828 Church Ron Barnard

Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before. John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:4-5 NLT

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. Acts 1:9-9 ESV

Jesus often answers our questions with a commission.

As they strained to see him rising into heaven, two white-robed men suddenly stood among them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in the same way you saw him go!” Acts 1:10-11 NLT

On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place. Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting. Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. Acts 2:1-2 NLT

Holy Spirit provides the purity, passion, perspective, and power needed to fulfill God’s mission. 

We all hear these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done!” Acts 2:11 NLT 

What you see was predicted long ago by the prophet Joel: ‘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 2:16-18 NLT

Them Peter preached the Gospel and 3000 people were added! - Acts 2:19-41 NLT  

The Miraculous happens by the power of the Holy Spirit!

The Holy Spirit is our power source for reaching and impacting our world!

The Holy Spirit is our power source for Healthy Relationships and Living in Community! 

The Holy Spirit is our power source for walking through adversity or tragedy.

The Holy Spirit is our power source for Purity and Freedom!

I baptize with water those who repent of their sins and turn to God. But someone is coming soon who is greater than I am—so much greater that I’m not worthy even to be his slave and carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Matthew 3:11 NLT

The greatest gift this side of Easter is realized when we recognize and receive the person and work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 

God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 NLT - - Husband, Wife, Brothers, Sisters, Aunties and Uncles, etc…

He (Jesus) makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love. Ephesians 4:16 NLT

Our most effective effort is found in the everyday ordinary things we do for God and others. 

Faithful effort in the ordinary duties of a son or daughter are the only right path to the will of the Father.

Overlooking the significance of the ordinary or mundane has robbed our world of the miraculous. 

That evening the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “That isn’t necessary, you feed them.” Matthew 14:15-16 NLT

Even if we worked for months, we wouldn’t have enough money to feed them! John 6:7 NLT

What we have and are will always be insufficient without Jesus. 

One of the disciples, Andrew, brother to Simon Peter, said, “There’s a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But that’s a drop in the bucket for a crowd like this.” John 6:8-9 MSG

Tell everyone to sit down, Jesus said. So they all sat down on the grassy slopes. (men numbered about 5,000.) Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to the people. Afterward he did the same with the fish. And they all ate as much as they wanted. John 6:10-11 NLT

When the people had eaten their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the leftovers so nothing is wasted.” They went to work and filled twelve large baskets with leftovers from the five barley loaves. John 6:12-13 MSG

Our beleaguered age stands in need, not so much of ten talent men, but God conquered commoners.

Here is another story Jesus told: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. But at night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away. Matthew 13:24-25 NLT

The cultural cost is high when we miss the everyday opportunities to live extraordinary lives for Jesus.

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Romans 12:1-2 MSG

Honor the Place

That first covenant between God and Israel had regulations for worship and a place of worship here on earth. There were two rooms in that Tabernacle. In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. This room was called the Holy Place. Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room called the Most Holy Place.  Hebrews 9:1-3 NLT

However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that? asks the LORD. Could you build me such a resting place? Acts 7:48-49 NLT 

And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. Hebrews 10:19-22 NLT

Don’t let God’s accessibly minimize the priority you put on the sacred place we have with Him.

2) Choose the right Posture 

Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the LORD our maker. Psalm 95:6 NLT

A graced combination of humility and honor is the appropriate way to worship our Father God. 

3) Embrace Expression 

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Psalm 40:3 ESV

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! - Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever. Psalms 100:1-2 & 4-5

Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. Ephesians 5:18-19 NLT

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Romans 12:1 ESV

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.” Whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever), the twenty-four elders fall down and worship the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever). And they lay their crowns before the throne and say,
“You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things,
and they exist because you created what you pleased.” Revelation 4:8-11 NLT

May we live in such a way that every word, action and attitude are an act of worship to our God. 

4) Always - Our ancestors carried the Tabernacle with them through the wilderness. Acts 7:44 NLT

Worship is a weapon the enemy can’t overcome! 

5) With your Whole Heart

I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart. Psalm 9:1 NKJV

We don’t worship God because He needs our worship, but because He is worthy of our worship.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Psalm 150:6 ESV

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy. Psalms 103:1-3 ESV

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Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you. Luke 6:37 ESV

The biblical approach to having plenty, is to intentionally share what you have.

Recognize the Call

Not called did you say? Not heard the call, I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible and hear him bid you go… William Booth

All the Kings kids are called to introduce people to Jesus and the life we’ve found in Him.

Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. Luke 14:15-23 ESV

Ready to Share.

Worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way.1 Peter 3:15 NLT

You can’t know Jesus in the way you’re meant to know Him and not make Him known!

Reflect the Gospel

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. John 1:6-8 ESV

Don’t shine a light on others, but for others.

Use your words

If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, indeed I cannot. Jeremiah 20:9 ESV

iPray - iSee - iConnect - iSay

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 ESV

Nothing is more meaningful than sharing how your relation with Jesus has impacted your life.

For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes, to the Jew and also the Gentile Romans 1:16 NLT

5) Together

Any church that isn’t seriously involved in helping fulfill the great commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. - Oswald J. Smith

You are the light of the world, like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. Mathew 5:14 NLT

We shine more brightly when we shine together.

The great commission is virtually impossible without partnership.

For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost. Luke 19:10 NLT
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See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. 1 John 3:1 ESV

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22 ESV

How to be Family

1) Calling 

A sense of calling is critical to contentment in community. 

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV

2) Commitment

No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God. Luke 9:62 NLT

Let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. James 5:12 ESV

3) Patience

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2 ESV

Proud people are rarely ever patient. - Humility creates a patient place in your heart for others. 

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Romans 12:12 ESV

Self control is a patient response to disappointment and frustration. 

4) Grace 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 ESV

Grace is a gift that must be shown to be known.

Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:31-32 NLT

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8-9 ESV

5) Compassion

Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. Ephesians 5:1-2 NLT 

Love without compassion isn’t the love God gave or the love God gifted us to give.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NLT

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:12-14 ESV