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THE DAY OF PENTECOST
• Pentecost means 50
• 50 days after Passover
• Offering of first fruits to God
• 50 days after 1st Passover Moses receives
the Law
• Remembering the giving of the Law
POPULAR TEACHING
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Birthday of the church
Reversal of Babel
First fruits of the work of Jesus
External law replaced by internal Spirit
Church baptised once and for all in the Spirit
Acts 2 for all Jewish Christians
Acts 8 for all half Jews
Acts 10 for all Gentiles
WHAT I BELIEVE
• 1st time the Spirit is given in fullness
• 1st time is unique, but event is repeatable
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UNIQUE FEATURES
Sound like the wind
Tongues of fire
All Spirit-given languages understood
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No hint those baptised in Spirit were representative
groups
Cornelius not the first Gentile Christian-Ethiopian eunuch
was
WHAT I BELIEVE
• Acts 19 Ephesian disciples don’t fit this view
• Acts emphasises individual receiving of the Spirit
• OT says all people will receive, not small representative
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groups
John Baptist says Jesus will baptise in the Spirit all who
come to Him
John Apostle in John 737/39 talks of anyone who is
thirsty, anyone who believes
Peter says the promise of the Spirit is for you, your
children and those who are afar off
Paul says all his readers have been baptised in the Spirit
WHAT I BELIEVE
• Pentecost begins the fulfilment of the
promise of the Spirit for all who are the
Lord’s children
• This promise is for you
• Have you realised this?
• Have you asked the Lord to fill you with
the Spirit?