Sa and good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to each of you both here and online. We're glad you're here. And we come to a brand new series right here is it. So that's the question we're asking. We seem to do a lot of reconsidering around here. Question the assumptions. It's almost the motto of our ministry. And so we are. Excuse me, I've got double things planned here for those of you online. I'll fix that. And there now there's only one of me. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? But anyway, we look today, we begin today to look at the Holy Spirit's ministry. And what we are going to do, as you can see from the subheading, is to reconsider the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We are not going to go into the person of the Holy Spirit. We're not going to go into trinitarian doctrine. But what we are going to go into is that which is commonly held to be the ministry of the Holy Spirit today in the dispensation of the grace of God. I would even say that which is considered to be normative in most circles, most evangelical circles, most dispensational circles. And I'm going to go through and we're going to spend some time on each one of them and do what we ought to do. And that is good. Be good bereans. Now let me go ahead and tell you, especially if you come from an evangelical standard evangelical background. Buckle up buttercup, because I can get you to agree that we should be good Bereans. We should look into the scriptures. We should see that things are so. We should not. I'll even mention in the sermon later today, we should not be taken spoils by the traditions of men. We ought to be people of the book. But when we actually take the book and see whether or not it supports a. A doctrine that is dear to our heart, that's when we might come to the point of saying, hey, wait a minute bald headed preacher, what do you think you're doing? There's no way that this can be. I want us to be honest and go to the scripture and begin to look at all of this. I think that there is a tendency to take most of our doctrine of the Holy Spirit from, from that which belongs to Israel, not to us. And so therefore what I want to do is do what we're supposed to do. Study to show thyself approved a workman who hath no need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Right. So rightly dividing, I take that as what's for Israel, what's for us. So as it relates then to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, what is ours. So we're going to look over the next 12 or 13 weeks or so at the ministry of the Holy Spirit. And I have 12 elements we're going to look at. Now, I have to say there may be some of these that we won't spend an entire session on one, but you know how it is. I always have good intentions of being brief and it's never happened. So who knows, we may end up with 20 sessions, but we will go at it. The 12, they're on your outline. I gave you more of a listening guide. I'm writing the book as I go along rather than printing out all 20 pages of the introduction in chapter one, I summarized it in this matter. So sorry, you have to buy the book later. But nonetheless, here's the 12 things we're going to look at over the next however many weeks. We're going to look at the Spirit's work of regeneration. What does the Spirit do in giving us new birth or new life? We're going to look at the Spirit's work of conviction. The Spirit convicts of sin and of righteousness and the need of judgment. We're going to look at the Spirit's work in guiding and teaching. We're going to look at how the Spirit witnesses to Christ. We're going to see the empowerment of the Spirit, how the Spirit baptizes us into the body. We're going to look at spiritual gifts, the manifestations of the Spirit as seen in the believer. We're going to look at the indwelling of the the Holy Spirit. I suspect that if you were to take a poll and just say, what is the most significant thing about the Holy Spirit's work in our dispensation today? Probably the wording might be different, but it would be something like the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit came and went, but in the New Testament, he lives within us. He's with us all the time. He never leaves us. And so we're going to look at the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and see what the Bible says about it. Because we already know what the preacher says about it. Right? So what does the Bible say about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit? The intercession of the Spirit? He intercedes for the saints. Well, look at that. The sealing of the Spirit. Ephesians, chapter one. You have been Sealed in the Spirit, the sanctification of the Spirit, how the Spirit makes us holy or sanctified, and then the illumination of the Spirit as we come and open up the Scriptures. You know, we talk often about the doctrine of revelation, inspiration, preservation and illumination, all of the Spirit's work. But in terms of what he's doing today, he's already done the other things. In terms of what he's doing today, we'll talk about the illumination of the Spirit. Now, I would venture to guess, obviously, if you had another preacher, he might pick 12 different things or 14 things, or eight things of this is foundational or comprehensive of the ministry of the Spirit today. But as I. I look through it on the things that the Spirit does, I think these kind of 12 things, pretty much comprehensive of what of the ministry of the Spirit today. So we're going to stop and look at those. Now. The way I'm going to do it is to go just with the order they come up in the New Testament, which is a bit random, I must admit, and a bit haphazard, it almost seems. But I'm doing that on purpose in order to be random and haphazard. That's why I'm doing it. My, my purpose in it is that I don't want us to prioritize one over the other. And I just want us to say, okay, starting here in the past, in the. In the Bible, let's go through and let's pick out the things the