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Acts chapter 1, verse 1.

In the first book, O Theophilus,

I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach.

I love that phrase.

Think about this.

This is Luke writing. He wrote the gospel of Luke and so now he's writing part two, the sequel, the book of acts.

And he says to Theophilus who he wrote the first book to. In that first book I dealt with all that Jesus

began that he started to do and teach. Now what's interesting about that, just think about that language. So I've written about

what Jesus started to do. That whole gospel, which is basically a picture of his life from birth to the end, his death, his resurrection

from the dead. Like Luke has told that whole story and then you get to axe and

Luke says that's the start.

It's like, okay, well, so this is a continuation,

that's just the beginning, there's much more to come,

and then in the verses that follow by verse 9 Jesus is gone.

So just eight verses after he said that was just the beginning

eight verses later he says Jesus

ascended into heaven and nobody saw him anymore so you start to think if you're

Theophilus, wait.

If that was just the beginning, like his life, his death,

his resurrection of what Jesus did,

and now, eight verses later,

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