Acts 1:1-6 – The Exalted Saviour

We are now going to be looking at the book of Acts using notes written by Rev. David Silversides.

Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Luke had written the ‘Gospel of Luke’. This was his first volume. The book of Acts is his second work. The first tells us of what ‘Jesus began both to do and to teach’ until His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and this book tells us what He continued to do and to teach from the Father’s right hand by the Holy Spirit; what our exalted Saviour was doing in the early part of the New Testament age of the Church. It tells us of how He replaced Judas among the twelve, of His outpouring of the Holy Spirit and showing by this sending of ‘another Comforter’ that He had not left His disciples, but was with them still (John 7:39,14:16-18; Acts 22:33). Our Lord Jesus was fulfilling His promise to build His church by enabling His Apostles to preach boldly and by adding elect sinners to the church through His Spirit opening their hearts to receive the Gospel preached to them (Acts 2:47; 16:14). The more we grasp what we have in Christ, if we are true Christians, the more content we will be. “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews13:5).