Sermon
Wait for the Promise
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Welcome to the Southwest Apostolic Church podcast.
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located at 3161 South Rowena Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, 46241.
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The podcast will feature preaching,
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from our pastor and from other ministers, so we hope you enjoy it.
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Without further ado, let's get right into it. God bless.
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And they spelled out church, and it said C-H, and they left the U-R out.
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How do you spell church anyway? C-U-R-C-H, right?
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So you take the U, and they took the U-R out, and it said, church is not church
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unless the U are there. Praise the Lord.
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So church is not church unless everybody's here. And the more the merrier.
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Somebody say amen to that.
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But I'm looking forward to this neighborhood outreach and things.
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We want to just do what we can while we can.
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We're going down to the mission, too, and doing things there, too.
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So God is good. Isn't he good?
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Amen. Today's lesson, we're going to look at, we're going to start here and we'll see how it goes.
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We're going to go to very familiar scripture. We're going through,
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if you haven't noticed, we went all the way through the Bible in the last year.
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We've went all the way through and we're now in the book of Acts.
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And last week we talked about the great commission.
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And now we are going to see the fulfillment of the great commission on the day of Pentecost.
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And I was listening to this. They have a, if you want to listen to your church
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lesson instead of read it, there's also a podcast called God's Word for Life.
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It's a podcast, the United Pentecostal Church, and they give this lesson on
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the podcast, basically.
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So if you want to drive and listen to it, it's good.
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But let's look at Acts 2 and very familiar scriptures. 37, excuse me,
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Acts 2, 37 and through 39.
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And when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter,
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and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?
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Then Peter said unto them, excuse me, repent and be baptized every one of you
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in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive
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the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are far off,
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even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
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Amen. This is the inauguration of the new covenant when Jesus poured out his spirit.
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Amen. Let's pray one more time. Lord, we love you.
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Thank you for your blessings to us, God. We can't do it without you.
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We love you, and we give you thanks. Amen.
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We give you thanks. Amen. You may be seated.
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Praise God. So we know that Jesus sent the disciples. We talked about the Great
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Commission, and Peter preached to the people, and there's so much you could
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say here. But I like what the lesson said.
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Remember when we talked about, the kids can go back if I didn't say that.
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Remember the lesson here last week or two, Jesus told the disciples to go back and to,
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when he resurrected, the Bible says that He was seen of over 500 people, right?
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I thought this was interesting. Jesus appeared, they say in Galilee,
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where he did a lot of his work, to over 500 people.
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And the disciples, the 12 saw him, and at least 500 brethren all at once, they said.
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But it's interesting, when you read Acts, there's only 120 in the upper room, okay?
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So he gave them the instructions.
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And the thing that stuck out to me when I was looking at this last night,
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let's go back and look at Acts 1 and 8 real quick.
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And he said, I'll paraphrase it while I'm turning there, but go back to Jerusalem,
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go back to Jerusalem, he said, and wait.
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This is what really stuck out to me last night.
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Go back to Jerusalem. He said, there's a promise from the Father to you.
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And go back to Jerusalem. And they were talking about this in the lesson.
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And when they read it or when I heard it, it jumped out.
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And the Bible says, the promise is unto you. That's got my scripture mixed up.
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But he said, go back in Jerusalem and wait, wait for the promise of the Father.
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John baptized with water, but ye not many days from now, ye shall be baptized,
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be placed in and introduced to the Holy Ghost.
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You shall receive power. After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you,
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and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and other ends of
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the world, other ends of the earth.
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I've got my amplified here. But here's what got me.
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Go to Jerusalem and wait.
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Wait for the promise. You know, and that's the way it is with God.
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Sometimes you have to wait.
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And we don't like to wait. And they brought it out in the lesson that maybe
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there were more at the upper room.
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You know, he had seen of all these people, 500, maybe more than that were there to start with.
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Before the day of Pentecost came, but maybe they just didn't wait.
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Maybe they left early. You know, sometimes there'll be a big game or something
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you'll read about later on.
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The team's down by 15 and it's like one minute to go.
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So everybody leaves or most, a lot of people leave. They think,
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well, there'll be, well, and then you got to come back and the team wins.
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And they say, man, I left too early.
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You know, you can leave too early on God.
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You got to wait on God. Amen. You got to wait for the promise,
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okay? And waiting is very hard to do.
