Sermon Series: Acts 1976 - 1979

Great Godly Expectations

Date: October 24th, 1976  |  Scripture: Acts 1:1  |  Topics: Evangelism, Missions, Suffering

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,


The Greatest of the Promises

Date: October 31st, 1976  |  Scripture: Acts 1:4  |  Topics: Holy Spirit, Pneumatology, Promises

And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.


Strategy and World Conquest

Date: November 21st, 1976  |  Scripture: Acts 1:6-8  |  Topics: Evangelism, MacArthur, Millennium, Second Coming, Strategy

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.


The Heavenly Ascension

Date: November 28th, 1976  |  Scripture: Acts 1:9-11  |  Topics: Ascension, Eternity, Future, Glory, Heaven, Hope, Resurrection

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.


When Jesus Comes Again

Date: December 12th, 1976  |  Scripture: Acts 1:11  |  Topics: End Times, Premillennialism, Rapture, Second Coming

Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.


The Good Hand of God Upon Us

Date: December 19th, 1976  |  Scripture: Acts 1:21  |  Topics: FBC-Dallas, Gifts, Giving, Provision

Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


State of the Church

Date: January 2nd, 1977  |  Scripture: Psalm 48  |  Topics: Ben Gurion, Church growth, City Church, Evangelism, FBC-Dallas, Ministry, Outreach, Tithe

A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God is known in her palaces for a refuge. For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in tContinue Reading


This Same Jesus

Date: January 9th, 1977  |  Scripture: Acts 1:11  |  Topics: Ascension, Church, Eternity, God, Jesus

Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.


Prayer and Pentecost

Date: January 9th, 1977  |  Scripture: Acts 1:12-14  |  Topics: Holy Spirit, Pneumatology, Prayer

Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.


The Pre-Pentecostal Church

Date: January 16th, 1977  |  Scripture: Acts 1:14  |  Topics: Building, Church, Holy Spirit, Pentecost, Prayer

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.