Looking For A Preacher Like Peter On the Day Of Pentecost

Teachings from Yukon Meeting

First weekend October, 2011

Looking For A Preacher Like Peter

On The Day Of Pentecost

Guidelines for speaking in public:

1. Be filled up
2. Shine up
3. Stand up (with the 11 apostles)
4. Lift up your voice
5. As soon as you can, turn your audience to you

1. Filled:

Eph. 5:18: And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Mt. 5:6: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Filled (defined):

1. supplied
2. furnished
3. accomplished
4. full

Luke 24:49: And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

Endued (defined):

1. clothed with
2. invested with
3. armed with

Acts 1:1: The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

 2Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:



And...



:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.



 5For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.



And...



:8: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.



Acts 2:1; And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.



 2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.



 3And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.



 4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.



 5And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven.



 6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

We see Peter turn his audience towards him

Acts 2:15: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.



 16But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;



 17And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:



 18And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

and...

:29: Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.



 30Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

and...

:36: Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.



 37Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?



 38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.



 39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.



And..



:41: Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

2. Shine Up
   

Mt. 5:14: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

 15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

 16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Phil. 2:15: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;



ye are seen as luminaries
ye are seen as heavenly light
ye are seen as shining like stars in a dark world