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When I was younger, I was kind of impulsive.
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When Sister Young and I got married, that was kind of a, I don't want to say
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an impulse thing, but it was fast.
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We got, I think she asked me to marry her or something. I can't remember how
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it all came down, but where's she at?
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No, I'm kidding. But we talked to her. She said, you want to get married?
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Sure. So I just, boom. I didn't have no money. Went over to my dad,
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said I need to borrow $500.
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I need to borrow $500 and want to get married.
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Borrowed $500. dollars, got married, boom. Next thing you know, boom, I was married.
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And was it rough for a while? Huh? What'd you say?
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Us? Hush. Okay. Hush. Hush.
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But sometimes you got to wait. The Bible says, I got to looking on this,
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you know, he said, go back to Jerusalem and wait for the promise.
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So I got to thinking about this, and I got to looking it up last night.
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There are a lot of promises in the Old Testament, okay, that lead up to this waiting, okay?
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Psalms 27, 14, wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he will strengthen thine heart.
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Wait, I say, on the Lord, okay?
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So God could have promises for us, and he does have promises for us,
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and he can have things in our life that are good, but we've got to wait.
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Sometimes we get in a big hurry, don't we?
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Or sometimes we get discouraged and we don't wait. I'm going to read these scriptures
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because these are all good.
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Psalms 37 and 7, Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him.
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Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man
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who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
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You see all this stuff happening fast. The wicked are getting ahead and you're trying to wait.
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And that kind of gets discouraging, don't it?
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You know, I remember that when I've told you this, when I was getting ready
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to quit my job, when I was working for the apartments,
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and I was going to quit and I took a day off and I, but I went to the church
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and I went by there and prayed and something just kind of impressed me.
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Just, just wait a little bit.
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And I did. And I waited just a little bit, couple, three weeks.
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Next thing you know, they were going to let me go because they were running out of work.
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But I didn't feel bad about it because I knew that I had waited and things were
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getting ready to unfold.
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It's good when you know you're in the will of God and things are unfolding.
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But sometimes you got to let them unfold.
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You can't make that rose grow any faster.
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I cannot make a rose bloom, but God can.
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I can't make a beautiful flower, but he can. Amen.
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So it doesn't matter if everybody else is getting ahead or whatever.
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But remember now we're talking about Jesus telling his disciples to wait,
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wait, go to the upper room, go to the Jerusalem and wait.
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I got something for you, but you just got to wait. Okay.
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I am weary of my crying, the psalmist said.
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My throat is dried and mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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Sometimes life's hard, ain't it?
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You ever had any tears, anybody? You ever had any problems and you're trying
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to do the right thing? And he said, I am weary of my crying and my throat is dried.
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Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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Psalms 130 and 5 says, I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait.
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In his word do I hope. Okay.
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Now, let me say these disciples, I'm sure they were pretty good students of
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the Bible if they were Jewish people.
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The ranking was like this. The Pharisees and were the strictest of the Jewish
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people. They kept all the law.
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They were very religious. They were kind of self-righteous, and they believed
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in the resurrection. They were real strict.
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And then you had the Sadducees.
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They were religious, but they didn't believe in the resurrection.
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And then you had the publicans, and the Bible talks about publicans.
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Those were the tax collectors. You had a society.
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You had the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the publicans. And then you had
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sinners in the New Testament.
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A sinner in the New Testament is just common people.
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Common people living their life, going to work, but they didn't always go to synagogue.
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They didn't always go to the temple. They might go on Easter,
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maybe. They might go on Christmas, and they were called sinners, okay?
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Now, unless these disciples—well, I know there was public tax collectors that
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he called, but Peter and his brother Andrew and James and his brother John,
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they were fishermen, so I'm not sure.
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I could say they were probably—if they were good Jewish people,
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they probably knew the scriptures.
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So I hope they knew that there was a blessing in waiting on God.
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So when he told them to go to Jerusalem and wait, I hope they understood.
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But according to the scriptures, there's good things for those that wait on God.
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I hope they had that understanding. I hope they had that understanding.
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Isaiah says, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength and
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they shall mount up with wings as eagles.
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They shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.
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Praise the Lord. It's blessing to wait on God. Amen. The Lord is good unto them.
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Now listen to me. Lamentations 3.25. The Lord is good unto them that wait for
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him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
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Amen. Now, the one that really got me was this last one I got.
