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Show EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT • But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Jesus " (Acts came 1: 8) in due season and was about His Father's business. He went doing good, healing the sick, raising the dead, giving sight to the blind, making the lamb walk, causing the dumb to talk, unstopping deaf ears, feeding the hungry and saving souls. At the en of His 33 years, He paid the ultimate rice for your sins and mine by dying on that ole rugged cross. Then early the first day about .. 1 of the week, when He had conquered death and the grave, He rose with all power in His hands. He has spent 40 days showing Himself so that there bodily resurrection. N ow time is winding up and He is about to depart for His seat on the right hand of the Heavenly Father. So He turns to His disciples and reminds them again, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy ghost is come upon would be no doubt of His you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." So that His work is not left undone and that His word spreads to every tongue and every nations, He empowered the disciples to carry on. No doubt some so 2 them remembered that in the Old they had been told by the Lord, "My spirit will not always dwell with man." (Genesis 6: 3) Some of them remembered that the Holy Spirit came to Testament do certain work and when finished, departed. Because of them had been his disciples, they had heard how the Holy Spirit filled John the Baptist from his mother's womb and filled his preaching in the wilderness so that the whole city emptied to hear him preach. They looked forward to the promised Comforter that would come to keep them until the Master returned the second time. Here they are on the verge of being empowered by the Holy Spirit. The first thing for her is that without the Holy Spirit we are powerless. "But 3 Jesus is one ye shall receive power His way out of here. The powers of this " ... world are not sufficient for heavenly They are of the flesh and blood and principalities. They are seasonal and reflections at best. Paul said, "We see through a glass darkly but then face to face." (I Corinthians 13) So God gives us what we need to make the changes He business. expect. For without this power, cannot partake of Divine function like God. God's vision for we blessings or Only when we get our lives will we BE what God wants. God did not intend that powerless and weak. I think that's what the hymn writer was talking about we be when he sang, Come Holy all Spirit Heavenly dove with thy quickening power, 4 Kindle a cold hearts flame of sacred love of ours. in these And what is it that God wants for He wants us us. to be witness for Him here good Gospel. Be and abroad. Be heralders of the news. Be preachers of the examples of the Christian faith. Live the life you sing about in your songs. The Masters empowers us to go out. Some one has said, the Master only had two major verbs in His vocabulary-corne and go, in then out. Corne unto me then Go into the world. He put power in that we may witness out. 5 |
