May 9, 2025 • 36 mins
There is a Pentecostal Disturbance that birthed the Church on the Day of Pentecost that is yet turning the world of darkness upside down by the power of Light that is now in the world.
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Great is your faithfulness, Oh Lord, Great is your mercy,
Great is your grace unto us. Father, again, we are
thankful for this day that you have allowed us to see,
and we pray that your blessings will be upon us,
your peace, your love, your kindness. Lord, that you promise
to amen be with us in all that you are.
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And Lord, we are looking to you now as the
author and the finisher of our faith. O. Lord, sin
forth your word with power and the annointing that someone
somewhere hear the voice of the Savior and come to
know that you are the True and the Living God,
and there is none like you in all the earth. God,
be glorified, be magnified. In Jesus's name, We pray and
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give thanks. Amen and Amen. We welcome you once again
to this an the edition of End the Time Revival
Ministry US, a podcast. For those of you who listen
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today we are again, as always grateful to the Lord
for another Amen, opportunity to amen. Speak forth the truth
of God with boldness, clarity, with plainness of speech. Amen.
This is a man though, calling that God is placed
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upon us, and we want to be faithful, found faithful,
a man doing this unto death or until Jesus comes
back for his church. Amen. And so again this series,
for those of you who've been following along with us,
we're in a series on God, government, Church and state.
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God government, Church and State. And this particular series now
takes us into the New Testament. And also now as
we're going to as we're going to see today the
beginning of the persecution of the Church, as Jesus Christ
has finished, is earthly ministry ascended up into heaven, and
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he will as we're going to see today, by the way,
if you have your Bibles, we're going to be in
the of the acts of the apostles a man. We're
going to see how Jesus empowers a man his apostles,
a man to go forth and to continue in the
ministry in the mission a man that he a man
commissioned them for. And so we're going to also see
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that a man. There is something that is absolutely essential
for the church to be equipped with, and that is
the power of the Holy Spirit. Can't do it without
the power of the Holy Spirit. And so today I
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will focus is kind of Pentecostal disturbance. Pentecostal disturbance is
what we're going to A man entitle our a man
podcasts on today. Pentecostal disturbance. Far more than any other
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event in all of the history of our existence, the
world's existence, it was the coming of Jesus Christ into
the world, a man that radically disrupted this world's darkness,
the rulers of this world of darkness. It was the
blind leading the blind further into the darkness. And just
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a few short years before this day of pentecost that
we're going to look at the Pentecostal disturbance. But just
a few short years before this day of Pentecosts would
come Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed One, the
promised One, the one who was prophesied of in the scriptures.
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A man he seen as it were, a man, and
a man began his earthly ministry. And it was a
ministry that was ordained of Heaven, ordained of God. It
was a divine ministry. It was not of man by man, amen,
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it was of God, Amen, of the power of this
Holy Spirit. Ordained of old, and this divine ministry that
Jesus came to do a man. It worked and astonishing
upheaval upon a radically corrupt tradition of men religion. That
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was a man again, the blind leading the blind, as Jesus. Amen. Again,
as we've already pointed out, he did not shy away
at all from confronting these religious hypocrites, these leaders, these
rulers of the people, who had caused the people to error.
Jesus didn't shy away from it at all. Amen. These
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were people, as Jesus said in essence, quoting from the
Book of Isaiah, these people honor me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me, in vain. They
worshiped me, a man keeping the tradition of men, honoring
more than the word of God, the tradition of men.
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And so you had a world that was living in darkness,
mired in darkness, Amen, completely blinded from the truth, a
man primarily by a man again religion and corrupt rulers
of darkness. Matthew four sixteen tells us the people who
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sat in darkness again another fulfillment of the prophet Isaiah. Amen,
the people who sat in darkness, have seen a great light.
And upon those who sat in the region and shadow
of death, light has dawned, Light has sprung. Light has come.
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And that's what Jesus said of himself in one of
the im statements, I am the light of the world. Amen.
And he came that we might have light, Amen, so
that we could see, so that our eyes could be open,
so that the scales would fall from our eyes. And
before his death by betrayal and murder, his burial in
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the tomb, and his resurrection from the dead, Jesus had
already prepared his apostles for the persecution and the troubles
that were ahead of them. Jesus taught them we covered
this in our last session. He told them, you will
be hated, you will be rejected, you will be ridiculed.
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Some of you are going to be put out of
the synagogue, as it were. In other words, you're going
to be expelled, harassed, persecuted, and even some of you
will be executed. You're going to be killed, seame of
Jesus Christ. And also he taught them that they were
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going to be like lambs in the midst of wolves.
They were to be harmless, as doves, but have the
same kind of boldness and tenacity that Jesus had. Amen, Now,
who is it that would do this? Who is it
that would perform this kind of harassment and hatred and
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stir up all of this animosity toward a man. The
followers of Jesus Christ, ordinary men, plain, old, ordinary galileans. Amen,
is who they were. It would not be the common
everyday man who would be threatened by the preaching of
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the Gospel. No, no, No, ladies and gentlemen, it would
be and it is still to this day, the powers
that be, government leaders who stir up people, who stir
up opposition against the Kingdom of God, against the rule
of God. Amen. In world history has clearly demonstrated this Amen,
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that the governments of this world have been hostile to
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom of God,
to the Kingdom of Heaven, like no other entity on
this earth, the hostility toward the name of Jesus especially. Oh,
we've got religion in this world. We've got plenty of
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religion in this world. But we're not talking about religion,
ladies and gentlemen. We're talking about the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Truth of God, the Church of the Living God.
