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My Sermon is titled Provision for The Mission
We have been going through a series on spiritual gifts.
Acts 1:8
I thought it would be fitting to see where this started for the church.
To see the place and purpose for these gifts.
The main text I will be preaching from is Acts 2:1-13 but for the purpose of context and clarity, I am going to read acts 1:8
Pray
There are many reasons people attend church or get involved in a church community.
Some people come to church or are involved in church because it’s all they’ve known.
Their parents did it and so do they.
Some come because they really want to have friends.
Some come on a Sunday morning because they like good singing and good musicians.
They might even find the sermon entertaining.
Some people come to clear their conscience.
Some come to make business contacts.
There are an abundance of reasons why someone would walk through our doors on a Sunday or Wednesday and then go on a retreat or mission trip with us.
Scott has said this before, and I want to make sure I say it today.
Regardless of why you came today.
We are glad you are here.
Thank you for being here.
We want people here from every walk of life.
But, our hope for all is that eventually, something will click, and you will understand and care about the true purpose for why we are here.
What does this have to do with Holy Spirit gifts and Acts 2?
This text we are going to look at marks the inauguration of the Church.
People wouldn’t be wrestling with reasons to come to church if the church was never inaugurated.
Now, the original greek word for church literally means “gathering of people”, but Jesus and the apostles intentionally used it as a new concept for God’s people to identify something unique to other gatherings.
Something never before seen.
Before chapter 2, and commentators agree with this, the people praying and gathering were not yet The Church.
They were merely a group of people waiting and praying to become the church.
What formed the church’s inauguration wasn’t human’s crafting bylaws, or making a mission statement, or selecting new leaders, or taking up an offering.
This group of able bodied individuals were missing something… Not just something.
But Someone.
Have you ever heard the saying “the party can’t start until I walk in!”
The Life of the Party!?
Maybe you’ve been a part of a surprise party.
Like we had for Pastor Scott last month.
We couldn’t start the party until he arrived!
He needed to be there.
But, unlike that party, this party, this church forming party, wasn’t a surprise to the guest of honor, it was a surprise to all those praying for Him to come.
The Holy Spirit, God’s presence to us now, He is the glue that holds the church together, He is the one who sets the expectations, He is the one who moves the people, He is the one who sets the trajectory for us.
The disciples could not get started without Him!
Just like the multitude of people who might gather on Sunday mornings.
They were not THE church until he walked in the door.
If he isn’t there, then the church isn’t there!
For them, just like for us, when He came, He affirmed the expectation and focus for why, when, how they gather and what exactly they are supposed to do when they leave the gathering that Jesus originally gave them.
Essentially, everything was meant to testify to the glory of God seen in Jesus!
Thats the mission.
Thats the aim.
A lot of groups have tried to hijack the Holy Spirit and, sadly, have made little of Jesus and His mission.
It’s a shame that the term “Pentecostal power” has for many people become more associated with speaking in tongues than with the harvest of world evangelization.
The Holy Spirit’s main concern is to make Jesus, the radiance of God’s glory, famous!
Main Idea
The Holy Spirit is God’s Provision for His Church’s Mission
This is amazing, the very thing we need to fulfill our task is not better programs, a church van, more money, greater athletes, or anything of this world.
What we need is God Himself.
We need the Holy Spirit.
God’s provision for power is His very presence.
Let’s look at Acts 2 to see what it looks like when the Holy Spirit walks in the room.
First, we see in verses 1-4, when the Holy Spirit is present...
God’s Church is Empowered
A strategic moment and a strategic place.
God knows when he will start a movement.
We do not need to be movement manufacturers because Spirit movements are decided by the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit came on a strategic day - Pentecost.
All sorts of different ethnic Jews would be present for this event.
Pentecost (also called the Festival of Weeks, Lv 23:15–16) commemorated the giving of the law on Mount Sinai and occurred fifty days after Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
Jews either made pilgrimage to Jerusalem for Pentecost or remained there after Passover.
The Spirit came suddenly and violently.
Imagine the sound’s source coming from above you in the sky, like a jet plane, and then getting closer, closer, and closer until it’s source sounds as if it is right there in the room with you.
Have you ever been in a room with a jet engine.
This powerful source of the sound is about to indwell each and every believer in the room.
WOW.
Notice the tongues as of fire “rested on each one of them”.
“ALL”
Each person was individually filled by the Holy Spirit
Not just one of them or a few of them.
All where filled and enabled to proclaim the gospel uniquely.
120 people according to verse 15.
“as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
The filling of the Holy Spirit can be a tricky topic to navigate within different Christian circles.
Someone who is already filled with or full of the Spirit can receive a further filling or enabling for a particular ministry (cf.
Acts 4:31).
So ‘our western logical concept that something which is full cannot be filled any further is misleading if applied to the Spirit.
When we look at the entire New Testament teaching on the Holy Spirit, we see the word baptism associated with initial conversion and the word filling with ministry.
The first seems to happen once without repetition; the second occurs with frequency as believers allow God’s Spirit to produce powerful work through them.
The fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) are fruits of those who have been baptized by the Holy Spirit (sealed; Ephesians 1:13)
The Holy Spirit filling a believer after their initial sealing occurs for the purpose of ministry endeavors.
And it’s available for all believers.
Holly Spirit filling not only means that God is getting more control of the believer, but also is empowering them to do something that is not natural for them to do without His extra concentrated presence.
An important point to make here is that the working of the Spirit within the believer for some special ministry at a particular moment is never meant to cause attention and awe directed at the one being used by God.
Most people romanticize the ministry of the Spirit to resemble street magicians or mystics.
So, when the Holy Spirit is present, God’s Church is empowered
Second, we see in verses 5-11, when the Holy Spirit is present...
God’s Gospel is Powerfully Proclaimed
The loud transformational presence of God was noticed by people outside of the gathering and caused them to draw near.
What I love here is that the Holy Spirit came in and made a huge scene!
I know we all know of someone who’s presence is known when they walk in.
They make a scene!
Look at me.
The Holy Spirit essentially does this, but he’s doing it because he want’s people to see Jesus.
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