 Welcome to all my God ministries. I am your host Reverend Anido Morris come before you and it is the week of Pentecost I would say approaching and It's the day when they were in the upper room On the week that they were in the upper room. So we're gonna read I will read the book of Acts coming from Acts chapter 2 And I'm gonna read from one of my seminary books That I received in McAfee School of Theology when I was in Atlanta studying of course to become clergy or minister attending my Master's Divinity and Have you ever just give you an opening statement? Have you ever been in a place where you had to prove yourself or make an impression or You have to always defend yourself of Your testimony in Christ or either your confidence that you have of yourself in God or The glory of God upon your life That is it true in fact God's glory on your life or is it truly God? it's God at work in your life and People are in awe and amazed by their witness and sometimes Instead of them Positively speaking Sometimes it's ill spoken of what God is doing when it's a good and Some things that said do not let your good be evil spoken of and often times The trick of the enemy who comes to steal and kill and destroy our joy that we have in God confidence that we have in God and try to Get us to be isolated in doubt What God is doing and what God has brought you through. I don't want you to doubt. I don't want you to get Misfocus misaligned But stay the course stay in faith stay in hope stay in courage and keep the joy Keep your confidence in God and a lot of God's glory to continue to overtake you overshadow you and allow allow the Holy Spirit to continue to direct your steps and to continue to guide and All truth and show you things to come and this my dear beloved is what happened on Pentecost Everyone was speaking in their own native tongue and language, but they were on one accord and God was glorified Heavenly Father, we thank you We thank you Lord God that we don't have to defend your truth of your word. We don't have to defend ourselves Against the trick of the enemy to get us to doubt. We know that you are our defense in our offense And Lord God you said resist the devil and he will flee from us So we just thank you Lord God that you hold us with your right victorious hand And we just thank you Lord God for your strength in your power That's in Christ's name through your Holy Spirit The love that you have placed and dispensed daily and it's by your love We are not consumed that you renew your love with us Every morning your mercies are new every morning and we thank you Lord and Jesus mighty name. Thank God Amen now in the people's Bible it reads that Peter and the devotional Peter full of the Holy Spirit Addressed the crowd that gathered outside the house where the disciples met This has been found in Acts chapter 2 verses 4 and 11 the miracle of Pentecost is not that this multinational crowd understood Peter's language, but that each person heard the message in his or her own Language or I could say native tongue The first Christian Assembly was a very multicultural Gathering and then the response in the devotional reads now Look at your own church Are you are the parishioners from every tribe the people who you come in contact with at your local assembly? Are they from different? Nationalities do they come from the same town or do they are they in transience or they visitors or They come from the same What do you call it? Ethnicities or are they people of a nation or not of different nations and then they ask you why not Why isn't diversity visible in your own home church? and then a question is homogeneity caused by historical or present racism So those being the same like us. Is it because we are Prejudice against others or is it a form of our own racism? So that's something you have to ask yourself in your home church And it says if everyone at church looks like you if the diversity of the body of Christ is not reflected in the body of believers then the church fails to Emulate what is called to be? Because it is either a product or a victim of racism Okay So we don't want to be a product of racism nor a victim of racism and not let things and other people All different nationalities to come and visit us Because we are afraid because God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a love power and of a sound mind Now go into the reading of the chapter when the day of Pentecost had come they were all together in one place and Suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind We say a Russian wind and it filled the entire house where they were sitting Divided tongues as a fire a period among them and a tongue rested on each of them and Remember when the spirit of God rested on I believe it was Isaiah He said I am I come from a Nation or family of unclean tongue and God allowed the Sapphire angel to rest his His spirit upon Isaiah's tongue and had the Lord speak through him From there on it said you know more unclean you have been clean to declare God's word And that's what that symbolizes when God stretches out a miraculous to have a Fire of his spirit upon your lips And it says let my heart not cause my flesh to send my mouth to send and That is oftentimes when we're so quick to judge quick to lash out quick to do that But God said I want to clean you from the inside And so the divided tongues as a fire appeared among them and a tongue resting on each of them Not just their native language tongue, but also can you see the symbolism of God speaking through them and Their own native language all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and Begin to speak in other languages as the spirit gave them the ability don't be afraid of Learning of the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit has mission to administer the ministry of God Fivefold ministry he gives some a prophet some apostles some evangelists some ministers some teachers and Some gifts of miracles all those different things that you can find in the book of Corinthians where the Holy Spirit allows the whole church to be edified and it's nothing that we can have our set skills or that we are we learn through our Education, but it's the Holy Spirit who educates us to go forth in our gift sets and the Holy Spirit's job is to make sure the whole body of Christ is being edified and that God's church is being built it up and a most glorious church and the Holy Spirit Also presents the gift of God's presence The gift of his truth Who leads and guide us from place to place from glory to glory from destination to destination within our own? Christian journeys and Awesome the Holy Spirit is also a quickening Guide when we're quickening That God alum illuminates our eyes to see plainly of what it is is what it is Not to be blind or blindsided But when we are giving the attribute of God's spirit of grace upon our lives We are able to walk