Change Amazes
Notes
Transcript
7th in series of “What Change Does”
Overarching scripture from Isaiah 55:8-11
- God’s higher thoughts, higher ways, the word from his mouth does not return empty but accomplishes His purpose
God’s Word changes things!!
Change...
++stretches
++becomes
++restarts
++intends
++produces
++inspires
++amazes (today)
++includes (next week)
Change...
++stretches
++becomes
++restarts
++intends
++produces
++inspires
++amazes (today)
++includes (next week)
Please stand to honor the reading of God’s Word
12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”
13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”
14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.
15 These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!
16 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 “ ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
THE WORD OF GOD, FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD
Wonder Lake - 1967
Inner Transformation
Inner Transformation
Pour Out My Spirit
Inner Transformation (verse 17)
Pour Out My Spirit - sons & daughters prophesy, young men visions, old men dreams
Inclusive Ministry
Inclusive Ministry
Status Doesn’t Matter
Inclusive Ministry (verse 18)
Status Doesn’t Matter - slave or free, male or female, rich or poor, black or white
Inspirational Wonders
Inspirational Wonders
Great and Glorious
Inspirational Wonders (verses 19 & 20)
Great and Glorious
Joel another other scriptures - Egypt’s plagues - to get our attention
21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
Change is Amazing
Grace is Amazing
The Lord is Amazing
EACH DAY WITH HIM IS AMAZING