ACTS 9:10-22 - Corps Notes - April 20, 1976
ACTS 9:10-22 April 20, 1976 This record all of you have read many times in the book Receiving the Holy Spirit Today. Not that I know much more about it than I wrote there, but it’s part of the Book of Acts and we are at that part of the book - chapter 9 where it appears. So again we have to share it with you. Sometimes I think you just can’t share the Word of God often enough with people. You know you don’t share the same Word every week but you can go over it twice or three times a year and people keep learning. Another thing you’ve got to remember if sometime you’re tired of teaching something, there are new people in your fellowship when you’re out on the field that haven’t had the privilege of hearing it before and so you have to keep building the thing within them. Acts 9, beginning with verse 10 is an absolutely fantastic record. It is the record that just hits everything in the head that the Roman Catholics, the Episcopalians, and certain other groups have pushed and that’s relative to men with ministries. An example is like at the time of confirmation, the bishop has to do it. Acts 9:10 “a certain disciple” - he was not an apostle, he was a disciple, a follower of the way “in a vision” - by revelation, a picture. That’s what vision means; his own private TV. “Behold, … Lord” - Isn’t that tremendous? Here’s a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, a follower of the way, who is so in tune with God and so close in the walk, that this thing doesn’t freak him to the end that he says, “Well, I think this is the devil calling in.” NO. There is something about the Church and the Old Testament too where people must have been taught something in the school of the prophets that’s not written in the Word directly, but they must have been taught how; like Samuel was, how to hear from God, how to listen. Just like in the Advanced Class, I teach our people how to receive revelation. They must have been taught these things. “Ananias” - The Lord called Ananias by name. Acts 9:11
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first, the Lord said “arise.” That’s the last thing Ananias would have wanted to do, get up and go, as you’ll see in his argument a little later on. He had heard about this fellow named Saul and what he was doing coming up to Damascus, and for the Lord to get Ananias to go, the first thing He says is “arise.” And when I think of that people, that’s the first thing you and I have to do for God. If we want the Word to move, we’ve got to quit sitting around; we’ve got to get up, arise, and move the Word. Then he said go into the street which is called Straight. There’s only one way you can get into the street. It’s a street that runs all the way from the east to the west through Damascus, and there’s only one way to get into it. All the streets go into the street called Straight, every one of them, from the north as well as from the south. The street runs east and west. It’s Main Street, ca