AS YOU HAVE SEEN HIM GO (3 OF 41)
Scripture: Acts 1:9-11
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As You Have Seen Him Go (3 of 41)
Series: Acts
Richard Bradley
Acts 1:9-11
After spending 40 days with his disciples teaching them about things related to the kingdom of God, Jesus went back to His Heavenly Father from whom He had come. Before leaving, Jesus gave His disciples instructions on what they were to be doing in his absence. It's important to remember that their ministry would have been impossible apart from God's promise of the Holy Spirit.
Next came one of the most spectacular events related to Jesus's life and ministry. Jesus' exit from this world was very different from His entrance. He was born as a babe in Bethlehem but left as a full grown man in a slow ascension back to the Father.
Acts 1:9-11
9 After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him.
10 As they strained to see him rising into heaven, two white-robed men suddenly stood among them.
11 ''Men of Galilee,'' they said, ''why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in the same way you saw him go.''
JESUS' ASCENSION GIVES US THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF HEAVEN
9 After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him.
We've been hearing in recent years about heaven probably being a different dimension and that those who go to heaven just sort of cross over. While I'm not exactly sure where heaven is, I do know it's up. That's where Jesus went. Up to the Father. When the rapture occurs believers will be ''snatched up'' to be with Jesus in the air. Always up.
Like Jesus when you leave this world you will also go up unless of course you're not a believer and then you go down. Heaven is a place of grace - remember Old Testament believers didn't go to heaven. They remained in Sheol until Jesus descended and preached the gospel to them. Then He took them up. The upward direction o ...
Series: Acts
Richard Bradley
Acts 1:9-11
After spending 40 days with his disciples teaching them about things related to the kingdom of God, Jesus went back to His Heavenly Father from whom He had come. Before leaving, Jesus gave His disciples instructions on what they were to be doing in his absence. It's important to remember that their ministry would have been impossible apart from God's promise of the Holy Spirit.
Next came one of the most spectacular events related to Jesus's life and ministry. Jesus' exit from this world was very different from His entrance. He was born as a babe in Bethlehem but left as a full grown man in a slow ascension back to the Father.
Acts 1:9-11
9 After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him.
10 As they strained to see him rising into heaven, two white-robed men suddenly stood among them.
11 ''Men of Galilee,'' they said, ''why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in the same way you saw him go.''
JESUS' ASCENSION GIVES US THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF HEAVEN
9 After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him.
We've been hearing in recent years about heaven probably being a different dimension and that those who go to heaven just sort of cross over. While I'm not exactly sure where heaven is, I do know it's up. That's where Jesus went. Up to the Father. When the rapture occurs believers will be ''snatched up'' to be with Jesus in the air. Always up.
Like Jesus when you leave this world you will also go up unless of course you're not a believer and then you go down. Heaven is a place of grace - remember Old Testament believers didn't go to heaven. They remained in Sheol until Jesus descended and preached the gospel to them. Then He took them up. The upward direction o ...
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