Date: 09 April 2002
Time: 06:24:48

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There is a parallel in science to the "three thousand persons . . . added. Physics theorists think that, just before the Big Bang, the tiny point of matter that had just "appeared" (HAH! We know better!) suddenly & very rapidly expanded in size - it inflated! We could almost see the results of this Day of Pentecost as that critical expansion of the believers (from about 100 to over 3,000 in a single day!) before the church and the Christian faith "exploded" from Palestine into the rest of the Empire, and into all the world! Ken in WV


Date: 09 April 2002
Time: 13:41:43

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Hey, Ken in WV, this is powerful stuff, BOLD , power drink aid...The people are so thirtsy, water, need something to quench Grab that Holy Spirit Power Aid! Ken, I want to reach people, win souls for Kingdom, I have addeda few souls but/ I talked to a older preacher, he said had revival six days no one went to altar, are we preaching IN our Churches to Christians? I believe so. CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS, I tell my people to imagine their Church with just a roof, can see through two by fours to the road, sidewalk going past, people walking by... I am getting like John Wesley, Preach outside , undera tree mood LOL. Ladypreacher in OHIO


Date: 10 April 2002
Time: 12:02:15

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Ladypreacher, Acts 2 never mentions how the disciples ended up outside speaking to the crowds in Jerusalem, when they had begun inside! I think the Spirit must have driven them out (just like Jesus being driven into the wilderness). Well, Wesley had been banned from preaching in most of the Anglican churches in England, so he HAD to preach outside. But, I really think, in his case, too, it was really the Holy Spirit's work that put him outside, where the people could hear him and the word of God! I think Wesley's spiritual heirs are sometimes too busy hiding behind their walls to ever reach the place where the 'outsiders' will ever hear the Word from us again! But then, the Spirit has ways. . . Ken in WV


Date: 12 April 2002
Time: 09:30:32

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Dear Ken - I don't see in the text where it says they end up outside. I love the idea of moving in that direction in my sermon... Are you inferring that because there are so many people added and therefore could not fit inside?

I really like the promptings on this DPS site to think about "response to the word." That is where I am also moving. If the response to Peter's sermon is for folks to repent and be baptized. And if the Spirit comes to us at baptism, what is our response to baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit? The answer is in next week's lection... they devoted themselves to... (v. 42).

Amma in FL


Date: 13 April 2002
Time: 13:48:45

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Amma in FL: You're right, I'm assuming 'outside' because of the crowd's size. 3,000 people repent and are saved at Pter's words, and we can probably safely assume that not everyone repented! That many people couldn't have fitted into the small house where the believers were.

I'm still leaning toward the comparison to the 'Big Bang' and that first rapid expansion which led to the first BOOM! That action was guided by the mysterious physics of the early universe, just as that amazing first response (!) to God's word was a result of the mysterious ways the Spirit moves when God's people bear witness. The Spirit's power can still explode today, as it did at Pentecost and for witnesses like Wesley, when we bear faithful witness to Jesus Christ. Ken in WV


Date: 20 April 2002
Time: 14:05:06

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The bible says that if you add or take alway my words,that all of the plagus will be added unto you.The bible says in Acts 2:38 repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your SINS and you shall recevie the gift of the Holy Ghost.Be very carefully how you add or take alway something in the bible cause it just might led someone the wrong way.GOD will always give his people understanding of his word and he dosent need anybodys help! Bro.Chris Tn


Date: 20 April 2002
Time: 14:06:43

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The bible says that if you add or take alway my words,that all of the plagus will be added unto you.The bible says in Acts 2:38 repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your SINS and you shall recevie the gift of the Holy Ghost.Be very carefully how you add or take alway something in the bible cause it just might led someone the wrong way.GOD will always give his people understanding of his word and he dosent need anybodys help! Bro.Chris Tn