Looking Forward to a Cloudy Day

Acts 1:6-11 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 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 ends of the earth.”

9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, 11 who also said, “Men of Galilee,

Why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”

1. It Shows That His Work Was

Finished

1 Peter 1:18-19Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers

19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Hebrews 7:27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s,

for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

Hebrews 9:26He then would have to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages,

He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

1 John 2:2And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

1 John 4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

2. It Shows That Our Work Had

Begun

Matthew 28:19Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 10:6-7But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

Matthew 15:24But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

But

3. It Shows That His Sacrifice Was

Sufficient

Hebrews 1:3who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word

of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high

Hebrews 8:1Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Hebrews 12:2looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him

endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God

Hebrews 9:11-14But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ

Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:18Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Hebrews 10:26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins

4. It Shows That Our Expectation of

His Return Is Justified