{"id":635,"date":"2011-08-11T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:27","slug":"experiences-of-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Experiences of Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acts 2:1-8<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> This event meant life and power to the new Church and insured its success.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: Some Things that Proceeded:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The Key Passage of Acts is: &#8220;But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you.&#8221;<br \/>\n2, The Church had 2 things it was commanded to do. 1st to bear witness, 2nd to preach Christ to the whole world.<br \/>\n3. For 10 days, the Church was occupied in prayer.<br \/>\n4. They waited for the sign of his entry and acceptance into the Holy of Holy, (The high Priest and Bells).<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: Prayer, Power, and Preaching.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Prayer prevailed in the 10 days.<br \/>\n2. Power: &#8220;There are 2 ways in testing religion: 1 is to investigate its views, the other to examine its power.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Their task called for Power from God\/<br \/>\n4. Preaching: A renewed Preacher, a witnessing Church, and an attentive Audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: Results of Pentecost:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Witnessing that held the attention.<br \/>\n2. The people came to hear.<br \/>\n3. They were pricked in their hearts.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;What shall we do now?&#8221;<br \/>\n5. 3,000 were baptized.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Sinners: Some Holy Spirit speaks to you.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Christians: To win souls you need to be used of the Holy Spirit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 2:1-8 This event meant life and power to the new Church and insured its success. I: Some Things that Proceeded: 1. The Key Passage of Acts is: &#8220;But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you.&#8221; 2, The Church had 2 things it was commanded to do. 1st to bear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}