I.　If we would be in the continuation of the book of Acts, we need to continue in the things in which we have seen the Lord and the things in which the Lord will yet appear to us—26:16:

A.　Paul did not receive the revelation of things without seeing Christ—Gal. 1:15-16:

1.　Christ did not reveal things to Paul without Himself as the content of those things; thus, in all the visions Paul saw Christ—Eph. 1:17.

2.　As Paul was on the way to Damascus, Christ revealed certain things to him, and in those things Paul saw Christ—Acts 26:12-16:

a.　The Lord indicated that He would reveal more things to Paul, and in those things the Lord Himself would appear to him—22:14-15.

b.　Therefore, what Paul saw was not merely the things themselves but Christ as the One appearing to him in all these things—26:16.

B.　We all need to learn the importance of seeing Christ in the things that are revealed to us in the Word—John 5:39-40; Luke 24:27, 45:

1.　We may claim to receive light from the Lord or to see a vision or revelation, but we need to consider whether in the supposed light, vision, or revelation we have seen Christ—Acts 26:16:

a.　In any light that we receive from the Lord, we must see Christ.

b.　Christ must appear to us in whatever we see in the Scriptures in the way of enlightenment, vision, or revelation.

2.　The book of Revelation is an excellent illustration of the Lord appearing in the things revealed to the apostle John; he saw a number of visions, but in these visions the Lord Himself appeared to him—1:1, 12-13; 5:6; 10:1. in these visions the Lord Himself appeared to him—1:1, 12-13; 5:6; 10:1.

3.　In principle, our experience today should be the same as that of Paul and John.

II.　If we would be in the continuation of the book of Acts, we need to propagate the resurrected Christ as the kingdom of God—1:3; 8:12; 20:25; 26:18; 28:31:

A.　The kingdom of God is one of the emphases of the book of Acts, which both begins and ends with the kingdom of God—1:3; 28:31.

B.　The kingdom of God is a sphere of life produced by the propagation of the resurrected Christ—4:33; 8:12; 14:22.

C.　The kingdom of God is the propagation of Christ as life to His believers to form a realm in which God rules in His life—Col. 1:13; 3:4.

D.　The churches are the produce of the resurrected Christ in His ascension; as such, the churches are the kingdom of God—Acts 1:3; 8:1, 12; 13:1:

1.　The propagation of the resurrected Christ is the expansion of Christ to be the kingdom of God—Luke 17:20-21; Acts 28:31.

2.　Three words are synonyms—propagation, churches, and kingdom; the kingdom is the churches, and the churches are the propagation of Christ.

E.　The kingdom of God is the reality of the church brought forth by the resurrection life of Christ through the gospel; regeneration is its entrance, and the growth of the divine life within the believers is its development—Rom. 14:17; 1 Cor. 4:15; John 3:5; 2 Pet. 1:3-11.

F.　As those who have received the divine life, we not only know what the kingdom of God is—we have become parts of this kingdom—John 3:5; Rev. 1:9.

G.　To enter into the kingdom of God is to enter into the full enjoyment of Christ as the kingdom, and for this, the souls of the believers need to be established—Acts 14:22.

H.　Our ministry is to propagate the resurrected Christ as God's kingdom; however, every city is the kingdom of the devil, and the whole earth is the kingdom of darkness—19:17-40:

1.　Thus, the prevailing ministry for the propagation of Christ is a fighting, a battle, for God's kingdom—Matt. 12:25-29.

2.　Because a battle is raging between God and Satan, we must be certain that whatever we do in our gospel work is absolutely on the side of the kingdom of God and not involved with the kingdom of darkness in any way—Acts 26:18; Col. 1:12-13; Eph. 6:10-12; 2 Cor. 10:3-5.

I.　Paul's proclaiming the kingdom of God was the propagation of the resurrected Christ—Acts 28:23, 31:

1.　The kingdom of God goes together with the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ—v. 31.

2.　To teach concerning Christ is to spread the kingdom of God; therefore, the kingdom of God is actually the propagation of the resurrected Christ.