June 8th, 2025 - A Gift With A Goal

Scripture Passage:  Acts 2:1-14

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Pentecost
Acts 2:1-14
"A Gift with a Goal"
"Power with a Purpose"

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What gift skill or ability do you have?

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What gift, skill or ability would you like to have?

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How would you react to a pentecost experience?

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This is not the first Pentecost
When the day of Pentecost came,

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Passover - Firstfruits -Pentecost
Redeemed - New Life - Abundance
Good Friday - Easter - Pentecost

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Waiting in Jerusalem as instructed
they were all together in one place.

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It was not windy
  2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting

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Was there fire?
3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

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Filled, tongues, enabled.
4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues[a] as the Spirit enabled them.

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Who was there?
5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.

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Get attention and speak to heart
 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken.

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Can you imagine?
 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?

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Full Circle
 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,[b] 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs

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 Out of control
12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”
 

13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

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 Transformed Peter talks transformation
14 Then Peter ... addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.

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 Surprises
1. Wind did not blow; fire did not burn
2. Speakers did not control tongues
3. At this point, everyone is part of Judaism.

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 Notice:
1. The Spirit is the full harvest of the resurrection firstfruits.
2. God speaks everyone's heart language.
3. Gift empowers mission

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Know gifts
Ask for gifts
Focus on healed hearts over cool experiences