We're turning to our subject this evening, and
for the past eight or nine weeks, I
think we've gone off the number somewhere, so
they tell me, for the past eight or
nine weeks we've been looking at this great
subject, the Eternal Spirit.
And last Tuesday I told you we were
coming to look at the Baptism of the
Spirit this evening, but when I got down
to think it through, I knew I needed
to say something about Pentecost, and the feast
of Pentecost, and the fact of Pentecost.
Because Pentecost and the Baptism of the Spirit
are one and the same subject, but I
knew if I went into all the details
of Pentecost, then the time would run out
on us, and we wouldn't be able to
do it properly.
So I thought it wiser just to take
up this part of the subject of the
Baptism of the Spirit, and deal with this
properly, and if I'm here next Tuesday, then
we'll be dealing with the Baptism of the
Spirit after we've looked at this foundational part,
the feast of Pentecost.
But let's turn to the book of Leviticus
this evening, and we're at chapter 23, please.
The book of Leviticus, and we're at chapter
23.
And the Lord is speaking to Moses here,
and verse 1 says, And the Lord speak
unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts
of the Lord.
And I'd like you to get that phrase
sort of into your mind just now, the
feasts of the Lord, which he shall proclaim
to be holy convocations, even these are my
feasts.
Six days shall work be done, but the
seventh is the Sabbath of rest and holy
convocation.
Ye shall do no work therein, it is
the Sabbath of the Lord in all your
dwellings.
These are the feasts of the Lord.
And if you know this chapter very well,
you will know that there are seven feasts
here.
And they took place at different times throughout
the Jewish year.
And I want you to keep this phrase
in your mind, the feasts of the Lord.
These are the feasts of the Lord, even
holy convocations, which he shall proclaim in the
seasons.
In the fourteenth day of the first month,
at even, is the Lord's Passover.
Because you do know something about the Passover
feast, don't you?
Or the feast of the Passover, whichever way
you like to put it.
And of course this was one of the
great feasts in the Jewish nation on the
very first month, on the fourteenth day of
the first month, and remember they had their
new year just a few days ago.
And you will find this out, that there
are seven feasts here, seven feasts right down
through this chapter.
And the first one is the Passover, and
the last one, let's look at verse 39.
And also in the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when ye have gathered in the fruit of
the land, ye shall keep a feast unto
the Lord seven days.
On the first day shall be a Sabbath,
and on the eighth day shall be a
Sabbath.
And ye shall take you on the first
day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of
palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees,
and willows of the brook, and ye shall
rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
And ye shall keep a feast unto the
Lord seven days in the year, it shall
be a statute forever in your generations, ye
shall celebrate it in the seventh month, ye
shall dwell in booths seven days.
All that are Israelites born shall dwell in
booths.
This was what was called the feast of
tabernacles.
You see they cut these branches down, and
they made booths or tabernacles, and here they
dwelt.
Now you'll find that we've just touched the
first one and the last one, the Passover,
the feast of the Passover was first, and
the feast of tabernacles was last.
What was the big idea of all this?
Well these were typifying certain things.
You know they were telling the Jewish nation
as the days went by, great things that
the Lord had done for them, and great
things that the Lord would do for them.
You see the Passover was reminding them of
the deliverance of course that came to them
when they were slaves in Egypt.
Oh but it went a bit further than
that because it was also proclaiming that one
would come to deliver the nation in its
entirety one day.
And you see Paul got this very clearly
when he talked about Christ our Passover, his
sacrifice for us.
I don't want to go into the feast
of Passover and get all the details out,
because that will waste our time.
But I would say to all the folks
here this evening that Calvary fulfilled it, and
you can't have it fulfilled 20 times.
When Jesus Christ died our Passover was sacrificed
for us, that was this feast fulfilled in
all its entirety for all eternity.
And you know there will be a day
when our Lord Jesus Christ will come to
the air and take away his waiting people,
and there will be a time of tribulation
in this poor old earth of ours, and
then our Lord will come again to this
very earth.
