Power To Go On

Acts 1:1  

"The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, 

of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,"

    Acts is the second chapter of a continued story. This would be the second letter that Luke had sent to Theophilus. In the first volume,(The Gospel Of Luke), Luke had told the story of the life of Jesus upon earth. Now he goes on to tell the story of the Christian Church. The Gospel of Luke was only the story of what Jesus began to do and to teach. Acts is the second volume of a story which has no end.

   There are different kinds of immortality. There is an immortality of fame, and immortality of influence. Some men leave an effect in the world which cannot die. Beyond a doubt Jesus did win such immortality's, for his name will never be forgotten. 

   Prior to Christ' ascension, Christ commanded His apostles that they should wait on the promise of the Father. A lot of effort and ink has been used to attempting to explain these five words, "the promise of the Father." Various passages of Scriptures makes it clear that the promise of the Father, "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions," (Joel 2:28),  and also the Son, "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you," is the reference to the arrival of the Holly Spirit, and with it came three elements: It was to be universal, permanent and perfecting. 

Amen!

Reading: Devotional Scriptures

Ref: HG SB, WGTTB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry