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The Messiah’s Secret Revealed – Pentecost

The Church celebrates Pentecost because of what happened on that day 2,000 years ago when Jesus sent God’s Holy Spirit into the world.

Acts 2: 1- 21

We read that the disciples of Jesus where gathered at a house in Jerusalem, in a room, a confined space when they heard the sound of a mighty rushing wind coming into where they were.

The fan blowing the material is using electricity to rotate blades that causes the air to blow.

The same effect is produces by the hand held fan.

The difference between wind of the Holy Spirit, and the wind blowing through the fan. Air pressure creates the movement of air that produces the wind that can blow the curtains, and papers on desks.

Whereas, the wind of the Holy Spirit flows out from God and is filled with God’s presence, the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.

The Apostles heard the sound of a strong wind, maybe they felt the wind on their faces, and clothes. In verse 4 we read that they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

My friend Joyce had an amazing experience of the Holy Spirit giving her a vision. She felt the wind suddenly blow up, but nothing was moving, no sound of the rustling of leaves in the trees.

Joyce wrote down her testimony for me to share:

She writes, “First I would like to explain that I finally had forgiven someone, I mean truly forgiven. A few days later I was walking along the disused railway in Helmshore with our dogs. It was a pleasant day, very still. I felt a wind blow up, but nothing was moving. I saw in front of me a life size Jesus on the cross. He was dead, his body grey, stone like, I couldn’t bear to look, I turned away. I felt all the wrong that I had done being taken away from me, but I didn’t want him to, because I physically felt the pain that I had caused him. I felt ashamed and started crying.

The next minute I felt a presence next to me. I wasn’t sure if it was Jesus or God, but I couldn’t see anyone. All the weight I had been carrying inside had been taken away. I felt so happy, so clean. Everywhere was so beautiful, the colours were so bright, I had never seen colour like it before.”

I have to say, not many people see a vision of Jesus when they come to faith in Jesus.

A vision is a visual view of what is going on in the heavenly places, the spiritual dimension. Joyce saw in her vision what happens when everybody comes to faith in Jesus were he deals with our sin on the cross.

Joyce had forgiven someone for whatever they had done against her. Jesus said you must forgive, and then God will forgive you. Many people say that they are unable to forgive the things that someone has done against them, they still bear the pain of their injury. Jesus is our example and while he was injured dying on the cross he forgave those who stood against him, for whatever their reason. Luke 17: 4.

Even though Joyce had forgiven this person she was not a Christian.

The Holy Spirit’s ministry convicts the world of unbelief, righteousness of God, and judgement.

Joyce found faith in Jesus through the Holy Spirit showing her the vision of Jesus dead on the cross, taking her sin of unbelief and all that stood between her and God, sin and its causes, she personally received forgiveness from God.

Joyce must have felt the righteousness of God when she felt ashamed and the feeling of being clean, released from the weight of her sin in forgiveness and being raised up in the power of his resurrection, her righteousness being in Jesus before God.

God had a given to her a free pardon, judged her no longer under a sentence of eternal separation from God.

So this is what happens when a person calls on the name of the Lord, Jesus takes our sin upon himself and raises us up in his resurrection

If you are wanting to get right with God and be filled with the Holy Spirit then say with me this prayer:

Lord Jesus Christ,

l am sorry for the things l have done wrong in my life.

I ask for your forgiveness

Thank you for dying for me on the cross,

to set me free from my sins.
Please come into my life and fill me with your Holy Spirit.

Thank you Jesus. Amen

The following below was added when writing this blog.

The church came into being at Pentecost fanning the words of the good news of Jesus’ resurrection and the pouring out of God’s Spirit.

The church as we know it today has been hidden in the scriptures: “The Lord said, “Call his name, not my people, for you are not my people and I am not your God.” Hosea 1: 9. 2: 23
Peter quoted this verse in Hosea in his first letter to Jew and Gentile converts when he spoke of being a holy nation and Jesus being the corner stone. 1 Peter 2: 10. Romans 9: 19-26.

In Acts 1: 6, 7 the disciples asked Jesus, “Lord are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know the times or the dates the Father has set in his own authority.” Perhaps the disciples had remembered the parable of the ‘Vineyard.’

The church being the other nation that Jesus referred to in his conversation with the Scribes and the chief priests concerning the Vineyard where Jesus quoted ” The very stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner”. “Therefore I tell you, the kingdom will be taken away from you and given to a nation to produce the fruit of it.”
Matthew 21: 42-46.

