Title When the Holy Spirit Comes
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Acts 1:7-11
There was a time when the city of North Korea in Free China was on the verge of stopping the supply of drinking water when a dam collapsed due to a typhoon. So the mayor took the lead in blocking the dam.
However, to make matters worse, I received a report that a huge typhoon was blowing again.
But what happened? The typhoon was constantly blowing closer to Taiwan.
However, as the mayor did not lose heart and prayed earnestly by clinging to God in faith, a typhoon came right in front of Taiwan and changed its course. In this way, when we are not afraid of our own status and circumstances, but boldly obey in faith, we can experience God's miracles.
Dear saints,
Whoever receives the Holy Spirit and is led and helped by the Holy Spirit confesses that Christ is Lord.
It is the work of the Holy Spirit that even people who do not listen so much open their hearts, repent and receive Jesus. Strangely, his heart overflows with joy, and he calls God his Father.
How strange is that? Why do you still not know this Holy Spirit and believe in Jesus?
Why didn't you know?
What happens when the Holy Spirit comes into us? You will discover the true meaning and purpose of your life.
You begin to experience the true meaning and power of life. What's even more surprising is the hatred of sin.
Of course, we cannot live completely sin-free. However, he starts to hate sin and begins to drift away from it.
As the Holy Spirit comes upon us, we begin to sing hymns several times a day. Until now, the prayer time was boring, but now the prayer time is getting longer. Could this be artificially possible?
Therefore, we Christians, of course, know how to receive the Holy Spirit and strive to receive the Holy Spirit. This is not only because the Holy Spirit becomes the central doctrine of our Christianity, but also because it becomes the first element of the influence movement to exercise the life of a true Christian.
Therefore, shortly before the death of Jesus Christ, he commanded his disciples not to leave Jerusalem, to strive to receive the Holy Spirit, and to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Look at verse 7.
Jesus speaks of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It is said that the events of the Holy Spirit will come. He says that the events of the Holy Spirit will come. But the disciples were not interested in the Holy Spirit, but in the restoration of the kingdom of God.
It was a social problem. It was the restoration of Israel. It was a matter of national liberation.
It was a matter of unification, a matter of the state.
What Jesus is saying at this time is not to say that they are not important.
He said, “You are not part-timers, for the times and the days are set by the Father in his own power.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Romans 11:1-36 also promises in the Bible that Israel will be restored at the appointed time, but this is not political, but redemptive history.
With a similar question as in verse 6, the disciples asked when the end times would be.
He confirmed the fact in Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:42 that “they do not know the Son, but only the Father”.
And here, “time” (chronus) represents “a long time” and refers to the absolute time regardless of the circumstances, so in that sense it refers to the time that must pass before the coming of the complete kingdom of God. And “duration” (kairus) indicates a certain period and date.
That is, it is a crucial time. This means the very time when the kingdom of God will come.
Jesus was resurrected like this, so does that mean that the kingdom of God and the liberation of the people will come soon?
Will we be given freedom and liberty? If it comes, when and how will it come?
There have been many people in history who have had such an interest. For example, Adventist, extreme eschatological church.
They tell the end by counting the dates themselves.
But in the Bible, Jesus says, “It belongs to the sovereignty of God the Father.”