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In this episode, we continue to look at Peter preaching to the crowd after he and his fellow Jesus followers received the Holy Spirit as promised by Jesus. Specifically, we look at verses 24-41 from Acts chapter 2. We see Peter quoting from Psalm 16:8-11 to prove to the Jewish crowd that King David prophesied about Jesus. David had written in Psalm 16 hundreds of years earlier that God would not leave His Holy One (Jesus) in the grave to rot. Peter explained to the curious crowd that David was looking into the future and speaking of the Messiah's (Jesus) resurrection. Peter declared that Jesus is the Messiah David wrote about and who was killed and raised from the dead. In fact, Peter told the crowd that he and others had personally witnessed Jesus' death and resurrection from the dead. Further, that Jesus was currently at the right hand of God. Peter told the crowd that God the Father had promised to Jesus that He would pour His Spirit upon mankind. Thus, Peter said that what the crowd was seeing was not drunk men, but men who had just experienced the infilling and indwelling of the Holy Spirit as promised by God the Father and Jesus! Peter's words pierced their hearts, and they wanted to know what they should do. Peter told them to repent and turn to God for forgiveness of their sin and receive the Holy Spirit. And 3000 did! Amen. Listen to hear the complete story and be blessed by the Word of God!

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In this episode, we start chapter 2 from the Book of Acts. We cover verses 1-24. We see the Holy Spirit come to start His earthly ministry as promised by Jesus. After the Holy Spirit comes and fills Jesus' believers during Pentecost, they are empowered by the Holy Spirit to speak in languages previously unknown to the believers. A crowd of Jews who spoke different languages, who had come from different parts of the Roman Empire to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, heard the loud sound of the Holy Spirit coming. The crowd of Jews came to where they heard the sound, which was where Jesus's followers were. When the crowd arrived, they heard Jesus' followers speaking to them in their various languages (languages until then that were unknown to Jesus' followers) about the goodness of God. As a result, the crowd was amazed and perplexed. But some, as always were critical, and assumed that Jesus' followers were drunk. But Peter, now empowered by the Holy Spirit, told the crowd that Jesus' followers were not drunk. He told them that what they were witnessing was the fulfillment of a prophecy by the prophet Joel when God said in the Old Testament that He would one day pour out His Spirit upon mankind. Listen to hear the complete story and be blessed by the Word of God!

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In this episode, we continue our study of the Book of Acts. Specifically, chapter 1, verses 12-26. After Jesus ascends back into Heaven, having appeared to His followers for 40 days after His resurrection from the dead, Jesus' followers are still in Jerusalem waiting for the Holy Spirit per Jesus' instruction. While they wait, Peter tells the other disciples that per Psalm 109:8, "‘Let someone else take his position.’"-it was time for someone to take Judas Iscariot's place as an apostle of Jesus. Peter lays out the qualification for the replacement; that is, he must have been with them as a witness of Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist until Jesus' ascension back into Heaven. This is so because in Jesus' last commission to the apostles, He tells them, "you will be my witnesses." Thus, Judas' replacement must have witnessed Jesus' ministry. They nominated two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias, who met the qualification. After praying to God, they casted lot and Matthias was chosen.

This is the last recorded case in the Bible of God's people using lots
because within days, the Holy Spirit will come upon the disciples and permanently dwell inside the hearts of the people (Acts 2:1–4). As Jesus promised, the Holy Spirit will guide Jesus' followers into truth; thus, lots are no longer needed.

You can listen to past and future episodes of this podcast and The God Revelation Podcast and the Holy Spirit Podcast on our website https://renewyourmindministries.org/, or on any podcast platform such as Amazon Alexa, Audible, Apple/Itunes Podcasts, Spotify, iheart, Youtube Podcasts, & etc. If you need prayer, you can email us at renewyourmindm@gmail.com.