God Consecrates His New Temple- The People of God, The Church

In Acts 2, on the day of Pentecost, we see a massive promise being fulfilled by God. God had promised throughout the Old Testament to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. During His ministry, Jesus taught about the coming Holy Spirit and made the same promise again in Acts chapter 1. The Holy Spirit was present even in the Old Testament, but His work took on a wonderful new tone under the terms of the New Covenant. This message begin an exploration of the events of Pentecost, and their implications for us who lives under the New Covenant. Unfortunately, the last 13 minutes of this sermon did not record, and during that time, we were challenged to remember that during the visions of Himself that God granted a vision of His glory to, it was not His military power, nor His physical strength, nor any other characteristic that we would figure important that drove the observers to their knees. It was His excellence of Spirit, His moral power, His holiness. As Isaiah reflected in his vision, compared to God, he was a man of unclean lips that lived with a people of unclean lips. We were also challenged to remember that we to, as followers of Jesus, and the abode of the Holy Spirit, that we too should be compelled to excellence of Spirit, and moral power, to be motivated for, and empowered to, the works that God has for us to accomplish in His authority.