The Fire of the Holy Ghost
--Joey Kelly

Matt 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:
  therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
  and cast into the fire.

Matt 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:
  but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
  whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
  he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Matt 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor,
  and gather his wheat into the garner;
  but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.



I. Israel's time of visitation: their stewardship called to account
Pharisees' misuse of religious power to be judged by the Lord

Matthew 21:33-46  the parable of the householder and his vineyard

Luke 14:16-24     the parable of the great supper (gentiles)

Acts18:6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed,
  he shook his raiment, and said unto them,
  Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean:
  from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.




II. The inner work resulting from the baptism in the Holy Spirit
Peter on the day of Pentecost
King Saul: 1Samuel 10:6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee,
  and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

progressional sactification, fruit of the spirit, brokenness

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother,
  and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters,
  yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Matt 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters,
  or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake,
  shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Luke 14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross,
`and come after me, cannot be my disciple.



III. The Great Commission and the winnowing of lost souls
Acts 1:8
quote Charles Scott, General Bishop of PCG

Luke 2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?
  wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain:
  let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh,
  for it is nigh at hand;
Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of
  thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people
  and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more
  after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joel 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth:
  the land is as the garden of Eden before them,
  and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.