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Introduction
If you are new to our church or missed last week we began a new series here on Sunday Morning.
For the next few weeks leading up to the Easter season, we will be going to discover the book of Acts.
Last week we discovered that the book of Acts is about the moving of God through the lives of the early church.
A beginning of a movement
We discovered that the promise of the Holy Spirit was about to come and they were going to experience something like they haven’t experienced before.
Before we dive into the passage I want to give you a bit of background information as we look at these texts.
When studying the Bible, it is important to determine whether the verse or passage at hand is descriptive or prescriptive.
The difference is this: a passage is descriptive if it is simply describing something that happened, while a passage is prescriptive if it is specifically teaching that something should happen.
Simply put, is it a description or a command?
Is the passage describing something (it happened) or is it prescribing something (it should happen)?
The difference is important.
When a biblical passage is only describing something but is interpreted as prescribing something, it can lead to errant thinking and behavior.
Take the story of David and Goliath, for example.
Goliath was blaspheming the God of Israel and mocking God’s people, and David fought him with a sling and a stone, killed him, and cut off his head (1 Samuel 17).
If we take this passage as descriptive (which it is), then there are many things we can learn from the history, such as the value of trusting God.
However, if we take 1 Samuel 17 as prescriptive (which it’s not), then we might make the error of slinging rocks at blasphemers everywhere.
The Bible relates the account of David’s victory for our edification, but the Bible never commands us to follow his actions on the battlefield.
- taken from https://www.gotquestions.org/descriptive-vs-prescriptive.html
So as we begin to look through the book of Acts it is critical that we keep that thought in the back of our mind.
A thought that should be examined as we look at the Movement of God in the lives of the early church.
Why,
You see some events in scripture, if we were attempting to take this as a prescriptive action for our lives we run the risk of miss understanding what God has called us to be and to live.
It may only be in scripture to lead us and guide us in our lives and to apply the principles from that event.
However, the same is true if we don’t use passages that ARE to be prescriptive and dismiss them because they seem too hard to handle or work out in our lives.
Our Christian walk can quickly become self pleasing and lacking the very power of God in our lives.
Now let’s turn to today’s passage found in the second chapter of the book of Acts.
We are going to see this morning three parts of our Christian walk as we observe an event in the lives of the early church.
In our walk with God there are times of Waiting, Watching, Witnessing.
We will discover there is a process we go through as we see the miracle of God working in our lives.
It begins with Unknown to a known to a outward action.
turn with me to Acts 2 and let’s begin reading at verse one
For something special today and the importance of the passage, I have asked Thomas, a willing partner to read today’s scripture
Thank you,
What did you think when you heard the message of God spoken in a different language?
This is truly a descriptive passage, If I was able to read so precisely that Thomas read so clearly in his first language, it would be a fine example of what had happened in this part of the story.
Now before we examine God’s Word, let’s pray
Waiting for the Unknown Promise
As we learned last Sunday, the previous passages went into detail of the waiting of the promise.
The Promise that God would give them God’s Power.
Waiting.
Waiting for God to act.
The disciples found themselves in a holding pattern once again.
I can’t image how they felt in the holding pattern between Good Friday and Easter Morning,
The uncertainty of waiting for what you hope is good, but the wait seems like forever.
You see waiting for God’s plan to be revealed requires us to wait
How much of our lives are waiting upon God.
We truly believe that God is always in our midst, moving in our lives, but you must admit, there are times that we are to wait for His timing.
That waiting can be hard
Waiting to hear the results of your recent test at the doctor.
Waiting to hear from your accountant on the viability of you retiring.
Waiting to hear from your new perspective employer to see if you are getting the job.
What I want you to notice in this passage about the disciples, who were soon to be Apostles, were waiting but while they waited they were also living out their lives.
They were gathered together and they were praying and seeking out God’s Direction.
Waiting can be hard, but it doesn’t mean that we are stopped sitting around till God moves.
When it come to waiting for God, there needs to be a moving along in our lives with a continually trust in God that His plan is in motion.
Chapter two begins with the Disciples doing that very thing.
They were waiting in Jerusalem as prescribed by Christ, but they were part of a bigger movement.
When the day arrived.
If you are really reading scripture to understand what it means for you life, you should ask this.
What Day.
We have the luxury of knowing the story and we sometimes overlook this quick waiting time.
The Day of Pentecost was a time in the Jewish calendar that was established many years before that day.
Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Pentecost)
PENTECOST One of three major Jewish feasts also called the Feast of Weeks.
The name “Pentecost” is derived from the Greek word meaning “fifty.”
Pentecost occurs in the month of Sivan (May/June), 50 days after Passover, and celebrates the end of the grain harvest.
This was a major celebration in the lives of the people of God.
Folks,
In our time of waiting for God to act in our lives, there is routine of our Christian walk.
Sunday Morning, the gathering of the believers is one of those times that need to be a part of our waiting for the unknown promises of God.
Gathering together to celebrate our God is a part of and should be a part of the life of a believer, not in a ritualistic sense, but that of the daily breadth of our spiritual life.
The three main celebrations were,
Passover, Pentecost, and Atonement.
Feast of Weeks The second of the three annual festivals was Pentecost, also called the feast of weeks (Exod.
34:22; Deut.
16:10, 16; 2 Chron.
8:13), the feast of harvest (Exod.
23:16), and the day of firstfruits (Num.
28:26; cp.
Exod.
23:16; 34:22; Lev.
23:17).
It was celebrated seven complete weeks, or 50 days, after Passover (Lev.
23:15–16; Deut.
16:9); therefore, it was given the name Pentecost.
Essentially a harvest celebration, the term “weeks” was used of the period of grain harvest from the barley harvest to the wheat harvest, a period of about seven weeks.
At this time the Lord was credited as the source of rain and fertility (Jer.
5:24).
It was called “day of firstfruits” (Num.
28:26) because it marked the beginning of the time in which people were to bring offerings of firstfruits.
It was celebrated as a sabbath with rest from ordinary labors and the calling of a holy convocation (Lev.
23:21; Num.
28:26).
It was a feast of joy and thanksgiving for the completion of the harvest season.
The able-bodied men were to be present at the sanctuary, and a special sacrifice was offered (Lev.
23:15–22; Num.
28:26–31).
According to Lev. 23:10–11, 16–17, two large loaves were waved before the Lord by the anointed priests.
These were made of fine flour from the new wheat and baked with leaven.
They were a “wave offering” for the people.
They could not be eaten until after this ceremony (Lev.
23:14; Josh.
5:10–11), and none of this bread was placed on the altar because of the leaven content.
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