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Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington,

DC. Visit us online at Passion City Church dot com. Today's talk comes from

Pastor Louis Gaglia.

Welcome to Church. I know that that's been said already, but what an amazing day.

To be in God's house and I love this journey that we're on through the book of

Acts and just want to say a big shout out to Grant and Aaron for kickin' us off

last week and helping us see that we have a purpose. See this whole thing has a

purpose and the purpose is that we, as Jesus says in Acts 1-8, would receive

power and with that power we would able to be witnesses for Jesus on planet

earth. Here and everywhere is the way that Jesus said it. So we said wait until

you receive the promise of the Holy Spirit and then in that moment you're

gonna be activated to be my witnesses. Here in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and

ultimately here's our title to the ends of the earth. And so we're waiting for

power to do that thing that God has put us on earth to do and then we turn to

chapter 2 and the power arrives. And I love this chapter. I love what it's all

about. It's about the day that the Holy Spirit came on the followers of Jesus,

a day called Pentecost. And we actually celebrated Pentecost last Sunday when we

kicked off the series, but we come to Pentecost in the text on this Sunday. And I

think there could be an argument made that this day that we are in right now,

this day of Pentecost is the most important day on earth, the greatest day on

earth. You know, we've got a lot of hyperbole like Jeb a Good meal with friends

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