Jase Wades into Spiky Issues Like Speaking in Tongues & How Do We Know Jesus Was Raised? | Ep 841

I'm not ashamed, what about you? Welcome back to Unshamed, as we've told you before, you

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, we record two of our podcasts at a time, so sometimes we work on things and stories, but we just finished the last podcast and finally got it done. to our point that we were trying to make and well, we were because look, this is a difficult section for a religious people to accept and it's because it wasn't like the holy spirit suddenly appeared here in Acts. 2 like it never had been, I mean, one of the first verses in the Bible is that the Holy Spirit that is floating on the waters at creation was floating on the waters, where exactly is that act?

I mean Genesis 1 3 maybe you see, it's an interesting question. right at the beginning no, it's in verse two two in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth now the Earth was formless and empty The darkness was on the surface of the abyss and the spirit of God hovered over the waters now if you were with Use the last podcast and skip to the last 10 minutes because I was trying to make a point, but it took me 50 minutes to get there or 40. I was saying that in Ephesians chapter 1 in light of what I just read in Genesis 1, now We have an arising of the spirit in a new way in the sense that it was poured out on these Jews on the day of Pentecost, but just think of all the later verses that will talk about a new creation, so he was there in the creation floating over the waters and now all of a sudden when the new creation appears, spirit-filled people receiving the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in you and it is seen in several places that Paul uses this, now we are a new creation, you

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, in Galatians It says the only thing that counts is Faith expressing itself in love a new creation.

Remember that this is how I was reading in Ephesians 1 where it uses this same terminology that when Jesus went to the right hand of God and Ephesians 1:10 is bringing all things in the heaven and on earth. together under one head, even Christ, doubled that in verse 22 and then God put all things under his feet under his feet upon him to be head over all for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fill everything in everything. way and then we finish where we left off was in Chapter 2 in verse 19 where he says his fellow citizens his members of the house of God that we refer to John 14:23 we returned to the promise that Jesus made that when I send I will go to you to leave a counselor and if you trust me and obey my commandments God the father and I will come and make our home with him the person who trusts him verse 20 one of chapter 2 in him the whole building is united. to become a holy Temple in the Lord and in it you two are being built together to become an abode in which God Lives by his spirit, so this is what he is portraying and that is why just to give you another verse on Genesis 1 in Chapter. 3 of Ephesians in verse 14 when he prayed for the Ephesians he said: I kneel before the father from whom the whole family, the house in heaven and on earth derives its name from him.

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, this is how Jesus is making his presence known in America today. and that's what it's all about, that's right, so here we are back to the core. So this is an event that happens when Jesus ascends as we talked about and this unleashes something different and I'm going to read this because someone sent us a question from our mailbag about Luke 3:16 and I want to read it. that verse because this points to what we're talking about here, the last podcast and today, in fact, let's start in 15 Luke 3:15, the people were waiting expectantly and they were all wondering in their hearts if John could possibly be the Christ is John .

The Baptist John responded to all of them I baptize you with water but one more powerful than I will come whose sandal straps I am not worthy to untie he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire and then he gives a picture of judgment he says that his fork with wings is in his hand to cleanse the threshing floor, which means he is cleansing the people who don't believe him and to gather the wheat in the granary, but he will burn the Chafe with an unquenchable fire, so it's really interesting. This about the fire again and the idea that it says the baptism of fire, which again I think points to this same event and you mentioned last time when you read that they looked like

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of fire, I mean, yes, and the Holy Spirit was present in all times. the Old Testament in some capacity even John the Baptist of the Holy Spirit about him remembers in the womb Through the fire and the smoke and the clouds and he says that about John the Baptist but he also said that because you have to make sense of this is that a Although the Holy Spirit was at work and providing the gifts of His Spirit throughout the Old Testament, what happened in Acts 2 was unprecedented, that's right, it would now be poured out and made available to indwell people, correct who, then, with that and Jesus being at the right hand. of God would represent Heaven and Earth on Earth, that's right, it is this same Jesus who is going to fill the universe, he is doing it through people who are filled with the Spirit and I will give you two examples of that because I don't I don't want to just throw that out because a lot of people and when you hear me say that he was working on the Old Testament, a lot of people in the religious world and scholars are like the Holy Spirit.