It faces more hostility. It has faced, and it will
continue to, by the way, be despised and rejected by again,
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particularly governments of this world. And by the way, Jesus
knew this, He designed it this way as a matter
of fact, and again he prepared us for this very thing.
We don't need state religion. We don't need the government
to embrace us, to adopt us, and to a man
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a support us. What we need is a man, the
power of God, the authority that God has given us,
the boldness, a man to go forth, a man with amen,
everything that God has already equipped us with. That's all
we need. Amen. And so again, when we look throughout history,
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we clearly can see that it has been government leaders
a man who have been hostile to the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.
They don't want the rule of God. They hate the
rule of God. Some number two. We've referred to it often. However,
again we must never forget the words of Jesus Christ himself,
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who said, upon this rock I build my church, and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Though
Jesus again prepared its apostles for the persecution that was
coming towards them a man by ensuring that they would
be fully equipped, not only with the words which he
had already given to them, which he had already spoken
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to them three and a half years they had been
with Jesus. Nevertheless, they needed something else. And that's something else,
of course, is what Jesus had promised would come to them,
that he himself would send to them. And that is,
ladies and gentlemen, the spirit of the Living God, the
same spirit that brooded over the waters in creation, Amen,
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and the same spirit that acted amen when Jesus said,
let there be light, and there was light. Listen what
the Bible teaches a man the Book of the Acts
of the Apostles, chapter number one. I'm going to pick
it up at verse number four, and being assembled together
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with them. That's Jesus with his disciples, with his apostles.
The Bible tells us he commanded them not to depart
from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. Again,
what promise is he referring to, specifically, not his coming
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back forth them a man, but the Holy Spirit, the
Holy Ghost, which would be sent who brother would be
sent to them? The Holy Spirit is a person, a man,
not a thing. He said, Wait for the promise of
the Father, which he said, you have heard from me.
For John truly baptized with water. But you shall be
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baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
Wait before you go out into the world, before you
go on this mission. Remember he had already commissioned them
to go into all the world preach the Gospel a
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man to every creature. He had already prepared them for
what they would do, and he had already, during his
earthly ministry, sent them out on missions to go amen
to the cities and preach and heal, and a man
do these kinds of things that the Church a man
has been empowered to do. John truly baptized with water,
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But you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now. Absolutely essential, absolutely essential, indispensable Amen
the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Bible says verse number six.
When they had come together, they asked him, saying, Lord,
will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel.
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He said to them, it is not for you to
know the times or seasons which the Father has put
in his own authority. But you shall receive power when
the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall
be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Judea and
Samaria to the end of the earth. Oh, sorry, excuse me.
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This is what again is so essential, for this is
what we must have. The Church of Jesus Christ must
have the power of the Holy Spirit, because the mission
of the Church cannot be carried out by anyone who
does not have the baptism. Sorry, excuse me, all of
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a sudden you get to sneak. I believe the enemy
doesn't like the mentioning, the preaching, the teaching about the
power of the Holy Spirit. The mission of the Church again,
cannot be carried out by anyone who does not have
the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that is that is
exclusively given by the power of Jesus, a man sent
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in his name, a man. And of course we must
never forget. While Jesus was here, he operated in the
spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit, and so
must we a man. Remember at his baptism, by the
way you saw how that the Spirit descended upon him
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like a dove. And from that day forward Jesus went
forth in the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
So in chapter two, where we go down the book
of the Acts of the Apostle, we're going to see
the day of Pentecosts arrive and the promised comforter is
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sent by Jesus to his disciples, to those who believed
on him. Look at Acts chapter two, verse number one.
When the day of Pentecost had fully come, Oh, we
got Pentecostal disturbance coming. It's a Pentecostal disturbance. It's going
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to shake up the world. It's going to turn, as
it would be the testimony of someone else later with
the Acts turned the world upside down. They couldn't do it,
ladies and gentlemen, without this. They had to have the
promise of the Father, the power of the Holy ghosts.
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And so the Bible tells us when the day of
Pentecosts had fully come, they were all with one accord
in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from
heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled
the whole house where they were sitting, And there appeared
to them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat
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up on each of them, and they were all and
by the way. There were one hundred and twenty of
them in the Upper room on that day, one of them,
notably being Mary, the Mother of Christ. She herself also
had to be felled with the Holy Spirit a man.
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The Bible says they were all feeled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the
spirit gave them utterance, and of course a man. The noise,
as you can read also in the text, was a
man heard, and people were curious as to what was
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happening there, and those a man who came to see
what was taking place with this noise, a man, this
sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, the
fire of the Holy Ghost, a man resting upon these
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that had been waiting for this promise. Those who came.
Someone spoke and accused them are being drunk. Peter said, no, no, no, no, sir, no, ma'am. Amen,
this is not what you think it is. Amen, this
is that which was a man prophesied of old. The
prophet Joel said, the Lord made the promise Amen, that
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he would pour out of his spirit upon all flesh.
Your sons and daughters are going to prophesie. We are
not drunk as you suppose, it's only the third hour
of the day. It was nine a m. In the morning. Amen.
