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Recap:

Last week we discussed “The Ascension of Christ.”

This was a very important part of the early church as well as an important part of why we do what we do.

It was vital for the Lord to spend time with His church before He ascended, to make sure they were prepared.

He gave them commandments.

He told them that they would be His witnesses in 4 regions:

Jerusalem: Community

Judea: Region

Samaria: To reach those nationally (even though Samaria was looked down on, Christ intended for the early church to reach beyond their walls)

The uttermost parts of the earth: World-Wide Missions.

He told them Wait for the Promise of the Father.

This would be Holy Spirit Baptism (putting them in Christ, securing them in His hand)

This would be Holy Spirit filling (Giving them power to live godly and preach with power in an ungodly world) “The problem with the church today, is it has too many programs and not enough power”

This would be mark of a new dispensation (separating Daniel’s 69th week and the 70th week)

Angels assured them Christ would come back in like manner.

Waiting for the Promise

Acts 1:13-

I.

A Prayer-Meeting.

The first meeting for prayer which we find after our Lord’s ascension to heaven is the one mentioned in the text, and we are led from it to remark that united prayer is the comfort of a disconsolate church.

Can you judge of the sorrow which filled the hearts of the disciples when their Lord was gone from them?

They were an army without a leader, a flock without a shepherd, a family without a head.

Exposed to innumerable trials, the strong, brazen wall of his presence, which had been round about them, was now withdrawn.

In the deep desolation of their spirits they resorted to prayer.

They were like a flock of sheep that will huddle together in a storm, or come closer each to its fellow when they hear the sound of the wolf.

Poor defenceless creatures as they were, they yet loved to come together, and would die together if need were.

They felt that nothing made them so happy, nothing so emboldened them, nothing so strengthened them to bear their daily difficulties as to draw near to God in common supplication.

Beloved, let every church learn the value of its prayer-meetings in its dark hour.

When the pastor is dead, and when it has been difficult to find a suitable successor; when, it may be, there are rents and divisions; when death falls upon honoured members, when poverty comes in, when there is a spiritual dearth, when the Holy Ghost appears to have withdrawn himself—there is but one remedy for these and a thousand other evils, and that one remedy is contained in this short sentence, “Let us pray.”

Those churches which are now writing “Ichabod” on their walls, and who sorrowfully confess that the congregation is slowly dwindling, might soon restore their numbers if they did but know how to pray.

The 11 Apostles are mentioned here, minus 1. (v13)

Prayer must be accompanied by being:

In one accord...

homothumadón; adv.

from homóthumos (n.f.), unanimous, of one mind, which is from homós (n.f.), one and the same, and thumós (2372), temperament, mind.

With one mind, with unanimous consent, in one accord, all together

Often churches struggle to be in one accord because they do not possess the mind of Christ.

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Zodhiates, S. (2000).

The complete word study dictionary: New Testament (electronic ed.).

Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.

b.

Continued...

Continue (Webster’s 1828)

CONTINUE, verb intransitive [Latin , to hold.

See Tenet.]1.

To remain in a state, or place; to abide for any time indefinitely.The multitude continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

Matthew 15:32.2.

To last; to be durable; to endure; to be permanent.Thy kingdom shall not continue 1 Samuel 13:14.3.

To persevere; to be steadfast or constant in any course.If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.

.CONTINUE, verb transitive 1.

To protract; not to cease from or to terminate.O continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee.

Psalms 36:10.2.

To extend from one thing to another; to produce or draw out in length.

continue the line from A to B. Let the line be continued to the boundary.3.

To persevere in; not to cease to do or use; as, to continue the same diet.4.

To hold to or unite.

[Not used.]The

navel continues the infant to its mother.

c.

According to God’s will.

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“Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren...”

Matt.

1:25

Mk. 6:2

Luk 2

His brethren did not initially believe in Him:

But here, they apparently converted.

James—the brother of the Lord

and leader of the church at Jerusalem:

Act

Acts

Acts 21:

Jude—the brother of the Lord.

The Bible really has a way of destroying lies.

Mary could not be the “perpetual virgin” if she had children.

So anyone claiming that Mary is “immaculate” and “perfect” is teaching heresy.

Acts 1:15

II.

An Expulsion Time.

The Apostles have a church member, and officer who must be removed.

Acts 1:20

In those days Peter… Peter was always taking the lead…although James would later be Senior Pastor, it was evident that he had specific purpose to do what he was doing.

“number of names together were about an hundred an twenty”

First mention of a “church roll” in Scripture.

But if the church was born in , why would they have a roll?

The “120” names has a very significant role in Scripture.

When compared to

1Chri

2Chr 5:

Another significant point is that the number of people slain in

Exo 32:26-

at the giving of the 10 Commandments, corresponds to the same number of people saved in

when the Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached on the day of Pentecost.

It was time to replace Judas.

He was given an apostleship by Christ.

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He was a traitor.

(Iscariot means assassin) ()