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[2789.80 --> 2793.40] With all the excitement around Clayton Heights Days coming up,
[2794.00 --> 2797.60] please bless our efforts as we make your presence known here.
[2797.60 --> 2800.14] May your will be done.
[2800.98 --> 2806.66] And may that be evident through all the decisions and the plans as we prepare for this great event.
[2808.56 --> 2812.96] Help each of us to continually find ways to serve in love.
[2814.08 --> 2818.88] Both in our community here and wherever we live our daily lives.
[2821.52 --> 2826.90] Lord God, prepare our hearts and our ears as we are about to hear your message today.
[2827.60 --> 2833.24] We ask for your blessings upon Pastor Dave as he continues to teach your word to us.
[2834.10 --> 2842.70] We ask all of these things in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy Spirit.
[2843.44 --> 2843.74] Amen.
[2848.62 --> 2852.86] After the prayer, I'm going to be sitting in the front here.
[2852.86 --> 2858.58] And if there are any of you here that are perhaps moved by the message today,
[2859.12 --> 2863.08] or if you're going through something in life that you would just like to lay at Jesus' feet,
[2863.60 --> 2865.18] I'm going to be there for you.
[2865.34 --> 2866.64] I'll be there after the service.
[2867.28 --> 2871.18] And if nobody comes, I'm just going to sit there and pray for you all for this coming week,
[2871.24 --> 2871.96] that you'll be blessed.
[2871.96 --> 2872.96] Thank you.
[2872.96 --> 2886.52] Well, good morning, everyone.
[2888.30 --> 2892.02] I thought it would be helpful just to give us a sense of where we're going from here.
[2892.10 --> 2895.14] We just finished a four-week sermon series on forgiveness.
[2896.14 --> 2900.84] And we actually did a podcast this week, which is sort of a pastoral postscript on that.
[2900.92 --> 2901.94] It's on anger and forgiveness.
[2902.10 --> 2903.42] We felt like there was a little more to do there.
[2903.50 --> 2905.52] So if you want to listen to that, you can.
[2906.70 --> 2908.88] But on May the 19th, which is in two weeks,
[2908.90 --> 2912.38] we are starting a new sermon series on the person and work of the Holy Spirit.
[2912.46 --> 2914.10] That's been something people have asked us to preach on.
[2914.10 --> 2916.76] So we're going to do a number of teachings on that,
[2916.84 --> 2919.02] as well as we will have a spiritual gift seminar.
[2919.30 --> 2923.62] And we're doing a multi-church worship gathering here on the 26th of May.
[2923.72 --> 2926.78] So there's a lot happening around the Holy Spirit the next few weeks.
[2926.80 --> 2929.26] But we have two weeks between now and then.
[2929.96 --> 2934.36] And next week, Pastor Jonathan will be preaching on the ascension of Jesus and what that means.
[2934.82 --> 2938.66] And this week, I decided to preach on something that I've wanted to preach on for a while.
[2938.66 --> 2940.64] And a youth once asked me about.
[2940.64 --> 2946.46] And that is, what did Jesus do between his resurrection and his ascension?
[2947.00 --> 2951.02] So we're going to look at that 40-day period between Jesus' resurrection and ascension.
[2951.14 --> 2955.18] And if you have your Bible, digital or physical, turn with me to Acts chapter 1.
[2955.24 --> 2957.22] We're going to read the first nine verses together.
[2959.20 --> 2960.78] This is Acts chapter 1.
[2962.62 --> 2968.54] In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach
[2968.54 --> 2970.88] until the day he was taken up into heaven,
[2971.34 --> 2975.00] after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.
[2976.16 --> 2981.72] After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive.
[2982.58 --> 2986.58] He appeared to them over the period of 40 days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
[2987.18 --> 2990.22] On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command.
[2990.90 --> 2994.76] Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my father promised,
[2994.76 --> 2996.42] which you have heard me speak about.
[2997.04 --> 3001.90] For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
[3002.74 --> 3004.38] So when they met together, they asked him,
[3004.52 --> 3008.20] Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?
[3009.04 --> 3009.88] He said to them,
[3009.90 --> 3014.12] It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority,
[3014.70 --> 3018.24] but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you,
[3018.44 --> 3020.82] and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
[3020.82 --> 3024.80] in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
[3025.74 --> 3028.52] After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes,
[3028.60 --> 3030.46] and a cloud hid him from their sight.
[3034.48 --> 3036.82] Over the last number of years, I've had the privilege,
[3037.20 --> 3040.52] and I do mean privilege, of sitting down with people who did not grow up Christian,
[3041.18 --> 3042.80] have very little understanding of the Bible,
[3042.92 --> 3047.16] but are genuinely curious about Christianity and Jesus.
[3047.16 --> 3052.52] Like genuinely wondering, what is the deal with following Jesus?
[3053.46 --> 3056.38] And I love sitting down with people, or going for walks with people,
[3056.42 --> 3057.34] and having these conversations,
[3057.50 --> 3059.66] because you finally talk about more than the weather.
[3060.70 --> 3061.90] Vancouver, that's all we talk about.
[3061.98 --> 3064.02] You get into the deep stuff of life,
[3064.06 --> 3068.54] and there's like the 30 to 50 why questions that anyone will have about the Bible,
[3068.68 --> 3070.50] about Jesus, his resurrection.
[3070.80 --> 3071.92] All of it is on the table.
[3073.04 --> 3074.60] And I don't know if this will encourage you or not,
[3074.60 --> 3077.02] but you should know that even me, and I've studied a fair bit about the Bible,
[3077.34 --> 3080.26] I still have it so often in these conversations where I say,
[3080.74 --> 3082.42] I don't know.
[3083.38 --> 3085.54] I don't know why this suffering happens.
[3085.62 --> 3089.24] I don't know exactly why this person has so much hardship in their life,
[3089.36 --> 3091.70] but I want to talk about that through the lens of faith.
[3093.08 --> 3095.50] And what I've learned about myself, and I bet you can relate to that,
[3095.52 --> 3098.50] when you have these conversations with someone who's just genuinely curious,
[3099.08 --> 3100.40] is you don't just want to give information.
[3101.16 --> 3103.24] You don't just want to give them a few facts about Jesus.
[3103.24 --> 3105.70] You want them to follow Jesus.
[3106.34 --> 3109.94] And I find myself just saying, like, I want you to know why I'm a Christian.
[3110.02 --> 3112.08] I want you to know why the church gathers.
[3112.18 --> 3115.12] I want you to know why we worship, because Jesus is alive,
[3115.48 --> 3120.30] and in him is salvation and life and abundance.
[3120.40 --> 3122.20] I want you to have that.
[3123.16 --> 3126.00] And if you've ever had that in a conversation with a friend or a co-worker
[3126.00 --> 3129.96] or a family member, you can actually understand a little bit
[3129.96 --> 3132.84] about what Luke is experiencing as he writes this book.
[3133.64 --> 3138.82] The book of Acts is a book written to a guy named Theophilus,
[3139.20 --> 3141.12] which is a very unpopular name nowadays.
[3141.26 --> 3142.46] I don't know if it's ever going to come back.
[3142.82 --> 3145.74] But this guy named Theophilus, we know very little about him.
[3145.98 --> 3147.42] He's Greek based on his name.
[3147.84 --> 3151.98] He's likely wealthy, given that he is named as the most excellent Theophilus
[3151.98 --> 3152.74] in the book of Luke.
[3152.74 --> 3159.16] And he was so curious about Jesus, his life, his death, his resurrection,