1. Acts 1:8 (ESV)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

2. The End of the Earth
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3. Genesis 1:28 (ESV)
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it”

4. Genesis 9:1 (ESV)
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.”

5. Genesis 35:11 (ESV)
And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.

6. Leviticus 26:9 (ESV)
I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

7. Jeremiah 23:3 (ESV)
Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

8. Matthew 16:18 (ESV)
“I will build my church” -- Jesus

9. AD 30

10. AD 34

11. AD 44

12. AD 52-54

13. AD 60

14. Paul’s Journey to Rome

15. Jeremiah 14:8 (ESV)
O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble,

16. Acts 23:11 (ESV)
“Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.”

17. The Kingdom of God Acts 28:31 proclaiming the kingdom of God.
Acts 1:3 speaking about the kingdom of God

18. 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 (ESV)
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

19. Matthew 13:13, 16 (ESV)
13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

20. 2 Corinthians 3:13–14 (ESV)
Moses put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. 14 But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.

21. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV)
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

22. God gave us not a spirit of fear but of power. 2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV)
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. 2 Corinthians 5:11 (ESV)

23. AD 100

24. AD 208

25. AD 432

26. AD 635

27. AD 1015

28. AD 1537

29. AD 1798

30. AD 1886

31. AD 1948

32. AD 1951 Southern Baptists in Michigan
Motor Cities
Baptist Association

33. AD 1954 Southern Baptists in Michigan
Emmanuel
Baptist Church,
Midland, MI

34. AD 1962 Southern Baptists in Michigan
Bay Area
Baptist
Association

35. AD 1997 Southern Baptists in Michigan
Sunrise
Baptist
Church

36. AD 2014 Southern Baptists in Michigan
New Beginnings
Baptist Church

37. Know Him and Make Him Known
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38. Pray for hearts to see AD 30
Have the eyes of their hearts enlightened, that they may know what is the hope to which he has called them, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints. (Eph. 1:18)
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39. Testify to the kingdom of God without hindrance
The word of God is not bound! (2 Tim. 2:9)
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40. Explain Jesus with all confident boldness
The brothers, having become confident in the Lord, are much more bold to speak the word without fear….I am convinced that this will [be] for your progress and joy in the faith.(Philippians 1:14, 25)
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41. “One small pebble dropped in the sea of history can produce waves of grace that break on distant shores thousands of years later and thousands of miles away.” -- John Piper
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42. And the word of God continues to increase, and the number of the disciples continues to multiply.
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