Part 1 | New Year, New Power
From Acts 2
Pentecost: God ordinary people with His to the , resulting in changed and a Church.
anything else: I need Holy Spirit .
1. God’s power comes to those who .
📖 Acts 2:1 ESV When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
Pentecost—One of three Pilgrimage Feasts:
📖 Deuteronomy 16:16 ESV “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.
Jesus dies at (Unleavened Bread).
Jesus rises at .
The Spirit is poured out at .
📖 2 Corinthians 3:6 ESV (God) has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The purpose of the is to , the purpose of the Spirit is to those who are by the Law.
2. God’s power comes to those who .
📖 Luke 24:49 ESV And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
📖 Acts 1:4–8 ESV And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
on God is not doing —it is refusing to without .
📖 Isaiah 40:31 ESV but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
3. God’s power comes to those who to .
📖 Acts 2:2–4 ESV And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
📖 John 20:22 ESV And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
📖 Ephesians 5:18 ESV Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit.
📖 Acts 2:11–13 ESV we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” 12 And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
📖 Acts 2:41 ESV So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
together.
on the .
to the Spirit.
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