Phil Inglis - May 20, 2018
Pentecost & The Holy Spirit
When we are young we often develop quite separate worlds, for instance one when we are at school and another when we are at home. On occasions those worlds meet; parent teacher nights, birthday parties or perhaps a parent volunteering in the school canteen. When I went to high school, this meeting of worlds went to a whole new level. My father was a teacher at my high school, he was always there. My friends all wondered what it was like and actually thought it must have been terrible and hard and awkward all the time. It wasn’t. It was actually pretty great. In the Bible we see something similar. For millennia humans had considered God to be resident in some temple or other place of worship. There were specific places and times when people would go to meet with God. There appeared to be one world for God and one for humanity, with only occasional times and places when the two would overlap. When Jesus ascended to heaven, everything changed. In Acts 2 we read the incredible story of God coming to live in ALL people as the Holy Spirit. Not just occasionally, not in specific places, not just in the person of Jesus, but in all people, all the time. Some people might think that makes life terrible, hard and awkward all the time. It wasn’t. It is actually pretty great. Tune in as we talk about what the Holy Spirit brings to the lives of all believers.
Scripture References: Acts 2:1-47
