, “You could feel the presence of God.”  Really? The conversion of Paul. This is our story. Thank you for making us a part of your church, for binding us together in common life and love, and may we literally live the reality of who we are in Christ as one body. I was the third speaker on a panel of three. That’s the particularity of these images in Scripture. May we not grieve Him, may we not quench Him, may we not resist Him, but may we walk in the Spirit. God speaking in many ways and many portions to the fathers by the prophets, establishing truth, true understanding of him and his redemptive purpose in the Old Testament. This is a picture of Christ’s resurrection, which came immediately after his death, and 1 Corinthians 15:20 says, “Christ is the first fruits of those who sleep.”. God gave us that new birth into a living hope through Christ’s resurrection. That is completely under His control. Romans 8:9 says, “Going forward, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he’s none of his.”  So He takes up residence at the point of salvation in every believer from here on, and we are all baptized into the body of Christ by the same spirit I just read, 1 Corinthians 12. It is called a building, an edifice. So all of those are Old Testament references to this 50 day event. Filling yields to Him. Thank you for the engagement ring of the Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee that you will love us all the way to the consummation at the wedding in heaven. This is not a minimal approach. Even though skeptics attempt to discredit the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, many today, as many as 80% of American believe in a virgin birth. Today is Pentecost the birthday of the church • It is The birth of something special • It is the birth of the Holy Spirit It came into being on Pentecost and was given birth by the Holy Spirit, the One who intercedes on our behalf with utterances unknown to us. They don’t know what they’re talking about when they say that. First fruits. The birth of the Church is of utmost importance, understanding when the church began helps identify it and determine the laws that govern it. If you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, all those relationships fall in line to the honor of God.”. So also is Christ. The fruit of it, however, is the work of the Spirit in us to control us for our good and God’s glory, and that’s something that we maintain by the means of grace and by our faithfulness. Christmas and the Christ: How the Sovereign Enters His Story (pt 1) (Daniel 2:44–45; Luke 1:32–33) Christ(mas) and State: How the Sovereign Enters His Story (pt. We see in chapter 1, verse 13, that when they went back to Jerusalem, they went up to the upper room where they were staying, so maybe they just sort of rented out the upper room. That is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and I emphasize that because there is so much confusion and misrepresentation of that wondrous work of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. This isn’t mystical. Mark that in your mind. Sin. That is the phenomena that God designed to inaugurate the birth of the church. Nothing is blowing around. The Old Testament gave it several names. It is impossible then for them to know what has happened if there isn’t some means by which they can know that heaven has come down and done this, and the violent rushing wind would say something happened, but the individual tongue over everyone would show that it happened to all of them.”. made with Faithlife Proclaim. It is a body of Christ. However, when they brought their loaf at Pentecost, it had leaven. Features Pricing Upload Sermon Get started for FREE. So you have in the first feast, Passover, a picture of the Passover sacrifice of Christ. Mark this down. In the seventh chapter, that wonderful chapter about Steven, when the people heard Steven’s message, it says, verse 54, “They were cut to the quick convicted, began gnashing their teeth at him, but being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. After the completion of the Old Testament, and that was the arrival of God incarnate, the Lord Jesus Christ, who came and was made flesh and dwelled among us. There’s only a sound like a hurricane. So here on this day, this significant event in which they celebrate the harvest, celebrating the first fruits of the harvest to come, the indication the harvest was coming, and celebrate and remember the giving of the Mosaic law. There were 120 of them according to verse 15, so it must have been a fairly roomy place. “Steadfast… Tried & True” – August 23, 2020. In chapter 1, the believers are held back. It commemorates, and you might even add, it celebrates the arrival of the first fruits of the wheat harvest. How wonderful to be together tonight, if only everyone understood how important this particular portion of Scripture is. He was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit. In fact, 47% of non-Christian adults believe in a virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Now as we come into chapter 2, we will experience through the lens of Holy Scripture the actual beginning of the church. This is not something you qualify for. The earnest of the full harvest that is typified in another feast, the Feast of Trumpets. Because it was about 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt that God gave Moses the law, and so they’ve added another 50 kind of celebration. The statement found approval about finding some men to take care of the duties for the widows so the apostles could give themselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. I believe that at the point of salvation, every believer is both baptized and filled, and while we will never lose that baptism and we will never forfeit the presence of the Holy Spirit because He Himself is the guarantee of our future inheritance, the challenge for us as believers is to maintain that filling of the Holy Spirit, which is to say to continually yield to the spirit’s power and control so that he moves us. We don’t pass this way very often. This was the celebration symbolizing the full harvest to come. The Christian church was born not in a clever sermon but in a prayer meeting. Thank you for giving us permanently the Holy Spirit, may we love Him and honor Him as we do you and the Father. All together, we assume that’s all 120 of them staying together as the Lord told them until the Spirit would come. He comes as the down payment of the final complete inheritance. First Corinthians 12, 12 and 13, gives us a very important explanation at this point. Whether they were in the upper room of that house or just exactly where, we don’t know, but they were all in one place. He placed the Spirit in you. We pray in Christ’s name, amen. A new thing is born that has never been known before. 