Acts 2:14-21\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: \u201cFellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.\u00a015\u00a0These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It\u2019s only nine in the morning!\u00a016\u00a0No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17\u00a0\u201c\u2018In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.\u00a0 Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.\u00a0 18\u00a0Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.\u00a0 19\u00a0I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 20\u00a0The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.\u00a0<\/i>21\u00a0And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord\u00a0will be saved.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201c<\/span>Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0Peter addressed the crowd but they all stood.\u00a0 They were all united in Christ and empowered and emboldened by the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Before the resurrection that had scattered and run off from the evil that was happening.\u00a0 But that day they stood together, unafraid and itching to proclaim that they are unashamedly the disciples of Christ.\u00a0 They all stood together.\u00a0 They stood, fresh in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, with Him flowing through them and they did not fear mankind.\u00a0 Not this time!\u00a0 Not ever again.\u00a0 Brothers standing together to dare to declare to the world the \u201cwonders of God<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 It is how Jesus means us to stand, in love, together, a witness to the world that the love of Christ changes everything (John 13:34-35<\/b>).\u00a0 Lord Jesus, may it be so!<\/p>\n \u201cFellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.\u00a015\u00a0These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It\u2019s only nine in the morning!\u00a0<\/i>In the crowd were both those who were genuinely intrigued and wondering what was the meaning of this supernatural event, and also there were the scoffers.\u00a0 The first thing that Peter did was address the slander of the scoffers.\u00a0 It is easy to suspect that he addressed the remarks of the scoffers first that he might help the genuine seekers to begin to understand.<\/p>\n Family, some write that this explosion of the Holy Spirit was a very \u201corderly\u201d event.\u00a0 Does one hundred twenty people talking at the same time in different languages sound orderly as those who stress being orderly would define it?\u00a0 Not likely!\u00a0 It was organized chaos!\u00a0 The crowd could hear their own language, but there was also a roar of disciples loudly speaking out, maybe shouting, likely shouting, the wonders of God in all the languages of those present.\u00a0 Orderly church service?\u00a0 Hardly!\u00a0 Family, think to when you are in the presence of God in the Spirit, when He is filling you with love and healing.\u00a0 When God moves upon us and we, like King David, tend to shout with joy (Psalm 6:14-15<\/b>)! \u00a0It is a sure thing that skeptics could have accused them of being drunk!\u00a0 We shout our love and praise to God!\u00a0 We laugh, we dance, we cry, we are overwhelmed when the mighty hand of God touches us.\u00a0 Family, those who teach that when the Holy Spirit explodes on the scene, when He is rushing through our hearts like a mighty roaring river, that we will calmly and politely sit quietly in our seats and in only in our minds or in hushed breaths praise God, well, these teachers have never been overwhelmed by the beautiful, wonderful, loving, joyous and exciting actual touch of God!\u00a0 A smile and a warm heart are awesome, but what happened at Pentecost was at another level.\u00a0 They were baptized by the Holy Spirit, they were immersed, they were soaked by a flood that they could not stop and did not want to stop.\u00a0 They were shouting out the glories of God.\u00a0 King David knew this type of joy.\u00a0 Now some will say that what is being advocated is emotion.\u00a0 That is missing the point.\u00a0 The point is being flooded by the Holy Spirit, overwhelmed by the powerful presence of God.\u00a0 Only those who have never experienced that will object to emotion being clearly on display.\u00a0 Unequivocally let it be stated that no man can experience the presence of God without be overwhelmed (Isaiah 6:5, Job 40:3-5, Revelation 1:17, Leviticus 9:24<\/b>).\u00a0 Can we be overwhelmed without emotion?\u00a0 Besides, God had ordained this time, this day, this event for men and women to joyously express the wonders of God, the wonders of His love, the wonders of the Gospel to all who would hear.\u00a0 And this was not a one-time event!\u00a0 God has likewise ordained His disciples alive today, us, to experience and do the same.\u00a0 This was the start of the church bringing the Gospel to the world.\u00a0 Family, let us tell the Gospel to all who will listen.\u00a0 Let is do it in joy and exuberance (Nehemiah 8:10, Psalm 20:5, Psalm 27:6, Psalm 95:1, Luke 10:21, 1 Thessalonians 2:19<\/b>)\u00a0<\/b>.\u00a0 Let us have a Pentecost experience every morning to start our day.\u00a0 Family, every morning and throughout every day, let us seek the presence of God and desire that the power and wonder of the Holy Spirit flow through us to reach a lost world.\u00a0 We owe it to God!\u00a0 We owe it to each other!\u00a0 We owe it to the world!\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 Oh yes, praise God!\u00a0 Praise God! Praise God!\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0\u00a0Psalm 126:1<\/b>\u00a0\u201cOur mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs\u00a0of\u00a0joy.\u00a0Then it was said among\u00a0the\u00a0nations, \u201cTheLord\u00a0has done great things for\u00a0them.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Praise the name of the Lord!<\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acts 2:14-21\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: \u201cFellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.\u00a015\u00a0These people are not drunk, as you suppose. 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