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This one kind of points to this promise that they were about to get. This one kind of.
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This one is kind of speaks. It's a prophet. It's Habakkuk. And it kind of speaks
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into the future. And this one I like, the language.
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For the vision is yet for an appointed time.
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Okay. Now listen to the language. Now remember, we're talking about the day of Pentecost.
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We're talking about Jesus telling them to wait. Now we know what happened. Okay.
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They received the promise and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit
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of God gives the utterance.
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Now, on the day of Pentecost, there were people from all over the world there
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to celebrate Pentecost. Pentecost was one of their main feasts of the year, okay?
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And it was 50 days, I think, after the Passover, 40 days after the resurrection,
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if I got it right, okay? But it was 50 days after Passover was the day of Pentecost.
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It was a big Jewish feast.
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So there were people from all over the world that came to Jerusalem,
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and Jesus told his disciples go to the upper room and wait for the promise.
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And we know that when the promise came, they spoke in other tongues as the Spirit
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of God gives the utterance.
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And Peter said, this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.
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In the last days, saith God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.
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Peter tied directly the happening on the day of Pentecost to the Old testament
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prophet but listen to the words of this prophet and now knowing everything we
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just said listen to how beautiful this is,
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for the vision is yet for an appointed time.
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But at the end, it shall speak. Isn't that amazing?
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And not lie. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come,
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it will not tarry. Hallelujah.
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There was going to be a day of Pentecost. There was going to,
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well, I say was in context here, that it was going to happen.
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There was going to be an outpouring of his spirit, and God promised it.
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And he told him, But I want to tell you, you'd miss out on God sometimes if
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we don't wait. I don't know why I feel that.
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And I was reading and studying this and so forth last night.
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God tells us sometimes to wait on him. Amen.
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And the promise that we're looking for comes when we wait.
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I don't know how many started in the upper room, but I know there was only 120
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when the Holy Ghost came down.
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I wonder if they got tired of waiting. I wonder if they got tired of waiting.
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Well, Jesus said this. We've got a promise coming.
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We've got a promise in Jerusalem, we've got a promise coming,
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and I'm not sure that, you know.
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I'm not sure if I want to wait. I'm tired. I got to go. You know,
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I got things to do, but wait on the Lord. Somebody say, wait on the Lord.
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Amen. Somebody needs to hear that word.
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Somebody needs to hear that word today. Wait on the Lord.
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Amen. And if you wait on God and let God do it, you're so much better off.
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I said, if you wait on God and let God do it, you're better off to let God do
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it. Amen. Don't get ahead of God.
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And you learn that as you grow older. Okay. You can get ahead of God.
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You can get far out there. You can tarry at Jerusalem. Stay there. Stay there.
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Stay in a place. Okay. During the waiting period between Jesus' ascension and
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the day of Pentecost, the number of those who were willing to wait slowly dwindled.
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The Apostle Paul stated that Jesus appeared to over 500 individuals after his
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resurrection, but only 120 were present in the upper room.
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While some of the larger crowd undoubtedly had reasons why they could not wait,
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they missed out on the initial outpouring of the Spirit.
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You know, we can always come up with the reason.
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People come up with reasons to not wait. They come up with reasons to do this.
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They come up with reasons. How many knows we can justify ourselves?
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We can decide what we want to do, and we can tell ourselves why it's a good idea to do it.
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And we can justify ourselves. We're so good at justifying ourselves,
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we can do wrong and say it was okay.
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Humans can, they'll do wrong, but they'll have it figured out why it's okay to do it.
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Come on now, you know what's the truth? Humanity are so smart,
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they think that they can do something wrong, but in their own mind,
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they say, well, it needed to be done anyway.
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The end justifies the means, somebody said. But let me say,
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possibly they were not fully convinced of Jesus' message.
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Okay. When you wait on God, you, if you wait on God, that means you believe God.
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If you don't believe God, you won't wait on him.
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You got to believe on him. You got to wait on him. Somebody say we need to wait
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on him. We need to, if, but if you don't believe him, well, it ain't really going to happen.
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It's not really going to happen. It's not really going to come.
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It's not, you know, I'm giving up.
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I'm trying to get ahead. I'm trying to do good, but it just ain't happening,
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so I'm going to throw up the towel and not wait.
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Let me tell you, in the Holy Ghost today, wait on God.
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I said wait on God.
