The Sermon Peter And Pentecost by David McGee
Mar 03, 2013
Peter And Pentecost (39:25)
Referenced Scriptures: Acts 1:1-14; Acts 2:1-23
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Acts 1:1-14
1) The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
2) until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
3) To these he also showed himself alive after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and spoke about God‘s kingdom.
4) Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don‘t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
5) For John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
6) Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
7) He said to them, "It isn‘t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority.
8) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
9) When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10) While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
11) who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."
12) Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day‘s journey away.
13) When they had come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
14) All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Acts 2:1-23
1) Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2) Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3) Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and it sat on each one of them.
4) They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
5) Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
6) When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
7) They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren‘t all these who speak Galileans?
8) How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
9) Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
10) Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
11) Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"
12) They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"
13) Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."
14) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15) For these aren‘t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
16) But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
17) ‘It will be in the last days, says God, I will pour forth of my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
18) Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
19) I will show wonders in the the sky above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
20) The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21) It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.‘
22) "You men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,
23) him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
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Jesus is risen as I is is him as he will be as the song is only via as you as you see the unit is on his worth as a and C: why is all there is low. I will do is in an Peter John J and R almanac, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the zealot Judas the son of James, so these are the individuals who went to the upper room, and that they were there and they began to wake their see that was a challenge that Jesus or direction. The Jesus had given them. He told them for Peter, while the others that I want you to go one hundred now want to go to Jerusalem. I want to wait there want to wait that in the Sunday school lesson this morning I said about how that we need to read the book of John, and how that as we read it we want to take some time to read it, and especially as you read the first chapter of John, you start reading about how that John is telling about this logo 's about the word he doesn't tell us who it is that he's talking about is you read that I'm on the speak on that some week, but you read it over and think about it him us who who's who is going to use describing the describes as this being that was very creation, and that this is God who was there in creation, and without him nothing was created. Then we find out later in the chapter roots. Jesus told the disciples are in the upper room there, praying, and they're waiting in our lives. There are things that we need to pray about. We need to just sit down, stop and pray not very hard, but it is very hard because wanted to pray about this as I says it is. I get there and I start a prayer. I start to think I got my mind takes off. I think it's what that's always been happen no matter how much your mind wanders always bring it back and lets us know that our mind is not something you just turn on and off we have to direct it. The Bible tells us to think about your thoughts. What is it that you think about Judas when we talk about music and what we listen to the music will take us the things that we watch on television. The things that we hear our friends what they talk about all those things are leaving us in a particular direction and visit the direction that we want to be led in our spirit. God wants to lead us to a particular place and here is Peter and Peter has come a long way from that branch fishermen that impetuous Peter that joined the disciples, and while I went to him talk, I'm going to be like. I will be with this Jesus in these the Messiah and the hunt would be one of his big him, they think them aside and Jay's. As you noted, I don't worry about it. Jesus, I'll take care of you then and coming at you I'll fight for the mile outside with you Peter Peter, you will deny me three times, although not me on the big brush in touch