Jesus is about to ascend into heaven. Testimony in a Congregational Church. That is what this Jesus of Nazareth was telling them the first time he met them all, just a few hours after he rose from the dead. WHAT WAS THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER? He will restore all creation. That is what you are going to speak, and that is certainly how you must live your own lives, doing what I say. Miss Newman — refuses to sell novels. He gives his disciples some parting instructions. Has the Father promised to do something for his people?
It is like a person who refuses to believe in antibiotics, who will not consider them or in their power to help when an infection comes. The Promise of the Father. What finally opened the spiritual eyes of the apostles? "This Jesus God has raised up, of which we all are witnesses. Remember, it is not words or prayer alone that will save you. Jesus mentions a kind of specifying limitation on this promise of the Spirit being accomplished. 'Tis mercy all immense and free, that the Spirit of God is poured out on all the people of God – just as much as the Son of God dying for our sins. In the book of Acts the Spirit is never achieved or obtained. Every single believer that sought the Holy Spirit received right away (Acts 8:12; 14-17; Acts 11:12 – 16; Acts 9:17; Acts 19:1 – 6). They had not fulfilled any so-called conditions of Pentecostal blessing; it was the calendar of feasts that now pointed to this feast and it had been fulfilled. We should be seeking the Lord and asking him to be filled with His Spirit.
Coming to the Father through the Son. They had to wait for something. God sent his Son to be its Saviour.
Jesus told His people they would be "baptised with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 1:5). It was not a spiritual action they were to perform but he simply asked for a spatial action. Gift of power received. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. It doesn't matter how you receive the baptism with the Spirit that Jesus gives; He knows the way that you need to receive Him. Holman Christian Standard Bible. They were "sitting" that is the only word that describes their activity.
The Spirit in us is not a power at our disposal. For by one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body – whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free – and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. Perfect specimen of a Christian family. He can do all the things that Jesus commands us to do by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The risen Lord Jesus Christ has commissioned his disciples concerning how they are to live, what their priorities are to be for the rest of their lives. F. INTERCESSOR - prays through you. What would rectify the error. A. Salvation (a new creation) is the only pre-requisite. And we only have to read through the Book of Acts to see how wonderfully these early Christians were empowered when the Holy Spirit clothed them. It is like a couple whose home is a cottage in a village in the country twenty miles from here who're living in denial of electricity. Strong's 1860: A promise. Some of you who have really emptied yourselves will be filled. " The condition for the receiving of the Spirit was not psychological, that they got into a suitable frame of excited anticipation, or moral that they became exceptionally holy people. "Weaker vessel" — Women praying before men. Whatever you do you are to do it with all of your might. That is what they were to tell people, and that they all needed to turn around and repent of how they had lived until then. What are all the enemies of God in the world if God the Holy Spirit is in your heart? What is the "promise of the Father" (Acts 1:4)?
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