Lectionary Passage: Acts 1:3-5 - After his suffering (Jesus) presented himself alive to (the apostles) by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. 4 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; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
Jesus ordered the apostles not to leave Jerusalem
but to wait there for the gift from God that had been promised them.
They had heard their Master speak about this gift before he died,
but it’s likely they did not yet comprehend what was implied,
when he said they would be baptized with the Holy Spirit soon.
The once fearful little band would then march to a diff’rent tune!
For their lives from that key moment on would never be the same,
as they felt themselves empowered to go forth in Jesus’ name.
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