Acts 2:1–13 The Baptism of the Spirit: Global Reach

Acts 2:5-13 · 2026-05-31 · Jason Wolin · Acts

Acts 2:5-13 · Coming of the Spirit. Acts 2:1–13 The Baptism of the Spirit: Global Reach — sermon from Cypress Bible Church on BibleSlides.

Acts 2:1–13 The Baptism of the Spirit: Global Reach Acts 2:1–13 The Baptism of the Spirit: Global Reach Now my guess is that what you think is going to happen is that I'm going to comment on the text that was just read. And that is what we would normally do. But we have more background work to do today. The commenting comes next week. Folks, this is an amazing text. One of the most obvious amazing things about this passage is we have this gift of tongues given to NT believers. But my whole goal today is to illustrate that the gift of tongues as amazing and special as that would have been is in fact, the LEAST AMAZING thing about this passage. To understand why this passage is so significant, we have to know how the first century reader would have understood this event? Never start by asking the question, "What does this passage mean to me? Ask first, what did it mean to them." In other words, we need to set this in it's context. We started that context last week by looking at the ministry of the Spirit in the Old Testament. There are 100 passages that speak to the Spirits ministry. 60 of those passages speak of Spirit's actual empowering of Old Testament people. And we noticed that the way in which the Spirit empowers people in the OT could be characterized by three things. The Spirit's activity was highly selective, it was temporary and it was task-oriented. And to illustrate this, we looked at two examples in detail. We looked at Moses and we looked at Saul. In the case of Moses it was ONLY Moses who had the Spirit at first and then the Spirit was given to the 70 - it was selective. And we looked at the fact that it was not only selective. It was temporary. Saul had the Spirit but then the Spirit left Saul when he sinned. And that was the nature of David's when he prayed in Ps 51, take not your Holy Spirit from me. The nature of the Spirits work was selective, it was temporary and it was task-oriented . In other words, the Spirit was given to perform a task that was needed in the administration of the nation of Israel. Leadership, judging, even craftsmanship. And by the way, I think understanding these three functions of the Spirit and understanding the PURPOSE of the Spirit in the OT can help explain some things that really cause us to scratch our head. For example, one of the most common questions a teacher gets asked when teaching through the book of Samuel is this: was Saul redeemed? Was he a believer? A lot of people ask that question. Now WHY do we ask that question? There's only ONE reason. Because he had the Spirit of God. How can a man who has the Spirit of God in him not be saved? That's a good question but let me just say, that's such a NT question. Get to know your OT. Let me just answer this once and for all. Was Saul saved? There's no…

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