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 Lord by the brightness of your light in

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 Holy Faith your church unite from

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 every land and every tongue.

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 This to your praise our Lord Our God

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 be Sung alleluia. Alleluia.

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 In the name of the Father and of the Son and

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 of the Holy Spirit.

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 Amen.

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 The text for the sermon this morning is the

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 scripture lesson read a few moments ago

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 from The Acts of the Apostles.

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 Today is Pentecost Monday and appointed in

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 that way. This lesson is a Pentecost lesson.

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 Of course, it doesn't have to be read exactly in that way. It could

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 be read in the context for instance of Peter saying. Truly

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 I understand that God shows

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 no partiality.

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 Or could be understood in the context of actually what

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Peter said about Jesus. How

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 God anointed him with the Holy Spirit

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 and with power. How he went around doing good. How

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 he healed those who were pressed by the devil.

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 How he was crucified. How God

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 raised him from the dead.

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 How Jesus had sent them out to testify that

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 he had been appointed by God to be the judge of the

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 living and the dead.

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 How he promised forgiveness of sin to all who would believe

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 on his name.

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 That would make for Christ his person his work that

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 would make for Easter.

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 But we'll take it as a

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 Pentecost lesson because the people in Cornelius's house,

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 the house of a Gentile,

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 a God fear but a Gentile.

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How they heard believed

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 and the gift of the Holy Spirit came upon them

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 as well.

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 Now to explain as a Pentecost lesson

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 one might think it's pretty simple.

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 When Peter preached on Pentecost, he cited the Apostle

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 the prophet Joel about how the

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 spirit we poured out on all flesh.

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 Peter excited that and this was what was happening.

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 That's a simple explanation, but it's too simple.

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 If that were the explanation

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 then why did Peter require a special

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 vision from God?

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 The one about the sheet coming down out of the heavens covered

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 with animals with reptiles Peter

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 being told to kill and eat.

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And being shown

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 that what God had made clean is indeed clean.

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 No without that Vision Peter would not have gone along

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 with the men sent from Cornelius and

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 then enter Cornelius's house. It was against

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 the law.

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 And that explanation that explanation can't be

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 that simple because once Peter actually did share

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 the good news about Jesus Christ.

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 The Holy Spirit came upon Cornelius and his family

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 and his friends and Peter and the rest of

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 the Jewish Christians were astonished.

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 Now the all flesh that

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 Joel was talking about was all Israel.

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 In the Old Testament

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 when Israel the spirit

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 of God was with the people

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 but rested upon

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 very few.

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 When David for instance

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 praise in Psalm 51 take not your Holy Spirit

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 He was special. He actually had the Holy Spirit

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 most Israelites did not.

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 Well, that was a promise for the new age. That was

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 a promise for the age to come. That was

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 a promise of God.

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 And indeed

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 when Peter preached on Pentecost he

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 preached because the Spirit had been poured out on him and the

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 other Apostles. And he promised the Holy Spirit to all

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 who would repent and be baptized

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 and so they were.

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 But the idea that the Holy Spirit will be poured out on

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 all people

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 well that yet was not apparent.

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 No, what was still being made known and was being made known here

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 in the house of Cornelius is the mystery of Christ.

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 What Paul spoke about in his letters letter to

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 the Ephesians.

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 Where once it had been Jew and

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 Gentile. Once it had been Israel and

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 the Nations. Once it had been clean

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 and unclean. Once it had

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 been spiritual and unspiritual.

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 But now something new was happening.

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 The dividing wall of hostility the Mosaic law.

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 no longer applied.

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 The dividing wall of hostility which separated the

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 world into Jews and Gentiles into Israel in

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 the nation into clean and unclean

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 that was being done away with.

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 And now something new was happening.

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 Jews and Gentiles together would be heirs.

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 Jews and Gentiles would be members of one body. Jews

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 and Gentiles who we partakers in one

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 promise.

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 And that was being made known in the house of

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 Cornelius.

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 In Pentecost

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 we remember and rejoice

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 that God had raised Jesus from the dead and now

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 was pouring out his Holy Spirit.

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 To make holy would have been unholy to

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 clean what had been unclean. To forgive

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 what had been sinful.

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 To bring to life what had been dead.

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 And would not only be for

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 who was looking for a Immanual.

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 Who was dwelling in darkness.

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 But it would be for

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 all people.

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 And it was and it is and it

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 will be

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 for you.

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 For everyone

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 no matter where you come from no matter what you have done everyone

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 all of you who call on the name

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 of the Lord will indeed be saved.

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 On all of you God has given his

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 Spirit.

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 So let us remember and rejoice on this Pentecost Monday.

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 The love of God in sending

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 his Son and his Spirit.

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 The grace God shows through his Son

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 who gave baptism to make every one

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 of you one of God's children.

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 Who gives Christ about who gives his own body and blood Christ

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 gives his own body and blood as a sign

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 of grace of love of Mercy.

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 Who forgives all your sins.

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 And let's remember and rejoice in the Holy Spirit.

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 Was poured out to the astonishment of the Apostle Peter

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 on Cornelius and his family and friends.

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 Was poured out

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 on you.

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 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of

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 God the communion the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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 Amen.

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 We rise to pray.