Read: Acts 2:1-12 Pentecost
What do we really know about the Holy Spirit? Maybe the best we can ever know is the feelings we have when the Spirit wants to be known to us. The Spirit goes where and how it wants. The best we can do is open our lives to be a living vessel into which the Holy Spirit may be poured. We invite our lives to be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Most days we go through the motions of work, eat, play, and sleep. We may even find some of our activities enjoyable, but much of the time is spent simply breathing. However every once a while a very special day comes along which lifts us and moves our hearts. We may feel empowered to say and do giant things for God. We may feel prayerful and deeply connected with our neighbors. We may even fall to our faces in honor and praise of our God.
Consider the most special of all those special days over the course of the history of the world. For those who follow Jesus Christ, that day is Pentecost. This was the day when the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, cut loose and filled the believers to overflowing with Spiritual fruits. Everything was in process, anything was possible, and nothing was out of the question.
We in the church like to celebrate Pentecost much like we celebrate a birthday or a holiday. We may pause to remember, sigh, eat some cake, and go home pretty much like we came. But that was never the intent in Pentecost, not then, not now. After all they were people just like us.
What do you have in process? What do you find impossible? What have you been told is out of the question?
Now we are talking; a little Holy Ghost action. Oh, Yeah! Come Holy Spirit, be our guest.
Scripture: Acts 2:1-12
Sermon: “People Just Like Us”
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