Lonnell Williams

It says, Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Brothers, what shall we do?

And Peter said to them, Repent,

And be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off.

Everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.

And with many other words, he bore witness and continued to exhort them saying, save yourselves this crooked generation.

For those who received his words were baptized and they were added that day about 3000 souls.

For the purpose of this message, I am going to call this sermon on this day.

On this day.

In the Greco-Roman calendar that we follow here in the United States, today has been positioned and defined as the day of Pentecost in the Christian calendar.

This is the day of Pentecost.

When I grew up, this is the day you came to church and you're all white.

from head to toe and boy we went for broke on that day you broke a sweat because that was the day that the Holy Spirit fell on the children there for the festival and and we have already talked about the day of Pentecost in this series but that does not mean that the Holy Spirit can't still fall in

on today.

And we find ourselves at this moment where the Jewish community has come to this region for the festivals and to give homage to God.

And on that day, you also have the 120 who are there, who have received the gift of the spirit, who are speaking in native tongues where other

Groups and ethnicities can hear their language and they all sit and they begin to mock at that moment the people who were speaking in tongues.

So Peter stands up fervently and he begins to preach the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And we see here that Pastor Philip has already walked us through this moment, but now we find ourselves at the very end of that sermon.