The Holy Spirit came upon them. Amen. And so Peter
took this occasion to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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to this crowd that had come. Amen. And what we're
going to see, ladies and gentlemen, again, this pentecostal disturbance, Amen,
is birthing the Church of Jesus Christ. Acts Chapter two.
Go down to verse number twenty two. Listen to these
words of of the apostle Peter, as recorded by Luke
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in the Gospel. I'm sorry, in the acts of what
we refer to as the acts of the apostles, some
rather refer to this as the acts of the Holy Spirit. However,
verse twenty two tells us that Peter speaks to the
crowd with these words, Men of Israel, hear these words
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Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you
by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did through him
in your midst, as you yourselves also know him, being
delivered by the determined purpose and fore knowledge of God,
you have taken by lawless hands, the lawless hands by
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the way, not only were the people, but most disturbingly
more so than the people. It was by the government,
the rulers of the people, who stirred up the people.
By the way did the multitudes. The chriwds loved Jesus.
They were following him, most of them a man wanted
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to make him their king. Amen. They didn't want to
see him die. They were enjoying all of the healings
and miracles and signs and wonders, and eating of the
fishes and lows. They wanted Jesus to remain. But the
jealousy of the rulers, the government leaders Amen, their lawless hands, which,
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by the way, on that fateful day said they said,
his blood be upon us and our children. They by
their lawless hands they crucified Jesus, Peter says, and put
him to death, whom God raised up verse twenty four,
having loosed the pains of death. Because it was not possible. Ooooh,
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I love this. It was not possible that he should
be held by it. Why was it not possible? Let
me just pause on that for just a moment. Why
was it not possible for Jesus to be held down
by death? Ladies and gentlemen, because it is appointed for
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sinners to die. Now, true, Jesus, who knew no sin,
became sin. He took on our sin. He became the
violence of sinners. Nevertheless, he himself was sin less. Death
is appointed to those who are sin nursed. Jesus died
the death of a sinner, but yet he himself had
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never sinned. The wages of sin is death. Jesus died
the death that we deserve to die. It was not
possible for death to hold Jesus. As a matter of fact,
it was not even possible for death to take Jesus.
Jesus said, no one takes my life from me. Death
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could not take his life because he was not a sinner.
And because he was not a sinner, he had to
yield himself over. And that's exactly what he did. Father,
into thy hand, I commit my spirit. Again, no one
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took his life. He gave his life. And so it
was not possible amen that the grave that death could
hold Jesus down. So the verse thirty two tells us
Peter said, this Jesus, God has raised up of which
we are all witnesses, therefore being exalted to the right
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hand of God, and having received from the Father of
the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this
which you now see. And here therefore at all the
house of Israel no assuredly that God has made this Jesus,
whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ, of course a man.
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With this preaching of the Gospel, the people were stunned.
They were stunned at what they heard from Peter. And
by the way, I skipped over some of what Peter
had to say a man. There were a lot of
other words that he used in the Old Testament, by
the way, going back a man. And is wonderful how
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that you understand, of course, that the New Testament certainly
has not been written. They are writing it. As all
of this is now about to a man take place.
The writing of the New Testament will take place. But
Peter and the apostles only had the scriptures, the Hebrew scriptures,
the Old Testament scriptures, and in the Old Testament scriptures,
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Jesus Christ is through and through. And so he preached
to them from the Old Testament scriptures about David, Amen,
about Joel a man, about the psalmp what was written
in the Psalms, and all I mean this is, this is,
this is, this is the power of the Word of God.
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A man, God foretold all of these things. He determined
all of these things beforehand. Amen. And Peter, now, with
the power of the Holy Spirit, bringing things to his remembrance,
uses the power of the Word of God, the Old
Testament to preach the Gospel to these who are gathered.
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So now the church is birthed and the church. Amen
is on his way because the Jews now respond positively
to the preaching of the Gospel. Listen what happens verse
thirty seven. The Bible says, when they heard this, when
they heard the preaching of Peter, the Bible tells us
they were cut to the heart, and man, they were
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pricked in their heart and said to Peter and the
rest of the brothers, the brother and the apostles, They said,
men and brethren, what shall we do? What is our recourse?
Is there a remedy? Is there a way of escape
for us? Peter said to them, repent, Oh, yes, and
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let every one of you be baptizing the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy ghosts. For this promise
is to you, it's to your children, is to a
man all who are false, and as many as the
Lord our God shall call, And with many other words,
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the Bible tells us, he testified and exhorted the people, saying,
be saved from this perverse generation. So many of them,
the Bible tells us, heard the word, obeyed the word.
They were baptized, And now the church again is birthed
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and it is blossoming. Go down to verse forty two.
The Bible says. They continued steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine
and fellowship, and in breaking the bread and in prayers.
Fear came upon every soul, many signs, many wonders, in
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other words, the greater works that Jesus said that you
would do that I'm doing. I mean because I'm going
back to heaven, and there are going to be twelve
of you as opposed to one of me. Many wonders
and signs, the Bible says, were done by the apostles,
and all that believed were together had all things coming,
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sold their possession in goods, to parted them to all men,
as every man had need. And they continuing daily on
accord in the temple, breaking bread from house to house.
