The Power of Pentecost – Zech 4:6

 

The Power of Pentecost – Zech 4:6

 

Intro:  This is Pentecost and this is the Sunday we remember how the church was transformed and made into the church God wanted it to be.  So what is Pentecost all about? 

 

1.       First it is not a movement, denomination or church tag.  We may have made it that way but it was designed for that. 

 

a.     It is not a spiritual experience to hang up like a trophy or a spiritual high. 

b.     It is not a special revelation or teaching to be enjoyed by the enlightened or a prerequisite for salvation.

 

-        Pentecost is the power to witness, to have gifts to express the manifold grace of God and to communicate with God and man.  So that the believer would be endued with power from on High.  Acts 1:8

-        Our text talks about how we must learn it is not but our or man`s might or power that things will be accomplished in the supernatural and national realm but by the Holy Spirit.  Talk about HT. Richey.

 

2.      Pentecost means waiting and coming into unity in prayer, praise and worship with the Spirit and the fellow believers.   God comes and release the resources of heaven to impact the world for Christ.

 

3.      Pentecost turns the coward into the courageous.  It means 3000 getting saved in one sermon and not 1 getting saved in 3000 sermons.  It means people being cut to the heart by conviction not condemnation.  Pentecost causes a person to ask the question.  What must I do to be saved.

 

4.      It means the Spirit being poured out upon all flesh.  Young man seeing visions.   Sons and daughters prophesising.  Servants of God having the Spirit poured out on them .  Old men dreaming dream and everyone who calls on the name of the Lord being saved.  Talk about Tracy Baxter being baptised in her bedroom.

 

5.      It means throwing preconceived ideas of how God works out the window.  It breaks religious molds and concepts.  It causes men to say this is God.  That is what the Gentile Pentecost did as did Azusa Street. 

 

6.      Pentecost is very important for the following reasons:

 

a.     Power for Service

b.     Power for Spiritual Warfare.

c.      Power for overflow.

d.     Power for Ability.

 

7.       In the case of the Ephesians Pentecost it changed their church.  It will change any believer or organization open for it.  One final thought we needs it today more than before.  Close with  need for it today.