Category: Acts for a 21st c. Church
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Be saved from this perverse generation!
And the people stood by, watching. And even the rulers were sneering [G1592] at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One.” Gospel of Luke 23:35 NASB20 – The Perverse witness of Jesus suffering on a Cross sacrificed for the sins of the world…
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The Heart-piercing POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT!
The POWER of the Holy Spirit in ACTS What have we observed most in Luke’s early accounts of Acts? Clearly, the further power of the Holy Spirit, which Luke also notes in his Gospel as having descended on Jesus. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a…
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Miracles, Wonders & Signs: Peter’s Amazing Answer
Peter’s Answer to the Acts of Pentecost How does the anointed follower of Jesus Christ answer the unanswerable questions from the multitudes? Luke records not only the truly awesome events of Pentecost and bewilderment by the crowds, but also the Apostle Simon Peter’s amazing answer to thousands gathered in Jerusalem. Acts 2: And suddenly there…
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Pentecost – a narrative of the fifty days fulfilled
And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place Acts 2:1 YLT 50 days later: Pentecost Please discard your New Testament notions of Pentecost for a moment and allow me to narrate what has just taken place for the Apostles in first century Jerusalem which…
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Matthias – Scripture fulfilled in Jerusalem – מַתַּתְיָה
Choosing Matthias And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. Acts 1:26 NASB20 Matthias fills a position of an Apostle from off the bench (so to speak) as a substitute for Judas who had betrayed Christ and then took his own life. This new Twelfth Apostle gets little mention as…
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Acts of ALL with one accord
The Holy Spirit Promised While he was with them, he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father’s promise. Acts 1:4a CSB But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the…
