June 1st, 2025 - Jesus Will Be Back

Scripture Passage:  Acts 1:1-11

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Ascension
Acts 1:1-11
"Jesus Will Be Back"

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What are you looking forward to these days?

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Who do you wish you could see again?

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What do you wish would be much better than it is?

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Jesus, Part II
In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach

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The Turning Point
2 until the day he was taken up to heaven,

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Jesus was Spirit-led
   after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

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Followers will be Spirit-led
 4 ...he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, ... you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

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Not me, not that kingdom
 “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 .... 8 But you will receive power ... and you will be my witnesses

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

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Looking, at a loss
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,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky?

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He will come back
  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.”

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Three tensions
1. He is coming soon, and has been for a long time
2. There are signs now, and always
3. We are both waiting and acting

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Notice:
1. Ascended to the throne means reigning.
2. He is coming back here to this world.
3. It is all about the Acts of the Holy Spirit.

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Looking forward to...
See again...
Much better...