Pentecost: A New Beginning - Part 2

Recap of Last Week: The New Beginning of Pentecost is about a NEW PROMISE and a NEW ATMOSPHERE

This Week: Pentecost is about a NEW MISSION (which gives our lives purpose!)

Acts 1:8 NASB95

but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

Acts 1:7 NASB95

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;

#1. Pentecostal People are Focused on God’s Mission

A. Spirit Baptism is All About Being Christ’s Witnesses

B. Spirit Baptism Speaks About Human Equality

2 Corinthians 5:17–19 NASB95

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

#2. Pentecostal People are Reconcilers

A. The End of Alienation and Hostility

B. The Removal of the Offense(s) which Caused the Disruption of Relationship

C. The Reconciliation to God and to Each Other.

RECAP: A NEW PURPOSE of partaking in GOD’S MISSION to RECONCILE people to Him.