Sunday
Sermon June 03,
2007
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Reading:
Acts 2:14-21(Amplified)
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and
addressed them: "You Jews and all you residents of Jerusalem, let this be
explained to you so that you will know and understand; listen closely to what I
have to say. For these people are not drunk, as you imagine, for it is only
about 9:00 a.m.; but instead, this is the beginning of what was spoken through
the prophet Joel: 'And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares,
that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all humanity, and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels] and your young
people shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old people
shall dream [divinely suggested] dreams. Yes, and on My menservants also and on
My maidservants in those days I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall
prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels and predicting future events
pertaining especially to God's kingdom]. And I will show wonders in the sky
above and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and smoking vapor; the sun
shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the obvious day of
the Lord comes--that great and notable and conspicuous and renowned day. And it
shall be that whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord [invoking, adoring,
and worshiping the Christ] shall be saved.'"
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