TEACHING
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SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022
10:30 AM (in-person + livestream + kids + communion) The Holy Spirit God's Permanent Presence With Us, Jessica Chan Acts 1:1-11 and Acts 2:1-12 When the Spirit comes upon us, what do we become? According to Acts 1:8 we receive power and become witnesses. The fruits and gifts of the Spirit can still today bestow power and make us witnesses. |
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God’s permanent presence with us
Ephesians 2:22 “In Him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 3:16 “do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” Acts Chapter 1 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. Acts Chapter 1 3 After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with[a] water, but in a few days you will be baptized with[b] the Holy Spirit.” Acts Chapter 1 John 14:12: I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. Acts Chapter 1 6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” Acts Chapter 1 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” “Gifts are anticipated with joy, and good gifts are received with joy by children. The very seeking of a gift or anticipation of a gift is a source of joy. This is one reason why Pentecostal worship easily enters into the realm of the joy of God. The very nature of gift creates a new emotional state. Spiritual gifts challenge the status quo simply by teaching and learning of their possibility. This, the expectation that God, your Heavenly Father, will give good gifts, is another area in which we are commanded to be like children. The play of the Holy Spirit begins in a body of believers and seekers when they learn that gifts are involved. We see this in Acts 13:52 – when the Holy Spirit moved after the gospel was shared and the disciples were persecuted, they were given as a gift a “filling with joy.” Acts Chapter 1 9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” Acts Chapter 2 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues[a] as the Spirit enabled them. Acts Chapter 2 5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken.7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,[b] 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” 12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” Partnership with the Spirit 
Partnership with the Spirit: Recognize
Partnership with the Spirit: Remember
Partnership with the Spirit: Respond
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