Read Acts Chapter 1 (review the study from last week if necessary)
Going deeper: Looking back to the gospels, how did Yeshua prepare his disciples for their ministry after he was gone. Provide specific proof from the scriptures with references.
1. What question did they ask Yeshua before his ascension in Acts 1:6? What was their focus?
2. How does he respond in Acts 1:7-8? What was to be the scope of their “witness” of Yeshua?
3. What did Yeshua promise them in Acts 1:8? Why is this important?
Going deeper: What was the witness of the disciples from the time of Yeshua’s death until these opening verses of Acts 1?
Read Luke 24:36-53
1. What things were the disciples discussing before Yeshua appeared to them? (Luke 24:13-25).
2. What does Yeshua say to them in Luke 24:36?
3. What was their reaction according to Luke 24:37?
4. What does Yeshua ask them in Luke 24:28?
5. What proof does he offer them that it is him in Luke 24:39-40?
6. What was their reaction in Luke 24:41?
7. What does he ask for in Luke 24:41?
8. What proof is offered in Luke 24:42-43? Why is this significant?
9. Of what does he remind them in Luke 24:44?
10. Copy Luke 24:45 here. Meditate on this. Record your impressions.
11. What does he say was written in Luke 24:42-47?
12. What is the role of the disciples in God’s plan according to Luke 24:48?
13. Copy Luke 24:49 here. Meditate on this. Record your thoughts and impressions.
14. Where do they go according to Luke 24:50?
15. What does Yeshua do in Luke 24:51?
16. How do the disciples respond to the events in Luke 24:52-53?
17. What happens in Acts 1:9?
18. What happens as the Apostles are watching according to Acts 1:10-11?
19. How will Christ (Messiah) appear when He returns?
Matthew 24:30
Matthew 26:64
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
Revelation 1:7
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Read Acts Chapter 1
1. Who is Theophilus? What does his name mean?
2. What is the “first book” referred to in Acts 1:1?
3. What, according to Acts 1:1-2, was the contents of that book?
4. What did Yeshua do after His death according to Acts 1:3?
Going deeper: What is the significance of “many proofs” to Christianity? To your faith? To the unbelievers?
5. What does the forty days refer to in Acts 1:3?
6. What did Yeshua tell the apostles according to Acts 1:4?
7. Review the following scriptures and note the proof described in each?
Matthew 28:9-10
Matthew 28:17-20
Mark 16:9
Mark 16:12
Mark 16:14-18
Mark 16:19
Luke 24:13-30
Luke 24:36-49
Luke 24:51
Going deeper: Looking back to the gospels, how did Yeshua prepare his disciples for their ministry after he was gone. Provide specific proof from the scriptures with references.
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Background:
1. What was the primary language of the New Testament? Why?
2. Who is the author of the book of Acts?
3. When was the book of Acts written?
4. To which of the Gospels is the book of Acts directly related? How is it related?
5. What do you learn about the author of Acts from the following scriptures?
Colossians 4:14
2 Timothy 4:11
Philemon 1:24
6. To what audience was the book of Acts written? Provide support for your answer.
Going deeper: How does this original audience and Luke’s addressing him/them impact how we understand the book of Acts today? How will it impact our application of the book of Acts?
Read the Preface to the gospel of Luke (Luke 1:1-4) Note that this is also the preface to Acts as these two books, Luke and the Book of Acts (of the Apostles) were originally two volumes of the same book. “It was custom in antiquity, whenever a work was divided into more than one volume, to prefix to the first a preface for the whole.” (See John R.W. Stott, The Message of Acts)
1. What sort of work does the author say he has put together in Luke 1:1-3?
2. To whom was this writing directed according to Luke 1:3?
3. For what purpose was the writing given to Theophilus according to Luke 1:4?
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Glory is an oft neglected subject of Theology. However, we do have passages that mention glory and give us valuable insight. One example is John chapter 17, often called, Yeshua’s High Priestly prayer.
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” John 17:20-23 (ESV)
What is this “glory” that Yeshua says that he has given to them–the disciples? This is before Pentecost, so it doesn’t really make sense to understand it as the Holy Spirit. Is this “glory” speaking of God’s presence or some aspect of His presence that He is giving to them? Is it His presence with them (His glory) that makes them one, unifies them?
Perhaps His glory is what will make us perfectly one. Perhaps when Christ is with us–Father in Him and He in us as described in John 17:20-23–in that order–union with Him makes (will make) us perfectly one with Him (the Triune God) and with each other.
This is passage offers so much hope. It is worth sitting with and meditating on for greater understanding. Of course it is helpful to read other passages that discuss glory and consider how they relate and illuminate each other.
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Read Numbers 35
1. What does God provide for the Levites in the beginning of this chapter?
2. For whom are the cities of refuge?
Read Numbers 36
1. Summarize the content of Chapter 36. What is its purpose?
2. What do you learn about inheritance from the following verses?
❏ Ephesians 1:11, 14
❏ 1 Peter 1:3-5
❏ 2 Timothy 4:8
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There are many admonitions in scripture toward good conduct including but not limited to the following:
“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:31-32 (ESV).
“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” James 1:19-20 (ESV).
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 2:3-5 (ESV).
These are all, at their essence, a call to submit or yield to the Holy Spirit because this behavior or conduct is not natural for the flesh (humans). Even if done by self-power, the motive to “do good” is not sufficient. The motive must be love. To have both one’s motive and one’s conduct right is a work of the Holy Spirit. “For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13 (ESV).
We are never called by God to works, but rather to relationship. As concerns the Holy Spirit, our relationship is to be one of yielding to His instruction, His correction and His leading. These admonitions to certain conduct are litmus tests for us to test and see if we are in fact yielded.
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You may be facing difficult circumstances today, but these words of Yeshua (Jesus) are just as true for you today as they were for the disciples in the first century. Believe and rest. God has not forgotten or forsaken you.
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