Pentecost: Holy Spirit Writes God's Law on Hearts

But it means that he is there to guide and to bless and to heal and to restore and to forgive us and others and to draw us together in the unity of his love. This is the glory of what God has done for us. This is the reality of the experience that we can all have each and every day by simply being open to the holy spirit of the living God at work in our hearts, in our minds, in our attitudes, in our actions, prayerfully seeking his will, following his leading. [01:00:20] (41 seconds)  #GuidedByTheSpirit

And we know exactly that that is what God has done for us through his son Jesus Christ, through his life, through his death on the cross, through his resurrection, that our our simple faith, our simple acceptance of God, our simple acceptance of Jesus as our Lord and savior, our openness to the Holy Spirit living and working inside of us cleanses us from all sin. And God, praise be to him, remembers our sins no more. [00:51:43] (30 seconds)  #ForgivenThroughFaith

The holy spirit touched their hearts, touched their minds, transformed them. And as they received this good news joyfully, he he transformed their hearts. He transformed their futures. And they knew the presence and the love and the forgiveness and the joy of God, and they were never the same again. [00:58:37] (24 seconds)  #SpiritTransformsLives

So Jesus was killed the day before the Passover, which happened fifteen hundred years earlier. We're talking about fifteen hundred years before Jesus was the original Passover when the people were brought out of slavery in Egypt. And after fifty days, they arrived at Mount Sinai and Moses went up the mountain and God gave Moses the 10 commandments. And he established this covenant with the people. [00:48:01] (31 seconds)  #FromPassoverToSinai

And so we know that God has revealed himself to us as our loving heavenly father. As our Lord Jesus Christ, the word of God made flesh who died for us and rose from the dead, and as the spirit of the living god who was moving over the waters at the the beginning of creation, who was, at work through the prophets giving them the direction of god, things to do and words to speak on behalf of the lord. [00:53:07] (31 seconds)  #TriuneRevelation

So his disciples, they returned to Jerusalem praising god, and they spent days together waiting for the holy spirit. They didn't know. Jesus didn't say how many days it would be. And so I'm sure the first day went by and they were like, oh, I guess it wasn't to be today. Maybe tomorrow. And then the next day, would spend time talking and praying together and going to the temple to worship and studying the scriptures together and and just basking in what God had done through his son, Jesus Christ. [00:45:29] (31 seconds)  #AwaitingPentecost

Not just the joy of knowing our sins are forgiven, not just the joy of knowing that we can pray to our heavenly father and that he will hear our prayers, that he will answer our prayers, that he is at work in our lives, that he is working in our circumstances. And it doesn't mean that our lives get easy. It doesn't mean that our problems go away. [00:59:56] (24 seconds)  #FaithDoesntRemoveTrials

When the holy spirit is alive in us, We don't need to have the written laws. For we have the fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, on and on. That is the spirit of Jesus Christ. Jesus was all of those things. [00:59:15] (29 seconds)  #FruitOfTheSpirit