ACTS 8:1-40 - Corps Notes - April 13, 1976
ACTS 8:1-40 April 13, 1976 I worked this chapter again in my heart and mind today and I really don’t know much more than what’s written in the Receiving the Holy Spirit Today book. I trust God will give us by His grace and mercy continued opportunities to work this and that in no way will the adversary be allowed to obstruct this kind of ministry or work. I think perhaps as early as 33 or 35 A.D. the record here would stand. Acts 8:1 “great persecution” - You never have a great persecution until you first have a persecution. It always starts small. Then it increases in viciousness and it ends up in what historically once was called the Inquisition. I call it the murderers of the Inquisition. And when Christians begin to persecute Christians, it can only be because we haven’t gone back to the Word and really allowed that Word to speak; we have closed our minds off and refuse to accept that Word as the authority that it really is. The persecution had started earlier, already. We saw even the chief priest (remember?) getting involved. That’s right at the top echelon; they were giving that authority. “they were all scattered abroad” – because of that persecution. Persecution helped move the Word of God. It wouldn’t hurt us any. Persecution has never hurt believers; hurts all unbelievers. Because the seeds of the persecution make the Word grow. This stuff that they’re saying about The Way Ministry is not going to hurt The Way Ministry. That’s right. Some of us are going to be hurt by people who are going to believe it, but for those who really want to know God’s Word and are really concerned about the outreach of God’s Word instead of the persecution, it’s only going to make you move the Word of God, and there’ll be more response to it. Acts 8:2 “devout men” - dedicated men “made great lamentation over him” - I don’t really know if that meant they wept loudly. What it meant is that they were deeply hurt. It was a great hurt to the body, to the believers. Acts 8:3 Saul, h
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Tweet Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: 4-13-1976 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 thi