The Bible tells us they ate their meat with gladness,
singleness of heart, praising God, having favor with all the people,
and the Lord who I love. This added to the
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church daily, such as should be saved. Now with all
of this, ladies and gentlemen, and make nobody's Hell is
not happy. Hell is not happy. Demons are coming back
with no place to go. Amen. They are disturbed. I
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mean there's been an upheaval. The darkness is being dispelled,
the eyes of being opened, Scales are falling from people's eyes.
Religion is being destroyed in their midst the ears of
the people are being attentive to the preaching of the Gospel,
and the Bible said, by the way, three thousand souls Amen,
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on the very first day, by the way, not those
who were being added even more afterwards. But on that
very first day Pentecostal disturbance, about three thousand souls were
added to the church. So now hearts are being converted,
lives are being transformed, and the Church is now a
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force to contend with. Now, please understand that with this
Pentecostal disturbance that took place, a man in that upper
room from that day. For what we're going to see
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throughout the Book of the Acts of the Apostles and
throughout the history of the Church is hostility mostly mostly
ladies and gentlemen. We're going to see, and we're going
to point it out, just as it was in the
Ministry of Jesus. It is going to be the rulers
and the leaders and the government a man of not
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only a man the Jews, but also of the Romans
that will be so hostile to the Church, so hostile
to the preaching of the God. They weren't hostile to
all of these a man idols of the people that
were made up these religions there were, I mean, there
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was a plethora of gods, a plethora of religious beliefs
a man during this a man time of the Roman Empire,
a man. They weren't bothered by it. I mean, everybody
just did their own thing. As a matter of fact,
we're going to see later on ad Ministry of the
Apostle Paul, when he was at Athens waiting for his companions,
a man, he discovered an altar that was inscribed with
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these words to the unknown God in case they missed
a God in case there was a God that they
weren't aware of. They didn't want to offend any of
the gods. So there was I mean, there was a
plethora of religion throughout all of the world at that time.
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And so now here comes the Church and it is
now a force to be reckoned with. And so from
this point forward, ladies and gentlemen, after the birth of
the Church, well we're going to be examining here. We've
already seen it throughout the history of the Church, Church history. Amen. Again,
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total and complete hostility a man toward the Church. Because
the princes of this world they loved their power, they
love their authority, and they love for people to be
in bondage, their eyes to be close. Amen. They don't
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want freedom, they don't want liberty. They want people shackled
in change, in darkness, in bondage. Amen, so that they
can again control them, Amen, manipulate them. No, no, no.
What the Gospel does is open the eyes of the blind,
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It opens the ears of the death. Amen. It changes
the heart. And no no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Government leaders do not like opposition. They prefer the status
quo and change. Any change that happens it must be
controlled by them. Amen. It must be regulated by the
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rulers of this world. This is why you know anything,
anything that happens in our world, even in this free
nation civilization supposedly that we're now living in America, the
United States of America. The government must regulate. The government
must control. The government must ensure that there is nothing
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that rises up that is too powerful for them to control,
to regulate. And so it was with the Church. It
will be opposed by government primarily. Amen. And so this
is why the true Church I'm talking, I'm not talking
about religion, y'all. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
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We have all kinds of state sponsored, embraced religions all
across this world and throughout the history of this world.
And I'm not gonna even not going there. For those
of you who wanted to challenge the Church being a
state sponsored religion early in the Christianity of the Church
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three hundred a D or so, four hundred a D,
five hundred a D going forward or whatever. No, no, no, no, no, no,
ladies and gentlemen, that was not the true Church of
Jesus Christ, no sir, no, ma'am. Amen. But this is
why I say the true Church of Jesus Christ will
always be problematic for the princes, the kings, the rulers, governors,
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prime ministers, presidents whatever of this world, those of them,
those who are under the rule of the prince and
power of the air. Because he that is Satan works
most of his destruction, most of his death and annihilation
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through those with those by those who rule in high places,
high seats of authority in government. Nevertheless, the Church needs
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to know this. The Church needs to understand this. Again,
we don't need to be regulated. We can't be regulated
by man. We are not to be ruled by nor
a man subject to Amen, the governments of this world
in the sense of them telling us what to preach,
what to teach. Amen. I'm not talking about abiding by
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the laws of the land as it pertains to being
good citizens and stewards. We can talk about that a
man in the Bible, by the way commands us to
do so. Roman Shepherd thirteen and other passages in the scriptures.
But what we're talking about is the government seeking to
shut down, to shut up, to hinder the Gospel, the
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mission of the Church. Nevertheless, again, the gates of Hell
shall not prevail because we persevere. Oh yes, we do,
we overcome. Oh yes, we are victorious. And this pental
costal disturbance that was sent by Jesus himself. Amen, Uh,
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it will not cease until our Lord himself returns amen,
to take his church away. Until then we fight and
we win. Oh yes, Father, again, we thank you that
we are more than conquerors. Through you, You loved us,
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you ordain us. You sent us into a world again
that is hostile. We know that what we're up against
principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world. Nevertheless,
You've given to us what we need to overcome, to prevail,
to stand to war and fight a good fight of faith. Amen,
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And to be more than conquerors because it is through you.
It is by your spirit, not by our might, not
by our power, but by your spirit, we are victorious.
