Hello my friends and welcome back to the morning mindset. I hope you're ready to get your mind aligned with the truth of God. I want to ask you to imagine something with me for a moment.

Imagine that you found out something you did not know about your family history.

Maybe someone who is famous or a tragedy that occurred in the past that you were unaware of.

Or something significant that has to do with you personally from your childhood that you didn't understand until the moment it was told to you.

What effect would those things have on you? Well, some of you don't have to imagine very much because you've had something like that happen in your life.

Perhaps you discovered that you were adopted and you never knew so. Perhaps you discovered that someone in your past has an infamous history or an infamous past.

Perhaps you've learned that someone in your family was a famous person and it's kind of transformed the way that you look at yourself.

Well, as we dig into the book of Acts, the Acts of the Apostles is what it's called.

We are going to be exposed to a lot of our history when it comes to our faith.

We're going to see who our forefathers were in the faith and our foremothers if you can hit that way.

We're going to see what it is that the Holy Spirit did at the beginning stages of this thing we call the church.

And how it developed, how it grew, and I think we're all going to learn things we didn't know before.

And I suspect it will transform the way that we view this thing we call the church.

The beginning in verse number one of chapter one, it says in this first book, O theophilus, I've dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach.

Now, let's pause for a moment. Let me just outline what's going on here.

This is Dr. Luke, Luke who was a physician wrote this and he's writing it to this guy, Theophilus.

And we don't know much about theophilus and there's all kinds of theories about who he might have been.

But it's enough to say that he's writing to a friend to tell him about what happened after Jesus rose from the grave.

And so he's kind of doing a little review here like I might do at the beginning of a morning mindset episode to get us up to speed on the context.

And he says, I was telling you in my other book, which is the gospel of Luke.

Everything Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was taken up.

After he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, he presented himself alive to them after his suffering.

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