with feature, but now that's all been changed insolvent behind him, and things are changing from this under the number one or two in the kingdom. Things are changing acts chapter two verse one through four, when the feast of Pentecost came, Pentecost is fifty days after Easter. After Passover and so on. So they were fifty days from the crucifixion, when the lamb in the and in the Jewish system was present with and when the land was sacrificing for the blood was shed for the sins of the people so was fifty days from that point to the time in which Jesus that was Pentecost came, in which the Holy Spirit was to come. So when the feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. There was together the primary followers and believers of Jesus. There were a hundred and twenty of them. We are told, and they are in this place called the upper room without warning there was a sound like a strong wind gal force the sound of it your your you go outside you hear the wind you go outside no, especially now that wind blows right through you can hear it coming, and you often will straighten my here in the upper room, they heard the sound of a mighty rushing wind, but they didn't feel anything but wasn't like they were blown over by the sports so was hearing something, but not being blown out of the building. No one could tell where was coming from. That was just reminded humongous sound going on. It failed. The whole building is sound with ever raided through this building so it sounded like a great mighty wind, and got all of their attention, but they were being blown out of the building van like wildfire. The Holy Spirit spread through the ranks they started speaking in a number of different languages as a spirit prompted them suspended cops. They began to speak a language that their nerve never learn. Then I heard all of these things, they began to speak a language that had not learned and well wait a minute, what what's your hobby speak in a language that you don't learn why the spot. The Bible says, as the Holy Spirit enabled them. They spoke in this language. Many times if you can get your thinking around that one. Now how can I speak some language that I've never learn while what happened here is that the Holy Spirit came inside of them, and then the Bible calls a and why it contains, and they were baptized in the Holy Spirit. If you ever jumped into water, you know you will you insight down beneath feet beneath the surface. You have been in verse you have immersed yourself in water, while the Holy Spirit came first, then, in this power on his presence and February first, and there was such a change inside of them, but then began to speak a language that they didn't know was that one at the little bit odd, but look what happens. Verse five. There were many Jews staying in Jerusalem just and devout pilgrims. It was Pentecost there are lots of people from all over the world in Jerusalem, and they heard this roaring sound just like the disciples inside the wrong hearted inside the building heard it never people outside heard it. And so this wasn't something that was isolated with the hundredth winning up a room that had this experience and nobody else know about it. This was something that happened in the upper room, Peter is in here, here is in this group. And there's something going on in this group were in this room in which there is this humongous sound about right rushing wind, and then there is this inversion that takes place inside of him where the Spirit of God just overflows and indwells them, and they began to speak the language and says the Jews in Jerusalem devout pilgrims all over the world, when they heard the sound when they heard the sound they came on the run. Something 's happening that I will blow up the building is there something going on the right sound coming out of that young today we would call the police exam. Those speakers often has to blow us up now with all of their sound disturbing the peace while there were no loudspeakers. There was this great empowerment of the spirit became then when they heard one after another overall mother times being spoken. They were thunderstruck. They were awestruck. Here are these people inside this room and saw them a single and then come running to the building and they hear the people inside that room what's coming out of that room something they understand they couldn't for the life of them figure out what was going on. They kept saying. Are these all Galileans, how come you are hearing them talk in our own various mother tongue for these people who were in Jerusalem were from Pantheon 's needs in the nights. They were visitors from Mesopotamia, Judea, and C a conscious and Asia, Visio and Avenue Pamphylia, Egypt and parts of Libya beyond the site brings immigrants from Rome, both Jews and proselytes even Cretans and Arabs. The hall group of different languages represented here and inside that Rove inside that building there were people and what were they doing they were speaking our languages describing God 's mighty works. The people in the room were speaking in a language that they had never learned, but what they were speaking about were speaking about the glory of God and God 's mighty works, and the people outside heard them in their own language. That's near it. It I'm a member hearing experiences. Whenever I was a child of individuals who were baptized in the Holy Spirit and how that they had spoken languages spoken tongs, and there were a number of immigrants would come from a remote village in Europe and that they had their