Tuesday DDI

We will be continuing to look at Acts:

Acts 1:6-11

6So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"
7He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
9After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
10They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11"Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."

Read the passage above once.

Ben's Comments:
- The Old Testament said that the kingdom of God would come after believers received the Holy Spirit. But it did not say exactly when.
- Just like we saw yesterday when the disciples did know when they were going to receive the Holy Spirit - Jesus says that they will not know the day when Christ will return again.
-Remember how I said to "pay attention to the but"
- Jesus says you won't know when I will return BUT you will be receiving the Holy Spirit.
- Once they receive the Holy Spirit they are to be God's witness - or to tell everyone what they have seen and heard not just to their close friends but in our town, the next town, and the whole Earth!

Questions:

1. Why do you think that Jesus does not want us to know when he will return?
2. What is with the scary guys dressed in white at the end of the verse? What do they mean?
3. What do you think it means to be a witness for God in your schools? How can you do that?

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See you tomorrow!