KINGDOM SPIRIT 40 Days Resurrection Ascension 40 Days

40 Days Resurrection Ascension 10 Days Ascension Pentecost

40 Days Resurrection Ascension 10 Days Ascension Pentecost Unknown time Pentecost Parousia

40 Days Resurrection Ascension Christ teaches the disciples about the Kingdom and Spirit –

Acts 1: 6 -9 6 So when they had come together, they asked him,

Now what? Beware! "It is far better to make them live in the Future.

So… • Bishop Tom Wright: ‘it’s precisely in worship and prayer that we, while

Speaking of Acts ‘Live in that book, I exhort you; it is a tonic,

It’s time… • • • To get to work Beginning in our community Growing

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KINGDOM & SPIRIT

40 Days Resurrection Ascension

40 Days Resurrection Ascension 10 Days Ascension Pentecost

40 Days Resurrection Ascension 10 Days Ascension Pentecost Unknown time Pentecost Parousia

40 Days Resurrection Ascension Christ teaches the disciples about the Kingdom and Spirit – CHRIST GOES 10 Days Ascension Pentecost Unknown time Pentecost Parousia

40 Days Resurrection Ascension Christ teaches the disciples about the Kingdom and Spirit – CHRIST GOES 10 Days Ascension Pentecost Disciples know their job, wait, pray, appoint Matthias – SPIRIT COMES Unknown time Pentecost Parousia WE GO into the world empowered by the SPIRIT – CHRIST COMES AGAIN In the meantime the Kingdom is now and is to come and KING JESUS IS ON HIS THRONE, PEOPLE SAVED, KINGDOM GROWING TO COMPLETION - JUDGMENT

Acts 1: 6 -9 6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? ” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. ” 9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

Now what? Beware! "It is far better to make them live in the Future. . . it is unknown to them, so that making them think about it we make them think of unrealities. . . it is the most completely temporal part of time- for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays" – Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis

So… • Bishop Tom Wright: ‘it’s precisely in worship and prayer that we, while still on earth. . . find ourselves sharing in the life of ‘heaven’, which is where Jesus is. ’

Speaking of Acts ‘Live in that book, I exhort you; it is a tonic, the greatest tonic I know in the realm of the Spirit. ’ Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones

It’s time… • • • To get to work Beginning in our community Growing the Kingdom Forgetting the past Secure in the future Saving in the present All in the power of the Spirit, in the name of Jesus and to the glory of God