“Our services must be filled with His presence, if this is not so we are robbing people of what they need in Christ… There is a deep desire in every heart, including the believer for more, and only the Holy Spirit can quench this thirst…
The whole point of this series is to marry knowledge and experience… That we would be balanced Spirit filled believers…
The whole point of Jesus’ ministry was that He did nothing by Himself… He did everything by the will of the Father and through the Holy Spirit… He was modeling how we are to live…
God desires a mighty river in us, but sometimes we allow silt to stop it up… We need to dredge the junk out of our lives that preventing us from being the mighty Mississippi God desires us to be…
Both the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit need to be present in our everyday lives…
The fruit of the Spirit – the character of God…
The gifts of the Spirit – the tools of God…
1 Thessalonians 5:21 “test everything; hold fast what is good.”
This is the test of a spiritual gift: does it glorify Christ, does it edify believers, and is it a positive witness to the non-believer…
Pentecost by its very nature is restorationist… We want to get back to Christ’s purist version of the Church…”