Sermon Tone Analysis

Chapter 1 NLT

In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit.

3 During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive.

And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God. 4 Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before.

5 John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

ETS-Luke introduces acts (2nd volume) by connecting it to his gospel.

ESS-The proofs of the gospel/Resurrection are the foundation of our faith.

OSS-Is your faith built on fact (Resurrection) or feeling (your performance)?

Intro-

Have you ever made a good transition in life?

What about a bad transition?

When I thought about transitions I thought about Karate kid 2. Karate kid was so good of course you were going to see the sequel.

At the beginning of this movie you had the highlights of what had happened in Karate kid one

I am not talking about the new one I am talking about the original Mr. Miaggi

Today Luke is making a transition.

He wrote the gospel of Luke.

He was a Doctor and he wrote a very detailed account of Luke and now is about to give us the best history book of how the Church started.

Transition is always happening in the Bible

We see a transition as early as Genesis from where man never sinned to where he sinned.

We see where God goes to being the King to where they want a man King

There are transitions all over the Bible.

But here is what is the same, God is trying to make his name great to the ends of the earth by revealing his love and kindness to man kind.

Transitions are essential and this transition needed to go well and it did.

‘But even more important, Luke had to build a bridge between his Gospel and the Book of Acts ().

At the close of his Gospel, he had left the believers in the temple, praising God.

Now he had to pick up the story and explain what happened next.

Imagine how confused you would be if, in reading your New Testament, you turned the last page of the Gospel of John and discovered—Romans!

“How did the church get to Rome?” you would ask yourself; and the answer is found in the Book of Acts.

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In Luke we transitioning from pre-resurrection time to post resurrection time.

In the Old Testament God was making his name famous through the people of Israel, but now we are entering the Church age where God is going to be making his name famous through the Church.

The Church is the means to making his name great.

This is a time of transition.

The Church age

What is even greater about this book is that Jesus still lives on today and it is thru the Church because of the resurrection.

This is a transition

What makes a good transition?

a) A plan B)Communication C)Execution

In basketball, transitions from defense to offense are happening all the time.

When we transitioned from defense to offense here was our plan

The man who got the rebound would throw it to the outlet

The man who got that pass would get the ball to the middle of the court

The next man would run to the middle of the goal so that the defense would have to commit to them, if they did not we would get a layup

The next two would run the wings or spot up

The last guy would be a trail man

: 44Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”45Then

He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,46and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,47and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.48“You

are witnesses of these things.49“And

behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.

When I was thinking about the book of thought of transition.

One man said this about summing up the book of Acts-The Church of Jesus Christ is God’s instrument to glorify himself.

God wants to make his name and Kingdom as great as he can and he does that through the Church.

What is the Church?

There are many different ways you can define it

Anyone who has put their faith in trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Believers who meet at a specific place at a specific place and time.

1. Resurrection living is about being wrapped up in what Jesus is doing now (1).

AMPLIFIED IN THE former account [which I prepared], O Theophilus, I made [a continuous report] dealing with all the things which Jesus began to do and to teach [.]

How can you be wrapped up into Jesus?

You see Luke wrote this because he wanted to see if Jesus was worth living and giving his life for.

Two things Luke did in this account is he wrote an orderly account because he wanted people to be certainty about Jesus.

Explanation:

How can you wrap your life around Jesus?

1. Be a Lover of God

We see two men who were lovers of God in this first verse.

a. Luke was a Doctor he wanted the facts.

He wanted a clear picture of who Jesus is.

He spent his time researching him and as a result invested time and money in researching who Jesus was.

b.

Theophulus-Lover of God/Friend of God.

Some people think it was just a generic term to the audience.

But most believe he was someone who helped finance Luke’s writing of the book.

But how awesome is it that he was known as a lover of God.

He invested his time, treasure and talent.

Are you known as being a lover of God.

When it was there time they were known for being a lover of God.

Is your life wrapped into Jesus.

What are you a lover of?

This week what were you a lover of?

For me sometimes I am a lover of my phone, or comfort.

But my desire it to be a lover of God.

If we want to be a lover of God we need to make sure we are investing our time in the things of God.

Are you a man or woman of the Word, do you pray?

How bad do you want Jesus Christ?

Are you a lover of God? Do you care more about what people think or what God thinks?

2. Know God’s story still goes on today

Do you understand the implication if you are a believer in Christ you are a part of his church and he wants your goal your ambition in life to make him as big as possible, in your family, in your job in your hobbies if you are a believer you are an instrument to bring glory and honor to Jesus Christ.

BEGAN (key word)

It may imply that the work is unfinished.

The work and words of Jesus continue throughout Acts in the ministry of the apostles p 80 and other faithful Christian witnesses.

It still goes on in the work of the church today.[1]

This book was titled later Acts of the Apostles, but that is actually misleading for a couple of reasons.

First Paul and Peter are the man followers who are highlighted.

We really do not see the other apostles much.

Secondly it is Jesus acting through his apostles and people.

Jesus is not done working he has worked, he is working and he is still working.

Before I came to know Christ, I wanted to make my story great.

Even today I think I am more worried about making my story great.

Do I want to have a big church for my sotry or for God’s story?

Even though I wanted to make my story great, God invited me into the greatest story of all time.

Here is God’s story