Acts | Week 1

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach.
– Acts 1:1 (ESV)

2 until the day when He was taken up, after He had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen. 3 He presented Himself alive to them after His suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
– Acts 1:2-3 (ESV)

4 And while staying with them He ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, “you heard from Me;”
– Acts 1:4 (ESV)

4 And while staying with them He ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, “you heard from Me;”
– Acts 1:4 (ESV)

8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
– Acts 1:8 (ESV)

Before Acts the Spirit was with us and after Acts the Spirit resides in us.

13 “In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,”
Ephesians 1:13 (ESV)

8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
– Acts 1:8 (ESV)

8“But you will receive power (Promise) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you (Power), and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth (Purpose).”
– Acts 1:8 (ESV)

“He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,”
– Titus 3:5-6 (ESV)