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Empowered By the Spirit
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Welcome
Be sure and, if you don’t stay to eat, at least give to the fundraiser before you leave today.
It will support our Youth’s trip to Holiday Youth Convention at the end of the month.
BBQ Nachos will be served directly after service!
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We continue in our series about The Spirit today!
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Lesson Connection
Power Unrecognized
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You may have seen footage of the Rose Parade before.
Huge floats.
Cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Sponsored by companies.
It’s a New Years Day thing, since the late 1800s.
But in 1938, it didn’t go so well.
As a matter of fact, it went horrible.
There was one company’s float that was going down the avenue with all the others.
Everything was going like it should.
Children and parents watching and clapping.
It was going well.
Until it wasn’t.
Suddenly, this amazing float’s movement came to a quick halt.
The engine coughed.
People were looking at one another.
It had stopped… because it ran out of gas.
All the planning, preparation, expense… all the execution to be a part of this massive event - the whole thing was held up until someone could return with aa can of gas.
And here’s the best part: that float that stopped the Rose Parade in its tracks because it ran out of gas… it was sponsored by the Standard Oil Company (the largest oil company in the world at the time).
The company had plenty of fuel.
Their float didn’t.
And power that is unrecognized and not utilized is worthless.
As a child of God, I am not self-sufficient.
We don’t operate just out of human strength or ingenuity.
We are connected to a source of limitless power that we draw on to succeed for the kingdom of God.
We are empowered by the Spirit.
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And I am of the opinion that you should never have to sputter to a stop because you’ve run out of the power that’s endued from on high!
We’ve got to stay connected!
Jesus Promised Power Through the Spirit
Over the three years that the disciples had spent with Jesus, they had become very accustomed to relying on Jesus’ strength and power.
But Jesus was preparing to leave the disciples.
And a short time before that, Jesus made them an awesome promise, if they just would have understood it at the time:
They were looking for Jesus to come again, and He definitely will.
But before His return to take up His Church, Jesus promised them something more immediate:
That Power Would Enable Us to Be His Witnesses
And we know that, in just a few days after what He told them, that spiritual encounter would be unveiled to the world!
But there’s something important about that power He was telling about… He also gave the reason WHY He was giving it:
He told them WHY.
“I’m not just giving this to you so you can turn cartwheels in the Spirit and feel good!”
And I hold another belief.
I believe Jesus would also tell us today, “I didn’t give the power of the Spirit to you just so you could have good church!”
No, He didn’t.
That’s not what the Word of God says.
It says He gave us the power so that we could do the work of spreading His gospel throughout the earth.
It serves other purposes.
But that one right there matters to Him a lot.
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I Will Rely on the Spirit’s Power to Enable Me to Be God’s Witness
Now, it’s for sure that they needed that power to reach their world back then.
Without a doubt.
But we do, also.
As a matter of fact, it’s likely that we need His Spirit even more.
When you look at the culture around us that is godless… and about the only thing that’s sure to get someone to be absolutely hateful is to in any way imply that there’s such a thing as absolute truth.
Any commitment to anything like that…
And we’re supposed to be fishers of men, right?
Well this fishing hole that you and I are sitting at is poisoned with all sorts of human philosophy and corruption.
Spiritual confusion has pierced our society so much that something as basic as gender has been twisted until we’re told there are over one hundred different genders beyond male and female.
If we’re honest, that’s the fishing hole we’re sitting at.
This is the world we’re commissioned to reach.
However, I’m willing to submit to you that because of how nasty the water is down there, there are some fish that are so sick and tired of it, they’re about ready to just jump right out on the bank.
We’ve just got to be watching for those hungry people!
But one thing I will promise you, is that, if we’re going to be a witness to a people who are so heavily influenced by these things in our world, it is absolutely VITAL that we be empowered by the Holy Ghost.
Them people out there that have callouses all around their heart because of how many times they’ve been hurt in the world - the only thing that’s going to be able to pierce through all of that is the Spirit of God.
If we’re going to reach our world, we’re going to have to have a demonstration of spiritual power!
And He promised He would provide it!
God’s Power Was Demonstrated Through the Early Church
That promise He made about power coming… on the day of Pentecost, the power fell.
Fire sat on their heads.
They spoke with other tongues.
And that’s why Pentecost is not some other flavor of religion or Christianity.
What it is, is a people who have realized that the power is for me!
It’s really this simple: we’re going to take Jesus at His word: we will receive power!
It’s a book of the ACTS of the Holy Ghost!
And the book says that signs will follow them that believe!
So here’s a litmus test: have you been seeing signs?
I mean, the book says that if it’s real, we’ll see signs.
I know I have.
I’ve seen my wife healed.
I’ve seen lives turned around.
I’ve seen financial miracles for people in this church.
I’ve seen sickness healed.
I’ve seen the signs - THIS IS THE REAL THING!
Other places may claim to have it, but thee signs aren’t there to signify it.
It’s like the sign of tongues for the Holy Ghost - if it’s real, the sign will be there.
There is something real here that I have planted my feet and decided my family is going to be a part of!
And not only that, it’s growing!
The First Believers Asked God to Perform Miracles
Right after that miracle at the gate from last week (the lame man healed), Peter and John were just covered up by people - SMOTHERED.
And the reason why is that they knew it was the Spirit that was the source of power that healed this man.
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