The Unexpected Coming
People have sermonized regarding what activates an outpouring of spiritual power to the Bride of Christ.
Some say we should get our “holiness” in order. I suppose you can sermonize that, since the disciples were obedient to stay in Jerusalem between Christ’s last directive and Pentecost, so you can call the obedience “holiness.”
But if you read Acts 2, nothing in the text regards either their obedience or holiness. What it does say is that they were “together, in one place.”
I personally don’t think it was about what the 120 did to be “ready for” or “bring on” the Holy Spirit. Because if you dig a little deeper and read about when Jesus sent out the twelve with power, it wasn’t because they “attained” some spiritual level to activate that power. In fact, to be honest, they returned from great power encounters arguing and acting immature.
Surely, holiness doesn’t hurt, and we need to be good vessels. But if there is any attribute, according to Acts 2, it should be “unity”… they were together, or as KJ reads, “in one accord.”
Is “unity” the secret ingredient to the next “Outpouring of Power”? I could make a better Biblical case for “unity” than either “holiness” or “maturity.”
Still, while we need to be ready, I don’t see anything we can “do” or “be” to activate the power of God.
