The Whole Story #10 - With His People // Chris Holm

On the day of Pentecost, fire showed up again. Centuries earlier, fire and smoke covered Mount Sinai when God gave the law to Moses, and anyone who touched that mountain paid for it with their life. Fifty days after Passover, on the same festival that marked that moment, the fire of God's presence returned. This time it skipped the building and landed on people. A room full of fishermen, a former tax collector, and a group of faithful women became, in an instant, living temples for the presence of God.We look at why that moment didn't end the way Sinai did. The cross changed the situation. When Jesus took on our sin and our brokenness, the temple curtain tore in half, and the danger of getting close to a holy God disappeared. The Spirit moved in to do what He had wanted to do from the start, live with His people, in His people.We also look at the list of nations in Acts 2, a list that mirrors the Table of Nations from Genesis, right before the Tower of Babel. At Babel, humanity tried to climb up and grab God's authority for itself, and ended up scattered. At Pentecost, God came down, and the Spirit gathered the nations back together, languages and all.From there, the early church put that gathering into practice. People sold what they had to cover what others needed. Nobody was shamed into it and no law required it. It was a living preview of the kingdom of God, a Jubilee economy lived out at the kitchen table.We close by looking at the actual grammar behind the Great Commission. "Go" is a participle. It assumes we're already going somewhere, every day, to work, to the store, to school. The command is to make disciples wherever that going already takes us. Our assignment this week is simple. Help one person take one step closer to Jesus, wherever they happen to be starting from.URF WEBSITE: ➤ http://www.urfellowship.comSOCIALS: ➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urfellowship/➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/urfellowship