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SERMON NOTES
Saturday/Sunday, May 27/28, 2023 – Pastor Kischnick
THEME: “What Does This Mean?” TEXT: Acts 2:1-21
INTRO. Don’t know what might happen – PW absent on Pentecost. 18 years ago was absent, told never again! Beickman “dry” baptism, Tim Crockett; Garron Jenkins “candle chase”; never-ending child message; balloon assassin! So we’ll see. Weird things happen on Pentecost!
I. PENTECOST GONE WILD!
ILLUST. Ads for DVD “Girls Gone Wild” – drunken…Apostles, too!
A. The Scene in the Upper Room:
1. Sound of wind. 2. Tongues of “fire”. 3. “Ah-ha!” 4. Languages.
B. The Scene out in the streets:
1. A Holy-day crowd from around the Empire.
2. In their own languages they hear the Good News (Gospel).
3. There’s wonder and a hubbub: “They’ve had too much wine!”
C. Peter’s masterpiece sermon.
D. Baptisms by the thousands!
II. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
ILLUST. Luther’s Small Catechism echoes those words.
A. The Spirit brings everything into focus – what, why, and now what?
B. Birthday of the Church – jump-started and unstoppable
C. The Apostles were equipped with “power from on high”.
1. These are changed men from that moment forward.
2. No looking back or running for cover.
3. Absolutely sure of their mission and calling.
III. THE MEANING FOR US TODAY
A. The same SPIRIT:
1. Moses: “I wish that God would put his Spirit on all his people…”
2. Joel: “I will pour out my Spirit on all people…”
B. The same CHURCH:
1. Generation to generation: teach your children as your parents did
for you and your grandparents did for them and so on and so on.
2. Family tree + “Faith Tree” > Confirmed by PK > by VJ Spiekerman >
Ps. Haberman > Ps. Schultze > Ps. Bierlein > etc., etc., etc.
C. The same COMMISSION:
1. Be my witnesses: tell what you know – the Truth, the whole
Truth, nothing but the Truth.
2. Make disciples, baptize, teach.
CLOSE: Tim Crockett, elder, Sunday Evening Service – light candles, stops, turns, “What ELSE can happen today?” Never know. Weird & Wonderful!
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My Dear Friends in Christ,
A heartfelt word of appreciation to you for your love, your gifts, your kind words, the luncheon, the video, the barrel of monkeys, the ape-filled chocolate kiss, the flowers, the “Tiny Bruce” song, the Tiny Bruce that’s in my office and creeps me out, and 30 years of your partnership in the Gospel. There’s nowhere else I’d rather have been and no people I’d rather serve. I am privileged to be your pastor, and I love you all!
I thank God every time I remember you in my prayers…” and I pray for your continued health in faith and in life.
Pastor K. – Psalm 16:8