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Acts - The Early Community Let’s recap quickly: Jesus leaves The disciples stay The Holy Spirit comes They hear in their language Peter addresses the crowd The Jews repent and receive the Spirit About 3,000 are added that day Many of those go home, and now we get our first insight into how they were…

Acts - The Sermon Part 2 Last week we were introduced to the miracle… Not healing people Not making people rich Not raising the dead It was the ability to speak with others in their language Peter is speaking to his kinsmen… Men [and] brothers, (29) it is permitted for me to speak with boldness to you…

Acts - The Sermon Part 1 Last week Jay introduced you to the reason we have people who are speaking other languages, it was to help all those visitors in Jerusalem understand that Jesus is the expected Messiah, the son of David. Now, there is an interesting detail that will catch the readers attention…

Acts - The Helper While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait there for the promise of the Father. “This,” he said, “is what you have heard from me; And when the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled, they were all together in the same place. And suddenly there came from…

Acts - Replacement “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, the one taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way you saw him going into heaven.” ( Acts 1:11 ) Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey…

Acts - Ascension The first account I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, until the day in which, having given command through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he chose, he was taken up. ( Acts 1:1-2 ) To whom also he presented himself living after his suffering,…

A Brother’s Keeper God asked Cain a question: Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! And Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel…

Application of Colossians Now that we have gone through all of Colossians, I want to go back and setup the situation with Onesimus and Philemon by looking at some of the material [You] Having donned the new man, who is renewed in full knowledge, according to the image of the one [God the Father] creating…