Holy Spirit does and let's study those so. So that that order that they're in is. You know, the first thing you see is the regeneration, unless you're born of the Spirit. John chapter three is the first time we really see this thing that the Spirit is going to do. And so we'll look at the regeneration of the Spirit next week. I say next week. There is a slim possibility that I won't get through the introduction today. We shall see. But we might. We want to look. I want to start this introductory session in talking about Acts chapter two and go through Acts chapter two, because again, I think you could go to just about any evangelical church in America today of any brand or denomination, and there would be a strong emphasis on the second chapter of Acts. It's in the second chapter of Acts that the ministry of the Holy Spirit began. Most would probably even associate that with the beginning of the church, the birth of the church in the second chapter of Acts. So I want us to look at the second chapter of Acts where I think there would be probably even in Covenantal theologians, there would be a pretty strong agreement. The second chapter of Acts, the Holy Spirit began to be prominent and began to work as we, they would say, as we know it today. I'm going to question the assumptions, but nonetheless, we'll look at Acts Chapter two. But let me go ahead and bring something up that I brought up. We have a new Thursday night Bible study that I just started. What, three weeks ago was it? And it is on the American church, American Christianity, and how we kind of got to where we are today. Looking back in history, what was the path we took? And so I did a study on Thursday night on the Second Great Awakening I presented then, and I want to go ahead and add here now, because it's relevant that I am suspicious. At least I don't know that I would say I'm confident because I haven't turned over enough rocks to make sure. But I am suspicious that our American doctrine of the Holy Spirit was invented in the Second Great Awakening. That prior to the Second Great Awakening, there was a very different view of the Holy Spirit. For example, let me say that before the Second Great Awakening, at least in the United States, there was very little of what today we would call charismatic theology. But beginning with the Second Great Awakening, charismatic theology began to grow by leaps and bounds. The modern charismatic theology, as we know, is probably later than that, 100 years later than that, in the early 1900s, rather than the early 1800s. But all of its roots were in the 1800s. In fact, every now and then you maybe get on YouTube or something and you see some outbreak of holy laughter, as they might call it, and you would raise your eyebrows like Dr. Payne did, and say, hmm, an outbreak of holy laughter. I don't know about that. And you would watch the video and you would see, oh, you know, here it is in. There was one down in Florida not too many years ago. I can't remember where it was. It might have been after the 2016 election. It was. It's probably 25 years old now or so. There's this church that broke into Holy Laughter. It was a charismatic church, and Holy Laughter is a charismatic movement or, you know, whatever. But these things I'm going to say were unheard of until the Second Great Awakening. Emotionalism came into the church in the Second Great Awakening. And with that, I think there again, I would suspect that of these things, the thing that we think the Holy Spirit does today, probably we should be suspicious, was that actually invented in the Second Great Awakening. I know preachers aren't supposed to say this Luke is keeping a list of how many times I say that. What are we at, 200 in six weeks? I know you're supposed to praise, you know, what a wonderful work of God, this great revival that swept across America. But I think it was a work of emotionalism, man made high pressure, salesmanship within the church and no doubt some good certainly surely came from it. But a lot of bad came from it. And I think a lot of bad Holy Spirit doctrine came from it. Even the convicting work of the Spirit became very emotional and high pressure. So there we go, that's what we're going to look at. You can later do the work and see if you're able somehow to prove that Christian writing prior to the second Great Awakening, when it wrote about the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, was very different than Christian writing after. So let's take a look at that and see what we've got now. But again, let's go to the second chapter of Acts. And in the second chapter of Acts, I think I've got the scripture up here and we will just walk through a little bit on what happens. Of course, the evangelical position I've got there, the evangelical position is that the work of the Holy Spirit as we know it began in the second chapter of Acts. I think the position would be that the work of the Holy Spirit began in Acts Chapter two and has always been the same since. I want to go ahead and propose the idea that though that's what evangelicalism says, they're not consistent with it. Here's where they're not consistent with it. The work of the Spirit began in Acts chapter two. Oh, what does the Spirit do? He convicts of sin and righteousness and of judgment. How do you know? Because that's what it says in the Gospel of John. When would the Gospel of John or when was that said before Acts Chapter two? So if everything changed with the work of the Spirit in Acts Chapter two, why are you building this on something that was before Acts Chapter two? So I think they're not consistent. Secondly, not only do they choose a lot of things that are before, but there are a lot of other things I think we'll even see in Acts chapter 2. For non charismatic evangelical churches, we don't want Acts 2 to happen. That would be weird. That would be charismatic, wouldn't it? If Acts Chapter two happened? The things in Acts Chapter two, I would venture to say we don't allow to happen. We don't