Miracles do not appear on the page of Scripture vagrantly, here, there, and elsewhere indifferently, without assignable reason. 2. - R. 1. 1. Orthodoxy. 2. 2. We have this sense of the old word (glossa) surviving in our glossary, a collection of such terms. But the other nations, one and all, had turned to some one special national bent, or mission, with which one or the other of these commandments would have interfered, and so they declined them all. If they were, as Aristotle calls them, âunknown,â it was because they were used in a startlingly figurative sense, so that men were sometimes puzzled by them (Aristot. Them utterance - implying a prolonged exercise of this stings faculty. Not to vain self-glorification or worldly delectation, but to the praise of God and to the message of salvation to the world. Those who believe in the truth on baptism for the remission of sins live and die with Acts 2:38. This lesson is part 06 in a verse by verse study through Acts titled: Speaking in Tongues. , used by the Greeks of the sayings of the wise and philosophers, and see also references in Wendt).— , see additional note. If Song of Solomon, was ecstatic speech present on both occasions, and or were foreign languages present on both occasions? Acts 2:4 4 And they were all j filled with the Holy Spirit and began k to speak in other tongues l as the Spirit gave them utterance. There may also be included in the idea in Mark, especially after Pentecost had made it plain, that their ability to praise God in new tongues in the same way as at Pentecost would soften up men’s hearts so that even the barbarians would recognise that they came with a message from God. Longenecker, p271, pointed out the differences between tongues in Acts 2,1Corinthians12, 14.]. It may virtually say to any candidate who cannot be classed among its "thoughtful," or who does not rise to a certain standard of wealth and social status, what a deacon is reported to have said to an unwelcome applicant, "There is no vacancy in our church just now.". It does not edify any beyond the man who speaks (1 Corinthians 14:4). ], Song of Solomon, also, at Pentecost the lives that were prepared were filled with the Spirit, or the Spirit came upon them for power as promised." them speak in his own language.” As if the hearing by every man in his own language was simultaneous, and produced by the same speaking and speaker. (4) And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.âThe outward portent was but the sign of a greater spiritual wonder. Their abundant display in the Apostolic Church is the mark of the richness of the Apostolic Age in revelation; and when this revelation period closed, the period of miracle-working had passed by also, as a mere matter of course." Not in a miraculous gift of languages. The one fact of Pentecost is the pledge of the future. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where th Acts 4:8; Acts 4:31; Acts 6:3; Acts 6:5; Acts 7:55; Acts 9:17; Acts 13:9; Acts 13:52). And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. In moving forward to the incarnation, we take an immense step along the line whose final point is spirituality, yet even there we are still distinctly upon the carnal line. I. Acts Chapter 3 is where we find Peter and John healing a crippled man as they continue to tell people with boldness about Jesus Christ. (3) In our appreciation of Christian doctrine caring more about the spiritual substance than the particular form or fashion by which the truth may have been expressed. On the other hand, the outside world of listeners, common men, or unbelievers, are likely to look on it as indicating madness (1 Corinthians 14:23). "body of Christ" is a figure that the New Testament writers used exclusively of the church, never of Israel or any other group of believers. Notes on Acts 10:46; Acts 19:6.) And through the midst of all these ever-varying sounds and visions there rolled forth the Divine word, ‘I am the everlasting Jehovah, thy God, "not many days from now" before His ascension (. Acts 2:4 Maori Na ki katoa ratou i te Wairua Tapu, a ka timata te korero, rere ke ana nga reo, rite tonu ki ta te Wairua i hoatu ai ki a ratou kia korerotia. "No great decision was ever taken, no important step was ever embarked upon, by the early Church without the guidance of the Spirit. They had passed into a state which was one of rapturous ecstasy and joy. Acts 2:4(NASB) Verse Thoughts. Acts 2 is the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke. Jews were always present when tongues took place in Acts (chs2, 10, and19). As there are degrees in the wind — a breath, a blast, a gale, so there are in the Spirit. A summary of Acts, chapter by chapter, from @biblesummary. In that speech we find the exercise of the higher gift of prophecy, with precisely the same results as those described by St. Paul as following on the use of that gift. Charismatic theologians have urged that the purpose of all the gifts is primarily edification (cf. It is difficult therefore to argue that these tongues were being used in the same way as at Pentecost. 