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Welcome and Happy Sabbath!!! Sebastopol Seventh-day Adventist Church April 17, 2021

The Holy Spirit Part 1: Changing Places April 17, 2021

Desire of Ages, 790 • “Jesus refused to receive homage of His people until He had the assurance that His sacrifice was accepted by the Father.

Desire of Ages, 790 • He ascended to the heavenly courts, and from God Himself heard the assurance that His atonement for the sins of men had been ample, that through His blood all might gain eternal life. ”

Luke 24: 46 -48 (NKJV) • “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. ”

Parting Gifts: Acts 1: 8 • The Promise: But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you • The Commission: you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. ”

Acts of Apostles, 30 • “Christ's visible presence was about to be withdrawn from the disciples, but a new endowment of power was to be theirs. The Holy Spirit was to be given them in its fullness, sealing them for their work. ”

Acts of Apostles, 31 • “In Jerusalem were many who secretly believed Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah, and many who had been deceived by priests and rulers. To these the gospel must be proclaimed. They were to be called to repentance.

Acts of Apostles, 31 • The wonderful truth that through Christ alone could remission of sins be obtained, was to be made plain. And it was while all Jerusalem was stirred by the thrilling events of the past few weeks, that the preaching of the disciples would make the deepest impression. ”

I will be with you • Hebrews 13: 5 - For He • Deutronomy 31: 6 - Be Himself has said, “I will strong and of good never leave you nor courage, do not fear nor forsake you. ” be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you. ”

Image of God • Galatians 5 - fruits of • 1 Corinthians 12 - gifts Spirit: love, joy, peace, of the Spirit: wisdom, longsuffering, kindness, knowledge, faith, goodness, faithfulness, healings, miracles, gentleness, self-control prophecy, discerning of spirits, speaking and interpreting tongues,

Matthew 4: 1, 2 (NKJV) • Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

4 x 4 Team God • God the Father establishes Covenant with humanity • Jesus the Son lives, dies and rises again • Holy Spirit empowers us for victory in Jesus’ blood • Jesus the Son returns as victorious King

Are you filled with the Holy Spirit?