What does Heaven sound like? Bill Johnson shares from Acts 2 on the day of Pentecost. A sound from Heaven, as a rushing mighty wind, drew people from all over the city and led to 3000 salvations in one day. Bill shares on the sound of Heaven that is released when believers come together in unity, yielded to the Spirit of God. It is enough to impact a city!
suddenly there’s this sound created that
blanketed a city called Jerusalem and
changed the Consciousness the awareness
the mindset of an entire city you have
people that crucify Jesus 50 days
earlier I’m now asking the question what
must I do to be saved
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Acts chapter 2
verse 1 dear Pentecost had fully come
they were all in one Accord in one place
and suddenly there came a sound from
Heaven as of a rushing Mighty Wind and
it fills the whole house where they were
sitting there appeared to them divided
tongues as a fire and one sat upon each
of them and they were all filled with
the Holy Spirit and began to speak with
other tongues as the spirit gave them
utterance okay
what were the two natural manifestations
seen in these verses
wind
yes was the other
fire Wind and Fire
Hebrews 1 calls Angels Ministers of wind
and Ministers of Fire
Jesus said
you’re going to see more than that
Nathanael
you will see greater things and it
includes Angels ascending and descending
upon the son of man
now I have zero interest in stirring up
affection or affinity for the Angelic
realm they exist they cooperate with us
it’s foolish to ignore them excuse me
it’s foolish to worship them it’s
equally foolish to ignore them
they are not to be worshiped I don’t
serve them
but they help to facilitate God’s
assignment in our life
to ignore them is not smart
so here this comment is made
and in Acts chapter 2 there is this
sound of Wind and Fire that comes into
the room
look at the next verse
verse 6 when the sound occurred the
multitude came together they were
confused
because everybody heard them speak in
his own language verse 7 they were all
amazed and they marveled
verse 12. they were all amazed and
perplexed verse 13 others were mocking
so it’s a perfectly described Revival
right here they were amazed they
marveled they were perplexed and they
mocked
if you think you can have an authentic
move of God without those things you are
horribly mistaken
years ago I bought these little geodes
in these little rocks there’s ugly on
the Outside Inside there’s these
beautiful
purple crystals and oh that’s a
beautiful thing I bought some for my
kids way back when I said this is
Revival
it looks ugly on the outside it’s
gorgeous on the inside
and that’s really the way a move of God
is it’s just it has to be experienced
you know you find Michael the daughter
of Saul the wife of David
was up in her Palace mocking David as he
was dancing before the Lord
because worship at a distance always
looks weird
as she born no children to the day of
her death baroness took over where there
was the rejection of sacrificial giving
unto the Lord in Thanksgiving and praise
giving himself in worship
we have this same kind of a situation
here
so we see in verse
says the sound occurred the multitude
came together
I’ve I’ve heard throughout my life I
don’t know if I don’t know if anybody’s
taught it or it’s just been kind of
assumed but it seemed to me that it was
taught that
thousands of people all over Jerusalem
laid down their tools there are toys
with the kids or whatever it was and
they all came because this sound
occurred and the sound was people
praying in tongues
that doesn’t make any sense this is an
international City
Jerusalem is an international City to
have a half a dozen people speak Spanish
and Portuguese and Arabic and so all
these different languages is not going
to draw a crowd of thousands they’re not
going to leave the workplace they’re not
going to leave their homes to hear a
sound that is common it wouldn’t happen
in Reading
not quite the international center of
the universe yet
it’s coming but it’s not quite there yet
it wouldn’t happen here and yet it
happened there why
I would like to suggest
that there was a sound
that was otherworldly
it um
there’s 120 people in this room and it
says they’re in one Accord
you can have a band an orchestra in
perfect harmony with each other but be
completely out of tune
if they start by tuning to each other
and they’re in a wrong
with a note that is off they will sound
together
but they’re not right
and there’s a lot of ministry movements
that are together but they’re not right
they’re not right because they’re not
tuned to the heart of God there’s one
tuning fork it’s not mine it’s not yours
it’s him it’s his it is his heartbeat
there’s one note and we all adjust to
that
I’m not opposed to uh effort to be
United I’m I’m all right with that but I
I would rather see the people of God
have effort to be in tune
effort to be into because when I find
that I’m in tune with him I find that
I’m in tune with everybody else that’s
in tune with him the more I yield to
what he’s saying the more I yield to
what he’s doing the more I become the
instrument in his hand simply to
represent him well suddenly I found I
find my heart is just drawn to people
that have those same values those same
breakthroughs
it becomes a Unity that’s created by the
Holy Spirit himself so here we have 120
people that lay down their issues and
you know they had issues
they’re just days earlier argued as to
who was the greatest
there was Peter who said I’ll never deny
you all these people will but I won’t
there’s all this stuff going on in this
room they get together for 10 days I
