Acts 2:42-47 – Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
To me this passage describes the greatest of all miracles in the Bible. You mean greater than Lazarus being raised from the dead or the Red Sea being parted as Moses lifted his staff? Then there was turning water into wine, walking on water and the casting out of demons. Why would I call this the greatest? I think its because I know human nature and how far man has fallen and how much self centeredness has captured our hearts. In this passage Luke is trying to describe being in one accord with other Christians. This one accord he is talking about is supernatural; it flows from that oneness that Jesus prayed about in John 17. He was asking the Father to make all that believed in Him one, one the way Jesus is with the Father. That’s the miracle of Pentecost. Pentecost is the answer to Jesus prayer in John 17. Through the outpouring of the Spirit we become one with the Father and with His blessed Son. It’s out of that oneness with God we come into that one accord relationship with other believers. Here is how Augustine describes this.
“If, as they drew near to God, those many souls became, in the power of love, but one soul and these many hearts but one heart, what must the very source of love effect between the Father and the Son? Is not the Trinity for even greater reasons, but one God?… If the love of God poured forth in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who is given to us, is able to make of many souls but one soul and of many hearts but one heart, how much more are the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit but one God, one Light, one Principle?”
This is how we love one another, we have been brought into the fellowship of love between the Father and the Son. Because of this, we love one another. Only this can describe why people were selling their property and possessions to help other Christians. This has to be the greatest miracle of all, this is the evidence of changed lives by the power of the Blood and the Spirit.