own dialect of their language, and here was a person in the church talking in their dialect that they came from over in Europe speaking perfectly and fluently to these people about God. It is a work of God, not something that we do in her hysteria or some battle. It is it is accompanied with the power feed. This is what is going on with Peter. How does Peter change appeared changes alter the process is understanding what God is doing his understanding that something different is going on and he had all his life he was voted the one thing he was going to be Peter Jesus number one man in a dive. He denies a dejected. Jesus comes. Restore tells them to go one way tells and pray and to see the Peter goes and praise any seats and then we have the first fourteen so what's going on the upper room has its sound of a great rushing wind, but there's the wind. There is the power of the spirit, and this Holy Spirit, as it were companies like fire in Venezuela but that's not being consoling and enough fires that were immersed as needed also, you can just speak a language that they never known before, and the people outside are hearing them talk about God in all the glory of God, and all the great things that God has done there in amazement how do they know my language. After all, this is kind of settle down. That's when Peter stood up and back and back and misuse and backed by the other eleven spoke out with bold urgency suddenly Peter impetuous Peter suddenly Peter stood up as everybody's wondering what's going on. Who's going to be the spokesperson and Peter, who is now in power. By this indwelling presence begins to talk and he was backed by the eleven follow fellow Jews, all of you are visiting Jerusalem. Listen carefully and get the story straight. These people are drunk as some of you suspect you have it, had time to get drunk. It's only nine o'clock in the morning. This is what the prophet Joel announced what happened suddenly Peter has an understanding of what's going on impetuous Peter David Eric jumped out of the boat, the Peter who denied Jesus, the Peter who jumped out of the boat and swam to shore Jesus says Peter you love me, is now in this upper room. All of this is happened. Most of it took three years what is the matter of forty, fifty days. The goals from while that was a good run. I don't know what were going to do now he stands up and begins to speak and explain things that he knew but never put together. He knew but never put together. That's the Holy Spirit, a working in our lives. Things that we are aware of things that we dream about. We know about, but we just can't put it together. God is at work in your life and the spirit, the Holy Spirit, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is the same spirit that was here on the day of Pentecost is the same Holy Spirit that speaks to your heart and mind as we take communion as we pray as we sing songs, it's the same God. It's the same spirit that works in us and that Holy Spirit comes inside of us by our asking, you know, it doesn't forcibly commit. He comes to us presents himself and we pray, we ask, and Peter begins. He says now appears here and in this is a very impromptu situation appears good with that. I made these budget was greater but he stands up against the speaker says in the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people. Your silence will prophesy. Also, your daughters, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. When the time comes, I'll pour out my Spirit on those who serve me mid- illimitable and they will prophesy all set wonders in the sky all signs on the earth below modern fire and billowing smoke in the sun turning back black and the moon blood red before the day of the Lord arrives the day, tremendous and marvelous and whoever calls for help to me. God will say. Imagine Peter Mrs. Peter, this is the thinking egg solicitor Peter was studying him. That's what happens once, who gets into office. If God and Peter is changing the regard verse twenty two fellow Israelites, listen carefully to these words appear as now, something is happening. This is a change going on in his thinking. There's a change he didn't know where he was going to be it in the hall is going to work just a few days prior to this, but when he's praying when he is listening for God. And when God comes in a real personal way inside of Peter 's life, everything begins to take on a different perspective and a different direction, and that's what's going on in the house. God has come to show up inside of us in a very direct way. I direct a way that will give us peace in our hearts a direct way that will give us direction for our lives, that he will inspire his word to our hearts that we can pray for our lives for our loved ones for our children, our grandchildren for our neighbors for our government that he will inspire his Word in our hearts and we will trade Peter is here declaring these. This is what the prophets all spoke about it makes sense and enormous reform. Yes, you know how it would work for his life and for the early church. No, but when the spirit pain on day of Pentecost it changed Peter and suddenly began to understand. Listen carefully to these words he goes on to talk about Jesus the Nazarene, the man thoroughly accredited by God to you, the miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him are common knowledge. This Jesus following the direct deliberate and well thought out plan of God. Peter wanted to keep Jesus from dying days. He was going to fly until the death rate cut off the year the