think it took them 10 days of prayer to
get things worked out finally on the day
of Pentecost the outpouring of the
spirit and they were in Perfect Harmony
what’s the point you’ve got 120 people
that are perfectly yielded to God
it creates a sound
creates a sound just like a skilled
musician can breathe on the Reed of a
saxophone and create a unique distinct
sound and we have somebody else with the
the horns the trumpets and somebody else
everybody’s breathing over over that
instrument that is in perfect tune and
suddenly there’s this sound created that
blanketed a city called Jerusalem and
changed the Consciousness the awareness
the mindset of an entire city you have
people that crucify Jesus 50 days
earlier I’m now asking the question what
must I do to be saved it wasn’t just a
stirring sermon by Peter I’m sure it was
powerful I I don’t want to downplay that
but I’m just saying people left
everything they had to follow a sound
and if you can imagine standing
thousands three thousand got saved so
who who knows how many were there but
they all leave whatever they were doing
and they find themselves standing
staring mocking perplexed wondering
asking questions at 120 people that are
under the influence a sound was created
that changed the atmosphere of an entire
city and I’d like to suggest you that
every time you and I say yes to the Holy
Spirit to do whatever it is he wants to
do we die to ourselves we live to Christ
every time we do that a sound is
released into a city something happens
in the in the awareness if you will of a
city the Consciousness the mindset the
value system of an entire city begins to
change as people start to think
otherworldly why because there’s
something in the air there’s this sound
that’s been created that changed
everything
this says when the sound occurred one of
the words used here in Acts 2 for sound
is actually the word Roar
so if you can imagine here’s 120 people
they don’t know what they’re doing
they’ve been together for 10 days
they’re praying they’ve been told
they’ll know it when it shows up they
don’t know what it’s going to be they
don’t have have any idea and they’re I’m
sure honoring the Lord praying together
giving thanks and all of a sudden
there’s this sound that comes through
the room and it changes the atmosphere
of an entire city 120 people inebriated
got more stuff done
hahaha
in the following moments
than they ever could have through their
skilled gifting and I believe in the
skilled gifting I believe in the skilled
preaching of the word I believe in all
the stuff but in this one moment this
one church service
is the one service we can confidently
say the Holy Spirit was completely in
charge
because nobody knew enough to mess it up
they were they were all rookies they
didn’t know enough they didn’t have any
Traditions yet this is like their first
time out all they know is they’re
speaking languages they don’t understand
it doesn’t make any sense to them they
feel strangely edified and encouraged
they’re a little bit tipsy and they
stumble out onto the streets they’re
trying to figure out what’s going on and
all of a sudden they look out and
there’s thousands upon thousands upon
thousands that are there and they’re
trying to figure out
why are you here
it’s because the sound was created
see a yes and quiet
is broadcast in public a yes and quiet
there’s something that happens to a
people that just simply yield it may be
in here we have our worship teams lead
and we stand and we win and we declare
don’t you tell me he can’t do it we
stand and we declare that even though I
don’t see him working he’s working we
make these decrees
it’s incredible you look at this whole
story this whole storyline if you can
imagine this for hundreds and hundreds
of years there’s been a momentum
prophesy prophets have prophesied of a
coming day
they’ve been they’ve been preparing
there’s Moses who makes the cry I would
that all God’s people were prophets
there’s all this stuff that’s mounting
this anointing on the prophets on the
Kings on the judges all this stuff
preparing for a day when the people of
God will carry presence and Power in a
way that is beyond everybody’s
comprehension it’s not just the
specialist it’s now everybody and this
is mounting for hundreds and hundreds of
years and we come to this point where
the devil thinks he wins because he
crucified the Christ three days later
he raises from the dead
and much to the enemy’s surprise the
anointing that was on the one
the same anointing is now upon Millions
the biggest nightmare in all of history
happened in that moment
so this is building for hundreds of
years
we’ve got one service that we know the
Holy Spirit was in full charge of and
look at what it says
verse 11.
we hear them speaking
in our own tongues the wonderful works
of God you understand they’re all
speaking languages they didn’t know but
people in the in the crowd heard them
and they said they’re speaking
the mighty Deeds of God
think with me
that which has been building for
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
years has its first intelligent
expression
in revealing the wondrous works of God
of all the things that could have
happened in that moment of all the
things
this preceded the conversion of three
thousand people
I’d like to suggest to you that as
powerful as Peter’s preaching was to
help to bring a moment of decision for
that crowd it was put against the
backdrop of a revelation a corporate
Revelation over thousands of people of
the wondrous works of God they made a
decision to follow Jesus because it was
in the context of a revelation of the
wondrous works of God