188. Acts 6:3,5,8 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business… began. ", [Note: See my comments on these verses in these notes for further explanations.]. In Acts 2 we left our heroes, the apostles and their friends, waiting in the courts of the temple. "UTTERANCE"-669. apophtheggomai {ap-of-theng"-om-ahee}; from 575 and 5350; to enunciate plainly, i.e. Those who are "full of the Holy Spirit" are always those who are faithfully fulfilling their anointed task as proclaimers ( Acts 6:3; Acts 6:5; Acts 7:55; Acts 11:24; Acts 13:52)." Man’s self-consecration is the condition, God’s sanctifying gift is the consummation. We must admit of no compromise in the proclamation of such a message. I. The promise is then that God will give them enablement in doing so, being Spirit-enabled without being miraculous (if such a distinction is possible). A tolerably full report of two or three of St. Peter’s sermons is given us in the Acts, and we may assume that they are fair specimens of his ordinary preaching. But that was not all: they were commissioned to preach the gospel to every creature, to disciple all nations. This is manifestly impossible from the standpoint of the terminology. It is one thing to receive the Spirit as at Easter and to be filled with Him as at Whitsuntide. As yet, though they had been taught to pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13), and, we must believe, had found the answer to their prayer in secret and sacred influences and gradual growth in wisdom, they had never been conscious of its power as âfillingâ themâpervading the inner depths of personality, stimulating every faculty and feeling to a new intensity of life. ], "As has been pointed out by various scholars, if simple ecstatic speech was in view here, Luke ought simply to have used the term glossais [tongues], not eterais glossais [other tongues]." xliv.) [Note: Frederick R. Harm, "Structural Elements Related to the Gift of the Holy Spirit in Acts," Concordia Journal14:1 (January1988):30. If Christianity is no more than a moral doctrine, then Pentecost is lost in the background of a primitive antiquity; if it is "life from the dead," then we must ceaselessly repeat the watchword, "This is he that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost." We are wise then to leave the reference in Mark out when looking at the phenomenon of ‘tongues’. To be filled with the Spirit, we must empty ourselves by confessing all known sin and by dying to self. It may have been a unique divine intervention (miracle) instead. See also Ernest Swing Williams, a classic Pentecostal theologian, Systematic Theology, 3:50; Bernard Ramm, Rapping about the Spirit, p115; John Sherrill, They Shall Speak with Other Tongues, pp79-88; and Catalog of Oral Roberts University (1973), pp26-27.]. . It may have a perfect creed and yet be loveless, lifeless, helpless. Paul is quite clear on this. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They belong to revelation periods, and appear only when God is speaking to His people through accredited messengers, declaring His gracious purposes. What, then, are those phenomena? And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues. Doxologies, benedictions, adoration, in forms that transcended the common level of speech, and rose, like the Magnificat, into the region of poetry: this is what the word suggests to us. II. Connect with facts; the position and responsibilities of the Church, the promise given, the antecedent state of the world, the need of a Divine power for the mission of grace, the importance of such a miracle for the confirmation of faith and the establishment of Christianity, the uplifting of the agents above natural infirmities, errors, and sins. The same sign identified the same thing on the other initial instances of Spirit baptism ( Acts 10:46; Acts 19:6). In the present case, however, there are exceptional phenomena. I suppose that it doth manifestly appear hereby that the apostles had the variety and understanding of tongues given them, that they might speak unto the Greeks in Greek, unto the Italians in the Italian tongue, (82) and that they might have true communication (and conference) with their hearers. III. 