God Loves Us So Much He Gave Us Power To Be His Witnesses

Luke 11:13 “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!””

If He’ll clothe the grass and care for the birds, won’t He care for me.

If He reconciled me while I was an enemy, how much more… Rom. 5:10

Luke 24:49 “And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.””

Helper - John 14:26

Comforter - Acts 9:31

Convicts us of sin and righteousness - John 16:8

Guides us into all truth - John 15:26

Advocate - John 14:26

Expedient - Beneficial, Advantageous

John 16:7 “Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.”

Receive Power

Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.””

To Be His Witnesses And Disciples

Power - Strength, force, might, capability

Share what we have seen and heard

Witness - comes from Greek word that means martyr

Disciples

Share the Gospel

1 Corinthians 15:1–2 (ESV): The Resurrection of Christ

15 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:3–5 (ESV): 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Mark 2:21-22 “No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.””

John