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Perhaps they were not fully convinced of Jesus' witness or Jesus' message,
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even after witnessing him resurrect and ascend.
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Okay. Now, the Bible says that they were in one accord.
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So at least these, uh, let me say, if you want to have, we want Pentecost,
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we've got to be in one accord.
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They were all there in one accord. They were all there waiting.
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They were the ones that believed it. They were in the upper room and they were
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waiting. They agreed collectively, individually.
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They decided to stay there and do what Jesus said. And we're going to do what Jesus said.
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I want to tell you, you get a group of people together that say,
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we're going to do what Jesus said.
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We're going to wait on God and do what Jesus said. You got something.
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You got something. You get 120 people going 120 different directions,
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120 beliefs, and some waiting, some not waiting, some saying this, and some saying that.
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But when you get 120 people in the upper room, and they were all praying and
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waiting like Jesus told them to.
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They were with one mind and one accord. They were all there for the same reason.
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Wouldn't it be good if everybody came to church for the same reason?
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Came to worship God, came to praise God, came to wait on an outpouring of God.
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Amen. Come to prayer meeting to pray and wait on God. The old timers used to
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go pray. And you know what they'd say?
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Let's just wait on God. They'd just pray and wait on God. They'd just sit there, wait, just pray.
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You know, ain't much waiting going on. If you're praying 10 minutes, come on somebody.
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Boom. I heard that one hit against the back wall back there.
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We can't wait. We got stuff to do. I got stuff to do, God. I ain't got time.
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What am I going to do? No, we need to wait on God.
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Amen. Spend a little time on your knees, praise the Lord.
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Just lay before the Lord. Sometimes that's what you do. But put yourself in
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a position to let God, here I am, God.
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I can't even think of a whole lot to say, Lord, but here I am. I'm going to take.
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God, and they were all together seeking the same thing, and when they did, they were there.
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They continued daily in fervent prayer.
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The day was just past nine o'clock in the morning, and those,
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the Bible says, they were all sitting there in one mind and one accord.
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Do you know that in modern times,
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when the Holy Ghost was outpoured in Topeka, Kansas, I believe it was July 1st,
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1901, or January 1st, 1901, first day of the 20th century.
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They had a Bible school there, and they were studying the scriptures,
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and the leader of the Bible school gave them instructions.
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And he told them, he said, while I'm gone, study the scriptures to see what
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the initial evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost was.
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So they all started. So they, those at the Bible school, decided to search the
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scriptures and pray. And when he came back, He asked them what they came up with.
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And they came up with the fact that when you received the Holy Ghost,
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the initial sign was speaking another time.
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So they began to seek God for an outpouring of the Holy Ghost.
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And I believe it was January 1, 1901. If I got my facts right, you can fact check me.
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But one night, one dear sister come running down the hallway and said, I got it.
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And it began an outpouring of modern day Pentecostal movement and it spread
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like wildfire. We ended up in California. You can read about the Azusa Street Revival.
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You can read about Pentecost right now. The fastest growing movement in the
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world is the Pentecostal movement.
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Down in South America, the Catholics are scared to death of it because people are going Pentecostal.
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You know, one of the biggest churches in the world is in Africa.
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I think it's Nigeria or somewhere. The building holds like 100,000 people.
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And I'm not sure what their denomination is, but I want to tell you,
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God is pouring out his spirit like he said he would, but he's doing it on those
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that wait on him and follow him. You see, waiting on somebody is not just sitting
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there waiting, it's following instructions.
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Jesus told many a parables about those who were supposed to be watching the
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vineyard when the master of the house left.
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And he gave instructions and said, now take care of this vineyard till I get back.
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And they got tired of waiting. They said, he's not coming back.
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They got slothful. They let things down. They let things go.
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They said, he's not coming back.
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And when he came back, they weren't doing what they were supposed to do.
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And they were lost. And the Bible says it like this, they lost out.
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And Jesus said, that's the way it'll be. They were cast into darkness with weeping
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and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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I want to tell you, we need to wait on God, and we need to follow God and do
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what he told us to do while we're waiting.
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Amen. While we're waiting on God, we need to do, the Bible says, occupy till I come.
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We're supposed to be Christians while we're waiting on him. Amen.
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Somebody said we need to, amen, we need to wait on him. Praise God.
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Now, I don't know about this when you read about this.
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When the Bible says that there appeared unto them cloven tongues like a fire.
