Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Wed 26th August – Acts chapter 1:12-14:
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Wed 26th August – Read Acts chapter 1:12-14:
V12: So they return to Jerusalem, to wait as Jesus commanded them. We learn here that the Ascension was from the Mount of Olives ( Olivet ). A “sabbath day’s journey” was the permitted distance under the law – only about 3/4 of a mile.
V13: They go to a large upper room, where it seems they are all staying, waiting for the gift of the Spirit as the Lord has told them. Was it the same upper room of the Lord’s supper. and the precious teaching in John, chapters 13-16, we may wonder. The names of the ( now 11 ) disciples are given. In God’s purpose, we know very little about what most of these men went on to do. Legends and traditions abound, but Scripture is silent about them.
V14: While they wait, they ” devote themselves to prayer” – this indicates a deep commitment, they give themselves whole-heartedly to prayer, a great example to us all ( and compare chapter 2 v42.) We learn they also have with them the faithful women who followed Jesus and whom we glimpse in the crucifixion and resurrection accounts in the gospels, as well as Mary, the Lord’s mother, and his brothers – i.e. those later sons of Mary and Joseph, who had not been believers during his earthly ministry ( John 8:5.) but have now come to living faith, and one of whom, James, went on to become the leader of the Jerusalem church, and the author of the epistle which bears his name.