Service, May 24, 2009
World Views - Wayne Teetaert
Acts 1: 1-11, 14 1In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” 6So when they met together, they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
14They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
6So when they met together, they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
Luke 17:20-21 20Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, 21nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.”
Luke 6:41 41“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
Acts 1:10 10They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
Reference: Truth is Stranger Than It Used To Be: Biblical Faith in a Post-Modern Age by J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh
