Lonnell Williams

Come hell or high water, you best believe.

I don't need life to keep life and I'm going to be all right.

And this is the problem.

Some of us are not sorry we sinned.

We are sorry it surfaced.

We are not grieved that we offended God.

We are grieved that the consequences have found us.

Regret says, how do I get out of this?

But repentance is, how do I get back to him?

See, pain can make you cry, but only repentance can make you come back home.

Come home.

And here's the thing about conviction and repentance.

Conviction without repentance leaves you aware but unchanged.

Repentance without conviction becomes behavior modification without surrender.

So you can feel one without fully walking in the other, but you cannot have holiness without having both.

And then Peter says, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Now, this is not referring to the gifts of the spiritual gifts, but the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

This is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

The same spirit that fell on the 120 in the upper room is the same spirit that's going to be promised to eventually the 3,000 that were congregated.

So when the Holy Spirit falls, you just got to be ready.