Pentecost - Power for Witness

It's evidence on how we love each other. It's evidence in how we are slow to anger, how we are gentle, how we are kind, how we are not self serving, how we are as Christ. This is the power of the gift of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost is alive today. It quickens us. His Holy Spirit quickens us, empowers us, illuminates things to us, reveals things to us that are mysteries. Yeah. This is the role of the holy spirit that is alive and active in us. [00:50:13] (38 seconds)  #FruitOfTheSpirit

This is the holy spirit. steadies our hearts. He steadies our hearts in trials. He steadies us when we are off balance, when we are off balance, when we're in the storm, when we're in the boat and it's rocking, it's shaking, it's scary. He steadies us with a peace that surpasses our human understanding. He gives us a joy that is unspeakable that we are unable to even explain to our neighbor. [00:51:29] (31 seconds)  #SteadfastPeace

that we are to look different. It's not about being a punk. It's about showing people the power of the holy spirit that we are able to look different and look the other way. That we are able to turn the other cheek. That we are able to pray for our enemies and bless those that curse us. That we are able to have this love for people that would not be there if the holy spirit was not present within us. Come on, people. Let's be real. [00:54:30] (34 seconds)  #DifferentBecauseOfSpirit

Then the New Testament comes and Jesus comes. And then through his death and resurrection, he then leaves the Holy Spirit to be able to be indwelled in us. What a gift. This isn't just something that we we look towards and said that was for the time back then. No. It was given so that the church could be birthed and built, and we are still required to be building the church. The commandment to make disciples, go out to the ends of the world and be earth and be witnesses and tell people about the Lord still means that we are building up the church. [00:57:47] (52 seconds)  #MakeDisciples

Woah. Wait. Okay, God. Like, I guess I'm gonna start seeing myself a little bit differently. Like, you have done a thing because he bridles your tongue. He quickens you. He gives you compassion that you wouldn't have otherwise. He gives you an understanding that not everybody is where you are. He empowers us to repent. He empowers us to have changed behavior. He empowers us to have spiritual fruit on display. That the fruit of the spirit is the evidence of a transformed life. [01:10:03] (42 seconds)  #TransformedIdentity

We have the holy spirit within us, and he has called us to be his witnesses to the ends of the earth. He didn't send his spirit merely just to be this ancient experience. No. The holy spirit was alive and active before the foundations of the earth. The word was God and was with God. We believe in the trinity. We believe in the father, son, and the holy spirit. They are one. So we see that the holy spirit was alive before anything was even created. [00:56:57] (37 seconds)  #TrinityAlive

It's this this power of the holy spirit that enables us to be bold. It enables us to not care what our neighbor is thinking. It enables us to have this presence, a self controlled when triggered, a self controlled when triggered, To be able to be thoughtful and present. Yeah. Thoughtful and present in our responses. There's sometimes that you'll walk away from a conversation going, woah. Who was that? That wasn't me. It was the holy spirit. I'm testifying right now. I had an experience like that this week where I walked out of a conversation going, woah. [01:09:23] (41 seconds)  #SpiritSelfControl

And God doesn't call us to like everybody or be in relationship with everybody, but he does call us to love every single person. Because he has loved us in such a way as we've been talking about forgiveness. He has forgiven us that we might be able to forgive those that have done things against us. Pentecost, the promise fulfilled and the church was birthed. The biblical roots is this this day of Pentecost was a festival, was a Jewish festival. It was a day of of thanksgiving, but then it becomes the moment that the risen Jesus fulfilled his promise. [00:55:04] (45 seconds)  #LoveAndForgiveness