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These Are Not Drunk As You Suppose

14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words.

15 “For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.

16 “But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.

18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy.

19 I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

21 And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.’

Before I begin, I need to be real with you up front. I am about to preach a sermon that is downright Pentecostal and you might think “Wow, I didn’t know Jonathan was a holy rolling charismaniac”

but I am not. I have never spoken in tongues, I have never prophesied, and I have never clucked like a chicken or barked like a dog but sometimes when we see abuses or extremes we can tend to over correct.

If when you are listening to me and you are wondering where the balance is be patient, Stick with me and you’ll see it.

The truth is the Holy Spirit is critical to our Christian walk and if we shy away from the Holy Spirit because we are nervous or uneasy when He is manifested through spiritual gifts or through strange signs and utterances then we might be depriving ourselves of the key to our victory.

The bulk of this passage is a promise that God gave to the prophet Joel about the coming age of the Spirit, which is this church age that started on the day of Pentecost and it continues to this day. This is talking about now.

There are two characteristic of this new age. First anyone who calls one the name of the Lord will be saved. Salvation is available to anyone, not a select group of people like the Jews or elite individuals who happen to impress God enough to earn their way in. Anyone can be saved no matter their lineage, age, sex, or ability. One only has to be humble enough call on the name of Jesus for salvation.

Second this is the age where anyone can be filled with the Spirit of God. Before in the Old Testament this was an honor reserved for only those individuals who had a special calling. It was the exception not the rule. Now anyone can be filled with the Holy Spirit. Again lineage, age, sex, ability don’t factor in.

The only requirement is faith in Jesus Christ and a desire to receive the Holy Spirit. There are two things that we can look forward to the Spirit providing for us in this new age, power to be a witness and power to walk in holiness.

This passage highlights the supernatural power that the Holy Spirit will give the saints to be witnesses. Miracles will accompany the saints as we see from the l...