Acts 2:1-11 - Corps Notes - November 6, 1975
Acts 2:1-11 November 6, 1975 Outside of the Word of God there are no words in any man or woman’s vocabulary to describe the ineffable greatness of Acts chapter 2. I perhaps have taught this as much as any man living today and yet every time I teach it I’m tremendously humbled. From a human point of view, feeling totally unworthy and yet from a spiritual point of view just exuberantly grateful for the privilege of opening my heart and life and the Word to you in the capacity that God has given us the understanding of this great record. There is no greater privilege in the world than to share the Word of God with somebody. How tremendously The Father’s heart must be blessed whenever any of our people share God’s Word rightly divided. The record of Acts chapter 2 is the record of the greatest thing God ever did up until this time. It is the giving of the new birth; Christ in you the hope of glory. It is making available to people, for the first time, something that God wanted to give ever since Genesis chapter 3. Acts 2:1 “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come” – indicates it was in the process of coming ever since the fall of man. God has always done His best but the difference between the true God and the adversary has been through the years that in order for the true God to bring to pass what the innermost desire is on His part, people have to believe. The adversary is simple a possession. If you never knew more than that, you would know more than most of the people living in the world today. In order to receive things from the true God people must get to the point that they believe. Mary gave those words that every time I think about them it sends spiritual chills through my whole body, when she said, “Be it unto me according to Thy Word.” What a day of rejoicing in heaven that must have been among the angels when they heard that one. She knew that if the people got a chance at her that they’d execute her. She knew that she’d be totally disgraced and defamed
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it. You are branded. Most believers are never branded. They may be servants, they may be ministers, but they are not branded. When you' re branded, you stay faithful. You do not budge. You do not change. You stay put. If all hell breaks loose, you still live the believing Word. I think the prophet once said, If I was in the midst of hell, God I know you' d be there. (Psalm 139:8) He' d be there. That' s the doulos. That, of course, is just a tremendous piece of work. And the other great part that I think... and this is a second piece that I want the Corps to master before next Wednesday night, " Workers for God," the work on ' witness.' You see, it's the same word basically that's translated ' martyr,' see. And we got a lot of those canonized. That's not at all what a witness is. A witness is a living example, not a dead one. The word 'martyr' simply means that you lay down your life in