April 15, 2018
The Notable Charge
The Simple Instruction
- but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said,“you heard of from Me—verse 4b
The Sacred Intention
- For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”—verse 5
- John answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.—Luke 3:16
The Significant Location
- Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem—verse 4a
- ‘Therefore thus says the LORD, “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the LORD of hosts, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.—Zech 1:16
- “Thus says the LORD, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’—Zech 1:16
- But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.—Obadiah 1:17
- And it shall come to pass, thatwhosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and . . . whom the LORD shall call.—Joel 2:32
- But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels—Hebrews 12:22
- And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty andfour thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.—Revelation 14:1
- And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.—Revelation 14:1
- “I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication, and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced. . .”—Zechariah 12:10