2. The Unhindered Harvest
Acts:
The Unhindered Harvest

3. Acts 2:1-8 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

4. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

5. Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.

6. They were amazed and astonished, saying, “Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?

7. Focus on what is primary
It begins, but first…
Focus on what is primary
It isn’t “speaking in tongues”
“Tongues” are only incidental

8. It begins, but first… Step into the culture Use of Scripture
Use of witnesses

9. He is here! God gave a sign Empirical evidence
Signs accompany something new

10. He is here!
God attracted a crowd
Religious devotion
Unusual phenomena

11. He is here! God’s power at work The Spirit gave utterance
The Spirit did what they could not
Believers were faithful

12. Peter takes a stand
Cowardice transformed
Proclaimed judgement
Proclaimed hope

13. Peter takes a stand
Proclaimed assurance
Proclaimed personal identification
Proclaimed Christ as LORD

14. People respond
The Spirit convicts
The Spirit compels
“What shall we do?!”

15. What shall we do? Repent Precedes baptism
Inseparably linked to forgiveness
Inseparably linked to the Spirit’s indwelling

16. What shall we do? Be baptized Public identification Issue of obedience
Not optional

17. Reaping the Harvest Ask the question Repent! Be baptized
Of your rejection
Of your excuses
Be baptized
Reaping the Harvest