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Fires of Revival
The Pentecost - Fire of Revival
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We the People of Truth, welcome you to join us as we celebrate the Lord’s Feast of Pentecost. It is a time of refreshing from the Lord, the time for Fires of Revival to the infilling of His saints. Let us gather in one accord expecting a mighty outpouring from the Lord.
Services: May 25th-28th 2023 Thursday - Saturday 7:00 PM Sunday 10:00 AM
Bible Discussion: Friday - Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:00PM
Sunday 12:00 PM Fellowship Dinner
Presiding Over the Services
Moderator Bishop Joel McNabb
Minister of Worship Bishop David McNabb Deacon David Allen
Deacon Larry Danko
Deacon Randy Ketcherside
“And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people” (Luke 3:15-18).
John illustrates this submission to the Messiah with his statement about sandals: "whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose." Jewish servants were not required to perform the menial duty of unfastening their master's sandals, only non-Jewish slaves. But John says that he isn't even as worthy as a foreign slave to perform this service. He isn't in the same league as the Messiah. But the most striking comparison John makes between his ministry and the Messiah's is in terms of baptism.
"I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed (enduō) with power (dunamis) from on high." (Luke 24:49).
"Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water (hydati), but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit (en pneumati hagio).... But you will receive power (dunamis) when the Holy Spirit comes on (epechomai) you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." (Acts 1:4, 5, 8; see 11:15-16)
The baptism in the Holy Spirit is what Pentecostal Christians frequently refer to as our distinctive doctrine. Notice I said distinctive, not better. Can someone go to heaven without being baptized in the Spirit? Yes! But I’ve found that living in this distinctive empowerment makes the journey to heaven so much more productive and joyful.
After the resurrection of Jesus, everything took on a whole new meaning, because the “light” had been turned on in the Old Testament palace. All of the practices that Jews had been observing for thousands of years suddenly had a new illumination in the New Testament.
Pentecost had always been a celebration 50 days following the Passover. In the Old Testament, the law was given from Sinai on the fiftieth day after the deliverance from Egypt, so in a sense, the appearance of God on Sinai was the birthday of the Jewish nation. In the New Testament, the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the first Pentecost after Jesus ascended to heaven was the birthday of the Christian nation for all people.
One of our foundational truths says: “All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church.”
And another foundational truth is a corollary: “The baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is witnessed by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives them utterance.”
God has always confirmed His presence with signs and wonders. From the signs in Egypt to convince Pharaoh that Jehovah was greater than the Egyptian gods to the ministry of Jesus. In fact, Peter said that the signs and wonders done by Jesus were God’s authentication of His ministry (see Luke 5:17-26; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38).
In the last days we wait the Fire of Revival of the Spirit to reveal God’s work and to finish all that He has promised, to spread the Fires of Revival throughout the land. Are you ready the Revival for God to come?
THURSDAY
OPENING PRAYER: BRO JOEL MCNABB
PRAISE & WORSHIP:BRO DAVID ALLEN
IN THE BEGINNING
HE’S THE GLORY AND THE LIFTER
I’M SINGING WONDERFUL
HIGHER GROUND 321
THE HALLELUJAH SIDE 469
SHOUT TO THE LORD
WE BRING THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE
EXHORTATION:BRO JASON MCNABB
WORSHIP IN OFFERING: IN THE BEGINNING
SPECIAL:ANGEL MCNABB
DAVID MCNABB
SERMON:BRO JOEL MCNABB
Fires of Revival
FRIDAY
PRAISE & WORSHIPBRO JASON MCNABB
WHAT A MIGHTY GOD
WE BRING THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE
LET GOD ARISE
I WILL ARISE AND GO FORTH
DEEPER 322
STANDING ON THE SOLID ROCK
BLOW YE THE TRUMPET
EXHORTATION:BRO JOEL MCNABB
SONGS:
SPEACIAL:SIS HANNAH MCNABB
TESTIMONY:SIS MELISSA DANKO
SPECIAL:JOSH GARCIA
SERMON:BRO LARRY DANKO
Fires of Revival
SATURDAY
PRAISE & WORSHIPBRO JASON MCNABB
WHO’S REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE SHINE JESUS SHINE
KEEP ON THE FIRING LINE
HIGHER GROUND 321
THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD 173
HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
SPECIALS:JOSH GARCIA
TESTIMONIES:
EXHORTATION:SIS PAULA ALLEN
SPECIALS:BRO DAVID MCNABB
SERMON:BRO DAVID ALLEN
Fires of Revival
PRAISE & WORSHIP:BRO JOEL MCNABB
TAKE ME INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES WHEN I THINK OF THE GOODNESS - HE SAVED ME I FEEL GOOD
ISN’T HE WONDERFUL IN THE BEGINNING WHAT A MIGHTY GOD KEEP ON THE FIRING LINE
10,000 REASONS (BLESS THE LORD)
BATTLE HYMN 494
OFFERING: LORD I LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIGH
EXHORTATION:
SPECIAL:JOSH GARCIA ORDER MY STEPS
SERMON:BRO DAVID MCNABB