For the next 52 weeks, we at Metro have decided to take a walk through the book of Acts. If you haven’t read the book of Acts lately you might ask, “Why?” Why the book of Acts and not, let’s say, the books of Daniel and Revelation? Especially as Seventh-day Adventists, who tend to focus on eschatology, the books of Daniel and Revelation would seem to be more appropriate. In a time where false Christs abound, a time of wars and rumors of wars, nations rising against nations, famines and earthquakes in various places – if there was any time that we should be brushing up on our knowledge of end-time events, it is now! So again, why Acts?  Notice this final interaction between Christ and his disciples just before He was received into heaven.

"When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?  And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.  But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”(Acts 1:6-8)

The disciples, like many Christians, found themselves focusing on when Christ would be establishing the kingdom of God, which is a subject worthy of careful consideration. However, Christ redirected their focus, He realigned their thinking, taking it off the hereafter and placing it on the here and now.  Here and now we’ll need the Holy Spirit. Here and now we are called to be witnesses, in Hyattsville, in all of Maryland, in America, and in the furthest parts of the world. Therefore we, as a church, turn our attention to the book that could very well be called “The Acts of the Holy Spirit”. We do this hoping to understand the power that accompanied the witness of the apostles after Christ’s ascension, that we may have that same power accompany our witness prior to Christ’s advent.

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