Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. These matchless truths must flood the earth. Christ is Lord and is worthy of witness. In the opening scene of Acts, all attention is directed to the risen Christ. He is King of the cosmos and is depicted as commanding and commissioning a military assignment. He reigns and is in sovereign control over all despite His physical absence, and He is on a conquest. His appointed apostles, somewhat like chosen generals, are charged with the humanly impossible task of standing in the stead of Christ as His witnesses to the end of the earth. The gospel will go forth.