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Now, I've read some stuff, and I read a book. I'm not sure. Now,
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if you see a picture of this, somebody depicting the upper room,
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they'll put fire up on top of their heads.
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Now, I could be wrong, and maybe they all saw fire over the top of each other's
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heads, but I don't think that's what it's describing, okay?
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There appeared unto them cloven tongues, as I think if you read the Scripture,
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it's a description of what was happening to the people.
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There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire, okay?
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And they all began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit of God,
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I think their tongues started flickering.
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And their tongues started flickering, maybe like a flame flickers.
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Are you with me? You say, Brother Young, you're way out in left field. Maybe I am.
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Maybe it was just a fire over their head, but I don't think so.
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I think God did just exactly what he said he was going to do,
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and they were speaking with other tongues or languages.
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Okay. Now, see, if you think that happened with the fire on top of their head,
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and they received the Holy Ghost initially, then you would have to say,
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why doesn't it happen to everybody initially?
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Right? Why doesn't everybody, when they received the Holy Ghost,
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have the fire over their head?
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Is it 1105 already? Wow. Okay. Okay.
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But the sign of speaking, you know, the writer says it like this.
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It says, while the sign of fire was not repeated, the sign of tongues was,
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okay, making speaking in tongues the normative sign for receiving the Holy Spirit, okay?
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The demonstration was so spectacular that thousands of people outside the upper
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room heard and were amazed.
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The beginning, the outtouring mark, the beginning of a new covenant God had
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always wanted to share with his people.
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Peter connected this event to prophecy from Joel, just like we said,
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indicating the same God of the prophets was responsible for this event.
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Just as David's tongue was glad upon witnessing the Lord, those present at Pentecost
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would experience a gladness like never before as they spoke with other tongues.
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Amen. Everybody needs a Holy Ghost, don't they?
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Everybody needs the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Now, there's a lot of, you could say a lot about speaking in tongues,
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and there's a lot of discussion here about it, but,
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They heard them speak in their languages, those people that were from the rest of the world.
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But they all spoke the common language, and it was either Greek or Aramaic,
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because I don't know what language Peter preached when he stood up to preach
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the message, but they all understood him.
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And the Bible says when he got done preaching about who Jesus was,
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the fact that they crucified him,
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the fact that they crucified the Lord from glory, if they would have known who
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he was, they would have not have crucified the Lord from glory.
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And the Bible says they were pricked in their hearts.
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They were convicted because they knew their attitude and they knew what they
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had done. And they said, what must we do?
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Let me say, there's a lot of people running around today looking for something.
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And the question in their heart is, what must I do?
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What can I do to be better? What can I do to get this feeling that I want gone, gone?
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What can I do to get happiness? What can I do to find something that's better
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than what I have? The answer is still the same.
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What must I do? Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus
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Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are far off,
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even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
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I don't think the message ever changed. I don't think that ever changed.
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You go through the dark ages.
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You can read books about church history where some of these monks were tongue
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talkers. And let me say, the world went into dark ages, didn't they?
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But you know why they went into dark ages? They didn't believe God.
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They didn't wait on God. People are funny.
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They still have a problem, okay? Even when the Lord—now, the church Bible says there was 3,000 added.
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Then there was 5,000 added, and the church began to expand.
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And then you had all the false doctrine that starts coming in.
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Paul talked about the false doctrine that was going to come in.
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And Paul talked about the ravening wolves, and Peter talked about it,
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that this stuff would come in.
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And people, they got away from the truth. But let me tell you,
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God will never leave himself without a witness, I believe.
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Somewhere, let me say, history is written by the victors, okay?
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But just because somebody said in 300 A.D.
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That the orthodox way was to do it, the Trinitarian formula and all that,
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doesn't mean somebody wasn't baptizing in Jesus' name somewhere.
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Doesn't mean that somebody wasn't receiving the Holy Ghost somewhere.
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Amen. And.
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Because here's what happened. If you got to a place where you didn't do it like
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they said you should do it, we would be killed.
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You would be killed. They got so far out of whack.
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But you need to read church history because it's so good how men went into the
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dark ages. But in the Bible says, it shall be light in the evening time.
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There shall be light in the evening time. And let me say, we are in the evening time.
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We're living in the last days, the last few hours of the last few days,
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and the last few moments are slipping away.