It was here all the time, why do you make such a big deal about it being like the church was here all the time? I get it, it's difficult. There were people who were saved in the Old Testament, but it was not because they understood the Grace of Jesus. the death and resurrection of him because he had not died, he was buried and resurrected, but I think Hebrews 11 tries to explain that, yes, but the last verse of Hebrews 11 after going through all these heroes of history it says just along with we. They were perfected and then the next verse says so let's fix our eyes on Jesus so that God knows that the heart of the Holy Spirit was here and he can do whatever he wants, but what was his main impulse for the Bible and for humanity .

Jesus, that's right, we, you know, wrapping our heads around him being the invi, the image of God that represents the invisible God and then him being exalted giving us his spirit and therefore us, discovering what our purpose is, that is really what Ephesians is about. He tells us who we are and he does it in many different ways He says we are the bride of Christ in Ephesians 5 remember when he was talking about husbands and wives but he comes to the end he says I am telling you a mystery but I am talking about you and in Christ you are married you are the bride of Christ you are the body of Christ you are the temple of God and that is that unifying work of the Holy Spirit that he unites us and he goes to Ephesians 6 and says that they are the army of God because he says to put on the whole armor of God and that's what Luke was establishing in his book about Jesus with all these, uh, these clues of what the kingdom of God is. was going to be seen and that is also why Jesus prayed.

I pray that your kingdom comes to earth as it is in heaven. I don't know any other way you're going to accomplish this other than Jesus being exalted and the spirit descending. but two points I wanted to mention which I'm saying why this is special remember when John the Baptist answered the question when Jesus said I tell you the truth this is Matthew 11:11 among those born of women there has not been

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anyone greater than John the Baptist but He who is less in the kingdom of heaven is greater than the good because I would say that because when the kingdom comes when Jesus is exalted, he is declared King of kings through the resurrection and his offering of love on the cross and then he is exalted, sends his Spirit.

Well, now the reason I would say such a statement is that when you literally harbor the Spirit of Jesus, you can be Jesus on Earth through His Spirit, which is the only rational way in which you can make sense of that correct statement and such. as I said before yes in Luke 3 John the Baptist said this would come in Acts 1:5 which we read before Jesus said that John was baptized with water, but in a few days so now By correcting this in this period of time, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit SP, so there is no doubt that everything focused on what was about to happen in Acts chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost, the baptism of the holy spirit with fire that with the

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of fire and the idea and also the idea that if you don't have the spirit of God, we talk about the unifying work, but there is also a divisive work here as well, you don't have the spirit of God, you are not. of God, that's right, what Jesus has said, that will be it only if you don't believe in me right when he was here, so we are trying to prepare this so that you understand the importance of the moment because a lot of people say, well, still I'm waiting for the baptism of the Holy Spirit Well, it exactly happened 2000 years ago, you're waiting for something that already happened and that reminds Missy when she said she was frustrated with some of the songs.

They're like please send the spirit, he's like I did, he's been poured out and look a lot of things are hard to understand but look there's a big difference in someone being over you because even think about when Jesus sent the apostles. remember when he sent them in Luke and gave them the power of the spirit, yes, you say, well, where did he get it from?, and someone asked me that time, I said, well, he is part of the divinity and I. I realized that he emptied himself but he had also been baptized and I mean, I don't want to say something that I'm not 100% true, but I'm pretty sure that Jesus was the first person to receive the Holy.