guys of those soldiers. Jesus says appear put away the sword picked up the guys here and you is the servant put it back on. He said to Peter, this spent step back here, Pierce says Jesus following the deliberate and well thought out plan of God was betrayed by men who took the law in their own hands and was handed over to you, you say. Now Peter has some understanding of it. Went like the one went to the understanding come to Peter that came when he was there in that upper room and God 's spirit came inside of you and I and a overwhelming presence of Plaza were afire and changed them from the inside out. We are Peter, we are where we have in the journey where we had in the progression. Maybe I'll speak again on Peter next week and let quite sure how Michael back to John one, but one of the experts like where Peter and Peter, I think, is one of those guys we can identify with. Sometimes were impetuous and jump out of the boat. Sometimes we think grandiose dreams and sometimes we're just in prayer, and it comes together all, that's what he meant. That's what the Scriptures mean that's what God is trying to do in my life that's us that the God moments when God does something miraculous in our life and what is the miraculous peer here, says Jesus came and fulfilled the well plans the well thought out plan of God. And understand that just a few days earlier, Peter didn't understand that fifty days earlier whenever he was trying to kill the people who were arresting Jesus. He didn't understand, but now things are changed in our lives. It takes God. It takes God to reveal God in us. I can give you the words I can present the Scripture, but it's God who makes the Realty. It's God who makes it real to and he comes in the steel, small voice. This is the way walking and often doesn't come like this out costs often tons. Let's still small voice. And when God speaks to you. It brings peace, not fear is not failure. It speaks my peace I give unto you not like the world gives. I have a whole different piece that will lead you in the paths of righteousness. God has come to be archived. This come to be our Savior is coming to be our friend is come to never leave us nor forsake us. He is come to be with us. I was Jesus, we thank you that you are the healer we pray our Lord for our little ones who are sick, we pray Lord that you touch and feel, we pray, Lord, for the ones that are still in their mother 's womb. We pray God that you be with the mothers and the babies help them in this time of transition. This time of birth. I pray God for each devices. We are in a time of birth of change of transition. Sometimes it's just moving from one thought to an understanding of the font as Peter from thinking he was going to be second in command to finding out that God had a whole different plan for him at all all starting to make sense father, I thank you. I thank you Lord that you touch us in our hearts you make a difference inside of us in the Lord. It is from there and we make a difference in all that we say and do hear our prayer, Lord, hear our prayer. Forgive us restore us, give us strength for this moment, give us understanding and hope, give us direction in life Pro Lord. Everything that we receive of you never diminishes who you are. It only continues to increase in us. God, I pray your spirit is on the day of Pentecost came and filled all of those in that room, I pray, O God, for your Holy Spirit to settle upon us and fill each of us to overflowing with your presence, your power change us. Oh God, we pray Phyllis to overflowing. Fill us to overflowing by your spirit. We ask, and everybody said amen. God bless you no splash somebody with the spirit today IHim as I made anyone love you and I are in is a I is the are either in and is even as we are as I follow your his vision and is will is is is is is is is will is and will all the way I is and he is. I is in your Jesus is and why are they laughing. We have you that he is. I was out and see how he is as is and why I know he will adhere that Jesus is in what is sure all is in a a design is an online and on and on and on the side of him him him save his truth is, I made in an job in your theater you will slay you are a peace plan so that I is is is is known in and he is yeah you will pay for this reason, I is all I is a and is will you are in a and you will you will will will and your you desire, will he is our past is as eager as I his or her own mouth is a you will will say I will say is I and you and your life will will will and will not will I you and you and your you will you really as you have a use is so overly him. He will tell you what is wrong is easy. 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Jesus is risen as I is is him as he will be as the song is only via as you as you see the unit is on his worth as a and C: why is all there is low. I will do is in an Peter John J and R almanac, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the zealot Judas the son of James, so these are the individuals who went to the upper room, and that they were there and they began to wake their see that was a challenge that Jesus or direction. The Jesus had given them. He told them for Peter, while the others that I want you to go one hundred now want to go to Jerusalem. I want to wait there want to wait that in the Sunday school lesson this morning I said about how that we need to read the book of John, and how that as we read it we want to take some time to read it, and especially as you read the first chapter of John, you start reading about how that John