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Attention- This has been a bit of a long week, the sermon you will hear this morning is not the one I started early this week.
Quickly into my study I realized I was trying to force my ideas into a text that did not teach what I was looking to...
So the Lord directed me elsewhere.
Introduction- The Lord has led me to several texts…the combined truth that these texts teach brought me back to a point in my life I have shared before...
-I was a car guy…Mustangs....rebuilding…rebuilding the engine...
What is the main driving point (CPS)?
So whats the point?
The point is…we need to be rebuilt as well
We have been looking at the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of individuals…but what about how the Lord work in a corporate group?
As the Holy Spirit works in each individual life of this church…what is the bigger picture that the Holy Spirit is working on?
Those big picture items will be our three points for this morning.
Why does the CPS matter, what is the consequence?
So, what if i’m not interested in the big picture?
What if I don’t want to do my part?
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There will be consequences...
In the same way that if I rebuilt an entire classic car and did not rebuild the engine, or the brakes, or the transmission…there would be consequences.
In the church, when even only a small part of the body is resisting the process of being rebuilt, the whole body suffers.
Transition- So this morning I want to look at three verses in the book of Acts and see three big picture areas that can affect our church based on our personal response to the Holy Spirit.
The first area I want to look at is that
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The Holy Spirit takes the timid watchers and rebuilds them into transformed witnesses
Explain
This is the apostle Peter preaching on Pentecost
This is, depending on which calendar and some other things, 40-50 days after Passover...
What happened around Passover?
The cricifixion of Jesus
Peter was there…Do you remember Peters response?
-A damsel..a female slave asks him and he DENIES Jesus
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18- And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
25- And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself.
They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples?
He denied it, and said, I am not.
Verse 18 tells us that the servents are warming themselves by the fire…they recognise Peter and call him out…HOW DOES HE RESPOND?
DENIAL...
The third time Peter is confronted…HOW DOES HE RESPOND?
DENIAL
Bridge to today
Have you ever wondered…PETER HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!?!
But have you ever been at a family gathering and they start making fun of Christianity…
You’re at work and they make fun of another Christian....
How do you respond....
Why does this matter?
Does it matter how you respond?
Absolutely it matters…We have been given a commission by the creator of everything to bring the message of salvation to a lost world...
Why does this matter?
How successful will we be if we are cowering in a corner...
Relevance The Peter we see in Acts chapter 2 preaching on Pentecost is a man rebuilt bu the Spirit of God
-Emboldened by the Spirit of God
Transition
-Fueled by the Spirit of God
And friends, as we walk with the Spirit we can experience the same boldness and power in our lives…we too can become transformed witnesses
Transition- The Holy Spirit is not satisfied to get us to this point and leave us…He continues on and rebuilds us further....
The second area I want to look at is that
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The Holy Spirit takes worthless factions and rebuilds them into worthwhile fellowships
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Explain
This is, depending on which calendar and some other things, 40-50 days after Passover...
What happened around Passover?
The cricifixion of Jesus
Peter was there…Do you remember Peters response?
John 18:
-A damsel..a female slave asks him and he DENIES Jesus
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18- And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
25- And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself.
They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples?
He denied it, and said, I am not.
And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself.
They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples?
He denied it, and said, I am not.
Verse 18 tells us that the servents are warming themselves by the fire…they recognise Peter and call him out…HOW DOES HE RESPOND?
DENIAL...
John
The third time Peter is confronted…HOW DOES HE RESPOND?
DENIAL
Acts chapter 4 begins the first persecution of Christians....
The Jews way of life…means of providing for their families was at risk...
If Christianity was true it was about to change everything
The response was to persecute the Christians…beat them, throw them in jail…and as the book progresses they will resort to killing them...
They were attempting to splinter this new movement
-They were trying to create factions...
Bridge to today- We know how this works, 5 minutes into the world news and you see tension, divisiveness…factions at odds with one another.
But have you ever been at a family gathering and they start making fun of Christianity…
You’re at work and they make fun of another Christian....
How do you respond....
Why does this matter?
We are just as susceptible to these factions as any other group.
Absolutely it matters…We have been given a commission by the creator of everything to bring the message of salvation to a lost world...
And I don’t mean Christianity as a whole…I me us…those of us who have committed to this local assembly...
We are just a susceptible to factions as any political party
How successful will we be if
Why does this matter?
Relevance It was the Holy Spirit that brought fellowship out of their faction…look again at
There is the Holy Spirit again…first we saw him make witnesses out of timid watchers...
and what is the result of His work in this passage?
He is making fellowship out of factions
He brought unity to this group...
Friends, you and I need to be walking in the Spirit in order for this church to have unity…there is no other way
It is imperative that we be in step with the Holy Spirit.
And we have seen that being in step with Him brings about a transformed witness and worthwhile fellowship…Transition...but the third area I want to look at is that
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