Fresh Start

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Fresh Start
(Acts 13-5) After His suffering, Jesus showed
Himself to these men and gave many convincing
proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them
over a period of forty days and spoke about the
kingdom of God
A Fresh Covenant
From our Jerusalem
From our
for
Fresh
to our World
A New Year
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Jerusalem
(Acts 13-5)

• (Acts 13-5) On one occasion, while He was
  eating with them, He gave them this command Do
  not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift My
  Father promised, which you have heard Me speak
  about

Do not leave
Jerusalem
wait for the
gift
promised
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Jerusalem
(Acts 13-5)

• (Acts 13-5)
• For John baptized with water, but in a few days
  you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

Covenant 1
Do not leave Jerusalem
wait for the promised gift

God will not call you
immersed you in
baptized with
For John
water, but
thoroughly covered
absolutely drenched
completely filled
where He will not first
baptized
immersed
you will be
with
in
the Holy Spirit."
give you strength
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Jerusalem

• (Ephesians 316-19) I pray that out of His
  glorious riches He may strengthen you with power
  through His Holy Spirit in your inner being, so
  that...you may be filled to the measure of all
  the fullness of God.

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Jerusalem

• So, have you been filled
• with the Holy Spirit?

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Jerusalem

• (Acts 16-8) When they met together, they asked
  Him, Lord, are You at this time going to restore
  the kingdom to Israel?

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Jerusalem

• (Acts 16-8) He said to them It is not for
  you to know the times or dates the Father has set
  by His own authority

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Jerusalem

• (Acts 16-8) But you will receive power when
  the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be My
  Witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
  Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Covenant 2 With the filling of the Spirit comes
the increase of your life.
Witnesses
Witnesses
in
Jerusalem
in all Judea
Samaria
to the ends of the
earth
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Witnesses

• (Isaiah 434) Since you are precious and honored
  in My sight, and because I love you, I will give
  men in exchange for you, and people in exchange
  for your life.

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Witnesses

• (Philippians 214-16) Do everything without
  complaining or arguing, so that you may become
  blameless and pure, children of God without fault
  in a crooked and depraved generation, in which
  you shine like stars in the universe as you hold
  out the Word of Life.

So, how is your witness
shine like stars
in this world
as you hold out the Word of
Life
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Witnesses

• (Acts 19-12) After He said this, He was taken
  up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid Him
  from their sight. They were looking intently up
  into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two
  men dressed in white stood beside them

shine like stars
Life
as you hold out the Word of
So, how is your witness
in this world
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Witnesses
Coming Back

• (Acts 19-12) Men of Galilee, they said, why
  do you stand here looking into the sky? This same
  Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven,
  will come back in the same way you have seen Him
  go into heaven. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

Covenant 3
This same Jesus
So, what kind of life do you live?
will
come back
come back
(2 Peter 310-11) But the day of the Lord will
come like a thief
(2 Peter 310-11) The heavens will disappear
with a roar the elements will be destroyed by
fire
(2 Peter 310-11) and the earth and everything
in it will be laid bare
(2 Peter 310-11) Since everything will be
destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought
you to be?