ACTS 2:12-36 - Corps Notes - November 25, 1975
ACTS 2:12-36 November 25, 1975 The Way College of Emporia Acts 2:8-11 are a parenthesis. The miracle of Pentecost is in what they spoke. They spoke in a language that others understood. So these twelve men as they were speaking in tongues really astounded them. The point is that these Jews who were not born again said of that speaking in tongues that they were speaking the wonderful works of God. I remember how thrilled I first was when I saw some of this stuff in Acts and understood it. I saw it for years but didn’t understand it. When I got the understanding of it I remember how excited I became. It’s really something. How tremendous it is to speak in tongues. Here were these people who disliked Galileans and yet they had to say that these men were speaking the wonderful works of God. When I first saw that whenever I was speaking in tongues, I was speaking the wonderful works of God, it just blessed me no end. This whole section in here just makes me hotter than a firecracker because I remember back in my mind to the times when I got some understanding of this stuff and how blessed I was. Acts 2:12 “amazed” - Naturally they were amazed. That would be a natural human response because the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God. These people were not born again yet, who were listening to them, and they were looking at everything with their sense knowledge mind and they said, “Well those fellows can’t do that.” “They can’t do that but they’re doing it.” – That’s why they were so amazed. “doubt” – Then they said, “How can they do it.” That’s the doubt. Acts 2:13 “Others mocking” - People who mock are always there. So when you get out to teaching and sharing the Word, you don’t pay any attention to people and what they say. Just because people pat you on the back today doesn’t mean that they will do it tomorrow. It’s not that you teach or share the Word because of people’s acclaim or disclaim. You just share the Word. We’ve got to plant and we have to
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Tweet Topic: logospedia,lp Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: 11-25-1975 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 noticed agai