Sermon Tone Analysis

*Acts 1:1-11 (NIV)*

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*In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus *began to do* and *to teach* 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

3 After his suffering, he showed himself to these men 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. 4 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.

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

6 So when they met together, they asked him, “*Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel*?” 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.

8 *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.”*

9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.

11 *“Men of Galilee,” (Prague) 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.”

* In these verses we are coming to the end of a period of God’s glory that man has never seen before.Jesus the son of God came to the earth 33 years before and since his coming the world has never been the same.

His life left a mark on this earth.

What he did while he was here has never been done before.Who he was as well as what he did while he was here changed the future of all men.

His miracles, his teachings, his promises, his very life was a contradiction to everything that was before or has been since.

*The day of Pentecost was the eternal challenge for more.

Part of the pivot point of our history.

(Death, Resurrection, Holy Spirit)*

 

·        *More for you to receive*

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*Jn** 14:25-28 25 *“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.

*26 **But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name*, He will teach *you all things*, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

*27 **Peace* I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

*28 *You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’

If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.

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*Jn** 16:5-15 5 *“But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ *6 *But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

*7 *Nevertheless I tell you the truth.

It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

*8 *And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: *9 *of sin, because they do not believe in Me; *10 *of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; *11 *of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

*12 *“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

*13 *However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will *tell you things to come*.

*14 *He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.

*15 *All things that the Father has are Mine.

Therefore I said that *He will take of Mine and declare it to you*.

·        *More for you to do*

 

* V:1 What Jesus began to do.

The book of Acts is a book of beginnings similar to the book of Genesis.

Except this is a book of what Jesus is doing through man.

* all that Jesus *began to do* and *to teach*

* *he is still doing*

* *he is still teaching*

 

I have seen his power and his life in the last weeks like I have not seen it in my life before.

He is still alive and powerful.

*Jn** 14:12 12 *I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing.

He will do *even greater things than these*, because I am going to the Father.

* We are in danger of becoming comfortable in the things of God.

* Three and a half years of Miracles

* Resurrection from the dead and many more proofs of who he was..

 

·        *More for you to experience*

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* *“Men of (Prague)  “why do you stand here looking into the sky?*

* Why do you stand?

* Looking into the sky?

The disciples were expecting it to continue like this.

 

* *Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom..*

* *Lord are you?*

* No you shall receive the Holy Spirit and then *YOU!*

* *The Holy Spirit enables YOU to do more.*

* *More than you are able to do* */ Php 4:13  /*/I can do everything through him who gives me strength./

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