The disciples of the early church were expecting Jesus to return soon after Pentecost and bring in God’s kingdom. Jesus himself had indicated that he hoped to return with the holy angels and some of the people standing listening to him who would not see death before they saw the kingdom had come in power. Mark 8: 38, 9: 1.

Peter addressing the crowd in Solomon’s Portico said that the nations leaders and people now had the opportunity to acknowledge that the Christ had to suffer according to the prophesies and be raised from the dead, then God would blot out their sins and bring in the times of refreshing and send the appointed, Jesus. Acts 3: 17: 21. Luke 24: 44-48.
A clear indication that Jesus hoped to return soon after Pentecost. He also knew that he would remain in heaven until all his enemies were under his feet.
Psalm 110:1. ! Corinthians 15:25.

At Pentecost the message from Peter focused on the prophet Joel’s prophecy in the latter days God would pour out his Spirit on all people, both men and women. In verses 19, 20 the latter days also implies a catastrophe taking place in the heavens and on the earth before the day of the Lord when the Christ returns and everyone who calls on his name will be saved.

Acts 1: 4
The Holy Spirit gave the Apostles the ability to speak the various languages of the people they met on the streets of Jerusalem.

Today the Holy Spirit gives the same gift to every Christian, but the gift often isn’t used. The natural mind may find it a strange to speak words that we can’t understand. St Paul gives us insight into the ministry of this gift of speaking in tongues.

In Paul’s letter to the Romans he wrote, “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sights too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans 8: 26, 27.

When we are praying with or for someone who perhaps is sick or in trouble and we don’t know what to say, the Spirit will use the gift of speaking in tongues, giving us words which we may not understand, but we trust that it will be right according to God’s will.

Also in a meeting or a group the Holy Spirit will give a prophecy in tongues to someone. On this occasion the word needs to be interpreted, it may be interpreted by the same person who spoke in tongues or another person. He will give the gift of interpretation to benefit someone present. 1 Corinthians 14: 5, 13

The Messiah’s Secret – Water and Spirit John 3: 1-17

The Holy Spirit’s creative power in creation working with the Word of God.

The Spirit of God moved over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2 Water covered the earth, until the third day when the dry land appeared. The dry land was called earth and the waters were called sea. The earth produced vegetation according to their own kind and produced fruit and in the fruit the seeds. Genesis 1: 9-13.

”When you send forth your Spirit they are created.” Psalm 104:30.

The Holy Spirit bringing forth an abundance of life.

We have the example of water bringing the deserts into bloom. The parched land waiting for the rain to fill the dry river beds and as the rain falls it germinates the seeds on its banks. The water working with the soil and the warmth from the sun bringing forth the vegetation that is needed to sustain life.

Isaiah 32: 15 “Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field.”

Jesus spoke of the rivers of water pouring out from the Holy Spirit watering the garden of our inner being. Water satisfies both body and soul. The soul thirsts because of our longing for God.

The Feast of the First Fruits.

The Israelites looked forward to God’s promise of a land filled with milk and honey. The Jewish farmer looked for the appearance of the fruit on the crops and on the trees; he selected the best of the unripened fruit for the first fruit offering. He then tied a rush around the stems, setting them apart before the harvest.

After Passover the presentation of the ’Omer’ the first fruit of the barley harvest took place on the 16^th Nisan. Counting from

that date on the fiftieth day was the feast of Weeks or Pentecost.

On this day two loaves made from the first fruits of the wheat harvest they were presented at the temple.

On route to Jerusalem the Psalms of Ascent was sung as the families brought their presentation of the first fruits of their land to the temple.

“Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways. You shall eat the fruit of the labour of your hands, you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. ”Psalm 126: 1,2.

Extracts taken from Alfred Edersheim’s book “The Temple.”

Jesus the first fruit of the resurrection.

“But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15: 20.

God breathed into Adam, the breath of life. Adam was created in the image of God, so he had the potential to live forever, he should not have died. But as we read in the Bible death came to Adam as a result of sin, he then fell under the influence of the serpent.

The serpent is identified as Satan. “And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan.” Revelation 20: 2.