His feet shall stand in that day on
the Mount of Olives, and you know he
will overshadow the Jewish nation with his presence
in a special way.
Of course the glory of the Lord shall
cover the earth in that day as the
waters cover the sea, and that will be
the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles.
What a wonderful fulfillment it will be.
Now it's the very same with all these
feasts right through here.
Have a look at verse 15 just now.
We're at Leviticus 23 and we're at verse
15.
And he shall count on to you from
the morrow after the Sabbath, from the from
the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day
that he brought the sheaf of the wave
offering, even seventh Sabbath shall be complete.
Even on to the morrow after the seventh
Sabbath, seven, seven to forty-nine, and the
morrow after the seventh Sabbath, shall he number
fifty days.
Now this is the Feast of Pentecost because
the word Pentecost means fifty days.
So you know that the Pentateuch, it's sometimes
called, is the first five books of the
Bible.
And the Pentagon, you know something about it
don't you?
Well Pentecost actually means the fiftieth day, and
so on.
And we want to look at this Feast
of Pentecost this evening, this fiftieth day.
I just want to do something before we
go there.
I want to have a look at John's
Gospel chapter 7 for a moment.
John's Gospel chapter 7.
Gospel by John, and that the seventh chapter.
This one, after these things Jesus walked in
Galilee.
For he would not walk in Jewry, because
the Jews sought to kill him.
You know he took all the precautions that
needed to be taken, don't make any mistakes
about that.
You've got a certain amount of brains and
God expects you to use them.
You know there are fatalists among us, and
they tell me you can do whatever you
like, you're okay, and that's not what I
meant when I was talking this evening about
he needed me.
Because I'm pretty sure if you shut your
eyes and keep walking back and forwards across
the road you'll get knocked down and run
over.
Pretty sure about that, because that's what God
gave you those eyes for.
Now you can see our Lord Jesus Christ
he would not walk in Jewry because the
Jews sought to kill him.
Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was at
hand, and I want to stress it's changed
now.
It's not the Lord's Feast anymore, happens to
be it's the Jews' Feast now, of Tabernacles.
That's a serious change you know.
It's like the Lord's table when our Lord
instituted this memorial feast.
Yes you know the Lord just gave us
a few details and let us gather on
the first day of the week to remember
him, but some places have changed it so
much that it belongs to them and not
him.
I could put an M on it for
you, mind you.
You can change the feast of the Lord
to the Jews' Feast, because they have done
so much to it you would hardly know
it now.
And that's what men would do sometimes with
the things of God.
And I want to get that bit corrected
before we go any further.
Yes we're going to look at the Feast
of Pentecost, and we're going to look at
it as the Lord's Feast.
And there's one fact of Pentecost that I
want to get the hold of this evening.
Mind you when we come back next week
if I'm here on the Tuesday, the word
fact will turn into facts.
Because there are facts of Pentecost that we
will need to sit down and take note
of, but I'm just looking at one fact
this evening.
You know the Holy Ghost was not yet
given because Jesus was not yet glorified, and
I've asked the question not yet glorified as
what?
You see he was recognized, let's go to
to Luke's gospel chapter one.
Luke's gospel chapter one, and it's this is
the place where Mary the Blessed Virgin Mary
ran away into the hill country to tell
Elizabeth that she was to be the mother
of the Messiah.
And of course Elizabeth might have well questioned
her.
Oh I know that there are people who
have questioned her ever since.
Verse 39, Luke 1 verse 39, Mary arose
in those days and went into the hill
country with haste into a city of Judah,
and entered into the house of Zechariah and
saluted Elizabeth.
And it came to pass when Elizabeth heard
the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in
her womb.
And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost,
and that's the bit I'm really stressing.
And she speak out with a loud voice
and said, blessed art thou among women, and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and
whence is this to me that the mother
of my Lord.
Because she happened to recognize the babe even
in the womb as her Lord.
Oh I know the modernists they question where
the child came from.
