Jesus commanded the
apostles that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise
of the Father, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 1:4-5) The Holy Ghost is
the Spirit of Jesus in us. (John 14:17-18)
Jesus told Nicodemus,
a ruler of the Jews, that except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5). Jesus compared being born of
the Spirit to the wind.
He said the wind
blows wherever it wants. You can’t tell where it is coming from or where it is
going. But you hear the sound of it. Jesus said it is the same as every one
that is born of the Spirit. (Acts 10:45-46).
"The wind
bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not
tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of
the Spirit." - John 3:8 KJV
On the day of
Pentecost, when the one hundred and twenty in the upper room were born of the
Spirit, there was a sound as of a rushing mighty wind.
"And when the
day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it
filled all the house where they were sitting. ... And they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance." - Acts 2:1-2, 4 KJV
Just as Jesus said,
when those in the upper room were born of the Spirit, there was a sound as of the
wind. The Bible says the sound came from heaven. This sound from heaven was the
sound of those in the upper room speaking in other tongues (other languages) as
the Spirit gave them utterance.
No one could see where
the Spirit of Jesus came from, and where it went after it filled each of the
disciples, but they heard the sound!
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