Pentecost: The Same Power as Jesus pt.2 - June 23, 2024

Riverbluff Church Sermons

This past Wednesday our nation celebrated “Juneteenth”! The holiday, with it’s name derived by combining the month “June” and the ordinal number “nineteenth”, became a national holiday in 2021. While Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day and Jubilee Day has only been celebrated nationally for a few years, it has actually been celebrated since 1866, starting one year after General Gordon Granger publicly read “General Order Number 3” in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865. General Order Number 3 began: “The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer.” While the proclamation became law of the land in 1865, it would be many, many years before the freedoms and equities described in the proclamation would begin to become reality. Proving that proclamations must be followed by hard work! In the Four Gospels and in the Book of Acts, JESUS proclaimed the coming of the HOLY SPIRIT in power; detailing how the HOLY SPIRIT would empower the followers of JESUS to live supernatural lives in the Kingdom of GOD in the here and now. JESUS also told us, that we’d have work to do, to live in that power. The HOLY SPIRIT is always willing and ready to do His part. The question is, “Will we do our part that we might once again see the mighty works of the HOLY SPIRIT in our lives, our homes, our church, our neighborhoods, and our nation?” In this message, Pastor Joe Still looks to the scriptures for “our part” of partnering with the HOLY SPIRIT to see Him moving in Power!