2. Connect verse for the week. Acts 1:8 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.”

3. o Promise One o The Gift from the Father. o Acts 1:4 He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me

4. o Promise Two o The Father Knows the Day o Acts 1:6-7 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

5. o Promise Three o The Power from the Father o Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;

6. o Promise Four o He will return in the clouds o Acts 1:11b This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”

7. Connect Verses I Corinthians 1:18, For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. John 12:13, They took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the L ORD !’ The King of Israel! Luke 24:6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,