Acts 6:1-7:14 - Corps Notes - March 9, 1976
Acts 6:1-7:14 March 9, 1976 Acts 6:1 “those days” - indefinite period of time in the Bible. It could be a number of years. On the other hand, it could be a much shorter period of time. In Matthew 2:23 – 3:1 - “In those days” is a long time after the record in verse 23. In Acts 1:15 - “in those days” is a much less period of time. The days between the ascension and the day of Pentecost “the number of the disciples was multiplied” – the believers had increased tremendously in Jerusalem. “murmuring” - complaint “Grecians” - Greek speaking Jews. They are called in secular literature Hellenists. These were Jews who, because of persecution and other reasons, had been expelled from some countries and areas and had immigrated to Alexandria, Egypt. There they learned Greek. Alexandria, Egypt was a Greekspeaking area. There was always a cleavage between the Hellenists and the Aramaeans, here called Hebrews. In many respects, the Jewish or Hebrew religionists considered the Greeks pagan and their language was not very adequate as far as they were concerned. These Grecians or Hellenists murmured or complained against the Aramaeans because the widows were neglected, not properly cared for, in the daily ministering, daily care. I Timothy 5:9-l0 Verse 9 “taken” - chosen. Widows were to be taken care of. In the early Church there were widows who had no other source of income and many times they had their children to take care of. Then the Church took care of those women. However, widows of the Hebrews (Aramaeans) were given better care than the Hellenists, because these were Greek-speaking ones. Acts 6:2 “called the multitude of the disciples” - called all the believers together, had a big ‘branch meeting.’ “tables” - food “not reason” – not reasonable, not logical, not proper. That was good sense-knowledge wisdom by spirit-filled men but I believe it was spiritually wrong. I do not believe that it was Christian to the end that it should have been. We’re going to read about them ch
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Tweet Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: 3-9-1976 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And I noticed again that some of the thin