• The Promise Given: The Birth of the Church

    Acts: Empowered for the Mission, Part 1

  • August 19, 2020

    Text: Acts 2:1-13

    Main Idea: Just as Jesus promised, according to God’s divine timetable, the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Feast of Pentecost inaugurating the new Church Age!

  • 1. The   of the Spirit's coming: Evidence of God’s sovereign providence. (v. 1-4)

    • Auditory: The Holy Spirit came like a noisy       . 
    • Visual: The Holy Spirit came like tongues as of     . 

    Baptism of the Spirit: A   non-experiential act of Christ by which He places believers into His body (Rom 6:4-6, 1 Cor 12:13, Gal 3:27).
    Filled with the Spirit: A   experience of every believer who empties himself and submits to the Word of God allowing the Spirit to    them. (Acts 4:8, 4:31, 6:5, 7:55, 9:17, 13:9, Eph 5:18, Col 3:16-25)
    2. The      of the Spirit’s coming: To spread the Gospel around the world. (v. 5-11)

    • The Spirit moves when filled believers witness by speaking the .
    • The Spirit desires to send the Gospel all over the    .

    3. The    of the Spirit’s coming: Always divided. (v. 12)

    • Some are      to the Gospel message.
    • Others simply      the Gospel message.  
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