He enjoys hunting, travel and reading and spending time with his grandchildren. Thus, whether it was the selection of leaders or making important doctrinal distinctions, the Holy Spirit played a key role from Pentecost on. It is the ideal to which every subsequent church period has wished to be able to emulate, including ours today. The church acknowledged the leading of the Spirit and laid their hands on these men, and then sent them off. I believe the first chapter of Acts could be titled Before, because it precedes Pentecost in chapter two, and from there on it is definitely after. While we may be eager to get to Pentecost, let us pause long enough to consider Lukes introduction to the Book of Acts and to the transforming power of Pentecost. A fellowship, a community, prayer, sharing food together, much like we do today. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up," and this is through the account here in Luke, then, would be the final bodily appearance of Jesus to them. This makes sense, given both their impulsiveness and their lack of faith. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.". The Holy Spirit would internally indict sinners regarding the righteousness of Christ because He cannot be seen any longer. We just get a few snippets from the gospel accounts, at least, of this 40-day period. Somewhere along the line, the apostles were enlightened by our Lord concerning the mystery of the church. 10 As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them 11 and said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? And those days you didn't fear getting on a Greyhound bus, and you could go all over the country on a very cheap pass. It is not my purpose here to allow these matters to sidetrack our consideration of the argument of this text. What we have in verses 12-14, then, is a description of where the apostles stayed and what they did from the time of our Lords death till Pentecost. They had been told to be there, to wait in Jerusalem until that day. Only Paul matches Luke in the proofs he supplies for the resurrection: 3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also receivedthat Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, 4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
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