Sermon – Acts 2 – The Day of Pentecost – preached @ FCC 10/12/08 Lay Reading: Eph 1:17-23 Pages 1078 and 1692 The book of Acts was written by Luke. If he sounds familiar, it is because that’s the same guy who wrote the gospels of Luke. In fact, Luke and Acts are almost like a two volume set of one book.…

Introduction The struggle to live called by God. When I first read the bible I struggled with the thought of trying to be like Jesus, to live my life by his commands. “If you love me, keep my commands. Jesus is asking me to keep His commands, this is the proof that I love Him. Think about this, have…

What is this widsom? Who can receive this wisdom and how? Who can't receive this wisdom and why? What does it look like for those to possess this wisdom?

In verse seven of Isaiah chapter 63, the Prophet begins to remind the Jews of the mercies of the Lord. They are undeserved mercies that a faithful God has performed on behalf of His own people. "I will tell of the kindnesses of the LORD, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the LORD…

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trustedb in Christ. 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth,…

True and Proper Worship 1. The mission is a statement of what the church is supposed to be doing, while the vision is a snapshot or picture of it. 2. The mission is used for planning where the church is going; the vision is used for communicating where the church is going. 3. A mission statement must…

The Spirit of Truth 14:15-24 In this discussion we have the first the trinitarian formula The Father who honors and Glorifies the Son, Son who honors and is Glorified by the Father Jesus is The Way, The Truth & The Life He is the only avenue to the Father Spirit who is given by the father, thru the Son…

Acts 2:1-4 John 16:7-8; 13-16 Pentecostal Power Last week was a significant week in the traditional year celebrated by many churches. The truth is that at Baptist Churches we often overlook this Sunday. The Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. I think we overlook it because it is about the Holy Spirit and sometimes…

Galatians 5:22-23 In one of his meetings, D.L. Moody was explaining to his audience the truth that we cannot bring about spiritual changes in our lives by our own strength. He demonstrated the principal like this: “Tell me,” he said to his audience, “how can I get the air out of the tumbler I have in…

“Speaking Forth The Word of God” 1 Corinthians 12:8-10 I. The Gift of Prophecy. A. Prophecy in the Bible. The gift of prophecy is speaking forth the Word of God through the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It is being a channel through which the Lord may speak. We are told that, “God, who at various times…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Sealed by the Spirit June 3, 2007 Ephesians 1:12-14 This is our fifth message in Ephesians. What have we learned from chapter one so far? In our first week, we focused on our adoption into God’s family. In the second week, we focused on God’s call to make us holy and blameless for His glory. In the next…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Thomas S. Myers THE 3 STEPS TO SALVATION Ephesians 1:13-14 A number of years ago a young man was seeking a job as a Morse Code operator. He found an ad in the paper and went to the office address that was listed. When he got there it was a large busy office and there was a lot of hustle and bustle and…

Close your eyes and imagine the following: God the Father - nice old man with a beard? God the Son - Pic of Jesus or Jesus on the cross Holy Spirit - The bible gives us some descriptions. John 3 says he is like the wind. We can picture what the wind does, but we really can’t se it. To most of us, the…

One of the things that I have noticed over the years is how quickly people can flip you from being happy to angry. Have you ever noticed that? You could be having a great day… the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming… You feel great. And then some crazy-maker walks into your life and in about…

Intro Text - John 16.13 ; 1 John 4.4-6 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them,…

The Holy Spirit assures believers of their standing in Christ and their eternal salvation.

To this point in our study, we have learned several things about the Holy Spirit. 1. Who is the Holy Spirit? A. Consider His Personality B. Consider His Deity C. Consider His Relationship - homoousios (same substance) 2. The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament A. In creation ( Gen. 1:2 ; Ps. 104:27-30 )…

The Presence of The Holy Spirit How many of you know who the Holy Spirit is? Many times we relegate the Holy Spirit to a lesser role than the Father or Jesus. Many books are written about the Father and Jesus but very few are written about the Holy Spirit. If we understood who He is and what He does…

The Living Bread—John 6 The history of bread spans millennia. Archeologists have unearthed loaves of bread and rolls in ancient Egyptian tombs. Most bread from Old Testament times was leavened bread, or bread that rises. During the Passover in which everything that the Jews did required hastiness, unleavened…

Intro Our culture has become one of talking points where it is “us versus them” and neither side can meet in the middle. Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as…

*ECF 7th September 2008 Romans 8:5-13 In 1921, Lewis Lawes became the warden at Sing Sing Prison. At that time, Sing Sing was notorious as a tough and brutal prison. And yet, when Lawes retired 20 years later, that prison had become a humanitarian institution. Many people credited Lawes for the change.…