English Sermon: Wait For His Power

Wait For His Power

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
— Acts 1:5, 8 (ESV)
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
— Acts 10:38 (ESV)

Sunday Sermon: Because of Grace

Because of Grace

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
— 1 Corinthians 15:10 (ESV)
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
— 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (ESV)
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,
— 2 Timothy 2:1 (ESV)

English Sermon: Praise

Praise

  1. Barak - To kneel down, to bless God as an act of adoration, to salute.

  2. Halal - To be clear, to praise, to shine, to boast, show, to rave, celebrate, to be clamorously foolish.

  3. Shabach - To shout, to address in a loud tone, to command, to triumph.

  4. Tehillah - The singing of halals, to sing or to laud; perceived to involve music, especially singing; hymns of the Spirit or praise.

  5. Towdah - An extension of the hand in adoration, avowal, or acceptance, thanking God for things not yet received as well as things already at hand.

  6. Yadah - The extended hand, to throw out the hand, therefore to worship with extended hand, to lift the hands.

  7. Zamar - To pluck the strings of an instrument, to sing, to praise; a musical word which is largely involved with joyful expressions of music with musical instruments.