Ron and Nick talk about influences, the necessity of faith and continue their bible study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about how our atmosphere affects our hearts and how we learn to distract ourselves from trauma. Question from the heart about depression. Continuing bible study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about problems with the holiday season and tackle the question of loneliness during Christmas. They continue their study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about how the Holy Spirit fixes what's broken inside, respond to a listener's question about times when it is hardest to hear the Spirit, read a listener's text about forgiving the person who murdered their father, and continue our bible study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about safe places, what they are and how we need them, respond to a listener's question about something they cannot forgive themselves for, read a listener's text, and continue our study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick react to rapper NF's song "Paid My Dues," answer a listener's question about what conscience is versus the voice of the Holy Spirit, read a listener's email who is learning to hear the Holy Spirit, and continue our Bible study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about the Holy Spirit helping us to rehearse the things he's told us, Nick reads a listener's email about how the podcast is helpful, we respond to the question of the day from a wife who recently discovered her husband's use of pornography, we continue our study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick discuss a listeners text about finding freedom in forgiveness, the question of the week is about how to share the good news about Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and we continue our bible study through Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about a recent crisis at Orapax and a blessing unsought for the business. A listener asks about not being able to hear from the Spirit and we continue our Bible study through Acts.
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Ron and Nick discuss the new show format, Ron quitting cussing, answer the question of the day regarding attunement, and continue the bible study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about money, what it is and what it does, answer a question about recovering from trauma, and continue our Bible study through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about how to change and what to change, answer a question about anger and continue their bible study with the Holy Spirit through the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about the nature of friendship with people and the Holy Spirit, how to know if you are loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and continue their study of the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about the motivations for transformation and those who want to see it in others, how the gospel erases both racism and the accusation of being racist, and continue in their study of the book of Acts.
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Ron and Nick talk about living unoffended, what forgiveness is and how to forgive, and how to find out your true identity.
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Ron and Nick discuss what it means to die to self to find life, the Charlie Kirk assassination, and look at Acts 2:13 where the first people filled with the Spirit evoked amazement, perplexity, and mockery.
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Ron and Nick continue their discussion about marriage.
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Ron and Nick talk about how we learned about Abiding in Christ and our early mentor, Mike Wells.
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Acts 2:5
Now
To the disciples following Jesus's command to wait in Jerusalem until they received power it must have seemed like God was slacking. They have the command to tell the whole world about the gospel and they are just supposed to wait around?? and yet in the end God brought the world to them.
Acts 2:6
Bewildered
The work of Holy Spirit did not begin in clarification but in disheveling the people who ran to see what He was doing. But the work was immediately one of bringing a particular kind of unity and clarity no one could have anticipated. The reversal of the Tower of Babel happens here. God came down to men who were not trying to reach Him. God brought language back together. The scattering is now a gathering. Now we have the real chance of a unified world. (Bonhoeffer's quote in Life Together: Without Christ there is discord between God and humanity and between one human being and another. Christ has become the mediator who has made peace with God and peace among human beings. Without out Christ we would not know God; we could neither call on God nor come to God. Moreover, without Christ we would not know other Christians around us; nor could we approach them. The way to them is blocked by one's own ego [das eigene Ich]. Christ opened up the way to God and to one another. Now Christians can live with each other in peace; they can love and serve one another; they can become one. But they can continue to do so only through Jesus Christ. Only in Jesus Christ are we one; only through him are we bound together. He remains the one and only mediator throughout eternity.
Acts 2:11
Jews Converts Arabs Cretans
The first display of Holy Spirit presence affects everyone the same way. Utter amazement and no discrimination. Even though the Jews received the Holy Spirit he immediately shows he is not their exclusive property. This is a message stamped on history. The people of God we're not supposed to be called out to keep out. They were supposed to reveal God to the world. Now Holy Spirit takes his first appearance to show them the new dispensation is a gathering of all people to the living God.
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Ron and Nick continue a discussion about the coming of the Holy Spirit and being in a community.
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Acts 2:4
Identity
From here on out in the story whenever we see a person who received the Spirit, we see the potential that Jesus is in them and with them. These are now the acts of the Holy Spirit and it is his identity we look for in what the people do. These are not people trying to know God, they are people filled with God line Jesus was filled with God. They know who he is and they know who they are. They have the internal witness of the Spirit of Jesus.
All of Them
The Holy Spirit makes no distinctions. All who waited for Him to come met him. Young and old men and women. This must have been both a shock and a delight. Social justice is a good thing maybe even a great thing but true equality and fair treatment is a myth outside this singular experience. This is the only place in history where the entire playing field is leveled completely and every single person receives the gift. Every person elevated to God-friend status. This is the only social equality that the church guarantees and it trumps any other. Making races equal or genders equal to each other before each other is meaningless. God giving every person equal access to the Holy Spirit and therefore equal before Him is actual equality. This is why the church must not become an entity which majors on economic, gender, or any other form of liberation theology because these are less than perfect and never to be obtained equalities while gospel equality IS liberation theology that is obtainable now and forever.
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Ron and Nick talk about the struggle between flesh and Spirit and the way the devil talks vs to us vs the way God talks to us.
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Acts 2:2 The Spirit Comes
Ex - the sonic boom that hit va beach greenbrier and hickory
What are the marks of the Spirit's arrival?
Sudden - not gradual but obvious and immediate. One moment the Spirit was absent the next He arrived and everyone knew it.
Sound - the Holy Spirit is not silent He is audible and audibly present. The Holy Spirit has his own voice. They heard Him. Their ears perceived him. This was not a spiritual experience it was a physical experience. It does not say they felt him blowing on their skin like the wind it says he made a sound upon their ears like the wind. This is the opening of the ears of our race to the new voice of God in the world.
Blowing - the Holy Spirit comes with a sense of motion. He is not static sound he is moving sound. It is the sound of a wind that would bear is along with it were we to be open to it.
Violent - the Holy Spirit doesn't sneak in the room. He is loud. He isn't trying to hide. He is making sure they hear him.
From Heaven - the direction Holy Spirit comes is from heaven down to us. This is the divine gift Jesus promised. He doesn't come in through the door or windows as from the earth. He descends. Do not doubt he is not of this world. He is the arrival of God unincarnate - God in Spirt. God completely free to move in and around all things in the earth.
Filled - this Holy Spirit is filling. He fills things. He fills houses. The first thing he does is fill a house. He fills us. He fills. His first act even before tongues is to fill up the house; to immerse everyone and everything in the house. They were praying and in a flash they were swimming in God. Surrounded by goodness and health itself. Peace and joy and love. All of it all around them.
Acts 2:3 What Seemed to Be
The Holy Spirit is a person. The first time we meet a person we get impressions and some facts but we cannot get a grip on everything they are. The first people to meet the Holy Spirit in his new relationship to the human race told us what they saw and thought of him but the Spirit himself who authorized this account didn't feel the need to sharpen their account or fill in blanks. He leaves it at "seemed" and doesn't firm it up. What does this tell us about this moment? The tongues of fire must not be significant enough for Holy Spirit to clarify who he is. He doesn't want us to focus on them in this introductory scene. He is content to leave that part fuzzy - we should be too.
Identity
From here on out in the story whenever we see a person who received the Spirit, we see the potential that Jesus is in them and with them. These are now the acts of the Holy Spirit and it is his identity we look for in what the people do. These are not people trying to know God, they are people filled with God line Jesus was filled with God. They know who he is and they know who they are. They have the internal witness of the Spirit of Jesus.