“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.”
The day of Pentecost in Acts 2 is actually the launching of Christ’s church. Jesus told His disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came, and this is what happened in Jerusalem on that particular celebration of Pentecost. Pentecost literally means “fifty days,” which means fifty days after Passover and was also called the “Feast of Weeks.” It was a celebration of the gathering of the grain harvest, and came to be a celebration of the giving of the law to Moses. (The Revel Bible Dictionary) It took on new meaning because of Jesus. It is important to see what occurred in this launching of Christ’s church. The first thing to note is that it happened as Jesus told His disciples it would happen. He told them that the Holy Spirit would come upon them and that they would be witnesses of Him in “Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) This event was indeed the fulfilling of Jesus’ word to His disciples about the Holy Spirit coming upon them – as well as in them. It was fitting that the witness of the disciples under the power of the Holy Spirit took place in Jerusalem, since that is where Jesus told them that they would begin their witness. This was an example of witnessing under the power of the Holy Spirit. It was amazing that people from all over the world heard the gospel in their own language. The second thing to note is that they were “all with one accord in one place.” This means that there was no disagreement among them as to their purpose. Since that church, like ours, was made up of human beings, there were eventually disagreements and differences that needed to be worked out, but it was important for them to be of one accord on the matter of being witnesses of Jesus. We can disagree about a lot of things, and we probably will, but we cannot disagree that the main purpose of the church today is the same purpose of the church on the day of Pentecost, and that was to be witnesses for Jesus to the lost world. We should certainly be of one accord on that matter. The third thing to note is that it was the Holy Spirit who made the gospel clear to the people who received the witness. Let’s look at Acts 2:6-9 as an example of what I mean: “Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7. And they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? 8. And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?” The marvelous thing here is that it was the Holy Spirit who communicated the truth of the gospel about Jesus Christ to people from all over the world. Whatever else you make of this event, it is obvious that what took place was a miracle of hearing. Notice that the people did not say “they are speaking in our own language.” What they said was that they heard the men speaking in their own language. Only the Holy Spirit can cause such a miracle. In your own witness, you might not think that you are doing a good job of sharing the gospel, but the Holy Spirit can communicate it through you no matter how you might stumble. The bottom line of this launching of Christ’s church on the day of Pentecost is that the disciples, not just the apostles but all of the believers at that time, went in one accord to witness under the power of the Holy Spirit and at the end of the day, after Peter’s sermon in Acts 2:14-41, three thousand people were saved. We need to catch the spirit of Pentecost in Acts 2. Don’t you agree? Bro. Joe
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