ACTS 2:1-4 - Corps Notes - October 16, 1975
ACTS 2:1-4 October 16, 1975 Turn tonight to Acts chapter 2, regarding the most momentous occurrence in all history until the present time. Perhaps the greater will be the return. Perhaps we have not as fully appreciated as we should the greatness of Acts 2 because it hasn’t cost us very much to get to the knowledge of it. The experience on the day of Pentecost was so absolutely cataclysmic and here it is written in just four verses. Only God could have had holy men of God write it in such an abbreviated form. There is absolutely no parallel in all history or all literature that equals the greatness of these truths in Acts 2. We are to study to show ourselves approved unto God as workmen. Many times when I get Into the Word to teach it I feel totally inadequate to handle the greatness of God’s Word. Yet, somebody has to do the best they can with it. I always feel that way with Acts 2. I’ve taught this many times as you know, and we wrote our heart out on the book in “Receiving the Holy Spirit Today on this chapter. Acts 2:1 “And” = conjunction. The experience of the new birth on the day of Pentecost follows immediately with Matthias being numbered with the 11 apostles. I shared some things on the tape tonight that bring me almost to the point of believing that this which occurred here in Acts 1:26 was just the night before the receiving of the fullness early the next morning. Whether that’s true or not, I can’t prove, but it’s the last thing that was done before the receiving of the fullness of the spirit on the day of Pentecost. Tying this together with “and”, which I believe would stand the test of all the Greek texts, makes it very significant for me -Matthias numbered with the eleven apostles – “and” - I don’t believe they did this trip in the morning. I do not believe they did the selecting of Matthias in the morning because the first hour of prayer would not have been apropos for the occasion. Just not quite like I would like to feel it would be because in the
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Tweet Topic: logospedia,lp Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: October 16, 1975 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And I notice