Verse Matters

And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me (Acts 1:4 NKJV) One of the strongest leadership traits practiced among the successful band of people is centered in the gathering together or in the assembling together. Purposeful gathering brings solution, reaffirming guidelines, principals, and even commitment in the looming potential difficulties we are all facing. It is in the meeting or “assembling together” that Luke, the author of the epistle of Acts, is directing the reader ’s attention to bring to surface that Jesus can’t depart to Heaven without meeting with His closest. In the span of Jesus' ministry, the assembling together of Jesus with the common people and His closest disciples are often times mentioned in the scriptures.  To the common people He customarily imparting parables or narratives so people could easily ...

     To whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.  ( Acts 1:3 New King James Version)    Speaking of being alive again after horrifically onslaught by His fellow countrymen, crucified, and rose again on the third day. Imagine of the contemptuous heart and feeling of the high priests, the Pharisees, the elders who succeeded in convincing the Roman government to put Jesus to death. If any of us can remember Jesus’ teaching in Luke 12:4 “And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do”, Jesus was alluding them that only God can call anyone He desire to be with in Heaven, in other words, God is commissioning a person that He is longing to be with at His disposal. Other than that, people could be ignorantly destined to shorten their li...

“Until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen” (Acts 1:2 New King James Version) There are many details mentioned in the beginning of the letter of Acts as to how the ministry continues, the equipping, and the expansion, which began after Jesus ascended into Heaven. It is the perpetuation series of the spreading of the Kingdom of God. God’s grace was working through the hand of the apostles empowered by the Holy Spirit, the miracles, the prayers, the converts and more, reveals such an indelible history that we can’t neglect its effect until today. In this letter of Acts, we are learning how the ministry continues to spread throughout the world, who empowered the Gospel carrier, what foundations the church is built on, how and why the persecution started. Every Christian can't afford to miss this verse of the scripture because there are some valuable nuggets that are applicable ...

(“The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach” Acts 1:1 NKJV) Luke cannot help but to share the love that is burning in his chest. Words and thoughts are ways to express his desire to get this person, whose name is called in Greek as “The Lover of God”, closer to the God. Just as Psalms 2:7 says “I will declare the decree: the Lord has said to Me, You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.” So Luke also, declaring Jesus beginning  from the Gospel that is Jesus' Biography, to this epistle which covers the church history.  This letter is the second part of the Biography of Jesus and it emphasizes upon the history of the church. The epistle commenced the resurrection, ascension of Jesus to the prevalent of the Gospel to the end of the world. However with all the resources gathered including personal interviews with people mentioned in Acts, direct or indirectly, the purpose of this letter is to bring spiritual blessing to t...