<TITLE>06. Par 58-60</TITLE>L-58 Now, in the 1st chapter of the Book of Acts, we start reading at the 1st verse.
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to do and to teach,
Until the day in which he was taken up, after that... through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of... things pertaining to the Kingdom of God:
And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. When they therefore came together, they asked... him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.
But ye shall receive power, after... the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in... Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
And while they looked stedfast towards heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.

L-60 Let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we are now coming in the approach, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, to offer before You, first our thanksgiving for what You have done for us; and for, above all things, that blessed assurance that rests in our hearts, that we are saved; saved from death, saved from hell, saved from a life of sin, saved from the things of the world, and have been called to the great wedding supper of the Son of God. How we love Thee, Lord, for this. More than life to us, it's Eternal Life.
And we are assembled this morning, Lord, to give these expressions in songs, thanksgiving, and in preaching the Word, breaking the Word of Life to those, Lord, may be here, who doesn't know Thee. And it is our desire, and our ambition and intentions, that this today will be the cause of many who doesn't know You, come and confess their sins, and call upon the Name of the Lord, and have their sins remitted by confessing their sins and being baptized to wash away their sin. And then, Father, we would pray that You'd fill each with the Holy Ghost, for It is the Seal of the promise that God has given us.


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