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1. In the completeness of their number; twelve, initial 



2. In the &quot;promise of the Father.&quot; 



Their first acts, therefore, were related to their 

 need in both directions. 



By prayer, and the lot, they selected Matthias, 

 whom God had chosen, &quot;to take the place in this 

 ministry and Apostleship, from which Judas fell 

 away.&quot; 



By continuing with one accord &quot;steadfastly in 

 prayer,&quot; they were, &quot;when the day of Pentecost 

 was now come .... all together in one place 

 .... and suddenly there came from Heaven a 

 sound as of a rushing mighty wind .... and they 

 were all filled with the Holy Spirit.&quot; 



Complete in their number, and endued with the The Me88age 

 promised power, they straightway set about the Proclaimed 

 witnessing to which their Lord had called them; 

 for &quot;Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted Actgii:14 

 up his voice and spake forth unto them saying, 

 Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusa 

 lem, be this known unto you, and give ear unto 

 my words.&quot; 



But it was a far cry from &quot;Jerusalem unto the 

 uttermost part of the earth,&quot; and there was a 

 great gulf fixed between Christ s teaching of His 

 Kingdom and anything the men of Jerusalem 

 and Judea could yet understand. We must now 

 limit ourselves, in the wealth of our subject, to 

 seeing how the Apostles were lead by the Spirit 

 to make their way from &quot;Jerusalem unto the 

 uttermost part of the earth,&quot; in their conception 



