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<div>Sermons for Pentecost:</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> Acts 2:1-21 – Are You Pentecostal?</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span> </span>John 15:26‑27; 16:4b‑15 - God’s Two Hands – by Leonard Sweet </div>
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Acts 2<font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">,</font></font> the sermon titled "Are You Pentecostal?"
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well known author and preacher Fred Craddock tells a rather funny story
about a lecture he was giving: A few years ago, when he was on the west
coast speaking at a seminary, just before the first lecture, one of the
students stood up and said, "Before you speak, I need to know if you are
Pentecostal." The room grew silent. Craddock said he looked around for
the Dean of the seminary! He was nowhere to be found.</div>
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student continued with his quiz right in front of everybody. Craddock
was taken aback, and so he said, "Do you mean do I belong to the
Pentecostal Church?" He said, "No, I mean are you Pentecostal?" Craddock
said, "Are you asking me if I am charismatic?" the student said, "I am
asking you if you are Pentecostal." Craddock said, "Do you want to know
if I speak in tongues?" He said, "I want to know if you are
Pentecostal." Craddock said, "I don't know what your question is." The
student said, "Obviously, you are not Pentecostal." He left.</div>
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are we talking about this morning? Is the church supposed to use the
word Pentecost only as a noun or can it be used as an adjective? And so I
ask you: Are you Pentecostal?...</div>
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John 15<font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">,</font></font> the sermon titled "God’s Two Hands" <span> </span>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">There is a reason the disciples are best known as the “duh!-ciples.”</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Jesus hand-picked his own team, these
twelve companions in ministry and mission. How could his chosen dozen
have been so duh! and dumb?</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Come on, now. Don’t deny that this very
thought has not crossed your mind at some point or another when reading
any of the four gospels! From the safe distance of twenty centuries it
is easy to look back self-importantly at Galilee and assert that, “If
I’d been there I’d have ‘gotten it!’”</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Really? You think?</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">The Man — the charismatic Jesus, the greatest communicator and most creative person the world has ever seen.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">The Message — the master teacher of Torah with revolutionary claims and astonishing insights. </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">The Miracles — the signs and wonders that made divine powers a seaside, roadside, bedside experience.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">It is easy to wonder. After all, the
disciples lived with Jesus. They were as close to him as anyone could
get. They traveled with Jesus. They listened to his every word…</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric">You Are in the Spirit</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric">It’s
like the story of the shark and the whale. Both were swimming in the
sea when the shark swam up to the whale to engage in conversation. As
they swam along, the shark said to the whale, “You are so much older
than I, and wiser too. Could you tell me where the ocean is?” The whale
responded, “The ocean is what you are in now.” The shark would not
believe it. “Come on, tell me where the ocean is so I may find it!” The
whale repeated, “The ocean is here, now; you are in it.” Unbelieving,
the shark swam away searching for the ocean.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric">The
moral of the story, I believe, is this: don’t spend too much time
looking for God because the Spirit of God is here in the now of your
life, dwelling within you, within me, within this community. And that
truth is nurtured in prayer.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric">Susan M. Fleenor, The Indwelling Spirit of Pentecost</div>
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