Pentecost Sermon Series-The Anointing

Sunday morning we finished our three week look at the Pentecost. We ended with the need we have in the Anointing of the Lord. Jesus shared in Luke 4 his Anointing that prepared and allowed him to minister to so many with so many miracles. We need the full experience of the Holy Spirit in and operating in our lives today. We need to not just experience the moving of the Holy Spirit, but we need the filling of the Spirit. It is interesting to note the quote Jesus read from Isaiah- Jesus said 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me.' Jesus was anointed by God so the Spirit of the Lord was upon him. Seems if we want to follow after the example of Jesus we would be good to seek for God's anointing so that the Spirit of the Lord would be upon us as well.

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The Day of Pentecost has arrived!

Sunday was the celebration of the Day of Pentecost. What a wonderful day to remember and celebrate the first time the Holy Ghost moved upon the early church. The disciples had waited 10 days for the great promise sent by Jesus. Then the third person in the Trinity descended down upon them and changed not only their life but the entire world. What would happen to us- the modern church, to have an encounter with the Holy Spirit as did the disciples? Today we lack respect and honor for the person of the Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost). We often act as if He is something we can put on a shelf until we want an emotional feeling from God. As if He was only their for our high energy worship services but He is so much more. He is God the Holy Spirit. He is with us, so that we are empowered and able to BE the Church.

Let's remember that God in the form of the Holy Spirit came down from Heaven to fill up with Power from on High.

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Pentecost is coming!

In less than one week we will be celebrating the Day of Pentecost. The Day of Pentecost is a Jewish holiday celebrating the harvesting of wheat. Yet to the Christian Church it is the day we celebrate the Holy Spirit was sent to us as believers. Yet before Jesus could send the Holy Spirit, he said he must leave- and go to the father. He prepared the disciples for his departure and prepared them for the 'promise.' The promise of the Holy Spirit was an act of faith for the disciples to believe in, yet to believe in Christ was visual and took a different kind of faith to trust. Yet to see the Day of Pentecost come, the disciples must have a new level of faith.

Next Sunday 'The Day of Pentecost"

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