{"id":1127,"date":"2014-02-12T11:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:31:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:31:29","slug":"acts-chapter-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Acts Chapter two:"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Acts Chapter two:<\/p>\n<p>The Day of Pentecost, which was celebrated 50 days past the Passover.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not get captivated by the word \u201cTongues\u201d, that word just means languages.\u00a0 In chapter two we see the church empowered to speak to everyone there during Pentecost in their own language.\u00a0 Yes it was the empowering of the church and a miraculous event, but it was not unknown or some special heavenly language.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What should I share and how should I share it?\u00a0 This is the struggle of these short devotionals.\u00a0 Many believe Peter quoting Joel is a little misplaced and most of what Peter is quoting will take place in the millennium.\u00a0 I will say this, by reading the scriptures alone it seems as if Peter intended for us to believe it was for us.\u00a0 With this in mind, I do believe God desires to work in and through His people by His Spirit.\u00a0 Don\u2019t go all \u201cPentecostal\u201d, it is very Baptist to believe in the power and working of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Peter then turns to a prophetic Psalm David wrote concerning Christ.\u00a0 Peter makes a clear testimony of Christ\u2019 death, burial and resurrection pointing out to the people many times,\u00a0&#8220;who you have crucified&#8221;.\u00a0 As Peter unfolds the Old Testament and connects Christ into their belief system, Peter calls everyone to repent in verse 38.\u00a0 Not only repent but to be baptized.\u00a0 The word \u201cfor\u201d can mean because.\u00a0 For example you go to jail for murder, not to murder, but because you have murdered.\u00a0\u00a0 After salvation we should be baptized, not for salvation but because of salvation.\u00a0 Verse 41, said \u201cthose that gladly believed where baptized\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What happened after the Holy Spirit came and souls where saved?\u00a0 They continued together learning the doctrines of Christ from the apostles.\u00a0 This transformation caused a hunger for God\u2019s Word. The early church also took care of one another.\u00a0 The new believers where excommunicated from the Jewish faith and they found themselves without employment or family.\u00a0 The church became their family.\u00a0 They took care of one another praising God for what He has done.<\/p>\n<p>What transformation has salvation and the indwelling of God\u2019s Spirit at salvation done to you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}