The Spirit when he was baptized was never recorded before. No, you're right, he had the spirit and it came down on him and he said it looked like a light. Okay, the Spirit came upon him and then a couple chapters later he's sending the power of the spirit upon other people and they're like, well, where did he get it from? Well, go back two two chapters, you had some version of the Holy Spirit and, look, he never did a miracle before, that happened right on the way up to his baptism, that's true, which is interesting, but I want to read this because, to put it now this is John 7, people don't like to read this because they think it's confusing, but I think it puts the pieces of the puzzle together on the last and greatest day of the feast John 7:37 Jesus stood up and said out loud, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

He used the same phraseology in John chapter 4, yes, to the woman at the well, which concluded at the End of the story that there will come a time when you will not worship on a mountain or there will not be a place, in fact, he said: I you will worship in spirit and in truth, in spirit and in truth, the same terminology. and remember this is another symbolic use of the holy spirit because we know how you're going to describe the Holy Spirit God clouds fire Living water wind wind we can really understand it not because it's God it's if we could understand it It wouldn't be so surprising, that's right, you know?

And he pointed out that you'll never really understand it because he said, who can, who can? Define the wi exactly, I mean, he gives you that moment, wait J, let's take a break, so last night I was doing research, we were talking about the Holy Spirit, you know, and I'm getting other people's opinion, so I clicked on this sermon, but it was on some kind of social media website that I don't do social media on. means, but right below the sermon there is a group of young girls on the beach and it's like I'm looking at the preacher and he's right there and I wonder what would happen if I was looking for this, yeah, exactly now I found myself. in spiritual warfare and all I was doing was trying to click on the link to listen to the sermon and at that moment I realized that it is quite easy to find something that you don't need to look at, in fact it can happen in a second, yeah, and you're literally looking for something good and you see the other side appear, that's what our friends at Covenant Eyes have been telling us for a long time and now they're calling it that again.

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in an unknown language and so, but you know, that doesn't mean anything. I'm just trying to Let's be real here, let's take our last break. I mean, the bottom line was because we don't want to confuse. You know, listeners, the conclusion in Corinth was that they had neglected faith and hope and love and had forgotten the gospel. So be careful, especially when you are rebuking them for misusing the gifts, if you are now trying to apply some of those things in your own church, where is the faith and hope and love, where is the focus? in the Gospel of Jesus because that was his point, but that's our point, so resetting this in our last segment here J to prepare for this sermon that we're going to dive into from the first sermon?

What does this mean? And some of them said it doesn't mean anything. They are drunk and then Peter stands up with the 11, which I think helps the idea that they were the ones

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in these languages ​​and he

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his voice. and he addressed the crowd, so now we have a man with one voice and, more than likely, in a language that was probably Aramaic, which everyone spoke, so yeah, and what is he going to talk about, is he going to talk of Jesus in specific detail as a fulfillment of prophecy when he was crucified and look, it's a very harsh sermon, I mean, he says, you, I mean, he's looking in verse 22, you, with the help of evil men , you killed him by nailing him to the cross, I mean, this was it, this was it. a barn burner, yeah, exactly like the Romans, you know, killing, he like you contributed to this and it was some of these people that I was talking to were the ones that were screaming crucify him and the pilot said, look, I mean, That's why we're killing this. boy, we shouldn't be killing this guy and they say crucify him crucify I mean, these are some of the same people who were saying we use the hyperbole of this today because we're like I put Jesus on the cross. and that's true, my sin is why he died, but these people really did it, they really said and but you can't forget that he's talking to a Jew, this was a Jew, this was the Jewish moment, this was a restoration of the Jewish nation here. and I think they were more wounded in their hearts because they realized that they did not recognize Jesus as the Son of God.

