The Sovereign Spirit
Light + Truth
Desiring God
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Holy Spirit is sovereign and free. |
| 0:10.1 | He is never subordinate or submissive to anybody else's timing or technique as to how |
| 0:17.1 | he should come and when he should come. |
| 0:20.1 | He is free and therefore, if he comes into your life, you mark it. |
| 0:26.2 | It will be sudden. |
| 0:30.2 | So what happens when the Spirit sovereignly moves upon us? |
| 0:35.2 | John Piper goes to Acts 2 1 to 13 for an answer to that important question in this episode |
| 0:41.5 | of Light and Truth. |
| 0:44.0 | This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on October 14, 1990. |
| 0:54.0 | When the day of Pentecost had come and my first question is, why did the Son of Man having |
| 1:04.6 | ascended to the right hand of the Father and received the blessing of the Holy Spirit |
| 1:08.2 | choose to pour it out on Pentecost? |
| 1:13.0 | Why not the day before? |
| 1:14.6 | Why not three weeks later? |
| 1:16.0 | A month later? |
| 1:17.4 | Five days earlier? |
| 1:18.4 | Why Pentecost? |
| 1:19.4 | Is there a reason? |
| 1:21.8 | I thought of two possible reasons. |
| 1:25.0 | Number one, Pentecost means 50th. |
| 1:29.5 | It was the celebration of a feast of the Jews 50 days after Passover. |
| 1:36.2 | It was one of the three feast days on which all of the men of Israel were required to show |
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