Aim: To fully benefit from the promise of the Father through faith in Jesus the Son.
Doctrine: The promise of the Father is something that is very spectacular. It centers on the person of the Holy Spirit and His heavenly anointing on Christ's church.
Exegesis: Principles for how the church appropriates the promise of the Father: sometimes we have to wait for reviving graces to come from God (vv. 4-5); and we often need to have our little focus re-adjusted (vv. 6-7) to Christ's big kingdom (which is to cover all the earth) (v. 8).
Further application: What is involved in our participating in the promise of the Father in 2013: saving faith provides for our ability to experience the fullness of the Holy Spirit as we are united to Christ in and as His church.
Key verse: v. 8 ''But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.