Keys To Spirit Filled Living

I'm pretty sure that my message notes last Sunday is worth posting here, though this can't contain everything that blessed the congregation, I made sure that I jotted down the highlights of the message.

Title: Keys To Spirit Filled Living
Scriptures: Acts 1: 1-11, 20-26
Speaker: Ptr Manric Tan Pascual

Six Keys to Spirit Filled Life:

1. Proper Message

¹ In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach ² until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

-The spirit-filled life is not devorced, detached, seperated from God's word - the bible. We can't
have such if we don't give time to read the bible.
-If we teach our people to love God's word, that's half of the battle already.
-Merely hearing God's word thru our Pastor, our LG Leaders can't really sustain us. We need to
dive in ourselves into reading and meditating His word regularly.

2. Proper Manifestation

³ After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

Many Christians claim to be alive, but where's the proof? In times as this, the question is not anymore like this "Is it Real?" instead this "Does it show?" "Does it make any difference?"
The gospel need not only be heard but should also be seen in our lives.

3. Proper Might

⁴ On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. ⁵ For John baptized with^[a] water, but in a few days you will be baptized with^[b] the Holy Spirit.”

In the old testament, Genesis 22 told us the story about Abraham who was asked by God to sacrifice his son Isaac, he brought with him the wood, the fire and the sacrifice - Isaac who was later on substituted by a ram provided by God. Today, we still have the sacrifice - Jesus Christ, we still have the wood - the Cross but where's the fire (power)?

In spiritual sense, Christians should not be a fireman who cause other people's fire to die down, instead, we should be an arsonist who sets ourselves and other people on fire.

5. Proper Mission

⁸ But 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.”

-Ministry is good but discipleship is what we are called to do.
-Live for something that will outlast you and that's DISCIPLESHIP.
-In any other ministry, we always can fake it. Letting people see that we're ok, we're annointed,
but in discipleship, we never can fake it.

6. Proper Motivation

¹¹ “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.”

7. Proper Men (People)

²¹ Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us...

Men will always look for better methods, but God will always look for better men whom he can use.