Good to have you. We're, uh, it's kind of fun. We're starting a new book tonight,

the book of Acts chapter 1. So why don't you grab your Bible and turn with me to Acts 1?

On Sunday and Saturday last weekend, we did sort of the introduction to the book of Acts.

And, um, and tonight we're going to pick up where we left off there.

But chapter one is going to have its own sort of outline that we'll get to in a minute.

But if you'll look at the first two red words in the chapter,

because we're going to see Jesus here, what are the first two red words in the chapter, because we're going to see Jesus here. What are the first two red words? Well, if you look in verse four, it says, but wait, but wait. That's one of the

themes we're going to see in chapter one in and of itself, waiting. And they were supposed to

wait, but we'll see how they did in chapter one here.

Waiting on the Lord is sometimes tricky, sometimes difficult.

But the Bible actually has a lot to say about waiting.

G. Campbell Morgan, maybe you guys are familiar with him, a pastor from a couple generations ago, but

G. Campbell Morgan, he said this, he said, waiting for God is not laziness.

Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort.

Waiting for God means first the abandonment of effort.

Waiting for God means, first, activity under command.

Second, readiness for any new command that may come.

Third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

That last part of that is, I think, sometimes the hardest.

Waiting and doing nothing until the command is given.

Waiting is difficult, but getting ahead of God's timing can become more difficult if you try to hurry things up.

So, you know, here in the book of Acts, we're going to see this idea in chapter one,

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