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… and I'm reading from the New Living Translation. In my first book I told you, Theophilus, Luke writes, about everything Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit. During the 40 days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time and he proved to them in many ways he was actually alive and he talked to them about the kingdom of God. Okay, we'll stop there. Here's point number one, if you're taking notes. Before you can change the world, you yourself must first be changed. Before you can change the world, you must first be changed. Look at verse three. During the 40 days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles. They had their lives changed when they saw Jesus risen from the dead. See, they never thought they would see Jesus again when they looked at his beaten, traumatized body hanging on the cross of Calvary. …
… in such a way that he continues what he says from the last sentence in Luke to the first sentence in Acts. The former treaties have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach. He keeps right on talking. He goes from one degree of grace into the next degree of grace. He goes from talking about Jesus before the cross to talking about Jesus after resurrection. and he goes to talking about how Jesus showed himself alive for 40 days with many infallible proves and we had finished showing himself he called for the escort service of a cloud to come down and get him and he stood up on the cloud and disappeared out of their sight and the disciples were standing there gazing at him when the question was asked why stand ye here gazing at him. This same Jesus whom ye have crucified will come back again in like manner. Luke is busy recording it. So we have a highlight reel of what happens. Somebody say a highlight reel. …
… Acts chapter 1, we'll start in verse 1 and read this first section here. In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up into heaven. After giving instructions to the Holy Spirit, to the apostles he had chosen. After 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 40 days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On 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. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. So when they met together, they asked him, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? And he said to them, It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. …