We thank you now, we praise you now in Jesus
the Christ of Calvary's name, we pray and give thanks
for all things. Amen and Amen. All right, God bless
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you in Jesus' name.
Great is your faithfulness, Oh Lord, Great is your mercy,
Great is your grace unto us. Father, again, we are
thankful for this day that you have allowed us to see,
and we pray that your blessings will be upon us,
your peace, your love, your kindness. Lord, that you promise
to amen be with us in all that you are.
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And Lord, we are looking to you now as the
author and the finisher of our faith. O. Lord, sin
forth your word with power and the annointing that someone
somewhere hear the voice of the Savior and come to
know that you are the True and the Living God,
and there is none like you in all the earth. God,
be glorified, be magnified. In Jesus's name, We pray and
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give thanks. Amen and Amen. We welcome you once again
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today we are again, as always grateful to the Lord
for another Amen, opportunity to amen. Speak forth the truth
of God with boldness, clarity, with plainness of speech. Amen.
This is a man though, calling that God is placed
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upon us, and we want to be faithful, found faithful,
a man doing this unto death or until Jesus comes
back for his church. Amen. And so again this series,
for those of you who've been following along with us,
we're in a series on God, government, Church and state.
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God government, Church and State. And this particular series now
takes us into the New Testament. And also now as
we're going to as we're going to see today the
beginning of the persecution of the Church, as Jesus Christ
has finished, is earthly ministry ascended up into heaven, and
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he will as we're going to see today, by the way,
if you have your Bibles, we're going to be in
the of the acts of the apostles a man. We're
going to see how Jesus empowers a man his apostles,
a man to go forth and to continue in the
ministry in the mission a man that he a man
commissioned them for. And so we're going to also see
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that a man. There is something that is absolutely essential
for the church to be equipped with, and that is
the power of the Holy Spirit. Can't do it without
the power of the Holy Spirit. And so today I
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will focus is kind of Pentecostal disturbance. Pentecostal disturbance is
what we're going to A man entitle our a man
podcasts on today. Pentecostal disturbance. Far more than any other
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event in all of the history of our existence, the
world's existence, it was the coming of Jesus Christ into
the world, a man that radically disrupted this world's darkness,
the rulers of this world of darkness. It was the
blind leading the blind further into the darkness. And just
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a few short years before this day of pentecost that
we're going to look at the Pentecostal disturbance. But just
a few short years before this day of Pentecosts would
come Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed One, the
promised One, the one who was prophesied of in the scriptures.
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A man he seen as it were, a man, and
a man began his earthly ministry. And it was a
ministry that was ordained of Heaven, ordained of God. It
was a divine ministry. It was not of man by man, amen,
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it was of God, Amen, of the power of this
Holy Spirit. Ordained of old, and this divine ministry that
Jesus came to do a man. It worked and astonishing
upheaval upon a radically corrupt tradition of men religion. That
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was a man again, the blind leading the blind, as Jesus. Amen. Again,
as we've already pointed out, he did not shy away
at all from confronting these religious hypocrites, these leaders, these
rulers of the people, who had caused the people to error.
Jesus didn't shy away from it at all. Amen. These
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were people, as Jesus said in essence, quoting from the
Book of Isaiah, these people honor me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me, in vain. They
worshiped me, a man keeping the tradition of men, honoring
more than the word of God, the tradition of men.
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And so you had a world that was living in darkness,
mired in darkness, Amen, completely blinded from the truth, a
man primarily by a man again religion and corrupt rulers
of darkness. Matthew four sixteen tells us the people who
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sat in darkness again another fulfillment of the prophet Isaiah. Amen,
the people who sat in darkness, have seen a great light.
And upon those who sat in the region and shadow
of death, light has dawned, Light has sprung. Light has come.
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And that's what Jesus said of himself in one of
the im statements, I am the light of the world. Amen.
And he came that we might have light, Amen, so
that we could see, so that our eyes could be open,
so that the scales would fall from our eyes. And
before his death by betrayal and murder, his burial in
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the tomb, and his resurrection from the dead, Jesus had
already prepared his apostles for the persecution and the troubles
that were ahead of them. Jesus taught them we covered
this in our last session. He told them, you will
be hated, you will be rejected, you will be ridiculed.
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Some of you are going to be put out of
the synagogue, as it were. In other words, you're going
to be expelled, harassed, persecuted, and even some of you
will be executed. You're going to be killed, seame of
Jesus Christ. And also he taught them that they were
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going to be like lambs in the midst of wolves.
They were to be harmless, as doves, but have the
same kind of boldness and tenacity that Jesus had. Amen, Now,
who is it that would do this? Who is it
that would perform this kind of harassment and hatred and
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stir up all of this animosity toward a man. The
followers of Jesus Christ, ordinary men, plain, old, ordinary galileans. Amen,
is who they were. It would not be the common
everyday man who would be threatened by the preaching of
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the Gospel. No, no, No, ladies and gentlemen, it would
be and it is still to this day, the powers
that be, government leaders who stir up people, who stir
up opposition against the Kingdom of God, against the rule
of God. Amen. In world history has clearly demonstrated this Amen,
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that the governments of this world have been hostile to
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom of God,
to the Kingdom of Heaven, like no other entity on
this earth, the hostility toward the name of Jesus especially. Oh,
we've got religion in this world. We've got plenty of
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religion in this world. But we're not talking about religion,
ladies and gentlemen. We're talking about the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Truth of God, the Church of the Living God.
