A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                            PART 1-IV

"We, Jesus' disciples, have locked our selves up.... We have done so because we are afraid of the authorities.... We have not always been so afraid... On the contrary, we have been travelling around the country with Jesus....We expected to continue to do this... We had great plans.... But all our plans have come to nothing.... For to our shock Jesus was crucified....We are afraid that the men who are responsible for Jesus' crucifixion will come after us... So we decided to hide behind locked doors.... Hopefully, the authorities will forget about us. Will we ever be able to come out of this room?... We are really no longer certain what we are to do.".......Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that the lives of the disciples has completely changed....

                    ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                            PART I-IV

The disciples may well have believed that the ministry they were involved in would continue for ever and ever. But then something happened they were not prepared for.The One who had given them power and authority to go out to teach and heal and deliver,had been taken from them and had been crucified as you can read in 

John 19:17-18

Carrying His own Cros, He went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here they crucified Him, and with Him two others -  one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

 This should have never happened to Him. But it had. And what would it mean for them? Would it mean they too would be crucified since they were known to have followed Jesus? The disciples had, in fact, become so afraid that they hid themselves behind locked doors as you can read in  John 20:19a

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews...

The disciples reasoned that perhaps if they kept quiet the authorities would forget about them. One thing was sure, they would not be going out ever again to teach and heal and deliver. It was too dangerous a task and, anyway, Jesus was no longer there to give them the power and authority to do so. That special time in their lives had come to a sudden end and it looked like they had started a new season. But they couldn't tell what kind of season they had entered in for nothing had worked out as they had expected since they never thought they would find themselves behind locked doors too afraid to go out. It was true, of course, that Jesus had at one time told them they were to be "fishers of men" as you can read in Matthew 4:19

"Come, follow Me, Jesus said "and I will make you fishers of men."

However, how could they be "fishers of men" without the Lord being there to guide them? No, they needed to face reality that they were never going to do the things they had so believed in. But they did not dare think about what they were going to do instead. After all, they had been His disciples for the last three years. That had been the only life they had known for all that time but it seemed it had all finished. Or had it finished?...