The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with grace

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As we look together to the scripture, earlier in our service I read from the last section

of Luke's gospel.

I want to begin the message this morning by reading from his second volume, Luke wrote

two volumes, the gospel of Luke in the book of Acts as we call it.

He begins the book of Acts in chapter 1 by referring to the same event that he referred

to when he closed the book of Luke.

Let's look at Acts chapter 1.

He ended his gospel with Christ going to heaven.

He begins volume 2 with Christ going to heaven.

Volume 1 is the story of Christ.

Volume 2 is the story of the church.

Chapter 1 of the book of Acts, verse 1, the first account, meaning the gospel of Luke,

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