How to receive the Spirit !

Acts 2: 1-11 describes the Day of Pentecost.
The experience of the Spirit, is marked by noise like a wind,
Tongues of Fire, the speech of the nations....

But what does it mean?

Peter explains to the crowd from 3 OT passages:

1. Through Joel 2, Peter explains that Pentecost is the fulfilment of the OT promise of the Age of the Spirit coming.
2. Through Psalm 16, Peter explains that Pentecost happens
because Jesus was raised from the dead by his Heavenly Father!
3. Through Psalm 110, Peter explains that Pentecost happened because Jesus returned to his Father's side to pour out the Holy Spirit on his people, as he promised.

So Pentecost is about the Old Testament believers were being drawn into the new age of the Spirit. The kick-off is marked by the Spirit falling on God's people to witness to the risen Lord Jesus.

Acts 2:1-11 describes the experience of the Old Testament Faithful on that day.

Acts 2:38 describes our experience of the Holy Spirit as we are born into the new age of the Spirit.

How should we respond ?

"Repent and be baptised, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off-for all whom the Lord our God will call"

Everyone who genuinely entrusts themselves to the Lordship of Jesus,
who turns from their old ways, of living apart from God, will receive the forgiveness of sins, and the gift of the Holy Spirit! Baptism is the outward sign of the inward turning to Jesus.

But once we have received the Spirit, What does the Spirit do?

Walk in the Spirit!

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