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Inasmuch 



Stages in 

 Accomplish 

 ment 



First: a Fact 

 Emphasized 



Acts i:22 

 Acts ii:22 



Acts iv:l-2 



Acts iv:10 



Acts iv:33, 

 (also v:30: vii: 



56) 



Central 

 Theme of 

 Message 



Acta ii:41 



of their mission and in their teaching concerning 

 their Master s Kingdom. 



It was accomplished: 



First by the emphasis placed upon the fact of 

 the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 



Matthias was chosen, in the place of Judas, to 

 become a witness with us of His resurrection.&quot; 

 &quot;Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains 

 of death,&quot; is the subject of Peter s address on 

 the Day of Pentecost. The priests, the Captain 

 of the Temple, and the Sadducees, were &quot;sore 

 troubled because they taught the people, and 

 proclaimed in Jesus, the Resurrection from the 

 dead.&quot; Peter made his defence &quot;in the Name 

 of Jesus of Nazareth, Whom ye crucified, Whom 

 God raised from the dead.&quot; The Apostles, with 

 great power gave their witness of the resurrec 

 tion of the Lord Jesus.&quot; 



It is clear, therefore, that the central theme of 

 the Apostles message was the &quot;resurrection of 

 Jesus Christ.&quot; Such a fact granted, it followed, 

 on the one hand, that it must have been the sequel 

 of a life and death of extraordinary meaning and 

 importance; it followed, on the other hand, that 

 no subsequent development could be so colossal 

 as to be out of keeping with such a world-centreing 

 event. 



Whether we are, or are not, able to prove, 

 absolutely, as an historical fact, the resurrection 

 of Jesus Christ; one thing we can so prove. It 

 is: that the proclamation of such an event con 

 verted on the Day of Pentecost &quot;about three 