Not Elizabeth when she was filled with the
Holy Ghost.
Not Elizabeth, yes he was recognized by her,
you remember he was recognized by the wise
man who came, who came saying where is
he that is born king of the Jews.
Well they recognized that the king was born,
Elizabeth recognized that the Lord had come.
Yes do you see where we are in
Luke's gospel here, if you just go to
chapter two, turn the page to chapter two.
See verse 22, and we're talking about the
Virgin Mary again, and when the days of
her purification according to the law of Moses
was accomplished.
They brought him to Jerusalem, they brought the
Lord Jesus, the little child, to present him
to the Lord as it is written in
the law of the Lord, every meal that
openeth the womb shall be called holy to
the Lord.
And to offer a sacrifice according to that
which is said in the law of the
a pair of turtle doves, or two young
pigeons.
If you go back to the law of
the Lord for non-cleanness you'll find that
there was also a bullock that would be
acceptable on a lamb or a goat, but
if you were very poor you were allowed
to bring two young pigeons.
So this proves that our Lord Jesus came
to a very poor family, because the virgin
was only able to come with turtle doves,
and they're bringing him into the temple.
And behold there was a man in Jerusalem
whose name was Simeon, and the same man
was just and about waiting for the consolation
of Israel, and the Holy Ghost was upon
him, thus the very same Holy Ghost was
upon Elizabeth.
And it was revealed unto him by the
Holy Ghost that he should not see death,
before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Sometimes the Spirit of God gives this sort
of revelation.
And he came by the Spirit into the
temple when the parents brought in the child
Jesus to do for him after the custom
of the law.
Then took he him up in his arms
and blessed God and said, Lord now lettest
thou thyself and depart in peace according to
thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy
salvation.
Oh he knew the Savior had come.
You see if you go through the book
carefully you'll find our Lord Jesus Christ was
recognized by Elizabeth as the Lord, the mother
of my Lord.
And he was recognized as the King and
he was recognized as the Savior.
If you go down the chapter a little
bit, let's go down the chapter a little
bit.
Look at verse 30, 36.
There was one Anna, a prophetess, oh yes
she was, the daughter of Nathaniel of the
tribe of Asher.
Oh some of the British Israelites tell me
these tribes were lost.
Hold your tongue, this woman wasn't lost.
She knows what tribe.
Saul of Tarsus' newest tribe, of Angemite he
says.
Oh I can find you a few of
them in this book.
Paul said to the people in Jerusalem, oh
12 tribes which serve God instantly every day.
They weren't lost as far as he was
concerned.
When you don't know the book you listen
to tripe.
Oh no, here's a woman of the tribe
of Asher.
She was of great age, look at verse
36, and had lived with her husband seven
years from her virginity.
And she was a widow of about four
score and four years, which departed not from
the temple but served God with fastings and
prayers night and day.
And she coming in that instant gave thanks
likewise unto the Lord and spake of him
to all them that looked for redemption.
Oh she knew the Redeemer had come.
I think you can see this can't you?
You see our Lord Jesus was recognized.
Recognized as the Lord, as the King, as
the Savior by Simeon, as the Redeemer.
When John the Baptist looked at him, he
said behold the Lamb of God.
And when he was at the great marriage
feast in Cana of Galilee, he manifested forth
his glory there.
Yes he did.
But you know there was still something that
had to be done.
Let's go back to John's gospel, chapter 7,
because that's very interesting there.
And we're at John chapter 7, verse
2.
Now the feast, the Jews feast of Tabernacles
was at hand.
His brethren therefore said unto him, depart thence
and go into Judea, that thy disciples also
may see the works that thou doest.
For there is no man that doeth anything
in secret.
He himself seeketh to be known openly.
If thou do these things, show thyself to
the world.
For neither did his brethren believe in him.
And Jesus said unto them, my time has
not yet come, but your time is always
ready.
The world cannot hit you, but me it
hitteth, because I testify of it, that the
works thereof are evil.