1. A kind of incarnation to take a permanent residence in us for our power and our peace and our joy. 1 Comment The Birth Of Our Lord. Now as we come to these opening verses, I want to be patient, and I want to be careful, so I’m going to stick pretty close to my notes on this because I want you to understand how significant this event is. This is not something you chase. And it celebrates the wheat harvest. This is the coming of the breath of God. Thank you for this amazing gift, which is but the down payment of what you have prepared for us in the future. He told the disciples, “He has been with you. Register. The Christian church was born not in a clever sermon but in a prayer meeting. Because there’s a power in you controlling you from heaven. It is this mysterious phenomenon. Instantaneous, unexpected, miraculous, divine, from heaven.”. So this is not an experience you seek. It is God’s sovereign timetable. Individuals who are dead in sin are “born again” into God’s family. That was the pattern from the time of our Lord’s resurrection when He appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus and again appeared the same night to them from the period of that first appearing all the way to His ascension. It’s not in response to them tarrying, whatever that means, or meeting some kind of spiritual condition. How did that happen? We need to be one.”. It was the sound of a mushing – a rushing violent wind, and it was the appearance of fire. Something never seen in the Old Testament. It’s not a question of whether he’s there or not. Why? We are one because we have all been immersed in the Holy Spirit and completely endwelled in the Holy Spirit so we share a common life as one body, one living organism with shared life. birth-of-the-church, Sermon series on birth-of-the-church, Sermon series about birth-of-the-church To continue reading: Log In - or - Join Now. Literally inundated with the Holy Spirit. You can’t just run by these verses. Here we meet those who are part of the kingdom of salvation, ruled by the son of God. This is an overwhelming transformation from heaven. You need to know that. The statement found approval with the whole congregation, and they chose Steven, a man full of faith, full of faith, and the Holy Spirit. Love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. At that point, the Holy Spirit literally took over and controlled him as he spoke. And it is a saturation so that the language of John 7:37-39 is fulfilled that they’re literally engulfed in the Holy Spirit as if he were a river welling up in them and then flowing out of them. May we walk in the spirit so we are empowered for effective witness and an example of the work of salvation. Everyone in the church is in dwelt by the Holy Spirit. You cannot lose the Holy Spirit. He prays for their unity. You can see Israel called a kingdom. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples and instructed them for 40 days, after which he ascended to heaven. “One new man,” Paul says. Ephesians 1. In the second one, which is the celebration of first fruits, a picture of Christ who is the first fruits of all who sleep. To disable, click the icon. Filling is practical. This is what our Lord promised in chapter 1, verse 5. Here at Grace to You Europe we take our data protection responsibilities very seriously and, as you would expect, have undertaken a significant programme of work to ensure that we are ready for this important legislative change. This number actually exceeds those who would refer to themselves as believers in God in America today. This is not something God gives when you apply for it with the right formula. The sound surely gathered the massive crowd that shows up to which Peter preached. And this is the inauguration of the revelation of the church, and what the church is and how the church lives then unfolds through the rest of the writings of the New Testament, even to the consummation of redemption and the place the church will play in final redemption and the establishment of the kingdom of Christ in the Book of Revelation. Jesus ascended 40 days after His resurrection. The fact that Jesus was born of a virgin was, and still is, very, very important. Luke 2:1-7. And it was first fruits. Because how do you know the will of the Holy Spirit if you don’t know the revelation of the Holy Spirit’s will in Scripture? The first was Passover. When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And this breath of God fills the whole house where they’re sitting. Be being kept filled with the Spirit. Many churches today do not celebrate "Christmas" per se... a. On the Feast of the Nativity, VI. Now this is Barnabas. So that’s the pursuit of your life. TITLE: Lessons from the Birth of Jesus “I in them and you in me that they may be perfected in unity.”  That’s four times in one prayer Jesus says, “I want them to be one. That is experiential. But we are told to be being kept filled. Please respond to confirm your registration. Right? We see the Holy Spirit moving and creating transformation in lives. Let’s look at the phenomena for just a minute. And they rested on each one of them.”. There was audible phenomena. If there ever was a time for God to show His majesty and glory around an event it was the birth of His only Son, Jesus. He met with them, He spent time with them, and even in the ten days intervening, they had been told to go back to Jerusalem and stay together and wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit, and they did. Their full resources to declare the gospel message to the ends of the earth are put in place by the arrival of the Holy Spirit, and it is the fulfillment of Acts 1:8. Because He lives, we shall live also. 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