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Recap
With the year slipping away as it is, this might be the last message in our theme for the year, “Unhindered.”
We started back in January with our verse for the year.
This series is all about people being set free
The church first - To know God, Worship him and walk in his ways.
Walking in his ways makes us salt and light in the places where we live life so that others could come to experience that same freedom in their lives as well.
We said for this to happen, we need to begin a spiritual progression in our lives.
There are spiritual attitudes of spiritual progression that need to take place in our lives.
First a recognition of who we are without him.
that we are spiritually impoverished - poor in spirit
That we are sorrowful, because we are sinful
But praise God when we recognize these things within us, we can know his forgiveness.
And with that comes full and abundant living.
We then experience the love of our Heavenly Father like none other for us
And that brings a spirit of meekness.
A spirit that is open to anything that he leads us to and commands us to
This helps us develop a strong heart.
One that hungers for more of What God has for us.
A heart that seeks to glorify God
A heart that is regenerated by the power of God’s Holy Spirit (Going to talk about that today)
A heart that is at peace with God.
And thereby a heart that seeks to be at peace with all of those around us.
A heart that causes us to begin to take on the character and personality of our Heavenly FAther.
And we become known as His Children
And when this happens, it puts us on the enemies hit list - because he hates anything that looks like or leads people to this loving God.
And at this point, though we may be persecuted, we are very much free and unhindered.
Then two weeks ago we began to look at the New Testament Church in Acts.
A church that became unhindered and changed their world.
A church like that which we should be today.
We saw in that the church is called to be unhindered as witnesses for Jesus Christ.
That Jesus made sure we were set free to be those witnesses
That He called us, He chose us
That He comissioned us or sent us
That we were qualified as such
And that we were empowered.
And today in from Acts chapter 2, we see what that empowerment was all about.
You see there is a problem in the nature of fallen man - We have a need to promote or exalt ourselves.
Because of sin - pride has come in
Because of pride - we like to toot our own horns.
But as we learned two weeks ago in the message - we are called to toot Jesus’ Horn.
What we do today, in this place, should not do anything else, but glorify Jesus
If you are visiting with us, we want you to know that we are here to sing about, pray to, and speak about Jesus Christ, our Lord and our savior.
That’s IT!
The empowerment of the Holy Spirit in the church gives us the ability to unhindered from our self exaltation to lift up and praise the name of Jesus - No matter where we are.
We have three signs here:
3 Signs of Holy Spirit Empowerment 1. Sound of Wind
I want you to see here that nobodies hair got messed up.
There was no wind whipping through the building.
The sound was there to let them know that the Holy Spirit showed up.
The Holy Spirit is typified in three powerful ways in the scriptures:
The wind
The Fire
And the Water
They knew that something was happening.
The wind speaks of the movement of the Holy Spirit upon their lives.
The spirit of the church could not be moved to do the work of the Kingdom of God (a spiritual Kingdom) until the Holy Spirit moved the church to do it.
Leaves being blown by the wind
the wind speaks of the power of the Holy Spirit - much like the power of the wind that we have seen in these last few storms of the century.
A wind that turns things upside down.
Only with the Holy Spirit it’s for good.
The church in America needs to be turned upside down again.
We need our roots to be torn up out of the soil of worldly compromise and the worldly propaganda that we have come to believe.
It also speaks of the easy or for a lack of a better term, fluid movement of the Holy Spirit.
The movements of the church should be just as fluid, but we are made up of people.
Imperfect people affected by sin and the world around them
It’s the spirit that gives us that freedom of movement in our communities, in our world and especially in the Spirit realm.
Next we see the tongues of fire that sat upon each one’s head
3 Signs of Holy Spirit Empowerment 2. Tongues of Fire
2. Tongues of Fire
Fire in the Bible always speaks of purifying.
The church was empowered to live lives of purity in an impure world.
The church was empowered to speak God’s pure word through impure lips
- Isaiah has a vision.
He has unclean lips.
The fire of the Holy Spirit has taken every excuse away from us not to be involved in the work of the Kingdom
Remember the disciples felt this way too.
What has been your excuse my brother?
What is holding you back my sister?
Because no matter what your sin has been or is today, the sacrifice of Jesus has made your clean
Your sins have been forgiven
Forgotten as if dropped in the deepest part of the sea
And you are clean as snow as if you’ve never sinned.
And now through the day of Pentecost - the power of Heaven coming upon the people of earth - you have been purified by the fire of God’s Holy Spirit.
3 Signs of Holy Spirit Empowerment 3.
They Spoke in Other Tongues
This is the ability to speak and be understood.
This is God fixing our hearts from the situation thousands of years before at a place called Babel
Why was it called Babel?
Because that’s what the people did was babel.
The people all came together to make a name for themselves.
To show what mankind could do.
To make a tower into the heavens (sort of what satan tried to do - raise himself higher than God)
So God sees their sin and says, we cannot let this happen.
We cannot let this rebellion and sin succeed.
And so he confuses their language and thank God he does.
Do you know what he is doing?
restraining our sin.
Containing our brokenness and our arrogance.
maintaining that which was going to wipe us out and kill us.
Even today, God does that.
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