A New Community of God’s Spirit
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Sermon led by Dr. Tom Robinson on Pentecost, comparing the Pentecost depicted in Acts 2 with Moses on Mount Sinai. In Exodus after the Pharaoh tried to stamp out Jewish culture when they were enslaved in Egypt, the Israelites received the Ten Commandments from God through Moses, which created an identity around the Israelites through those commandments. But in Acts, after Herod tried to do the same as the Pharaoh, what the disciples receive from God in Acts 2 is not limited to Jews. Instead, after Jesus’s death, the countryside Galilean apostles, not the chief priests, spoke with the power of the Spirit in tongues, so all could understand. Christianity became a new community available to anyone through Jesus and the Spirit.