Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Acts 2:1-13

Heading Toward Pentecost
A Good Heart These Days Is Hard To Find
Acts 2:1-13

What we need is transformation. We need less of the “have-to”, and more of the “want-to”.

The giving of the Law meant that the nation was ready to grow up and be productive.

That is, the Law, all the commandments given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai really did nothing to set us free.

For the person who has truly met Christ, Pentecost means that our hearts are changed.

He gives us a new heart. And He lives there in that good heart.

It means freedom and joy and hope and peace and intimacy with God.

Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Acts 2:1-13

Heading Toward Pentecost
We Are Not Alone
Acts 2:1-13

What a difference! News of defeat turned to news of triumph.

I would like to spend the next few weeks looking at this passage of Scripture. There is much that can be said about Pentecost.

Pentecost was one of 3 pilgrim festivals–that is, when all Jewish men were required to travel to Jerusalem with sacrifices and offerings.

Christianity is really about God coming to us.

We know we don’t belong here, and we won’t be here long either. But we are meant to come faithfully to find God.

Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Matthew 28:1-10

A Journey of Confession and Repentance
The Promise of Easter
Matthew 28:1-10

I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the three promises of Easter. Each promise is marked by emptiness: the empty cross, the empty tomb, and the empty burial clothes.

Do not think for a moment that they did not have absolute knowledge that Jesus was very dead when they took Him from the cross.

In short, because the cross is empty, we have the full promise of eternal glory with God.

He had risen and the tomb was empty! Do we realize just how much promise that empty tomb gives us?

For, in the knowledge of the empty tomb we find the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the promise to every one of us that we too can be raised to eternal life.

And the promise of that empty tomb is that we can also live after we die.

Inside the tomb were the empty burial clothes, and it was in the emptiness of the burial clothes that they found they could still have the promise of personal fellowship with the Lord Jesus.