TABERNACLE BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE & SEMINARY BANGALORE

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 the coming of the Holy spirit in Acts Chapter 2

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Lect.Thangjakai Kipgen

Submitted by: Mr. Peter Bawi Dawt Thang

Submitted On: 14/9/2022

The Coming of The Holy Spirit In Acts Chapter 2

Introduction

Acts 2 presents the end of the age of the Mosaic law and the beginning of the church age.
Ever since the Israelites escaped slavery in Egypt, God had dealt with His creation
primarily through the law He gave Moses. As the Israelites abided by the law, God
blessed them. When they broke the law, God judged them. Hundreds of years of history
proved the Israelites were incapable of fully keeping the law. No one can be good enough
to earn God's favor. God must bridge the gap caused by sin in order to bestow His
forgiveness.
This is why He sent His Son, Jesus. With His crucifixion, burial, and resurrection, Jesus
was the perfect, sinless sacrifice that can stand in that gap caused by sin. His death
fulfilled the requirement that sin always brings death and granted an "imputed"
sinlessness on whoever believes Him (John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5:21). The Mosaic law
has proven it cannot save, only Jesus can and will. Now it's time to spread that good
news.

What Is The Coming of The Holy Spirit

Many people don’t know the Holy Spirit, or they don’t know what the Holy Spirit will do
for them. People perish for lack of knowledge and people miss out on God and all that
God has because they do not know His Word.  Many people know God, the Father, they
know Jesus Christ, but not many people know the Holy Spirit. Our desire is for you to
know the Holy Spirit.  
The Spirit of God descended on the 120 followers of Jesus and they started speaking out
loud in languages from around the world. This created such a commotion that thousands
who were in Jerusalem at the time came out to see what was happening and in front of the
gathering crowd, Peter spoke the first gospel message and ‘three thousand were added to
their number that day’ (Acts 2:41). The number of gospel followers has been growing
continually ever since that Pentecost Sunday.
The Holy Spirit had absolute influence, absolute control and possession of them He
began to give them utterance. He began to move their mouths, lips and their tongues into
a prayer language. I believe it was intercession because they were praying in tongues and
others who were around began to hear them talk about the blessings or praying in
tongues. They began to hear them just magnify God, glorify God, talk mysteries about
the wonders of God on that very day. That is, the meaning of Pentecost. The meaning of
Pentecost is the day when the Holy Spirit came to the early church and birthed the early
church.

How Did The Holy Spirit In Acts Chapter 2

The disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost and were blessed
with the gift of tongues as they preached the gospel. Peter proclaimed that Jesus is “both
Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36) and invited people to repent, be baptized, and receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost. About 3,000 people were converted and baptized that day, and
they continued faithful in the Church.
About one week after the Savior ascended into heaven, Jews from many nations came to
Jerusalem to participate in the feast of Pentecost and to worship at the temple and give
thanks to the Lord. “As part of the law of Moses, the feast of Pentecost or Firstfruits was
held fifty days after the Feast of the Passover (Lev. 23:16). Pentecost was to celebrate the
harvest, and in the Old Testament it is called the Feast of Harvest or the Feast of Weeks”.

As a result of being filled with the Holy Ghost, the disciples were able to share the truths
of the gospel of Jesus Christ with others, even in the native languages of those they were
teaching. One truth we can learn from this account is that as we are filled with the Holy
Ghost, He will help us teach and testify to others.
In Matthew 5:17, Jesus clearly said that “do not think that I have come to abolish the law
or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them”
Jesus did not come to abolish the law or try and stop the law. He came to fulfill it. Let’s
look through these three different holidays and see what did Jesus did and what He is still
doing?

Let look the first, the Passover, the Passover represents salvation; in the book of Exodus
when the children of Israel were in Egypt? God sent plagues to Egypt. The last plague,
the tenth plague, was that every first -born male child had to die. The way God saved the
Israelites in Goshen, was that they had to go slay a blameless lamb and take the blood,
(which is symbolic of the blood of Jesus) and sprinkle it or smear it on the front door post
of their homes.
When the angel of death was going through, and he saw the blood, he passed them over.
That’s the idea, that’s what happened. We see Jesus fulfilling this holiday when it comes.
He’s not abolishing it, but he’s fulfilling it. Now we see in, in the Old Testament, what
was a type or a shadow. Now we see the fulfillment of it in the New Testament.
Now we don’t have to take the animals and slaughter them anymore because Christ is our
Passover lamb that has been sacrificed. The law and the prophets is being fulfilled in the
work of Jesus. When Jesus comes, he’s fulfilling it.  We see that Jesus is our Passover
lamb. He is our Savior. His blood does not cover our sin, but washes our sin.

Conclusion
Several conclusions emerge from an examination of the book of Acts with reference to
the Holy Spirit. For one thing, all service to God is ultimately dependent upon the gift of
the Spirit. Those seven men chosen by the Jerusalem church to serve the congregation
(perhaps the beginning of the office of deacon) are described as men “full of the Holy
Spirit” (6:3). God blesses significantly the witness of the church because of the ministry
of these men (6:7). When Stephen defends the gospel and proclaims his special insights
into its meaning an application, he is described as one full of the Holy Spirit, which fact
enabled him to serve and to see the beatific vision (7:5).

The Holy Spirit sends Philip to meet the Ethiopian in the desert, and subsequently the
Spirit sends him off to other places of service (9:29, 39). Saul of Tarsus, chief persecutor
of the church converted to Christ, becomes proclaimer of the faith he formerly wasted;
his qualification for service is that he has received the Spirit (9:17). Barnabas is sent by
the Jerusalem believers to Antioch to determine the validity of the work there and to do
whatever is necessary in that delicate and important situation because he is a man “full of
the Holy Spirit and faith” (11:24). The Holy Spirit separates Barnabas and Saul to the
work to which he calls them, and the mission to the Gentiles is launched (13:2-4). The
Holy Spirit guides his missionaries, opening doors and closing doors (16:7). The newly
born churches are especially under the guidance of the Spirit for he selects their overseers
(20:28). The message is plain: acceptable service to God is Spirit produced and powered.
The Spirit is the guardian of the quality of life evidenced by the community of faith. The
sins of false brethren are rebuked by the Spirit, and any and every violation of God’s will
for the life of the community is the concern of the Holy Spirit. The sin of Ananias and
Sapphira is a falsification of the Spirit (5:9) with which he deals decisively. Simon the
magician in Samaria is uncovered by the Holy Spirit’s revelation to Simon Peter (8:18-
20). The impression is everywhere in Acts that the normal and expected condition of
Christians is that of being men and women under the Spirit’s control. To be other than
under the Spirit’s control is to be rebuked by him.