It is not a surprise to any of you to know that it is one thing to begin something,

and it's a whole different thing to finish it.

It's one thing to go to the college of your choice,

and it's a whole different thing to graduate from that college.

It's one thing to make a resolution, and it's a whole different thing to graduate from that college. It's one thing to make a resolution.

And it's a whole different ballgame to keep that resolution.

I mean, it is one whole thing to begin a relationship

and is a whole different set of discipline and commitment to nourish and sustain

and keep and maintain that relationship.

It's always easy to begin, but it is much harder to finish.

It's much easier to start finish. It's much easier to start well.

It's a lot harder to finish well.

It doesn't take a great deal of discipline

to be enthusiastic about the commencement of something,

but it takes a real commitment to see it through.

And as we come to the end of the Book of Acts, we really come to a very intriguing ending for the book.

It's not the kind of ending that you would expect after all this time that we've been looking through it.

Throughout the Book of Acts, in fact, for most of it, the Book of Acts has been concerned with the Apostle Paul, his conversion, his ministry, his successes, his persecution, his imprisonment.

And you would think that as you come to the end of the book,

you would expect that it's going to end by telling you what happened to the Apostle Paul,

how his life ended.

But all of a sudden, the book ends in chapter 28,

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