Now we need to know certain very important things concerning being part of this great world mission! To really know true commitment to the cause and glory of the Lord, and what it means, we must turn to the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, where we find what kind of life the Christians lived under the guidance and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We will learn that the spreading of the Good News was not limited to the apostles. The whole Church to this age is, as the apostle Peter says: ‘But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.’ (1 Peter 2: 9-) WE have a fight on our hands, for we are part of a mentality that accepts that the Church of Jesus Christ is divided into there the clergy and the laity. So, there is no doubt that we are all involved in this glorious calling! The book of Acts, contains facts about The birth of the Church on the Day of Pentecost, this happened ten days after the ascension of Jesus Christs. It contains facts about its expansion in Israel, where Jesus preached the Gospel during three and a half years, and how, under the ministry of the apostles of the Lord, from Jerusalem, it reached Asia minor, and from there entered our continent of Europe. In few centuries it changed the whole world. On the day of the Feast of Pentecost, many of the disciples that Jesus gathered, and prepared for the ministry of the Gospel, were on the verge of a changing experience, but to be there and know how they were changed, and equipped, we must know more about them, so that like them we can commit ourselves to the work they began and make exploits to the glory of God.

Their story really starts with Jesus, who at the age of thirty, leftNazareth where He leaved incognito, nothing about Jesus has filtered into history, except what Luke mentions about Him, when His parents took Him to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover, as was the custom. (Luke 2: 43-51). Jesus lived His life according to a divine program; this is the reason why we often find the expression ‘his hour had not yet come.’ Thus, at thirty years of age, the time had come for Him to start the evangelising of His country. Nazareth was in Galilee, quite a cosmopolitan region, because of its history, Greek was also a spoken language! He must have spoken it since his boyhood, for he, no doubt, played with the lads of his neighbourhood, as all boys do. It is believed that he could have been about five years old, when Joseph and Mary returned there from Egypt. I mention this in passing for the story of Hisdisciples started really with Jesus, some of them He met in Judea, in Bethany, also called Beth-Bara, where John the Baptist baptised many disciples in the river Jordan.

To accomplish His mission, our Lord Jesus Christ followed a systematic campaign, and the disciples, whom he called apostle,went with Him and during three and a half years. They saw amazing miracles of healing and deliverance from evil spirits! His preaching impressed them deeply, so much so that some after the Lord’s ascension, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote the Gospels, and few wrote epistles, writings hat the Holy Spirit stilluses to draw sinners to Jesus Christ to this very day! They were shocked when they saw the awful death of Jesus, which they never expected possible! But on the third day God raised Him from the dead, just as He said! From His resurrection to His ascension to heaven, Jesus spent forty days,during which He firstly appeared to some women, then to certain disciples, and to the eleven apostles. He spoke with them; He ate with them. On the day that He was taken up, hundreds of them gathered on the Mount of Olives and they saw Him go into heaven! Luke wrote the book of Acts and says: ‘After His suffering He showed Himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared unto them over a period of forty days and spoke about the Kingdom of God.’ (Acts 1: 3) I have covered quickly what was and remains, the most wonderful story ever told; which is still going round the world to this very day!Saving souls from the grip of the devil!