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HOW TO RECEIVE GOD'S POWER
The wonderful thing about knowing Jesus is that life gets fuller every day - if you let it! When Christ died on the cross for your sins, his blood paid for your sins AND bought your freedom. Jesus wants you to tell others about this "Good News": how to be free, forgiven of sins, and filled with God's POWER. The God of Israel is the only God. He is a "God of Power" who loves you. He raised his son, Jesus, from the dead. Shortly before Jesus went back to Heaven, he said that IN HIS NAME " ... the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations ..." [Luke 24:47] Jesus didn't ask you to do this job alone. He promised to send you a "gift" of POWER which would help you. Jesus said that he would send this promise upon you himself. "And I, myself, will send upon you what my Father has promised." [Luke 24:49] The book of Acts in the New Testament of the Holy Bible tells you how to receive this "gift" (the promise of the Father). The Holy Spirit used a man named Luke, who was a follower of Jesus, to write both the book of Acts and the book of Luke. In the book of Luke, Luke tells us how Jesus did his miracles by the POWER of the Holy Spirit. In the book of Acts, Luke tells us how the early followers of Jesus did their miracles by the POWER of the Holy Spirit. You, also - as a follower of Jesus - are to do the same miracles by the POWER of the Holy Spirit! As a matter of fact, Jesus said, "Whoever believes in me will do the works I do - yes, he will do even greater ones, for I am going to the Father." [John 14:12] Jesus was taken up into Heaven, he told his followers that God, the Father, had promised them a "gift". "But wait for the promise of the Father ... for John truly baptized with water; but you shall be BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT not many days from now." [Acts 1:4-5] The promise of the Father, the "gift" which Jesus said he would send upon his followers when he went back to Heaven, was made to you, also! "For God's promise was made to you and your children, and TO ALL who are far away - ALL whom the Lord our God calls to himself." [Acts 2:39] The Holy Spirit lives in all those who follow Jesus; but to be "baptized" with the Holy Spirit is an extra gift. In John 20:22, after Christ died on the cross and rose up from the grave (before he went back to Heaven), Jesus breathed on his followers and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." After this, the Holy Spirit was IN THEM, but as yet they had NOT been "baptized" with the Holy Spirit. Jesus is our "Baptizer", just as he is our Savior, our Healer, and our Deliverer. In all four Gospels plus the book of Acts we find: "John baptized with water ... but Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit." [Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16; John 1:33; and Acts 1:4-5] To be "baptized" means to be overwhelmed or covered with, This is why Jesus told his followers (even though the Holy Spirit was already IN THEM), " ... wait in the city until the POWER from above comes down upon you." [Luke 24:49] Jesus said his followers would be filled with POWER when the Holy Spirit came on them. He said they would be witnesses for him. "But you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you shall be witnesses for me ... to the ends of the earth." [Acts 1:8] [Continued on DCC #10]
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