It faces more hostility. It has faced, and it will
continue to, by the way, be despised and rejected by again,
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particularly governments of this world. And by the way, Jesus
knew this, He designed it this way as a matter
of fact, and again he prepared us for this very thing.
We don't need state religion. We don't need the government
to embrace us, to adopt us, and to a man
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a support us. What we need is a man, the
power of God, the authority that God has given us,
the boldness, a man to go forth, a man with amen,
everything that God has already equipped us with. That's all
we need. Amen. And so again, when we look throughout history,
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we clearly can see that it has been government leaders
a man who have been hostile to the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.
They don't want the rule of God. They hate the
rule of God. Some number two. We've referred to it often. However,
again we must never forget the words of Jesus Christ himself,
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who said, upon this rock I build my church, and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Though
Jesus again prepared its apostles for the persecution that was
coming towards them a man by ensuring that they would
be fully equipped, not only with the words which he
had already given to them, which he had already spoken
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to them three and a half years they had been
with Jesus. Nevertheless, they needed something else. And that's something else,
of course, is what Jesus had promised would come to them,
that he himself would send to them. And that is,
ladies and gentlemen, the spirit of the Living God, the
same spirit that brooded over the waters in creation, Amen,
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and the same spirit that acted amen when Jesus said,
let there be light, and there was light. Listen what
the Bible teaches a man the Book of the Acts
of the Apostles, chapter number one. I'm going to pick
it up at verse number four, and being assembled together
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with them. That's Jesus with his disciples, with his apostles.
The Bible tells us he commanded them not to depart
from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. Again,
what promise is he referring to, specifically, not his coming
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back forth them a man, but the Holy Spirit, the
Holy Ghost, which would be sent who brother would be
sent to them? The Holy Spirit is a person, a man,
not a thing. He said, Wait for the promise of
the Father, which he said, you have heard from me.
For John truly baptized with water. But you shall be
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baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
Wait before you go out into the world, before you
go on this mission. Remember he had already commissioned them
to go into all the world preach the Gospel a
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man to every creature. He had already prepared them for
what they would do, and he had already, during his
earthly ministry, sent them out on missions to go amen
to the cities and preach and heal, and a man
do these kinds of things that the Church a man
has been empowered to do. John truly baptized with water,
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But you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now. Absolutely essential, absolutely essential, indispensable Amen
the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Bible says verse number six.
When they had come together, they asked him, saying, Lord,
will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel.
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He said to them, it is not for you to
know the times or seasons which the Father has put
in his own authority. But you shall receive power when
the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall
be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Judea and
Samaria to the end of the earth. Oh, sorry, excuse me.
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This is what again is so essential, for this is
what we must have. The Church of Jesus Christ must
have the power of the Holy Spirit, because the mission
of the Church cannot be carried out by anyone who
does not have the baptism. Sorry, excuse me, all of
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a sudden you get to sneak. I believe the enemy
doesn't like the mentioning, the preaching, the teaching about the
power of the Holy Spirit. The mission of the Church again,
cannot be carried out by anyone who does not have
the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that is that is
exclusively given by the power of Jesus, a man sent
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in his name, a man. And of course we must
never forget. While Jesus was here, he operated in the
spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit, and so
must we a man. Remember at his baptism, by the
way you saw how that the Spirit descended upon him
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like a dove. And from that day forward Jesus went
forth in the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
So in chapter two, where we go down the book
of the Acts of the Apostle, we're going to see
the day of Pentecosts arrive and the promised comforter is
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sent by Jesus to his disciples, to those who believed
on him. Look at Acts chapter two, verse number one.
When the day of Pentecost had fully come, Oh, we
got Pentecostal disturbance coming. It's a Pentecostal disturbance. It's going
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to shake up the world. It's going to turn, as
it would be the testimony of someone else later with
the Acts turned the world upside down. They couldn't do it,
ladies and gentlemen, without this. They had to have the
promise of the Father, the power of the Holy ghosts.
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And so the Bible tells us when the day of
Pentecosts had fully come, they were all with one accord
in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from
heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled
the whole house where they were sitting, And there appeared
to them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat
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up on each of them, and they were all and
by the way. There were one hundred and twenty of
them in the Upper room on that day, one of them,
notably being Mary, the Mother of Christ. She herself also
had to be felled with the Holy Spirit a man.
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The Bible says they were all feeled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the
spirit gave them utterance, and of course a man. The noise,
as you can read also in the text, was a
man heard, and people were curious as to what was
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happening there, and those a man who came to see
what was taking place with this noise, a man, this
sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, the
fire of the Holy Ghost, a man resting upon these
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that had been waiting for this promise. Those who came.
Someone spoke and accused them are being drunk. Peter said, no, no, no, no, sir, no, ma'am. Amen,
this is not what you think it is. Amen, this
is that which was a man prophesied of old. The
prophet Joel said, the Lord made the promise Amen, that
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he would pour out of his spirit upon all flesh.
Your sons and daughters are going to prophesie. We are
not drunk as you suppose, it's only the third hour
of the day. It was nine a m. In the morning. Amen.