Go ye up unto the feast.
I go not up yet unto the feast,
for my time has not yet fully come.
See verse 14 now, about the midst of
the feast.
Because this feast of Tabernacles ran for seven
days.
Now but the midst of the feast, he
went up into the temple and talked.
Because the Jews marveled and all the rest
of it.
See verse 37, in the last day, that's
great day of the feast.
For you saw the feast just about to
commence, and then you saw about the midst
of the feast, and this is the last
day, that great day of the feast.
Jesus stood and cried saying, if any man
thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture
hath said, out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water.
But this speak he of the spirit which
they that believe on him should receive.
For the Holy Ghost was not yet given,
because that Jesus was not yet glorified in
heaven, is the actual word.
I want you to get that you see,
because that's the fact of Pentecost.
You see this Pentecost could not be fulfilled
in its entirety, and for eternity, until the
Lord Jesus would be glorified in heaven.
You see, this is a mighty thing, this
very wonderful feast of Pentecost.
Let's go back to it again.
We're at Leviticus 23.
Leviticus 23, verse 16, even unto the
morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number
fifty days, and ye shall offer a new
meat offering unto the Lord.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations, and
I want you to watch this, two wave
loaves.
Get the two, get the word wave, get
the word loaves.
Two wave loaves of two tenths deals, they
shall be of fine flour.
I want you to get this bit, they
shall be baking with leaven.
That's unusual when we're having types, because usually
we don't want any leaven in at all.
Yea, when the wave loaf up the chapter
a little bit, it distinctly says without leaven.
Now I want you to see this, because
these two wave loaves are very interesting.
It says in verse 20, and we're trying
to just save time, and the priest shall
wave them, that's the two wave loaves, he
shall wave them with the bread of the
first fruits for a wave offering before the
Lord.
Now this is this day of Pentecost, and
the priest is taking these two wave loaves,
let's try to get these wave loaves, I
think they were long, softer loaves, it doesn't
matter exactly whether we're right there or not,
and he gets them in his hand and
he's before the Lord in the temple, and
he waves them, and he waves them, and
he waves them.
What's the big idea?
What's it all about?
You thought and knew what the Passover was
about, and you thought and know what the
Tabernacle is about.
You know what this is about?
Well these two wave loaves have got leaven
in them, so they're not typifying Christ in
that sense.
There's something else here.
You see, something was going to take place,
when Jesus Christ would die on the cross
and finish the work, and rise bodily, triumphant,
and ascend to heaven.
You see, God would take him far above
all, and he would make him at that
moment, the head of the church, which he
had never been before.
I want you to get it.
I think we'd better do this properly, let's
go to Ephesians.
And we're at Ephesians, and we're at Ephesians
chapter one, and Paul's praying for the Ephesians
here, praying that God's power will be toward
them.
See verse 19, he's praying, and what the
exceeding greatness of his power to us would
who believe.
He's praying that we might know the exceeding
greatness of his power to us would who
believe, according to the working of his mighty
power, which he wrought in Christ, when he
raised him from the dead, and set him
at his own right hand in heavenly places,
far above all principality, and power, and might,
and dominion, and every name that is named,
not only in this world, but also in
that which is to come, and have put
all things under his feet, and gave him
to be head, be the head over all
things to the church, which is his body.
Now, I want you to get that.
You see, some of my dearest friends argue
with me about this, and they're trying to
argue with me these days that the church
was in the Old Testament right along.
If it was, sir, it was there without
a head.
And I just can't understand that.
I'm telling you, the Holy Ghost was not
given until Christ was glorified!
And this is the fact of Pentecost.
And there is nowhere in the Old Testament
where Jews and Greeks were baptized into one
body!
Nowhere!
Oh, you show me it.
I've never seen anything like that, nor neither
have you.
Oh, we're going to look at the Feast
of Pentecost.
What was it all about?
I'll show you what it was all about.
We're at Ephesians, aren't we?
Let's have a look at the third chapter.
