We have lost Pentecost – Why the church must wake up before the nation can

Ruth 1:1-6; 1 Peter 4:17; Acts 2:17; 2 Chronicles 4:17

What would it be like to be a bakery with no bread? What is the church like without the Holy Spirit? Is there bread in the church today The Bible speaks about bread as being essential to life. It also speaks of bread as a symbol of God’s presence. Is God’s presence in the church? Yes God is omnipresent and yes, He is everywhere, but is He near? Do you know the manifest presence of God?

Ruth 1:1-6 – God’s people did what was right in their own eyes. We live in a similar time. Naomi had left Bethlehem seeking bread and was returning to Bethlehem (the house of bread) to get bread. Is this a prophetic picture of the church today. We advertise that the presence of God is in the church, but do people find Him when they come? Does it result in people coming to know God? If not they will go elsewhere to fill the God shaped hole within them. It is only the presence of God that changes lives. Is the world so dark because the church is so dim? When the church is alive the nation prospers. Revival is the answer to the world being so dark.

1 Peter 4:17 – God will judge everyone for how they have lived and it will begin with the church. Time here means a moment when the alarm is sounding – it is NOW. More and more people are doing what is right in their own eyes today and an alarm is sounding for the church right now. Are we cancelling out the noise of what the church at large is like right now? Is there no bread in the house? Have we lost Pentecost?

There is no bread in the house. How have we reached this point as a church? Are we quenching the Holy Spirit?

Acts 2:17 – Peter explains what should be happening now. We are in the last days now.

We need the Holy Spirit on us and not just in us. Romans 8:9-11; Acts 19; 1:8.

Are we normal or abnormal? “Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, He would be considered abnormal” (Leonard Ravenhill).

How do we get bread in the house? God only gives bread to the hungry. Are we so full of other things that we are no longer hunger?

There is more. How much do we want Him?