Issue 19 ...
Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and Today
The first Pentecost saw the birth of the Church with the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples as they gathered privately together.
The Holy Spirit's arrival came with a commotion so loud that it attracted thousands of people to see what was going on. Some three thousand people were added to the church that day.
What a beginning!
Within a few days another five thousand men with their families were added to the church through a miracle that Peter and John did as they were going up to the temple to pray.
The disciples learnt through the event at Pentecost that God never follows our agenda. Rather, he calls us to follow His agenda and to be sold out to His cause.
The Holy Spirit energized the early Christians in such a way that they established a church that two millennia later has grown to two billion people plus.
But the same Spirit does not allow today's church to stay complacent with such numbers, but reminds us that of the 6,820,972,832 (US Census Bureau, 14 th May 2010), over four billion of them do not attend a Christian Church and follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Some of those people live in Australia , next door to you and me.
Not only does the Holy Spirit not allow today's Christians to be complacent but does not allow a nation such as ours to remain complacent either.
He gives us a name - the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit - then gives a cause - a mission to this world in its troubled time . Then He gives us His power to fulfill His cause.
We need to remember that God calls us afresh to His cause in this day and age and should ask on a daily basis: what is it you are wanting us to do?
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