And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.
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You are my witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high. And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy and were continually in the temple, blessing God. This is the word of the Lord. Notice what Luke does not do here. This is not the flannel graph Sunday school pictures I remember from my childhood. It is not a vivid description of Jesus flying through the air replete with clouds and angels and full of special effects. Instead, it is simple, almost understated. Luke does not dwell on the mechanics of Jesus rising into the sky. Instead, he draws our attention away from where he is going and towards what he is doing. Jesus leaves, teaching, promising, sending, blessing. …
… he said in verse 49 behold I send the promise of my father upon you but tarry or wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. What's the point? They received the Holy Spirit in John 20 but before Jesus ascended to the Father he told the guys stay in Jerusalem until you're clothed with power. There was the indwelling but there was the clothing. There was the baptism. biblically they can happen at the same time but the initial revelation was there are two distinct experiences when jesus was raised from the dead he appeared to his disciples he actually appeared and reappeared for a period of 40 days the word pentecost means 50 so from the resurrection of christ to the day of pentecost is 50 days for 40 of those days jesus appeared and reappeared giving final instructions to his disciples one of the first things he did when he first appeared to them he walked into a room where they were hiding for fear, he breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. When is a person born again? When they receive the Holy Spirit. So the 11 were actually born again in that upper room experience, if you will, or in that hiding place where they were. …
… his disciples with power from on high. Acts chapter 1, you're going to receive power when the Spirit comes upon you. And the same plan is outlined there in Luke 24. 47 through 49 verses right there, they talk about how repentance, forgiveness of sins is going to be preached in all the world. That's exactly what's going on right here. And so we see an overlap, a continuation here from the book of Luke. And we need to get a hold of what's going on here in the mind of Luke. And I think we see that in the very first verse. I want to invite you to circle a word in verse 1. Don't circle it if it's not your Bible, but if it's your Bible, I want you to circle. In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus, and here's the word, began to do and to teach. The word began right there. Now, what Luke is saying is, I've written this gospel of Luke, this story about all that Jesus began. …