Acts and Baptism



Acts and Baptism

Introduction

Luke's Acts are numbered with the disciples from the Chapter 11 according to the Acts 11:28. The reader is led to believe that he followed Paul on his second trip to Philippi and he joined him and then went back to Jerusalem. He sailed from Caesarea to Rome with him. The stories intermediate swarming details, suggest that without having staged himself, Luke was still present alongside the Apostle including Corinth which appears to be written the Epistle to the Romans (R 16 : 21). The act chosen for this paper is Act 1 which covers the details of the gospel (the first book of Luke) is the beginning of the events and teachings of Jesus. Facts are the continuation of these events and teachings of Jesus, but now by way of the apostles, but in reality is the same exalted Christ who continues his work.

What Jesus "began making" refers to miracles, teaching and preaching. The gospel of the kingdom of God is an integral gospel, which seeks the welfare of us in all respects. The Lord delivers commanding his apostles. He commanded the preaching around the world (see also Luke 24, 47.) To convince them of this command, Jesus constantly talk to them about this great task. Jesus appears on several occasions to his disciples to give them the assurance that He is truly raised. It gives them orders not to leave the country's religious capital, Jerusalem, for there receive the promise of the Father, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as John the Baptist had prophesied (Lk. 3, 16) "The baptism of the Holy Spirit" means to receive, in much assurance, the Spirit of God exalted, that testifies of Jesus and the strength to fulfill its mission: to preach the gospel throughout the world. This task must be accomplished first by the apostles and then for the whole church.

Exegetical Analysis

Luke and Acts are theologically homogeneous, Luke is both historian theologian, and Luke is a theologian as such in its own right. "The author then establishes a second necessary preliminary to an understanding of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts, namely the study of the link and the charismatic activity of the Spirit of God at the time of the Old Testament, the intertestamental period and the theology of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of Luke. It demonstrates that the themes of charismatic Greek and Hebrew Bibles have influenced the theology of Luke and gave his terminology concerning the activity of the Holy Spirit. Also the writings of Luke-Acts are a testimony to the restoration of activity after 400 years of prophetic silence. In a third step, the author demonstrates that before writing the complete story of the charismatic mission, to explain the event of Pentecost, Luke in his gospel tells the story of Jesus the only charismatic prophet. While in Acts it tells the story of the disciples, a community of charismatic prophets. Luke is working to develop a thematic structure even in Luke-Acts ...