This Week’s Experience – 5/31/2020

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For the full story of all that happened on the day of Pentecost, read Acts chapter 2.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

-Luke 24:31-32

Read Ezekiel chapters 1-3 to see how what happens at Pentecost was foretold many years before.

“All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

 -John 2:19

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;  you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

-1 Corinthians 6:19-20

The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you.

-Romans 8:11

The story of the Tower of Babel can be found in Genesis 11:1-9

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

-Romans 12:2

You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special peculiar people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

 -1 Peter 2:9

See the ME*TRADE series from March 2011 for info on how better thinking leads to better decision making, which leads to better outcomes.

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

-Proverbs 13:20

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

-Ephesians 6:12

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.

-Philippians 2:3

LIFE APPLICATION
To discuss during the week with your family or Life Group

1.     Why is it important to know God’s Will?

2.     When you discover His will for your life is it for your participation or your consideration?

3.     How often to you read and study God’s Word for yourself? Is this what you’d like?  If no, who can help you to understand it better and hold you accountable for doing it more?

4.     Are you in a Life Group?  Why is having other followers of Jesus that you are doing life deeply together with so important?

5.     What is your next step as a result of this message?