The Holy Spirit came upon them. Amen. And so Peter
took this occasion to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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to this crowd that had come. Amen. And what we're
going to see, ladies and gentlemen, again, this pentecostal disturbance, Amen,
is birthing the Church of Jesus Christ. Acts Chapter two.
Go down to verse number twenty two. Listen to these
words of of the apostle Peter, as recorded by Luke
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in the Gospel. I'm sorry, in the acts of what
we refer to as the acts of the apostles, some
rather refer to this as the acts of the Holy Spirit. However,
verse twenty two tells us that Peter speaks to the
crowd with these words, Men of Israel, hear these words
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Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you
by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did through him
in your midst, as you yourselves also know him, being
delivered by the determined purpose and fore knowledge of God,
you have taken by lawless hands, the lawless hands by
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the way, not only were the people, but most disturbingly
more so than the people. It was by the government,
the rulers of the people, who stirred up the people.
By the way did the multitudes. The chriwds loved Jesus.
They were following him, most of them a man wanted
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to make him their king. Amen. They didn't want to
see him die. They were enjoying all of the healings
and miracles and signs and wonders, and eating of the
fishes and lows. They wanted Jesus to remain. But the
jealousy of the rulers, the government leaders Amen, their lawless hands, which,
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by the way, on that fateful day said they said,
his blood be upon us and our children. They by
their lawless hands they crucified Jesus, Peter says, and put
him to death, whom God raised up verse twenty four,
having loosed the pains of death. Because it was not possible. Ooooh,
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I love this. It was not possible that he should
be held by it. Why was it not possible? Let
me just pause on that for just a moment. Why
was it not possible for Jesus to be held down
by death? Ladies and gentlemen, because it is appointed for
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sinners to die. Now, true, Jesus, who knew no sin,
became sin. He took on our sin. He became the
violence of sinners. Nevertheless, he himself was sin less. Death
is appointed to those who are sin nursed. Jesus died
the death of a sinner, but yet he himself had
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never sinned. The wages of sin is death. Jesus died
the death that we deserve to die. It was not
possible for death to hold Jesus. As a matter of fact,
it was not even possible for death to take Jesus.
Jesus said, no one takes my life from me. Death
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could not take his life because he was not a sinner.
And because he was not a sinner, he had to
yield himself over. And that's exactly what he did. Father,
into thy hand, I commit my spirit. Again, no one
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took his life. He gave his life. And so it
was not possible amen that the grave that death could
hold Jesus down. So the verse thirty two tells us
Peter said, this Jesus, God has raised up of which
we are all witnesses, therefore being exalted to the right
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hand of God, and having received from the Father of
the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this
which you now see. And here therefore at all the
house of Israel no assuredly that God has made this Jesus,
whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ, of course a man.
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With this preaching of the Gospel, the people were stunned.
They were stunned at what they heard from Peter. And
by the way, I skipped over some of what Peter
had to say a man. There were a lot of
other words that he used in the Old Testament, by
the way, going back a man. And is wonderful how
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that you understand, of course, that the New Testament certainly
has not been written. They are writing it. As all
of this is now about to a man take place.
The writing of the New Testament will take place. But
Peter and the apostles only had the scriptures, the Hebrew scriptures,
the Old Testament scriptures, and in the Old Testament scriptures,
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Jesus Christ is through and through. And so he preached
to them from the Old Testament scriptures about David, Amen,
about Joel a man, about the psalmp what was written
in the Psalms, and all I mean this is, this is,
this is, this is the power of the Word of God.
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A man, God foretold all of these things. He determined
all of these things beforehand. Amen. And Peter, now, with
the power of the Holy Spirit, bringing things to his remembrance,
uses the power of the Word of God, the Old
Testament to preach the Gospel to these who are gathered.
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So now the church is birthed and the church. Amen
is on his way because the Jews now respond positively
to the preaching of the Gospel. Listen what happens verse
thirty seven. The Bible says, when they heard this, when
they heard the preaching of Peter, the Bible tells us
they were cut to the heart, and man, they were
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pricked in their heart and said to Peter and the
rest of the brothers, the brother and the apostles, They said,
men and brethren, what shall we do? What is our recourse?
Is there a remedy? Is there a way of escape
for us? Peter said to them, repent, Oh, yes, and
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let every one of you be baptizing the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy ghosts. For this promise
is to you, it's to your children, is to a
man all who are false, and as many as the
Lord our God shall call, And with many other words,
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the Bible tells us, he testified and exhorted the people, saying,
be saved from this perverse generation. So many of them,
the Bible tells us, heard the word, obeyed the word.
They were baptized, And now the church again is birthed
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and it is blossoming. Go down to verse forty two.
The Bible says. They continued steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine
and fellowship, and in breaking the bread and in prayers.
Fear came upon every soul, many signs, many wonders, in
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other words, the greater works that Jesus said that you
would do that I'm doing. I mean because I'm going
back to heaven, and there are going to be twelve
of you as opposed to one of me. Many wonders
and signs, the Bible says, were done by the apostles,
and all that believed were together had all things coming,
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sold their possession in goods, to parted them to all men,
as every man had need. And they continuing daily on
accord in the temple, breaking bread from house to house.