is telling about this logo 's about the word he doesn't tell us who it is that he's talking about is you read that I'm on the speak on that some week, but you read it over and think about it him us who who's who is going to use describing the describes as this being that was very creation, and that this is God who was there in creation, and without him nothing was created. Then we find out later in the chapter roots. Jesus told the disciples are in the upper room there, praying, and they're waiting in our lives. There are things that we need to pray about. We need to just sit down, stop and pray not very hard, but it is very hard because wanted to pray about this as I says it is. I get there and I start a prayer. I start to think I got my mind takes off. I think it's what that's always been happen no matter how much your mind wanders always bring it back and lets us know that our mind is not something you just turn on and off we have to direct it. The Bible tells us to think about your thoughts. What is it that you think about Judas when we talk about music and what we listen to the music will take us the things that we watch on television. The things that we hear our friends what they talk about all those things are leaving us in a particular direction and visit the direction that we want to be led in our spirit. God wants to lead us to a particular place and here is Peter and Peter has come a long way from that branch fishermen that impetuous Peter that joined the disciples, and while I went to him talk, I'm going to be like. I will be with this Jesus in these the Messiah and the hunt would be one of his big him, they think them aside and Jay's. As you noted, I don't worry about it. Jesus, I'll take care of you then and coming at you I'll fight for the mile outside with you Peter Peter, you will deny me three times, although not me on the big brush in touch with feature, but now that's all been changed insolvent behind him, and things are changing from this under the number one or two in the kingdom. Things are changing acts chapter two verse one through four, when the feast of Pentecost came, Pentecost is fifty days after Easter. After Passover and so on. So they were fifty days from the crucifixion, when the lamb in the and in the Jewish system was present with and when the land was sacrificing for the blood was shed for the sins of the people so was fifty days from that point to the time in which Jesus that was Pentecost came, in which the Holy Spirit was to come. So when the feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. There was together the primary followers and believers of Jesus. There were a hundred and twenty of them. We are told, and they are in this place called the upper room without warning there was a sound like a strong wind gal force the sound of it your your you go outside you hear the wind you go outside no, especially now that wind blows right through you can hear it coming, and you often will straighten my here in the upper room, they heard the sound of a mighty rushing wind, but they didn't feel anything but wasn't like they were blown over by the sports so was hearing something, but not being blown out of the building. No one could tell where was coming from. That was just reminded humongous sound going on. It failed. The whole building is sound with ever raided through this building so it sounded like a great mighty wind, and got all of their attention, but they were being blown out of the building van like wildfire. The Holy Spirit spread through the ranks they started speaking in a number of different languages as a spirit prompted them suspended cops. They began to speak a language that their nerve never learn. Then I heard all of these things, they began to speak a language that had not learned and well wait a minute, what what's your hobby speak in a language that you don't learn why the spot. The Bible says, as the Holy Spirit enabled them. They spoke in this language. Many times if you can get your thinking around that one. Now how can I speak some language that I've never learn while what happened here is that the Holy Spirit came inside of them, and then the Bible calls a and why it contains, and they were baptized in the Holy Spirit. If you ever jumped into water, you know you will you insight down beneath feet beneath the surface. You have been in verse you have immersed yourself in water, while the Holy Spirit came first, then, in this power on his presence and February first, and there was such a change inside of them, but then began to speak a language that they didn't know was that one at the little bit odd, but look what happens. Verse five. There were many Jews staying in Jerusalem just and devout pilgrims. It was Pentecost there are lots of people from all over the world in Jerusalem, and they heard this roaring sound just like the disciples inside the wrong hearted inside the building heard it never people outside heard it. And so this wasn't something that was isolated with the hundredth winning up a room that had this experience and nobody else know about it. This was something that happened in the upper room, Peter is in here, here is in this group. And there's something going on in this group were in this room in which there is this humongous sound about right rushing wind, and then there is this inversion that takes place inside of him where the Spirit of God just overflows and indwells them, and they began to speak the language and says the Jews in Jerusalem devout pilgrims all over the world, when they heard the sound when they