Now what's so strange that people use Acts 2 more than anyone else, even in the Gentile world, the Gentiles know to go? to Acts 10, theoretically, that was our moment because a Gentile is any other human being that was not from Israel, well, we are in the Gentile category, right, you know, if Acts 10 were not in the book, we would be in trouble, that's because it would just be a Jewish thing and that's why he gets into these promises for you and your children, all those who are far away and that goes back to this promise that God made not only to Jesus about the Holy Spirit, but also the promise that was. given to Abraham that through this family all nations were going to be blessed first starting with a Jew that is why he says you know I am not ashamed of the gospel it is the power of God first for the Jew well here is chapter 2 then for the Gentiles there are 10 now we knew the clues to that because that group of 120 there were Gentiles there were Gentiles hanging around that's why Jesus was receiving so much criticism but God loves the world and people say well that he is talking about the Jews, no God loves to the world, you can see that in the interaction of Jesus he treated everyone with the same enthusiasm, he broke down all kinds of racial barriers and that is what is so attractive and amazing about Jesus and even Luke said and when he described some of those people , uh, I read this when I was looking at some of them, they were converts, oh yeah, in verse 11, both Jews and converts to Judaism, he even makes the comment that and these people were Jews now because they converted, they were called . to proelite them in Judaism, but even Luke drops that in parentheses, that you know some of these people weren't even Jewish and then they were brought to Judaism at this time, so you're seeing a little glimpse because remember Luke is writing this . to a person who describes that Jesus is for everyone and that's what many missed and it's really interesting because you remember that whenever that verse when we were talking about the pilot I think it's in John that says from that moment in Pilate and Herod In other words, they became close, they became political about the memory of Jesus when he was before him, so it was really interesting that idea because can you imagine the conversations they had?

Jesus died and rose again and they heard about it, but they say no. I mean, it couldn't have happened and you know they didn't believe it, but can you imagine them saying you know we have this new cult, we're trying to deal with these Jews who follow Christ now, I don't know what I'm going to do with these people because this is going to appear again in Acts 12 and so they don't believe that everything has changed, they are just thinking that this is a new group that got behind Jesus and really believed. he rose from the dead, I mean that's the practical backdrop to what's happening, what you don't realize is a whole new kingdom, a kingdom outside of heaven has now become a kingdom on Earth and for all eternity, I mean, they're not seeing it. and then that's why you get to acts 10 when the Gentiles come in and that's even more incredible, it really is, so I mean, we can pick up, we'll pick up on the details, you know, as we go through this, but this It's a It's hard to go verse by verse in the first two chapters because you missed the whole point.

I think if you do it right, I mean, we skip over something that no one wants to address, but you know after this scripture about Judas was fulfilled, they chose another apostle that they had and they somehow explain why they meet the prerequisites, which which I think is important because when it comes to these miraculous gifts of the holy spirit, they seem to be very thorough in the qualifications and here it is, I think this is very important I agree uh verse 21 of Acts one says therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us all the time that the Lord Jesus entered and left Among Us beginning from the baptism of John until the moment when Jesus took us from us because one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection , so they had to be there all the time, so that's what we're saying these people who claim to be apostles today, I mean, did they witness the resurrection?

Because it seems like they're making a big deal out of it and what I find even more fascinating is that they're proposing to people we haven't heard of up to this point, so that's what gets to me about some of these. you know people who attack the elect because even though they have the main things right you know they are completing yes the people who follow you use an artistic impression, not unlike a preacher using an illustration in a sermon Yes, some. Something historical that happened, yeah, he's like putting it and then, well, here are two guys who had evidently been here all along and we're just now hearing about them, yeah, so there were other people following Jesus, uh, he told us.

He gave what we needed. I know, but here are two guys and what's even more fascinating than that is that they prayed for the Lord to show who needed to take charge and then they decided to draw lots to see who would win because they didn't want it to be political. someone's boy got into the boy, if this ever shows you how we fell into the Church, how many churches now no one and by the way it gets to the point that when I was looking at these men, 11 of them were from Galilee, you already know. what that meant in slang in the Jewish world at that time, the wrong side of the tracks and you'll see in chapter 4 and it says that these were ordinary uneducated men, they were fishermen, they were not religious.

Poow and the fact that Jesus chose these types of men to be leaders and witnesses and tells us something today, it's like this if you think you know who I am, well you're the perfect person just because you realize you're the perfect person so that God moves through his Spirit CU Jesus is exalted and is a warrior, be part of his body to be his bride in Christ now. I'm glad you brought that up because that's crucial too. we're out of time, we'll come back, we'll do the next podcast, we'll delve specifically into this sermon that literally changed the world and then some of the consequences of that, like we continue with Luke through his writing of the book. of Acts, so see you next time.

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