Pentecost and the Expected Unexpected Spirit (Re-Release)

faith-and-doubt

• Suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind… tongues as of fire resting on each of them… they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.

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• Luke is using this biblical narrative convention of overlaying an ancient story on top of this one — wind from heaven, fire over some remarkable circumstance.

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belonging

• The confusion of languages at Babylon — that's like a reversal of that… Israelites gathering around the tabernacle map on to the disciples as the new temple.

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• Each one of them is hearing in his own language… 'Aren't these all Galileans speaking? How is it we each hear them in our own language in which we were born?'

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obedience-and-authority

• The expectation was a king raised up into political power and a physical temple — here it's Jesus raised from the dead and a spiritual temple.

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• God sent the king; you rejected him, but God vindicated him, exalted him as Messiah. Here's your chance to recognize your Messiah — and thousands of Jews do.

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