Penta-Who??

If you didn't get Pastor Noel's email, he has a new video on the site.

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Any guesses?

The significance of the day is to remember. We remember when God began to fulfill the prophecy that he would pour out his spirit in the last days. Jesus said to tarry for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Later throughout the new testament, events are recorded that indicate the Spirit fell on new believers. It is my belief that is still happening today. We receive power...to live as God intended. The law was given but all it did was showcase our inablility to please God. Our sin was defined. The life empowered by the Holy Spirit is successful. Brings joy to the Lord. gracie

bold topic! But then, I have yet to see Brother Noel shy away from the pulpit out of fear. Lord willing, may it never be.
yep, Jehovah Jireh: the Lord will provide, or, the Lord sees/will see to it.
He doesn't just ordain the end, He ordains the means. If He tells us to wait on Him, He means to show. If He tells us to pray for something, by implication, He means to answer that prayer.
This whole life and all creation are still about the Creator and His glory. Pentecost stands in direct contrast to Babel. Pride and the resulting sin kept the masses in perdition and confusion. With God, however, all things are possible. A mere diversity of human languages will not stand in the way of the Good News nor the Holy Spirit. He is more than capable to abase the proud. And, He came to seek that which was lost.

Any of us that believe we had anything to do with our salvation need to read John 6 and Luke 10. As a measure of humility, perhaps we all should--frequently.

Philippians 2:12 reminds us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, but we rarely quote verse 13, "for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." Salvation is from the Lord (monergism) and we are called to obey and live out our calling (synergism) with the understanding that it is God who is imputing His Righteousness to us (2 Cor 5:21). We even sing a great hymn about it, "Dressed in His rightousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne." I'd hate to stand before the throne of the Almighty with my version of righteousness. No one is good except God alone (Luke 18:19).

My salvation never has had anything to do with me. I am the lost coin...the lost sheep...the wandering son.

Ephesians 2:8,9 For by grace you have been saved thorugh faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Christ does for believers, what believers never could do for themselves.