Pentecost is like the Christian Sinai. God appears in fire, and we see the people of God redefined and empowered. God was expanding His people by adding the faithful from every nation to the faithful believers of Israel. Now, God’s people are forever defined by faith, rather than ethnicity. At Sinai, God was a distant fire that most of them could not touch or even approach. At Pentecost, the fire of God’s Spirit came down to them and rested on each one. Giving each of them—and all of them together—the power to become the people of God. To become the true Body of Christ.

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