For this cause, I call, what do we
mean when we say, for this cause?
And I'll come back to that and answer
it just in a second, because it's the
bit he's been talking just before that.
For this cause.
But we'll come back to it.
For this cause, I, Paul, the prisoner of
Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles, get the word
Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation
of the grace of God which is given
me to you, word, how that by revelation
he made known unto me the mystery.
As I wrote a four in a few
words, you can see that that's a parenthetical
portion.
Let's leave the parenthetic a bit out, and
we'll just read, how that by revelation he
made known unto me the mystery.
Verse 5 comes in now, which in other
ages was not made known.
This was something that was made known to
Paul, which in other ages was not made
known unto the sons of men.
As it is now revealed unto his holy
apostles and prophets.
And when you get apostles and prophets, and
the word apostles is before prophets, you know
we're talking about New Testament prophets, and not
Old Testament prophets.
So that this mighty thing, which in other
ages was not made known unto the sons
of men, as it is now revealed unto
his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit,
by the spirit, that the Gentiles should be
fellow heirs, and of the same body.
You see, this is the thing, that the
Gentiles who believed in the Lord Jesus, and
followed him along, these individual followers, and the
Jews who believed, these two were being brought
before the Lord that day, when the spirit
was sacred, and they were baptized into one
body, which is called a church, and could
only be when Christ was made the head
of the church, and not a moment before
it.
Oh no, I don't think you can get
off of that.
Let's go back to this cause, watch what
Paul says.
You see this, we'll go right down, at
verse 12 in chapter 2, he's talking to
these Ephesians, he says, that at that time,
when he came to Ephesus first, ye were
without Christ.
You see these Gentiles at Ephesus, they were
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers
from the covenant of promise, having no hope,
and without God in the world, what misery
was theirs, without God, without Christ, without hope.
But now, now things are different now.
In Christ Jesus, ye sometimes were to fall
off a midnight by the blood of Christ,
for he is our peace, who hath made
both one, oh let's get that bit, and
hath broken down the middle wall of partition
between us, having abolished in his flesh the
enmity, even the law of carnal commandments contained
in ordinances, for to make in himself of
twain, yet to twain one new man, so
making peace, that he may reconcile both unto
God in one body, by the cross, having
slain the enmity thereby, and came and preached
peace to you which were afar off, Gentiles
unto them that were nigh, Jews, for through
him we both have access, thy one spirit
unto the father, therefore ye are no more
strangers and foreigners, we should say hallelujah, but
fellow citizens with the saints and of the
household of God, and are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets.
The church was built on the foundation of
the apostles and prophets.
You see when God gave gifts to the
church, it says he gave first apostles, if
you think the church was in the old
testament, tell me how the apostles got first,
you would need to come and talk to
me, you can't tell me how they got
first, you would need to have the patriarchs
first, wouldn't you, oh let's get this squared
out because this is lovely, now therefore verse
19, ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
but fellow citizens with the saints and of
the household of God, and are built upon
the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom
all the building fitly framed grows unto an
holy temple in the Lord, in whom ye
also are built together for inhabitation of God
through the spirit.
You see this was the fulfillment, this was
the fulfillment of this wonderful feast of Pentecost.
The whole idea was that there was a
company of Jews who had followed him throughout
his earthly career and had trusted in him,
and there were Gentiles you know, once upon
a time I was asked the question, were
there really Gentiles saved when the Lord Jesus
was here, were they present at Pentecost?
Well I think that you know this, that
the first chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles, they were in the upper room and
there were 120 disciples there, you know that
it was a big upper room, in case
you just didn't get that.
