OLD TESTAMENT – Prophecies of JOEL, ISAIAH, EZEKIEL; ZECHARIAH

NEW TESTAMENT – JOHN THE BAPTIST, JESUS

PROMISES OF JESUS

ALL THESE PROMISES & PROPHECIES WERE FULFILLED ON

THE DAY OF PENTECOST

THE FEAST OF PENTECOST:THE FULFILLMENT OF

THE PROPHECIES

THE PURPOSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? THE PURPOSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?

The Holy Spirit will :

Abide beside you and will be in you. (Jn.14:17)

Teach you everything. (Jn. 14:26)

Bring to mind everything which I spoke to you. (Jn. 14:26)

Witness concerning me; (Jn. 15:26)

Convict the world concerning sin and concerning justice and concerning judgment:

(Jn. 16:8)

Guide you into all truth:(Jn. 16:13)

Disclose the coming things to you: (Jn. 16:13)

Glorify me(Jn. 16:14)

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“Behold, I send forth the promise

of my Father on you. Luke 24:49

But wait in the city of Jerusalem

until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Luke 24:49

“But 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.” Acts 1:8

Christ made it clear that the Holy Spirit

is connected with power. 

The Greek word translated "power" is dunamis

= "power“, "mighty work," "strength," "miracle," "might," "virtue" and

"mighty."

Same Greek root from which we get modern

English words  

dynamic, which means active, forceful and

energetic;dynamo, which is a device

for generating electric power;

dynamite, which is an explosive of great power,

energy and force.

• In hiding •Out in the open• Afraid •Courageous• Alone •Community• Divided •United• Individualistic •Shared everything• Doubtful •Confident• Helpless •Empowered• Dumb-founded •Sang in tongues• Looked down •Favour with people• Disillusioned •Sign & wonders• Dispirited •Gifts of the Spirit• Discouraged •Hopeful• Empty •Filled with the

Spirit

"Therefore I remind you to stir up

the gift of God [His Spirit] which is in you through the

laying on of my hands. For God has not given us

a spirit of fear, but of power [dunamis] and of love

and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:6-7).

Writing to his fellow minister Timothy, Paul describes the Spirit given to the Church:

The Holy Spirit and power are synonymous.

That holy power enabled Christ to perform His

mighty miracles of doing good and healing

during His earthly, physical ministry.

The Holy Spirit is the very presence of God's power actively working

in us-His servants

-TODAY!

POWER OF THE SPIRIT WAS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO THE APOSTLES

Paul wrote to the church in Rome:

"Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace

in believing, that you may abound in hope

by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Romans 15:13).

Paul writes of the things Christ had accomplished in him "in mighty signs and wonders,

by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round

about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ."

POWER OF GOD VS HUMAN WISDOM

In 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 Paul writes that his "speech and . . . preaching

were not with persuasive words of human wisdom,

but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power [dunamis ],

that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power

[ dunamis] of God."

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