in humble Confession before the Lord because of the quickening and the conviction of our lives When they don't add up we know how to confess It says come boldly to the throne of grace of God Come boldly to the throne of God and obtain mercy in time of your need in time of help And so the Holy Spirit allows us the ability To come before God through Christ Blood that was shed for us through the blood of Christ Jesus the spirit and It says all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as a Spirit gave them the ability or we can say utterance Gave the words for them to speak it says now they were devote Jews From every nation under heaven Living in Jerusalem the city of peace and at this sound the crowd gathered and Was bewildered you like how you have travelers coming from in and out You can think of an international airport where there's travelers from everywhere and all of a sudden you stop and say I hear my language I hear my language and this is what was happening. They were bewildered like what is the confusion? What's going on? Because each one heard them speaking in the native language of Each of them amazed and astonished. They asked Are not all these who are speaking Galenians? And how is that we hear each of us in our own native language? Parthians needs eliminate liminites and residents of Mesopotamia Judas and Caubosia Pontius in Asia Perger and Pelophilia Egypt and parts of Libya beyond to Cyrene and this is from Rome both Jews and proselytes Cretians and Arabs and our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds Hallelujah God's deeds of power. That's what they were speaking about. They were not talking about their themselves they were given glorious power of Witness of God's great deeds Hallelujah It says declare the glory of God declare of his deeds that his deeds are powerful His deeds are awesome. He's awesome in power awesome in glory Great are thy works. Oh God and my soul knows right well as Psalm 103 reads oh bless the Lord all my soul and all that is within me Bless his holy name and forget not all his benefits and who forgives all his sins And they were given utterance about God's deeds and his power merciful Lord Power God Lord of hosts King of kings Lord of lords the great. I am El shall die more than enough And all were amazed and perplexed Saying to one another what does this mean that they are all Speaking in their native language given glory to God. Have you ever been in an assembly where you have a Spanish speaking All-Raider praising God and then you have American praising God then you might have Portuguese or what have you of or Italian or whatever or an Nigerian librarian or Barbados and their praise in celebration of God's good deeds have you heard that before Have you ever been an assembly where the praises of God are going up and God's is being glorified in The earth it says but others snared remember I said watch out the enemy come not but to steal and kill and Destroy what God has just sold in the earth to show his glorious power. Here's the trick of the enemy in verse 13 of Acts chapter 2 but others snared and Said they are filled with new wine They are out of character because they were drinking wine and again But Peter standing with the 11 Disciples of course because you know Judah betrayed Jesus so with the 11 He raised his boys with the 11 disciples And addressed them Who snared he said and sometimes remember I said you don't have to defend what God has already Glorified if God is doing the work. You don't have to defend but Peter Came and standing with the 11 raised his voice and addressed the men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem Let this be known to you and listen to what I say Indeed, these are not drunk as you suppose For it is only nine o'clock in the morning No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel and The last days it will be God declares that I will pour out my spirit Upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy So he was speaking the truth into existence to give articulation to what God's powerful deeds were doing To give the explanation To those who were snaring he didn't have to but he was functioned to do I believe by the spirit and To bring the truth about through God's word through scriptures And oftentimes we don't want to always play the scripture thing. It's in the scripture to say this It's in the scripture to this because also Colonials at the beginning use scripture to enslave People of color native Americans African Americans and the like and so we don't want to use it as a harm But for our good and to work justice along all spectrums and That is the deep justice Chesed Kesset is love and kindness what God does towards us through humankind but Sadiq is the justice of God and That is why it was spoken in the last days I'm not just going to come for Jerusalem or for the Jews But upon all flesh and all manner of man and people or women all flesh sons and daughters No one's going to be without isn't that awesome that God did not want to leave a single one out that did not have His spirit upon them and your young men shall see visions and Your old men shall dream dreams and it reads also it says my people perish and have back up because a Lack of knowledge and also it also reads without a vision the people perish and have back up so We also want to be reminded that the Holy Spirit rekindles what God has Allow to begin in us because he who begun a good work in us will bring it to Completion will bring it to fruition so others can see that God might be glorified That others may be edified And it says your old men shall dream dreams Even upon my slaves or bond servants both men and women in those days I will pour out my spirit and they shall I will show Portents in the heavens above and signs on the earth below Of course it reads blood and fire and smoke miss the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood Before the coming of the Lord's great glorious day all of this haven't happened But he was mentioned in the detail of the Holy Spirit's fire of a consuming fire Okay, and at the same token the Holy Spirit's job is to bring His spirit about upon all men where there's no barriers. There's no One nation that knows God but all nations will know God It says then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord not one tribe or people but everyone Who shall call who calls on the name of the Lord? Shall be saved or we can say will be save take your time during this time If you haven't called upon the Lord upon the Lord to be safe say Lord save me help me I need you I need you to come into my heart I believe you and I accept you as my Lord and Savior if you believe that calm That's calling upon the Lord and you will be saved You that are Israelites listen to what I have to say Peter goes on He's making a statement Jesus of Nazareth a man attested to you by God with deeds of power