Acts 2:1-7 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

Common men of no particular skills or training beyond having heard the Word of God, were now demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit. These were not prophets raised up and trained to serve God. They were fishermen for the most part. If God so chose to empower the lowliest of men with the Holy Spirit, there was hope for all mankind. That hope came in the way of a promises given by our Lord Himself.

Acts 2:32-33 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

All that God did in the Acts of the Apostles was to birth a new church in a time, place, and people that had to have strong signs and wonders to overcome the world they lived in.

Does the power of the Holy Spirit still abide in us today? Yes, but we are of a different time, a different place, a different people, and the Holy Spirit still enacts God’s plan in accordance with God’s will. We are an established body of Christ, matured in ways that God enacted in the epistles that followed Acts.