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I read, when I read and I hear what's going on in the world,
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and there's so much stuff going on that we don't comprehend it all.
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There's things going on in our world we can't get a hold of.
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You know, we can see that AI is coming. We can see this and we can see that.
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But I want to tell you, there are some diabolical, now you think Brother Young's
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crazy, there are some diabolical forces at work in the world today.
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The spirit, the Bible said in
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the New Testament times that the spirit of Antichrist was already at work.
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And let me tell you, it's still working today.
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And when I read that the Catholic put a prayer room for the Muslims in the Vatican,
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something, you know, I'll step way out there.
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You get those two together.
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When you get a one world religion and never mind.
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That's way out there. But I'll tell you what.
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There's some forces out there that are working, ladies and gentlemen,
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and that's why we need to wait on God.
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That's why we need to serve Him. We need to follow Him. We need to wait on Him.
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We need to be led by Him. Come on, somebody.
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We want Him to direct our path. We want Him to be in charge.
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Praise the Lord. We want God to lead us in the right way because we can go the wrong way.
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I'm capable. People are capable of going the wrong way.
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Absolutely i was praying this morning god don't let me go the wrong way jesus
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said it like this when you pray lead us not into temptation,
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the best way another way of saying that is lord don't let me be led into temptation,
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i don't want to be led into temptation do you i want to go the right way jesus
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said pray that you might escape and and wait on god and seek God.
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Put God first. Let God wait on him. Put him in charge.
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Say, God, I'm going to follow you and let you work on things.
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I'm going to let you let the rose unfold.
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I can't unfold it, God, but you can. Praise the Lord.
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Wait on the Lord. And there's so much in that waiting.
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And it's a wise thing. So, but this promise is out there through anybody that
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wants it. Aren't you glad?
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Amen. If you've never been baptized in Jesus' name, we got the water over here.
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And God will fill you with the Holy Ghost. Somebody say amen to that.
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If we choose to respond positively to the gospel, we must begin with repentance.
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We must abandon our sinful lifestyles and make an ongoing and concerted effort to flee from sin.
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And I'm going to tell you what, you do that more than once.
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You have to repent to get saved to start with, but I want to tell you what,
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you got to repent sometimes on down the road a little ways, too.
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You got to come back to a place and say, Lord, renew me again.
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Get me back on the right track. Somebody say amen to that.
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A concerted effort to flee from sin while repentance can occur in a moment.
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Repentance is also a lifestyle. We wake every day and choose to turn away from sin and toward Christ.
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Every one of us do that every day.
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We're either turning towards Christ or we're not.
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Okay? And once you choose to turn away, then you get baptized by immersion in
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water with the name of Jesus called over you.
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And this is the only way believers were baptized in the book of Acts.
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We are baptized in Jesus' name because he is the only name that can save us.
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When we're baptized, our sins are washed away, and we become new creations in Christ.
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Finally, when we have the assurance we've responded to faith,
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to the gospel, God will fill us with the Holy Ghost, with the Holy Spirit,
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with the sign of speaking in tongues.
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Some have received the Holy Ghost before they were baptized,
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like Cornelius and his household, but they were baptized in the name of Jesus.
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As a matter of fact, Peter commanded them to be.
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The Holy Ghost is a free gift to us. Every hungry heart for God should be experiencing
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the outpouring of his wonderful life-changing gift. Somebody say amen.
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But it all started, as the music comes, but it all started with a group of people,
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that obeyed Jesus, went to the upper room, and waited on him.
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We don't know what's going to happen, but I'm going to wait on him.
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I don't know how long it's going to take, but I'm going to wait on him.
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I'm not even sure what's going to unfold here, but I'm going to wait on him.
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And those that obeyed and waited received the Holy Ghost.
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Amen. Aren't you glad you can still get the Holy Ghost today?
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Praise the Lord. So we're going to open the altar like always.
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Remember our service tonight. We've got a special speaker tonight.
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Come 7 o'clock. Come early and pray a little bit.
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Amen. And let's have good service tonight. We had good service last week.
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Brother Tuggle was here. and his great-grandson got baptized, and that was great.
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But we're going to sing another song, and anybody who wants to pray,
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come to the altar and say, Lord, help me to wait.
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Thank you for listening to our podcast. Southwest Apostolic Church is a place of refuge.
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If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. Pastor's cell number, 317-469-3100.
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If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. God bless.