Resources for Pentecost Sunday

Pentecost

Pentecost Sunday is around the corner (12th June) and I wanted to post a list of resources that were published here previously, in case you missed them.

Sermon: Why do I need to be baptized by the Holy Spirit?
Sermon: The anointing of God
Sermon: Why the Pentecostal movement exploded?
Sermon: breaking the curse of tradition (Ezekiel 37:2)
Sermon: Why Holy Spirit baptism is important?
PowerPoint sermon: Breaking the curse of tradition (Ezekiel 37:2)
PowerPoint sermon: The amazing ministry of Peter and John (Acts 3:1-11)
What does the Bible say about speaking in tongues? (Series)
We want another Pentecost at any cost! (Article by Rev. Dr. Colton Wickramaratne)
The four fold application of speaking in tongues (Article)
The acts of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament (Article)

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A PowerPoint sermon for Pentecost Sunday

This is the PowerPoint based version of the sermon outline ‘Breaking the curse of Tradition’. Enjoy!

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Pentecost Sunday sermon: breaking the curse of tradition

‘But there was no breathe in them…’ Ezekiel 37:1-10

Introduction

Defining the Pentecost: Pentecost means ‘Fifty’. 50^th day from Easter Sunday. This is the period for collecting harvest.

ii. The book of Acts reports that Pentecost empowered the disciples to harvest in the spiritual realm (massive church growth, and great miracles.).

iii. 2000 years have gone by since the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit. But can we see the same power today?

iv. The church is dead, because the tradition is seated in God’s throne.

v. Tradition is the living faith of those now dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of those still living.

The Prophet Ezekiel explains how tradition kills the church? (In this context the valley is the world and dry bones represent the dead church)

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We want another Pentecost at any cost!

Pentecost is the second greatest festival in the Jewish calendar. It was the in-gathering of the harvest and was a great event in the life of Israel. In the New Testament too Pentecost is a great event for it was the in-gathering of souls which began the first century church.

Coming fifty days after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, Pentecost was the fulfillment of the greatest promise that Jesus gave to His disciples before He was ascended to heaven, so He told them to tarry in Jerusalem until they were endued with the power from on high. He said “… you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

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Sermon: Why the Pentecostal movement exploded?

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Text: Acts 2:1-4

Introduction

In a New Year’s Eve watch night service on December 31, 1900 a group of 40 Bible school students gathered in Topeka, Kansas to pray for God to fill them with the Holy Spirit as He did in the book of Acts. Dissatisfied with the powerless Christianity they had seen, they had concluded that there was no reason that God would not fill believers today in the same way He had done in the first century.

They were not disappointed; shortly after midnight on January 1, 1901 Agnes Ozman became the first person in the 20^th century to be filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. Today, Pentecostalism has swept the globe and is the largest branch of Protestantism in the world. Why?

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