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welcome to another
segment of our road trip through the
Bible and we want to talk about Upper
Room we’ve talked about that a little
bit before we talked about the fact that
before the death of Jesus he met with
his disciples his apostles in an upper
room he talked to them he told them what
was going to happen he washed their feet
he told them that one was going to
betray him it was not many days later
how many days later that Jesus was
crucified and that he rose again in Acts
chapter 1 we find Jesus after he has
been risen and Jesus is at the place
where he told the Apostles he would be
and he talks to them and he goes back to
the Father and he told them he was going
with to go back to the pocket even
before he died and then in verse 12 Acts
chapter 1 he told the disciples the
apostles that he was going back to the
Babak and they returned to Jerusalem
from the mount called Olivet which is
near Jerusalem a Sabbath day’s journey
and when they entered they went into the
upper room with everything Peter James
John Andrew Philip Thomas Park all of
you Matthew James Simon and Judas the
son of James not to be confused with you
this is Carey who had taken his life
after betraying Jesus here the apostles
there is an upper room again except this
time Jesus is not with them he’s gone
back to be with the father he’d spent
three years preparing them for what they
needed to do after he goes back to
heaven and so now they’re gathered
together and verse 14 says they
continued one Accord in prayer
supplication with the women and Mary the
mother of Jesus and with his brothers
and their talks about them going and
replacing Judas they need someone to
take his place and and the things that
transpired there Matthias
was chosen Thomas was chosen to take
Judas place and then we know that later
on Paul saw as he was
as was the last apostles ahead let’s
think about that upper room where
they’re gathered now for a moment now
the responsibility is on them now Jesus
is not around and they’re going to think
to go and do exactly what Jesus told
them to do and what we call the Great
Commission to go into all the world and
share the good news with others
now they we’re going to need to be the
examples they were going to need to show
God to other people in that where we’re
at in that the same position that we’re
in today that we need to be sharing the
good news with Jesus we need to be
telling people we need to be showing
people God through our lives yes as
these eleven gather as they gathered in
an upper room they’ve seen so much that
could encourage them they’ve seen the
path that Jesus had lived before them we
have the opportunity not literally but
through God’s Word to see that and just
as these men assume their
responsibilities just as they began to
go out of Gloucester’s 123 said carry
the gospel to the entire world they did
it as well I hope that from this Upper
Room we take the fact that we need to
take on our responsibility we need to be
followers of Jesus and we need to show
people the life that Jesus lived through
our life thank you for joining us for
another road trip through the Bible