GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES

I Promise #10

Pastor Dennis Clanton

Woodland Church

Sunday, June 5, 2022

God never made a promise that was too good to be true. D. L. Moody

Herman Lockyer – 7500 promises

1. God makes the promise.

2. You are an heir of the promise.

3. The promises have substance.

4. There are covenant promises.

5. There are conditional promises.

6. I must choose to receive the promise.

(Acts 2:17–18, NLT) “In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants—men and women alike— and they will prophesy.”

(Acts 2:33) “Now he is exalted to the place of highest honor in heaven, at God’s right hand. And the Father, as he had promised, gave him the Holy Spirit to pour out upon us, just as you see and hear today.”

(Psalm 104:24-30)  “O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small. … They all depend on you to give them food as they need it. When you supply it, they gather it. You open your hand to feed them, and they are richly satisfied. … When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.”

(Romans 8:15–16) “So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.”

1. EVERYONE WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.

(Acts 1:8)  “But you will receive power [ability] when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.”

The ability to

• Be who God created you to be.

• Touch people with the love of Christ.

(Romans 5:5, NIV) “God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.”

2. WORSHIP WAS EXPRESSED.

(Acts 2:4) “And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.”

(Acts 2:11)  “We all hear these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done!” [It was the language of worship]

(1 Corinthians 14:15) “For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. … I will pray in the spirit, and I will also pray in words I understand.”

• You are talking to God

• It is an actual language

• You choose to speak

• People don’t understand

(1 Corinthians 14:19, NLT) “I thank God that I speak in tongues more than any of you. But in a church meeting I would rather speak five understandable words to help others than ten thousand words in an unknown language.”

• Paul is grateful that he prays in tongues.

• Paul did not forefront tongues in a worship service.

3. RIDICULE WAS MANIFEST.

(Acts 2:13) “But others in the crowd ridiculed them, saying, “They’re just drunk, that’s all!”

4. HARVEST BEGAN.

(Acts 2:41) “Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day—about 3,000 in all.”

GROWTHWORK

1. Come close to Jesus and ask Him to fill you the Holy Spirit.

2. Give yourself to prayer.

a. Fission, break through the gates of hell

b. Fusion, that Woodland experiences a massive outpouring of the Holy Spirit

3. Give thanks.

4. Make the connection between people’s questions and the life of Jesus.

(John 20:31) “But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name.”