PENTECOST PROMISES AND EASTER COMMANDS
“Through all this, the congregations grew stronger in faith and daily increased in numbers.” —Acts 16:5 Could you say that through this Easter season that “the congregations grew stronger in faith and daily increased in numbers”? If we don’t see Jesus adding daily to the Church’s number (Acts 2:47), it’s not that His promises are not true but that we are not receiving them. Jesus said: “I — once I am lifted up from earth — will draw all men to Myself” (Jn 12:32). Jesus has been lifted up in His death, Resurrection, and Ascension; therefore, we should see people...