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After the day of Pentecost,.......

Pentecost; a Greek word meaning “the holiday of 50 days”.

Occurs 50 days after the first day of passover.  It’s Hebrew name is Shauvot.

The Pentecost experience in Acts 2 wasn’t a phenomenon. It was just that the Apostles and the 120 disciples separated themselves and we’re baptized in the HolyGhost that very day.

This same day Jerusalem was filled with Jess from every nation celebrating Shauvot(or the feast of weeks). This Jewish holiday commemorates the giving of the torah(the Pentateuch: the first 5 books of the Bible) at Mount.  Sinai

- So that the Apostles and 120 were baptized on the day of Pentecost doesn’t make it a Pentecostal phenomenon. A man can be baptized in the HolySpirit anytime, anywhere!

After the day of Pentecost, the early church gave themselves to constant study of the Word and Prayer. Do note it was not the Apostles alone that gave themselves to study and prayers. .. It was the whole church(early).

The church grew so fast that in a short period of time the disciples were not able to teach the Word anymore. Instead, they were consumes with feeding the people.  It quickly became apparent that some things go had to change . They called believers together and said:

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.  Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.  But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. 

(Acts 6:2‭-‬4 KJV)‬‬‬‬

- The qualifications the Apostles looked for in choosing men who would take their place to wait on tables were:

(a) Be full of faith

(b) Be full of the Holy Spirit

They didn’t care if the person had ever been a waiter before, they wanted to know how many miracles he had performed. Imagine this kind of Advert!! This is the kingdom life expected of us.

WAITER WANTED: Stephen a case-study.

Job duties: waiting  tables and clean afterwards.

Qualifications: must be full of faith and power and have documented evidence of performing great wonders and miracles in the last six months.

The more amazing thing is that they found not one but seven men who met this qualification. without a lengthy search.(Acts 6:5)

- Can this happen today?

Look what happened when the Apostles put these men in charge of doing menial tasks of the early church.

- “ and the word if God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly. ......” (Verse 7)

Christians today are either full of faith OR full of the Holy Spirit.

We tend to be on one side of the other which is scripturally and spiritually wrong.

- It is when you are full of both,  things start happening. This was evidenced in Stephens life.

We see the book Acts record that he performed great wonders and miracles (Verse 8)

  Christians today argue about Salvation, we argue about hell, demons and Satan.

We argue over grace and works. We never enter the kingdom.  We only see it from afar and talk about it. We claim to know so much about the Pauline epistle,  some even call some sort: Paul theology, yet no kingdom experience. How then are we better than the disciples before they became Apostles?

We need to enter into a kingdom life today!

The kingdom life is a life of responsibility given by the grace received to work the works of him that has called us from darkness into light!

The kingdom life is of works by grace(the ability to work like God producing his dimension of results).

Have you ever read Jesus  say  in the Bible....  ‘greater works than his works we will do’? (John 14:12). There will be a judgement of works (2 Corinthians 5:10). Works done under grace!