ACTS
CHAPTER ONE
OBSERVATION
STAGE
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
The purpose of
the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the
normative rules of language, context and logic 
.which largely limits the observer to the
content offered by the books of Luke and Acts. Other passages must have a
relationship with the context at hand, such as a Scriptural quotation or
reference in the passage at hand. This will serve to avoid going on
unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide the
framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages located
elsewhere in Scripture.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
I)
[Acts 1:1-26]:
A)
(1:1-11) AUTHOR LUKE SENT A SECOND WRITING TO HIS FRIEND, AND FELLOW
BELIEVER THEOPHILUS. THE FIRST WRITING WAS HIS GOSPEL - THE LIFE AND
TEACHINGS OF JESUS UNTIL HIS ASCENSION. THE SECOND WRITING - EVENTUALLY
ENTITLED THE BOOK OF ACTS - BEGAN HISTORICALLY WITH THE LORD'S
ASCENSION, HIS APPEARANCES TO THE APOSTLES AND OTHER BELIEVERS - PROOFS
OF HIS RESURRECTION AND PURPOSE. AND IT CONTAINED EVENTS OF THE APOSTLES
PERTAINING TO JESUS' TEACHINGS TO THEM RELATIVE TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD
THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM - TO BEGIN WITH THEIR
BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. THEIR COMMISSION WAS TO BRING TO THE WORLD
THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND ENTRANCE INTO IT; WHICH CONTENT
WAS AT FIRST RELATIVE TO REPENTANCE UNTO FAITH IN CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL
LIFE IN THE RESTORATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO ISRAEL. THE DOCTRINES
UNIQUE TO THE CHURCH HAVE NOT YET BEEN IN VIEW
1)
[Compare Acts 1:4-8]:
2)
[Compare Lk 24:44-53]:
3)
[Compare Lk 24:28-43]:
4)
[Compare Lk 24:44-49]:
5)
[Compare Lk 24:50-51]:
B)
(1:12-14) AFTER THE LORD'S ASCENSION, THE APOSTLES RETURNED TO JERUSALEM
TO THE UPPER ROOM WHERE THEY HAD BEEN ASSEMBLING - PETER, JAMES, JOHN,
ANDREW, PHILIP, THOMAS, BARTHOLOMEW, MATTHEW, JAMES SON OF ALPHAEUS,
SIMON THE ZEALOT, JUDAS SON OF JAMES. THEY WERE STEADFASTLY CONTINUING
WITH ONE ACCORD IN PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION INCLUDING WOMEN, AND MARY THE
MOTHER OF JESUS AND JESUS' BIOLOGICAL BROTHERS. THEIR PRAYERS INCLUDED
PRAYER FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS PROMISED
C)
(1:15-26) IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING THE LORD'S ASCENSION - A PERIOD OF
TRANSITION FROM THE ECONOMY OF ISRAEL AND THE MOSAIC LAW TO THE CHURCH
AND THE GRACE WAY OF LIFE - PETER ROSE UP AMONGST THE DISCIPLES IN THE
UPPER ROOM. HE DECLARED THAT A REPLACEMENT FOR JUDAS WAS IN ORDER AS
FULFILLMENT OF SCRIPTURE. HE INDICATED THAT JUDAS, WHO BETRAYED JESUS,
NEVERTHELESS WAS NUMBERED AS ONE OF THE APOSTLES AND HAD TO BE REPLACED.
PETER INDICATED THAT JUDAS' REWARD FOR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WAS USED PURCHASE
THE FIELD OF BLOOD CALLED ACELDAMA. IT WAS JUDAS WHO FELL HEADLONG AS HE
HUNG HIMSELF, HIS BOWELS BURSTING ASUNDER. ACCORDING TO PETER AND THE
APOSTLES, THE NEW APOSTLE TO REPLACE JUDAS MUST HAVE ACCOMPANIED JESUS
FROM JOHN'S BAPTISM THROUGH HIS ASCENSION - A WITNESS OF HIS
RESURRECTION. THE APOSTLES SELECTED JUSTUS AND MATTHIAS AS CANDIDATES TO
TAKE PART IN THIS MINISTRY FROM WHICH JUDAS TRANSGRESSED, THAT THE
LATTER MIGHT GO TO ETERNAL CONDEMNATION ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE. THE
APOSTLES DREW LOTS, AND THE LORD CHOSE MATTHIAS TO BE NUMBERED WITH THE
ELEVEN APOSTLES
1)
[Compare Lk 22:28-30]:
2)
[Compare Psalm 41:9]:
3)
[Compare Jn 13:18]:
4)
[Compare Mt 27:3-8]:
5)
[Compare Psalm 109:8]:
6)
[Compare Pr 16:33]:
Acts
chapter 2