Wonders and signs that God did through him among you as you yourselves know This is Peter defense his defense with those that sneered That says this man handed over to you according to the death define definite plan and for knowledge of God you crucified and Killed by the hands of those outside of the law outside of the Torah So the Jews were responsible of Flogging Jesus and to bring him to those who were not taught in the law of God Instructions of God, but God raised him up Haven't freed him liberated him from death Because it was impossible for him to be held in its power Grave could not hold him down as we sing songs grave could not hold you back He rose up from the grave and raised the third day That's why we celebrate Easter and resurrection because on the third day Christ rose He rose amen, and then he visited before his final ascension and Pentecost Hallelujah, it was impossible for him to be held in its power And that's why a lot of people represent and put red on a bright colors Because the fiery of the Holy Spirit of God Amen can't hold this back can't hold the holy can't hold the fire of God upon you It's just Unquenchable hallelujah unquenchable fire Because it was impossible for him to be held in its power that rested upon Jesus Hallelujah, but David says concerning him. I saw the Lord always before me For he is at my right hand So I will not be shaken therefore Excuse me Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced Moreover, my flesh will live in hope for you will not abandon my soul and haves Or let your holy one experience corruption You have made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence and Obviously, you could tell the prophecy was spoken of Jesus Fellow Israelites Peter continues I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David That he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day Since he was a prophet. He knew that God had sworn with an oath Just like how we have oath of enlistment you raise your right hand or oath of appointment to do what you were set out to do and Sometimes those oath can't be taken. Okay, and it says God has sworn with an oath to him that he would put one of his descendants on his throne and God is faithful to keep his word not like us humans who Wish you washy or changing but God is faithful who will do it And he placed on his throne He's declaring that that was Christ that he was speaking of that they will always remain on the throne and Air or an ancestor and here it is in this day of pedacos being realized That he is the king of kings and his kingdom will have no end The kingdom of God has no end Because the kingdom of God suffered violence suffered in the injustice But we that are in the kingdom of God we take it by the force of God's power to bring every imagination Every stronghold to the captivity and to the obedience of Christ Jesus It says for seeing this David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah saying He was not abandoned to haze nor did his flesh experience corruption this Jesus God raised up and of that all of us are witnesses Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God and haven't received from the father the promise of The Holy Spirit he has poured out this that you both see and hear People speaking in their native language their native tongue of fire But David did not ascend into heavens, but he himself says the Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand Until I make your enemies your footstool So oftentimes God will appear as Psalm 23 reads God appears a table in the Your enemies so those who are trying to snare at you to attack you to come one way They will flee another way. It says they fleece one way They will flee they will go seven ways want to chase a thousand two can chase 10,000 flights He said I want you to sit here until I make your enemies your footstool. Amen It says therefore let the entire house of Israel know We're certain T that God has made him both Lord and Messiah made Christ's enemies his footstool and This Jesus whom you crucified Hallelujah Christ and God God and Christ Hallelujah God has made Jesus Christ and meets his footstool and raised him on High seated at the right hand of God the father Always interceding for us on our behalf to the body and verse 37 of Acts chapter 2 verse 37 reads now when they heard this they were cut to the heart and Said to Peter and two other apostles. They were pierced in their hearts when they heard this and They said brothers, what should we do Peter said to them repent and Be baptized Every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven and You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit So repent be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ And some people say if you wasn't baptized in the name of Jesus Christ if you wasn't baptized in the name of the Father son of the Holy Spirit you're not baptized. I don't go into discourse how you heard but it was done in God's faith And it's act of righteousness in Christ Jesus and whether you say Christ Jesus father son in the Holy Spirit all three God doesn't divide who he is Hallelujah, thank you Jesus so that your sins may be forgiven and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promises for you and for your children and For you all who are far away Everyone whom the Lord our God calls to it is for who God's calls for That the Spirit is pouring is ready to pour upon them It says and he testified with many other arguments and exhorted them saying This is what Peter Mention save yourself from this corrupt generation So those who welcome his message were baptized those who welcome it not everybody's gonna receive the message Some people are make the choice and God's giving us a choice to receive it or accept the message and Said so those who welcome his message were baptized that day about 3,000 persons were added To the church to the God to the kingdom of God to God's church not a local church But the body of Christ so I have and you have you born again believer and you believe Christ You have plenty sisters and brothers that look like me and that may look like you and that are throughout the world and very diversified so Going back to devotional As I mentioned early See people who don't look like you but believe on God. That is part of your Christian family the family of God so don't grow weary and doing well continue to Welcome each other and to fellowship with one another and spread your wings as God give you utterance to go ahead and walk your walk and talk your talk and Lead you and guide you into all truth and show you things to come that you be led by his spirit and to have the wisdom of God and to have the acceptance of Justice in your heart towards others that don't look like you and me God bless you and may God's favor be upon you and go in peace and enjoy the Lord be your strength and Jesus mighty name. Thank God. Amen