HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE

2021-05-21 18:13:36

HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE 5-23-21  VIDEO

Pentecost to those in the Jewish faith is a holy celebration. It occurs 50 days after Passover. It is the feast that celebrates the giving of the Torah, and it  celebrates the harvest.  It is also the time when God would decide their financial blessing for the rest of the year. It was to last 30 days after pentecost.  God brought Israel out of Egypt at passover but 50 days later God calls them His people. Christians celebrate Pentecost as the birthday of the church and the power of the Holy Spirit as promised by Jesus coming to the apostles and the people who were hearing what was happening in the upper room He call us His people now and causes our finances to be bleed through Jesus. In the Old Testament God spread  over the tabernacle with fire. Fire represents the Holy Spirit now. The fiery presence provided light and guidance in the old testament but in the New Testament God guides and comforts us with the Holy Spirit in our bodies. We become the fiery tabernacle or the temple of the Holy Spirit overlaid with fire. Remember you have received the full measure of the Holy Spirit. As you pour yourself out, theres always a refreshment of more.

ACTS 2:1-4 On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place.

Suddenly they heard the sound of a violent blast of windrushing into the housefrom out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering it was all anyone could bear!

Then all at once a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes. It separated into tongues of fire that engulfedeach one of them.

They were all filled and equippedwith the Holy Spirit and were inspiredto speak in tonguesempowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned! TPT

ACTS 2:7-12 Bewildered, they said to one another, Arent these all Galileans?So how is it that we hear them speaking in our own languages?

We are northeastern Iranians, northwestern Iranians, Elamites, and those from Mesopotamia, Judea, east central Turkey, the coastal areas of the Black Sea, Asia,

10 north central Turkey, southern Turkey, Egypt, Libyans who are neighbors of Cyrene, visitors from all over the Roman Empire, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs.

11 Yet we hear them speaking of Gods mighty wonders in our own dialects!

 12 They all stood there, dumbfounded and astonished, saying to one another, What is this phenomenon? TPT

ACTS 2:14-18 Peter stood up with the eleven apostlesand shoutedto the crowd. Listen carefully, my fellow Jewsand residents of Jerusalem. You need to clearly understand whats happening here.

15 These people are not drunk like you think they are, for it is only nine oclock in the morning.

16 This is the fulfillment of what was prophesied through the prophet Joel, for God says:

17 This is what I will do in the last daysI will pour outmy Spirit on everybody and cause your sons and daughters to prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will experience dreams from God.

18 The Holy Spirit will come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.  TPT

The prophecy of David talks about Jesus and it sees Jesus resurrection.

ACTS 2:31-36 So when peering into the future, David prophesiedof the Messiahs resurrection. And God revealed to him that the Messiah would not be abandoned to the realm of death, nor would his body experience decay.

32 Cant you see it? God has resurrected Jesus, and we all have seen him!

33 Then God exalted him to his right hand upon the throne of highest honor. And the Father gave him the authority to send the promised Holy Spirit, which is being poured outupon us today. This is what youre seeing and hearing!

34 David wasnt the one who ascended into heaven, but the one who prophesied: Yahwehsaid to my Lord,  I honor you by enthroning you beside me,
35 until I make your enemies a footstool beneath your feet.

36 Now everyone in Israelcan know for certainthat Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one God has madeboth Lordand the Messiah.  TPT

The people in the crowd react to the birth of the church. Harvest begins and it is still going on, cant be stopped, is going on right till today and beyond.

ACTS 2:39-41 For Gods promise of the Holy Spirit is for youand your families, for those yet to be bornand for everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.

40 Peter preached to them and warned them with these words: Be rescued from the wayward and perverse culture of this world!

41 Those who believed the word that day numbered three thousand. They were all baptized and added to the church. TPT

Pentecost to the Jews was the six day of creation. It represents the leading of the Jewish people out of the wilderness into the promised land and into a place of rest.

HEB 4:6-10 Those who first heard the good news of deliverance failed to enter into that realm of faiths rest because of their unbelieving hearts. Yet the fact remains that we still have the opportunity to enter into the faith-rest life and experience the fulfillment of the promise!

