Celebrating Eastertide: Ascension Day

Celebrating Eastertide:  Ascension Day

by Pastor Roy Esposito

  • 2 Corinthians 1:20

Message Bible – “A sure beginning to what God plans to complete.”

God’s Promises: Remember, Record, Review, Declare

Promise – (epangelia)  – Both the thing promised and the assurance of the promise’s fulfillment.

Romans 8:28

Romans 8:29 (NLT)

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

 

Easter-tide

  1. Lent  – self sacrifice
  2. Palm – Passion
  3. Holy Easter – Resurrection
  4. Ascension Day – Assurance of Jesus’ continued intercession for humankind
  5. Pentecost – Outpouring of Holy Spirit power

 

Acts 1:1-11

 “Within transformation there is transition.”  -PR

 

Ascension Day – a reminder to us of Jesus’ complete and total victory over evil.

The final and fatal blow to satan’s power over the Earth — a memorial of the Lion’s conquest of the Dragon !

Acts 1:4 – “Wait” for the Promise of the Father

Acts 1:8 – “Shall be witnesses-

Something they will BECOME not something they will DO:

A witness OF Him not FOR Him.