God's Grace and Power for Today (Pentecostal Pioneers) by Donald Gee

Author:Donald Gee [Gee, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: Revival Library
Published: 2014-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5. Acts X—It Happened Again!

If the great essentials of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost had never been repeated, it would have remained a momentous landmark in history, but could provide no logical incentive for subsequent converts to Christianity to expect a similar experience.

The Caesarean “Pentecost,” recorded in Acts 10, occurred about eight years after the initial outpouring in Jerusalem. A legitimate significance is attached by Bible teachers to the fact that this was the first Gentile “Pentecost”; and its importance as marking another onward step in the purposes of God, especially in the new and equal spiritual relationships of both Jew and Gentile in the Church of Jesus Christ, ought never to be disputed. We make no question of this sound principle of exposition, but we do protest strongly against putting the story contained in the tenth chapter of the book of Acts on the historical shelf for these reasons, and regarding the personal experience therein recorded as having no significance for Gentile believers today.

The astonishment of the Jewish believers, recorded in verse 45, was not because the company who had gathered in the house of Cornelius were granted an exceptional experience, but because they were, in their estimation, exceptional people to receive it. The emphasis of their surprise was not on the fact that they spoke with tongues, but on the fact that they were Gentiles who were doing it. The first may safely be regarded as normal at that time; it was the second which they regarded as abnormal. Acts 10 simply records the story of how Gentile believers first came into the river of blessing in which for eight years first Jewish believers, and later the Samaritans (Acts 8), had been rejoicing.

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