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Ezekiel 33
God has put a burden on my heart to share the message of His precious gift of the Holy Spirit baptism with as many churches that He will open the doors to.
I am going to do this at a small church about an hour from my house this coming Sunday. As I was thinking about this message on the way to work this morning, I got a picture of a husband handing his wife a present and her handing it back and saying "No thanks, don't want it" to him. I will probably use that as an illustration this Sunday.
That is what a huge portion of the church has done today. "No thanks, I don't want your gift" or "I don't want that, it's from the devil!" How would you as a husband or wife feel if this happened in your marriage?
And yet, many Christians have done just that. And I ask, if Jesus told His first disciples to wait a few days for this so that they would receive power to be His witnesses, how dare we in a world 2000 years darker believe that we can really be His witnesses without the power that He said we need?
This is having a form of godliness but denying the power. And that is where the foolish virgins are at today. The church has been awakened, yet only some of them have the oil. What are we to do about it?
We are to become true disciples of Jesus!!! "Make disciples of every nation, teaching them to observe all the things that I have commanded you." One of those things that Jesus commanded was to wait for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.