A Promise Kept

Pentecost Sunday

By Pastor Greg Ball, June 08, 2025

Acts 1:4-5

**Today we’re celebrating Jesus making good on a promise that he would give his disciples after His resurrection! **

For 3 years he taught the the principles of the .

Matthew 5:3-12

You need more than the education and information you need assistance!

John 14:16-17

God doesn’t want to give you hope without help!

Jesus taught his disciples the principles of life, but he also taught them they were going to need more than his teaching!

Jesus taught his disciples that he is the central part of God‘s plan!

He is the key to salvation! He is the redemptive part of god‘s plan! He is the atonement part of God’s plan!

The Father !

Genesis 1:1

The Son .

Galatians 3:13-14

The Holy Spirit us.

He empowers us to have Heaven on earth!

Matthew 6:9-10

Jesus is telling his disciples I can get you to heaven, but you need heaven on earth.

Acts 1:5-8

**There is POWER IN PENTECOST **

John 14:17-18

You can’t be like Jesus in public without possessing what Jesus possessed in private.

1. Jesus was born of the Spirit!

Luke 1:35

The Holy Spirit will empower you to birth something that you could not do without his assistance!

2. Jesus was baptized in the Spirit.

Luke 3:21-22

It’s the Holy Ghost that transforms your life from being addicted to being anointed.

3. He was led by the Spirit.

Luke 4:1

You’ll always be led by what you’re full of!

If you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will lead you!

2 Timothy 1:7

4. He was anointed by the Spirit.

Luke 4:18

Gifts make us impressive, but the anointing makes us impacting.

When you work your gift, you work.

But when you are anointed, God is working.

Acts 10:44

The Holy Spirit is the difference maker!

The Holy Spirit takes you from good ideas to God ideas!

Isaiah 10:27

Do you want to be impressive or impacting?

5. He was resurrected by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:11

The spirit gives you the ability to recover from what others died in!

Hebrew 10:35-36

2 Timothy 3:1-5

We cannot love our tradition more than we love the Word of God!

Mark 7:6-9

Just Unleash the Holy Spirit!

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Allow him to have full access to your life!

The disciples had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, but on the day of Pentecost, they received the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

John Wesley called it the second blessing!

Acts 8:14-17

Ephesians 5:18-21

The infilling of the Holy Spirit is not about how much Holy Spirit you have!

When you receive the Salvation you have all the Holy Spirit.

The infilling of the Holy Spirit is how much of you does he have!

As I submit and surrender my life, he infills me and consumes me.

John 7:37

A promise , and a promise .