Descent of the Holy Spirit: Power and Transformation

But to think to think that the creator of heaven and earth dispatches the spirit of the living God at the moment of your salvation, and he descends forcefully, powerfully, and personally to land softly in your soul, to change you for time and for eternity. And the reality of the descent of the spirit of God is it literally since the beginning of biblical history, and then in human history, then into Israel's history, then into the history of Christ, and the history of the church, and the history of every saved Christian, all of those ignite with the descent of the spirit. [00:42:21] (47 seconds)  #HolySpiritDescent

The only thing more amazing, honestly, is the descent of the Holy Spirit and its soft and eternal landing in the soul of a human being. I mean, you think 24 and a half thousand miles an hour is powerful? What about the unstoppable, unimaginable, inconceivable power of God, descending not from the atmosphere but from heaven, to powerfully and safely land in a saved soul, to indwell it and to empower it until you go home to be with the Lord Jesus Christ. [00:41:23] (42 seconds)  #SpiritPowerWithin

And the reason this wind is blowing is because it's what God loves to do is create a holy commotion. He tries to create noise so that it draws attention into what's going on. Because the next thing you're gonna see would be very hard for a 120 people to convince everybody else that it actually happened if nobody else was there to witness it. And this is truly the only church growth principle in all of scripture according to your pastor. [00:46:01] (27 seconds)  #HolyCommotion

And if you and I could get our head around how significant that moment is, it does contain the power to change you. When you understand that it's the person of God in you. Now, there's a difference between him indwelling you and him filling you. It's the indwelling that guarantees you eternity. It's the ongoing filling that guarantees you a transformed life. Okay? And what we wanna know is you can experience the fullness of salvation because there's more to salvation than just being saved. [00:43:08] (35 seconds)  #SalvationPlusTransformation

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place, and this is a profound statement. This drives Crossland Community Church. Our entire capital campaign was called in one place, and there's a reason for that because people can all be in one place and not be all together. It happens in workplaces, in families, in churches all over the world where they're in one place, but they're not all together. And those two comments together display unity, that they're not only in one place, but they're also all together. [00:44:42] (37 seconds)  #AllTogetherInOnePlace