THE POWER TO ANSWER THE CALL (5 OF 8)
by Tim Melton
Scripture: Acts 1:1-8
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Title: The Power to Answer the Call (5 of 8)
Series: Resurrection to Pentecost
Scripture: Acts 1:1-8
Author: Tim Melton
Have you ever read the commands and teachings of Jesus and thought to yourself, "That is impossible. I will never be able to obey or accomplish that." That is probably very similar to what Jesus' disciples thought as He spoke to them in the days after His resurrection."
They probably would have claimed to have strong faith in the resurrected Christ, but most likely had little faith in themselves. Is that not where we often find ourselves as well? We know our past. We know our habitual sins. We know our weaknesses. We know our character flaws. How will we ever be able to accomplish that to which Christ has called us?
But is that not the beauty of Christ. He calls us to kingdom-sized tasks and then gives us the resources to make it possible. We read of such a story in Acts 1.
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
In verse one Luke is referring to his previous writing, the book of "Luke." Luke was not an eyewitness of that which he wrote. In Luke 1, Luke describes how he gathered together the eyewitness accounts of those believers who had been there with Jesus. He then "investigated everything from the beginning" and wrote an orderly account of it all, so that this man named Theophilus could be certain of the things that he had been taught.
Luke did not actually walk with Jesus. Luke entered the story later on as a Gentile doctor who ministered alongside and at times cared for the apostle Paul. We see that both the book of Luke and the book of Acts were written to this man named Theophilus.
Luke was seekin ...
Series: Resurrection to Pentecost
Scripture: Acts 1:1-8
Author: Tim Melton
Have you ever read the commands and teachings of Jesus and thought to yourself, "That is impossible. I will never be able to obey or accomplish that." That is probably very similar to what Jesus' disciples thought as He spoke to them in the days after His resurrection."
They probably would have claimed to have strong faith in the resurrected Christ, but most likely had little faith in themselves. Is that not where we often find ourselves as well? We know our past. We know our habitual sins. We know our weaknesses. We know our character flaws. How will we ever be able to accomplish that to which Christ has called us?
But is that not the beauty of Christ. He calls us to kingdom-sized tasks and then gives us the resources to make it possible. We read of such a story in Acts 1.
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
In verse one Luke is referring to his previous writing, the book of "Luke." Luke was not an eyewitness of that which he wrote. In Luke 1, Luke describes how he gathered together the eyewitness accounts of those believers who had been there with Jesus. He then "investigated everything from the beginning" and wrote an orderly account of it all, so that this man named Theophilus could be certain of the things that he had been taught.
Luke did not actually walk with Jesus. Luke entered the story later on as a Gentile doctor who ministered alongside and at times cared for the apostle Paul. We see that both the book of Luke and the book of Acts were written to this man named Theophilus.
Luke was seekin ...
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