Fundy Failure

I had the privilege of speaking in the Wednesday night service at my church last night. I thought I would share some of the thoughts from that message here. I will take a couple of days to post my notes and thoughts from the message.

I taught from Acts 1:8.  Here are some thoughts I talked about:

* “You will receive power” – This implies that on our own we have no real power. The power that we have is only power that we have received. This SHOULD keep us from being prideful, but often does not work out that way.

* “After the Holy Spirit has come on you” – The Holy Spirit can also be translated “Sacred Breath” (which has some pretty cool implications). We don’t get the power until we receive God’s sacred breath. It is His breath alone that gives us any power. It is about HIM. Not us. Too many times in our lives we strive to find power through various different venues.  The only sources to true power (the power of God), is the Sacred Breath of God – the Holy Spirit. Where are we trying to get power from besides the Holy Spirit?

*”You will be witnesses unto me” – The power is given to us so we can “witness” (Gk: martus) for Christ. We are to use this power to express Christ to others. We are to express Christ ONLY! Not our opinions, our denomination, our political party, our accomplishments or anything else. We are to express Christ alone. We are not even to express the Bible, but to express the Christ revealed in the Bible. We are not to express some generic “god”. We are to express the Father of Jesus Christ, the Yahweh God of the Bible. What is our life expressing?

* “In Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth”. These were obviously real places that Jesus was speaking of, but I think they have significant and profound principles for us today. We will discuss Jerusalem in the next post.