Talk

9AM on Pentecost (Day Fifty)

Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
May 20, 2018

Pentecost. One of the most significant days in the history of the Church, yet most of us don’t stop to contemplate what took place on that day and what it means for us today.

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The power of the Holy Spirit. That’s what was given to us on Pentecost. The power to carry out the calling on our lives to spread the name and fame of Jesus. If we aren’t aware of it, we can spend our whole lives striving to accomplish this goal through our own power, but instead, we are called to say, “Even though I could do it in my strength, I will wait for power from on high.”

Key Takeaway

Through the miracle of Pentecost, we are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. With this power, we are called to turn away from our own flesh and spread the gospel with the Holy Spirit as our guide.

  1. Why did God wait 50 days after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ to send the promise of the Holy Spirit?

    1. Jesus wanted to be the living proof of the resurrection in front of the masses.

    2. Jesus reminds them to wait for the promise of the Holy Spirit. “Wait for the gift my Father Promised” Acts 1:4-8

  2. You (all) will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.

    1. We all are in situations today where we need the power to endure.

  3. You (all) will receive power for your family, your region, and the ends of the earth.

    1. The power of the Holy Spirit calls you to value people created in the image of God by crossing racial boundaries.

    2. Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit inside you can unite all of God’s people.

  4. We all live at the intersection of doing life at our power, strength, and recourse or doing it by embracing the connection we have to the power of the Holy Spirit.

    1. Sin convinces us we can do it ourselves.

    2. Grace and the gospel embrace God’s ability to do what we can’t do alone.

  5. We must shift our comprehension of the greater purpose of God in our lives.

    1. Our greater purpose is that we are commissioned to take the gospel of the grace and love of God to every living person on the planet.

    2. We have access to God to be agents of the kingdom to change things on earth.

      1. In Philippians 3:3, we are called to this mission.

      2. Put all confidence in the Holy Spirit.

  6. We must shift our humility so the Holy Spirit can be at work.

    1. Humility will abandon the flesh and embrace the flame.

      1. The spirit used the festival of the weeks to spread the gospel to Jews from across the world.

      2. In 2 Kings 13:15, we see an example of sin reserving some resources instead of trusting in God completely.

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“Even though I could do it in my own strength, I will wait for power from on high.”
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Louie Giglio

Discussion Questions

  1. In what areas of your life do you need to reject your own flesh and turn to the Holy Spirit for confidence?

Scripture References

1When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
2Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
4On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command:
“Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.
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For John baptized with
water, but in a few days you will be baptized with
the Holy Spirit.”
6Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7He said to them:
“It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
15Elisha said, “Get a bow and some arrows,” and he did so.
16“Take the bow in your hands,” he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken it, Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.
17“Open the east window,” he said, and he opened it. “Shoot!” Elisha said, and he shot. “The
Lord
’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!” Elisha declared. “You will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek.”
18Then he said, “Take the arrows,” and the king took them. Elisha told him, “Strike the ground.” He struck it three times and stopped.
19The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times.”
20Elisha died and was buried.

Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring. 21Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

28“And afterward,

I will pour out my Spirit on all people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy,

your old men will dream dreams,

your young men will see visions.

29Even on my servants, both men and women,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.