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Friday, June 25, 2010

Bible Questions Answered: Pentecost-Birth Of The Church

Bible Questions Answered:
When did the apostles start the church?
Fiyifolu/ Abuja, Nigeria

Bible Answers:

No, the church of Jesus Christ was “Not,” started by mortal man!

Genesis 2:20-24 KJV
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam
there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

This scripture, depicts the first marriage, it was performed by Almighty God, and it was a holy marriage. It was the marriage of the “first,” Adam, and his wife-who came out of Adam, Eve.
(Much, much more could be said and will be, Lord willing in some up coming ebooks.)

In such a manner the “wife,” of the Second Adam, who is the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, also is of a Divine Creation, and that, again, by the hand of Almighty God.

When did the people of God, become a Church, and what happened to make them such.

The answer is found in …..

Acts 2:1-47 KJV
[1] And when the day of Pentecost* was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
[2] And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
[3] And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
[4] And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
[5] And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
[6] Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them
speak in his own language.
[7] And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
[8] And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
[9] Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
[10] Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
[11] Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
[12] And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
[13] Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
[14] But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that
dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
[15] For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
[16] But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
[17] And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
[18] And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
[19] And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
[20] The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
[21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
[22] Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs,
which God did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
[23] Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
[24] Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it.
[25] For David speaketh concerning Him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for He is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
[26] Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
[27] Because thou wilt not leave My soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
[28] Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
[29] Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre
is with us unto this day.
[30] Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according
to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on His throne;
[31] He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption.
[32] This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
[33] Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed
forth this, which ye now see and hear.
[34] For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on My right hand,
[35] Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
[36] Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both
Lord and Christ.
[37] Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren,
what shall we do?
[38] Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye
shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
[39] For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
[40] And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
[41] Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
[42] And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
[43] And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
[44] And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
[45] And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
[46] And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat
with gladness and singleness of heart,
[47] Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Pentecost:
In the Old Testament, so called, “Feast of the Harvest,” and “The First Fruits of Thy Labors, Which Thou Sowest in the Field,” and also “feast of weeks.

Exodus 23:16 KJV
And the feast of harvest*, the first fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field:
and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy
labours out of the field.

Exodus 34:22 KJV
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest*,
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

*Harvest-Hebrew-Qatsiyr (Kaw-tseer): Harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper.

From the planting of the field, to the harvesting were fifty days.

Deuteronomy 16:9 KJV
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

Acts 2:1 KJV
And when the day of Pentecost* was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

*Pentecost-Greek-Pentekoste (Pen-tay-kos-tay): Fifty-The festival of Pentecost.

The Feast of Pentecost, or of Harvest, was a celebration of worship by God's people, for the abundant crops they had received.

They took the grain and waved it before the Lord in worship and thanksgiving, for His generous provision.
With many offerings they worshiped the Lord. They also offered up themselves as an offering to God.

None of the harvest could be used as food, until this offering was made to God.

On Pentecost after our Lord's death, He had told His followers....

Acts 1:1-5 KJV
1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen:
3 To whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith He, ye have heard of Me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

Our Lord's ascension into Heaven, came after forty days, of showing Himself alive to His people.
Then they were to wait at Jerusalem for the promise of the Father.

Because Pentecost is fifty days, some 120 of them, fasted and prayed in the upper room, for some ten days, waiting for the heavenly promise.

The disciples were there, Mary was there, and many others.

At the end of 120 days of offering themselves up to the Lord in prayer....The Holy Spirit came and baptized them all, and they began to speak in different languages, saying wonderful things about God, and what He had done!

Acts 2:11 “... we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.”

Eighteen different sects of people crowed into Jerusalem for the Feast, had heard, the 120 glorifying God, in their own language.

Only the God of Babel, could do such a thing, and certainly these weren't tongues of confusion or disorder in any stretch of the imagination!
Not when each sect of people, heard praise and honor to the Almighty living God, in his and her own language, from lowly Galilaeans.

This indeed was a special day, this promise of the Father, this was the birth of the church (the wife) of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I Corinthians 12:13 KJV
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

Just as Eve, had been taken from the side of her husband Adam, the church, was born from the bloody side of the Second Adam, Christ.

Ephesians 5:30 KJV
For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.

Romans 12:5 KJV
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

I Corinthians 12:27 KJV
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Ephesians 1:22,23 KJV
22 And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.

Ephesians 4:12 KJV
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Colossians 1:24 KJV
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions
of Christ in my flesh for His body's sake, which is the church:

Colossians 2:19 NLT
"...Christ, the head of the body. For He holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.

Isaiah 62:5 KJV
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

II Corinthians 11:2 KJV
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Revelation 19:7 KJV
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready.

Revelation 21:2 KJV
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her Husband.

Revelation 22:17 KJV
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Thus was the beginning of the Church, the bride of Christ.
We live yet in the day of grace the church age.

Any moment the Church Age could end, for it ends with the secret return of Christ for His church, His Bride. He does not come to earth, but meets her in the air.

I Thessalonians 4:13-18 NLT
13 And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will
not grieve like people who have no hope.
14 For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns,
God will bring back with Him the believers who have died.
15 We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet Him ahead of
those who have died.
16 For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trumpet call of God. First, the Christians who have died will rise from their graves.
17 Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever.
18 So encourage each other with these words.

I Corinthians 15:51-58 KJV
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall
be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

II Corinthians 6:2 KJV
(For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Ephesians 2:14-18 KJV
14 For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in His own body on the cross, He broke down the wall of hostility that separated us.
15 He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in Himself one new people from the two groups.
16 Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of His death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.
17 He brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from Him, and peace to the Jews who were near.
18 Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.

II Peter 3:9 KJV
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Dear friend, have you come to the Lord?
Do you know Him, as Saviour?

Revelation 3:20 KJV
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door,
I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.