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UNIFORM Sunday School Lesson The Rev. Cecil M. Perry Pastor, Ridgecrest Baptist Church POWER FOR A WORLD MISSION Memory verse: Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you, and ye shall be come witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, &nd unto the utter most part of the earth.” 1:8. Our lessons this quarter deal with the growth of the early Christian group and the struggles against its natural and expected enemies. The first test is for a free and unhindered Gospel. The people who accepted and follow ed Jesus were also Jews, and deeply rooted in their religious prejudices, traditions, customs, and beliefs. And while they were con verted genuinely, they were slow to let go their former beliefs and practices The nthere was open op position. by the same group who had crucified Jesus But most of all was the unfinished business that Jesus had begun, the redemp tion of a lost world by the proper relating of the human soul to its divine Creator. How could so small, so weak, so unlearned, so poor a group carry on such an un believable undertaking’’ I. They were promised the power with which to carry on. (1) They had followed, accepted and believed Jesus in His earthly mission, and they stayed with Him all the way through the Ascension They saw’ His ascend bodily into heaven, as clearly as you and I see our loved ones depart from the airport. Once they are gone, the's are gone. "Now, what shall we do?" "How shall we do it?" "Who shall lead in the undertak ing?" (2) As everywhere else in His teaching He had left no word un said here either . . . "but tarry Tell the Qov/ernor the cow’s after kicking over the lantern and nrie barn’s on Fire!” Long Distance puts you in touch, Faster MRS. O'LEARY and her cow nearly burned up old Chicago. When the heat is on for you to close a business deal in Chicago —or tell big news to a friend in the next town —keep cool. Call Long Distance. It's fast. Easy. And costs so little. It's Twice As Fast to Call by Number SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ve in the upper room, in Jerusu iem. until you are clothed with power from on hi^h . As a w sr rior put on his' armour so the Christian was to be clothed with superhuman power of uod to fight God s battles on earth. (3) He asked them to carry out a world mission, and at the same time offered the power necessary thereto a First. He drew their attention away from purely n.=. tional. racial, political interests from times” and "seasons Ho said these concerns are Gods, yours, and as such they should bo left there by all Christians Jesus REFUSED to answer their quest ion therebv labeling it as not es semial to what He had command id them to do. b. Then He focused their attention on the thin-' that would prepare them to receive the power that was necessary to doing God's command, which is their chief concern and main business. c. The business of the Christian is to bear witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as God's redemption, not to speculate on when He is coming back to see how well each has served. II. Preparing to Receive the power. (1) Front the ascension they went back to study tread the Old Testament) to meditate, to pray, in absolute obedience to His last words. (2) They were TOGETHER. Our separatness is the sin of all churches, denominations, even in dividuals. and thereby our utter weakness. (3) "Thev were ALL. with ONE ACCORD, in ONE PLACE"! This is the tragedy of every church in America! We are NEVER in any one of these three conditions, to say nothing of all of them. Yet they are the REQLTIRED essent ials to the first thing in Christ ianity. (4) This does not mean "The Twelve", but the entire Christian group, men and women, many of whom were called by name. In cidentally this is the last time "Mary, the Mother of Jesus" is mentioned in the New Testament. But the story of the Church is filled with these same names to the end of the New Testament. III. The Promise of power ful filled in power: The coming of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:1-4. (1) This event, known generally as The Day of Pentecost, ranks along with the birth of Christ, the Resurrection, and Atonement, as pivotal in the events of history. (2) As Jesus entered history through birth, when The Word be came flesh, so He entered human ity in the Holy Spirit, to carry on His Kingdom’s work. (3) Jesus fixed this event as the PERMANENT BASIS on which ALL Christians in all ages of the world are to do His work. (4) ONLY spirit-led. Spirit powered people can do His work. If any other kind of person could, (hen we would not have needed Him in the first place. (5) "They were ALL filled”. Phis is the secret of the Church’s life, work, unity, and witness. God does not intend that part of :he congregation be Spirit-led and part not But. those who are not present can not be participators, for they were NOT there, so do not know. So they become agi tators and exterminators seeking to defeat what the ones who do KNOW what God wants done. (6) Let us remember that this "speaking with tongues” was given one one occasion only, by 3 Business --- Professional — Service DIRECTORY r?VE TEMPER - SAVE TROUBLE | SAVE TIME - 6 ^ IVL T • WHERE TO EAT ANN’S CAFE Cherry St. — Black Mountain HOME COOKING We Fix Dinners To Go. PHONE 9220 VARSITY GRILL 108 W. 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(7) Incidentally this Pentecost experience is a bit hard on the segregationists, as Christianity be gan formerly on a HUMANITY basis, not racial. IV. The First use of this power. (1) It made them “of one blood in Christ" . . . HIS blood, “where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision, uncircumcision, Sy cithian, slave, nor free, but where CHRIST IS ALL, and IN all”. (2) It could be that this Pente cost occasion is PROPHETIC as well as historic. For today there are very few dialects, and no languages, in which the Bible in some portion at least, can not be read. So NOW we can all hear in our own language wherein we were born “The wondrous words of God". (3) This Power is here first used to WITNESS, a weak, scared, faltering, even denying disciple. Simon Clay becomes Peter Stone, and face to face with those who crucified Jesus he accused, proved and condemned them UNAFRAID. (4) Then he turned and preach ed forgiveness and repentance to them, his own, as well as God’s through Christ v 29 following, (5) The points of his sermon were: a. Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah. b. You crucified Him but God raised Him up. e. His miracles and teachings were dem onstrated in your presence, d. And now He is at the Right Hand of God seeking forgiveness for all who ask it. e. Why do you not repent? (6) The promised power was not only manifest in Peter’s preach ing but in its effect on the hear ers, for he drove home to their hearts their own guilt in all that had happened, and they owned it as true. (7) The result of this power is seen in the conversion to Christ of “about 3,000 souls”. And this is what Jesus had told them to do in the first place, and that it would work out this way. V. Application Today. The power needed by the Mis ionary witnessing to a heathen on the other side of the world, is no different from the power I need with my neighbor next door. Our ignorance of the power of the Holy Spirit is due to the fact that we never undertake anything beyond human power, therefore never have occasion to experience divine power as promised. This offer of the Holy Spirit's power is to EVERY Christian, not to those few whom we sometimes designate as in “special Christian service”. SHOPE CREEK By Mrs. Thelma Buckner Rt. 2 — Asheville, N. C. (March 28) The calendar announces Spring, but there continues to be a chill in the atmosphere with occasion al snow flurries. Saturday we had rain, sleet and snow. Bob Hunter of Riceville and Miss Janice Bishop were on their way to church Sunday morning when a car pulled out of a side road, end to avoid a collision. Bob hit a b; ok. He and Miss Bishop received cuts and bruises which required some stitches. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fuller of Singing Water. They are the parents of a daugh ter, bom Sunday, March 25. They have two other children. After a cruise to Cuba, Wilbur G. Creasman is spending a seven day leave at home with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Creas man. Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Nichols and Wayne were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Nichols and mother Mrs. Mary Nichols at dinner Sun day. Visitors in the Troy Gragg home recently included 'Mr and Mrs. Clyde Hyatt of Asheville Mrs. Rosa Gaddy, Evelyn, Junior,’ Eddie, Daniel and family, Mrs ™ll!,'5S anti daughter, all of flat Creek, and Fred Wvatt of Lake \ lew terrace. Born to Mr. and Mr- p H Jaokson of Riceville road, aV,n -Frozen foods about 5 per cent of the total sale of chain retail food stores and somewhat less for independent stores, according to USD A I ASTHMA COUGHS Don't let dlfllcult brTathliuT » * • a# »“<» »h'«lng, due to recurrmf' rCcuVaog Bronchial Asthma or sim[£® ‘p“vr,s 0i rum y°ur aleep and enerer »,,wBronchltis MHTOAOO. Work. thTough tr*‘ —< loosen and remov. Wood Permits freer breathing and .1, '?* ‘“It Get UZNDACO under •ntea at druggists. *T gum 4 Flower Season In WNC Will Start Middle of April With the first wane te® • spring blowing - " ' . ' * hills, that fam.'-j rv.rx v about Western ; • n*">- *a comes to nstnc •Twill nos re :'4 • ' ; the bull bat :r tine idL And in :be vtik? through the dusk, the pjkS.ra. whippoorwill. A few more friendly suns will call the bluets through the loam. And star the lanes with butter cups, away down home." The second week in April will see the wild flower season get under way in earnest in Western North Carolina. The many attract ive spring-blooming ground flow ers will make a showy spread or the forest floor during this per iod. Some of the well known are: Wild Geranium (purple). Fire Pink (red), Columbine (red) Bellwort (yellow), Merrybells vellow), Dutchman’s Breeche: 'white and yellow), Bluets (blue) Larkspur (purple). Showy Trilliun (white), Fringed Toothwort (lav I— BROAD R!VER H° ^LUB guest at BLUE mist The Br0iR,mc,HSy after th?hTeF°fM KirsSandM. with Mrs. r- . hostessc Kjnte’n sen. ns * dur Mrs Katie Kir>t in I Rpa Moore inC ‘hH the^ meeting with a deyo opened the men* * m;e Sue Fvan’ gave a most 'informative program on The Importance of Freezing \ egetables . (he Refreshments carry"'- Those «rr k M Kirstein. Mrs Ray Kirstein Mrs. Moore. Mrs Roy Marlow. Mrs Leslie Mm-tow. Mr^ Hestella Wheelon. Mrs tharie. Fortune Mrs Evans, and Mrs Tarbert Two small guests were present. Sandra and Janice I Geniry Finishes Special School Marine MSgt. Robert F. Gentry, .Jr., son of Mrs. Mildred Buchanan of Black Mountain, was grauated Feb. 10 from the 2nd Marine Di vision’s Non-Commissioned Offi cer Leadership school, Camp Le jeune, N. C. The four-week course covered military tactics, military bearing, leadership and the use of in fantry weapons. endar), Spring Beauty (pink and white). Bloodroot (white). Early blooming trees and shrubs attract attention. Among these are the Hobble-bush, found on the Parkway from Dome Gap to Bal sam Gap: the Shadblow; the flow ering Dogwood: and the treasured Silver Bell tree which is in abund ance near Mount Mitchell Another Cowering tree i- the Fraser Mag -olia. with its large creamy wax hke fiowers. found near Mount Mitchel and on the Wagon Road Gap section of the Parkway. During the first two weeks of May. the flame Azalea will start a colorful display at the lower elevations. The Mountain Laurel will staid to bloom during this period, and there is a large dis play on the Parkway from Oteen to Craven Gap. All indications point to an outstanding season for all the wild flowers this year. The Pink Azalea found on the Wagon Road Gap section should be at its best during the first part . of May. 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