speak in tongues. Even Acts Chapter two, where I think the speaking of tongues there is Speaking other languages. I think it's fairly clear there's a different kind of speaking in tongues we'll look at later in Paul's Letter to the Corinthians. But Acts chapter two is very much. They're speaking, and maybe it's even a miracle of hearing in a different language. Well, why do we send our missionaries to language school instead of praying that they would receive the gift of the Spirit? Because we don't believe that happens anymore. That's one of the first things that happened. Of course, they begin speaking other tongues. And a number of things that we'll look at that maybe virtually everything that the Holy Spirit did in Acts Chapter two, we don't want them to do today. How many of you. You're the singer. Do y'all sing in your circles? Lord, send the old time power, the Pentecostal power. You don't sing that well. It's good. You shouldn't because you don't want him to. I would guess in your lofty and beautiful church in Tennessee, if a charismatic revival broke out, there would be a meeting. Wait a minute. What's going on here? I don't know about your denominational setting, but certainly in mine, at least in years past. No, no, no. We didn't even allow guitars, you know, in the 70s, so certainly not that which is charismatic. But we would sing Lord, send the old time power, that Pentecostal power that sinners be converted and thy name glorified. We. We sing that, but we don't really want Pentecostal power again. What I want us to do is we look through Acts chapter two is see. Oh, wait a minute. We don't take that. And we don't take that. And we don't take that. And we don't take that. But that's Acts chapter two. But yeah, that's where we started. That's where the ministry of the Holy Spirit started, as it is today. So there's an inconsistency that is there that we need to consider. Now let's start. Actually, let's start in Acts chapter one just to get a little background. Acts chapter one, verse. Well, we'll just start in verse three. Acts one. Three. Well, he's. Yeah, three. To whom also? The disciples. To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them. 40 days. Speaking of them. Things pertaining to the kingdom of God being assembled together with them, commanded that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father. Excuse me. The promise of the Father. Now, I think you would agree with me that if I could highlight it. The promise of the Father, which saith he, you have heard from me. The promise of the Father is a. Is the gift of the Spirit. He's going to. In fact, it goes on to say the promise of the Father, which saith he, ye have heard from me. For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Not many days hints. I'm going to go ahead and highlight that too, and back up a little bit and say, I think the yellow things are the same thing. The promise of the Father was the same promise that was voiced of John the Baptist, and that is that you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. And Jesus here says, it's not going to be long. In fact, it's so short of a time that you should not depart from Jerusalem. Don't leave town. This is coming and the promise of the Father is going to be fulfilled. So we have there this expectation of what is going to happen from there. They wait around Jesus. By the time the chapter ends, Jesus has ascended into heaven. And then in Acts, chapter two, they're still in Jerusalem. And the day of Pentecost was fully come. And they were all in one accord in one place. They were all with one accord in one place. Now that they were under expectation, I don't know that they knew that it was going to happen on the day of Pentecost, but they had a great expectation. The promise of the Father to be baptized with the Holy Ghost is going to come sometime soon. So they stay close, they stick around. They're here, you know when something exciting is going on, but you don't know exactly when it's going to happen, or something ominous for that matter. You gather, you hang around. I think if I was crazy enough to say, you know, I think the Lord is coming very, very soon, probably within the six, seven days. He's coming very soon. I wouldn't be surprised if one of you. Well, first of all, I'd be very surprised if you all didn't say, take another vacation. But if you were predisposed to believe that, and the congregation believed the Lord is coming. Second coming, five, six, seven days. I'm not sure one of you would say, hey, you know, can we just hang out here at the church? Let's, let's, let's eat our meals together. Let's fellowship together. Let's, you know, we'll go out and do some witnessing during the day, but we want to be together and we want to be here at the church. This is what we want. So that's kind of the Spirit that they had. So Pentecost was come. They were all with one accord, in one place, expecting but not knowing when it's going to happen. And what happened, happened. Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind. Now, it probably doesn't take much convincing to remind you that spirit, breath, wind are all the same concept in the scripture. So this sounds from heaven of a rushing, mighty wind is the sound of the Spirit moving in. And furthermore, it filled all the house where they were sitting. Now, the wind didn't fill the house, the sound of the wind filled the house. