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Tongues of fire…. speaking in “different tongues,” supposedly drunk apostles!\u00a0 Pentecost- we’ve heard the story so many times.\u00a0 But what does it all mean?\u00a0 Is it relevant to us? What does the coming of the Holy Spirit mean to us in our day and age?
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Click the below “Play” button and scroll down to follow along (the recording is from the 9:30\u00a0 service)…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The scripture was Acts 2:1-13.\u00a0 Click the following Drop Down box to follow along.\u00a0 Pastor Jim read from The Living Bible.\u00a0 The New Living Translation (NLT) is shown below.
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Acts 2:1-13<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t

1 On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place.<\/p>\n

2 Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting.<\/p>\n

3 Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them.<\/p>\n

4 And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.<\/p>\n

5 At that time there were devout Jews from every nation living in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

6 When they heard the loud noise, everyone came running, and they were bewildered to hear their own languages being spoken by the believers.<\/p>\n

7 They were completely amazed. “How can this be?” they exclaimed. “These people are all from Galilee,<\/p>\n

8 and yet we hear them speaking in our own native languages!<\/p>\n

9 Here we are\u2014Parthians, Medes, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, the province of Asia,<\/p>\n

10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the areas of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism),<\/p>\n

11 Cretans, and Arabs. And we all hear these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done!”<\/p>\n

12 They stood there amazed and perplexed. “What can this mean?” they asked each other.<\/p>\n

13 But others in the crowd ridiculed them, saying, “They’re just drunk, that’s all!”<\/p>\n

Holy Bible, New Living Translation \u00ae, copyright \u00a9 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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God’s Plan isn’t Complete Without Pentecost!<\/span><\/h3>\n

Christmas and Easter are really important.\u00a0 If Christ weren’t born and if He didn’t rise from the tomb, we couldn’t be saved from our sin.\u00a0 But something else is really important too- Pentecost!\u00a0 If the Holy Spirit never came God’s plan of salvation could never be complete.<\/p>\n

Our salvation and redemption swing on the following 7 hinges:<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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