The Bible tells us they ate their meat with gladness,
singleness of heart, praising God, having favor with all the people,
and the Lord who I love. This added to the
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church daily, such as should be saved. Now with all
of this, ladies and gentlemen, and make nobody's Hell is
not happy. Hell is not happy. Demons are coming back
with no place to go. Amen. They are disturbed. I
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mean there's been an upheaval. The darkness is being dispelled,
the eyes of being opened, Scales are falling from people's eyes.
Religion is being destroyed in their midst the ears of
the people are being attentive to the preaching of the Gospel,
and the Bible said, by the way, three thousand souls Amen,
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on the very first day, by the way, not those
who were being added even more afterwards. But on that
very first day Pentecostal disturbance, about three thousand souls were
added to the church. So now hearts are being converted,
lives are being transformed, and the Church is now a
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force to contend with. Now, please understand that with this
Pentecostal disturbance that took place, a man in that upper
room from that day. For what we're going to see
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throughout the Book of the Acts of the Apostles and
throughout the history of the Church is hostility mostly mostly
ladies and gentlemen. We're going to see, and we're going
to point it out, just as it was in the
Ministry of Jesus. It is going to be the rulers
and the leaders and the government a man of not
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only a man the Jews, but also of the Romans
that will be so hostile to the Church, so hostile
to the preaching of the God. They weren't hostile to
all of these a man idols of the people that
were made up these religions there were, I mean, there
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was a plethora of gods, a plethora of religious beliefs
a man during this a man time of the Roman Empire,
a man. They weren't bothered by it. I mean, everybody
just did their own thing. As a matter of fact,
we're going to see later on ad Ministry of the
Apostle Paul, when he was at Athens waiting for his companions,
a man, he discovered an altar that was inscribed with
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these words to the unknown God in case they missed
a God in case there was a God that they
weren't aware of. They didn't want to offend any of
the gods. So there was I mean, there was a
plethora of religion throughout all of the world at that time.
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And so now here comes the Church and it is
now a force to be reckoned with. And so from
this point forward, ladies and gentlemen, after the birth of
the Church, well we're going to be examining here. We've
already seen it throughout the history of the Church, Church history. Amen. Again,
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total and complete hostility a man toward the Church. Because
the princes of this world they loved their power, they
love their authority, and they love for people to be
in bondage, their eyes to be close. Amen. They don't
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want freedom, they don't want liberty. They want people shackled
in change, in darkness, in bondage. Amen, so that they
can again control them, Amen, manipulate them. No, no, no.
What the Gospel does is open the eyes of the blind,
(31:25):
It opens the ears of the death. Amen. It changes
the heart. And no no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Government leaders do not like opposition. They prefer the status
quo and change. Any change that happens it must be
controlled by them. Amen. It must be regulated by the
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rulers of this world. This is why you know anything,
anything that happens in our world, even in this free
nation civilization supposedly that we're now living in America, the
United States of America. The government must regulate. The government
must control. The government must ensure that there is nothing
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that rises up that is too powerful for them to control,
to regulate. And so it was with the Church. It
will be opposed by government primarily. Amen. And so this
is why the true Church I'm talking, I'm not talking
about religion, y'all. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
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We have all kinds of state sponsored, embraced religions all
across this world and throughout the history of this world.
And I'm not gonna even not going there. For those
of you who wanted to challenge the Church being a
state sponsored religion early in the Christianity of the Church
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three hundred a D or so, four hundred a D,
five hundred a D going forward or whatever. No, no, no, no, no, no,
ladies and gentlemen, that was not the true Church of
Jesus Christ, no sir, no, ma'am. Amen. But this is
why I say the true Church of Jesus Christ will
always be problematic for the princes, the kings, the rulers, governors,
(33:18):
prime ministers, presidents whatever of this world, those of them,
those who are under the rule of the prince and
power of the air. Because he that is Satan works
most of his destruction, most of his death and annihilation
(33:46):
through those with those by those who rule in high places,
high seats of authority in government. Nevertheless, the Church needs
(34:06):
to know this. The Church needs to understand this. Again,
we don't need to be regulated. We can't be regulated
by man. We are not to be ruled by nor
a man subject to Amen, the governments of this world
in the sense of them telling us what to preach,
what to teach. Amen. I'm not talking about abiding by
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the laws of the land as it pertains to being
good citizens and stewards. We can talk about that a
man in the Bible, by the way commands us to
do so. Roman Shepherd thirteen and other passages in the scriptures.
But what we're talking about is the government seeking to
shut down, to shut up, to hinder the Gospel, the
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mission of the Church. Nevertheless, again, the gates of Hell
shall not prevail because we persevere. Oh yes, we do,
we overcome. Oh yes, we are victorious. And this pental
costal disturbance that was sent by Jesus himself. Amen, Uh,
(35:15):
it will not cease until our Lord himself returns amen,
to take his church away. Until then we fight and
we win. Oh yes, Father, again, we thank you that
we are more than conquerors. Through you, You loved us,
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you ordain us. You sent us into a world again
that is hostile. We know that what we're up against
principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world. Nevertheless,
You've given to us what we need to overcome, to prevail,
to stand to war and fight a good fight of faith. Amen,
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And to be more than conquerors because it is through you.
It is by your spirit, not by our might, not
by our power, but by your spirit, we are victorious.
We thank you now, we praise you now in Jesus
the Christ of Calvary's name, we pray and give thanks
for all things. Amen and Amen. All right, God bless
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you in Jesus' name.
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