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues as of fire and sat on each of them. So, you know, it's kind of hard to picture or hard to imagine. When I was selecting the artwork from stock photos on, you know, the what. What we were. What was going to depict this, and I chose. I had to cut it off here on the. On this graphic. But I chose the dove, the flame, these cloven tongues. And it's hard to picture the sound of a mighty rushing wind, but you've got that and these tongues come in. What I was trying to say is when I selected that photo, there were some pictures of a group of people with cloven tongues of fire sitting upon them. And they all looked silly. Every one of those pictures like that looks silly. I think this is probably beyond how we can picture this, but nonetheless, I think even in the Old Testament and into the Gospels, not only wind, but fire, you think of the burning bush, you think of the pillar of fire. Those may represent the Lord more than the Spirit, but who knows there? And, you know, John even comes, he's probably speaking a little differently. But John says, you'll be, you know, I baptize you with water, he'll baptize you with fire. Some of these things that come, so you've got the wind, you've got the fire, and it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. The very first thing that happens, began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Once again, let me say for non charismatic evangelicals, we don't go there. We don't want your word of prophecy or your utterance from the Spirit. We would say, you know, we're people of the book, we're going to see what God has already said in his scripture. So the very first thing that the Spirit does in the ministry of the Spirit, in what most people would call many People at least would call the beginning of the dispensation of the grace of God is something that we don't allow, that we don't do. So here they had this charismatic experience. They were filled with the Holy Ghost. They began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. I suspect there's a. Obviously there's a lot compressed into there. If I were able to invite Luke to come in and give a. Maybe the Taos Prophecy Conference this fall, if we could get Luke and say, hey, Luke, what more do you know about that? He could probably spend the weekend telling us more about Acts Chapter two, right? I'm having a hard time. I can't find his address, his email address or anything, a way to contact him. But otherwise I would give the invitation. But a lot in there. How long was this? Whatever. But the thing that is seen so far is they are speaking in utter. In other tongues here. I suppose you could bring about that heavenly language, but we're going to see in a moment it's going to be qualified just a little bit to what kind of other tongues these are. And so here they are. This supernatural thing is happening now. We see the response to that. That let me just say so far, at the day of Pentecost, in the upper room, that's all that happened. That's all that we know that happened. It appears to be this promise of the Father is now fulfilled. In verses 5 through 13. We see the immediate aftermath. So there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven. I kind of think that we know that Jews had been scattered the Diaspora that goes back several hundred years prior to this time. But they would still come back to Jerusalem to celebrate the major feasts, like the Feast of Pentecost. They were Jews. They were devout out of every nation under heaven. You know, just like Jews today. Jews in the United States speak English. Jews in Russia speak Russian. Jews in Poland speak Polish, you know, so this was the case. They're coming to Jerusalem, but they speak all these other languages now. When it was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language. Again, I would love to know how is it noised abroad? What happened? You've got in a closed room the sound of a mighty rushing wind. Cloven tongues of fire. They began to speak. Best I can assume is they left the room and they began to tell what happened. And as they began to tell, every man heard them speak in his own language. Probably they told, hey, you Know the promise of the Father? Well, of course we know the promise of the Father. You know, I will give a new spirit on you. I will. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. Yeah, we know the promise of the Father. Well, just a few days ago, there was this guy that told us, don't leave Jerusalem. His name was Jesus. He had been crucified, buried, risen again. He said, don't leave. It's about to happen. We were in that room, guess what? It happened. And one is speaking Polish and the other is hearing in Russian. Fill in your own blank there on the language. So pretty amazing what happened. They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? How hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born? And it goes through, and it speaks of many of these places and nations that were given that we don't need to look at. By the way, before I run off strangers of Rome, that word stranger is diaspora. Those scattered to Rome, Jews and proselytes. A proselyte is somebody who has become a Jew. So their religion is Jewish. So we got all Jews here, goes on cretes, Arabians. We do hear them speak in our tongues, the wonderful works of God. Okay? They seem to know the spirit has given them utterance of the wondrous works of God. I think if that happened here today, it would cause a stir. You know, we would go out from here. We might even skip potluck lunch. I'm not sure we would go out from here. We would begin telling everybody and we would have a big window. Wednesday night crowd. If we got the word out, everybody would want to be here on Wednesday night. Steve, make a little extra chilly because they're coming. And then if we had utterance of the wondrous works of God, obviously this is going to be a huge thing. And it was a huge thing. So they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying to one another, what meaneth this? In doubt doesn't mean they doubted it happened. It meant, what's going on? They want to know more. What meaneth this? And then others mocking, said, these men are full of new wine, and you know, they must be drunk. Now, that's the immediate aftermath. Again, let me say, what's going on here is not a normative experience for the church today. So if we want to argue this is where we began, we also better have a very, very good argument as to why we're not where we began. I hear people sometimes say, you know, let's get back to the New