Approaching Pentecost Christ in you The Hope of Glory

The same baptism of the Holy Spirit poured out on Pentecost will raise us up in the last day!

Acts 1:4-5 Jesus gave them this charge: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” 

Acts 1:9-11 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” 

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Acts 2:1-4 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like a rushing mighty wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.

John 6:53-58 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

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Acts 19:2 And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”  

Matthew 13:11a He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. 

Colossians 1:27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.           

Acts 11: 15-17 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”

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Job 19: 25-27 I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, Yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

Daniel 7:13 "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. 

Luke 21:27, Matthew 24:30, Mark 13:26 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

2 Thessalonians 1:7 He will give rest and relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Ezekiel 43:2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. 

Revelation 19:6-8, 11 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.” I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. 

If you have not yet received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit - close your eyes and ask Jesus to baptize you now. Thank Him and receive by faith. As you do, the Holy Spirit will give you His ability to speak heaven's language. Then you can begin to praise and worship Jesus with a new tongue. Open your heart and your mouth and drink in the living water of the Holy Spirit and let Jesus fill you. As you breathe in and are filled you will overflow with the miracle of prayer, praise and thanksgiving as you release it in the same tongues given on the day of Pentecost. Ask and receive that your joy may be full! His promise is: If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him!

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