Oh but I think you know this don't
you, that when our Lord rose from the
dead, he revealed himself unto five hundred brethren
at once, they were all believers you know,
don't distress the point with me that there
were all Jews, oh you know, I think
you're stretching the elastic of it, oh no
I think you're bound to know this, that
the wise men who came were not Jews,
and they came and fell down and worshipped
him, and the centurion whose servant was very
ill, he came to the Lord and said,
I'm not worthy that you should enter under
my roof, speak the word on me, and
the Lord Jesus said, I have not found
so great faith, no not in Israel, but
Stella was not a Jew, and the seraphination
woman, who came about her daughter, the Greek
says, for she was a Greek, and you're
bound to know that the Greeks came in
great number and said, sir we want to
see Jesus, oh yes I think there was
a whole lot of them, and the centurion
who was at the bottom of the cross,
he said, truly this man was a son
of God, I think he was present in
Jerusalem that day, I think there were two
companies here, there were two lords as it
were, they were all individual followers of the
Lord, that there's something going to be done
with them, because the Lord has gone back
again and sat down, and he has now
become the head of the church, the Holy
Ghost is sent, the Holy Ghost had not
come because Christ was not glorified up to
that point, and the Holy Ghost came and
baptized these two bodies into one, making one
new man the church, oh I want to
tell you, they're always talking about a second
baptism, and a third one, and a fourth
one, ah blathers, you can't make a church
every day, it was fulfilled there, can you
have a Passover every day, oh no, it
was fulfilled at Calvary wasn't it, and when
Christ comes to overflow this earth, and cover
it with his glory, you can't have that
every week you know, I'll tell you this,
there's more tripe talked about the baptism of
the Spirit than anything I know, we'll go
into it you know, just as carefully as
we'll do this bit this evening, when we
come to it, yes I just want to
say a few things about this, this, the
features of Pentecost before we leave it this
evening, let's go to Acts chapter 2, the
Acts of the Apostles chapter 2, since people
do come and argue about this you know,
let's have a look at this now, Acts
chapter 2, and we're at verse 1, and
when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
there it had been there for quite a
few days, but this is the 50th day
now, they were all with one accord in
one place, all these followers that he had
talked to, they were all with one accord
in one place, there was 120 of them
at least, and suddenly, there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind,
and I shall have to underline the as
of for you, because it wasn't a rushing
mighty wind, the only way that Luke can
describe this thing, this sound that came, as
of a rushing mighty wind, it wasn't a
rushing mighty wind remember, but that's the way
he describes it, as of a rushing mighty
wind, and suddenly there came a sound from
heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and
it filled all the house where they were
sitting, this sound filled the house, this sound
that Luke can only describe as of a
rushing mighty wind, filled all the house where
they were sitting, and I must underline they
were sitting, they were not rolling on the
floor you know, or kneeling either, or getting
excited, or shouting hallelujah, just sitting waiting, that's
all, are you reading right now, because you're
reading a lot of things into this that's
not here, that's why I'm taking the time
with the scene, because they try to tell
me unless you roll on the floor this
will not happen to you, I'm afraid you're
reading things into this dear, they were just
sitting that's all, yes and I want you
to get this, 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, and let's
get the word appeared unto them, cloven tongues
like ours, oh fire, and it was not
fire, oh I know we hear a lot
of trepidation about fire, well let me inform
you it wasn't fire, there were cloven tongues,
and the only way that Luke can describe
it was like ours are fire, that's the
only way it can be described, so don't
be going too far with the fire bit,
and it sat upon each of them, and
I want you to get each of them
into your heart, because if I'm right then
there was a hundred and twenty, it wasn't
the old fellow in the corner with all
his activity of holiness that got it, oh
no the wee fellow over in the other
corner it sat upon him too, trying to
tell me there's only one or two out
of the bunch aren't you, you're not really
right, sat upon each of them that's all,
now let me get this bit over to
you, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues
like ours, oh fire, and it sat upon
each of them, I want you to get
this, and they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, one or two of them or
them all, quick now get off the mark,
because what they tell me is that they
roll on the floor and the fellow that
