Jesus Anoints His New Tabernacle – His Church

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. Acts 2:1-11

Steps: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; 11, 12

God new that He needed people to communicate His messages of recovery to the world. He called this group of people and trained them through the three and one half years of His ministry. Then after His resurrection He spent the same amount of time training the Apostles as He had Moses in the Old Testament – 40 days. After His training He returned to heaven and when all was ready in heaven He poured out His Spirit upon His people as He had done at Mt Sinai 50 days after they had left Egypt so many years before. Now God blessed them with the presence of His Holy Spirit and gave them special gifts to share their experience, strength, and hope. God blessed them with the gift of tongues to tell the people from 15 different nations who had come to Jerusalem for Passover. The people were astonished that they heard the wonderful works of God in their own languages. They knew that the disciples were not trained for this and they knew that God was doing something special for them.

Prayer for Today: God, please grant us special gifts so that we too can go out and tell people of Your wonderful works toward us.