Salvation Reaches out: part 4
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Today we finish up Acts 10 and we see the Holy Spirit fall on to the gentiles just as it did on the Jews at the day of Pentecost.
Spiritual Power (vv 44-46a)
Spiritual Power (vv 44-46a)
As Peter was preaching the Holy fell on these people in the same way that it fell on the Jews at the day of pentecost.
The Spirits response to Salvation is immediate.
Saving faith results in the indwelling of of the Holy Spirit.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
You can tell the difference between a believer and a nonbeliever its the Spirit that dwells inside them.
19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
Results of the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Results of the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit grants power to witness
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.”
The Holy Spirit grants us the power to Pray
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
The Holy Spirit gives us assurance of Salvation
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
The Spirit is our pledge of our inheritance
14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
The Spirit is our Teacher
27 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
We have assurance of Salvation
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Symbolic Confession (vv 46b-48a)
Symbolic Confession (vv 46b-48a)
Baptism follows salvation.
Baptism is not salvation.
It is an outward sign of an inward relationship.
Much like a wedding ring.
The ring does not make you married, but is an outward symbol of the vows we make in our heart.
Sweet Fellowship (vv 10:48)
Sweet Fellowship (vv 10:48)
The Jews from Jerusalem now no longer strangers but bothers to the new believers from another race were asked to stay here in this foreign land and fellowship with these new converts.
The desire they had to learn and to fellowship with these men was an expression of their new faith.
