 From Message – God’s Energizer, The Holy Spirit  Acts 1:4 – 5,8 ●You will be baptized with the Holy Spirit ●You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you ●You will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere  From Message – God’s Energizer, The Holy Spirit  Acts 1:4 – 5,8 ●You will be baptized with the Holy Spirit ●You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you ●You will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere

 Wild Goose Chase – rediscover the adventure of pursuing God  Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit An Geadh-Glas “The Wild Goose”  Wild Goose Chase – rediscover the adventure of pursuing God  Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit An Geadh-Glas “The Wild Goose”

 John 3:8 The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”

 Six reasons that keep us from roaming free with the Wild Goose and living dangerously for the cause of Christ ●Responsibility ●Routine ●Assumptions ●Guilt ●Failure ●Fear  Six reasons that keep us from roaming free with the Wild Goose and living dangerously for the cause of Christ ●Responsibility ●Routine ●Assumptions ●Guilt ●Failure ●Fear

 AFCM – riding the waves of the Holy Spirit

Living for Adventure

I. Peter’s Wild Goose Chase  Acts 3 and 4 ●This man healed in Jesus’ name – the one you crucified, but was raised from the dead ●Taken before the council ●Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, speaks to them ●Obey God or man? – we can’t stop telling what we’ve seen and heard  Acts 3 and 4 ●This man healed in Jesus’ name – the one you crucified, but was raised from the dead ●Taken before the council ●Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, speaks to them ●Obey God or man? – we can’t stop telling what we’ve seen and heard

II. See it to Believe it?  2 Corinthians 4:18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. ●Assumptions - We stop living with right- brained imagination and start living in left- brained reason  2 Corinthians 4:18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. ●Assumptions - We stop living with right- brained imagination and start living in left- brained reason

 1 Corinthians 2: That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” 10But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. 11No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. 12And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.

 Seeing the Unseen – 2 Kings 6:8-23

III. Taken Captive?  Colossians 2: And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. 7Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. 8Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.

 Living for Adventures with God being led by the God’s Energizer, the Holy Spirit Or – living in captivity of human reasoning missing the big adventures God has for you

 Running scared for your life as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death Or – start playing offense with our lives

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