For God still has ordained a day for us to enter into called Today. For it was long afterwards that God repeated it in Davids words, If only today you would listen to his voice and do not harden your hearts!

Now if this promise of rest was fulfilled when Joshua brought the people into the land, God wouldnt have spoken later of another rest yet to come.

So we conclude that there is still a full and complete Sabbath-restwaiting for believersto experience.

10 As we enter into Gods faith-rest life we cease from our own works, just as God celebrates his finished works and rests in them. TPT

Jer 31:33-34  "This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel when the time comes. I will put my law within them write it on their hearts! and be their God. And they will be my people.

34 They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about God. They'll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I'll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I'll forget they ever sinned!" God's Decree.  MSG .   Also Pentecost was a demonstration of the law been written on our hearts not on stone like the Torah.

2 Cor 3:3 You show and make obvious that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, not written with ink but with [the] Spirit of [the] living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.  AMP

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2 COR 3:3 As a result of our ministry, you are living letters written by Christ, not with ink but by the Spirit of the living Godnot carved onto stone tabletsbut on the tablets of tender hearts.  TPT

Num 9:15  And on the day that the tabernacle was erected, the cloud [of God's presence] covered the tabernacle, that is, the Tent of the Testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle, having the appearance of [a pillar of] fire until the morning. 

16 So it was constantly; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.   AMP

Luke 3:16 But John intervened: "I'm baptizing you here in the river. The main character in this drama, to whom I'm a mere stagehand, will ignite the kingdom life, a fire, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out.

17 He's going to clean house make a clean sweep of your lives. He'll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he'll put out with the trash to be burned."  MSG

1 THESS 5:19 Never restrain or put out the fire of the Holy Spirit. TPT

LU 12:49 I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze with fiery passion for God! TPT

2 TIM 1:6-7 Im writing to encourage you to fan into a flame and rekindlethe fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you when I laid my hands upon you.

For God will never give you the spirit of fear, but the Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control. TPT

HEB 1:7  And about his angels he says, I make my angels swift winds, and my ministersfiery flames.   TPT

ROM 12:1 Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to Gods marvelous mercies? To surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. TPT

ROM 8:9 But when the Spirit of Christ empowers your life, you are not dominated by the flesh but by the Spirit. And if you are not joined to the Spirit of the Anointed One, you are not of him. TPT

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Rom 8:9 But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].  AMP

1 COR 6:19-20 Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who lives in you? You dont belong to yourself any longer, for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit, lives inside your sanctuary.

20 You were Gods expensive purchase, paid for with tears of blood, so by all means, then, use your bodyto bring glory to God!TPT

1 COR 3:16-17 Dont you realize that together you have become Gods inner sanctuaryand that the Spirit of God makes his permanent home in you?

17 Now, if someone desecratesGods inner sanctuary, God will desecrate him, for Gods inner sanctuary is holy, and that is exactly who you are.  TPT

Acts 19:3 "How were you baptized, then?" asked Paul "In John's baptism."

4 "That explains it," said Paul. "John preached a baptism of radical life-change so that people would be ready to receive the One coming after him, who turned out to be Jesus. If you've been baptized in John's baptism, you're ready now for the real thing, for Jesus."

5 And they were. As soon as they heard of it, they were baptized in the name of the Master Jesus.

6 Paul put his hands on their heads and the Holy Spirit entered them. From that moment on, they were praising God in tongues and talking about God's actions. MSG

Luke 24:47 and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations starting from here, from Jerusalem!

48 You're the first to hear and see it. You're the witnesses.

49 What comes next is very important: I am sending what my Father promised to you, so stay here in the city until he arrives, until you're equipped with power from on high."  MSG

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.   AMP

ACTS 4:29-31 So now, Lord, listen to their threats to harm us. Empower us, as your servants, to speak the word of God freely and courageously.

30 Stretch out your hand of power through us to heal, and to move in signs and wonders by the name of your holy Son, Jesus!

31 As they prayed the earth shook beneath them, causing the building they were in to tremble. Each one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they proclaimed the word of God with unrestrained boldness.  TPT

EPH 5:18 And dont get drunk with wine, which is rebellion; instead be filled continually with the Holy Spirit.  TPT