Dear Family,
Today is Sunday, May 24, 2026. Today is Day 50 in our Count to Pentecost.
We come to the end of Counting the seven Weeks and the 50 Days of Counting. The Day of Pentecost had fully come.
Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Jesus promised His disciples that He would not leave them as orphans or alone or in need. He had been their Helper and Comforter, and now in His absence He would send another Helper, the Holy Spirit.
John 14:16-18 (16) And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; (17) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (18) I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
The word translated Comforter in the KJV and Helper in the NKJV; and, the same Greek word has other translations.
According to Adam Clarke‛s Commentary on John 14:16; The Greek word is paracletos signifies not only a comforter, but also an ‘advocate’, a ‘defender‛ of a cause, a ‘counsellor’, ‘patron’, ‘mediator’.
At that point Jesus’ disciples had the Holy Spirit with them; and, He told them, the Spirit would soon be in you (verse 17). This “Promise of the Father” would come to them on the Day of Pentecost.
Acts 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith He, ye have heard of Me.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Through the Holy Spirit, Jesus and the Father dwell with us, enabling us to produce fruit in our lives; spiritual fruit such as love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance (Galatians 5:22-23).
Let‛s also notice some things Jesus told His disciples He would do for them as well as some things He expected of His disciples to be doing.
- John 13:34-35 (34) A new commandment I give unto you; That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. (35) By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another
- John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
- John 15:10 If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.
- John 16:20-22 (20) Verily, verily, I say unto you; That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. (21) A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. (22) And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
- John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
During our 50 Days of Counting to Pentecost we have only scratched the surface of things we could have written about our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.
So, we close with these words of the Apostle John.
John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Happy Pentecost! May God Bless us all!
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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