heard the sound they came on the run. Something 's happening that I will blow up the building is there something going on the right sound coming out of that young today we would call the police exam. Those speakers often has to blow us up now with all of their sound disturbing the peace while there were no loudspeakers. There was this great empowerment of the spirit became then when they heard one after another overall mother times being spoken. They were thunderstruck. They were awestruck. Here are these people inside this room and saw them a single and then come running to the building and they hear the people inside that room what's coming out of that room something they understand they couldn't for the life of them figure out what was going on. They kept saying. Are these all Galileans, how come you are hearing them talk in our own various mother tongue for these people who were in Jerusalem were from Pantheon 's needs in the nights. They were visitors from Mesopotamia, Judea, and C a conscious and Asia, Visio and Avenue Pamphylia, Egypt and parts of Libya beyond the site brings immigrants from Rome, both Jews and proselytes even Cretans and Arabs. The hall group of different languages represented here and inside that Rove inside that building there were people and what were they doing they were speaking our languages describing God 's mighty works. The people in the room were speaking in a language that they had never learned, but what they were speaking about were speaking about the glory of God and God 's mighty works, and the people outside heard them in their own language. That's near it. It I'm a member hearing experiences. Whenever I was a child of individuals who were baptized in the Holy Spirit and how that they had spoken languages spoken tongs, and there were a number of immigrants would come from a remote village in Europe and that they had their own dialect of their language, and here was a person in the church talking in their dialect that they came from over in Europe speaking perfectly and fluently to these people about God. It is a work of God, not something that we do in her hysteria or some battle. It is it is accompanied with the power feed. This is what is going on with Peter. How does Peter change appeared changes alter the process is understanding what God is doing his understanding that something different is going on and he had all his life he was voted the one thing he was going to be Peter Jesus number one man in a dive. He denies a dejected. Jesus comes. Restore tells them to go one way tells and pray and to see the Peter goes and praise any seats and then we have the first fourteen so what's going on the upper room has its sound of a great rushing wind, but there's the wind. There is the power of the spirit, and this Holy Spirit, as it were companies like fire in Venezuela but that's not being consoling and enough fires that were immersed as needed also, you can just speak a language that they never known before, and the people outside are hearing them talk about God in all the glory of God, and all the great things that God has done there in amazement how do they know my language. After all, this is kind of settle down. That's when Peter stood up and back and back and misuse and backed by the other eleven spoke out with bold urgency suddenly Peter impetuous Peter suddenly Peter stood up as everybody's wondering what's going on. Who's going to be the spokesperson and Peter, who is now in power. By this indwelling presence begins to talk and he was backed by the eleven follow fellow Jews, all of you are visiting Jerusalem. Listen carefully and get the story straight. These people are drunk as some of you suspect you have it, had time to get drunk. It's only nine o'clock in the morning. This is what the prophet Joel announced what happened suddenly Peter has an understanding of what's going on impetuous Peter David Eric jumped out of the boat, the Peter who denied Jesus, the Peter who jumped out of the boat and swam to shore Jesus says Peter you love me, is now in this upper room. All of this is happened. Most of it took three years what is the matter of forty, fifty days. The goals from while that was a good run. I don't know what were going to do now he stands up and begins to speak and explain things that he knew but never put together. He knew but never put together. That's the Holy Spirit, a working in our lives. Things that we are aware of things that we dream about. We know about, but we just can't put it together. God is at work in your life and the spirit, the Holy Spirit, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is the same spirit that was here on the day of Pentecost is the same Holy Spirit that speaks to your heart and mind as we take communion as we pray as we sing songs, it's the same God. It's the same spirit that works in us and that Holy Spirit comes inside of us by our asking, you know, it doesn't forcibly commit. He comes to us presents himself and we pray, we ask, and Peter begins. He says now appears here and in this is a very impromptu situation appears good with that. I made these budget was greater but he stands up against the speaker says in the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people. Your silence will prophesy. Also, your daughters, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. When the time comes, I'll pour out my Spirit on those who serve me mid- illimitable and they will prophesy all set wonders in the sky all signs on the earth below modern fire and billowing smoke in the sun turning back black