Today Is Pentecost - Who Will Celebrate With Us?

TODAY IS PENTECOST

WHO WILL CELEBRATE WITH US?

TEXT

ACTS 2: 1 - 13

INTRODUCTION

THE DAY OF PENTECOST REPRESENTS THE FIFTHIETH DAY

AFTER JESUS’ RESURRECTION, WHEN WE GET READY TO

CELBRATE THE BIRTH OF JESUS THE WHOLE WORD PAUSES TO

CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS - WHEN WE CELEBRATE JESUS’S

RESURRECTION, MOST OF THE WORLD CELEBRATES EASTER.

BUT TODAY IS PENTECOST WHO WILL CELEBRATE WITH US

TODAY? I BELIEVE IT IS FITTING TO SAY VERY FEW, BECAUSE HARDLY ANYONE REALIZES IT.

THIS DAY IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE BIRTH OF CHRIST AND THE DEATH OF CHRIST; IN THAT IT MARKS THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST CHURCH AND THE GOD GIVEN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BE A PART OF IT.

THIS DAY MARKS THE FIFTHIETH DAY AFTER JESUS’S

RESURRECTION.

TODAY IS PENTECOST

WHO WILL CELEBRATE WITH US?

THREE POINTS TO BE MADE

(1) THE CREATION OF THE CHURCH AND IT’S PURPOSE

(2) THE DIVINE REVELATION

(3) BENEFITS IN PARTICIPATING IN THE LOCAL CHURCH

ACTS 2: 1 - 4

IT WAS, AS SAID, WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST CAME,THEY

THEY WERE ALL TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE. THERE CAME A

SOUND FROM HEAVEN AS A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND AND IT

FILLED THW WHOLE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING. THEN

APPEARED TO TO THEM DIVIDED TONGUES AS OF FIRE. AND

THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BEGAN TO

SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES.

I. THE CREATION OF THE CHURCH

THE CHURCH WAS CREATED BY GOD - FOR GOD - FOR HIS

CHILDREN.

THIS INSTITUTION UNLIKE OTHER INSTITUITIONS IS AN

INSTITUTION DESTINED TO BE EVERLASTING. FROM THE

INCEPTION OF TIME - BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD,

GOD INTENDED THAT THIS INSTITUTION STAND AND BE CALLED

HIS CHURCH.

JESUS HAS DECLARED IN MATTHEW 16:18

AND I ALSO SAY TO YOU THAT YOU ARE PETER, AND ON THIS

ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF HADES

SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.

JESUS ENTRANCE INTO THIS WORLD WAS A BLESSING AND WE

HAVE SOMETHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT.

EPHESIANS 2:20 SPEAKS OF THE CHURCH:

HAVING BEEN BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLE AND

PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF CORNER

STONE

SO JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD & AFTER THE DEATH - THE

BURIAL AND THE RESURRECTION. THE CHURCH WAS FORMED

AND IT HAS COME INTO REALITY THE DAY OF PENTECOST.

TODAY IS PENTECOST

WHO WILL CELEBRATE WITH US?

WHO WILL CELEBRATE THE PENTECOST WITH US? WILL THE

SINNERS COME? IF THEY COMES LET THEM COME. WILL THE

ADULTERER COME? IF THEY COME LET THEM COME.

WHO WILL CELEBRATE THE PENTECOST WITH US? WILL THE

SAINTS COME? IF THEY COME LET THEM COME.

LET THE WORLD BE RENEWED THROUGH THE APPRECIATION OF

GOD’S GRACE AND MERCY.

LET THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL NOW SAY; GOD’S MERCY ENDURES

FOREVER

LET THE HOUSE OF AARON SAY; GOD’S MERCY ENDURES

FOREVER

LET EVERYONE WHO FEARS HIM SAY; GOD’S MERCY ENDURES

FOREVER.

GOD HAS BEEN MERCIFUL UNTO US IN THAT HE LEFT US AN

INSTITUTION THAT WE COULD BUILD THROUGH HIM A

FOUNDATION.

SO HE ALLOWED A SOUND FROM HEAVEN, AS OF A RUSHING

MIGHTY WIND, YES, LIKE A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND FROM

HEAVEN HE HAS ALLOWED HIS CHURCH TO BE FORMED FOR

HIMSELF THAT WE MAY GLORIFY HIM - NOT FOR US - THAT WE

MAY GLORIFY OURSELVES.

TODAY IS PENTECOST

WHO WILL CELEBRATE WITH US?

II. THE DIVINE REVELATION TO THE CHURCH

ACTS 1:8 SAYS

YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME

UPON YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH.

AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH IS WHERE GOD; IS AND HAS

FORMED THE CHURCH. THROUGH HIS CHOSEN VESSELS THAT

THEY MAY BE WITNESSES TO A SELF DESTRUCTING PEOPLE.

THEY ARE SELF - DESTRUCTING IN THAT GOD HAS DECLARED IT

SO THAT HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED; BUT HE

WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, BECAUSE HE

HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON

OF GOD. ( JOHN 3: 18 )

LISTEN, CHRISTIAN FRIENDS IT IS OUR OBLIGATION TO SEEK THE LOST, IT IS UNCERTAIN IF WE MAY WIN THAT PERSON AT THE TIME OF INCEPTION BUT I BELIEVE WHAT PAUL SAID:

I PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED, BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE.

I CORINTHIANS 3: 6

WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO SHARE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS

CHRIST TO SOMEONE - ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT TO USE YOU - BE A VESSEL FOR JESUS CHRIST SHARE THAT NEW WINE TO THE

WORLD, DON’T BE ASHAMED.

FOR IT IS WRITTEN:

FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: FOR IT IS

THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION TO EVERYONE THAT

BELIEVETH; TO THE JEW FIRST, AND ALSO TO THE GREEK.