Before Pentecost the apostles had given up much for [[Jesus]]. They had sacrificed their homes, families, friends, worldly goods, and positions. At Pentecost they gave themselves to [[God]], and the Father and the Son responded by giving themselves to man--sending their spirits to live within men. This [[experience]] of losing self and finding the [[spirit]] was not one of '''emotion'''; it was an act of intelligent self-surrender and unreserved consecration.[http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper194.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper194.html&line=108#mfs] | Before Pentecost the apostles had given up much for [[Jesus]]. They had sacrificed their homes, families, friends, worldly goods, and positions. At Pentecost they gave themselves to [[God]], and the Father and the Son responded by giving themselves to man--sending their spirits to live within men. This [[experience]] of losing self and finding the [[spirit]] was not one of '''emotion'''; it was an act of intelligent self-surrender and unreserved consecration.[http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper194.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper194.html&line=108#mfs] |