This week, we round up our Easter series and talk about the ascension of Jesus to heaven, His interactions with the apostles, revealing to them more about the kingdom of heaven, and their need of the Holy Spirit for their ministries.
Bible scripture: Act 1:2-11 NIV
Until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.
After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.
For John baptized with[a] water, but in a few days you will be baptized with[b] the Holy Spirit.”
Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
Jesus told the apostles to stay back in Jerusalem until they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Until they were baptised with the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit was essential for their work in the ministry. Like Christ mentioned, they will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes in order to become witnesses to Him.
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