And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard from me:
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talking for the last four Sundays about freedom. We've been in this theme, this thought that there's a lot of people that know God but are not free. And we've been studying this. If you missed out, I want you to go back and listen to these messages because it is the heart and the will of God for you to be free. Somebody say amen. And so this is the climactic conclusion. And at the end of this service today, anybody that would like to receive prayer, our prayer team is going to come up front. And if you'd like prayer today, we're going to pray for people at the end of the service because we are finishing today also, not just our series, but today is the end of 21 days of prayer and fasting. Come on, clap for everybody that did the fast. And I don't know what you fasted, but I will be, if you want to join me at about 930 tonight, I will be at the Marina del Rey Bacio del Latte getting three scoops of gelato because man, have I missed ice cream. But we're going to, we always at the end of our fast, we always pray for people to be anointed for what God has for you next. I'm just convinced God's got a bigger plan than you do. I'm just convinced God's got better stuff for you than you got for yourself. Anybody believe it today? …
… So I've got to dance around a couple subjects first. So in Acts chapter 1, verse 4, he said, And being assembled together, this is obviously after the resurrection and before the day of Pentecost, which is in Acts chapter 2. Being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, you have heard from me. For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now. What I'm trying to do with this is in Luke 24, verse 49, he said, I send the promise of my Father, stay till you're clothed with power. Acts chapter 1, he says, you will receive the promise of the Father, the clothing of power of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I'm just trying to make the connection between the promise of the Father and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Acts chapter 3, we'll find a place to land this thought in just a heartbeat here. In Acts chapter 3, Jesus was raised from the dead he says he is exalted at the right hand of God having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit which he poured out on the people in Acts chapter 2 and he says this that you see and hear so there was a visible manifestation and there was a hearing audible manifestation of this outpouring of the Holy Spirit alright …
10. “But, however, in other places,” continue the objectors, “Solomon does assert plainly, ‘There is no man that sinneth not;’ (1 Kings 8:46; 2 Chron. 6:36; ) yea, “There is not a just man upon earth that doeth good, and sinneth not.’ (Eccles. 7:20.)” I answer, Without doubt, thus it was in the days of Solomon. Yea, thus it was from Adam to Moses, from Moses to Solomon, and from Solomon to Christ. There was then no man that sinned not. Even from the day that sin entered into the world, there was not a just man upon earth that did good and sinned not, until the Son of God was manifested to take away our sins. It is unquestionably true, that “the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant.” [Gal. 4:1] And that even so they (all the holy men of old, who were under the Jewish dispensation) were, during that infant state of the Church, “in bondage under the elements of the world.” [Gal. 4:3] “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that they might receive the adoption of sons;” [Gal. 4:4] — that they might receive that “grace which is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.” (2 Tim. 1:10.) Now, therefore, they “are no more servants, but sons.” [see Gal. 4:7] So that, whatsoever was the case of those under the law, we may safely affirm with St. John, that, since the gospel was given, “he that is born of God sinneth not.” [1 John 5:18] …