This week’s scriptures are: Genesis 11:1-9, Psalms 104:24-35, Act 2:1-21, John 14:8-17 (25-27)
Please pray with me:
Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that the words of this sermon are YOUR words, and not mine. I pray that the message here touches those that need to be touched. I pray that those receiving this sermon remember that all Honor and Glory are yours, Lord, both now and forever. Amen and Amen.
Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Sometimes I wonder what life would be like, if we were all alike. I don't mean that we all look alike, but that everyone, everywhere on earth, spoke the same language and believed in the same God.
We could travel the entire world and understand what everyone was saying! We could read all of the signs and know that they said. WOW! Can you imagine?
Back in the days of Genesis Chapter 11, that's the way it was. Everyone spoke the same language and they believed in God. But they decided to build a tower to reach the heavens. I guess they wanted to be able to climb for days and days to see God.
So God saw their plan and He changed they way everyone spoke. I'm guessing it was fear of what everyone else was saying or planning, that caused everyone to scatter throughout the earth.
I'm sure they all went away in groups of people who were now speaking the same language, but how many friends and family members did they leave behind?
Can you imagine the noise from the babbling? To get an idea of what it must have been like, just go to the 1 year old class of any day care and listen.
Now fast forward to Acts Chapter 2. There we read about the Holy Spirit coming down in tongues of fire and resting on each of the Apostles. They were so filled with the Holy Spirit, that they began to speak in different tongues.
By this time, people from all over the world had moved to Jerusalem. They had learned to speak a common language, but each of them were hearing the Apostles speak in their own native tongues.
I cannot explain it, but there were people from at least twelve different nations living there. Yet everyone heard everything ALL TWELVE Apostles were saying in their own native tongue. God IS good!
The funny thing is these learned men thought the Apostles were drunk! Excuse me! If the Apostles were drunk, why were they speaking in such a way that EVERYONE heard them in his/her native tongue? Wouldn't everyone ELSE have to be drunk to ASSUME the Apostles were speaking in his/her native tongue?
Personally, I think I would have been amazed at this. Everyone understanding everything being said by these men.
Imagine if one of our world leaders could stand up in front of a podium and give a speech that was broadcast world wide and NO INTERPRETER was need for everyone to understand what was being said. I don't mean that just the learned upper crust could understand. I'm talking about even the poorest of the poor in the farthest reaches of the earth, could stumble across the broadcast somehow and understand every word.
WOW!
At one point in time, everyone spoke the same language.........
Today, God speaks ALL languages. He sends His Holy Spirit to be with us and fill us. So that even if we encounter someone who does not speak the same language we do, they can know that we are filled with the Holy Spirit........a common thread.........a common love for God.
So go out into that world today and the rest of the week and speak the language of God! People will understand you, even if they don't speak the same "earthly language". By letting God speak through us, We Can All Speak The Same Language.
Amen. Amen.
May the reading of this sermon bless you. May God be with you and you with Him, until we meet again.
Amen. Amen.
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