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In the same place he affirmeth that it is an especial gift, wherewith all men are not endued. 2. However the ability to speak in tongues does not in itself demonstrate the baptism of the Holy Spirit. divided into seventy words in seventy languages; each hearing the word in the language of his own nation, ;” words singularly identical with Luke’s! 3. When they broke the law, God judged them. II. God had told the Jews centuries earlier that He would speak to them in a foreign language because they refused to pay attention to Isaiah"s words to them in their own language ( Isaiah 28:11; cf. Then they had worshipped apart by themselves, with no outward means of fellowship with these strangers, and had poured out their praises and blessings in their own Galilean speech, as each group of those pilgrims had done in theirs. Before they were tongue-tied. As regards the terms which are used to describe the gift, the English reader must be reminded that the word âunknownâ is an interpolation which appears for the first time in the version of 1611. He is only highest when he is filled with the Spirit of God. 1. on StudyLight.org ], ". As for trembling Israel, had they not accepted the ‘Law’ that self-same mountain would have covered them up, and that desert would have become their grave. They were filled and then they began to speak. [Note: Barclay, p16.] Notwithstanding, I leave it indifference whether there was any second miracle wrought or no, so that the Egyptians and Elamites did understand Peter speaking in the Chaldean tongue, as if he did utter divers voices. Then something special happened on the Damascus road. ], [Note: Frederick R. Harm, "Structural Elements Related to the Gift of the Holy Spirit in, [Note: Walt Russell, "The Anointing with the Holy Spirit in, "In the first thirteen chapters of Acts there are more than forty references to the Holy Spirit. Now they found themselves able to burst through the bounds that had thus divided them, and to claim a fellowship with all true worshippers from whatever lands they came. His decision was based on his view that no gifts should be used publicly in church unless they benefited all (Acts 2:26). AN ACCESS OF POWER BY WHICH THE NATURALLY TIMID WILL BE ENABLED TO DO THINGS WHICH WOULD BE OTHERWISE IMPOSSIBLE TO THE STRONGEST; in regard to —, 1. ], They "always seem to be spoken of as a normal function of the Christian life ... [in which the Spirit] makes them willing and able to undertake various works for the renewal and upbuilding of the Church." Solitary instances among the prophets of Israel may be cited where the Spirit of the Lord dwelt for a time in this or that servant of the Most High, but now for the first time began that intimate union which should endure through time and eternity between man and his God. "filling" to express the Holy Spirit"s presence and enablement. Filling by the Spirit results in the Spirit"s control of the believer ( Ephesians 5:18). Jews who knew this prophecy and were listening to Peter should have recognized that what was happening was evidence that it was God who was speaking to them. By the very necessity of the case the bodily Christ could be but a passing figure; but by a gracious mystery He caused Himself to be succeeded by an eternal Presence, "even the Spirit of Truth, which abideth for ever." The wind would have served them as Christians, but as apostles, i.e. God can fill a person with His Spirit on numerous separate occasions (cf. But on the face of it he was never required to answer such a claim. The intellect was illumined to know the truths of the Spirit. II. (2) For those multitudes all over the world who are without the knowledge of God as revealed in Christ. Everything that grieves the Spirit must be put away, "all malice and all guile and hypocrisies," etc., and "all unbelief, worldly-mindedness, pride, selfishness"; everything opposed to the simplicity, the charity and purity of Christ, or there will be fatal hindrances. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, κατως το πνευμα εδιδου αποπτεγγεσται αυτοις, kathōs to pneuma edidou apophtheggesthai autois, καθὼς τὸ πνεῦμα ἐδίδου ἀποφθέγγεσθαι αὐτοῖς, ἐὰν οὖν συνέλθῃ ἡ ἐκκλησία ὅλη ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ πάντες λαλῶσιν γλώσσαις, ἐκείνως μὲν γὰρ τῶν ἀκουόντων ἂν εἴη μᾶλλον ἢ τῶν λεγόντων τὸ θαῦμα. our own spirit, and many there be who follow their own ghost, and not the Holy Ghost; for even that ghost taketh upon it to inspire, and we know its revelations (Matthew 16:17). He would have had to answer the claim that some present did actually understand them, as they did at Pentecost. 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