These Are Not Drunken

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. Acts 2:15 (KJV)

There are a people who are so liberated, so joyful and so filled with life that our society thinks that “they must be on something.” Quite frankly, that’s what the world should think. We should be so glaringly different and so exuberant in our life-style that our drugged, drunken and sexually confused, still not satisfied or gratified, society would want to know what we’re on.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t need a “happy hour” to make it through the weekend. “TGIF” doesn’t mean, “Thank God It’s Friday,” it means “Thank God I’m Forgiven!” I’m forgiven and free from the bondage of sin seven days a week. Glory!

Being saved is enough to make a mummy shout; and being Baptized in the Holy Ghost too is just totally superabundantly, above and beyond anything that one could ask or think. The Spirit-filled believer is a walking fulfillment of prophecy.

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: Acts 2:16-18 (KJV)

“This is that.” This is that which the prophet spoke of (Joel 2:28, 29). This is that which makes a people “drunk” in the spirit at nine in the morning (Acts 2:15). This is that which allows a person to “speak mysteries to God” (1 Cor. 14:2). This is that which will arrest the attention of the whole world (Acts 2:7-12, 17).

It is early in the day and we who have the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead should be noising abroad the wonderful works of God in the midst of the city (Rom. 8:11: Acts 2:11).