The first man Adam succumbed to the serpent’s deceit leading to sin and death. Blame for his fall is generally taught that it was Eve having tasted the forbidden fruit first, offered it to Adam. But that is no excuse for Adam’s fall from grace. Genesis 3: 8-19 The curses placed by God on both Adam and Eve were blotted out by Jesus’ death and resurrection, through repentance and faith in Jesus. Acts 3: 19.

Second man Jesus his victory over sin and death won eternal life.

Jesus spoke of his victory over the serpent to Nicodemus.

Maybe Nicodemus made the connection when Jesus referred to an incident on the Exodus journey. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” John 3: 14, 15.

Some of the Israelites had been bitten by deadly snakes that had come into the camp. We read that this had happened because of their sin against God. Moses was told by God to make an image of a serpent in bronze and put it onto a pole. Those who had been bitten were told to look up at the serpent and they would live. Numbers 21: 4-9.
On the first occasion that I preached on this word, a man sitting on the front row facing me. I saw the word drop from his head into his heart, from his mind into his spirit.
A picture of salvation: turning from sin in repentance to be born again.(See Blog Saved by the Blood)

The Two Loaves.
Two nations in the Bible Jew and Gentile. Under grace the two become one through the cross.

Under grace men and woman are equal in Christ.
Male and female under law of the flesh, the man is head over the woman in the family. A man is physically stronger and dominant and the woman bears the children.
Under grace, however, there is no marriage in the kingdom of God between men and women and the woman does not give birth to children. We all are the children of God.
Should women become Bishops?
When I heard the debates in the 1980’s about women becoming Ministers in the church, I had my reservations. But these were soon overturned when I experienced a woman ministering in church, I discerned that there was no difference between men and women in leading worship and administering the sacraments.
One experience is worth a thousand arguments.
In my personal experience about eleven years ago, I was in the process of publishing my book, ‘The Messiah’s Secret’ when a Christian man claimed (under the doctrine of man, women are not teachers of the word), but he believed that he taught through me a woman, the words I was speaking were coming from his mind to me.(channelling which is not of the Holy Spirit) He attributed my book to himself, when I pointed out that I did not know him in 1996, he replied, ‘Who was your minister then?’ my response, ‘We were in an Interregnum,’ we had no minister at the time.
I have forgiven this man for what was said, I know that many women have been hurt in responding to the Lord’s call on their lives. (see blog Removing the Veil)

Male and female are liberated into the freedom of God’s forgiveness through simple faith in these words below;
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3: 16 “

“But to all who receive him, he gave the power to become the children of God: who were born, not of blood nor the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1: 12, 13.
“I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.” Joel  2: 28.
The Gospel swims against the tide of human fallen nature. Men and woman are equal in Christ, and yes, I humbly believe that there should be women Bishops in the church.

(Added to blog)The Church of England’s First Woman Bishop
On Monday 26th January 2015 Rev Libby Lane was consecrated Bishop of Stockport, the service was held at York Minster. “When the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you into all truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare it to you the things that are to come.” John 16: 13

The Wind of the Spirit.
On the Evening of the Day of Jesus’ resurrection Jesus appeared in the house at Jerusalem where he breathed on the disciples the Holy Spirit. John the Baptist spoke of the Messiah baptizing with the Holy Spirit and fire. The disciples were the first to receive the Holy Spirit directly from Jesus and they were commissioned to bear the first fruit of his ministry.

“Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruit of his creatures.” James 1: 18.

“We who first hoped in Christ have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of his glory.” Ephesians 1: 12.

On the Feast of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came in power, like the sound of a rushing mighty wind. The disciples and followers were gathered in the house at Jerusalem, the wind ignited the hearts of the disciples, and they saw tongues of fire on each others’ heads.

That day the fruit of the apostle’s harvest yielded approximately 3,000 people who accepted Jesus as their Messiah. The wind in them had carried the seeds of the good news of the kingdom onto the streets of Jerusalem where they settled and took root in the hearts of Jews and proselytes.

The Holy Spirit gently moves us to respond to the Lord’s calling on our life. Like the wind bends the trees, so we yield our will to follow Jesus Christ. Out of our hearts the Holy Spirit flows out like a river. John 7: 38.

Jesus the living word and the Holy Spirit working together with the love of God. To walk with Jesus in fellowship with the Trinity. God our Father working his purposes out in our lives through our wanting to please the Lord. Trusting that his will, will be done and we can leave it there and let go of doing things in our own strength.

Answered prayer: On 14th July 2014 it was passed by the Church of England for women to become Bishops.

By Dorothy Newton