Hello
Everyone,
A famous
British preacher by the name of G. Campbell Morgan … writes about the
accusation toward the Spirit-filled disciples on the day of Pentecost — the
accusation of many in the crowd was that the Spirit-filled disciples were …
drunk!
Morgan
writes:
"[Carefully consider] Peter's
answer to the accusations — 'These are not drunk as ye suppose' — that is, in
the way you think. Compare this with Paul's injunction in Ephesians 5:18 — "Don't be drunk on wine … but be
filled with the Spirit." The one is a false and destructive method of
attempting to realize life in its fullness. The other is the true and effective
method.
Has anyone ever charged you with
being drunk with your Christianity? O God, how seldom men have thought us
drunk. We lack the flashing eye, and the pulsating song, and the tremendous
enthusiasm of an overwhelming conviction. That is what the city needs to ...
create the opportunity for prophetic proclamation!
The church's responsibility is that
her members be so Spirit-filled that the Spirit may be able to produce the new
phenomena required to startle this age. The church has been far more anxious
about wealth, and theologies, and organizations, than about the Spirit ...
what's the use of preaching when the world is not amazed?"
How many
believe that God wants us to be — an amazing people?
How many
believe that amazing people are hard to ignore?
The
world can't help but check out people whose lives are so full of life
that they are compellingly different!
Every
one of us have been
created to live an amazing life … a life of incredible purpose, passion and power
… but we can't live that kind of amazing life on our own!
We can't
live an amazing life without an amazing partner …a SUPERNATURAL
partner that's why Jesus promised His disciples a partner … who would be with
them and in them forever … because the fullness of their lives
depended on how full they were of the Holy Spirit!
In Acts
2 we not only encounter some amazing people … we discover some of the key
characteristics that made them so compelling to their generation!
This
week for my e-votion An Amazing God…An Amazing People
Greater
Things Are Still To Come!
Pastor Phil
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