and the moon blood red before the day of the Lord arrives the day, tremendous and marvelous and whoever calls for help to me. God will say. Imagine Peter Mrs. Peter, this is the thinking egg solicitor Peter was studying him. That's what happens once, who gets into office. If God and Peter is changing the regard verse twenty two fellow Israelites, listen carefully to these words appear as now, something is happening. This is a change going on in his thinking. There's a change he didn't know where he was going to be it in the hall is going to work just a few days prior to this, but when he's praying when he is listening for God. And when God comes in a real personal way inside of Peter 's life, everything begins to take on a different perspective and a different direction, and that's what's going on in the house. God has come to show up inside of us in a very direct way. I direct a way that will give us peace in our hearts a direct way that will give us direction for our lives, that he will inspire his word to our hearts that we can pray for our lives for our loved ones for our children, our grandchildren for our neighbors for our government that he will inspire his Word in our hearts and we will trade Peter is here declaring these. This is what the prophets all spoke about it makes sense and enormous reform. Yes, you know how it would work for his life and for the early church. No, but when the spirit pain on day of Pentecost it changed Peter and suddenly began to understand. Listen carefully to these words he goes on to talk about Jesus the Nazarene, the man thoroughly accredited by God to you, the miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him are common knowledge. This Jesus following the direct deliberate and well thought out plan of God. Peter wanted to keep Jesus from dying days. He was going to fly until the death rate cut off the year the guys of those soldiers. Jesus says appear put away the sword picked up the guys here and you is the servant put it back on. He said to Peter, this spent step back here, Pierce says Jesus following the deliberate and well thought out plan of God was betrayed by men who took the law in their own hands and was handed over to you, you say. Now Peter has some understanding of it. Went like the one went to the understanding come to Peter that came when he was there in that upper room and God 's spirit came inside of you and I and a overwhelming presence of Plaza were afire and changed them from the inside out. We are Peter, we are where we have in the journey where we had in the progression. Maybe I'll speak again on Peter next week and let quite sure how Michael back to John one, but one of the experts like where Peter and Peter, I think, is one of those guys we can identify with. Sometimes were impetuous and jump out of the boat. Sometimes we think grandiose dreams and sometimes we're just in prayer, and it comes together all, that's what he meant. That's what the Scriptures mean that's what God is trying to do in my life that's us that the God moments when God does something miraculous in our life and what is the miraculous peer here, says Jesus came and fulfilled the well plans the well thought out plan of God. And understand that just a few days earlier, Peter didn't understand that fifty days earlier whenever he was trying to kill the people who were arresting Jesus. He didn't understand, but now things are changed in our lives. It takes God. It takes God to reveal God in us. I can give you the words I can present the Scripture, but it's God who makes the Realty. It's God who makes it real to and he comes in the steel, small voice. This is the way walking and often doesn't come like this out costs often tons. Let's still small voice. And when God speaks to you. It brings peace, not fear is not failure. It speaks my peace I give unto you not like the world gives. I have a whole different piece that will lead you in the paths of righteousness. God has come to be archived. This come to be our Savior is coming to be our friend is come to never leave us nor forsake us. He is come to be with us. I was Jesus, we thank you that you are the healer we pray our Lord for our little ones who are sick, we pray Lord that you touch and feel, we pray, Lord, for the ones that are still in their mother 's womb. We pray God that you be with the mothers and the babies help them in this time of transition. This time of birth. I pray God for each devices. We are in a time of birth of change of transition. Sometimes it's just moving from one thought to an understanding of the font as Peter from thinking he was going to be second in command to finding out that God had a whole different plan for him at all all starting to make sense father, I thank you. I thank you Lord that you touch us in our hearts you make a difference inside of us in the Lord. It is from there and we make a difference in all that we say and do hear our prayer, Lord, hear our prayer. Forgive us restore us, give us strength for this moment, give us understanding and hope, give us direction in life Pro Lord. Everything that we receive of you never diminishes who you are. It only continues to increase in us. God, I pray your spirit is on the day of Pentecost came and filled all of those in that room, I pray, O God, for your Holy Spirit to settle upon us and fill each of us to overflowing with your presence, your power change us. Oh God, we pray Phyllis to overflowing. Fill us to overflowing by your spirit. We ask, and everybody said amen. God bless you no splash somebody with the spirit today I