Pentecost: Seven Minute Seminary

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Dr. Craig Keener here introduces the meaning of Pentecost and the Spirit in the book of Acts.

[@ellierosenberg356]

I’m an ex homosexual and this is the most gracious and merciful approach that I’ve seen on this subject.

[@josephturner6630]

I love Dr. Keener, and he leaves absolutely nothing out. It's fitting that his "Seven Minute Seminary" segment is eleven minutes long, since the volume on acts, which was supposed to be 1000 pages, turned into four volumes and over 4000 pages. He also wrote two volumes on miracles that he originally wanted in the commentary, but he decided to make them stand alone volumes, which are together over 1000 pages. I recommend everything he writes!

[@samuelhicks594]

The Good News of the Gospel is spread throughout the world by the power of Pentecost. The new and old testament are connected by the power of this event. God is not dead.

[@t.k.h8713]

Take a shot every time he says "Pentecost".

[@dannymoses1239]

Solidly biblical and wonderfully inspired hy the Spirit

[@GaryWornica]

Thanks Craig for such a balanced, biblical approach to Pentecost!

[@captequinox]

The linking of Joel's promise with the end times is fascinating! Thanks for pointing this out.

[@martinecheverria5968]

Read Numberd 11:25-29

[@Metanoia_Magna]

I love this guy !

[@5crownsoutreach]

A great sociorhetorical approach included with this! Keener's sociorhetorical commentaries and insights have always been an integral part of my studies in the Scriptures. Keener as an AGTS grad, I don't think there could be any better focus on the key ingredients of a pentecostal faith and interpretation. Thanks Dr. Keener. I hope to be able to speak with you one of these days.

[@DanMorrison1914]

This is a great explanation! It makes me look forward to the rest of the volumes of his Acts commentary.

[@georgeins.c.494]

Excellent 7 .minutes!

[@ningreingamkamei6323]

Dear Sir, One Jewish teacher said that several important verses( from jewish Tanakh to Christian Old Testament) were mistranslated to support New Testament claims.More so, literal translation( from Tanakh to Christian Old Testament) was also corrupted in many places over and over. Is the jewish teacher right? Can you please help me? Thank you. Dan Kamei.

[@gillmyers1740]

Isn't it true that most of the Old Testament is present in texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, many of which predate the Christian era? Is this teacher able to substantiate their claims with reference to early manuscripts? Sounds to me like this is a spin which was put on the situation prior to the discovery of early manuscripts such as the DSS.

[@agustinserratos6906]

Great scholar. But his soft voice really bothers me, can't tell why

[@brotherjim5904]

Did those drunk in the S(s)pirit on Pentecost actually SPEAK in several foreign, earthly languages; OR, in part because "God is not the author of tumultousness," did each in the audience rather just supernaturally HEAR the message in their individual native language? (Rhetorical -- one day we shall know.) I knew a man who spoke no Spanish but attended Spanish Pentecostal church services on ocassion. He claimed that during a corporate prayer time of one of those services, the Latino lady next to him laughed a few seconds upon hearing him supposedly praying in tongues. The man knew his prayer language was not Spanish -- him believing it angelic, and the lady's laughter was not a humorous chuckle but rather what any Christian might express upon hearing something victorious over the enemy or world.

[@brotherjim5904]

Copied and pasted from another thread: Ummm...I need to withdraw my suggestion. I no longer think proper the term "Equipping of the Holy Ghost/Spirit" a good replacement for the misnomer "Baptism of the HG/HS." It connotes the idea that a subsequent-to-salvation/justification experience is a once and done event. I'm afraid to insist that we really must make an adjunct to the English language, making "baptizing" a noun in addition to its current usage as a verb. :) Then we can say, after justification there are additional baptizings of God's Spirit, the first usually being a baptizing of the Holy Ghost upon us, a cloak if you will, an additional manifestation of God's Spirit: A GARMENT OF PRAISE (period -- though it may at times be given along with an additional Grace).

[@brotherjim5904]

After all, we've done that with the word "washing."

[@brotherjim5904]

And as someone who wonderfully points out church errors in their taking Scripture out of its context, Professor, you should appreciate how Acts 1:2 MIGHT indicate the sole audience being, and therefore confined promise of Acts 1:8 power to, Jesus' "apostles." That's of course not to say such power is not potentially available to additional others, but just as 2Tim1:7 may be referring to just Paul and Timothy, in its context; so too would it be an out of context claim to say all who receive the subsequent-to-justification blessing of Acts 2:3 given to perhaps 100+ (men, women, older children?), to automatically have also included the power of Acts 1:8 at the same time. [ed.+: To others: for those unfamiliar, "the garment of praise" (KJV; NIV; etc.) is a promise from Isaiah 61:3 -- generally, but not necessarily (e.g., compare to Ezek. 36:25-28), relegated to the next dispensation, based at least in part upon Jesus' "terseness" in Luke 4.]

[@brotherjim5904]

Perhaps best, terminology wise, would to simply refer to the Acts 2:3 additional Grace as the Holy Ghost (sic) upon us. (Using S(s)pirit for the Grace of justification; reverting to the KJV verbage duality.)