Weekly Pursuit – Week 4 of May
Verses:
Acts 1:3 “To whom also He presented Himself alive after His suffering by many irrefutable proofs, appearing to them through a period of forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God.”
Excerpts:
As long as [the Lord Jesus] was in the flesh, He was unable to be in the disciples. Therefore, in the Gospel of John He indicated to them that it was expedient for them that He die and then be resurrected. In resurrection He would then be able to enter into the disciples as life and remain in them as their person and thereby propagate Himself.
After the Lord breathed Himself into the disciples, He stayed with them economically for forty days. The Lord’s presenting Himself alive was for the purpose of training the disciples to practice and enjoy His invisible presence. In His resurrection this dear presence of His was just the Spirit, whom He breathed into the disciples and who would be with them all the time. His appearing spoken of in Acts 1:3 does not mean that He ever left the disciples. It simply means that He made His presence visible to them, training them to realize and enjoy continually His invisible presence. For three and a half years He had been with them visibly in the flesh. They saw Him, touched Him, and ate with Him. One of them even reclined on His bosom. Suddenly, His visible presence was taken away. Then the Lord came back to the disciples to breathe Himself into them. From that time onward, the Lord’s presence with the disciples became invisible. Although the Lord’s spiritual presence is invisible, it is more real and vital than His visible presence. His invisible presence is everywhere. Wherever we are, the Lord’s invisible presence is with us. Actually, His invisible presence is not merely with us—it is within us. (Life-study of Acts, msg. 3)
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