Testament faith the way it was done in the New Testament. But they don't want to do this. Let's not get back that far. So I think there's an inconsistency that we need to look at. So Beginning in verse 14, Peter gives an explanation of what's happening. Well, that's interesting to look at. And what Peter says, standing with the 11, lifted his voice and said unto them, ye men of Judea and all, all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words. These men are not drunken as ye suppose, saying it's but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, okay? He says, this is the promise of the Father. This is what God promised us. Has just happened. And then he quotes from Joel, it shall come to pass in the last days, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. I think somewhere it hadn't been too long ago, but I don't remember, I said I had a little session. I think it was a Sunday school session, but who knows? They all kind of run together, don't they? A session that said, basically, I'm not charismatic because I don't believe we're in the last days. If we were in the last days, I'd need to be charismatic because in the last days my spirit will be poured out. Now, my position was the last days started, the last days got put on hold. The last days are going to come again. We might be in the last days of the non last days. We might be in the last days of the parenthetical period, right before the last days start again. And then all this charismatic stuff's going to happen again. So Peter, again, he mentions this passage From Joel, chapter 2, verse 28. Your sons and daughter will prophesy. Young men will see visions on servants and handmaids. I'll pour out in those days of my spirit. And they shall prophesy well, as the Spirit gives them utterance, they're able to prophesy. It's exactly what is happening. And Peter, having heard you're going to get the promise of the Holy Ghost, not many days hence, explains what happened. We got the promise of the Holy Ghost. That is what happened. And it goes on in Joel. Speaking of, what further happens in the last days? In the day of the Lord, the sun will be turned to darkness, the moon to blood. And he continues. Then Peter comes in verse 22, and he's explained up to 21, he's explained what happened this is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy. And then he gives his sermon, his address to the nation. And his address is, ye men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves know him being delivered by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by wicked hands, have crucified and slain whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should beholden of it. Now, I'm going to stop right there and we won't go into the detail on it, but what Peter says is, we were expecting a messiah. God sent the Messiah, we put him to death. Actually, Peter doesn't use the. The cop out we. He says, you, you put him to death. And I, Luca, you can help me to break the habit of using the cop out we. Because often I say things like, you know, we believe the church started in Acts chapter two. And then I have to say, well, not we, but, you know, we, they. They kind of we. So let's call it the cop out we when we really mean you. But we're too scared to point and say, you, Peter's not scared. He stands up with great strength and says, you put him to death. And so God sent the Messiah, you put him to death. He performed all these miracles proving who he was, and you put him to death. But God raised him from the dead. It's always bad if you murder someone and they come back alive because then they can testify against you, Right? So here it is, whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should beholden of it. He goes into more psalms, speaking of trying to convince them. Look, this shouldn't be a surprise. Actually, it was prophesied as well that he was going to be raised from the dead. My flesh shall rest in, because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Neither will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou has made me to know the ways of life. Thou shalt make me full. So he uses that psalm passage to convince them, hey, this is exactly what it was that God said he was going to do. Verse 29. Peter comes back and says, men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David that he's dead and buried. His sepulcher is with us today. That was not about David being raised from the dead. It is about Jesus, that he would raise up Christ to Sit upon his throne and come down to verse 32. Having built a biblical basis. Then he says, this Jesus hath God raised up whereof we all are witnesses, therefore being by the right hand of God exalted where Jesus is today, having received the Father, received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear. Okay, Jesus at the right hand of the Father, Jesus took upon himself or was given, I don't know, let's say the domain of the promise of the Father, which is to pour out the Spirit. And Jesus in this sense can determine when the Spirit gets poured out. Jesus has now done it. So having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which you now see in here. That is, he gave us the promise of the Spirit. He fulfilled Joel chapter two. I might say he has begun the fulfillment process. Even as you look at what Peter said in Joel, this is a progressive kind of thing. I don't think Peter, who said. Who clearly said this is that which was spoken of the prophet Joel. But at that point, the Holy Spirit had only been poured out on at most 120 people. And Joel says, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. I don't think even Peter could argue. 