All InSample

We would all agree that the Holy Spirit is here to guide us. So we should probably pay attention to what the Holy Spirit is doing in Acts 2:46-47. He is unifying all the people and all the nations, because there is power in unity. 

Our differences are not what make us weak; they are what make us strong. When we embrace our differences and unify under the banner of God, we fill our lives with the fullness of God’s love – a supernatural and active love composed of a kaleidoscope of humans working together for the glory of God. 

The same God that made the oceans, millions of stars and planets in the sky, also made ALL people. He made us to reflect, magnify, and glorify His name. Before the Holy Spirit arrived and went to work unifying people, look at the last thing Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” 

Then, Jesus says in Acts 1:8, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” 

Even one of Jesus’ earliest followers, Paul, reminds and challenges us in Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Throughout the Bible, this design and desire for spiritual unity in the Holy Spirit, goes all the way from the prophets of the Old Testament (Read Joel 2:28-32) to Revelation (Read Revelation 7:9). The young and the old, men and women, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues. ALL. 

When Neil Armstrong visited the place where Acts 2 happened he said, “I am more excited stepping on these stones than I was stepping on the moon,” while he knelt down and kissed the steps of the southern gate where Jesus walked and the Holy Spirit descended. 

The southern gate to the temple was where the people were taught to live in unity. This is the place you would have had your ritual bath prior to entering the temple. All of the nations that gathered there had to lay down all their differences to be of one accord—to be in complete, supernatural unity. This Spirit-filled supernatural unity ignited a revival for over 3,000 souls to be saved and baptized later that very same day. What if we saw our brothers and sisters as God sees them: as image bearers, having the same value as ourselves? What could we accomplish if we decided to go all in on spiritual unity? 

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!” - Psalm 133:1