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Acts Series #8
Back to the Beginning:
When Church was Church
*Furnace for a Holy Ghost Fire*
*Acts 4:23-33*
/Minimum Of Organization/
/The ancient church had a minium of organization, but it had a maximum of power.
The average church today has a maximum of organization but tragically lacks power.
/
/Dr.
G. Campbell Morgan once warned, "One of Satan's methods today is to start so many organizations in a church that the members have no time for unhurried communion with God.
Many Christians are so busy that they can hear only the clink and clatter of church machinery."/
/Too often we are over-organized and under-agonized.
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-Walter B. Knight
/Spurgeon's Heating Apparatus/
/C.
H. Spurgeon was showing some visitors over the Tabernacle (London).
After taking them to the main part of the building, he said, "Come, and I'll show you the heating apparatus."
Imagine their surprise, when he took them to a room where four hundred were gathered in a prayer meeting.
The church with warmth of spirit must have the warmth-producing prayer meeting.
/
/-Al Bryant /
*1.
Fill the Furnace*
They gathered back with their body, the church and told them, what had happened, how they had been threatened, questioned, and released
But the Fire of God was about to fall again
Let me give you some FIREWOOD to fill the Furnace
*A*.
*Remember* the *Past*
1.
YES - these ARE the men that crucified Jesus, but JESUS got UP
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Since they did this to Jesus, it is NOT surprising that they would do the same to us
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Remember Pentecost
4.
Remember the miraculous works of Christ
5.
Remember what God has done for us
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Recount his deeds - what has he done for you?
7.
That's just fuel for the Fire.
*B*.
*Remember* God's *Word* ~/ *Promises*
1.
They quoted Psalm 2
READ -
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GOD is NOT afraid of men.
1st he expects them to come against his anointed and he laughs at it.
2nd he will rebuke them.
3rd the Son will reign so you better make peace with him
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Know the Promises of God and the Word of God and you will have fuel for the Fire of God
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Nothing "makes our wood wet" more than ignorance of the promises of God
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His Promises found in the Word are NEVER Wet Wood, they are Aged Wood, Ready to Burn
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List his Promises - Stack them up and we are filling up the Furnace
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John 15:7 - /If you remain in me and MY WORDS remain in you ask what you wish and it will be given you/
*C*.
*Recognize* His *Sovereignty*
1.
Psalm 2:6 /I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill"/
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Understanding that God is in charge, on the throne, powerful, more than able is FUEL for the Furnace of God
3.
Because God was in charge, they didn't ask him to change their circumstance but to give them power in the midst of it
*2.
Light the Fire*
/Wesley's Prayer Room/
/Said Warren W. Wiersbe, pastor of Moody Church: "One of the most moving experiences of my life came when I stepped from John Wesley's bedroom in his London home into the little adjacent prayer room.
Outside the house was the traffic noise of City Road, but inside that prayer chamber was the holy hush of God.
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/"Its only furnishings were a walnut table which held a Greek New Testament and a candlestick, a small stool and a chair.
When he was in London, Wesley entered the room early each morning to read God's Word and pray."/
/The guide in Wesley's home told me: "This little room was the powerhouse of Methodism!"/
*A*.
*Pray* - "/when they prayed …"/
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Prayer is where we make ourselves available to the will and plan of God
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Prayer is about HIS Kingdom and Will being done on Earth NOT OUR will being Done in or by Heaven
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Prayer is where the Fire is lit that burns for Revival and Awakening in our World
/ "Sinners In Hands Of Angry God"/
/It is quite well-known how the congregation was deeply moved as Jonathan Edwards preached his sermon, "Sinners in the hands of an angry God."/
/He had the manuscript held up so close to his face that they could not see his face.
He went on and on until the people in that crowded church were moved almost beyond control.
One man sprang up, rushed down the aisle and cried, "Mr.
Edwards, have mercy!"/
/Others caught hold of the backs of pews lest they should slip into the pit.
Most thought that the day of judgment had dawned on them.
The power of that sermon is still felt in the United States today.
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/However, the secret of that sermon's power is known to few Christians.
Some believers in that vicinity of Enfield, Mass., had become alarmed that, while God was blessing other places, He should in anger pass them by.
And so they met on the evening before the sermon-and spent that whole night in agonizing prayer.
The rest is history.
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*B*.
*Make* Your *Requests*
V 29
/- Consider their threats/
/- Power for the Preachers to Speak Boldly/
/- Stretch Out Your Hand to Heal /
/- Do Amazing Thing/
/For the Name of Jesus/
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what do you need?
Ask
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what do you want?
Ask
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what do you dream?
Ask
Eph 3:20-21
James 4:2 - says we /don't have because we don't ask/
*C*.
*Attack* The *Enemy* - *Prayer* *IS* the *Battlefield*
/ /
/ 1.
Get On your Knees and Fight Like a Man/
/Claiming Them One By One/
/Dr.
Torrey in illustrating the definiteness of prayer, tells the following: "Up in a little town in Maine, things were pretty dead some years ago.
The churches were not accomplishing anything.
There were a few godly men in the churches, and they said, "Here we are, only uneducated laymen, but something must be done in this town.
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