120 people is all flesh. So Peter is saying, this has begun. He is beginning to pour it out, just like his wrath is going to be poured out. And we know his wrath is going to be poured out over a period of seven years. So the Spirit is beginning to be poured out. This promise God hath given to Christ, and Christ now hath shed it for. And this is what you now see and hear. You see and Hear Joel, chapter 2, verse 28. And he goes back into the Scripture again into the Psalms, and he comes to the conclusion in verse 36. Therefore, let all the house of Israel know that's who he's talking about, Ye men of Israel, let all the house of Israel know why, because this was a promise for Israel. This Holy Ghost promise was a promise for Israel. So let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ. Now that's his sermon. I wish someday. I guess this would take a little. A little practice, a little thinking through, but maybe someday we will recreate and dramatize Acts chapter two. That would be fun, wouldn't it? And especially the part I want to do. I want to play Peter, okay? I call Peter because I want to give that, that Acts 2 sermon where Peter is strong as goat's breath. Is that what you say in Tennessee? No, you don't know that one. You don't have goats in Tennessee or what? Go smell their breath next time you see one. But Peter comes with this sermon. And I can just imagine this part right here. Let me back up right here. As he has looked at them and said, God sent our Messiah. You put him to death. He proved everything there was that he was the Messiah. You killed him. God came down, raised him from the dead. He's now at the right hand of the Father and pouring out the Holy Spirit upon us. And he is Lord and Christ. I rest my case. And he was done right there. Just boom. His sermon stopped. That's how I envision it. And there was an awkward moment of silence until when they heard this, they were pricked in the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, what shall we do? What do we do? Now, beginning in verse 37 is the crowd's response once. So, hey, if this is the case, and obviously they believed it is the case, what do we do? Peter said, there it is. Repent and be baptized. That's what I want you to do. Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins. And. Yeah. Shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Now, a lot more in there, obviously, that we could look at that we're not going to get into, but we should. It would be fun to get into it. But that's what he told them. I want you to repent. I want you to be baptized. And ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Why, he's pouring it out. God has started. He is pouring it out. For the promise is unto you and unto your children and all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God, shall call again. I'd love to speak more on that, but we won't. But it does display. Hey, what God has started now is progressive. It's going to grow. And so with many other words, he did testify and exhort, saying, save yourselves. And a lot of them did. There were 3,000 souls now you have a new assembly here, no doubt about it. They continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and in fellowship and the breaking of bread and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. No surprise there. You got the power of the Holy Ghost upon them. And Jesus had clearly predicted that as well. And all that believed were together and had all things in common. That's yet another thing in Acts chapter two that we're not going to try, right, to have all things in common. You know, it's talking about sold their possessions, their goods, parted them to all men. As every man had need. Why? Because this is the last days. What need is there for long term investments if the kingdom is about to come? So, you know, sell it. As every man had need, they continued daily with one accord in the temple. This is now. It's not the beginning of the church, the body of Christ, it's the beginning of a Jewish sect. This is a group of Jews who believe that Jesus is their Messiah. They have the power of the Holy Ghost and they are living together in the temple and breaking bread from house to house and praising God, having favor with all the people and the Lord. Added to that assembly is the word for church there daily such as should be saved. So that is once again given as foundational to the work of the Holy Spirit. Today. This is when it all started. I want to question something definitely started here. This group of Jewish believers, often called the little flock because Jesus said, hey, little flock to whom the kingdom will be given. So here's this little flock to whom the kingdom is going to be given. The last days ministry of the Spirit is beginning upon them. Now the question we will ask is, is that ministry carried on to us or is that an exclusively Jewish ministry as it was here? So then as we take those 12 things, we're going to have to look and say, is that part of the promise of the Father that's given to the nation of Israel and is not part of the Holy Spirit's ministry today? I told Luca yesterday we might lose all of our audience in our donor base because we don't like to say some of these things that we think the Spirit is doing. He's not really doing it. That you can bring some scriptures forth for it, but they're not scriptures that you would directly apply to us. Now some of them on that list he is really doing and we'll look at those and we're going to try to decipher that out. What really is the Holy Spirit doing today in the minute? Ministry of the Spirit. Okay, out of time and let me lead us in a quick word of prayer and we'll be dismissed. Heavenly Father, thank you for the beginnings of a study. We pray that all of it is honorable, glorifying and that we are good bereans and we interpret the scriptures correctly. We rightly divide the word of truth. We handle these in such a way that does help us to understand the ministry of the Spirit, which no doubt we are a part of in several ways. And yet we want to understand it. So that we don't misunderstand our very Christian life, we ask this in Jesus name, amen. Well, we're going to take a little bit of a break and start our worship service here in a few minutes. And those of you online, it'll be a new broadcast and we shall see you soon. God bless everybody.