The New Testament Witness to Christ and His Kingdom, Student Workbook, SW13

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T H E N E W T E S T A M E N T W I T N E S S T O C H R I S T A N D H I S K I N G D O M

4. The heart of discipleship is instruction and obedience in the commands of Messiah, the greatest of which is love, John 13.34-35.

5. Christ’s personal presence will accompany this work of proclamation until the very end of the age, when we are united, dead and living in Christ, forever, cf. 1 Thess. 4.13-18.

II. The Commission Repeated: Forty Days of Demonstration and Instruction, Acts 1.3-8, Luke 24.44-49

A. Luke’s prologue in Acts, Acts 1.1-3

1. The book of Luke is for Luke a “Volume 1" in the story of Jesus, the Messiah.

2. After his resurrection, Jesus provided the Apostles instructions and commands through the Holy Spirit.

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3. Forty-day period of post-resurrection contact with Jesus by the Apostles

a. “He [Jesus] presented himself alive after his suffering:” demonstrations of his actual resurrection person.

b. “By many proofs:” Jesus provided the Apostles with irrefutable evidence that he had been raised from the dead.