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The Holy Spirit fills the people
What if the place where heaven meets earth isn't a building, but actually lives within us? After ten days of waiting, the Holy Spirit arrived not as a gentle breeze but as violent wind and tongues of fire—remarkably similar to how God's presence appeared at the tabernacle, except this time the fire rested on people, not a place. This shift is revolutionary: throughout Old Testament history, God's presence rested on specific locations—the garden, the mountain, the tabernacle, the temple—but at Pentecost, everything changed. The scattered people from the Tower of Babel, who were divided by confused languages as judgment, now find themselves unified in Jerusalem hearing the gospel in their native tongues. This is a fundamental redefinition of what it means to carry God's presence. We are no longer people who go to a sacred place to meet God. We are the sacred place. Wherever we walk, work, eat, and live, we carry the presence of the Holy Spirit with us, making every conversation with a neighbor, every moment at our dining room table, and every interaction at work potentially sacred. The question isn't whether Jesus is changing the world—it's whether Jesus is changing our lives, right here, right now.