gets the most excited gets it, that's not
what you're reading here, they were all ages,
all sizes, all shapes, all kinds, they were
all filled with the Holy Ghost, of course
the filling of the Holy Ghost and the
baptizing of these individual followers, Jews and Gentiles,
the two breads into one body are two
different subjects, we'll come to the filling you
know, because I know that folks tell me
they can go into a back room and
get down on their knees and wait there
and just get lost in God, and they're
filled with the Spirit from that day forward
and forevermore, and it's the biggest lie that
was ever told, I shall prove that you
see, because I could very soon take you
you know, and pick out Peter who was
filled out there, wasn't he one of them,
he was Peter wasn't he, he was filled,
I can bring you to the book of
Galatians, or the letter to the Galatians, and
Paul had to withstand them to the face,
because he was to be blamed, he wasn't
filled that day, oh no, he was gone
off the rails that day, but we'll come
to that you see, we'll do the filling
properly, I'm just setting the theme for you,
that's all, well I think you can see
these features here, you see the thing that
I'm more concerned about is this, that when
these men, the Spirit of God came upon
them, and baptized them into one body, and
we will do this properly next week if
the Lord wills that I should be here,
and if not then the next week, you
see they were anxious about sinners, because Peter
stood up and began to preach to the
crowd, and I'll tell you, there was conviction
came upon the crowd, you see if you
go down the second chapter a little bit,
after Peter had preached, look at verse 37,
and when they heard this, this is the
cloud, they were pricked in their heart, and
said on to Peter, and to the rest
of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall
we do, it's like the Philippian jeeler coming
in and saying, what must I do, you
see the people that tried to twist this
and bring another different doctrine out of it
all together, they're not a bit concerned about
people getting saved at times, in fact one
of them said to me, the cross is
a secondary thing, my God you must go
far away from the Lord when you say
the cross is a secondary thing, that's not
of the Spirit of God, I'll tell you
this, when your nonsense has faded away, and
we're in eternity, and we're on the golden
street, we will sing, thou art worthy, for
thou art slain, and hast redeemed us to
God by thy blood, we'll sing it for
all eternity, no wonder I get cross at
them sometimes, the blabbers we have to listen
to, we lads who haven't read the book,
oh no, I'll tell you this, conviction of
sin came out of this thing, yes I
believe that if we give ourselves properly to
God, this is what will happen, conviction of
sin will come, and I'll tell you this,
the preaching was such, see verse 41, then
they that gladly received his word were baptized,
you know there was not only conviction of
sin, but there was an acceptance of the
Savior, I want to tell you this, there
was obedience to the book, ah, this is
where I've always found this out, you see
I've met so many holy people, so many
the higher life, so many sanctified clans, but
when you talk about, when you talk about
believers baptism, they sort of grow dumb don't
they, oh not on the day of Pentecost
sir, they got baptized that day, what's up
with your sanctification now, I'll tell you they
got baptized, I'll tell you something more that
came out of this, the fruits, there was
not only conviction of sin, and reception of
Christ, and obedience to the word, it says
this, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles
doctrine, and fellowship, it also says the same
day there were added onto them about three
thousand souls, they went and joined the good
old-fashioned evangelical church, that's what they did,
I want you to get the hold of
that, I want you to get this little
bit, you know it says in verse 44,
and all that believed, all those believers were
together and had all things common, oh I
helped one another you know, you know the
communists have even come to this chapter, and
they say this is communism, they say this
is what communism is, I argued with a
communist one day, I said no friend that's
not right, I said Christianity says, what's mine,
is yours brother, and I mean that tonight,
if you were poor and I thought you'd
need what's mine is yours, that's what Christianity
says, what's mine is yours, but what communism
says, what's yours is mine, that's a bit
different isn't it, I would think there's a
great difference, oh don't let's read that into
this, it won't fit in here, now I
think we've gone far enough for this, you've
seen the feast, and the fact, and the
features, and some of the fruits, now we've
got the foundation laid, we've got to come
back to the baptism of the spirit, and
see all about it right through the acts
of the apostles, till we see where we
are, and we shall see that.
The Lord part us in my fear, with
our blessing, for thy holy name's sake, amen.