Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from,

we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

We are in a series called Passover to Pentecost,

50 Days to Change the World, and those 50 days are divided into two sections,

40 days and 10 days. 40 days Jesus was on the earth after His resurrection.

10 days they were waiting for the promise of the Holy Spirit.

That's the 50 days. So the title of this message is called waiting for the promise.

Now when I ask you a question, you can raise your hand if you want to

ever campus, every gateway gathering, everyone online. How many of you have ever

waited for something? Can I? Okay, that's like the death rate, 100%.

How many of you have ever waited for someone? Can I see it? How many of you the person you've

waited for is sitting beside you? Can I just, I just wanted some interesting conversation

in the car on the way home. Now you don't have to raise your hands on this because you would

all raise your hands, but the next question would be how many of you have ever waited on

God to do something? Yeah, all of us, right? Can I want to give you a theological truth?

Y'all know I'm a theologian, love theology. Let me just give you a theological truth

to help you as you wait on God. God owns everything except a watch.

God. God does not have a watch. I gave him one year for Christmas

and he threw it in the ocean. You know those, you hear about scuba divers finding watches

on the bottom of the ocean floor? Those are the watches that God throws away that people gives him.

God does not have a watch, but

he's never late. He's never late. So we're going to talk about these 10 days and I'm going to tell

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