Hello everyone! Welcome to Redemption Church. My name is Chris Fluitt. Greetings to all our online watchers and listeners. If you are ever near Plano Tx we would love for you to come and see us.

I am excited to preach to you today. I really want you to use your bibles today. Whether it is digital on your smartphone or a good old fashioned book with paper, I think it is valuable to turn to scripture yourself and not just depend on the screens to do it for you.

Please turn with me to Joel

chapter 2.

While

you are turning and opening up your bible app, I want to thank you

for all the great questions we received on our anonymous text line

during our Search Engine series. I think we answered all the

questions presented. There were some great questions that really

stretched us and I am thankful for them. Please stay in the practice

of asking tough questions. That anonymous text number still works –

214 856 0550.

Joel 2:28 (NIV2011) “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

Joel

2:29 (NIV2011) Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour

out my Spirit in those days.

The

prophet of God spoke a radical prophecy

This

is Radical

This

is radical... the Spirit of God would be poured out.

Up to this point, the Spirit remained behind a veil… not to be experienced but feared.

This

is radical... The spirit of a God was only to be experienced by one

man, the high priest, one day a year... now it will be poured out to

everyone always...

This

is radical... Not just men.. but women also.. not just Jew.. but all

flesh.. not just the select religious, but the servant and

handmaid...

This

is radical...

In

Joel 2 God gave us a radical promise through the voice of the prophet

Joel.

Radical

promise requires radical fulfillment

God

always fulfills His promise. Here is the radical fulfillment.

Acts 2:1-2 (NIV2011) When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Acts 2:3-4 (NIV2011) They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Is

this radical? Yes!

Acts 2:5-6 (NIV2011) Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken.

Acts 2:12-13 (NIV2011) Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

Acts 2:14 (NIV2011) Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.

Acts 2:15 (NIV2011) These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!