”But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”“

GOLD NUGGETS

Suppose there had been no Holy Spirit?

Then we would have been faced with a religion in which there was little energy".

We would have the four Gospels without the Upper Room – distinctive, but not dynamic.

Take Mark's Gospel, for example; if there had been no Day of Pentecost, the message of Christ would have ended with these words: " Then they went out and fled from to the tomb for trembling and bewilderment and consternation had seized them.

And they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were held by alarm and fear" (Mark 16:8, Amplified Bible).

What a sad plight we would all be in if the message of Christ had ended there. The resurrection had taken place, the whole of the redemptive process was complete, and the gladdest news that had ever burst upon human ears was in the possession of the disciples – but "they said nothing about it to anyone, because they were held by alarm and fear.

If Christianity had ended there, it would not have been a gospel that conquered the world. No amount of good information could have transformed those early disciples.

Someone (something) else was needed – the Holy Spirit.

May He fill us and give us new energy to tell the story of the gospel.

Remain Blessed
✍FRANK D APPIAH