Acts 2

Chapter two starts out with the disciples being filled with the Holy Spirit. The Bible describes it like a blowing of a violent wind and tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. What they felt was something for the ages. More than likely the only people that had ever had that feeling were men that had the spirit come upon them during the Old Testament. It was such a feeling that they were overwhelmed and couldn’t contain themselves.

When this happened they started speaking in many different languages. The spirit was truly filling them with His presence and He was making it know throughout Jerusalem that He was there. The Bible goes on the say “that there were God fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they head this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. There literally were Jews from everywhere, from modern Turkey and Europe all the way to Asia and Africa. All of these Jews had come for the day of Pentecost and were there to worship. They were certainly in for a surprise.

There were some Jews there that weren’t impressed and just thought that they were drunk and loosing control of themselves, but later on in scripture we read that we are to be not been over come with drunkenness but instead to be filled with the Holy Spirit. To me that am a sign because these men were truly under the influence of the Spirit and they were behaving as such. No they were not drunk but they were filled with something so strong that it poured out from the very being of who they were.

Luke goes on to tell us the story of how so many was saved in one day. Luke tells of the message that Peter spoke to the multitude. Peter told of the prophesy of Joel. God in the last days would send the Spirit down on the people and that they would be filled so much that they would be over pouring from His presence. Peter goes on to tell about how Jesus was the man that fulfilled so many prophesies and truly showed the Jews who he was. Peter’s sermon was so strong that his words cut to the core of the people that he was speaking to.

The people that were there listening to him asked him what they could do. Peter told them to repent and be baptized; to call upon the name of Jesus Christ and they would be baptized. They were so convicted by what they were hearing that they could do nothing but follow Christ and live by his ways. All in all that day there were over three thousand people that came to know the Lord and more came to join the church each and everyday.

The early Christians set the example that we should live by. They lived by Christ and followed his example.