Through the Holy SpiritActs 2:1-21

ENCOUNTERING JESUS

From One to Many

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Gen. 11:1-2, 8-9, NIVBA

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Moon Turns to BloodAnd afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord calls.

Joel 2:28-32, NIV

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Receive the Holy Spirit

Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

John 20:21-22, NIV

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Wait for the GIFT

On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 1:4-8, NIVBA

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Coming of the Spirit

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Acts 2:1-4, NIV

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The Bible Series - Day of Pentecost

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Many Languages, One MessageNow there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t a l l these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each

of us hears them in our native language?

—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own t o n g u e s ! ” A m a z e d a n d perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

Acts 2:5-8, 11b-12, NIV

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This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel

Acts 2:16, NIV

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• Pour out My Spirit on My servants (men & women)

‣ Sons and daughters prophesy

‣ Old men dream dreams‣ Young men see visions

• Wonders in the heavens and on earth

‣ Blood, fire and billows of smoke

‣ Sun turned to darkness‣ Moon turned to blood

• Everyone who calls on the Lord is saved

‣ Deliverance in Jerusalem

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Pentecost

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