May 20, 2007 - Ascension Sunday
SERMON TITLE:
“Beginning at the End”
OPENING PRAYER
Almighty God, your blessed
Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, ascended far above all heavens, so that He might fill all
things. Mercifully give us faith to see that, according to His promise, He abides with His
church on earth, even to the end of the world; through the same Jesus Christ your Son our
Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE:
Acts 1:1-11
In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about
all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to
heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had
chosen. After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs,
appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While staying
with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of
the Father. “This,” he said, “is what you have heard from me; for John
baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from
now.” So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time
when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” He replied, “It is not for you to
know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said
this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes
stood by them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven?
This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you
saw him go into heaven.”
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