Pentecost: Acquiring the Fire
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This sermon explores the coming of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:1-13. There is a focus on the background of the Jewish Festivals and how each of the Jewish festivals in the Spring points towards Israel's Messiah.
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Pentecost: Acquiring the Fire
- 2. Acts 2 1 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
- 4. First Point
- 5. Leviticus 23 15 “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
- 6. Leviticus 23 16 You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the LORD.
- 7. 2 Grain Harvests Barley Wheat
- 9. Second Point
- 10. Acts 2 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
- 11. Acts 2 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.
- 12. Acts 2 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- 13. Acts 2 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
- 14. 6 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
- 15. Acts 2 7 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
- 16. Acts 2 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
- 17. Acts 2 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
- 18. Acts 2 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,
- 19. Acts 2 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
- 23. Acts 2 12 And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
- 24. Acts 2 13 But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
- 25. Peter’s Sermon
Editor's Notes
- IT WAS PENTECOST SUNDAY. As the congregation filed into church, the ushers handed each person a bright red carnation to symbolize the festive spirit of the day. The people listened attentively to the reading of the Pentecost story from the Book of Acts about how the disciples had heard “what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven”; about how the Holy Spirit had appeared “like tongues of fire.” Then came the sermon: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon us,” the preacher began. “Like the powerful wind from heaven!” shouted a woman sitting in the first pew. Then she threw one of the red carnations toward the altar. The preacher began again: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon us.” The same woman’s voce rang out again, “Like the tongues of fire, the tongues of fire!” Again, she threw a red carnation toward the altar. The preacher looked straight at her and said, “Now throw your pocketbook.” To which the woman replied, “Preacher, you have just calmed the wind and put out the fire.” I hope and pray that during the next half hour I will not do anything to calm the wind or put out the fire. We need the fire of God in our church. We desperately need the work of the Holy Spirit in our midst. Our job together is to do nothing to quench God’s Spirit and everything to unleash God’s power in our midst.
- 1 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
- The name Pentecost is a Greek word which means “fiftieth.” It refers to one of the Spring Feasts that is proscribed in the Law of Moses, called the Feast of Weeks.
- 15 “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
- 16 You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord.
- 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
- 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.
- 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
- 6 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
- 7 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
- 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
- 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
- 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,
- 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
- 12 And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
- 13 But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”