Acts chapter two is where we're going to be here this morning.

And before we start reading from it, I'm going to give a little bit of an intro and back up

and kind of go through the end of chapter one as well so we can see the context of what we're

about to read.

But there are three topics, three doctrines, really, in the New Testament, about which God says through the apostle Paul,

I don't want you to be ignorant.

Three particular times in the New Testament that Paul writes, by inspiration of the Spirit,

not to be ignorant about particular topics.

Here are the three topics.

Israel and the place of the Jews in history and

prophecy. In Romans 1125, Paul writes, for I do not desire brethren that you should be ignorant of this

mystery. Number two, the rapture of the church and end time events. Paul writes in 1st Thessalonians

413, but I do not want you to be ignorant,

brethren. And then also the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts. In 1 Corinthians 12, 1, Paul writes,

now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. Three times,

directives are given in the New Testament about three particular topics or

doctrines about which we should not be ignorant. And I understand why Paul warns us not to be ignorant

about these three particular topics, because it has been my experience over the years of ministry,

my observation, that these three

particular topics stir up some of the most controversy in the church today. Christians have some

pretty strong opinions about Israel and the Jewish people and about the rapture and end time events.

And they have some pretty strong opinions about the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts.

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