Jesus is alive today and reigning at the right hand of God the Father in heaven right now, as the Bible teaches. Pastor Kyle explains what this means, and what Jesus does for us daily, anchoring his lesson in Acts 1 which depicts the moment that Jesus left the earth and returned to his former glory in heaven: "the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." Follow along in the Bible here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+1&version=KJV.

This is the first in Damian Kyle's latest series on the Book of Acts, recorded on 8/9/2015. Pastor Kyle has an outstanding gift for making the gospel stories visceral and vivid, (although he errs in his support for the Zionist state of modern Israel). Access all of pastor Kyle's lessons on every book of the Bible on the media page at the Calvary Chapel of Modesto (CA) website here: http://www.ccmodesto.com/media

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